Hmmm..maybe i am not unorganized...

Came across this article 'Is a messy desk a good thing?' on CCN.com and thought this piece was worth re-posting for anyone that always has a ton of papers on thier desks.

"The Surprise Benefits of Messiness

Attaining complete neatness and order may only be an illusion.
Following rigid organizational systems and living life driven by a day planner means you're operating with blinders on.
Many new discoveries, inventions and creative projects are the result of sheer happenstance or inadvertently veering off in an unexpected direction. If you don't inject a little disorder in your life you mostly likely will miss out on the serendipity of an unplanned success."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/04/30/cb.mess/index.html

Where the singles are...

A few weeks ago while surfing the internet I came across this information. This is from National Geographic's February 2007 issue. It shows the amount of single men and women across the country. Single men on the east coast should count themselves lucky, in the NYC-Newark area there are 185,000 more single women then men. This is explains why some of us are still single...lol The most single men seem to be on the west coast, in fact in LA-Long Beach-Santa Ana there are 40,000 more single men then women.
It looks like I may have to move to the west coast... :)

NEW VALENTINE"S DAY DESIGNS!!!!!!!!!!

Say it across your chest with our He's Mine, She's Mine Designs.

What part of 'NO' don't you understand?

My friend (who shall remain nameless) was out for dinner with another friend, both of whom are married. They meet this man at the bar while waiting for their table. They chatted for a bit and he told them how he was single and just has not found the right women as of yet. My friend thought he was nice and suggested setting him up with me. She took his card and emailed me the information. Since I have been single for a while and have just not meet 'the one' that does it for me I decided what the heck. I mean you never know, stranger things have happened right?

So after a series of emails and phone tag situations me and Mr. C finally touched base. I talked to him on a Saturday and told him I would meet him for a drink later that week – preferably Tuesday or Wednesday, not to coincide with my Monday night yoga class J we talked on Monday and I told him Wednesday worked best for me. We agreed to meet around 5:30 at Echo in Red Bank. Since this was a blind date I did not know what to expect.

So went there, meet him not exactly my type – looked like a much 'older' 37, but hell you never know. So I ordered my drink Grey Goose and tonic and he made some kind of comment about my drink. He was drinking wine, explained to me that he likes to drink wine when he is with a lady, but beer with the guys. So we drank and talked a bit and he asked if I wanted to order an appetizer. I asked him want he liked and he said 'get anything you want' when I suggested ordering the sampler ($30) he was like "that might be too much". So I said ok how about the spring rolls and the BBQ shrimp – he seemed kind of hesitant, I told him the spring rolls would probably not be enough. So he said ok I ordered the appetizers, and then we made small talk. He seemed a little strange to me, asked some questions that where – well questionable…. He asked me if I was into drugs – like coke or heroin, and then implied he still smoked pot on a regular basis. I told him I am not into drugs at all and that they were not my thing. In addition during our 'date' he went to the bathroom twice and was gone for quite awhile which led me to think he either has a digestive problem or was snorting or shooting up in the bathroom, especially when he came back and seemed much more talkative and touchy-feely. But I blew it off as nervousness.

The date ended and before I headed home he asked if I would go out with him again and I said ‘sure’. So he kissed my cheek and we each went home.

The next day he sent a txt message to my phone “Had fun, have a great day :) are you interested in going forward, yes?” this was sent at 12:05 pm. I had a busy day and did not see this txt until leaving work on my way to yoga. While in my yoga class I received another txt from him at 6:15 pm “U thinking or just busy? I txted u at 12 noon” Did not respond to this because I was motified - who does that after just meeting a person?

