What makes the Perfect Manhattan

Just finished reading a sexy novel The Perfect Manhattan by Leanne Shear & Tracey Toomey giving a great look into the steamy nightlife of Manhattan and the Hamptons. The rich and powerful behaving badly is just what every person cannot get enough of.

Back to work, lunch is over, but before I get back to work, that makes me think… What makes the Perfect Manhattan?

Generic Pink Highlighters

I have made the official decision to like generic pink highlighters more than yellow highlighters (generic or name brand) and definitely more than green highlighters of ANY brand.

However, I definitely like them ONLY when they are not overused and squishy. New and crispy are the best types of generic pink highlighters to use.

Hey! Why Don’t You Just LIE to Me?

… because I LOVE making decisions based off of what I am told … only to find out later that I was LIED to. I love looking like a complete idiot. (/end sarcasm)

Actually, I don't mind looking like an idiot, if it is intentional on my part – It is when I am MADE to look like an idiot because of someone ELSE'S incompetence. THAT is what really chaps my hide.

Good Grief Madonna?

Will the Real Madonna Please Stand Up?

Geez................ Damn Girl!

What the Hell Happened? A train wreck?

Article by David Wilkes>>>

Will the Real ELVIS Please Stand Up?

It's Uncanny!


Statue Carved 1800 Years Ago

The Real Elvis in Concert - 1968

Part of a sale of ancient antiques by the auction house Bonhams.
Read the story>>>

She's Got Legs!

High Heel Races in Moscow

Nick Schmidt over at schmult.com found this hilarious High Heel race in Moscow, over at Yahoo, it just cracked me up and brought me back to a time in which I wouldn't be caught dead in anything but my high heels. Seriously, I went food shopping in spikes, and I probably would have participated in this race, just for the fun of it. I couldn't resist putting the slide show together.

Just ran into a cheating ex-boyfriend... now where the hell is my Louiville Slugger?

Need I say anymore?

Spam Sucks....

I don't like spam... not the canned stuff or the junk in my e-mail ...

When I was a kid my Mom tried to pass Spam off as food but I knew better...just opening the can made me queasy. As an adult I have a choice about what I eat.. so good-by Spam.

So why can't I make the same choice about the "spam" that hits my mailbox every day. I spend way too much time getting rid of this crap. I have filters on top of filters and often lose "real mail" trying to dump the junk. I don't care about the size of your penis or whether or not XXX will make your girlfriend sigh with pleasure. I don't care about cheap Viagra... or hot girls of your dreams... I don't want the money in the Nigerian/Cuban/Iraqi bank that you don't want your greedy relatives to get. I DON'T WANT YOUR SPAM...

Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net

It it Thursday -- Time to Party!

Kids in the office!

I am sititng in the office this morning and one of the women that work in another department has brought her 5 kids in the office today because she doesn't have a sitter! They are all under 7 years of age!

KIDS IN THE OFFICE!!!!

WTF! Since when is it ok to have kids in the office? Why do I have to accomodate parents that have sitter problems? Why do I have to put up with this?


It is almost 9:30 in the morning and all hell is breaking out here! Two of the kids are fighting and there is a nasty smell wafting throughout the office and another one is running around the office. Why can't people control their poorly behaving children?

It is a beautiful sunny day outside, the boss is at a conference. Wonder if anyone would notice if I go home?

So what does everyone think about people bringing kids into the office?

Who Said YOU Were an Expert???

Don't you just love those people who think they're experts in your business? Who said you were an expert? Read a book, become an expert. Talk to companies about what they do, become such an expert you can tank their stock!

Holy Smoke, Batman, I can't for the life of me figure out how an analyst can say a company who has made a healthy profit failed last quarter. How can any company continue to make huge profits quarter after quarter? Can't happen. So who said an analyst, who doesn't work in that industry, can possibly know so much about it? Beats me. But they do and they cause my stock to tank. Good thing I don't know where you are because I'd spank you! Bad, Bad, Bad Analyst!


Now as for experts in my field? Ha! Every one's an expert. They read the paper. They read a book. They buy. They sell. They make a profit and lose that profit. They think they understand the market. Ha-ha-ha-ha....LOLOL

Do you really have to share all the details?

