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Last year, I sat on my couch wearing an ass groove into the cushions and going through the motions of the holidays while counting down the moments until it was all done. The only reason that I didn't stay in bed entirely was because I had small children to care for and, well, they don't give a shit how miserable and depressed you are, which is kind of the beauty of kids.
It was really out of the norm for me, someone who normally celebrates the magic of the season like a small annoying child, but I was very, very pregnant and on the tail end of a shit year. My friend had died in February, I'd suffered two miscarriages in April and May and while I'd gotten pregnant again in June, it seemed sort of uncertain for awhile.
August through October brought about The Daver's Nervous Breakdown where he could barely get out of bed, which left me wondering how the hell I was going to support our family without selling pictures of my pregnant self for cash. By December, I was just done. I felt like a heaping pile of dog ass that peed herself when she moved, and really, there was no Christmas spirit to be had by me. I'd weep onto the top of Alex's head as I rocked him to sleep at night, while my daughter kicked him from within and I'd wonder what I was going to do.
Obviously, January didn't bring much better news. My daughter was born so sick and even after her surgery, things were so scary for so long. It took me so long to recover from all of that.
What's shocking to me as I read back through the archives is that there's not a whole lot of mention of this. Likely, I didn't know quite what TO say, so I simply said nothing. Because I had no real concrete reasons to focus on and work through to be able to say "Hey Internet RIGHT THERE is why I'm so miserable" I just said nothing.
The skies didn't really start to clear up for me until a couple of months ago when the PPD and the PTSD and all of those other fancy acronyms began to fade somewhat and in their place I realized what I had to do.
In all of these years, I've raised my crotch parasites and pushed them from my nether regions and paced and rocked and bounced and swaddled. And I've Wifed, by pushing Dave to succeed at a job that really, he does love and encouraged and listened and pretended to understand when he spoke in what may have been ancient Finnish and keeping the house running and organized and somewhat clean.
But what I've neglected all of this time was me.
Your Aunt Becky has been missing from this equation and this life. In all of the time that I've been Becky, Wifey of The Daver and Moooooommmmmyyyy of Benner, Alex (not Alexander–his declaration, not mine) and Mimi, Your Aunt Becky has been sorely neglected.
When I realized what I was going to do with the rest of my life–freelance, for those of you not playing along at home–or at least until I decide to actually inhabit my new house and become Lady of the House (Princess Grace Of Monaco) it was like I was finally seeing things as they are for the first time in years. I can be all of those things to my family and Your Aunt Becky too.
So this year, while my house is only haphazardly decorated for the holidays, it's for a very different reason. I'm busily throwing myself into doing something for myself. Like my homie Pashmina has suggested, 2010 is going to be the year of ME (although, I think she means that it's going to be the year of HER, because if she was taking a whole year to celebrate ME, well, I think that would be so awesome that I don't even know how I would handle that. HEY PASHMINA, CELEBRATE ME! And, uh, BUY ME STUFF.).
2010 is going to be the year Aunt Becky Gets Her Groove Back. And hopefully, her fucking figure too.
I'm not sure how I'm going to keep you guys informed of what other projects I'm doing without ramming it down your throats, so any suggestions are appreciated. Maybe links at the bottom of posts like I do with my Toy With Me columns?
In that vein, I've started this: my boring professional website. It's not done. OBVIOUSLY. It's lopsided, but the picture plug-in is busted and I need The Daver to fix it. I've got some other things that I'm getting started on, but so far, nothing that I'm actually able to be all LOOKIT INTERNET, SEE WHAT I DID?
And come January, I'm going to incorporate and form a small company that will likely generate about $1 in income all year long. But because I need to keep my dollar separate from DAVE'S dollars, I need a company. Which means that I need a name. For a company. I'll probably GO BY "Mommy Wants Vodka" but on the paperwork, I need something more professional.
All I've got so far is "Vodka Bandits."
Halp me.
Also, how do YOU keep your groove, The Internet?
96 Responses to I'm Bringing (Aunt) Becky Back
Wow, I could have written this. Obviously not the exact details, but 2008 was our crap year. It started Feb 3rd and although it got better, I never really healed. In 2009 I kind of just went with the flow and bottled my emotions up and now I know that I need to take care of me. Unfortunately even though I know I need to, I haven't figured out how to do that.
And damn do I wish I had blogged about everything and was HONEST about what I was going through instead of glossing over it to try and appear happy 🙁
Hey can I jump on along that bandwagon with you and Pashmina. I am declaring the next year the year FIND me again too. I am hoping to get back into old interests, find new ones and find the leaner version of me that the fat version of me seems to have eaten. I am on board to help out any way I can although web site production ius not yet my forte.
Congrats on the new site and bidness you're starting. That site looks full of teh awesome.
I too am going to be starting a new project, and hopefully not kill my spouse in the process 🙂
Keep my groove? I've lost and started so many grooves I have lines all over the place *looks around* wait, those are stretch marks.
I climb. Mountains, actually. Little ones, big ones, it doesn't matter. And I kayak white water, ride my bike through three and a half Alaskan seasons and try to figure out why I live in a place where it's Narnian winter 9 months out of the year.
As far as I can tell, the key to keeping your groove is keeping your sense of humor well-fed and watered. Preferably with a single malt scotch, though vodka works too.
Hat's off to you- in all seriousness- for taking time out to put something back IN to the box. Aunt Becky gives time and attention to everyone else… time to replenish the stock.
Aunt Becky,
I've always felt a little weird about reading your blog when I know I fall way out of the demographics of your audience. This post allowed me to figure out why I read it. You are mentally tough as nails–you've been through things that would have caused me to throw in the towel on life, and you've kept your sense of humor. I wish you all the best in 2010.
BTW, I realize you are a Superwoman, but still I wonder if you spread yourself a little thin by trying to accomplish too much at once?
Okay, I'm going back to lurk mode. Have a fab weekend.
Aunt Becky's Bitches?
MWV Inc. ?
Hell, I don't even have MY groove…so I probably shouldn't be giving any advice.
kind of feel a little of the same about this year…
The other day, I was thinking about you and how much things have changed for you in the past two years ago since I discovered your page. You amaze me! Just thought you should know that.
When I need to get my groove back, I usually crank up some rockin' music and shake my ass for a bit. That usually works for small funks.
Good for you! I was seriously serious when I posted about stay at home moms… I could not be one… ansmaybe it is because IO iam a bit selfish and need to have 'Me' time.
Horray for 2010 being about 'Me' errr 'You' 🙂
Dude me TOO! I thought 2005 was the Year of The Suck but then came 2006 and well shit but OHHH 2007 sucked except 2008 was way worse but 2009? Is fired. 2010 is going to be The Year That Does Not Suck, so help me Godiva. Um…now what?
Groove vs Funk. It's a constant battle. No advise here except remember to breath deep.
Aunt Becky,
1. I am so glad you are celebrating YOU again! Doing so has such an all around positive benefit, yet is all too easy to skip, especially during hard times.
2. What a year you have had… While I cannot relate to many things you wrote, I've been trying to get my grove back for awhile as well. Once upon a time I graduated
valedictorian, and it all went downhill from there. And I'm only 24… Life is simultaneously breathtakingly beautiful and heart wrenching.
3. I DO think you are very blessed to have found "The Daver." Where did you buy him? I want one!
4. This is tangential, but let me know if I can "halp" you at all with the company! As in, organizing, or something… (Whatever you are doing, I know it will be wonderful.) I have no idea what to name it.
5. Lastly, Aunt Becky, real women are EATERS. Gyms are wonderful for stress relief, but I have to say, am sure you are beautiful just the way you are!
Take care, rock on, and all best,
Random word sampling: crotch, fucking, ramming it down your throats
Sounds like Becky's already got her groove.
I am sure you have read my blog (love your comments) so I will say that I just don't care. I love being able to say whatever I want and that keeps my groove. Plus, commenting on others blog helps me pass the groove. Now it sounds like some STD. Damnit.
