Wicked Smart Women Know When to Call It Quits

UPDATE ON MARCH 24, 2008: THIS BLOG STILL GETS 30-40 HITS A DAY WITH NO NEW CONTENT. MY REGULAR PERSONAL BLOG GETS ABOUT OH, 5. WOW, SEX REALLY SELLS.

I haven’t written on here in a while because a) I’ve been insanely busy and b) this blog has taken a direction I did not intend. I wrote of boob jobs, safe sex and sexy Halloween costumes and now the entire audience seems to be pimply-faced teen age boys looking for naked women with boob jobs. That is not the audience I intended to attract.

It’s a shame, really, because I liked this blog concept. Perhaps I’ll pick it up again in a few months with a different tone. For now, I am taking a break from it. Just look at the search terms that have led others here, according to Word Press:

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2008-02-01

Today

Search	Views
sexy woman appie	2
smart boob girls	1
Boob growth + college	1
sexy working women	1
big sexy women	1
link:http://www.sittercity.com/?	1
why do I like looking at boobs	1
sexy female boss	1

Yesterday

Search	Views
“to live or maybe not”	3
Wicked women	2
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fatty cigar	2
business women with boob jobs	1
pictures of the female boss	1
crazy people	1
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how to find a beater car	1
rambo movie statistics “shirtless kills”	1
posrank	1
bay smart boobs	1

2008-01-30

Search	Views
wicked smart tshirts	2
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women lokking at other women boobs	1

2008-01-29

Search	Views
pics of great boob jobs	2
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beater car	2
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Good Taste Woman	1
crazy people	1
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2008-01-28

Search	Views
wicked lingere	2
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Smart Working Women	1
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sexy woman at desk	1

2008-01-27

Search	Views
smart woman	2
wicked woman	2
sexy smart women	2
great boob jobs photos	2
Vicky Office Girl	1
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sexy women working	1
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women boobs after boobs job. com	1
good looing boob jobs	1

2008-01-26

Search	Views
clothes “wicked”	2
smart sexy women	1
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crazy people	1
wicked smart	1
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women’s halloween costume	1
wicked lingerie	1
how to dress for your body type	1

A) I told you there’s a boob obsession and

B) Just - ick.

Do Wicked Smart Women Get Boob Jobs?

Out at dinner this weekend, my husband and I were with a good “couple friends” and the conversation turned to breasts. This happens a lot – usually around “boob o’clock,” as my friends say, which is apparently around 11 p.m. or the third glass of wine, whichever comes first.

The reason this topic comes up a lot is, well, first of all – boobs are everywhere, all the time. Women hang them out these days during everything from a business meeting to Saturday shopping with the kids. And trust me, if I had them, I would hang them out, too.

So back to our conversation – I’m not really sure exactly how it came about but we started discussing my deep, not-so-secret desire for a more ample bosom and the conversation turned to plastic surgery. My friends are of the “why not if it makes you happy” line while my husband is “I don’t think it will really make you happy” and “why do you need other men to look at you” school of thought.

We have a lot of back and forths on this subject – often and, while I joke – too much – about getting the surgery, deep down I think my husband is right. I would love – love – love to have some cleavage but in my heart I can’t figure out why. As the male-half of our couple friend said,

“If it makes you happy, do it – I just don’t understand why you need them. You are a successful, smart and good looking woman, who cares about boobs?”

To which I said,

“YOU guys do… all the time, everywhere, you are always talking about them, looking at them (online and off) and obsessing over them.” Case in point – from Twitter today.

But you know what – he’s right – and so is my husband. Deep down I hate myself for not loving myself more the way I am. Who cares about bigger boobs? What do I care that men obsess over them? Why do I have this underlying desire for getting them? Will they enhance my life? Will they make me more confident and happy?

The honest truth is I don’t know. I have a full life – successful career, motherhood, health, family, friends, etc. So why does my chest size matter??

What do you think – do Wicked Smart Women get boob jobs?