Not everyone can go to the conference this week on our team. Some of us have to stay back and make sure that things run smoothly back at the office.

But do the members of our team that get to go to the coolest conference of the year really have to Twitter us photos of all the fun they are having?

Meanwhile we have a complete meltdown on one of our systems! Several of us that were left behind are still working to fix all the problems. Meanwhile they are having a great time at a party and sharing that they can't decide which after party they are going to!

Did I mention it is 11:30 pm and I have been working since 7:30 this morning? Now that the problem is all fixed we are off to redecorate our buddies offices that are having fun...

Party on folks...

The Wonders of Blogging

I owe a lot to blogging.

• The wonderful new friends I have made.
• The networking opportunities it has provided.
• The marketing lessons I could not have purchased.
• The invaluable SEO information learned.
• The tech information I never would have found.
• The general information and perspectives gleaned.
  

But most importantly blogging professionally made it possible to revive a lagging business in a big way. When I started blogging, a few years ago, if anybody would have said that I would be read by well over 5,000 readers daily I would have laughed at them, heck I didn't know if I could even write, or what blogging was. I'm not laughing about it any longer, I'm now owner of several nationally recognized blogs all of which drive traffic and business. My entire business is now blog based!


Professionals across the country inquire about blogging - "Does it work?". Yep, it works - if you do. It requires a substantial amount of work, at least initially and a certain amount of maintenance, a sense of humor doesn't hurt either. Usually when they hear that it requires any effort at all, they just shake their heads and go along their merry way, waiting for a miracle. Blogging is the miracle, everything good requires work. Life is funny, in order to profit from it we need to make deposits.


The Fine Whine blog is a wonderful distraction for those of us contributing. This blog is a place where we can come and be lighthearted, carefree and just have a little fun with our whine.


Just taking a moment here to introduce us to the rest of the blogging world, outside of our day to day business.


Drop in and share some Fine Whine with us occasionally, we love company. If you have a fun and interesting blog, leave us your URL so we can visit you as well.

Funerals and Family

Why is it that family goes absolutey nutty when there is a funeral? Tonight we had to drive two hours to calling hours, spent two hours at calling hours and then two hours back.

Read Also: Always go to the funeral

Hello! Am I the only one in the family that has a business to run? Sure it was a third cousin that died that was very good to my grandparents. My mother spent hours picking out special antique hankies (she collects stuff -- that is a whole other post for another time) for several of the female relatives. Oh this one is so like so and so, and this one has her initials.

Read Also: Vintage Hankies

It was important that my mother go and show her respect, she doesn't like to drive to the nex town. I couldn't let my mother do that drive by herself, and I have a very important meeting tomorrow! That is why we went to calling hours this evening! Why is it not enough that we attended the calling hours?

Then made to feel bad because we were not going to be able to attend the funeral service in the morning!!!!! And they are family!

I Just Realized Something

Appparently, I can write a "keyword-rich blog post" while highly intoxicated.

 

 

 

… and apparently the word "apparently" only has 2-p's. LOLOL!

 

I Need to Stop

• Overreacting
  
• Overeating
  
• Overthinking
  
• Overspending
  
• OverAwaking
  
• Overanalyzing
  
• Overcaring
  
• OverNotCaring
  
• Overthinking
  
• Overbitching
  
• Overexplaining
  
• Overthinking
  
• Overdoing
  
• Underdrinking

Why...

I want to know why cosmetics companies use an 18 year old model to sell a skin product to a 50+ woman? Come on guys...getting older gave me lines... it didn't make me stupid.

Why not use someone my age who hasn't been airbrushed or had so much surgery their eyes are on the side of their face. Smiling should be something you do naturally not because your face won't move.

I have no problem with a little help from my doctor.. but please don't try and sell me a $100 eye cream and use an 18 year old with perfect skin as the end result....

Is the Double Standard Still Alive?

OK, why is it that when men have a one night stand with a beautiful woman they get a pat on the back by their buddies while the woman is looked upon negatively by her friends-----------------and by his buddies!?!

Why the freaking double standard?

So why is it that women are shamed when they do the same things guys do? Why are women taught that it is wrong? If men can do it, women sure as hell can do it, too. Right?