I love this. ME gets a bad rap, but really, it's what allows us to take care of THEM.
Off to check you out!
"Mommy Still Wants Vodka, But Only After 5 o'clock."
I love this post!
As for staying in the groove…. I guess I'm still trying to find my groove. Who knows.
I'll let you know when I find it 😉
I keep my groove by eating chocolate, not comparing myself to anyone else, and by blogging. It works, I think 🙂
Grooves are interesting things. They can guide us, or they can become . . . well . . . grooves, that keep us from exploring.
Here's to grooves. May yours wind where you will it . . .
If you happen to find your figure this year, could you come by and help me find mine? After the 4th child, my body gave up hope of ever being svelte again. (Not that I ever really WAS svelte to begin with. But, *ahem*, I could stand to rid myself of these pesky 40 pounds. And I'd like for my boobs to NOT TOUCH MY BELLY when I sit down. Too much info? Sorry 'bout that.)
I once changed everything up to figure out what I wanted to be. Be careful. That shit causes cancer. I think you just have to find happiness in everything you do. When life sucks, change it. And don't underestimate the value of a good stiff drink.
How about drunken logic for your professional name.
Yeah, I'm not very good at whining about the big stresses going on, which is odd, since I'm very good at whining! But 2009 has not been fantastic in my little world. 2010 must be better (although it's not looking good so far).
Anyway, go kick some ass next year and become a successful businesswoman/freelance writer! As for your company name…hmmm…BAM Enterprises? (For Ben, Alex, and Mimi), or I Win At Life, Inc.?, or Think of The Children Ltd.?
Way to bring Aunt Becky back! It's so easy as a mother and wife to lose yourself. Add in random crap that life hands you, and it screws things up all the more.
I don't have a suggestion for you as far as the corporation name, but I would suggest that whatever you choose is generic enough that if you end up doing multiple things within the business that the name will still work, (sometimes you never know where your business savvy will lead you!). You can always add a DBA (doing business as) to the corporation, but you don't want to be stuck with Aunt Becky's Nails, Inc., when you are now a used car lot (real story), besides that, then you don't have to pay someone to reincorporate you or change your name, you'd be one and done.
I am so fricken happy for you. For serious.
I heart you, Becky.
MWV Inc. was the first thing that came to my mind, too.
2009 has been, without compare, the single worst year of my 37 years. I lost custody of my oldest 2 kids (after a totally unfair and insane court battle), nearly lost my stepdad, and went bankrupt. Yep. One for the record books.
2010 will be better. I WILL get my kids back, I WILL not be alone, and I WILL get my fucking finances right once and for all.
I am making an official declaration. You have inspired me. What to call it? The Year of Me? The Year I Get My Shit Together? The Year of the Turnaround?
What say you?
Good for you for taking your life back. You deserve it.
Ask Stella.
In my own narcissistic mind, I am the the sole reason you have come out of the darkness.
Your welcome.
Maybe just a simple Aunt Becky, Inc. for the name of your company? It's not nearly as fun as Vodka Bandits, though.
I have no idea how I keep my groove. Probably because I don't. Agreed, something I need to work on for 2010. Balance, motherf-ers, that's what I need!
I swear to God we could be twins. I went over to your other site and did some reading and I am divorced too My ex called and threatened to burn my house down. It took 2 years for him to calm the fuck down; one day it was a call that he loved me, the next I was a bitch.
It has been almost 8 years since and I am glad that time is over.
As for your post today – I HEAR YOU! I am 36 years old with a 10 year old and a 2 year old. I have mastered same day service on laundry and a neat and tidy house, but sometimes I just want it to be about me. I LOVE being a mommy, but I just want to shine too. This year I discovered I had a knack for graphic design and actually did some work for people, then the guilt set in because I felt I wasn't "here" even though I never left the computer.
Then I started to blog and, man, I love it, but again there is some guilt that my 2 hours during Sarah's nap I should be doing other stuff.
It is hard to find a balance and do it all, but you definitely have to focus on you, for sure. I bet this post will resonate with a ton of people.
On a funnier note, if you ever watched Seinfeld, your post reminds me of the "Summer of George!"
The best part about life is that you can always start over and reinvent yourself! Good luck with your groove. I know you will do it AND become Queen of the Castle…
I suggest this with total love and respect -I would NOT use VODKA or MOMMY in your company name. I would use AUNT BECKY, if you want to keep that as your "literary persona". But using Mommy Wants Vodka pigeonholes you as a certain kind of writer.
You write a sex column, but are not limited to being funny in that vein only. You write a "mommy blog" that refers to alcohol and drug use in a sarcastic, funny way – but you are not limited to being funny in that vein only. But when the fallout with that drunk driving mother occurred, your blog took a natural "hit" because of your name – even though they were totally wrong to assume you imbibed while parenting.
As a successful freelance writer, you need to be able to employable by a huge variety of editors. If you are known only as the Mommy Wants Vodka girl, you are SO LIMITED. Would they think to have you write a serious piece about neonatal experiences? No – you will be only who they think of for snark, sex and hilarity. But you had me crying my eyes out with the beautiful words you wrote about that precious MiMi (love that cutiepie).
You have huge potential. This blog has just caught "on fire" first because it is your first foray into the literary world. Don't define yourself by it. It is just a launchpad.
You are a writer who can handle any assignment. Don't let your name limit your possibilities.
Hooray for you, by the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You make me sniffle way too often, girly.
I'm so proud of you. Really, I am. You are the embodiment of the Timex motto: takes a lickin' & keeps on tickin'. I say that about my Joshua, too. You two are incredible people.
I don't have a groove. I am so caught up in being everything to everyone else that there isn't time for me to be me. I honestly have no idea who I am apart from my identities as "mom of chronically-ill child", "wife", "homeschooler", "mom of many kids", etc. I desperately would like to take time to figure out who I am, but there never seems to be the time and there's a voice in my head that scream how selfish I am to even consider doing something for JUST ME. I've tried to convince myself that I'm doing what God called me to do (be a wife & mom) and that is enough. I've also started telling myself that I'm just having a mid-life crisis since I'll be 40 soon & I look around and realize that, apart from birthing 7 children & raising them, I've done nothing with my life.
So..um..yeah, don't ask me for advice, 'cuz I've got none.
I'm just really proud of YOU for bringing Becky back. Get your groove on, girly. I can't wait to cheer you on as you do!
Ooooh, how about MWV Inc with a fancy schmancy MWV scrolled logo?
I've gotten my groove back by starting my cross stitch design company. I've also recently joined two local stitch-n-bitch groups…one quilting and one knitting/crochet. I also read like a madwoman.
Hurray hurray for you! I think 2010 should be Becky's Year. Officially. Screw Climate Change. Let's do you.
And how do I (try to) keep my mojo? Mainly by trying to remember EVERY day what I need as well. The kids seem to be taken care of fine, so then I get some.
Yay for you!
oy, yeah this was a rough year, but one where I made some decisions and started working on a path I would like to follow and see to fruition.
That being said, If you are looking for help at Mommy Wants Vodka, INC. I'm all yours.
You know what you wrote just there? The part where you shared pain that you probably thought you felt alone, but now realize is shared by a lot of folks? THAT's your gift — to and from.
I think your company should be named "Beck On Call" since you're the virtual equivalent of a really good therapist. And those of us on the down-slope will cling to and be normalized by whatever you share. Hope you make some serious dough.
So inspiring. So happy for you.
I suck at coming up with names. Sorry.
I've managed to hang onto at least a tiny bit of my groove all this time as MOOOMMMMYYYYY because I am a tab bit selfish and selfish people don't let it not be about them for any longer than absolutely necessary. Sure I had to have a series of gall bladder attacks, gall bladder surgery & then fight 8 solid months of chronic bronchitis & occasional pneumonia for those around me to establish the habit of giving me at least an hour a day to myself. But! 5 years later it is a still a habit. I do need to sort out what to do with my life next though because now I have from 8-3 every day to myself & really want some money. I
i'll b no help with the names…i really blow at that!
but i just wanted to say – U GO GURL!!! i'm so glad u're getting ur groove back – that u're making 2010 the year of Aunt Becky! i feel ya on the losing urself thing…y do we feel so selfish 4 concentrating on some ME sometimes?!
