To resolve

This picture really has nothing to do with the post, just really like it cause it makes me smile. Another year and the Christmas tree is down. I of course have all the usual resolutions, watch my health, lose weight, blah blah blah. But this year has been pretty bad. Lots of selfishness on my part. So my basic resolution is to just slough this year off and start over with my beautiful family. (Oh and to try not to demand the doctor pull the baby out sooner then its supposed to be!)

Anna Mae Wong

Anna Mae Wong was born in 1905. Her parents were poor immigrants in San Fransisco who lived above a laundry and had 7 other children.

She starred in the first ever technicolor film when she was a teenager. She battled racism her entire career. The movie "Crimson City" was written specifically for her, but was instead given to Myrna Loy (from Montana)

Her most well known role was in Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich. She was paid 6,000$, while Dietrich was paid 78,000. But critics say that Wong stole the movie and was the best part of it.

One of her biggest career disappointments was being passed up for a role in Pearl S. Bucks "The Good Earth" The role was given to an Australian actress.

She even faced racism in her own country, when she went to visit she was pelted with rocks, because they saw her as an interloper.

During WWII she worked tirelessly for the USO and for Chinese war relief.

She dies in 1962 at the age of 56.

Just a couple of interesting information and some stunning pictures.

This is my husband's favorite silent film star (even before Clara Bow) so this is dedicated to him.

Biographies

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

The other night they were doing "Great Women" biographies on the Biography channel. And I got to watch the one on Taylor and Leigh. Since I'm lame i fell asleep before Sophia Loren and the rest. But I am really interested in looking into more biographies, even if their lives weren't all that interesting the pictures have to be fabulous. It makes me want to be a lady like them. That'll take a lot of work though! Let me know if you have any suggestions for books.

15 things that change when you become a mom.

1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.
3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.
4. You respect your body ... finally.
5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way.
6. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.
7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.
8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.9. Your heart breaks much more easily.1
0. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.
11. Every day is a surprise.
12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)
13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
14. You become a morning person.
15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.

by Rebecca Woolf contributor for ivillage.com

Mine certainly don't look this nice when I pincurl.

These just made me smile.

This is what married life is like.
This made me think of pea.

Rose Mcgowan looking pinupy and fabulous of course.

running a race

I have been feeling a little frazzled lately. Just too many things to deal with. Stress from the stupid doctors, general tiredness. I can't seem to get past the past. I honestly don't think I should totally, I need to hold on to it to remind myself what is the worst, so I can look forward to the best. Luckily I'm pregnant and can't indulge in any unhealthy coping skills. Even more luckily I have the best husband, who is my rock.

I am attempting to knit some socks. Been having to unravel...a lot! Really want a sewing machine. That's all she wrote. Eating some really unhealthy chips and dip. Maybe I can indulge in unhealthy coping skills. Yeah for eating your feelings.

Synonym for want

In "gash" for the vintage red lips. And so I won't have old lady lines

all from sephora.com, again.

Diabeetus

I have type 2 diabetes. I got gestational diabetes with my first baby and just got to keep it. Lucky me! So now I am pregnant again, and so this makes me "high risk." If I don't control it, it can cause heart defects and all kinds of terrible things for the baby. When babies are in their mommies bellies, there bodies regulate there insulin by what there mommies sugars are. And then once the umbilical cord is cut, it starts regulating its own blood sugar. So if when the baby is born my sugar is 400, her poor little body will have the amount of insulin for an adult with high sugar in her blood stream instead of just enough for her, so she may go into sugar shock. Obviously a bad thing. I know these things, and I do my very best to keep it regulated. Unfortunately my insurance doesn't cover my Dr's visits for it or my medicine, so it has made it ten times harder to make sure I have the proper care. My awesome endocrinologist (blood Dr) has decided that I am not trying hard enough and fired me as a patient. I was fired by someone I was paying for a service. They didn't bother to tell me this until I show up for my appointment. They sent me a certified letter a month ago that I never received, and I have seen them twice since then. So I feel like the way they did it was pretty shady. I am not terribly heartbroken because I dreaded going to this Dr. They always talked to me like I was stupid or didn't give a shit. I always felt like a bad child when I went. But my Ob's nurse also likes to talk to me like I'm an idiot as well, and now I need another referral. I had to finally tell her that lecturing me is not what I need, what I need is a referral and to do that and shut up! I said it nicer then that but I am so tired of people treating me like an idiot. I only have six weeks, so I would have seen the blood Dr. only twice more, but now I have to start over with a whole new Dr. I just want to have the baby already and have my two months of time with no Drs. Just Roberto, Sweet Pea, Nina and Bliss. I have a headache just thinking about it.

Things I need

All from sephora.com

Flip your Wigg

I love her, I think she's hilarious and one of the best parts of a lot of movies, even thought she only has a small part. And she's hot too!

No interest in meet whatsoever.

Reading Wuthering Heights right now. I'm sorry I just don't get it.

Had a little bit of a sad day. Just silly girl stuff and silly pregnant hormones. But I feel better now. Using my coping skills (aka tumblr)

Every Inch A Star

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I have decided that when I am a star

I will be every inch and every moment a star-Gloria Swanson

How do you want to act?