In a professional environment a strong male boss is regarded with respect, while a strong woman boss is called a bitch! If a male boss has an affair with somebody in the office and the affair ends, why is it that the woman is the one out job hunting most of the time? If a female boss has an affair with an office mate and ends the affair, she usually becomes the target of nasty rumors. Few would dare to do that to a strong male boss.

Do You Know What the Stick IS on the Left Side of Your Steering Wheel?

Come on now, you have to know what the damn stick is for on the left hand side of your steering wheel! It's call the Directional and what's happened to give people the idea that you don't have to use it while driving?

I am not psychic so I don't know whether you're turning right or left, or changing lanes right or left.

How much work does it take to put your pinky on it and push it down or up? ARGH!!#%#!

I'm tired of lazy drivers who think they own the road and don't need to play by the rules. The last time I saw it, there is a law in every state requiring signaling your intention to turn right or left. Same thing for making a lane change.

Grow up and start using that Directional.

Inept Grocery Packers

Supermarket employees are union workers. As such they receive a great benefit package and a pretty decent salary. You would think they would also be given some training in the basics.

1. Food is very expensive.
2. People take their food seriously!
3. Nobody wants damaged goods.
4. People take their food seriously!
5. Bad packing of groceries pisses people off.
6. People take their food seriously!

Why does the:

1. soda get packed on top of the eggs?
2. the heavy fruit on top of the bread?
3. the leaky raw chicken on top of the paper towels? or toilet paper!

Packing groceries is not rocket science! Is it too much to ask for a packer to use some common sense when performing their job?

Why Can't We Have a Decent Candidate for President?

Yes! I want a choice that makes sense! Bad and worse! That are our choices! Apparently having qualified candidates is just too much to ask for!

Read Also: Political Choice, Public Policy,and Distributional Outcomes in the United States

I want a real selection of Presidential Candidates! What is happening in this country? How did this get so bad? Why can't we vote for None of the Above? And if that wins neither candidate can run again! Yea right, like that will happen.

2008 Candidates for President

• Barack Obama
  
• Al Gore (not announced)
  
• Christopher Dodd (endorsed Obama)
  
• Hillary Clinton (defeated, endorsed Obama)
  
• John Edwards (withdrawn)
  
• Ralph Nader
• Dennis Kucinich (withdrawn)
• Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton)
• Mike Gravel (withdrawn)
• Ron Paul (concedes nomination not possible)
• Joseph Biden (withdrawn)
• Alan Augustson (campaign suspended)
• Bob Barr
• Bill Richardson (withdrawn, endorsed Obama)
• Wayne Allyn Root (is now Bob Barr's running mate)
• Kent McManigal (campaign suspended)
• Alan Keyes (withdrawn)
• Michael Bloomberg (says he will not run)
• John McCain
• Duncan Hunter (withdrawn, endorsed Huckabee)
• Tom Tancredo (withdrawn, endorsed Romney)
• Chuck Hagel (not running)
• Rudolph Giuliani (withdrawn, endorsed McCain)
• Newt Gingrich (says he will not run)
• Tommy Thompson (withdrawn, endorsed Giuliani)
• Mitt Romney (withdrawn, endorsed McCain)
• Fred Thompson (withdrawn)
• Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)
• Elaine Brown (withdrawn)
• Jim Gilmore (withdrawn)
• Sam Brownback (withdrawn, endorsed McCain)
• Stephen Colbert (campaign halted)

Read Also: Whining is a trait of which Political Party?

Time and the Lack Thereof

How in the heck am I supposed to do everything I am supposed to do in my life and STILL be a great Mom and Wife? I mean, I am borrowing time just to write this damn post.

I know that everyone assumes that they are the only people in my life … but they are not. And quite frankly, I don't even LIKE most of them. And no I am not sorry for that comment. I guess I just resent having to spend time on people I don't like just because I HAVE to. Geesh.

Maybe I will invent a time machine … but it won't be a standard Michael J. Fox variety time machine. It will not slingshot me back and forth in time. Oh no. THIS time machine will add more hours to my day by sling-shotting all the time-sucking idiots out of my day, leaving me more time to be a great Mom and Wife.