I believe nobody every loses their groove. It's there, it just needs to hibernate from time to time because the reality is that life just doesn't revolve around you (hard for me to admit because I'm a self proclaimed narcissist and damn proud.) But in all honestly, the groove is there. Its what keeps us coming back, it's what keeps the Daver snickering in happiness and its the reason you have so many people around you.
You don't need to get your groove back. You need to realize that you have a damn groove as is! You need to look yourself in the mirror and see it for yourself
I believe nobody every loses their groove. It's there, it just needs to hibernate from time to time because the reality is that life just doesn't revolve around you (hard for me to admit because I'm a self proclaimed narcissist and damn proud.) But in all honestly, the groove is there. Its what keeps us coming back, it's what keeps the Daver snickering in happiness and its the reason you have so many people around you.
You don't need to get your groove back. You need to realize that you have a damn groove as is! You need to look yourself in the mirror and see it for yourself. Once you see that glimmer, it's easier to find the light.
Let go of the need to be superwoman. You've done fabulously so far, your life is an example of that. The last 'horrible fuckfest of time' is an example of that. You've gotten through it and here you stand. So just jump into the pool my dear. It's not about it being YOUR year it's about being YOUR LIFE.
I sound like a goddamn self help book. But I'm totally anti resolutions and all that bullshit.
I love this because seriously. You only live once. Do it right while your still young, so you have fewer regrets later.
You mean people actually have grooves? I lost mine so long ago I don't even remember if I ever had one in the first place. Oh well…..
Company name………..Can't you do something like an colon, or comma or something ……maybe an ampersand?
I was not at all in the holiday mood last year either – got thrown on modified bedrest the beginning of December so also stuck on the couch doing nothing but feeling really bummed out, worrying about the pregnancy. Then more months of couch boredom turning into two newborns to care for. I honestly barely remember March – July.
Besides "getting by" the early months with the girls now as they sleep through the night and have little personalities, I'm getting better at being "me" and getting back into the things I did for fun / stress relief pre-preggo/kids. Have to have some time for yourself. Ha, part of my Christmas present is a day off from everything.
Cynicism / good sense of humor always helps too.
Sherrick-Harks Consulting Ltd.
Also, come runnign with me.
How 'bout…"Aunt Becky gets a Career?"
I've never been good at naming things. You're talking to a girl who named her cat Mr. Kitty. Nice.
I'm excited for your new ventures Bex!!! 2010 is going to be full of the awesome for you:)
Why not just use your initials? BSH Inc. It sounds professional but we'll all secretly know it's not just your name, it's also B(i)SH. Like, Aunt Becky is one tough B(i)SH!
You are awesome Aunt Becky and you have taken the most important step in realizing you have to focus on yourself! (No I'm not a shrink, but I want to play one on TV! LOL)
I plan on taking some time for myself in the mornings to start to workout again and get my head on straight to start my days (and to fit back in my jeans)!
You go, girl! Vodka Bandits rule!!! I bet you could even sell tshirts.
Self care is important. I think I told The Daver something along those lines the other day. One time I had to do some serious rebuilding-of-me (life really sucked) and what I did was kinda fun. I made a list of all the things I would like to do in the following 90 days – see an opera, knit a blanket, check out a gig by that local band I'd kept hearing about, see these four movies on my must-see list, random stuff that I thought sounded fun or worthwhile. Every day I looked at my list (I made it my computer desktop) and though, do I want to do anything on this list today? And if I wanted to, I did one of the things, and if nothing seemed that interesting, whatever, maybe tomorrow. I didn't end up doing everything, but having it there to see and following my whims was awesome. It was all about me and what I wanted to do, and I decided not to care if nobody wanted to go with me to the opera, and none of it was too time consuming or requiring much more investment than a couple of hours (run away to Dublin for the weekend was not on there, for example).
Most people think my list was weird, but whatever! I still would recommend it. It helped me get some SERIOUS mojo back when I had conceded that perhaps I would be better off 6 feet under.
You get so much shit advice when you have kids. Buy hats! Sleep when the baby sleeps! Breastfeed! Bottle feed! Don't let it eat rocks! You know, that shit. What no one tells you is that you can do all the right things for your kid/s but you still won't be the best mom you can be – not until you make time for yourself too.
I like the new site so far. Are you planning on moving your blog over there eventually?
Actually, keeping a my sense of humor has helped immensely. I say this tongue in cheek as we seriously start winter here in the arctic (WI), with SAD (not even close to describing it – should be called "bottomless despair"), a broken thumb, and an out of commission shoulder.
Sometimes this day-to-day winter crud seems harder than when our own baby girl was on deaths doorstep.
I'm seriously looking forward to what you may come up with, and what others will suggest. Thanks for not giving up on us. -the Internet
We love you, Becky. Peace.
Oh, Aunt Becky. 🙁 It makes my heart hurt to hear you didn't/couldn't "blog it out" (think "hug it out" and humour me, mmkay?). My virtual/real door/telephone are always open for you.
As for this "groove" you speak of, I am not familiar. Sorry, dude. Oh! As to your figure: I found it! Aaaaand then my figure ate it. 😉
You're an inspiration, girl. Seriously. You deserve a "ME" decade after what you've been through.
I think the best and only way to keep your groove going is to make sure you're consistently taking time for yourself. I hate it when weeks go by and I'm not making time for myself. That's when I get into a rut. Take time each day (even if it's just a matter of minutes) or a few hours a week and take care of yourself. Do yoga. Go for a walk or a run. Be with friends. And work on your new business idea! That sounds exciting. Oh, and *Vodka Bandits* rules. I don't know what you're selling, but I want it.
I've lost my groove too. It's buried so deep, I don't know if I'll ever find it again.
I'll be looking to you for pointers on how to find it.
I like Ed's idea…Beck on Call.
As for the groove, the only way to rediscover the you that isn't a mommy, maid or wife is to remove yourself from those things for small periods of time. When you're not required (read forced kicking and screaming) to fulfill those roles, the "real" person tends to come out. Hang with friends, send Daver on vacation with the kids, gym for an hour a day? It's tough to juggle it all.
Such a great question. How do you keep a groove? I did find that the first year after the birth of each of my kids, I felt grooveless. The return of the groove was kind of gradual. Once I was back at work and had proven to myself that I could be effective as an employee and a mother, I got a little swagger back. Truth be told, I didn't fell like a giant whopping bucket of the awesome until after I turned 40 (which does you no good, I know). But it is something to look forward to.
Aunt Becky, I have no groove and therefore cannot offer any advice on how to keep one.
However, I fully applaud and support your Year of Me.
So much so that I think I'll launch one of my own. While I have no fancy acronyms nor crotch parasites that required my attention (damn girl, mad props to you – I would not have survived it), twenty-ought-nine was given over to the Almighty Dissertation and Appeasement of the Trolls that Decide My Destiny. Very unfun, as you might imagine. What little resources were left over made insufficient offerings (in my estimation) to maintaining a relationship with the best guy evah! and occasionally walking the dog and even less frequently picking up his poop.
January is a new start. New job. New expectations. Probably some new Trolls but at least they won't be the old ones.
I will join you in an effort to regain self, sanity, yeah and figure too.
Go Aunt Becky!
I relate to this post so much – I knew I liked you! Seriously, I was a overachieving-Ivy League headed kid-who got pregnant at 18,and instantly made my daughter my priority. Sure, I finished college, married and had 2 more kids…sometimes I feel like I have no idea who I am, or what I really want to do with my life, because I've never had much time to think about it…maybe I should make this the YEAR OF ME, too!!
Becky…what do I say…I am just so completely there with you.
