Check this out: More than 1,400 specialty license plates featuring an image of President Barack Obama have been purchased in Illinois in the past month. Is this a first that a president has graced a license plate?  Or is this the only president that I want on my ass on a daily basis?  And I mean the ass of my car for your perverted minds out there. Although…if I really thought about it…No, no, no….Just kidding…I’m not gonna go there.  :)

So…back to the plates.  The plates sell for $50 a pair, and have raised $50,000 for the Illinois Library Association, a 2010 summer reading program. The program provides catalogs and brochures to local libraries encouraging youths to continue reading during the summer months. I think it’s a cool idea.  

Library association chief Robert Doyle said the idea for Obama plates originated in December in the secretary of state’s office. The goal was to have them ready by the presidential inauguration.

The plates, which read “Illinois Salutes President Barack Obama,” went on sale Feb. 17 and are valid through April 17. After that, people across the country can purchase the plates as collector items.

The only bummer is that the plates are only good for 60 days. But then hey, they’re raising money for the libraries and they way they are selling, nobody seems to mind that they expire. I wish we could do something like that for California….anything to raise a little money for this state.  Like I said, I wouldn’t mind President Obama riding my ass….Wha’at! Did I just say that? I guess I couldn’t help going there.

President Obama and Mrs. O:  If you are reading this (Oh, how I wish!), please know that I have the utmost respect for the both of you and I am only having a little fun at your expense.  I hope that I have not offended either of you.  :)  

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Hi Debby: I’m sorry that you couldn’t get in and leave a comment when you tried to. If I’m understanding you correctly, your comment yesterday posted on Saturday’s article was in regards to yesterday’s article ‘Ban The Brazilian?’, yes? If so, I think you are right on, and I should’ve made that clear. I did NOT think that it did not go through because it was a women’s rights issue. In fact I wasn’t sure if it had even occured to some that it was a women’s rights issue. To me it was blatant, which is why I pushed the point, while most articles that I read were focusing on the riskiness of the procedure. And yes, I agree with you also, that it probably wasn’t overturned because of the financial losses that would occur had it been overturned. Thank you for clarifying.

Out the door….

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So here I sit again, in front of my computer ready to write my write, enjoying my hot cup of cocoa…staving off heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer, while I sit in bed blogging. Ya gotta love it. And I also love the fact that I  need no excuse from now on to indulge in one of my faves: Chocolate.   

And it seems we are on the same subject today: Recognizing the humor in life. Sans the sickening article on fraudulent Feldman and his faux liver transplants. He is unforgivable and should have his liver removed for punishment.  

But let me back track a bit and respond to some of you first before I carry on with today’s write. 

Zen Lill:  Say “Hello!”….and have a great time with Lisa! I can’t wait to hear about the Ellen Show too. 

Creg:  So, I am so blown away that you took my advice and called your daughter. I am so happy for the both of you. I hope that you both enjoy your new relationship.  And thanks to Gloria too for recommending my blog.   

Tina: Your story had me in stitches!

Anna, Peter, Hafa adai:  Again I know so little about Guam. Thank you for posting a little history for all of us. 

Anonymous: I don’t blame you about being upset. Getting into Law school is big. I will congratulate you even if your parents won’t. Congratulations – I hope that you do well and pass the bar on your first try.

Ned: Sorry for laughing but how can you live with someone who doesn’t bathe regularly? She gives a new meaning to the term  ‘dirty sex’. Could this divorce be a blessing in disguise?

Blake:  If she is heartless and cruel to everyone including you, why would you want to marry her? An example: Your mother walks out all dressed up and wearing her best sunday hat. She feels so good when she wears this hat but it really looks ridiculous.  Do you tell her when you know how happy wearing that hat makes her? Hell no.  Yet your girlfriend probably would. That is cruel. It is not always in the best interest of others to be so honest. In this case telling your mother that she looked ridiculous would not serve her at all. Let her walk out happy.  People who see her will probably love the fact that she is just so delighted  with herself. I say,  ‘Get a clue. Find someone new.’

Megan, Belinda, Tina, Jerry, Linda, Shawn and Cathy:  Thanks for your stories too. I am smiling and laughing. I love that all of you are so open and willing to share on my blog. 

