Thursday, November 25, 2010


Happy Thanksgiving! Worked this morning, Stephen is still there, but I am home preparing for our vacation. We are so excited, our first real vacation since our honeymoon in 2005, we have gone away for 3-4 days, but first real 10 day vacation..

Looking forward to seeing Washington for more than 1 day, and actually staying in the city.. Stephen's birthday is next wee, and we are going to our favorite restaurant "Capital Grille" we have never been to the DC one, looking forward to a wonderful celebration and our time together..

Hope everyone is giving thanks to their friends and family today...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Reality Bite:

We all know I love the Real Housewives on Bravo, but the latest incarnation has a new villain and she is better at playing the victim then Danielle from NJ. If you don't' watch it let me give you a little something about the women.

Kyle and Kim- Sisters actress, Kim was a "HUGE" Child star in the 70's, Think "Return to Witch Mountain" yes Kim Richards. Kyle has a wonderful home life, 4 girls loving husband and she does some work now and then but her family is everything. Kim has children but no husband and what I can see no career, how does she live? On her royalties from being a child star? She is so real full of self doubt, it is kind of sad to watch her, she was (1) of the people I wanted to be when I was a child..

Lisa - British, funny outspoken owns a restaurant and actually works in it, from what I can see has been very successful in the restaurant/nightclub world, which I appreciate very much. I don't really understand Cedric her permanent house guests but I like her, she tells you like it is.

Taylor - her marriage seems to be she is the Trophy wife, and he has no personality but runs her, if he doesn't want her to do something she won't it seems he controls everything and I see no love between the two.

Adrienne- my favorite, she works hard for everything she has, and her husband and her make a good team they bicker, laugh and definitely you can see the love between the (2)..

Camille- Villain or Victim? I see her as the Villain she loves to tell everyone she has (4) Nanny's for her 2 children, she is working on a project for Nickelodeon and she is married to Kelsey Grammer, exactly what does anyone have to be jealous of you for? The fact you are a Trophy Wife, who by the end of the show we know is no longer with Kelsey? Did your project ever get off the ground? Do you still have an abundance of staff? You are ridiculous I have no use for her, except to see her attack Kyle and try to look like she was the victim, you are insecure, you have no life but your ex-husband, your children seem more like and accessory then anything else, 4 nannies why?

The fact that she says she is SOOO busy doing what exactly on the show all we see you do is take 1 meeting for Kelsey, and then on vacation and yell at your staff. I think she can give Danielle a run for her money. At least Danielle really does take care of her girls on her own and includes them in everything she does. Believe me Danielle is not going to get Mother of the Year, but a bit better then Camille.

Project Runway, I am still upset that Gretchen won over Mondo, I wanted him to win so much, I love everything he did, I am sure he will still have a huge Career.

I dont' watch Dancing with the Stars, but who hasn't heard about Bristol Palin in the final 3? I read that people think it is a conspiracy, seriously is that what our elected officials are doing watching the show and voting? Give me a break, maybe more people actually like her, why is it so tough for people to understand? Why does it have to be something wrong, because of who her mom is?

Reality TV has gone so far, there aren't alot of shows on other than them it seems sometimes it gets me down...

Thursday, November 18, 2010


The Husband at Moat Mountain Brewery, being funny, see he goes out with the guys and acts silly.
We love Moat Mountain Smokehouse & Brewery in North Conway, this time it was bonding day with the boys...www.moatmountain.com
They were there doing research for our Beer Dinner on January 14, 2011 here at the Wolfe's Tavern featuring the Beer of Moat Mountain.
Thought this was funny, so sharing...

Wednesday, November 10, 2010



Eastern Point Beach- I love this place, it brings back such great memories, I saw this picture in the New London Day today, thought I would post it...

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

From the Hartford Courant: These case has affected everyone, we are suppose to feel safe in our own homes, if Steven Hayes wants to die, then deny the appeal and get on with it, why should we house and feed you while you linger for years, you didn't give Jennifer, Hayley and Michaela the same courtesy. You are a SCUM!!! I hope in your time alone you relive what you did in your head and get no peace...


