This ‘n That Chitchat
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 9th, 2010
Good morning!
I don’t know if it was my server, but last night I couldn’t see my blog, nor even get to the administration part of my blog to see what was going on. But this morning, I am back up and running. Running? Well maybe my blog is but me personally. I am really just taking a slow stroll. I have been running all week and today I just want to check in and say hello.
Hi Stacy: You commented a few days ago and I wanted to respond – Better late than never. Congratulations for finding your love here too. I just get a kick out of the fact that so many people have met through my blog. It would be interesting to find out just how many. All I can say further is, any brother who takes the time to write e-mails for his sister because she is unable is a sweetheart in my mind. I can understand why you would fall for him. I HOPE that you have a successful, long lasting, loving marriage. Hello Glenda!
Peter: I finally got to reading your article. Once again people just want to be recognized, and they deserve the recognition and the reparation. Why is an eye never blinked to fund wars, but when it comes to reparation, nothing compared to what we spend keeping a war going, a blind eye is turned?
And McCain, of all people, opposing paying the heirs of Guam war survivors because the payments could lead to more war claims in future versions of the defense budget. So what? Pay these people. It has been a 30 year quest - it is time to pay. I HOPE Bordallo doesn’t give up. I have faith that leaving it up to a woman will get the job done – After all it is the Decade of the Woman. :) Thank you for enlightening me more on this subject.
Shasmeen: No your cousin is not deranged. Madaline is real. And a kick ass of a girl as one can be. Take note from Baraheh. :) Be well.
Zen Lill: I have my favorite Ginger brew, but I shall try yours too. Sound so delicious! How is the Christmas tree looking?
Last but certainly not least…Evelyn and Harris: My pleasure. I’m so damn happy for both of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Happiness is what really matters – mix in all the love, respect etc., that you have for each other, and I think you have a recipe for a delicious life together. You will handle the opposing party, as you see fit, and as I can see, you already have.
In regards to me coming even earlier…3-6 months in France hanging out with you et al; it all sounds simply divine. Can I swing it? Hmmm….It is so tempting. Plus, JPG, my fave edgy designer is in the Marais, and how I would love to spend some time drooling over his latest creations. Oh and I can’t forget, Chanel, Maladrino, YSL, Mugler, Castelbajac….the list goes on. Girls and shopping? Ooh…too much fun. Evelyn, I bet you and Ruth will also know the most fabulous places to buy the latest in your blossoming local designers. I love supporting up and comers.
(Sigh)…excuse my fashion moment. It has been a long time since I have been to France. Thank you both for such a warm welcome and for your very generous offer. And most of all for wanting to take the time to spend such a luxurious amount of time together. I promise I will give it some serious thought. And no matter if the time is a month or six, I am sure it will be so very memorable. Doug and I are giddy over it. Thank you again.
Peace out everyone. See you on the flip.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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December 9th, 2010 at 11:08 am
just plain giddy! this is me giddy… ;-/
While Michelle sees the giddy in shopping, as I know I would also find small amounts of time in that, I would be giddy spending time in Musee du Louvre, or hanging in the local cafes listening to Edith Piaf chiming in the air, finding some of the French music scene and French cinema, and a tour of Bordeaux. I would very much enjoy a side trip to London for much of the same, and to dine at Buddha Bar.
Ok, just a short wish list… I never pass up a moment to do such dreaming…
December 9th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Hafa adai Michelle
Thanks for acknowledging the pathos of others. You always fine the right words to convey meaning with concern.
Peter
December 9th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Zen Lill, I tried all day to get in to tell you that I and my party loved your ginger brew. I must admit that when I first offered it up, I did not mention that it was from a recipe I had obtained from a blog.
But I was asked so often by many of my guests if it was from Zen Lill’s recipe that, I had to own up to the source.
Thank you for all the contributions you make to Michelle’s blog. It is one of the reasons I never miss a read.
Katie
December 9th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Two Important Market Indicators to Watch
Gerald Appel
Marvin Appel, PhD, CEO
Signalert Corporation
Two simple short-term measurements have proved to be effective and reliable indicators of the risks associated with investing in the stock market.
Following these indicators isn’t a way to get rich quick. But over time, they can help save you from being too optimistic and getting burned or being too fearful and missing out on potential profits…
10-day high-low average: This indicator tracks the number of New York Stock Exchange stocks hitting new 52-week highs in price divided by the total number making new 52-week highs and lows.
