Housewives....

"The Real Housewives of....."

I have to give Bravo TV snaps for some of the best reality shows out there... "Project Runway", "Top Chef", "Blow Out" which aired a few years ago with the egotistical Jonathan Anton..(mesmerizing), "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and the one about the Personal trainer Jackie which I cannot remember the name of... The is also "My life on the D-List" with whats her name.. and there was a small show about Paula Abdul which I think she needs to watch and then apologise for.. Poor thing... Anyway, another reality that I enjoy is "The Kardashians"... That show is like a bad train wreck that you just cannot keep your eyes off of... but I cannot give snaps to Bravo TV for that one. "The Kardashians" is all E and Ryan Seacrest....

Yes! okay Yes! I am a reality TV network junkie... some of these show are good and some of them really keep me in check of who I am... I can't help it...But let me get ONE thing straight...

I am a "The Hills" junkie.... it all started with MTV and the creation of "Laguna Beach" introducing us to Lauren Conrad and her high school friends.....(oh, poor Missi, she is a forty year old woman watching these kid shows....) Yeah I am and yeah I love them... It's been so hard to find good TV since "Friends", "Cheers", "Will and Grace", "CSI"...so I have to settle for TV and I settle for reality TV....Dan settles for "The Family Guy", I settle for the Best of the best... next to "The Hills"...

"The Real Housewives of....." It all started with "The Real Housewives of Orange County"

not a bad intro to the show. A bunch of wealthy women, married, some divorced, some are stay at home "moms" if you will, some are business women making their own cash and most have had boob jobs that would make me question the diploma of their plastic surgeon.... but al in all you watch six or seven women intertwine their lives with each other.. all overly sensitive and blond and driving killer cars, spoiling their kids to the point of, their kids end up in rehab....or jail...or having a really hard time finding a job....or graduating from high school....

Moving on... After a few seasons of "Orange county" Bravo smartened up and moved production to New York...."The Real Housewives of New York City." LOVE IT. maybe I am from the Boston area and seem to relate more to the city ladies than I do the beach ladies, even though I live in Naples FL... maybe it's because New Yorkers wear black a lot and I do tooo....

These women are HILARIOUS....there are so many insults and bickering and whining it is brilliant. I have my favourites, but I won't share them....I will say these women do a lot of charity work and I think it's great, but HOLY COW are they all a trip.....

After New York then came the Real Housewives of Atlanta....this was not a good season. I could not make heads or tails of any of these women. I couldn't catch on and had an interest in only a few stories, but it was not gripping and compelling as the others.. I think it was the white girl that threw me off.....

NOW...it looks like we have struck GOLD with the newest posse of Housewives and that is NEW JERSEY....How friggin' brilliant is Bravo for coming up with the idea of New Jersey....This is going to be great. The only bad thing is... These women will give the Italian heritage a bad name....because "Italians" are not like this...ONLY "American Italians" so when they say...."I'm an Italian" I wonder if they have ever been to Italy. It looks like we will have lots of bling and lots of cat fights and lots of back stabbing......what more could anyone possibly want on TV?

Let me break it all down for you into why I actually like this show.....it's so easy... It puts me into so much perspective on my little life and how incredible normal I am. I have often wondered that if I had all the money and cars and big houses and a husband with high money jobs and wads of cash, could I have possibly turned into these women... YES I could have and I know it to be a fact because it happened to a friend and she....well I will stop there, but I have a good little life and with the exception of the charity work some of these women do, I really do not envy them at all...so I see a group of chicks making complete arses of themselves because they have lots of money....I see it at the hotel all the time... money doesn't buy happiness and it CERTAINLY doesn't buy CLASS....

I am a housewife....and I love it.....

An Indulgence.. That Is Not Food...

I have a nail tech license... I love it. I love to do pedicures... It's funny to because I never liked anyone to touch my feet. Feet to me were gross and yucky and the idea of having my feet touched was horrid.
I am also not one for the indulgence of having a manicure or pedicure. I also found that indulgence a true indulgence. there is more I can do with my money than spend it on myself with something so ridiculous than myself. This is how I felt...sometimes, well most of the time I still do.

Anyway last year I went to school to become a licensed professional in the Nail business. It was great. In school believe it or not, you have to use your brain, so this was good for me because as stated in an earlier blog, using my brain at work is not something that I do to much...it's just not needed. So I learned all about fungus, anatomy, nail growth you know the entire gamut that goes along with the profession of toes and fillangies...

So I work at a hotel that is deemed five star/ five diamond by some companies that do a hotel survey...and would love to work in the spa there doing Pedi's and Mani's. I would love to be trained. I would love to 'engage with they guests' in the salon. How exciting, and how exciting for them to have an English speaking woman sitting across from them doing their nails that they could actually understand...incredible. No jobs available at the moment so we stay in retail...

BUT, so excitement....my private clients are great. Comfort of their own homes or girls parties or vacationers. Birthday parties for kids. I am telling you it is fun.