NEW HAVEN – — Certain words in the litany of verdicts that sent triple murderer Steven Hayes to death row Monday were reminders of what happened to a woman and her two daughters inside their Cheshire home three years ago.Sexually assaulted. Kidnapped. Murdered.Included in the repetitive recitation of the verdicts by the judge's clerk Monday in Superior Court were the words Dr. William Petit Jr. has said were often missing from three years' worth of court hearings:

Jennifer. Hayley. Michaela.When their names were read Monday, Petit, seated in the courtroom, lifted his head and closed his eyes.After deliberating for nearly 17 hours over four days, a jury of five men and seven women decided that Hayes, 47, a career burglar from Winsted, should be executed for the torture and murders of Petit's wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and their daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela,11, during a home invasion at their Cheshire home on July 23, 2007.Petit was badly beaten with a baseball bat and tied to a pole in the basement. He was able to break free and escape before the fire consumed his home."This is a verdict for justice," Petit said to reporters outside the courthouse. But, he said, upon hearing the jury's decision, "I was really thinking of the tremendous loss … I was sad for the loss we have all suffered."Petit, pausing to choke back tears, said, "Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by her stuffed animals."Petit also talked about his daughter Hayley's bright future and her strength and the many children who his wife, Jennifer, helped.Petit thanked the jury for doing its job, and said, "I appreciate the fact that there was seven women on the jury. This was a case of sexual predation …

I liked to see women stand up for other women." Hawke-Petit was raped during the attack, and Michaela was sexually assaulted, according to testimony."Crimes like this have to be pursued and prosecuted vigorously," he said. "The easy way out is to plead things out." He described how New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington came to his house and said "If any case deserves the death penalty, it's this one. If I don't go for it, there's no reason to have it on the books." Petit said he agreed."In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."In court Monday, Petit shut his eyes and cried quietly as he clutched the hand of Beata Bagi, a victim advocate. Some of the more than two dozen family and friends, most of whom attended court with him daily, also cried and clutched one another as Judge Jon C. Blue's clerk, Edjah Jean-Louis, read the verdicts one by one.Across the room, Hayes, seated at a table with his public defenders, did not appear to react to the six death verdicts. He stared straight ahead toward the judge's bench, rarely looking at the jury or anyone else.The jury decided for death on six capital counts: killing Hawke-Petit and Michaela and Hayley in the course of a single action; killing a child under the age of 16; killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a kidnapping; killing Hayley in the course of a kidnapping; killing Michaela in the course of a kidnapping; and killing Hawke-Petit in the course of a sexual assault.During the penalty phase,

Hayes' lawyers argued that a series of mitigating factors, including Hayes' addiction to drugs, a "significantly impaired" mental state, a troubled family history of abuse, a weak personality and the responsibility they say Hayes has taken for the killings with his offers to plead guilty in exchange for life in prison without release, warranted a life sentence rather than death.But the jury found those mitigating circumstances did not outweigh the aggravating factors: whether Hayes killed Hawke-Petit and her daughters during the commission of, or immediate flight from, the commission of a felony — third-degree burglary — and that Hayes committed the murders in "an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner" and "knowingly created a grave risk of death to another person."

After the verdicts were read, New Haven Public Defender Thomas J. Ullmann shook Hayes'
hand and patted his arm before a judicial marshal led him out of the room.

NEW HAVEN – — Outside the courthouse, Ullmann said Hayes "was thrilled" with the outcome. But he declined to say why he thought Hayes was thrilled and he refused to discuss what he talked about with Hayes. He said Hayes smiled at the verdict."That's what he wanted," he said, adding that Hayes wants to commit "suicide by state" with an execution."He's tried to kill himself before," Ullmann said. "The jury gave him what he wants."

Saturday, November 06, 2010

I am pretty baffled today! Our new "chef" came in this weekend to find a place to live, he is not to start until Nov. 15, he treated everyone as if we were beneath him, wouldn't even acknowledge the staff, and had (1) bite of his dinner and left a $2 tip and walked out.

What is that?

Friday, November 05, 2010

Home from work, relaxing watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. These women crack me up.. They are so into image!!

Tonight out for cocktails and now just waiting for the hubby to come home from work..

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

I hate BRIDZILLAS!! Repercussions from a past bride, give it up...She won't be satisfied until she has my head...


I love this picture, Pelosi Vs. Gibbs. I am so glad that she is no longer the Majority Leader, how will she handle no longer being in charge?

Maybe Gibbs can finally say his real feelings on her. Yesterday, was a historic election. We will see if anything changes in Washington or not, if not guess who is out next?