Stink, Skank, Skunk

Hi, Everyone! Sorry to have flown the coop, but it's been a bad week. Not makin' excuses, just sayin'. But the Oscars were on last night, and that always perks everyone up!

Doesn't Sandra Bullock look drop dead gorgeous in her red dress? Really if we didn't love her so much, we'd have to be jealous of her!

She looks especially beautiful because she's not wearing a certain accessory from last year ..... her stinkin', two-timin' scumbucket of a dirtbag EX-husband, Jesse James. Skunk is really just not a bad enough word for him.

He's a liar, a cheat, a user, a manipulator. Does he have any good qualities, I wonder? It's hard to imagine, when he could do what he did to someone as beautiful and kind and talented as our Sandy.

And do we all remember WHAT he did to our girl????? Yup - he philandered. He had the girl of anyone's dreams, and instead he chose this:


I'm thinkin' of a whole lotta words for this one, and "skank" is about the kindest one!

So what hope do the rest of us have, if even someone as amazing as Sandy finds herself in our not so exclusive club?????

The lesson here is the one that sounds so trite when they say it: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME. That's right, Jesse, Charlie, and all the others - it's about YOU and your lack of morals and decency.

WE are still fabulous, absolutely fabulous! And we should never never never forget it!

Which one of those girls looks better in her red dress????? Just sayin'!


'Till next time, 'cause sadly there's always another one ........

Taffy

"He's Candy-Coated Misery"

Ah, Carrie -- Have you been where we've been? Did some two-timin' gigolo break your heart, too? 'Cause you sing this with such passion, like you KNOW how it feels ......




And when Carrie says "You'd better run for your life" you'd better know she means it! Casanovas will steal your heart, and take everything else you value in yourself and your life if you let them.

This got me to thinking about the real life Casanova, the famous womanizer. In his own autobiography, written in the 1790s, he wrote: “Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite of mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it.”

Boy, ain't THAT the truth with these guys! Thinking with the wrong head, 'cause the one they should be using is oxygen-deprived from blood loss, their only purpose in life is to treat women like pawns in a seductive little game they play.

Why do we romanticize a sleaze like Casanova? According to Wikipedia "He strove to be the ideal escort in the first act—witty, charming, confidential, helpful—before moving into the bedroom in the third act."

Nowadays we call it the "3rd date."

Well, who doesn't want the escape? Who doesn't want to be flirted with, pursued, wanted, seduced? Of course we fall for them! "He's like a drug, you get addicted to his love."

But we should know better.

The fix from their drug wears off. We feel humiliation, rage, disgust, a whole mix of emotions. But they don't consider the consequences of their actions, only going after the next conquest.

So don't take that cool drink of water - splash yourself back to reality instead! "Don't let him mess with your mind ...... he'll break your heart, it's just a matter of time."

'Till next time, 'cause sadly there's always another one ........

Taffy

How do you say "pig" in Italian?

Italy has delectable food, inspirational artwork, a romantic language ... and a prime minister who is embarrassing a country which should have oodles of national pride.

Silvio Berlusconi has been in some trouble before, but he's really outdone himself this time! He's not just a womanizer, that's for amateurs. Nope, he's now going to trial in the spring, accused of paying nightclub dancer Karima el-Mahroug, who was under the age of 18 at the time, for sex.

In case you're wondering, he's almost 75.

Her stage name? Ruby Heart-Stealer. Yah, she stole Silvio's heart AND his mind, and turned them into spaghetti! What, if anything, was he thinking!? Oh, and she doesn't just steal hearts and minds of addled old perverted men ... Berlusconi is also accused of using his political power to help free her when she'd been charged with real theft.

Now, ol' Silvio has spent a fair share of his life in courtrooms, but never for anything quite this sordid. Tax evasion and bribing judges kind of pales by comparison to the sleaze factor going on now!

So how DO you say "pig" in Italian? Il maiale. Funny how closely that phrase resembles "ill male," huh??? ;)

'Till next time, 'cause sadly there's always another one ........

Taffy