Example: If 100 stocks reach their highest prices of the past year and nine hit their lowest, then the high-low average is 92% (100 ÷ 109) — where we were recently, down from 99% in early 2009.
Why it is useful. You want to be heavily in the stock market whenever this indicator is rising and hits 90% or more.
That’s because more and more stocks are participating in the rally, investors are pouring money into the market and it’s gaining strength.
However, when the indicator drops below 80%, it’s historically been a good time to reduce your positions.
You can find these figures each day at The Wall Street Journal online market data center (www.wsj.com, click on “Markets,” “Market Data” then under “US Stocks,” click on “New Highs & Lows”).
VIX: This is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, which is a popular measure of how much fear investors have about the future direction of the S&P 500.
When a large number of traders become fearful and sell indiscriminately, VIX levels rise. The index hit an all-time intra-day high of 89.53 on October 24, 2008.
When market conditions improve, stock price movements generally become more orderly and the index declines.
The end points of market declines are frequently signaled when the index rises to very high levels, perhaps 40 to 45 or more, and then turn down, indicating a reduction in market instability.
Why it is useful: A gradual decline from levels in the 20s or higher down to levels of 20 or below usually indicates a more stable stock market and may be a bullish signal.
However, if the VIX declines to very low levels, perhaps 10 to 12, this often is an indication that investors have become too complacent, and it may be a bearish sign for stocks.
Example: The VIX dropped to as low as 10 in 2007, just a few months before the start of the 2008-2009 bear market.
Recently, the VIX has been between 18 and 20, which generally indicates a stable market. Investors should get nervous if the VIX drops again to 10 to 12 or rises above 25.
You can find the current VIX reading at http://www.cboe.com/VIX.
Bottom Line/Personal interviewed Gerald Appel, president of Signalert Corporation, an investment advisory firm in Great Neck, New York, that manages $225 million for investors.
The author or coauthor of more than 15 investment books, he is regarded as one of the patriarchs of technical market analysis, and Marvin Appel, PhD, CEO of Signalert and editor of the market-timing newsletter Systems & Forecasts (www.SystemsAndForecasts.com).
Marvin, who is Gerald’s son, has been a financial consultant to the New York State Legislature. They are coauthors of Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time (FT Press).
December 9th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I want to do most of both Mischa and Doug’s France wedding-of-the-decade travel agendas…and fitting in London would be superb…when do we leave? : )
Mischa, would love to hear your ginger brew recipe, I’m open to trying anything new, once…twice and evermore if I like it!
The tree just went up last night, funny you would ask…I’ll text you a pic. It finally put me in the mood so now I’m off to deliver the pre-christmas stuff, a few pointsettias and a few edible delights (and they may not be getting much more) – so…
I’m outta here, luv, Zen Lill
December 9th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I love those two last photos of you Michelle. You are just so HOT!
I am looking forward to your France visit. I hope we will meet. I am a french/vietnamese model working the actress line here in Paris.
I would be enchanted to show you the fashion world from my perspective, if you are interested in the experience of a 23 year old who has been in the business for 7 years.
Wi
December 9th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Michelle
I met and married Yani after meeting him in Praha. He is a reporter who enjoyed teasing my group because we believe in aliens.
He would have coffee with us and mock us with “even if there were aliens visitors why would they comment on Michelle’s blog?”
I was the one appointed to act as a barrier to his cheekiness. I told him to read the blog before he commented.
Like most people who give your blog a serious look, he found something their for him. We talked about the political issues you raise and your love for animals. He is an avid supporter of respect for the rights of animals.
Now we are married for 11 months. He is all my happiness.
Thanks
Lorraine
December 9th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Michelle, I called Glenda to tell her that you responded to my post. She can’t stop giggling.
I’m happy too.
Stacy
December 9th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
So Zen Lill are we getting an early Christmas present or what?
Larry
December 9th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Ayez l’appareil-photo voyagera. Ne peut pas attendre pour vous voir ici en France, Michelle.
Rene
December 9th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Michelle:
Thank you for your wise suggestion to Evelyn and Harris. I had made the same suggestion only a week earlier to Evelyn.
She was not as receptive as she was to yours. You have made a mother very happy.
I am looking forward to taking you to the Snydical Chamber of Haute Couture in Paris. I know many of the great discount places on clothing, shoes and jewelries for the top houses from Chanel to Verasace.