2008 was the year of the suck for me…obviously starting with caden's death and then the crippling fear that went along with another pregnancy. Follwed this year by the crippling fear that went along with having a baby at home, waiting for the other shoe to drop (combined with the grossness of living in a partly renovated house and dealing with setback after setback along the way…) And if you looked at anything I wrote online (aside obviously from my caden blog) there is little mention of the internal hurricane in my heart and my mind.
In just the last week I have been making steps just like you towards 2010 being the year where I do the things I have wanted to do for so long. Women NEED to be more than wife of — and —'s mother. I've always believed that…good on you for getting your becky back 🙂 Cant wait to see what you come out with next.
Something I learned a long time ago – the less you say, the less you say wrong.
I need to get a groove. I don't think I've ever had one. I keep waking up and giving Oscar some cheerios, realizing that the day has gone by without getting out of my pajamas, fighting with Darin, and getting yelled at by my boss for not doing my job, etc. Sigh.
I can't think of a good name for your company. All that comes to me is: I'm a fucking superhero, who the hell are you? But that's too long for a company name.
I love you. I really do. And I am really, really excited to see what the coming year brings for you – I will be cheering you on!
Welcome Back Aunt Becky!
What's a groove? I believe mine is out searching for my mojo.
Will have to sleep on a suggestion for a company name. My brain works better when I'm unconscious.
I just read an article in Real Simple about how to keep motivated. One of the suggestions is to plan out all the 'what can go wrongs'. So if you want to work out and it's cold outside – what do you do?
I keep thinking about that article. 2010 is definitely going to be different. I'm going to start saying No to projects – or at least stop volunteering for all the stuff I imagine other people are hinting that I do.
I'm also going to figure out a way to lose some of this baby weight. Any suggestions that you may have (MWV Biggest Loser blog???) will definitely be useful.
And I want to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life. It's definitely not cleaning the crap off my counter every day….
You know, I had the same kind of epiphany not so long ago…I had been giving my all to everyone around me and not doing anything for myself. So I'll join you in your journey to find yourself…as well as in that house (if I can be Princess Caroline).
Oh..and company name? Sanity By Vodka.
Becky-my-love, I love this post because you gave us some of yourself. And yourself is truly worth sharing.
And because you are really and truly thinking of yourself. As a nurse you know that when the lungs take in oxygenated air, they take it first to the heart because without the heart, the O2 can't get anywhere.
The mama is the heart. You have to get whatever it takes to keep YOU healthy and alive because without you, the rest of the family-body won't survive.
So breathe, honey, and use that good air to feed yourself because eventually, it's gonna feed your family too.
I send love and encouragement your way.
Ms. Moon
I vote you stick with "Vodka Bandits". This, of course, comes from a girl who's company is named Bitchen Stitchen, LOL.
It seems to be a running theme with women, particularly women with children (that could be, because all the women I know *have* children, however), that we seem to forget that we actually live in our lives too.
Now, go drink some chocolate eggnog.
2008 was my crap year too- pregnancy and divorce aren't compatible as it turns out, and a crazy violent psycho ex certainly complicates the equation.
I keep my groove by blogging, reading, and taking a drive by myself every now and again.
2008 was a lousy year for me and very few people know about it. Oh, I suppose several more people know that life sucked than I think, but not the reason or details. I got through it by going for walk and ending up doing a marathon. I kid you not. I had to get out and it turned into something that had a life of its own. So just take that first step: go for a walk, answer the phone, open that email.
You never know where Aunt Becky will be hiding.
I fixed yer site and stuff. Or something.
I like your positivity, dude. Maybe you could send a little my way. Because I'm feeling the same thing right now.
Found you on 20SB- you're great.
You rock crazy hard.
I'm still a year or two behind you on the whole procreation thing, so I haven't even realized I've lost myself, much less figured out how to get myself back. But when it happens, I'll let you know. Even though you'll be on to the next crisis and won't care anymore. You're welcome anyways.
Damn, woman, you are kicking life in the nuts and making it your bitch! That's pretty inspiring. Like. Srsly. You're my hero! Heroine? I always feel dirty typing that. 😀
I'm convinced that my post-baby ass is never going to snap back to it's pre-baby wonderment. I kind of loathe those bitches who can have 800 kids and look like they are still a supple 16 year old. Bah.
Wow, it sounds like last year was pretty terrible. And funny (that's funny interesting, not funny ha-ha) that it didn't come out much in the blog, but I understand your rationale. 2010 is yours, baby! Take it by both hands and don't let go until it gives you a massage, chocolate, AND vodka.
I don't tell my actual people stuff, I only tell the internet. There will be no Christmas letter in the 75 cards I mail out this year, because I don't want to say "and Hannah has cerebral palsy" in the midst of the yearly recap. Bleah. So many of my friends and out of town family still don't know.
Me time? What is that?
Let's discuss what you want from a business name. Do you want to tell the world what it is? Will write for vodka/vicodin?
You are not whiny at all, nor do you possess unfortunate facial hair (that I know of), but I got a flash of Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites: "You've reached the winter of Aunt Becky's discontent."
And go buy that candy cane g-string. Surely you can get some sort of photo post out of that.
Obscene puppet show?
I have faith in you.
dammit, seems every one is having a year of me…
OK I am going for the 'year where I won the lottery on the first day and spent the whole time flipping the bird at anyone that pisses me off.'
That should work. Awesome.
Wow. I had no idea you had been through so much over this past year, I feel like I have neglected you, even though I had no idea you existed out there until very recently.
Your question, how do I get my groove back, is a good one. I have struggled on and off with depression for several years and have been through various medications and therapists and less healthy coping strategies, and it remains a constant fight.
And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics, even when they're as dry as my lips for years, even when they;re stranded on a small desert island with no place in 2,000 miles to buy beer
That's how it feels, between the depression and the self harm. But I've found late in this stage of the game that behaviour influences how I feel rather than how I feel (which is a tremendous responsibility and in its own way a bit depressing). So I guess the key to getting a groove back is to do the things you would if you already had…
Here's to the new year, Aunt Becky, and finding where you put that groove.
I cried reading your daughter's story.
And thank you, thank you, thank you for your encouragements. I need it so…
Now, as far as your post is concerned, I have one question: "I'm sorry, are you the gal who slayed the dragon but had to disguise herself as a guy, otherwise people would have known she had 5 minutes to spare between raising 3 children, caring for her husband AND the house that held them all?" Are you really sure your groove is missing? Because from what I read, you are far from being a grooveless chick.
I think you just got overwhelmed by the responsibilities and worries – and yes, I am aware that I am being euphemistic here, but I truly want to make a good first impression with my comment, so I avoid four-letter words and flip through the dictionary to find longer ones. But your groove is there, you just need to let it shine. It's like misplacing your phone in the laundry basket. You do not know it is there, until you call yourself from the land line and you realise there is no such thing as singing dirty pajamas, knickers and tees, and by the time you have dug half way through, you can even see your phone lit.
Just find the groove whistle, blow on it, and you'll see it's there. Even if the cell is under a ton of laundry that needs washing, it does not mean that it doesn't work. You pick it up and see the missed calls and the texts you haven't read… It's there alright, your groove. Just let it breath. Put a shine on it. Take it places where you can be just the two of you.
And don't get blaming yourself now, the ton of laundry is normal, there are five of you wearing them clothes. And cells and grooves are sleek and can easily get to the bottom of that basket. No one is at fault.
Best to you, Aunt Becky.
You know, the thing I have found about groove is that it ebbs and flows. Sometimes it's there and it is SO There that groove is all you have (isn't there a song about that??) and other times, it slips through your fingers. The key, though, is realizing that you haven't lost it completely, you've just got to remember the tune and start dancing again. Just like you are doing now…you go Aunt Becky!
You've done well, you really have. But I understand what it's like to look at your past self and wonder what happened to her. May you find her again, and may 2010 be your best year yet.
It's weird I never really think about this sort of thing, or ask myself about taking time for me. I figure I'm already pretty selfish as it is, and I constantly have a lot of guilt for just, I dunno, being me.
