Talk about hot water

This is a hot mess right here. Two questions: 1. Is that not the coolest looking thing ever? and 2. Who in the heck decided one day to flick his Bic under the kitchen faucet?

Kimkins Bankruptcy Case Dismissed, suit moves forward

So you think you can dance?

From WildAngel at the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit site.

What a wonderful way to start a Saturday morning! We've got great news from John Tiedt and Scott Clarkson today!

The US Bankruptcy Court has DISMISSED the Diaz Case!

A tremendous THANK YOU to both John Tiedt and Scott Clarkson for their determination and perseverence in pursuing this case.

The Bankruptcy was just an obstacle with which Ms. Diaz attempted to slow down the wheels of justice. The obstacle has been removed and the wheels will continue moving. It's not over just yet. There is still much more to be done. Stay tuned. We'll keep you posted of the progress, as we can.

Heidi Diaz is cunning. Aside from tricking Keebler cookies to jump into her mouth, she tried to declare bankrupty, which would have stalled the class action lawsuit indefinitely.

Now that Real Housewife of Stretchy Pants County will have to face the music, and while girl thinks she can dance, even the judges agree: Heidi Diaz might be going home, but only if it's in a set of stripes and to a girl who wants to make her her wife and makes shanks out of Hello Kitty barettes.


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Earth Hour: Some people glow in the dark

Maybe it's just me, but isn't the point of Earth Hour to make a difference by conserving energy? If this is true, why is the official web site encouraging people to blog about their experiences during the event?

I think this is a show that we are too dependent on technology and on the conveniences of modern man to be able to function without an hour of the internet.

Even I'm going to go without Bravo for an hour, honeys! Though we know those Real Housewives of New York City pay people to turn their lights on and off. They own the light. They make the light with their magnificence. Alex looks like she glows in the dark. Girl needs some bronzer.

They shine class. Except for the Countess, who accuses people of having no manners, and she chews like a donkey.

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Erythritol from corn?

Just when you thought erythritol might be made of unicorns frolicking through Robert Pattison's hair...

Erythritol is made from stuff like... ready for this... corn!

Another reason to watch those sugar alcohols. Sure, this one causes supposedly less toidy time, but that's not a reason to embrace it as the new 'it' sweetener.

While made from birch bark in the past, the corn industry has been working its naughty no no magic on erythritol and has for some time.

One product, Now, states :"Erythritol has been part of the human diet for thousands of years due to its presence in foods such as pears, melons, grapes and mushrooms. Now Erythritol is 100% pure and derived from a corn source."

Eww!

What do you think about all of these sugar alcohols coming from corn?


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And you thought corn syrup was only for high carb eating?

Imagine my tall frothy glass of STFU when I discovered what a few sugar alcohols are actually derived from.

Did you put down that low-carb convenience/frankenfood and slap your face yet?

It frustrates the hell out of me.

Don't think for a minute that low-carb convenience foods are necessarily healthy when they can be chemicals manufactured in a plant from stuff you can't even pronounce, honey!

What are you thinking? Should healthy foods come with a laxative threshold? And why are we laughing and rolling our eyes at this when so many the hells of us are ingesting it willingly?

Snow day!

Mmmm.... balmy....

How much snow could a snow chuck chuck if a snow chuck could chuck snow?

About 6" so far, and it's still falling out of the sky like little flakes of cold dandruff from the heavens. so much for Selsun Blue!

I remember as a high schooler living in West Allis, Wisconsin, going out into the snow in a pair of pink moon boots in an era where neon clothing was the fashion and pink moon boots were a part of that fabulousness known as the 80's.

I remember pressing through the resistance against my feet, as snow tried to push me back home again with those freezing wind chill temperatures and promises of more Duran Duran posters smiling at me if I were in my warm and comfortable bed room. (I loved Duran Duran!)

This morning they're calling for 2 feet of snow (see picture above Tree covered in 4 inches).

Now, as my son left the house with my minivan this morning, and I white knuckled insurance policy deductibles in my head, the phone rang; it was a friend of son's who let us know that school in the entire district had been canceled. Of course, oldest son was on his way to school already, with amp and guitar in tow (his band is practicing after school).

It was only when he reached an empty parking lot (save for one car and a gleeful teen yelling, "There's no school!") that you would think his "WOOHOO!" moment might have kicked in? Aw hells naw! He parked as far from the school as he could (even though the lot was empty, he didn't want his friends drawing male reproductives on the window again. Teenaged boys may be funny, but they're lazy. Penis art is reserved for cars near the school.)