Then the next morning at 9:40 am another txt “Hey u get my txts? Or not." I sent him back a text saying “I was busy and I am thinking No”. Received a txt back “Huh, OK care 2 let me know why? Just thought you said u wanted 2”. At this point I was tired of the txt messages, but did not want to speak to him in person. So I sent him this email:

“C,

I thought I should explain this in a better way then over a text message. I thought you were nice and would go out with you again. However, I am an extremely independent person and my career, part time school, and full social life keeps me very busy, sometimes I do not respond to text messages or phone calls immediately. I do not carry my cell around with me at work, sometimes I don't look at it all day. And when you sent the message last night questioning why i did not respond to you, it freaked me out. I don't do well with people questioning my whereabouts and quite frankly I just meet you and if you are this persistent after an initial meeting, I just don't feel it would work with my lifestyle. Good luck to you though, you seem like a nice person.

A”

Received this email back:

“i am extremely busy with my lifestyle too and by no means did i mean to question your whereabouts. thats silly talk, i can care less where or what you where doing it's none of my business nor mine to you, wasn't asking that, just was curious if we both had the same feeling is all. think you jumped the gun alittle on me i am not the possessive type nor the up you but type sorry bad read on that just was looking for a quick resp. on the positive side and was a little impatient but didn't think it warranted you to freak out . Do you want to rethink that one or did you give up already? I think we can work through that misunderstanding no biggie on my end. Good company is hard to find and i really want to get to know you better i hope you agree ."

I did not respond and received this email later that day:
“hey just call me prefer or txt me your response as to going forward whenever you can i won't txt or call until you let me know if we are gonna hang again, because i won't see my work email til mon., leaving for the day for a appt. fri 3pm. :)”

Did not respond and received a phone call on Sunday – he left a voicemail asking me to call him. I ignored it, once again.... i thought I made myself clear with the first email.

Got this email on Monday:
“did you get my email fri.?”

Did not respond and received another voicemail about 5:30 pm Monday night. He is basically begging me to call him and give him ‘2 minutes’ Like if I did not already think he was psycho he would be able to convince me to go out with him again.

Did not respond and he called again on Monday about 9pm – did not leave a voicemail.

Tuesday morning I decided to send him another email explaining that I am not interested. I could not bear to talk to him on the phone cause every message he left made me feel he was extremely irrational and to be honest I meet the guy for a drink and appetizer, I do not owe him anything!

This was my last email:
“Yes, I received your emails, your texts, and your messages. I am not interested please stop calling me, emailing me, and texting me. Before it becomes a problem.”

And you know he still had something to say….lol He replied:

“my pleasure im no longer interested as well, deleted all ties to you so you won't here from me any longer. Good luck with your independent life hope that works for you , in the future you prob should respond or b upfront with your sit. of being so busy and no always having 2 sec.s to respond to a txt which is a common courtesy by the way... Anywho you will learn more as time goes on and hopefully before you waist anybody else's time or money(which might freak out that person).”


All I have to say is what a loser! And a bad speller! Ladies trust your instincts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If someone seems one-off it is probably because they are :)

This is promising for single women

I read this article today and had to re-post. It made me very hopefull, one day I will be able to afford my own home in NJ by myself....lol