I have my favorites on Rue Etienne Marcel and Place des Victoires. I have found incredible discounts on accessories, perfumes and cosmetics from Givenchy, Paul Smith to Louis Vuttion and Kenzo.
Private meets are not above Anonz’s influence for the girls and of course us. You will have a fantastic time and return home with an unbelievable collection.
Set an address with someone to pick up your deliveries. That way you can ship your purchases as you collect them and pick them up when you get home.
So many designers, so little time to shop.
Ruth
December 9th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Michelle
I went to yesterday’s blog because I tried all day to post there and could not get in. I tried and it still did not work. So when I absent minded stayed on it to respond to today’s to my surprise it did post.
C’est la vie!
I have to thank you once again for your insight. That was a great article and on time. We women must think Woman when we vote.
BUT, as you suggested we must think the RIGHT woman. Gender selection as the sole political criteria will set us up to male manipulation because they will just run puppet females with little brains and even less scruples to represent their will for us to select.
THINK!
Then, vote the intelligent, responsible female.
Hafa Adai
Anna
December 9th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Michelle, thank you for taking the time to answer me. I will do what I can to help Madaline and my fellows in their cause.
It is a cause that deserves the support of more males, but we have to accept what we have garnered so far.
Why do men feel that the only way to get a woman is to force her to accept them against their will. These “arranged” marriages are thinly disguised sales of women and forced sexual slavery.
I am a woman who is fully capable of finding a mate on my own if I choose to have one. The fact that the males in my family can force me to marry whom they choose is evil at is core.
Shasmeen
December 9th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Can one ever satisfy a woman. It seems that Shasmeen wants to travel without a man while Michelle insists on traveling with hers.
Go figure.
Jake
December 9th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Do you carry colored condoms?” asked the customer.
“Yes sir, we do,” answered the druggist, “in our brand-new line. There’s blue and yellow and green and —-”
“Black?” interrupted the customer.
No sir. That would be an odd color for a contraceptive.”
“Not in this instance. My best friend died last week and I’m planning to comfort his widow.”
December 9th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Michelle, I often have difficulty trying to log on to your blog. What is the real story? Perhaps you need to change your server.
Harris has it ever occurred to you that Evelyn may just be a black gold digger?
Niggers are known for their shrewdness. I would run a through background check on that bitch.
Sid
December 9th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
There was once a pretty shopkeeper’s wife who lived on the Rue Saint-Honore. Plump, dimpled, 22 years old, she had young, deletable flesh and a shapely though sightly rotund body. She enhanced these ample charms with wit and vivacity and the most lively predilection for all the pleasures denied by the harsh laws of Hymen.
Her husband was old and ugly. Not only did he much displease her; he performed his nuptial duties as ably as he did seldom. Had these been better attended to, the insatiable Dolmene might have bee placated.
About a yea ago, Madame Dolemne decided to give her husband tow assistants. The rendezvous she assigned her two lovers ran like clock-work. Des-Roues, a young offer, usually arrived at four and stayed till five, while Dolbreuse, a young merchant with the sweetest face you could imagine, came from 5:30 till seven.
It was impossible find other opportunities; this was the only time Madame Dolmene had to herself. In the morning, she had to work in the shop. In the evening, her husband returned home to talk about business.
Actually, Madame Dolmene had confided to a friend that she was rather pleased with the arrangement. She maintained that by passing so quickly form the arms of one lover into the arms of another the flame of passion have no time to burn out. And one needn’t be bothered with getting warmed up twice.
the charming Madame Dolmene calculated love’s pleasures carefully. Indeed, few women have given them such deliberate and diligent meditation. She concluded that it would be wasteful for a woman of her talents to settle for just one lover.
As far as her reputation was concerned, it was all one and the same: One lover covered for the other; people were apt to be mistaken and believe that the same one merely came and went several times a day. Yet what a difference the second lover made!
Certain that her husband awol never be foolish enough to ruin her figure, Madame Dolene was understandably worried about becoming pregnant. But, with logic of a physician, she reasoned she ran far less of he freaked risk with tow lover, for their seeds would surely counteract.
One day, the established order of the rendezvous broke down and our two paramours, who until then had never laid eyes on the other, were soon to make acquaintance. As we shall see presently, this proved agreeable to all concerned. Des-Roues, who was first, arrived behind time and, as fate would have it, Dolbreuse came somewhat early.
The perspicacious reader will see at once the consequences of these slight irregularities; that they would lead to an unfortunate, if inevitable, encounter. This encounter did, indeed, come to pass.
