Heidi Montag Makes Me Sick

I swore I would try to keep my celeb rants to a minimum....but this girl has been making me ill for a while and now I have to be exposed to her on the cover of People Mag boasting that she has had 10 more plastic surgery procedures. VOMITOUS.

So why do I loathe this girl? She is a celebrity and making heaps of money for being nothing more than vapid. No talent, no intelligence, nothing....just happened to be at the right place at the right time. She is "married" to Spencer Pratt who I thought was the epitome of an a-hole....until I started to realize that he has a better brain in his skull than she has.....he doesnt want kids now and she does. I'm a mother....I know how truly sacrificing and difficult it is to have a kid and here you have some superficila dimwit insisting that she wants babies. COME ON! Babies are NOT accessories, nor are they lapdogs that you can carry around in a pink bag.

And now the plastic surgeries. At 23 she has undergone over 12 procedures....and now she looks like a pornstar. This is what young girls have to look up too? What is she telling the youth of America? That going under the knife is the only way to feel happy with yourself? I am not against cosmetic surgery, but I do believe there is a time and place for it. This girl is sad and obviously has issues....and her issues are splashed on every tabloid and entertainment show on TV for all of us to see. I'm over it....

Models have been given a bad rap for being skinny and making the average woman and teenaged girls want to live up to an impossible physical goal. I can say with certainty that less models get work done than these vacuous reality stars. Most models are genetically blessed with "skinny genes" and flawless or interesting features....it is the bimbo-esque celebutantes that are setting the worst goals for girls and other women....these girls, like Heidi, are telling us all that if we don't like a body part we should shave it off with a scalpel. Nice.

I have a daughter who will be 3 years old next month and I pray to God that she too is disgusted by girls like Heidi....and that she isnt glamorized by them. This is a sad, sad society we live in...where girls like that are given red carpet status...while somewhere out there in the halls of an Ivy League, another 23 year old woman is working on a possible cure for cancer or autism...and that girl gets no cred.

Save us all.

I'm Back, Alive...Kind Of....

So the last month of 2009 had me cursing the entire year, loathing it and bidding it a very happy farewell on NYE. Two days after Thanksgiving our family got hit by the H1N1 flu. Thankfully my kids only had a cough and 48 hours of 104 fevers and that was it. My husband literally only got a light cough and I.....I GOT HIT BY A TON OF SWINE BRICKS.

Normally, I don't let myself get sick....even with stomach flus I have powered through the illnesses and managed to run the tight ship I call my home. Not this time. I had fevers of up to 105, hallucinating, sever bodyaches, and I would either be freezing to death or burning up to the point where I would literally drench my clothes several times an hour. After 5 days of this hell and constant daydreaming of taking a long walk off of a very short bridge, my fever broke and I was well. Weak but well. A week later my cough had turned into bronchitis and then a sinus infection emerged. I literally spent the last 6 weeks of 2009 sick, snotty and feeling myself rot. Lovely.

I still don't know where or how we got the swine....since no one else we know got it...and no kids at my childrens' schools had it either. All I know is that I am glad it's over and any bad karma I mayhave accumulated in my past is now paid off with interest. I have since become a HUGE fan (if not addict) of Kombucha tea. I drink it daily and so far so good. This is, of course, hitting my wallet hard....the stuff ain't cheap...but when you've been as ill as I was, you will sell your soul not to feel like that again dammit!

And you may think I am crazy, but I am still glad that we did NOT get the H1N1 vaccine. I am not an anti-vacc nazi....but I have learned enough about vaccines and how the Pharm companies and the FDA treat us ALL like guinea pigs to shun placing some random, truly untested crap into my body or my childrens' bodies. News reports in Europe have stated that many people have died from the actual vaccine....not a chance I want to take with my kids...or myself for that matter. I also love how we don't hear about deaths from the vaccine on the news here. Oh man...my conspiracy theorist side is coming out now.....LOL!

Anyways....we went through it and lived to tell the tale. Like nature intended. And I am just glad to be through that guantlet of pestilence. Let health and this new decade begin! :)