Dream house, sans spouse: More women buy homes

By Noelle Knox, USA TODAY
Karen Phelan remembers how scared she was when she bought her first home 10 years ago. Newly divorced and broke, she'd saved for a year for a down payment on a modest house.
Karen Phelan at her Reno home, the second she has bought on her own.
By David Calvert for USA TODAY
"I just got tired of waiting for Mr. Right to come along and start the American dream," says Phelan, who owns her own company, which resells time-shares. Last year, she sold that house and bought a larger one in a gated golf-course community in Reno.
"They're kind of like emotional trophies," says Phelan, 43. "It's symbolic of success — of getting out there and doing it on my own and saying, 'I'm just as capable of doing it as the next person and doing it on my own and making it.' "
A lot of other women seem to feel the same way. Last year, single women snapped up one of every five homes sold. That's nearly 1.5 million, if you're counting — more than twice as many as single men bought, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The trend is striking, because in 1981, the number of single women and single men home buyers was virtually the same. Since then, the percentage of buyers who are single women has almost doubled, while the percentage of single men buyers slipped 1 percentage point to 9% last year.
By David Calvert for USA TODAY
Buying her first house "was really scary," Phelan says.
This rise of single-women homeowners is part of a greater social and economic shift that is reshaping American life.
"For the first time in history, women have access to the same resources men have always had — money, social status, power," says Donald Hantula, professor of organizational psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia.
"Women can go and acquire them on their own rather than searching for a mate to provide them. These demographic and social changes are not in line with how we adapted in the hunter-gatherer era."
This trend is forcing changes in real estate. The building industry is beginning to add features to homes with women in mind. Mortgage lenders are doing more to help women qualify for loans.
"There have been so many advances and innovations in the market to respond to them," says Regina Lowrie, chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association and the first woman to hold that post.
Some of the most critical demographic changes that have opened up the real estate market to women include:
SINGLE WOMEN ARE BUYING
•Women (and men) are marrying later. On average, women now wait until they're nearly 26 to walk down the aisle, about six years later than in 1960, according to Census data. On average, men today marry at age 27, an increase of five years in that same period.
•Divorce. A Census study showed that 73% of women who married between 1980 and 1984 reached their 10th anniversary, compared with 90% of women who married between 1945 and 1949. Still, as many as half of new marriages end in divorce.
•Women tend to live longer than men. The average man will die at 74, giving the average widow (who'll die at 79) five more years to buy a home on her own.
"The large pool of unmarried individuals reduces the social weight of marriage, in economics and politics," says Stephanie Coontz, professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. "It creates tastes, habits and expectations, as well as voting blocs not tied to the role of wife or husband."
Unmarried women have more money than ever.
In part,that's because more women than men are going to college. Men have been the minority on college campuses since the 1970s, and they now make up just 44% of the student body. There are more women than ever on the job — 46% of the workforce — and the pay gap with men is closing.
The rush of single women to buy homes is impressive, coming after decades of sex discrimination by banks and real estate agents.
Before 1974, when Congress amended the Fair Housing Act to stop sex discrimination, it was hard for single women to get a mortgage, or even a credit card, in their own names.
If a woman was married, her income was usually discounted on a loan application, Coontz recalls, because the bank assumed she would stop working once she had children.
Those days are gone. Today, mortgage companies offer products to help low-income applicants qualify for loans.
Single moms and homes
Women, in particular, benefit because 25% of single mothers spend more than half their income on housing, compared with 10% of single fathers who do, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
When Patty Tarling became a single parent, she was 20. She then struggled for 15 years before she could buy her first home in Hillsboro, Ore. Borrowing against her 401(k) retirement plan, she put down 3% of the home price and received a loan insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
Last year, Tarling sold that home and moved to a suburb of Sacramento, where she's an office manager for a mortgage lender. She bought a three-bedroom, two-bath house.
"I did 100% financing, because the security of having a big cushion in savings and other investments is huge for me after living paycheck to paycheck for most of my life," says Tarling, now 40.