Some people even send me home with dinner. They want me to stay for lunch. They bake me cookies, tech me Italian. I become their sounding board, their masseur for their feet and legs. I make them feel pretty and take them away, out of the real world. Out of the humdrum life that they may lead and put them someplace else. I love it...I never thought that my days as a bartender would come in handy... (if you were ever a bartender than you would know just what I was talking about.)

I wanted to post a picture of one of my favorite clients....Gave her a Mani and Pedi one time and she was so excited she almost jumped out of her own skin to have hot pink nails and toes.

It was the most enjoyable client I have ever had.

If I could do her nails every day I would.. We had so much fun. I look forward to many more. I hope she does too....

He Got A Hair Cut....

We had to do it... we had to... Miles went to the groomer today and got a "Puppy Cut" as they say....
We have been putting it off for the longest time because we wanted to save money... at the old house, we would bath him in the drop sink in the garage...but the new house doesn't have a drop sink...(yet) so we had to get him cut...
He has so many snarls and he has SO much hair. He has a real thick undercoat so it's hard to even just brush him....
I drop him off and tell the kind lady, "here is what we would like, keep his little beard a little full, we like stuff around his ears, to make him look cute, but please do what you think would be best for him..."
Well, they did what is best for him and gave him a short cut, and a fluffy tail... we hate his tail fluffy when no other part of him is fluffy...so now our "precious little Miles" looks like a dingo or a hyena from "The Lion King". We both knew that we would not like it even before I picked him up...call it intuition. So to make up for it we were ready for him to come home with all of his toys ready for playing and lots of love and treats...to ease the blow... I am not sure if it was for him or for us....(probably for us)
So as we are laughing and commenting on "our precious little Miles' puppy cut...Dan looked at Miles and said..."Aw it's okay, little fella. I've had some really bad hair cuts back in the day.One time I even stayed home from school for three days because of a bad haircut...I still love you..." and it got me thinking... what a nice thing to say to "our precious little Miles" because it's true. He did have some bad haircuts and I did too. Like when I was thirteen, with a short perm. Thinking that it was awesome...please...but see all in all, Miles will have this cut for such a short time before his hair grows back, and we have vowed ONE MORE TIME... to brush him everyday and take care of his coat so we will not have to put him through the trauma of the groomer again...(once again, not sure if He's traumatized or US....probably us more than him.)
So we live with a dingo for awhile... It could be worse...
But he got a hair cut....

New Digs...

So Miles, Dan and I moved from 257 Yorkshire Ct. to 225 Georgetown Blvd....
It all happened so fast I cannot get things straight. We had to do it and needed to... We are literally four homes up the street from the old house. The house we loved and adored and called a home. A good home for a few years.
So now we are on the Boulevard...Georgetown blvd. that is and we are no longer living out of boxes or trash bags, but we are not entirely settled...Okay, so the new place is same square footage as the other place...but the living space is smaller now because we have a lanai. The old house we did not, just a way bigger living area, we could hold the Dancing With the Stars show in it. the new house, a bigger garage...yeah still only one car, but wider and holds our stuff better...new place, newer kitchen...but less cabinet space....new place white walls...old place LOTS of color, but I could be over color on walls...we have so much color in our furniture that color on the walls would make the place look smaller...new place, easier floors to clean....new place ...carpet in bedrooms...(dirty though, once my bathroom gets fixed then we will steam clean the rugs)...new place...no ants (so far...Dan's personal nemesis...he battled ants at the old house everyday....)...new house....separate closets....(well Dan uses the guest room closet and the guest bathroom is his.....COME ON after six years of marriage and seven of being together do you really think that we would still share stuff like that? No way....we know our boundaries...)
new place....screen front door...this is great because we can keep the front door open and the screen door keeps Miles in the house. Old house... had a great comfort level of being HOME...
New house...eventually it will he HOME...
I am off work this week w/ Bronchitis... It snuck up on me fast, but it didn't surprise me that I fell sick. I have had SOOOO much stress and have been busy at work as well as out here in the real world, but body said..."hey, chill." and now I am. Rest, rest , rest.... this doesn't mean I am running all over and decorating... because I feel yucky enough to be in bed all day, read , nap and fall in love with the new house...
Having a bit of a smaller home seems like it can be crapmed, but you know what... It's SOOO much easier to clean... really. I like the fact that the house is cozy and we are together...Dan always wanted a big house on the beach, I always wanted a small bungalo on the beach. Dan wanted a huge master bath... I wanted an outside shower...We don't entertain much either so it's not like we need lots of space, we are not a growing family...we just have the three of us and it's good. We are glad to be in the neighbourhood still, that ws important to us. The people that live here are wonderful people.
lots of changes... but changes are good.
Miles misses the old house and he is having a hard time adjusting to the new crib, but he will do it, just like we will...It will all come together soon....
I have not blogged in so long because I have been a little busy with the move and work all at once....but we ae good now....actually we are better than good and we just don't know it....
New digs....