Busy week this week, but I wanted to wish you all a very, very Happy Holidays!! Thanks very much for all of your support over the last year and here’s to a wonderful 2011!!! Blessings and Love, -Vanessa

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Get ready, because the most annoying word of 2010 has been revealed!!! Wait for it… Wait for it… It’s “whatever.” Apparently, it’s winning for the second year in a row. I understand that the context of the word can be annoying. There have been many a time I’ve heard this word uttered as a retort [...]

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I saw “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” part 1 this weekend. Wow, is all I can say. It was amazing. Not only in how it interpreted the book, but also just as a film unto itself. Beautifully directed, edited, music was great. It was the kind of movie where it doesn’t hurt quite so [...]

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They call Orlando, Florida “The City Beautiful,” but there’s nothing beautiful about waking up at a bus stop at 4 A.M. not knowing how you got there and clutching a grocery bag containing nothing other than eight jars of tikka masala sauce. Eight jars? Why eight? Hell, why tikka masala? I mean, I like Indian [...]

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GalleyCat posted a list of the best novels of this year. Check it out here. It’s a pretty cool list because they also include an excerpt of each book. So, if like me, you are behind the times and apparently haven’t read anything that came out THIS year, you can get a quick taste then [...]

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