Owning a home "is the biggest accomplishment I've had — I'm just elated by it. Aside from your child, just the sense of confidence and self-worth you have to say you own your home is just huge."
Tarling concedes it's a little intimidating for her boyfriend, who was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and now lives with her.
"It's just a step," she says. "If we get married or something, we'll buy a place together."
Because of new government loan criteria, many lenders will now help single women in several ways. They will:
• Let women count child support from an ex-husband as income to help qualify for loans.
• Consider divorced women as first-time buyers,even if they bought homes with their former husbands, so the women can qualify for further help. First-time home buyers can often receive down payment assistance or low-down payment loans.
• Let women use some alternative forms of credit history, such as their phone bill record, in case they never had credit in their own names, says Lowrie of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Single women home buyers often need help because their median income is $47,315 a year — 20% less than for single men buyers.
Buying the first condo
Sarah Van Elderen, 23, who graduated last year from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., doesn't make that much money. Still, she bought her first condo in Grand Rapids, Mich., with a fixed-rate, no-down payment loan for first-time home buyers.
(No-money-down loans can be risky if home prices in the area decline, and the owner needs to sell.)
She's proud of her first condo, even though she says, "The reaction of my 94-year-old grandma was, 'You're going to end up single if you buy a house yourself.' "
Actually, the rising number of single women homeowners could change the dating scene completely, says Hantula of Temple University.
"Houses are a great source of wealth, and as women are buying and holding onto them, they will gain greater equity and become less dependent on male partners for material assets and protection," Hantula says.
"Over the long term, women will become pickier, more choosy. They will look beyond an asset-based mating decision. ... Characteristics like emotional stability and other kinds of compatibility will become more important."
Apparently, home builders also want to be more attractive to single women buyers now. They're designing homes with features preferred by women.
"Women want more security than men, and less maintenance," says Anthony Perry, co-owner of Oakwood Homes, a developer in Woodstock, Ga.
"It's just doesn't matter to men as much. We're putting in flat-screen TVs for the guys."
Among the amenities Perry adds with women in mind: a courtyard design that provides a stronger sense of security, gated communities and twice as many street lights.
He also adds larger closets and energy-efficient appliances, which he thinks matter more to women. He also provides maintenance services for his home buyers. "We water outside the courtyard, mow the grass out front — we even change the heating and cooling filters," he says.
Asked why he thinks so few single men buy homes, Perry replies: "Men do it when we get married. Until then, we're just out running around."
Tommie Livatino, a high school basketball coach in Chicago, is one of the rare single-male home buyers.
"Every time I bought a piece of property, I always saw it as an investment first, and a way to keep living with my friends," says Livatino, 36.
He rented out rooms to his friends in his first house and bought his second and third homes with friends. Why does he think more single women buy homes than single men?
"Maybe women are much more intelligent than men," he says.
A professor's theory
Historically, men have always had access to the resources to provide shelter and don't have the same imperative, says Hantula, the organizational psychology professor.
"Throughout our evolutionary history, access to shelter was more the province of men than women. You take the hunter and gatherer into the 21st century, and men say, 'I don't need to go buy shelter, because if I need it, I can get it.' Whereas the woman is saying, 'If I have the chance, I better get it while I can.' "
Pat Spalding, 54, who is single and lives in Lakeland, Fla., sold her home and bought a nicer one last year. She recalls how a single male colleague had a very different reaction to buying a home.
"He needed to buy a home for the tax shelter, but he said, 'If I want to get up and leave, I don't want to have something to sell,' " recalls Spalding, who works in the real estate division of Central Florida Gas.
"But I need the security. I own this. ... And I don't want to depend on anyone for anything, and men don't seem to care about that."
The trend toward single women home buyers might be socially unsettling in the short term, Hantula notes.
And for women home buyers — who are doing something that their mothers had to fight to do — purchasing their first home can be personally unsettling, too.
"The first experience was really scary for me," Phelan says.
"I'm not going to candy-coat it. I don't think any woman out there is going to tell you the first purchase going solo is easy, because it's a huge investment."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-02-14-women-houses-usat_x.htm