So once you fine YOU, Aunt Becky, don't feel guilty about it. No wringing of hands, no thinking about children with no legs. Just fit YOU into the myraid of everyday life, Wifing, Mothering, Writing etc.
Also I love coming up with names. How about "Aunt Becky Writes" (kinda like Vinomom Blogs)
While "Vodka Bandits" is a kick-ass name, I kinda think you HAVE to go with "Groove, Inc." now.
"I've raised my crotch parasite." This is what I have replaced my daughter's name with, officially. Hmm… how do I keep my groove? Shit, I lost it!
Sorry you had such a crap year, but I'm glad you are back in your groove!
Company name ideas:
Sherrick Harks and Sons and Daughter
Crotch Parasites Unlimited
Grooves R Us
I'll Do Anything For Money Ltd.
May your 2010 rock!
Two things: First, I think that learning to take care of ourselves is the true work of becoming an adult. It's hard, hard, hard though, especially if (like me) you don't really have good role models for it.
Second, I love how on your site you have the photos for your posts. Really good idea.
Oh, hell, I'm just trying to survive the holidays and a cancer scare for me that turned out to be nothing and a much scarier cancer scare for my sister that is still up in the air and a friend's funeral this week, so my groove has fallen and it can't get up.
I'll get back to you when the world stops fucking up my groove…
Harks Media Inc
Sherrik Media Inc
Ant Media Inc
Ant Bee Media Inc
Aunt Bea Media Inc
A. B. Media Inc
Just getting the juices flowing (the brain kind, silly!!)
Here's to 2010, Auntie! Start shakin' that groove thang now – it's never too early to start.
Company name? MWV Grooves, Inc.
Good for you! I'm hoping to bring my own groove back this year too. Where does it go???


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Suspected Boko Haram rebels from Nigeria have attacked a Chinese work site in northern Cameroon, killing at least one Cameroonian soldier while 10 Chinese workers were missing and believed to have been abducted, officials and state media said.
The Chinese embassy in Yaounde confirmed the attack on Friday at a site near the town on Waza, 20 km (12 miles) from the Nigerian border close to the Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold.
Chinese Embassy political counsellor Lu Qingjiang said one Chinese worker was injured in the attack and 10 were missing, China's Xinhua state news agency reported.
Ten vehicles belonging to China's state-run construction company Sinohydro, which is repairing roads in Cameroon, were also taken in the attack, Xinhua said.
Lu called on the Cameroonian authorities to "not put the lives of Chinese nationals missing in danger in case actions of liberation be launched", Xinhua said.
The Islamist group kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school on the Nigerian side of the border last month and Nigerian troops backed by foreign units are searching the area around the forest for them.
Friday's incident began when power was cut in the evening. A five-hour gunfight followed, a guard at the Waza National Park told Reuters.
"Some of us decided to hide in the forest with the animals," the guard said, requesting anonymity.
The governor of Cameroon's Far North Region, Augustine Fonka Awa, said earlier he believed Boko Haram had carried out the attack. Authorities were investigating reports that at least one Cameroon soldier was killed and 10 people were abducted, he said.
Cameroon state radio said in a report from the region that a Cameroon special forces soldier was killed. It said four others including two soldiers were seriously wounded.
As well as at least 10 vehicles, the rebels took a container of explosives belonging to the Chinese company, it said.
In a meeting in Paris on Saturday to improve cooperation in the fight against Boko Haram and other militant groups, French President Francois Hollande said it was becoming a threat to all of West and Central Africa
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By David Dorf-Oracle on Nov 30, 2012
My son decided to do his science project on how the brain recognizes faces. Faces are so complicated and important that the brain has a dedicated area for just that purpose. During our research, we came across some emerging uses for facial recognition in the retail industry.
If you believe the movies, recognizing faces as they walk by a camera is easy for computers but that's not the reality. Huge investments are being made by the U.S. government in this area, with a focus on airport security. Now, companies like Eye See are leveraging that research for marketing purposes. They do things like track eyes while viewing newspaper ads to see which ads get more "eye time." This can help marketers make better placement and color decisions.
But what caught my eye (that was too easy) was their new mannequins that watch shoppers. These mannequins, being tested at European retailers like Benetton, watch shoppers that walk by and identify their gender, race, and age. This helps the retailer better understand the types of customers being attracted to the outfit on the mannequin. Of course to be most accurate, the software has pictures of the employees so they can be filtered out. Since the mannequins are closer to the shoppers and at eye-level, they are more accurate than traditional in-ceiling LP cameras.
Marketing agency RedPepper is offering retailers the ability to recognize loyalty shoppers at their doors using Facedeal. For customers that have opted into the program, when they enter the store their face is recognized and they are checked in. Then, as a reward, they are sent an offer on their smartphone.
It won't be long before retailers begin to listen to shoppers are they walk the aisles, then keywords can be collected and aggregated to give the retailer an idea of what people are saying about their stores and products. Sentiment analysis based on what's said or even facial expressions can't be far off.
Clearly retailers need to be cautions and respect customer privacy. That's why these technologies are emerging slowly. But since the next generation of shoppers are less concerned about privacy, I expect these technologies to appear sporadically in the next five years then go mainstream. Time will tell.


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Justin Bieber's Rumored Baby Mama Asked Friend To Delete Texts
By Mack Rawden 5 years ago
Its getting worse and worse for Mariah Yeater by the day. Like every Republican that has emerged as a challenger to Romney, the twenty year old single mother has been subjected to the full investigatory powers of the media, and she has not held up well. Last week, she took her claims outside the court system in an attempt to negotiate with Justin Bieber privately, leading many to believe she was frightened about a potential countersuit. Now some shady text messages have emerged that are forcing even her most ardent supporters to question whether theres any validity to her charge at all.
TMZ has obtained a series of messages in which Yeater first reaches out to a friend asking him to convince her ex-boyfriend to be in their childs life and later implores the same friend to delete text messages her mother sent about the real identity of the father. She even promises to compensate him for the trouble after she gets paid.
This has gone from scandalous to sad in a hurry. Even if Yeaters mother did send text messages calling someone else the father, it wouldnt matter because Bieber is taking a paternity test. If the DNA were to prove he was the father, hed still be liable for child support regardless. It seems like she assumed the Biebs would simply agree to pay child support without taking any sort of test, which shows a total lack of understanding about how the legal system works.
I never thought I would say this, but part of me actually feels bad for Yeater. Shes clearly a desperate girl looking for someone to help parent her child. Its increasingly looking like Justin Bieber is not the father, but I truly hope when this is all over, whoever did impregnate her comes forward and takes on his responsibility. If not for her sake, for the childs well-being.


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I am a bit surprised that tutorials within games are more standard than within other electronic products because game tutorials have the additional limitation that they should be fun. If you buy an MP3 player, you are going to want to use ityou aren't questioning whether you actually enjoy listening to music or not. With a game, however, you are constantly evaluating if the game is worth the time you are investing in it. An overly dull tutorial (or, even worse, an overly challenging one) can cause the player to quit before he or she even gets to the "real" game.
He goes on to describe the role of tutorials in games and how this was approached in Civilization IV. He is then asked about how he would approach adding a tutorial to a gadget, to which Soren responds that the key is that a tutorial should be offered to the user at the right time, using the load screen tips from Civilization IV as example:
One tutorial method devices could learn from the game world is "load screen tips", which appear a lot in modern games. For Civ 4, we compiled a list of about 100 interface tips and strategy hints (such as "Double clicking on a stack of units will group them together") and presented them during our loading screens. This method was a great way to teach the players advanced functionality that they were not ready to digest when they first started the game.
Finally, Soren is asked what's the best real-world example of a tutorial that he has encountered. He doesn't answer the question directly but cites the tutorial in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time as an example of a tutorial that doesn't feel like a tutorial and Google as a company that does a good job of using video demos to show off cool features.
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Organizers say the purpose of the camp, known as the Gathering of the Tribes, isn't necessarily to steer students toward UC Riverside. "We need more Native Americans in college. It doesn't matter if it's UC Riverside or Riverside Community College," said Cliff Trafzer, a professor who specializes in American Indian history.