Wicked Smart Thought of the Day – What the Hell is Wrong with People

I have to say the terms that people use to find my blog are starting to freak me out a bit. I don’t think I’ve written about anything too obscene here but I have used the words sex (as in “safe”) and I did post a photo of sexy Halloween costumes and used the word “whore wear” or something to that effect…. soooo apparently those things combined have brought out all the freaks to WSW blog. Here are some examples of the search terms folks have used to end up at my blog:

whore costume

sexy female boss

trailers sexy woman end dog (ummm…what??)

are smart women crazy (we’re all crazy, darling)

women college costume parties

sexy feet women (just…ewww)

Looks like I better start blogging about something just a wee bit more Wicked Smart.

Are Holiday Cards Wicked Smart?

I am working diligently on my holiday cards – hoping to get them out before the New Year hits (unlike last year). As more and more arrive in my mailbox, I always wonder – where are all of these people all year?

In the day and age of Twitter, Facebook, Eons, MySpace, Flickr and an abundance of other social networking communications, why do I still receive a random, once-a-year update from relatives that I don’t really know and friends I haven’t seen since high school? Not that I don’t appreciate the cards and love hearing about people’s lives, but … it makes me wonder, what is the point of holiday cards? If you really cared about me, couldn’t you connect with me all year long electronically? Is an email or Twitter “follow” considered more impersonal than a once-a-year card?

The ones that really crack me up are the narcissistic, one-sided holiday letters that arrive with some of the cards. Usually these are of two categories:

1) Completely one-sided, only the “great things” that happened all year like new kids/jobs/houses/cars, etc.

2) TMI – too much information about the less-than-pleasant happenings in life such as gall bladder surgery or Aunt Edna’s bankruptcy.

It seems strange to me in this day and age that – unless you’re 70 or older – people don’t make more of a commitment to stay in touch on a regular basis with family and “friends.” It makes me think that holiday cards from cousins who don’t really know me are one sided ways to show off. If you really wanted to keep in touch or even get to know me a bit better, you could easily do so by connecting with me over email or – even easier – on the aforementioned social networks. It makes me think that the not-so-personal “friends” I have on Facebook (i.e., those who “friend” me even though we’ve never met) might just know me better than the cousins with whom I used to share matching PJs as we grew up together.

Perhaps holiday cards should just be reserved for business – it’s a cordial, intelligent gesture to say “Happy New Year” and “Thanks” to those with whom we conduct not-too-personal parts of our life. But to do so to friends and family – and only that – seems a bit cold and shallow.

What do you think?

I Promised To Help Manessa – Save Girls From Predators

No jokes or wicked comments today – but I promised my Twitter friend Chris I would try to help. Please read this entry, link to it, tell others and help find this young lady who may be with her 37-year-old “boyfriend” – her family is worried sick and Kevin Childs, if the allegations are true, needs to be locked up.

Please help get Manessa back and protect other girls.

From the above site – How to Help:

We’re reaching out to everyone we can. There are several things we hope will help.

1. We don’t know if she has access to a computer. If she’s not being held against her will and does have access, we’re expecting she will try to reach her friends by logging into her mySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/prettygirl224. If you are a mySpace user, please leave her a message that let’s her know that she is loved and appreciated, that her life still has great value and potential and that she should return home.

• Update – As of December 2nd, Manessa still hasn’t accessed her mySpace account since November 17th, and all comments are moderated by her. This means that nothing is getting through. A colleague and friend, Chris Penn, created a new myspace page where a number of her friends have come to join and show their support at http://myspace.com/savemanessa

2. Leave her a comment on this website in the ‘friends’ or ‘others’ section. Let her know she’s loved and appreciated. Let her know what it was like when YOU were 16, and what you think of what she’s doing, and encourage her to figure life out while with people who really love her.

3. Please Digg this story. We’re trying to get it in front of as many people as we can as quickly as we can. We need people to see this so they can start keeping an eye open for the two of them.