Who say's complaining doesn't work?

This year my apartment building recently got bought by a new management company and we are going condo. Well the managment company who has been waiting for final state approval started doing some renovations and basically left our building a complete mess for the past 3 months. I got so feed up that last week I wrote a letter to those bastards. My letter was as follows:

Philo Management Company
520 Westfield Ave
Elizabeth, NJ 07208-1658

To Whom It May Concern:
I currently reside at XXX XAvenue Apartment XX , Belmar NJ. As a tenant I have several complaints. First the lack of communication received from your management office is appalling. My lease was up mid-November and I never received any communication stating if I need to sign a new lease. After speaking with several other tenants, some of whom have called your office, I was told that we are now on a month to month lease. I am fine with this arrangement; however receiving a written communication would have been appropriate.
My second complaint is on the unsafe living conditions and the horrible state that this apartment building has been in since you began renovating approximately 5 months ago. I would not mind living here during renovations if the renovations were being performed within a timely fashion and we were communicated to in writing on when and what improvements were being made. But that is not the case; the appearance of these buildings is disgusting. I understand that this is an old building, but when Harding Estates was the management company it was always kept neat and clean. When I found out about the condo conversion I was considering buying my unit, but if this poor performance is any indication of the quality and timeliness of the conversion process I am not interested.
Here are numerous complaints from myself and other tenants:
· There is dirt, plaster, and nails all over the hallways.
· There are two vacuums on my floor that have been there for over a month
· The front light is consistently out in front of building 205 when I come home late at night.
· The doors are left wide open by the workers.
· A refrigerator has been on the 3rd floor hallway of building 201 for two months.
· A vendor came and put in railings on the stairs and they ripped up the rug and runners and left them. This is a hazard, someone could easily trip.
· The front door of building 201 was broke and the mailman could not get in to deliver mail for over a week.
· There are holes in the walls from the electrician.
· There was a sewage leak on the basement floor of building 201 from the drainage not being properly maintained.
It seems that you may be forgetting that people still live in these buildings and are still paying rent. I have attached pictures taken over the last week so that you can see for yourself the conditions of these two buildings. If these conditions do not improve within the next few weeks I will have no choice other then to contact the Belmar Code Enforcement Department and we will start to withhold rent in a rent strike.

Sincerely,

XXXXXX

This letter was sent certified mail to Philo Management company last week, and starting last Thursday and Friday there were workers here cleaning this place up! Today when I came home it was an even bigger improvement, the rugs were trimmed, there is a new door in the front and rear of the building and the intercom system is getting moved outside!!!! I am so excited, this is proof that when something is bothering you - COMPLAIN!

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How Retarded

I feel really retarded, I did not know the meaning of LMAO and I keep seeing everyone using it. So I had to look it up online and then when I did I felt so dumb....I should have know that it meant Laughing My Ass Off.....

DUH...I am officially having a blond moment, these highlights must be sinking into my brain.

Interesting Article on Marriage

For first time, unmarried households reign in US
by Maxim KniazkovSun Oct 15, 1:02 PM ET
It is by no means dead, but for the first time, a new survey has shown that traditional marriage has ceased to be the preferred living arrangement in the majority of US households.
The shift, reported by the US Census Bureau in its 2005 American Community Survey, could herald a sea change in every facet of American life -- from family law to national politics and its current emphasis on family values.
The findings, which were released in August but largely escaped public attention until now because of the large volume of data, indicated that marriage did not figure in nearly 55.8 million American family households, or 50.2 percent.
More than 14 million of them were headed by single women, another five million by single men, while 36.7 million belonged to a category described as "nonfamily households," a term that experts said referred primarily to gay or heterosexual couples cohabiting out of formal wedlock.
In addition, there were more than 30 million unmarried men and women living alone, who are not categorized as families, the Census Bureau reported.
By comparison, the number of traditional households with married couples at their core stood at slightly more than 55.2 million, or 49.8 percent of the total.
Unmarried couples gravitated toward big cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, while the farm states in the Great Plains and rural communities of the Midwest and West remained bastions of traditionalism, according to the survey.
The trend represented a dramatic change from just six years ago, when married couples made up 52 percent of 105.5 million American households.
It indicated that efforts by President George W. Bush and his allies, who over the past five years have made a concerted effort to shore up traditional marriage and families through tax breaks, special legislation and church-sponsored campaigns is bearing little fruit.
The shift, experts said, also raises the question about the future effectiveness of so-called "family value" politics currently played by both Republicans and Democrats.
Douglas Besharov, a sociologist with the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank, said it is difficult for the traditional family to emerge unscathed after three and a half decades of divorce rates reaching 50 percent and five decades out-of-wedlock births.
"Change is in the air," Besharov said in a recent interview with the State Department journal called US Society and Values. "The only question is whether it is catastrophic or just evolutionary."
He predicted that cohabitation and temporary relationships between people were likely to dominated America's social landscape for years to come.
"Overall, what I see is a situation in which people -- especially children -- will be much more isolated, because not only will their parents both be working, but they'll have fewer siblings, fewer cousins, fewer aunts and uncles," the scholar argued. "So over time, we're moving towards a much more individualistic society."
In the opinion of Stephanie Coontz, who heads the Council on Contemporary Families, growing life expectancy as well as women's earning potential are impacting the traditional marriage in unexpected ways.
If before World War II the typical American marriage ended with the death of one partner within a few years after the last child had left home, she pointed out in the journal, that today couples can look forward to spending more than two decades together in an empty nest.
"The growing length of time partners spend with only each other for company, in some instances, has made individuals less willing to put up with an unhappy marriage, while women's economic independence makes it less essential for them to do so," Coontz