Now I just need a sponsor …

No – Not a Political Post – Just a Quote

"Plus, Obama is now having to deal with the "true believers" upset about his moving to the middle on Iraq, gun control, the death penalty and everything else that happens when a candidate suddenly gets more "educated" on the issues."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/19/BAD511PR2F.DTL

Beer

For as much as I love wine, a nice cold beer on a hot summer day is a nice thing.

Especially on the back patio, listening to the mix of playing children, rustling leaves on trees and bushes that want to be trees and watching the sun slowly mosey its way to its Western resting spot.

Beer.

A Simple Haiku About Where Some People Should Go

Selfish and Absorbed

Wandering Into My Life

Please Just Go to Hell

I hate people who hide behind a handle!!!

I hate people who hide behind a handle!!! Oops? Aren't I just doing that very thing? Yes, so I hate people who won't say who they are and rag on people. Come on, admit it, they're weasels.

Ya Gotta Be Kidding Me!!!

No, I'm not going to rant about the price of gas. Enough people are doing that. It would be nice if we could actually do something about it besides whine; until then I am whining about the inconvenience it has caused those of us who continue to drive SUV's.

Somebody please explain to me why the gas stations insist on cutting us off at $75??? I have to re-up the pump with my credit card a 2nd time AND pay an additional "service charge"!!!

What a royal pain in the arse!!!

And about that "service charge"??? Ya gotta be kidding me! With the price of gas in the freakin stratosphere where the hell do you get off charging "service fees". And what service are you referring too?

I remember service. That was when the gas jockey actually pumped your gas, cleaned your windows, checked your oil and other fluids and checked the air in your tires - free!

Ya gotta be kidding me!!!

Internet Trolls

Internet Trolls are monsters who use the internet anonymously to bash other people.

Trolls have no spine which is why they hide behind anonymous.

Anonymous, as defined by dictionary.com: lacking individuality, unique character, or distinction: an endless row of drab

And that about covers it!

Just in Case You Were Wondering What Was on My Mind …

AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

(There you have it.)

Hot Whine is in!

Yeah baby...I finally found my way back in!
Can I whine about work...or is that totally off limits?
I like the new look btw!

Gossip

Don't you just love gossipers? It's like the game of telephone. Did you play telephone when you were a kid? You get about 30 people in a large circle and whisper something in the first ear. They in turn are supposed to whisper into the ear next to them and so on to the 30th participant.

But when you hear the story back at the end of the line it doesn't resemble the original story in the least.

I read a recent study that said, we as a society are so preoccupied that we only hear about 20% of what is said to us.

That explains why I find myself repeating 80% of what I have already said!

No More Tidy Whitie

Ok.. we can make lots of changes... what do you all think? Sunny and cheerful with just a hint of spice.....

Like fine Wine...we whine better with age

Is this fixed now? Looks rather boring all in white.

The Fine Art of Whine

It just takes a little wine to get a great whine going.....

Introduction to Sangriatizing

I wanted sangrialicious and it wasn't available and I was bummed!! Now I'm stuck with sangriatizing.....but it may be for the best.

Tease me, taunt me or whatever......IT'S ALLLLL GOOD!

Everyone likes Sangria - a little fruit, a little wine and a little attitude.

Now would someone post something good already!

I'm Ready for a Fine Whine

Why or why do we have to listen to all of those stupid clients who think they understand what it is we do better than us? My idiot client wants me to manipulate numbers to make him feel better. What a jerk!

I need a good California Whino to drink with me.....

Are we getting points for this?

Maybe if we whine more...anyone care?

Bummer

Okay...how come someone else is pretending to be me... I am the real sweet whiner!!

Too much to do

Just to much to do and not enough time.

It's Broken Damnit!

Has anybody else noticed the decline in the number of people who actually give a crap?

Finally I Don't Have to Be a Princess

Oh wait ... WAS I ever a princess? Don't think so. I pretty much was a non-princess for a lot of my life. The scars on my knees and the fact that I love sleeping with peas in between my mattresses is proof enough.

Should I ever BECOME a princess and get to lay around eating bon bons and bossing the King and Queen around...I don't think I'd ever STOP.

So, the title of my post is nothing I would ever say.