(Really) Guilty Pleasure

Most of my good friends know about my obsession with Who’s the Boss.  It was my favorite TV show growing up and I adored Angela Bauer.  So much so in fact, that I wrote my college entrance essay on how I grew up idolizing not Madonna or Punky Brewster but Angela Bauer.  I wanted to be a successful, high powered Advertising Executive.  It’s interesting that I ended up working with people like Angela in my...

Jewelry Organizer

After seeing the jewelry organizer in my friend Jillian's new apartment, I became wildly jealous and had to go buy one immediately. For the last several years I have been keeping my jewelry in boxes in a dresser drawer.  The result has been tangled necklaces and earrings hidden somewhere and long ago forgotten.  It was time to get organized and make better use of my collection. My dream is to someday have an...

Wax on, Wax off

Rating:  Use at your own risk As part of my new lifestyle as a housewife, I need to cut back on miscellaneous expenses.  One of the ways have been doing that is to increase the amount of time between my pedicures (monthly instead of bi-weekly) and give myself my own manicures.  (Pedicures should never be self-administered in my book.  Leave it to the professionals).  Along with these aesthetic cutbacks, I...

Haute Dog

I recently discovered Cloud Star Buddy Wash as a new shampoo for Figaro.  I bought the Lavender and Mint scent and damn does he smell scrumptious!  I wanted to eat him up! After the bath, Fig performed his usual post bath ritual of self drying: It looks like Cloud Star has several other products (all natural – which is very important to me!) that I’d like to try for a later Haute Dog post.  I...