My Brithday Celebration at The Avenue

If you have not been to The Avenue in Long Branch, you need to check it out. We went there for my Brithday celebration and it was one of the best nights I've had in a long time. We danced all night! So much fun! Thank you guys for coming out it was a blast!

JT at Starland

OMG! I hate to sound like a teenager obsessed with a celebrity, but can Justin Timberlake be any hotter? I saw him perform at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ this past Friday (9/1/06) and for those of you that don't know Starland is the old Hunka Bunka nightclub and a FABULOUS venue to see any band/performance at. So Mr. JT came on a little after 10 pm and he rocked! He opened with Cry Me River, played some tracks from Justified and then played some new tracks from his up and coming cd. Then he closed with, you guessed it - Sexy Back (LOVE IT!) and Timberland came on and sang with him. It was a great time! He is a very talented dude and a hottie too if I must say. I can't wait for the new CD to drop next week!

Kevin Smith & Clerks in Red Bank, NJ

Last night I went to a free showing of Clerks in Marine Park in Red Bank, NJ. It was sponsored by Netflix's rolling road show and Kevin Smith was there for a Q&A session before the showing. It was pretty cool, I am a Kevin Smith fan, but some people are real fanatics. You should have heard some of the questions. Some geeks asked his opinion on Superman returns, comic books, and other super heros, and if Ben Afflect is a douche bag. Others asked him to call their friends who could not make it, for jobs, and to read their screen plays (man can you imagine the nerve). But Kevin Smith was a cool guy and pretty much went along with everything, it does not seem Hollywood has changed him much. He seems very down to earth and approachable.
The Q&A went on until it was dark enough to show the movie. Then Clerks played; there were few technical difficulties but all in all it was a good time. I had not seen Clerks in awhile and it was great! One of my favorite lines has to be "Don't suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot." Great movie, and if you have not seen it you better get over the Netflix and rent it pronto! This is a must see, especially if you are from NJ.
If you have never gone to a movie outdoors in the summertime I highly recommend it! Red Bank does it every Tuesday night in the summer and I think Hoboken has movies in the park too!

I'm Bringing Sexy Back

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I love JT - he is hot, hot, hot.....dirty baby....

Pissed and Lazy...

For some reason I am so lazy this week, I don't feel like going to the gym at all and yet I come home from work and do nothing, I'm guessing work has me exhausted. I should take my ass down to the boardwalk and take a nice long walk and try to enjoy the remainder of summer and living at the beach. I must admit it is fabulous to live this close to the beach in the summer I LOVE IT! But having to go to work everyday ruins it. Where is that long lost rich relative that is going to leave me millions so I can be independently wealthly?

Anyway enough day-dreaming...on a side note I am so pissed at these asshole drivers in Red Bank. Every evening when I leave my building I make a right hand turn, there are also cars coming from the opposite direction making a left hand turn. I believe that NJ state law is that I have the right away, so why do these dicks always try running me and everyone else off the road and then when you look at them they give you the finger like you are doing something wrong. This happened to me today and I was sooooooooooo pissed I wished for a second that I could chase down that Mother-fer and shoot his tires out......ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....just needed to vent some more, I already bitched about it to my sister....

