“No.” Jelly Bean, 9 months old, said her very first word a few days ago! It was very clear (and very much a product of having three older brothers who like to scream that word incessantly) – said in the context of me taking away the graham cracker she was powdering the floor with. You …
Things would have gone better for me had I had one of these caps, I know it! Either you’re a swimmer or you’re not. False dichotomy though it may be, there is an easy test to see which camp you fall in. When someone tells you, “Let’s swim half a mile.” do you answer, “Sure! …
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Anyone who has been in the blogosphere for more than 10 minutes (which is pretty much everyone including my 9-month-old daughter) knows about the mostly symbiotic – occasionally parasitic – relationship between sponsors and bloggers. At first look, it’s pretty simple: companies want their product to get good Internet buzz, bloggers love try free stuff …
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Normal. It’s not a word I’m used to using in regards to Lindsay Lohan. From the very beginning she has been many things – oh how I adored her as the red-haired imp on The Parent Trap, Culottes Edition – but she has never been normal. Currently, for those of you keeping tabs on the …
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Confession #1: Today I stopped and bought my boys t-shirts at a garage sale to wear because I haven’t had time to do laundry for two weeks now and everything they own has been worn twice. (Once right side out and once inside out – for the latter, I just tell everyone they dressed themselves. …
Manscaping your nipple hair to attach to your nostril hair won’t help you lose weight butI admire his willingness to change things up! Also, I think this dude shaved a swatch down the top of his head. That might be my fave part. Sprained ankles. Broken bones. Gym Hottie rejection. Stolen spots. The occupied state …
All images are from the Pinup RDJ blog, which the artist delightfully explains thusly: “Vintage pinups are the pinnacle of art. Robert Downey Jr is the pinnacle of sexy. It’s not rocket science.” For those of us not lucky enough to be the love child of Robert Downey Jr. and a pin-up girl, feeling beautiful …
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Shoe pants. (Shpants? Poos?) Brilliant. If you keep the laces going up, you could use them like suspenders thereby completing the trifecta of cool. You knew they were too good to be true. We all did. And yet “Officials from Reebok, a unit of Adidas, say the EasyTone is the company’s most successful new product …
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This is as close as I’ll ever get to being a hot chick in a hot tub. Stephanie Dolgoff is omnipresent in the body-image blogosphere these days. You might have read a review of her new book My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the other side of young (that comes out today!) from MizFit, …
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Well hello there! Fancy meeting you at this park. Don’t worry I have lots of random fitness equipment to show you. No that’s not a euphemism and no I’m not trying to sell you any of it. Although this post is, apparently, sponsored by Subway. (Which is a bummer because Subway irritates me on two …
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