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Model: 84-B
Serial Number: B83112Y
Year of Manufacture: Modern
Caliber: .380 ACP
Action Type: Single and Double Action Semi-Automatic, Ambidextrous Safety.
Markings: The left side of the slide is marked with "PIETRO BERETTA Gardone V.T. –Made In Italy". The right side is marked with the PB logo and "Patented Berben Corporation N.Y.-N.Y.". The left side of the frame is marked "Model 84B CAL,.9 Short" . The right side of the frame is marked "PB" just above the trigger and with the serial number just below the slide. Various proof stamps are just in front of the trigger guard.
Barrel Length: 3.8"
Sights / Optics: This pistol has a square notch rear sight in a dovetail slot and a blade front sight.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The grips are Pachmayr Signature series rubber. The rubber shows some light scuffing on the right side but there are no tears in the rubber. The grips rate in about Excellent overall condition.
Type of Finish: Blue Anodized Aluminum Frame w/ Blued Steel Slide.
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Mechanics: The action functions correctly both single and double action. We have not fired this pistol. The barrel is nickel-chromium steel with hard chrome finish.
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September 19, 2011 06:58 PM by Lisa Princ
Hell's Kitchen on Fox is back for one last night as it's the season nine finale. Who will what it takes to impress Gordon Ramsay enough to be crowned the season nine winner? If you think you know who won, you may want to rethink that! Read on for all the details!
The Hell's Kitchen season nine finale kicked off tonight with the usual gloating by Elise about how she was still there – big shocker, huh? Then Gordon Ramsay announced that the final four would be facing their most inspiring challenge yet, and then he surprised them all with their families. This challenge was a taste it, then make it challenge. The contestants each took a taste of Gordon Ramsay's dish and then try to recreate it. The winner would get the day with their loved ones.
During the challenge, Elise seemed so unsure of what the dish was, that she had to watch what the guys were using. Tommy and Will used monkfish, while Elise used halibut and Paul chose cod. All four of them chose identical garnish, but while the other three wrapped their fish with prosciutto, Tommy decided to wrap his with serrano ham. After tasting the dishes, Gordon eliminated Tommy first as the serrano ham was not correct, but who had the correct fish? Paul did! Paul was the only one who chose the cod, so he got to spend the day with his brother.
When Gordon announced that it was moving day in Hell's Kitchen for the other three, Elise broke down in tears – oh the drama! Dinner service that night required each chef to show Gordon Ramsay their leadership skills, as he announced that two chefs would be headed home after the service. Each of the chefs had their own issues running the pass – Elise and Paul missed some quality tests, while Will was tough, but struggled with his team listening to him. Tommy, however, seemed to be a flake and all over the place. Personally, I think Will did the best job, but it was all up to Chef Ramsay at this point.
When it time for elimination, Gordon Ramsay asked that they all come up with a reason as to why they deserved to be in the finale. When they returned, Gordon announced that the first chef leaving Hell's Kitchen was not surprisingly Tommy. While Gordon Ramsay said that he finally started to understand Tommy, Tommy was not ready for the job. Then Gordon Ramsay announced that the first person heading the finale was Will!
Next Gordon said that the next finalist had an edge in running a kitchen, and that they would not back down. After hearing that, we could see Paul whisper something to the effect of "oh shit" as he thought he would be headed home. Gordon Ramsay however, gave us all the moment we were waiting for as he announced that Elise was going home, and Paul was headed to the finale! Finally!
In the second half of the season nine finale of Hell's Kitchen, it was the battle of Will versus Paul, and Gordon Ramsay started by asking the chefs to go up the dorm and work on their menus. Then Gordon told them he was taking them out to dinner, but in a surprise twist walked them both straight into their finale challenge. This time, Will and Paul had to create 5 stunning dishes to impress 5 judges from BLT Steak. As usual, they were tied by the fourth dish, and the final dish was being judged by the president of BLT Steak. With both filet dishes on the line, the president of BLT Steak declared Will the winner of the challenge.
When Will and Paul arrived back at Hell's Kitchen, they were greeted by a huge present. Literally, when they opened the huge box, out walked the former contestants, Elise included. Ugh, just when we thought we were rid of her. Will had the first choice since he won, and that first choice ended up giving him a bigger advantage than he realized at first. Will started with Tommy, Natalie, and Jennifer, while Paul chose Elise, Elizabeth, and Jonathon. With only Carrie and Krupa left, Will decided to make a smart move for his team and went with Krupa, which sent Carrie to Paul's team – remember the drama between Carrie and Elise?
Paul was not having it though, as he warned both Elise and Carrie that if they started any crap, he would be rid of them. But when Gordon Ramsay did a quick check of their menus, he was impressed by Will's and disappointed in Paul's, claiming that it needed work. In an emotional moment, Paul walks out and begins to tear up about how he promised his mother, who passed away a few months before he started Hell's Kitchen that he would get on the show and win. Paul pleaded with his team about helping him do this in honor of his mother, and they agreed, but would it last once Elise and Carrie got together in the kitchen?
During service, Will's team was off to a strong start with Natalie on appetizers, while Elizabeth and Elise were both messing up on Paul's side. Elise quickly came back though and decided that she would be standing up for Paul – for once she was being reasonable. Krupa then started to struggle on Will's team, while Jonathon could not get any decent meat out for Paul's team, until finally Paul had enough and put Elise on the meat. Then we watched as Will had his first dish come back for being undercooked – no surprise that Krupa cooked it…maybe Krupa was not such a smart decision after all?
Finally, Will decided he needed to take Krupa off her fish station, as she was replaced by Natalie. What a disaster the night was turning out to be for both Will and Paul! In the end, both teams finally pulled together and got all the dishes out. Gordon Ramsay was then off to go through all the comment cards and make his decision. Hmm, did anyone else notice that we saw no restaurant's for the chefs this time around? Then, both Will and Paul headed to the doors to see which one would open. After what seemed like an eternity, it was revealed that Paul was the season nine winner of Hell's Kitchen!
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Josh Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
If it was my restaurant I would want Will as the head chef. Paul blows a lot of smoke about being a big deal and it's annoying. I would want consistency and, being a steakhouse, I would want the best protein chef and hands down that is Will.
Roll Dog Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I could understand why Paul won because of two reasons:
1. He was honoring his mother who died.
2. He brought Carrie and Elise together finally even though he was stuck with both of them thanks to Will.
I wanted Will to win because of his strong and friendlier personality and that he had the favorable ones on his team like Natalie, Jennifer, and Tommy (I love that guy.).
Kage Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Bad Decision Gordon. Not only was Will an absolute rock throughout the entire season,he was the strongest chef to appear on ANY season of HK. Youve done a diservice to BLT and to a bright young chef who was all business and talent, clearly deserving of the job and the money. Respect to Paul for his efforts but hes just not at Will's level in any area of the kitchen
Action Jackson Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I think will was the better all around chef and than Elliss should have been running up she cooked well and ran the kitchen well besides her big mouth running non stop that might have been what knocked her out of contention her big mouth. But much love Pgh keep your head up
Mary Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Will was robbed! Robbed I tell you!! Gordon Ramsay got this one wrong!
asdf Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Will was robbed! Robbed I tell you!! Gordon Ramsay got this one wrong!
mm Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Will should have won!
Margee Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
No. Will should have won. And I do not understand why Elise was in the final four. Just an "Omarosa" move I guess – just for ratings, but I almost stopped watching the show because of her.
JD Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Hell no Paul should have lost he was no good and he was nothing but a jersey shore wannabe (catchphrases and all) and i see now why he won. I think Will and Elise should have been in the top 2 and i wanted elise to win but i really thought will would have won.
gr8cooker141 Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I am happy with any winner as long as it wasn't Elise. I really believe the only reason she was kept was for TV ratings. She sucked big time and her leading skills are practices left in the 80′s and do not belong in today's kitchen.
