Sarah Palin Soap Opera - You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Family values? Bristol Palin gets her drink on!! Hope these were taken pre pregnancy!

Sarah Palin shows her family values!

Well, I am thoroughly convinced that the Republican pundits are even dumber than I originally thought.......Sarah Spears Palin as Vice President? I might just bust my gut laughing at this ridiculous choice or leave the country out of sheer fear that a wanna be beauty queen could potentially be our Commander in Chief one day. Consider the following:

Sarah is a grown up Jon Benet beauty pageant runner up.. not even a winner and I just despise that entire scene

• She did college on the five year plan and attended 3 colleges but graduated from the University of Idaho....a 3rd tier school which accepts 77% of its applicants...and she only got in as a tranfer student. Who da 'ho? Sarah da ho!



• She loves to eat moose and is a card carrying NRA member who loves to hunt



• She is a member of the Assembly of God....a pentecostal church.... she probably speaks in tongues, prays with snakes and as is far right as one can be.



• She is the mother of 5.....a slow young 19 year old who couldnt get into college and joined the army, a pregnant 17 year old slut who missed months of school when she reportedly had mono, 2 middle children and a 4 month old down syndrome baby......even though Sarah claims to have "family values" she obviously cannot manage her own family. The teenager uses the down syndrome baby to cover her blossoming belly when Sarah was introduced on national television as the candidate. Why didn't the Enquirer pick up on this as fast as John Edward's affair?

• Sarah married the professional ski mobiler in 1988. Her son is 19+. Probably was a real shotgun wedding! You do the math! Like mother, like daughter.



• Wow......Sarah has so much foreign policy experience.....imagine she has left the country 3 times in 44 years!!!! Such a world traveler.....she has been to Ireland, Germany and Kuwait(yes she is in the hands of the oil lobbyists) and this is why McCain needs her as his trophy VP.....since he already has a trophy wife.




• Sarah and Lynn Spears should co-author a book on parenting...birds of a feather.....trailer trash kindred sisters.


• If John McCain dies while in office, this hussy could be our President....I am frightened of this prospect. What is Sarah gets knocked up while in the White House and John McCain succumbs to cancer or heart disease? Yikes!

This presidential race is now more interesting than the Young and the Restless....and a lot trashier. And I am shocked that the powers that be did not give Sarah a makeover because she is the epitome of a fashion faux pas. ....get rid of the stripper hair and the unflattering glasses.

This is like Barney Fife on Andy of Mayberry running as VP to John McCain.....at least they could have picked a cool Alaskan like one of the characters on Northern Exposure.

I only hope that others share my views about the poorest choice in election history and that this will allow more voters to see that Barak Obama is the only choice for President.

Fun, Fast, Fabulous and Furious Trip to Las Vegas

Las Vegas was a blast! We arrived in Vegas on Thursday night, checked into the Bellagio and hit the ground running. The first stop was my favorite restaurant Fix for some lobster tacos, Kobe beef sliders and cocktails. After dinner, we hit the slots and literally, I won on every machine I played!! At 2am Vegas time( 5am Atlanta time) after drinking my fill of my Vegas beverage of choice, Mandarin Vodka and soda, I crashed only to wake up around 8am Vegas time. It was 108 degrees outside at 9am and it was so unbearably hot but we shopped and walked down Las Vegas Boulevard to the MGM Grand to use the $100 Free Play I had and to see the lions. I walked out with an extra $50 in my pocket. We cabbed back to the Bellagio and met a man who advises clients on which slots to play and he recommended that we play the new EBay machines. There is a bank of 8 machines together and every now and then, you get a community bonus. I turned $20 into $200 in no time. It was a blast. Friday night we went to the Lucky Cheng Drag Show and it was a riot. I have alot of good pictures of the drag queens doing their thing. More drinking and gambling ensued. Saturday was a 3 hour all you can drink champagne brunch followed by a 5 hour tear on the Jackpot Party machines where we met the nicest people with whomwe drank and partied. I actually went up to the room around 9pm and decided to take a nap but passed out. My friends were calling but my phone was on silent and I missed the bonus rounds on Ebay. We left the hotel at 4am Sunday for a 6am flight home. We arrived in Atlanta around 1pm.....when the rain had stopped. Fast, furious and fun! Can't wait to go back.

A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity....Telling Off the Worst Boss You Ever Had!!!

This is one of those opportunities you wait for your whole life and generally the opportunity does not present itself. Back in the days when I practiced law full time at a large Atlanta law factory firm, I had a boss from hell. He was a partner who enjoyed terrorizing the new associates and found joy and pleasure in giving you impossible workloads involving overnighters and generally treating you like shit. He was verbally abusive and somehow must be related to Hitler. He was a legend, unanimously hated by all of the associates. He looked like one of the flying monkeys on The Wizard of Oz. I worked in the same office with this jerk for a year and was elated to transfer to another office.