30 Seconds to Mars

Last night I went to The Stone Pony in Asbury Park to see 30 Seconds to Mars. It has been a very long time since I have gone to see a concert at a place like the Stone Pony and I almost forgot how young the crowd is at these places with an all ages show. When the marjority of the crowd is not legal drinking age it is very easy to get to the bar :)
30 Seconds to Mars is my new favorite band that just so happens to be hottie Jared Leto's group. They were so awesome and Jared Leto is totally hot! Even with all the black and that eyeliner - GORGEOUS still. I wanted to become a band groupie last night. I felt like I was back to the days of My So Called Life when I was lusting after Jordan Catalano with every other teenage girl in America.
But seriously they are a very good band if you have not heard them check them out on iTunes or something their new album is called A Beautiful Lie, I highly recommend it!

Poland or Portugal?

It seems that our new top selling design is now the Portuguese Princess.
About 2 months back it the Polish Princess design was kicking ass, but it seems the Portuguese Princess now takes the cake.
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OMG - The OC

Ok for those of you who don't know The OC is one of my favorite shows, I was hooked in season 1, which was so good, if you don't know you need to rent it from Netflix!
So the last two seasons have been kind of a let down, I've posted my opinion before on how bad the show was becoming. That is until this final episode, they apparently killed off Marisa! THANK GOD...no offense but I hope she is really dead, I'm sick of her and her alcohol and drug addictions that last one week, she is always sitting on the beach feeling sorry for herself and dragging Ryan down.
Also supposedly the reason the show has been so bad was because the original creator and writer - Josh Schwartz stopped writing episodes and he saw the show going down hill and is now trying to save it by writing again - YES! Please bring back the greatness of Season 1!

For those that need a re-cap from the season finale this is the final scene:

As Ryan drives, Volchok rams his car from behind. He then pulls alongside and tries to run Ryan off the road. And he succeeds. Ryan barrels through a curve and over an embankment. The car rolls end over end down the hill, finally crashing on another road below. Coming back to his senses, Ryan crawls out of the car. Noticing gas pouring from the tank and a small fire, he grabs an unconscious Marissa and carries her free of the wreckage in a mirror from the time he found her in Tijuana. The car explodes and Ryan lays Marissa down on the pavement and rouses her. He tells her he's going to get help, but she begs him to stay. And then she dies.

I Wish I Knew How to Wack You!

Finally! Thank God they finally wacked Vito on the Sopranos. I don't know about you but I was getting a bit sick of his character and the brokeback love affair with Johnny-Cakes.
Anyway, Vito wants back in and stalks Tony at the Short Hills mall, this is when he tells him he is over his homsexual episode:
Vito: "If you want proof, I can probably get a letter from my doctor."
Tony :"A note from your doctor sayin' you don't like to suck cock?"

So meanwhile Vito tells his poor kids that he is in the CIA, and then after he shows up dead his kids read in the paper that he was gay and it was a hate crime.
HA-HA..... the Sopranos is great, but I still don't know where it is going this season, only a few weeks left to find out...

Need a Graduation Gift?

Looking for a unique graduation gift for that special friend or relative? Then check out Chaotic Couture's graduation designs. Available on t-shirts, buttons, magnets and more!

Top Sellers:

Graduated Class of 2006, Only Took 6 Years




Graduated with a Degree in Beer Pong



Graduated with a MRS Degree

Speak Out America - Protest Rising Gas Prices

Today CafePress issued a press release titled Speak Out America - Protest Rising Gas Prices! - CafePress Leads Gas Price Protest with Promise to Send Top Selling Merchandise to US Officials and an Offer Equivalent to 1 Free Gallon of Gas
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In the release we do two things
First, we point to gas price related merchandise and promise to send the two best selling designs (printed on t-shirts) to US leaders who should know what the public thinks about rising prices at the pump (the list is as follows: President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, House Majority Leader John A. Boehner, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi).

Second, were offering a discount of $3 off any purchase over $20 (its kinda like getting a free gallon of gas, just enter USGASPRICE during checkout for discount to be applied).

Why are we doing it?Our community told us what theyre interested in by creating gas price related designs, the media told us the American people are interested in gas prices, and we want nothing more than to help our Shopkeepers spread the word. CafePress is about self-expression and we want our users messages in the hands of those who can make a difference, and by offering a discount it becomes easier for buyers to help spread the word on the streets

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