Too cute to Eat....

For the past month Trevor has been making my daily Starbucks runs after dropping the kids off to school, so it was only yesterday when I went out to run a couple errands did I get my much needed caffeine fix..... and there they were....... Cake Pops!!!!

                                                                  "Birthday Cake Pop"

"Tiramisu Cake Pop"

"Rocky Road Cake Pop"

 How cuteeeee!!!........At $1.50 each or two for $2.50, and at approx. 170 calories each those little bite size devils are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth craving without feeling too guilty.... Um...Well... unless you actually eat maybe 4 at a time... (not that I did that).....hehehehe..... Wait, what did you say? You want me to try all at the same time to compare? Welllllll..... if you insistttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhhh and look at this Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

Heaven.

I Smell Fresh Paint....

                                                                       It's Sunday!!!. 

Happy Sunday everyone.  At approx. midnight, by all good graces my mom should be walking through my front door. This will be her second trip in less than two months and even though the circumstances for her visits are grim, we will still make the best of it and try to enjoy the simplicities in our complex lives together.

 As we head into Spring, just as new life emerges from the soil, I am finding some of the things that I have wanted to achieve are also beginning to sprout. That is what cleansing and purging allows you to do. Clear your mind/space to make room for less yet more meaningful things and opportunities. I have put a fresh coat of neutral paint on my canvas called my life and I am ready to decorate minimally with quality.


                                                        

Blank Slate... Fresh Paint

Photo courtesy of  Restoration Hardware..

Mellow Yellow.....

Still haven't been to a spa.. Not sure what I am waiting for... but the dentist is my spa. You know you will feel better and look better after you leave there, perhaps not immediately, but eventually. More importantly, you get to lay in a recliner for 2 hours with a flat screen directly in your face. You get a couple numbing injections in your jaw bone and then you relax. It's time for a root canal. The drilling begins...... WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............. CRAPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......... I AM NOT NUMBBBBBBB!!!!!!!! The poor dental assistant flew up in the air...poor fellow.... Doctor then injects into the nerves.. and drilling continues...
Ahhhhhhhh. blisss... " I wonder what the kids are doing to Trevor now?" hehehehe.... Oh well.....

                                                    Feeling Mellow Yellow

Breakfast...

Grape Juice

(Gucci)

Half Pink Grapefruit

(Yves Saint Laurent)

A Scrambled Egg

(Aidan Mattox)

....I am still starving!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another "Son" bites the dust...

I promised myself that I would NEVER comment on the sadness who is Charlie Sheen, as I see him not as the catastrophy who everyone else sees, but I see him as someone's son, someone's father, someone's brother. I have always thought of death as pain of the living which is why many think of suicide as something selfish, but I also see the similarity between death of a loved one and the mourners, AND drug addicts and their families who want so desperately for them to be clean and sober. The dead /addicts feel nothing while the mourners/ loved ones are the ones whose hearts bleed incessantly.

For many years my drug of choice was Rock and Roll and perhaps the adrenaline and eupohoria that I have always felt from that music was perhaps because the the band members were soooo high on their own drugs. They transported it through their music and it was infectuous. I can't describe that feeling. It gave me goose bumps and made me feel like "Flower Child" but without the drugs. I have never tried or taken drugs because I have control issues and I would be damned if this "thing" that I put in my body would control how I feel. I wanted my own mind to be my healer. Besides. I think I am naturally nutty. With that being said, many they need that substance to numb their pain.

 Yesterday, March 8th, Mike Starr the original bassist of Alice in Chains was found dead at a home in Salt Lake City. He has been battling drug addiction for several years. It is not yet certain whether he succumbed to his drug addiction, but he was recently one of the casts of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky" and battled many demons.

One of the best albums made by Alice in Chains was "Facelist". I knew and still know all the songs in the order they play on the album because I have listened to it so many times over the years. So while we indulge and capitalize on what seems like a "train wreck" (as it's called) that is occuring in sick people's lives, just think of their families and the pain and fear that the live every day.
                                                                      Sleep well Mike Starr.

Alice in Chains "When We Die Young"


Click here for Mike Starr's emotional segment on Celebrity Rehab.