So I’ve been trying to get more fabulous. You can read all about it here. And I have succeeded if by “success” you mean “failure”. Let’s re-cap, shall we? Exercise: For about three weeks I was doing a good job of loading episodes of True Blood onto my iPhone and trekking down to the gym [...]

Those of you who follow this blog know I’ve been taking steps to look a little spiffier. Because without taking steps, I look like a slightly over-weight suburban mom with frizzy hair and mascara smeared beneath her eyes. In other words, HAWT. As in HAWT mess. A big area of concern for me has been [...]

Dear Mouth: This is Butt talking. You better check yo’self befo’ you wreck yo’self! What’s that? What did you say? Oh, I can’t hear you because you’re stuffed too full of M&Ms! You piggy-pig-pig.  Look, you are making me look bad and it needs to stop. Right. Now. So, zip it. Love, Butt *** Folks, [...]

I’m not a snappy dresser. I’m a boring dresser. All winter I wear solid color slacks with an array of turtlenecks or v-necks over them. In summer I wear sundresses with cardigans over them. On weekends, I wear capris or jeans with whatever top matches the fruit I’m feeding my messy, affectionate child. If you [...]

I have to start this one off by saying “Damn you Dumb Mom! Damn you for undermining my credibility when I complain about my body by taking fabulous photos of me that I shared with the whole world the other day!” For everyone who looked at those pics, please believe me when iIsay that my [...]

OK, the beauty quest continues apace, folks.  I took all the comments from last week into consideration and set my mind to making my curls work for me since so many people thought they looked good. But I did not go so far as to start showering in the mornings so that I could manage [...]

So, the beauty adventure has begun! I dedicated this past week to making my hair look cute. Now, I have a few factors working against me  The first is my hair.  It’s curly with a  chance of frizzy.  Double the frizz potential when the humidity gets over 20%, which is every day in the summer [...]

Has anybody seen my mojo? It flew the coop. I’m gonna be brutally honest with you (and myself) right now.  I look rough. My hair looks rough, my skin looks rough, my body looks soft and squishy, and my feet…actually my feet look pretty good.  Pink nail polish and a little lotion on my heels [...]