He walked about a quarter mile (well, it feels that way) to the school's entrance, packed down with music gear, opened the school's door, and was met by the vice principal. At that point, and knowing that vice principals aren't the kinds of teenaged welps to draw weewees on his vehicle, he turned on his heel, trudged back, a quarter of a mile to my vehicle, and then made the slow drive home.

He burst through the door, his floppy mop of righteous rock star hair flaked with snow, hulking shoulders slumped under the weight of his music gear and announces, loudly, to a house filled with younger, squirmier, snow-day happy children who DID get the message:

"There's no school today!"

Yathink?

So we're expecting plenty more of the white stuff in Denver (no, Lindsay Lolo, not cocaine) and by Saturday we're expecting temperatures in almost the 60's... Colorado springs are so passive-aggressive.

So, while the pink moon boots are a thing of the past (I long ago tossed them because they were sooo Wang Chung), guess what I found at Target a few years ago?

My new pair. I won't spill what they are exactly, but they are pink and they are moon boot-y... The 80's have returned.

Tom Noughton. Stand up low-carber

I know you have never figured this out, but I am a huge fan of intelligence (shut up) plus humor. You put those two things together and you end up with shows like Corner Gas. And Scrubs. And Bravo's Make Me a Super Model (Make a form! Make a form!).

Imagine with me if you will, a night spent with my totally cool (I'm biased) family watching only the best documentary ever (aside from King of Kong--come on, guys. You have to admit that arcade drama and feathered hair wars are to die for) Fat Head.

Now, imagine the very funny--nay-- righteously pour me a tall glass of ell oh fresh ell funny has his. own. blog.

Oh I di'unt?

Oh I DID!

I know right? Tom Noughton is now low-carb Blogging. And dude is FUNNY and smart. I mean, you all know I'm funny (looking), but there are never enough humorous folks out there preaching the word. Word?

So hustle your gorgeous backsides to the home of the Houghton and share a little of that love with our man. Encourage him to stick around and do his thing the way a man who uses disdain when speaking of "whole grain buns" (shudder).

Tom Noughton is Righteously Funny and he doesn't have a mullet (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Contest Winners! Yay!

Your prizes are being mailed today and should arrive sometime this week!

Congratulations to the following rockin' readers:

Fathead winner: Nicole M.
Good Calories, Bad Calories winner: Patti M.
Fitness After 40 winner: Lydia R.
Slow Burn winner: Marcia B.
Fit Kids, Healthy Kids winner: Amy D.
Fasting, Detoxing book winner: Shannon S.
PureVia winners: Darlene N. & Martha G.
Coffee and Tea Sampler Winner: Patricia J.
Chili's Coupon winners: Brenda S., Maria S., Robin L., Elizabeth H., & Barbara B.


Thanks so much to the companies and PR folks who have, over time, sent along these items to review and to give to readers. I appreciate that you believe in the 'Pay it Forward' concept as much as I do. When companies send me items, I pass them along to you guys. To me, it's a small way of thanking them...and saying, "Yo. Thanks," to you, too.

Thanks so much to you readers out there, who put up with a girlie who is sick for weeks at a time with mysterious flu illnesses. If there's anyone who has friends to hold her hair back, she'd be me!

All emails with personal information have been deleted and sent to cyberspace! Thanks so much for entering!

Final days to enter the drawing for freebies: Contest over. No more entries please!

Hey there mr and miss thangs!

Don't forget to get your bad selves over to your email enter for free stuff I need to get out of my house.

The drawing is Monday morning, 3/16/2009 at 7:01 am, so don't be all wisehiney and enter at 8 because cleochatra is having none of that, honeys.

I'm mailing the prizes out by lunch time, so winners should have happiness in your hot little hands sometime next week.

Just as a prize reminder to those of you who have been waiting to enter:

Books
Good Calories, Bad Calories, by Gary Taubes

Fit Kids, Healthy Kids, by Fred Hahn

Slow Burn, by Fred Hahn

Fitness After 40, by Vonda Wright, M.D.

Juicing, Fasting, Detoxing for Life, by Cherie Calbom, MS

Cooks

2- PureVia sweetner boxes (40 packets per box)

Starbucks Coffee and Tazo tea sampler pack (not with Purevia! Sorry! Still the nom)

5- $10 Chili's Coupons

Looks

Fathead, the movie


You can enter up to two times for two distinct prizes. Make sure to list the prize you want when you email, along with your home address, because these fabulousnesses are being shipped out within a couple o hours after names are drawn!

I am cleaning my low-carb house of tricks, sisters and brothers, so make sure you enter if you want a piece of this righteous action.

Who doesn't want free food, entertainment and books? A Disco Hip Bump to sponsors who have generously given these prizes.