4. If you are a friend and know something, PLEASE SPEAK UP. She apparently isn’t living whatever dream she was running to. Her best friends haven’t seen her for weeks. There are a number of ways to get information to those who need it.

• Email us at savemanessa@gmail.com
• or call the hotline in the US – 860-906-7398.
• In Florida, contact the Hernando County Sherrif’s department @ 352.754.6830. The Detective handling this case is Det. Randy Williamson.
• In Bristol, contact the Bristol Police Department @ 860.584.3011. The Officer handling this case is Officer Scott Thomas.

5. The Donovans (Mom & all 3 sisters) run a family operated business which, as of Saturday, Dec. 3 are closed for business. Since the whole clan is in CT, no one to mind the shop. They are accepting donations on their business website.

Wicked Smart Women Insist on Safe Sex

Early this morning, USA Today published an article about the continuing epidemic of AIDS. Did you know that “an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV. In 2007, 2.5 million have become infected, and 2.1 million have died of AIDS, according to a United Nations report released last week.” And, that “the rate of HIV/AIDS diagnoses for black women is 20 times the rate for white women.”

W-O-W. Parents, talk to your teens. Put condoms in a bowl by the car keys. Don’t be naive. Single adults – wear condoms and be choosy about how many partners you have. Married adults – be faithful and if you aren’t WEAR CONDOMS.

Everyone – support World AIDS Day on Saturday, December 1. Fight the fight – it affects us all.

Wicked Smart Ways to Avoid Cancer

I’m happy to report that my father just got a clean bill of health after battling prostate cancer. It’s made me think – as these situations always do – that you just never know what’s coming. And as I get older – sadly – I’ve got to get smarter about my health. I’ve always been healthy, naturally thin and pretty good about not eating too much junk (although having children in the house definitely makes that harder), but I could be much, much better.

Self Magazine outlines a few tips on what to eat, do (and not do) to prevent cancer

Berries and fruits, fine. But damn if alcohol doesn’t increase just about every type of cancer there is! And of course we are all supposed to exercise more. Too bad lifting a glass of red wine doesn’t count.

Wicked Smart Thought for the Day – DIY

Some things in life are not meant to be outsourced. The Boston Globe had an article about people outsourcing the holiday decorating of their homes. Really? Life is so hectic that you even outsource the small pleasures?

Whatever happened to the Christmas Vacation-like adventure of climbing up on your own rooftop to precariously perch all those lovely lights!?!

Wicked Tee

One of my Twitter friends sent me this URL to The Despair Inc. blog and I couldn’t help but laugh – and post it – when I saw the tshirt featured today:

Wicked Smart Sick Woman

 

I recently read an excerpt from Amy Silverstein’s Sick Girl, a new book about the harsher realities of post-transplant life.

 

 

Just when you think you are having a bad day, a book like this comes along and smacks you right back into reality. Ms. Silverstein’s harrowing account of her experiences as a heart transplant patient – at the still-innocent age of 25 – is good reminder to count your blessings. She describes painful after painful procedure and what it feels like to walk around with someone else’s heart in your chest – most notably how the brain works with the never-to-be-connected again nerve endings. She brilliantly – and painfully – outlines her body’s reaction to “the war of chemicals” she must take like clockwork no matter what she’s doing – even the celebration of her wedding must be paused for consumption.

Ms. Silverstein talks about what it’s like to forever walk around with the label of “sick girl” and how her entire life is shaped around this experience. But perhaps most surprising – to those of us who would imagine being a transplant recipient is a good thing – is how she describes a life full of “sick-girl kind of exhaustion.” The kind of exhaustion that makes you want to take your own life:

“There is no point at which, statistically speaking, a heart-transplant patient is on safer ground, because from the moment a donor heart begins to beat in a foreign chest, the immune system begins to destroy it.”

I can’t imagine living life that way. But Amy, keep living it. Stay strong – we’re glad “you’ll try” and that you’re here to share your experiences.

For more, read more reviews, the excerpt from US News & World Report or buy the book.