But allow me to tell you how it occurred kind reader, and, if possible, to do so with all the decency and circumspection that a subject already so licentious demands.
No, on a peculiar whim—and, after all, men have so many—our young offer found himself bored with the role of lover and wished this once to play the role of mistress. Rather than be amorously received in the arms of his goddess, he longed to embrace her instead. To be more succinct, he lay on his back and she mounted his member from the top. This exchange elf Madame Dolmene arched over the sacrificial altar, Madame Dolmene, naked as he Callipygian Venus, straddling her lover.
Facing the portal of the chamber in which these rites were being enacted was the hindmost part of the Callipygian Venus, the part that the Greeks worshiped with such devotion, the lovely posterior, which, without turning to the distant past has so many adherents in Paris today.
This was he position when the unsuspecting Dolbreuse, humming softly, arrived on the scene. Unaccustomed to knocking, he entered and came face to fesse with what no self-respecting woman, so to they say, should bare in public.
The sight would no doubt have delighted many, but Dolbreuse recoiled with indignation.
“What do I see?” he cried. “Perfidious woman, is that all you’ve elf me?”
Now, there are some situations in which a woman does far better to act than to reason. Madame Dolmene, in precisely such a situation, resolved to repay the affront.
“What the devil is wrong with you!” she blurted to the second Adonis, without slackening in the least with the first. “Why are you making such a fuss? Disturb us not, and accommodate yourself with what is left. And when you enter my ass be as gentle as you are passionate. For you can see, I’m sure, there is room for two.”
Dolbreuse could not keep from laughing at his mistress’s sang-froid. He concluded that the simplest thing to do would be to follow her advice. Nor did he wait for a second invitation.
December 9th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Katie, thank you for the kind words : ) and I’m so glad you and your pals were digging the G-brew.
Larry, anything is possible and I AM sitting here in my favorite faux grey fur coat, found this in the back of the closet today and been wearing it ever since, this coat has supplied with some happy seasonal moments, mostly when it was the only thing I was wearing along with red nails for a pop of color, oh and a red/white hat ; ) maybe I’ll use it as a pic prop, too…
It’s been on my mind for days now and when I read it I remember how it made me feel, sad for you and nostalgic (for me) to a degree, bc Shaun, I used to feel like a big black pit descended once a month, now that very rarely occurs…you can fix that though you must be persistent and diligent in participating. I now mix and make my own herb capsules, yeah I know, serious pain on ass factor but I now have to look at a calendar to know when I’m about to be hormonal, my only clue is a random negative and worrisome thought enters my mind, now I know enough to shout out ‘who goes there?’ bc it sure as hell ain’t me : ) if you are interested in stopping and changing that feeling to a great degree start with taking Dong Quia and Evening Primrose oil (dosage on bottle is fine to start, you can adjust up once you use it for a month) take both 2 weeks prior to your period, some women take EPO everyday, couldn’t hurt. Caffeine is effective also, opens the veins for better blood flow, less headaches and cramps. And, ah you knew this was coming…sex is a great cramp reliever, if your man balks at.all. tell him not to worry he’ll get over it tee hee. If you think your not in the mood, take some horny goat weed : ). I think feeling ill in general takes us a vulnerable place bc we’re not used to being down, I know I want total quiet or a soothing voice while carressing my face and hair at the same time, that’s bc I’m a total baby when I’m illin’…and I’ve always noticed that about myself.
Luv – ZL
December 9th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Zen lill
Fur coat, no fur coat. Just send me another full shot of my favorite blogger.
December 9th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
That was pretty long winded just to say a girl got a poke in the ass and snatch at the same time.
Me, I would have demanded head.
December 9th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
That would have been about right for you George because her ass would have been out of your tiny prick’s reach. She had ample cheeks, Callipygian Venus.
Rose
December 10th, 2010 at 8:08 am
Social Security Number Safety
Linda Foley
Identity Theft Resource Center
Keep your Social Security number’s last four digits secret.
You are only legally required to give out your Social Security number (SSN) when applying for new financial accounts, to an employer or for governmental purposes.
The last four digits combined with your name and address could be used to obtain a wealth of information.
Safety: Ask why a company would need your SSN — if you are not comfortable with the answer, seek an alternative company or use another means of ID.
Bottom Line/Retirement interviewed Linda Foley, founder, Identity Theft Resource Center, San Diego, http://www.idtheftcenter.org.