Do you have plans for Valentine's Day? Let me know what you're doing. You know you don't have to have a lot of money, to have a nice time. You could buy one rose, and take your honey to the all-you-can eat, ten dollar buffet. It really won't matter, don't let hard times stop you. Do you know wear I can get a little flirty red dress, for valentines? Something in good taste. In Sacramento, California, they are having a red carpet, event similiar to the one in Hollywood. If you weren't invited to LA, don't know any stars, you can check that one out. I hear they will be plugged into the real one, and sometimes the camera will do shots of the one in Sacramento. It will be like a remote location, in case you and your honey want to glam it up, for Valentine's. I think that one is the 16th, of Feburary, go online and check it out.

I plan to be at a writers' confrence in San Francisco, and another event I was invited to. I will come back with some fresh urban stories, and colorful images to make you smile.


Plese enjoy Valentine's with someone special
and your family!

Take care--chow, rixxie
 

Hi, by now you have overdosed on looking at the Ugly Christmas Sweater, I posted in my portfoli! Bright and shiny isn't it, real Christmasy-too Christmasy. I will be posting, photos and pictures of my characters,for this blog in my portfolio. Some of the characters, I've created stories around will magically appear.

I had considered writing some stories, about moivie and books I've read. They would be, things that never happened. It would be like the chapter, that was never written. When I saw The Pursuit of Happyness, with Will Smith, I started getting ideas. What if you did a story about, the guy that wastrying to get in the bathroom. It's the scene wear Will, playing Chris Gardner, seeks refuge in a bus station bathroom. The guy tha came knocking on the door frantically trying to get in. You could create a fictional character, perhaps your character was going to do something he'd regret. He heard the man inside,perhaps with two little kids. It made him,reconsider and he instead went home to his wife and kids. It would be that kind of story, not reality, but inspired by similiar events.


I'll have some more wacky images, of monster cabbages, cool fictional spunky people and the like.


Talk to you soon-be chilled, rixxie
 

Hi!!! Yes, I've eaten my share of holiday foods, and tricked myself into a diet. I told myself, I'd lose twenty pounds, by valentines. I guess I could, if I could leave those scrumptous, mega chocolate bars alone! They have all the names that make you want them: Intense Dark Delectable Chocolate Fantasy Bar, Chocolate Deluxe- Orange Liquor Bar. I went in the grocery store, the other day, and they were b0-thering ME. I brought my old self out, with just one, and m-m-m-m-m, munching all the way home. A little hint DONOT eat these on the street ladies! You can get a string a men following you around! Then on the other hand, if your social life is slow, stock up on them!! My new mantra is: "Y-u-u-um-m-m!"


How was Christmas, did Santa get you what you wated-he didn't slacker,buy yourself. And now we have the sales. You know you get to be middle-age before you figure common sense things out sometimes. If you're not going to see certain people, until Janurary, wait and buy their gifts during the after-Christmas sales! They won't know it! A guy was broke, and he worried about Christmas and going over his parents' house. I told him just pick up a bottle of wine, tell them you fix you a plate please, you hae to work Christmas. You drop it off and invite them over YOUR house on the 27th. They won't care usually, I think he actually signed up to work, then he had a real execuse. It's nice just to be around family, it doesn't feel the same, if I can't have Christmas my actual family. I feel at a lost. I hope you had a wonderful one. And I'll let you know how the Ugly Christmas sweater contest is coming. They can be store-bought, you had for a while or one you created like me. Thrifttown.com, deadline for entering theirs' is Janurary 15, 2012, good luck! Mine will be the bright red one with the Large Santa with goo-goo eyes!

Take care-Happy New Year make and Keep some resolutions 2012!!

see-ya, rixxie
 

Hi! I've just been shopping online for UGLY Christmas sweaters. It's the new holiday craze. I'm looking for a really, really gross one, so I can win the prize! Office parties, are holding The Ugliest Christmas Sweater Contest, I couldn't imagine wearing them. They look like a sign of mental illness. You can find, hundreds, for your Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. Go online to find your ugly treasure: www.thesweaterstore.com and www.rustyzipper.com. If you can stand looking at hundreds of trees, big as you and snowmen that wink, and of course Rudolf with the blinking red nose! I'm going to put mine together myself from several ugly sweaters, and Christmas trash! I'm going to keep you posted, I feel as though I'm going to win! I'll try to post a picture of my little gem. Hey, I'm interested in starting, The Soulful Bell Bangers. You've seen those guys rings bells in tune to Christmas songs? I want to do the soulful version, of that. If you're interested or you have a picture of you in a REALLY ugly sweater, let me know. I'll post it on one of my blogs. You can contact me at: rixxie@writing.com. You can see MY Ugly christmas sweater, going to my portfolio--brace yourself! It's funny!! I did a lot of sewing and gluing on that-don't make fun!!!

