Please take a moment...

A very good friend of mine lost her beautiful 6 month old son the other night to complications after surgery to correct a congenital heart defect.  He was born with a gene mutation causing clotting, and ultimately, it was clotting that lost the fight.

This little one was loved so so much by so many, and was wanted so badly by his parents.  He will be missed by more people than I can even comprehend.

I don't believe in deities or religions or anything and I am not spiritual, but I was calling on everything there and everyone I knew, and some I didn't know, that this little guy would win.  I would give anything to bring him back to this world, and I truly hope that they know that HE knew how much he was loved, and how truly happy he made them and all of us who knew him and know them.  I wish them comfort and strength to get through this loss and to come out stronger than before.

This little boy is one in 100 babies born with a heart defect.  Did you know that there were so many born with heart defects?  That's a pretty staggering number.  Did you know that only one penny of every dollar donated to the American Heart Association goes to the research of Congenital Heart Defects?  I had no idea.  It breaks my heart that children can come into this world with such issues, and that so many cannot win.  No child deserves that fate.

Latisse Update:

I got my first "comment" on the lashes today so this stuff might just be working. I am just at the 11 week mark. With mascara they look great, though mostly length not so much thickness yet.  I am still on my first bottle. I ran out of brushes this week and ended up going to Sally's and buying some disposable lip brushes which were seriously the same thing except not in "sterile" packaging. They're covered tips or whatever though.  I need to take a photo on Monday for 12 weeks. I might have forgotten the 8week photo...

I MIGHT be a stalker. Just maybe.

So today I called Nordstrom to hopefully grab another pair of those CJ Cookie Johnson Beautiful Bootcut jegging things I got a couple of at the Anniversary Sale. I asked for my normal sales person and the woman said "I'm sorry she's not here anymore, she relocated out of state!"  I almost cried!  I was able to get assistance in tracking a pair of them down at another store though, since according to the website, they're not selling this style anymore. I'd have bought them online had my size still been available. But the nice lady who helped in my usual girl's place has them being shipped.

The pro to this is that I got them for $55 or something since they're on clearance. Woot! The con is that now I am freaking out that my normal awesome salesperson is gone. :(

So...what do I do? I google her. And I found her Facebook. And I messaged her.  Probably went too far. But this girl GOT ME. She got my style, she gave me little pushes to try things on that I never wouldve otherwise and for that I am totally grateful.

Ill miss you A.H.!

STACY & CLINTON ARE BACK!

Two shows into the season.... I really liked the first one with Mindy Cohn, and found it particularly  refreshing that she refused to use their funds for this event and paid for it herself. She seems very well-adjusted and is amazingly well-educated.  She looked great, and I was impressed with how open and understanding she was about all of it--she really actually was interested in everything they were showing her.

The last one that was on, Wanda maybe? was also fascinating. A family therapist who grew up a Menninite. She really had a hard time grasping and accepting that she's a woman. But DAMN was she a babe!

Private Practice from Thursday Nov 4! OMG!

I finally got to watch this episode on Saturday and I was completely blown away.  I do have a bit of a beef with how Shonda Rhimes manages to slack ass horribly on one storyline for one show but then the other gets fucking amazingly awesome. This episode was very graphic and very violent but it was definitely an episode that I hope will raise a little awareness.  I have a huge personal issue with how many women who are raped refuse to report it because it's embarrassing.  I cannot begin to imagine how a person who was raped feels.  But they did an incredible job with this portrayal.

I unfortunately see this storyline being the end of Cooper and Charlotte because I think her keeping this away from him, and everyone, will eat her alive, and he already has issues with her keeping things from him.  If ANYONE should have been told about this, Violet.

And yes, dear, I realize this is a TV show and therefore not real.