Monday Man-Off: LOTR Style

For those of you that know what LOTR stands for we should be best friends. If you don't it stands for Lord of the Rings. Today's Monday Man-Off is featuring my inner turmoil between which of these two beautiful actors is more gorgeous. It's a toughie!!

Last weeks winner in the contest between Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper was no surprise Ryan!! I didn't even have to cheat and make him win.

So now for this weeks men!!!

Orlando Bloom VS. Viggo Mortensen 

Orlando Bloom:

First up Orlando, my teenage heart throb. I was so obsessed with him when I was younger. He has that youthful look about it that is just so yummy. No matter what role he is playing I adore this guy. 

Viggo Mortensen:

Viggo has always been one of my mothers favorites. he definitely has that rugged mountain man look to him. He's the type of guy that could pick you up and carry you to his cabin where you would live happily ever after. Ok maybe that's an exaggeration but I could totally see that happening. 

So who do you love more?? I truly cannot decide I love them both so much for different reasons. But I love all gorgeous men, surprising I know! 

Spring Fling: It's Like High School But Without the Rejection

Spring has sprung and that means that it is time for another link up! I am so excited to be participating in this Spring Fling. This is my very first link party!!!

Up until a few months ago I didn't have a clue what a link up party so if you haven't heard of them before this is the basic concept. On April 2nd have your spring related post ready and you will link it up to one of the link-up hosting blogs (you just have to link to one it shows up on all of them) and other people participating in the link up can check out your post and connect to your blog.

The purpose to help you get your blog out there and hopefully find some new blogs that you can love! Plus there will be some awesome give-aways going on that are definitely worth checking out. 

So grab a link-up button and post it on your blog to spread the word about our Spring Fling (Without the Rejection). The more blogs the merrier!!

Here's a list of the other lovely ladies participating:

Pineapple Lily
Feeding My Temple
Behind the Scenes
Brittney's Orr-dinary Life
Pish Posh Couture
Digging Deeper

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I hope you will join us!!

My Spunky Spring Break & Other Adventures

First of all I want to apologize for going totally MIA on you all. But no I haven't broken both my hands I've been super busy on spring break doing all sorts of fun things that I'm excited to share with you all now!! As I know all of you would agree while blogging is a big part of my life FAMILY comes first and I wanted to cherish and maximize all the time I got to spend with my wonderful one, so here we go.


New Puppy!!


My baby sister (Not a baby anymore she's 19) has gotten a dog to live with her at her soon to be her own apartment!! It's incredible to think she's grown up enough for all that. But while I was home I got to spend lots of bonding time with the new pup.

Her name is Phoebe!! Yes, like Phoebe Buffay from Friends :) 

Me, Phoebe, and the sister

Her wonderful parents.

While she is like the cutest dog on the planet she is only a puppy and about 2 months old so she is going to be HUGE and she is already a handful running around chewing on everything. I'll be happy to be her aunt and get to visit but not take care of her everyday like my poor sis. 

In case you were curious we believe she is a Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog, but she was a rescue so we aren't completely sure.

New Tattoo!!

My sister and I also spent part of our break down in Eureka Springs, AR. If you haven't been there before it's a great little get-a-way town full of music, art, and quaint bed and breakfasts. They also have some really great tattoo artists which is why I make the drive down there to get my new one done. 

We got matching tattoo's that say Soeurs which is French for sisters and honors our french heritage and our sister bond! You'll notice after mine there is a rose which is my sisters middle name. Since my middle name is Kiah there isn't really an object to go with that so we just picked a bird/dove to represent me since I have always been the peace maker of the family. 

Here is mine and yes it did hurt on the ribs but I'm tough!

This is the sis's. 

While tattoo's aren't for everyone and I totally respect that I think they are beautiful ways to express your personality and things that you cherish. If you are thinking about getting one I'll tell you the best advice I got before I got my first one:

Pick something that will never change for you. My first is a lotus flower that says Love Yourself around it (that should never change!) and obviously I will always be a sister and love mine no matter what. 

We also got the chance to go out and see a ton of our friends that I've been missing while I've been away at KC. 

But since I've been so busy I haven't been reading any of your lovely blogs so tell me what have you all been up to this week?

PS. Happy St. Patricks Day!!

Monday Man-Off

In little of all the serious posts I've been doing lately I thought I would do start something a little fun for you guys!! Every man we will be doing a "man-off," basically two gorgeous men facing off to decide who is the hottest. Sounds fun right??

For this weeks Monday Man-Off the men in question are none other than my personal favorite Ryan Gosling versus Bradley Cooper!!

Ryan Gosling: He's mysterious, artsy, and oh so dapper. Ryan makes you swoon in with his puppy dog eyes and his indie films.

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Bradley Cooper: He's the brawny, hunky, manly man every woman dreams of. Unlike Ryan he gives of the man in charge vibe rather than the adorable puppy.