I am happy again, if she would have won I never would have watched the show again. Ramsey always tends to lead towards the women, even if they don't deserve to win. Maybe he thinks he will get some action!!!
Brian Says:
September 19th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Another dreadful decision by Ramsey. How many times did Paul get kicked out of service? At least twice for sending up raw fish. Will never got yelled at once during the entire season, and was never even close to being put on the block. And if he did get yelled at, you can bet FOX would have aired it.
The biggest loser was Jen. She took her eye off the ball with three weeks left with her stupid crush talk to Paul, then he dissed her twice, once upon being told, then when he picked Elizabeth over her for his team.
April Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 6:33 am
Bad Decision. I think Will should have won. He was consistant and forced to be wreckoned with through the whole season. I think Paul was definitely a weaker link than some others. Will definitely got robbed. Major finale bummer
green Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 8:45 am
in reality TV the victory goes to the guy with the sob story. in REAL reality Will gets the job every time. I've never seen a contestant on Hell's Kitchen dance so effortlessly through the dinner services and around the competition. He was never even close to being put up for elimination and we never saw Ramsay return a single dish at the dish. Will got straight robbed
Dennis Marsh Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 8:54 am
This was absurd, Will was the best from start to finish. We will never watch this show again. What bullshit
Dawn Thomas Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 10:46 am
It seems that the last few years (with the exception of the guy who broke his arm), the finalists are the "best of the worst". I haven't agreed with the winning selections for some time now. I, too, have almost stopped watching the show because it seems they deliberately keep people you HATE on the show to keep you watching, when you know they can't do the work.
Dawn Thomas Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Also, why don't they just give people the money? I have read updates on all the winners and it seems like only 2 of all seasons actually work at the place they won the job at. The others took the money and worked elsewhere. People are only doing this for the money. Let them find a job on their own, since many of them probably wouldn't be able to keep it anyway.
Dee Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Elise is nothing but a ghetto rat. Her attitude would not be tolerated at a place like BLT Steak.
Bonnie Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Will was the winner hands down. Paul is a likable guy but Will is a leader. He may not get BLT but something wonderful is just around the corner. He was a star from day one.
anonymous Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I totally agree Will was the top dog, his menu had no faults and he was the most consistent on there through and through….I hope Ramsey is reading all of this.
Nacho gamez Says:
September 20th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
I was an Elise fan
Lisa Wi Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 7:51 am
Elise should have won. She did not start out that way(w/attitude). On the first show, she was berated by the blond from Texas(??) regarding her background. There were plenty of older bullies yelling at the younger ones. Actually, she should have won – best menus, most team saves, and ingenuity. The others were not creative.
BOOTSIE Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 9:41 am
I was reasonably comfortable with the outcome. Would have preferred Will and I think not guessing the main ingredient in Ramsey's fish dish really hurt him. As was said in a previous comment HE never got dismissed from the kitchen. He also seemed to have a smoothe yet effective way of rallying his troops.
Sharon Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 9:46 am
Will is the true winner!!!!!!!!!Paul is a wimp and I really believe that BLT will not do well. Why did Chef Ramsey keep Elise and Tommy on. She is selfish and low down and Tommy is just goofy!!!
observer Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Paul is a weasle, he'd throw his own brother under the bus to get ahead!!! Bad call Ramsey.
observer Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Paul is a weasle, he'd throw his own brother under the bus to get ahead!!! Bad call Ramsey. Oh and the girl, whatshername, I would have shut her up day 1.
Pat Says:
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I quit watching the show when Jen was dismissed and Elise stayed–sheer ratings walk. Will should have won–don't know that I will watch next season. What used to be an original and entertaining show has devolved into inedible tripe (and I like tripe!)
Jaycie Says:
September 26th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Ramsey screwed up on this one. Will is clearly the best chef on this season. He carried his team and would have made a great head chef. Paul is ok but definetly not in Will's league. Elise was a joke and probably only kept around for drama on the show. She was totally cluesless most of the time.
S E A Says:
November 16th, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Will should have won. He is one of the best participants of the show ever. Why he lost the competition ????
Jan Gunsolley Says:
December 31st, 2011 at 11:43 am
I did not get to see who the winner of season 7 was. I went into the Hospital. Please could you who won? Thank You, Jan


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Baklava (Honey and Nut Pastry)
Baklava is a delicacy found throughout the Arab world. The Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries continue to prepare and enjoy the taste of baklava. This sweet pastry is sold in both Jewish and Arab markets, and comes in a multitude of varieties.
- Place sheets of phyllo pastry in a 13x9x2 inch pan, brushing every other sheet evenly with melted butter.
- When ten or twelve sheets are in place, combine almonds, cloves, sugar, cinnamon, and walnuts, and spread 1/3 of this mixture over the sheet.
- Place another five or six buttered sheets of phyllo on top of nut mixture.
- Repeat this process two more times, alternating nut mixture with five or six sheets of buttered phyllo.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- With a sharp knife, cut baklava into diamond-shaped pieces.
- Heat remaining butter (there should be about 1/2 cup) until hot and light brown. Pour evenly over the baklava. Sprinkle a few drops of cold water on top and bake for 30 minutes.
- Reduce the temperature to 300° and continue to bake for one hour.
- Meanwhile, to make the syrup, in a saucepan combine water, sugar, honey, orange and lemon rind, cinnamon stick, cloves, and lemon juice. Heat mixture until a drop forms when placed into a cup of cold water, then simmer for an additional 20 minutes. Strain.
- When the baklava is baked, pour syrup over it.


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When I interviewed Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center's director/chief curator, several weeks ago for this week's CityBeat story about the institution's 75th anniversary, I asked about some of the highlights of her tenure. One was the 2008-2009 exhibition of abstracted and intense figurative paintings by then-octogenarian Austrian painter Maria Lassnig, who was little known in the U.S. Platow had arranged for the show to travel here from London's Serpentine Gallery, and it was presented as Lassnig's first major solo U.S. museum show. It meant a lot to Platow, who as a native of Germany had been familiar with Lassnig's work, and she was emotional addressing the audience on opening night. (The first CAC show Platow curated, work by Carlos Amorales, also opened that night.) Because of space considerations, not much about the Lassnig show was included in the story, beyond noting it as an example of CAC's prescience, since MoMA-PS1 currently has a major retrospective of her work and calls her "one of the most important contemporary painters." Lassnig died last week at age 94. So, as a tribute to and remembrance of her, here are some excerpts from the interview with Platow (that was done before Lassnig's death): "I had a very personal relationship to the exhibition because I loved the work for many years," Platow said. "It was really surprising to me she had never had a show in the U.S. I really felt she was one of most prominent female painters there is, and there are not that many female painters of that generation who are not part of the history, part of the discourse. "In the area of painting, it was always the heroic male creating these amazing canvases, and here was Maria always struggling and staying her course. It meant a lot to me to present this first exhibition, and ever since then she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, and PS1 now has a big show of her work. I'm happy we sort of spearheaded that." Lassnig did not come to Cincinnati for the opening of her 2008 show here. And as Platow recalled, it wasn't all that easy even to get her paintings to town. "We ended up taking a show that Serpentine in London put together because it's extremely difficult to work with her," she said. "She didn't want her paintings to fly over ocean. "We had to separate them out and put them on three different planes. She didn't want all her work to be on one cargo plane. And she was extremely afraid of the work traveling overseas on a trans-Atlantic flight. It was very strenuous to get it here. "I was so happy we did it, and it was a beautiful show and very meaningful for me." Read more about the CAC's 75th anniversary here.
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If sometime early next year there is an outbreak of people madly, passionately licking the support poles inside Cincinnati buses, you'll know Contemporary Arts Center's upcoming Buildering: Misbehaving the City has had its desired effect.
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With the opening last week of its newest exhibition, 'Rosson Crow: Myth of the American Motorcycle,' the Contemporary Art Center is drawing regional attention to another rising star who produces art-history savvy works with heavy doses of A-list glamour and the red-and-black color schemes of revolutions and rebels. Crow's series of brand-new paintings is paired with a set of actual bikes, each with personalized and highly detailed custom-paint jobs.