Phillip: You need to get a clue too. I think your girl is tired of driving and wants to feel like the woman in this relationship. Why not pick her up sometime and take her out. YOU drive and if you’re smart, you’ll start opening the door for her to get in and out of the car too. Start treating her like she’s your girl instead of a buddy. Just my thoughts…

Speaking of getting a clue…Sam: You’re ‘thinking’ of not marrying her?  If her words don’t tell you clear enough to get out, I will. ‘Get out. Find someone you want to be with and who wants to be with you.’

Holly:  Don’t pay attention to your dad. He’s probably envious and living vicariously through your chip bro. Congrats on making the dean’s honor list – keep in goin’!

You know, I think I’m going to end it right here. I wanted to write about something today but I’m going to save it for tomorrow, enjoy the ease of this weekends comments,  and just sign off.  I hope that’s cool with you. 

Have a beautiful Sunday.

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Good morning…

I have to say that it was fun to read the comments this morning. I enjoyed that we got off of politics and got  personal, whether it was purging or sharing stories from the past.  A friend said to me the other day, that at some point when everything is going down, you need to find the humor in the havoc and have a good laugh. And I thought about it. After all, if you are doing as much as you can, and still things aren’t coming together, life can feel quite ridiculous. And when it does, if you allow it, humor drops in and gives you a tickle.  I have had some moments with humor these days. 

Hi Lori:  First of all, no man is perfect, but my man is better than most husbands out there that I have come across. I am grateful for and appreciate his good qualities. Now, your man…I know it must’ve been an upsetting time for you, but hey, in the end I really think you did him a favor.  What better way to leave this world than to go out with a bang? I hope that you don’t mind that I added some humor to your story today.  And like you said, ‘If the roles were reversed….’  I think he got just what he deserved. :)

Zen Lill:  Again, my apologies for being insensitive. I have been in my own little world lately…

Hi Creg:  You are right..men aren’t the only ‘aholes’.  Still, pardon me for laughing a bit at the fact that your young daughter was mimicking your wife’s love-making noises. Again, I know it must’ve been a difficult time for you but looking back, does it not make you laugh a little? I hope that you have moved past the bitterness and you have a fresher look at things. 

Which speaking of…I don’t blame you for leaving your wife but also not speaking to your daughter feels a bit harsh to me. I think you are missing out by not having a relationship with her. I don’t think that your daughter was conspiring with your cheating wife.  I think your cheating wife acted very unfairly to her young daughter by putting her in that position. I think she is innocent in this. After all, it sounds like your daughter wanted to tell you but was probably told by her mother to keep silent all of those years. 

What a horrible thing for a young girl to have to hide from her father. And how it must affect her as a woman today. It seems she finally got the courage at age eighteen to tell you and you write her off. I hope you don’t mind me saying that I think you should call her up and try to salvage your relationship with her. It’s never too late. 

Jodi, Susan, Loni, Sandra, Michelle:  All of your stories were so much fun to read. These past few weeks I have gotten together with some of my girls from high school and we have been laughing so much at all of the funny stories that happened to us ions ago. And Sandra, thank you for saying that you found Colette’s story hilarious; I did too. 

I’ll share one that happened to me when I was young that I find pretty funny.

I was meeting this guy that I had a total crush on, at a party, and we were kind of  ‘going out’…nothing official but we were definitely into each other. We decided to take a walk to a nearby park to make-out. Well, things got pretty hot and heavy with the kissing. About an hour or so later I needed to leave. So, we walked back to the party and my friend’s parents picked us up and dropped me off at home. 

I walked in the door and my mother asked me how the party was. I went on and on about how much fun it was. She asked me if I went anywhere else. And I lied and said no. She said, “Michelle, where were you? Your sweater is on inside out and you have grass all over you.” I was so embarrassed then, and she was a bit ticked.  But of course we both laugh about it now. 

I hope that 20 years from now I will be laughing at the times today. Enjoy your Saturday and make it something worth laughing about…now or later. 

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Oh, please forgive me to all of you Irish peeps out there. Did I blow it or what? I have been in a fog these past two days with a minor cold…no big deal but it has left me a bit fuzzy headed and I lost track of the days. So when I woke up yesterday morning, I had no clue that it was St. Patrick’s Day.  Will you forgive me? I must’ve remembered this day some where in the back of my mind ’cause I did wear my green plaid sneakers.  I was quite delighted that I did because I so hate being in the dark and out of it. Although getting pinched can be quite fun :)

So speaking of shoes…did you catch Michelle Obama’s fashion statement?  She not only wore teal green boots to a St. Patty’s meeting with YouthBuild – a youth and community development program, but for this special day, she had the fountains on the north and south lawns of the White House dyed green. The idea was Mrs. O’s very own, borrowing a tradition from the city of Chicago, where the river is dyed green every St. Patrick’s Day. How cool is that? A first for the White House. 