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So who would you pick?? Weigh in your opinion and summit your suggestions for next weeks Monday Man-Off. Enjoy ladies!!

How you can REALLY help Uganda!

While I disagree with the Stop Kony movement because of the organization behind it I am happy that it has raised an awareness of problems in Central Africa that need to be addressed. If you missed my first post on this topic read it here.

The problems in Uganda largely are not with the LRA (Kony's organization) anymore. Where they are really suffering is in medical care and proper education. If you really want to help the citizens of Uganda, which I know a lot of people do, there are better charities to donate too.

I've listed some very reputable charities, as in the are very transparent and spend most of their money on the actual cause.


Medical Care for Central Africa

Afri Care -

Children of the Nations

Water.org

Please help spread the word about the legit charities that are out there!

Why the Stop Kony Campaign Isn't Worth Your Money

If you don't live under a rock or at least are involved in any social media you may have seen an uproar about the acts of Joseph Kony in Uganda. BUT if you haven't I'll give you a brief summary:

A group called Invisible Children launched a (brilliant) PR campaign using YouTube videos to call for the capture of Joseph Kony a notorious international criminal that created a child army in Uganda in 2007. It was an atrocity using drugs to control an army of 30,000 children (over 30 years) to take over. Kony is the leader of a group in Uganda called the Lords Royal Army (LRA). 


First off I want to say that not all of that information is even present in the 30 minute YouTube video presentation made by Invisible Children. While I do thing the idea is in the right direction, bringing this criminal to justice, I think they are misleading innocent people and choosing to do it in a violent manner.

Invisible Children Film Makers

Here are a few of the main misconceptions cleared up:

This child army still exists- False, this was stopped about 6 years ago which is why the US isn't send military reinforcements to Uganda.

Joseph Koney is still in Uganda- False, he fled Uganda about 6 years ago and is currently believed to be in South Sudan hiding out.

The LRA is still an active group causing destruction- False, while there are still members of the LRA left they range in the hundreds not thousands.

Buying a KonyKit from Invisible Children will help bring him down- False, Kony has virtually already been brought down. Buying the kit for $30 is really a waste of money considering that Invisible Children seems to have a lot of invisible bank accounts that their money goes too. They only spend 30% of their funds on the cause and have horrific financial records.

Invisible Children is promoting peaceful efforts- False, Invisible Children is calling for providing the Ugandan military with weapons to capture Kony which can only lead to the death of many more innocent Ugandans and most likely not the capture of Kony. (See the film makers pictured above with weapons and the Ugandan militia.)

What disturbs me so greatly about all this is the focus on Kony's death and the call to violence (Twitter handles such as @KonyMustDie and comparisons of him to Adolf Hilter).

Can't we see that a call to arms never gets us anywhere? The focus should be on helping the survivors and victims left in Uganda rather than the prosecution of one man. He represents an idea and supporting violently finding him only SUPPORTS HIS IDEOLOGY.

From an economic and ethical standpoint we need to understand that Invisible Children is a bogus campaign. While awareness is great, large amounts of mislead people can be extremely harmful.

So I ask all of you to try and pursuade others to DO THEIR RESEARCH before they jump on the Stop Kony campaign bandwagon.

Thanks for listening to my rant. :) I plan to do a follow up post on better solutions.

Resources: Should I donate my money to Invisible Children?
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Mr. Darcy's Good Opinion

"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."

I am a huge fan of Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. If a man were to quote any of his lines (except the snotty ones of course) to me I would probably tell him that he has bewitched me body and soul. Ok but lets get to the read point of this post which unfortunately isn't actually Mr. Darcy.

But it is about what Mr. Darcy has brought up. Is a good opinion lost forever? Can you ever really trust someone that's broken your trust before?

Love this man.

To tell you all the truth I can't think of to many instances where I have been blatantly lied to. In the one case where it happened I don't think I will ever or will ever want to trust that guy again. But what if he had been someone I genuinely cared for and wanted a relationship with. I'm not sure about that. 

What's interesting about this is that we have trust in relationships to being with. There is so little trust left in our society. So few of us trust what we hear on the news or in the media. Even less of us trust politicians or our government to tell us the whole truth. 

Yet some how we are able to still have trust in the people we love or care about. That in itself is pretty incredible. It's amazing that we can find it somewhere inside to ourselves to have faith in each other. 

So if we can begin with so much blind faith in people that we love does that mean we can keep it up even if we've been "betrayed?" I guess it just depends on the situation and the level of betrayal that occurred. It also sort of depends on how much you can be ok with. 

Guess he changed is opinion :)

For some people we take the harsh Mr. Darcy opinion and our good opinion/trust can never be regained. While that may be the best method to protect ourselves I'm not necessarily sure it is the best option always. I think there are exceptions to every rule. 

What are you're all opinions on this subject?