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'Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex' is the kind of wonderful group show that the Zaha Hadid-designed Contemporary Arts Center was built to exhibit. It helps tremendously, of course, that the downtown museum's director/chief curator, Raphaela Platow, knows the strengths of her building so well.
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Steven Rosen
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The Contemporary Arts Center's just-announced 2010-11 season continues its support of emerging artists — including Cincinnati-based ones — in a series of shows mostly curated by Director Raphaela Platow. But it will also feature a tightly focused retrospective of the work of the late Keith Haring as well as a group show with an A-list of contemporary artists, courtesy of a Mexican collection.
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Staff positions have taken the biggest hit as Cincinnati's arts and cultural institutions hunker down to survive the recession. Some organizations have adapted through deliberate attrition, while other belt-tightening measures have included shorter hours and curtailed programming. "It's a painful time," says Raphaela Platow, director of the Contemporary Arts Center. The bright side (surprisingly, there is one) is that attendance is up for many organizations.
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So often has it been said that the Contemporary Arts Center needs to carefully select shows to fit its unconventional Zaha Hadid-designed space that it's almost a mantra. As has been seen in the past, imported traveling exhibits (especially group shows relying on paintings) have a tendency to get lost amidst the angles, offbeat spaces, stairways and hidden corners of the downtown building's interior. But the current Anri Sala show interacts so well and so completely with its two CAC floors that the experience is transformative.
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Shepard Fairey, the hip alternative-culture artist who has become a superstar in the wake of his "Hope, Change and Vote" posters supporting Barack Obama's presidential campaign, leads the Contemporary Art Center's 2009-10 exhibition schedule announced April 28. Fairey will be coming here with the show, doing public art projects in the city and public programs at the CAC. It marks a return of sorts — he was part of the CAC's 'Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture' exhibition in 2004, a group show that's quickly becoming legendary for its prescience. The new season begins in early October with an ambitious — hopefully groundbreaking — group show curated by the CAC's Maiza Hixson called 'Young Country.'
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An Art Career Built with Linoleum
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Donald Sultan is considered a painter's painter. That means that, while not widely familiar to the general public, other artists and museums respect him for the influential originality of his vision and technique. The Contemporary Arts Center has just organized and opened a modestly sized show, 'The First Decade,' bringing together key paintings of Sultan's from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s. The exhibit, curated by Raphaela Platow, will be on display through May 17.
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Victoria's passion for heritage has ensured that many of its cities and towns have preserved elements which define the state's unique character.
Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine
The thriving and prosperous goldmining days of the late 1800s resulted in the construction of elaborate public buildings and ornate shop fronts within these three large centres. While modern architecture has crept in over time, they still retain many well-preserved elements in their streetscapes as a legacy to the gold rush era.
Many of the original shopfronts first erected in the 19th century during the gold rush era have been wonderfully preserved in Beechworth. The town also has a strong focus on interpreting its heritage for visitors in the form of museums, galleries and an entire cultural precinct of provincial government buildings.
Chiltern showcases a fascinating collection of historic buildings and shops with wide verandahs along the streets of the town centre. Chiltern's streetscape is a faithful preservation of its goldmining heritage which has resulted in it being used as the setting for many TV series and films.
The site of Victoria's first gold strike in 1851, Clunes boasts a remarkably authentic town centre from those gold rush days, with a fascinating collection of shops and other buildings along Fraser Street. Like Chiltern, Clunes has been used for TV shows and movies set in those old times.
Maldon is noted by the National Trust as having the most intact historic streetscape in Victoria. Its rows of restored buildings provide a living history of the town's goldmining era of the 1850s.
Nyah West
Situated around 30 kilometres north-west of Swan Hill, Nyah West is unusual with almost all of the town's buildings dating from the 1920s.
A beautifully preserved former gold-mining town which is now home to just a few remaining residents. Situated in an isolated area at the edge of the Victorian Alps, Walhalla features a streetscape consisting of heritage buildings where you can really imagine you have stepped back in time.
This small village is located 6 kilometres from Bright and has had its entire valley landscape classified by the National Trust.
A wealth of historic architecture can be seen along the tree-lined streets of Yackandandah. The town is particularly attractive during autumn when its many deciduous trees erupt into blazing colours.


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Favourite song?
Hi everybody!
I'm just wonder- What's your favourite song? :))
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Never Been to Me of course!
This comment is a kind of magic.
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thats a hard one if i had to choose it would be forever,im back, or nightmare
and RJD
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well, in general or papa roach?
in general it would be apocalyptica - conclusion
papa roach wise it woul be broken home
Re: Favourite song?
Papa Roach = Tie between Harder Than a Coffin Nail & Decompression Period
Others =
Alexisonfire - Happiness by the Kilowatt
Propaghandi - A speculative Fiction
Re: Favourite song?
favorite papa roach song would be either scars or broken home.
my favorite song in general would be either end of the story or love is all i have, both by downstait.
welcome to my world
where everyone i ever need
always ends up leaving me alone
Re: Favourite song?
1. Broken Home
2. No Matter What
3. Last Resort
Why Broken Home?,
Well i have made the same things through. But i don't want to talk about it.
Cheers! KevietRoach.
RE: Favourite song?
kinda hard to choose....favorite papa roach song is between scars and no matter what
in general
1. Lost In You and Never Too Late both by Three Days Grace
2. She by Green Day
3. Ready To Fall by Rise Against
4. Discovering the Waterfront, my heroine and still dreaming by silverstein
5. The Reason by Hoobastank
6. One Step Closer by Linkin Park
7. Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind
8. Hanging by a moment by lifehouse
9.Meant to live by switchfoot
10. I'd do anything by simple plan feat mark hoppus...and give me a sign by breaking benjamin
thats my top 10 for now....but there are alot of songs that i like.....
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Favorite Papa Roach is most definitely Black Clouds and also No Matter What.:)
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hollywood whore, last resort..:))
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omg my favorite song iz foreveer by papa roach
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uuh, hard one.. by Papa Roach, of course is Last Resort, State of Emergency and Dead Cell one of them.
in General is Fall Back Down very high up :)
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in the world is misery business by paramore
and from PR: cRaSh
once a whore you're nothing more, i'm sorry that'll never change!
Re: Favourite song?
from papa roach - getting away with murder
from avenged sevenfold - afterlife
from paramore - misery business
from slipknot - all hope is gone
from escape the fate - this war is ours
from green day - jesus of suburbia
from madina lake - pandora
from hollywood undead - young
from my chemical romance - welcome to the black parade
from linkin park - numb
from fall out boy - thnks fr th mmrs
from a day to remember - i'm made of wax larry...
from stone sour - through glass
from 30 seconds to mars - this is war
from blink 182 - dammit
from bullet for me valentine - hearts burst into fire
from bring me the horizon - chelsea smile
from alter bridge - metalingus
from lostprophets - rooftops
from rise against - prayer of the refugee
from you me at six - jealous minds think alike
there, thats my favourite song by each of most of my favourite bands
~ All I wanna do is trade this life for something new ~ Holding on to what I haven't got ~
Re: Favourite song?
Dead Cell.
Fuck a hero, be yourself
Re: Favourite song?
wings of a butterfly: H.I.M.
Same 'ol same 'ol check the print in memoir! fuc!n rat or evr mice
Re: Favourite song?
No Matter What or Reckless maybe its really difficult to choose as all Papa Roach songs are of course wicked.
If your talking in the entire universe though its got to be Sweet Child O'Mine!!
Re: Favourite song?
by Papa Roach or anyone in general. Too many to name from Papa Roach...
What do we stand for?
When we all live in fear.
Re: Favourite song?
My favorite Papa Roach songs are: "...To Be Loved," "Take Me," and "Sometimes." My favorite song of all time is "KRWLNG" by Linkin Park. But those PR songs I mentioned also count as favorites of all time:) Love them all!


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