So…did you catch the similarity between her St. Patty’s outfit today and the one she wore on inaugural day?  Michelle wore the same Nina Ricci lemongrass mohair sweater under her jacket and her pumps were also teal green. Is this starting to be a fashion trend for her? Or just a fave color combo?  Doesn’t matter…she looks great. I always love a quirky kick of color.  

So…It seems Michelle Obama and I not only share the same name, but the love of the color green too! 

Oh, I can’t tell you how good it feels to write about fashion. It has been ions since I’ve perused the fashion pages for inspiration. Michelle Makes it so easy to get back into it again. Hmm…Maybe I need to send her a pair of my pj’s. Think she’d like that?

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Helena: Hi. I have been told that it crashes when too many people try to get on my blog. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hello Peter: Your article on Guam stating the high rate of smokers, largest in the nation, is shocking. 

Zen Lill: An all day fashion show? How wonderful. Is this for work or just frivolous fun?! No matter - Enjoy yourself!

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I woke up stranded this morning….at Tiffany…yes my fave jewelry store. You know the one. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as lucky as Holly Golightly.  No, I wasn’t strolling by in the early morning, decked out in pearls and a ‘LBD’ (That’s ‘little black dress’ for those of you not in the know :), enjoying my breakfast, after a wonderful night of partying.  

No, in fact, I wasn’t strolling at all; I was literally stranded. And not outside of Tiffany, but inside. Oh, but this could be good; the ‘jewels’ are inside! So it seems they locked the doors and I was left inside.  Impossible? Well, yes, in real life. But dream life…anything is possible. And yes, this was definitely a dream. 

My biggest worry was that I was in a very short and tiny sleep slip with no underwear. (TMI? Sorry.) And bending over without flashing my ‘jewel’, was going to be a problem. But why did I need to bend over? Who knows…it was a dream and you know how strange dreams can be. Unfortunately, I wasn’t stranded where the jewels were – darn. No, it felt like I was the jewel, because I was locked up in some huge safe with an elevator like door. It was completely empty except for me and my girlfriend, also in a short and tiny slip.  And in real life, she happens to actually work at Tiffany. No kidding. 

Oh it gets even weirder. Girls, you relate to me about this. You know how when you go clothes shopping and the lights in the dressing rooms are just a nightmare? The hideous florescent lighting shows every bump and bulge that you don’t see when you look down at yourself, and you never seem to see in your own mirror at home?  Ugh, I just hate that about shopping.  Well…somehow this room had that effect and instead of seeing yourself in a mirror staring at all of your bumps, bulges and that ugly ‘c’ word, you got to view it on your actual body in the form of ‘white lines’ enhancing all of those wonderful areas.  White lines saying ‘Look! See!’   Needless to say, my girlfriend looked ‘striped’ on her thighs and other areas on her body…and yes so did I. It was not a pretty sight. Oh…the ‘jewels’ were flawed. :)

Okay, so we went to a party last night at ‘The Factory’, a tribute to Warhol’s ‘factory’ in NY, thrown by Amoeba Music to showcase local artists.  I wore my original Emelio Pucci pants and the wild colors in the black light room came alive on my thighs. I take it, that this image was subconsciously thrown into my dream and was the influence of the ‘white lines’. Yeah, that’s it. Because really, I can’t look that bad. And if you want to get into the psyche of it all….I really don’t have a bad self image. So what’s the deal? 

The last thing I remember was being rescued from Tiffany. I did bend over. Why? I really don’t know, but fortunately, those unsightly ‘white lines’ disappeared.  And, did I get a glimpse of the gorgeous jewels? Ha! – someone did! :) But me? No. However,  I did wake up this morning with a smile on my face.  But sadly, not a pearl or rock in sight. 

Oh…what does it all mean? Who cares. I don’t. But hey, if someone out there wants to analyze my dream – go for it. But I will say one thing: Girls: We are all precious jewels! :) 

It is a beautiful day – the rain has passed and I am just delighted. I’m also done. Enjoy the weekend!

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