I always told myself that if I ever ran into this jerk, I would tell him off. I am older now, self-confident and basically don't give a shit what he thinks of me. Well, I waited 17 years but the opportunity presented itself a few weeks ago at Chastain Park. I spotted him sitting about 3 tables away and he apparently gained a good 100 pounds and looked like a blown up flying monkey. After I had a few glasses of wine and he walked right behind me with a young woman whom I later discovered was his daughter, I tapped him on the shoulder and asked "Aren't you TM?" to which he responded "yes". I should have told him I couldn't believe how much weight he had gained but instead went right for " I worked for you at the law factory and you are the worst boss Ihave ever had.....you were mean, nasty and cruel to all of the associates". I went on to give him specifics and his daughter apologized profusely for him and said that he had changed. He is no longer with the law factory and as a hard head egomaniac, my insults did not phase him. His daughter even tried to set me up with him and he asked for my card!! The nerve!

I was so proud to have gotten this opportunity after all of those years....it is a once in a lifetime experience to be able to do something like this. I have some others on the list and I hope to run into these individuals one day. I hope you have yours!

The Saint Update

The Saint is out of the hospital after a grueling surgery on Thursday. The doctors discovered a huge growth/cyst filled with fluid about the size of a baseball and with a shunt, through her carotid artery, are able to constantly keep the fluid drained. They couldn't believe that the Saint's headaches were not more painful! I am pleased that she made it through rather easily although she is having some alternating numbness in her body which the doctors have not diagnosed. One day at a time.....

Atlanta Cougar Heading to Las Vegas for some R&R

I haven't posted in about a week and I have so much to report!! The best news of the week is that I am heading to Las Vegas on Thursday night with one of my partners in crime, Spine Doc. We have traveled together many times and as you know, you must be compatible with whomever you travel or your trip will be ruined. She loves to drink, party and have fun so she is a great choice for the Vegas trip. Spine Doc hasn't been to Vegas in 16 years so she will be on sensory overload. I plan to drink, eat and gamble...probably in that order as I don't have much $$$ to flush down the casino toilets. Ofcourse there will be alot of flirting with hot men......a man throwing the dice at a craps table is a major turn on. I am counting down the minutes until Thursday night.

The Saint Surgery Update

For those who have read my post from last week regarding my dear friend, the Saint, she will be going under the knife for the removal of her brain tumor on Thursday. Since it is fluid based, she is going to have a shunt put in to remove the fluid build up on her brain instead of a craniotomy.

I celebrated her son's first birthday with she and her family this last Sunday. The doctor let her leave the hospital for a few days. Please keep the Saint in your prayers and I will keep you updated.

When news goes from bad to worse

As I was still reeling from the surprise diagnosis of the Saint's tumor, I received a phone call late Thursday night. "Are you sitting down?" my mother asked. "I have some bad news to tell you but it does not involve anyone in our family." Oh shit! WTF? I can't take any more. She then told me that my 2nd GBFF had died and he had committed suicide. I immediately went into my out of body experience mode. Paul, my 2nd GBFF and I had just had dinner together on Sunday. He called Sunday afternoon and said he felt like eating pizza and asked if I would join him. Ofcourse I obliged. We just basically ate and shot the bull. He was in a good mood.

To digress for a minute, Paul was in the catering business. His business had slowed due to the economy. He did all of my catering and I have known him since the late 80s when he was a waiter in one of my favorite restaurants which is no longer in existence. As the economic downturn has affected my business as well, we commiserated. We used to joke about getting jobs at Kroger as cashiers as the biggest challenge the job entails is asking "paper or plastic?". These people don't have to "bring work home with them," they are guaranteed a paycheck every two weeks, have great health benefits and get real vacations.....diametrically opposed to the life of a small business owner. I shared very intimate details about my life with Paul, and obviously he did not do so with me. I knew he was depressed but not this depressed.

Paul stopped by my office last Thursday and brought me 2 religious medals...he was a devout Catholic but didn't push it on everyone. He brought some prayer cards about praying for help in difficult economic times. He shared some old family photos with me. On Sunday, he brought me a book entitled "Zen The Art of Leadership" and I told him I would return it to him after I finished it. He said he wanted me to have it. I spoke with Paul on Monday afternoon. I called him on Tuesday and he did not return my calls. I emailed him on Wednesday to say I was worried about him.

As the story goes, he checked into a hotel on Tuesday night, took an overdose of Ambien and Demerol and killed himself. He left a suicide note with explicit instructions. Obviously he had been planning this for at least a month. I did think it was a bit creepy when he started giving me his possessions but now know it was his way of saying goodbye and to leave me a part of him. I later found out that over the weekend he had dinner with all of his favorite people. I am honored to be on that list but wish he would have confided about all of his feelings with me. I am beyond upset and sad. I will miss Pauly deeply.