Ho-ho-ho-Merry Ugly Christmas Sweater season to you & yours

take care, rixxie

Hi! I've been working on my ugly Christmas Sweater. The prizes this year are big! I've entered mine in several! You can go online to the Sweaterstore.com, and find some so ugly they'll blind you! How's your Christmas shaping up? Give me some of your ideas for saving money. I'll be updating my blog three times a week, and they'll be some new stories of course. Tell me what YOUR doing for the holidays. What do you put in your eggnog? Some say they have a slammin' non-alcohol version. I'll share your name and recipe with everybody. I'll post again before Christmas.

Be safe, take care rixxie
 

Hi! How's everything so far? Now don't panic it's only he first day of December! You have a million possibilities ahead of you. You losy your job and here it is the holidays? You can open an account on Ebay and Amazon.com it's easy. You can sell some of those old jeans in good condition, wash 'em , and there you are. You a little behind in the mortgage, you could think about selling more things, moonlighting at a fastfood place. The managers make good money. I once new a guy who, was in business,lost his job. He applied to be a mnager at Jack-in-the-Box, made a little more than he id at his last job.

You know if you have a big back yard, you could start a large garden and sell at the farmer's market. I plan to buy a small house soon, and grow a variety of roses citrus. I knew this unemployed neighbor who made, a living from selling things out of his garden, and moving eolpe. The skys' the limit! Take a new class, community colleges are wonderful, most of them. They have job workshop classes. You work on your resume' go on interiviews, all kinds of things. You could volunteer in your field, it keeps your resume' fresh.

If you're real creative this year won't be a bust. You and your friends and family can have a gift party. It's potluck style, you bring the new toys your kids don't want, or outgrew. The same with clothes

take care--talk to you later,
rixxie
 

Hi! I'd like to take this time to wish you, joy in the beginning of the holiday season. I hope you will take time, to do one diffrent thing. Send a special note to a love one, far away. You could pick up the phone and and speak to a loved one, you lost contact with. You have a headstart on 2012. You could make it the same ol' same ol', or you can change things round in your life. When you change things about your life, things around you change.
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I was thinking about the tech age, how it might change lonely peoples' life. I remember dorky guys, from years ago, who couldn't egt a girl. They would have their cousin, pose in a jacket of their with her back turn. They would be getting into his little car. She might be, cute thin with a ponytail, freckles. He'd find girls that looked like that. He'd stand next to them in restraunts, get a dweeve friend to take a picture of them. He'd have all these pictures and none of them were the same girl He'd even fake phone conversations.
I could imagine a dweeve, telling friends he has a girl. Her name is, "iphonia appl". He probably gets on his iphone asks it things, ask it where a place to eat is, all kinds of things. He asks it to tell him about a good book. He gets on the ebook appl., and says: "Read it to me baby". Somebody standing by, thinks he's got somebody, ha-ha-ha-ha! The electronia age is too-much, I hate to think about certain devices in te hands of dorks.

You take care, rixxie

Have you decided how much you're going to eat this Thanksgiving, and where? I decided three days ago to go on a diet. I know, who am I kidding. It is surprizing to me I'm sticking to it. I was frustrated because most of my pants, don't fit anymore. It's always the jeans fault, right? They went and shrunk on you, they're defective. It was ways the jeans. I found out one thing though, the cancellation sweets method DOES NOT work! It's when I eat a BOX, of slim bars, and a drink a diet Coke, one cancels the other out. I was keeping food diary, until it got mor laughs than my jokes. It reads like a comic book:

"Tueday morning, one boiled egg, half bowl of oatmeal cup of juice
Tuesday afternoon, lunch, one slice turkey on one piece wheat bread, lentil soup
Snacks, two twix bars, one twinkie, one snickers, one jumbo deli burrito, red soda
Dinner, baked chicken, cup spinach, cup brown rice, onr slice wheat bread
Snacks, big grab bag of barbecue potatoe chips, Reese peanut butter cups, Oreos.....

Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

take care rixxie

 

Hi! I'm back I'm a little under the weather. I didn't get the first lady costume again. I settled for the "leopard lady". It's cute and sassy. I was going to help lead a dance on my camous for halloween. I'm real square, it wouldn't have been any real dirty dancing or nasty costumes. That creeps me out. What did you go as? I was reading on the internet, that the newly wedded princess costume, was hot. They would probably win the contest. Thunder Valley casino in Lincoln, CA. had a ten thousand dollar contest. I didn't make it. I saw that tranformer costumes, monsters, celebrity costumes, and pregnant Beyonce', (okay?), was real hot. If you want to know what was happening Halloween, check out Yahoo, and cick on Shine. You'll get all the gossip and costume dirt.

I remember the Exotic Erotic Ball, in San Francisco, people said they wore REAL dirty costumes there. The prize money was big. A guy I knew told me about it. You know if something makes a grown man blush it must be dirty! What's the funniest costume you ever wore? This guy went as a crazy business man. He had on a nice black jacket, and nice black pacts that were WAY up his leg. He wore black and white keds, and carried a briedcase with pappers sticking all out. The witty conversations he was having with himself was the real laugh!

I just produced my new calendar for 2012. It is called; Urban Tales Stories collection, Calendar/book. It's my new creation, a calendar that features lines from my stories and my art. You can get one at; www.zazzle.com/Qmarpat. You click on new products. You find it there , broght red Urban Tales. Thanks so much for your support. Click on and tell me what you wore this Halloween. Don't forget to check out, my other blog at: http://marqar/blogger.com.

take care, talk to you later
rixxie
 

It's October already--Halloween will be here real soon. I love a funky soulful Halloween. I had this dance me and a few friends would do in our costumes in front of one their apartments. We'd either use, Funky-Funky Broadway, from about 1965, or I Heard it Through the Grapevine, by Gladys Knight. I'd like to have a dance maybe, at a college. I would set limits, nothing dirty, no nude costumes or vulgar music. It will be, FUNKY-SPOOKALAA!!! I just made that up-ha-ha-ha! I want you tell me about your costume this year! Just click comment below, or you can email me at: rixxie@writing.com



Don't be too- funky-now-I can dig it!
talk to you later---rixxie
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What are you going to be for Halloween? I had thought of several costumes. I love thrift stores, you can find all kinds of cute and spooky things. I was thinking about going as a Vamp-pire! I'll have to get those pointy scary teeth, a sexy dress and a wild wig! I've been organizing a dance for the new college I attend. It would be fun, to show up with costumes, and dance to R&B and and rock music. Could you imagine dressed as a funky vampire and dressing to I Heard it Thrugh the Grapevine, by Galdys Knight and the Pimps?


Take care don't eat too much candy
and I'll talk to you later....
 

I'm really enjoying the sun out here in Northern California. It is oficially fall now, and it still seems like summer. It was so pleasant yesterday, I just wanted to stay outside and soak it up. I cant ake seventy-five degrees, much hotter than that I blister. I talked to a lady who was from Ney York, she said the wheather there was mild and pleasant right now. Get out there and catch some sun, you may end up with some great photos! I was waiting for a bus, one day after a doctors' appointment. I was enjoying the sun and the slight breeze. I took my digital camera out, and shot right through the trees. It's one of my best shots. I was on a run down looking street. The shot made it look like paradise, or an island. Make something good, today try a phot or a poem, about where you are. I turned a lousy day around into somethimg productive without trying. The shot made a really pretty post card and greeting card. You should try something like that, one day.


take care--rixxie
 

What's your favorite place to live? I personally like the Bay Area, but I also like areas of Los Angeles. I haven't been to L.A., visiting in about twenty years. I HATE where I live now, I'm used to diffrent style of people. You get use to people who don't bother you, who can read and write, and pretty much live and let live. I'm in the process of relocating, I would like to meet a whole new set of people I have never seen before. I'm the type of person, that generally considers, people of the past, that I don't wish to be associated with (other than relatives) as, dead. People know, I'm of hat mind set, so when I go to a diffrent area, they know they are part of past. Socialpaths, all the only ones, who don't get you and they don't count. They are in EVERY city unfortunately, maybe they'll eventually kill each other, that would be great.

What's your favorite, why? I had a friend tell me, Oregon, and Arizona, and Huston Texas, and Atlanta, were tops. You know Atlanta, is like a little Hollywood, right now. A lot of stars and athletes, have moved there. Where have you been, what made that city and it's people special. You can click comment, or email me at; rixxie@writing.com.