OF NY BLIZZARDS & NY TIMES...

So.... where my snowflakes at??? Who else in northern NJ woke up peeked out the window and wtf you mean the snow is not up to my window? AS IF!!! We (and I speak for all northern NJ) should be compensated for the amount of ANXIETY suffered. Around 9 pm , of course I had the TV blasting, scrolling TL on Twitter constantly and this did not help. The blizzard of the century ladies and gentlemen would be amongst us any minute , my palms were sweaty, I was really really really scared for my life. Because they were announcing wind gusts of 50 mph, now let me tell you my home is made out of river rock stone, that was not my worry. My main concern were the TREES and I am surrounded by one giant acorn and 2 oaks, if I went to sleep would we live through this???
The word was stay home , get home , yes but do they take trees into account? I was more
terrified than Sandy, I guess because this hurricane(Sandy) struck us during the day that I was able to hold on to my dining room table and pray in at the same time. But what do you do if they are telling you that the bulk of the storm will hit you aprox. 1am?? Hell no, that is my beauty sleep time!
Well we lived through it and yes I did clean up and had fun with the snow-blower and made a snowman w/ my son. But I'm still pissed cause it through us all off, Wednesday was Monday , so I have no idea what today is.
Anyway, I love the NY Times and once in a while I tweet to some journalists and of course it goes into oblivion because no one answers ... but alas! @lauramholson a.k.a. Ms. Laura M. Holson did answer and ehem as a matter of fact tweeted with me back and forth. See I read a recent article by her regarding the closure of C-Wonder. If you know anything about this chain of stores , you know that the owner is the ex-hubby of Ms. Tory Burch. And I think this store was a knock off of Tory and its one giant mess. So I wanted to follow this journalist, and to my surprise and interest her Twitter bio reads as follows>
"Feature writer NY Times. Occasionally write about Hollywood where a studio executive once held a butter knife to my neck" LMAO of course my curious self had to find out more about the butter knife incident , so I did what every curious tweep would do, please hook me up with the link to this article. Just FYI Ms. Holson then proceeded to tell me to go to the NY Times website and search for her post related to this. UMMMM she has 950+ freakin articles. How the hell do you narrow something down from post written circa 1998 and beyond. I didn't , and I was persistent. Ms. Holson one sentence reply: You will read it in my upcoming memoir. Ok my jaw dropped, now I'm salivating, this will be so "juicy" !! And yes I checked no Memoir for pre-order yet on +Amazon.com . Looking forward to the tea Ms. Holson. Indeed.

how do you like Juno? #mia 

xo @latinabug_nj

OF STREAMING/KESHA/YOU-TUBERS&TYPE 42...

Wew - we have lots to cover! This week was bananas! but then again you probably heard this from me before. Lets go in order of Post title appearance, shall we.

• Lol, at the bullets! Streaming: am I the only one that has an urge to turn off the 60" TV in order to live stream on my I-phone ? Case in point @girlsHBO  & #toghetherness. I felt like I was actually cheating on my phone! So I uncomfortably watched both shows but then went back to streaming. Why? because when I stream I catch the details, and put my headphones on too. Feeling "closer" to the show. hehe cray cray I know.
• The artist formally know as Ke$ha now +KeshaRose , everything started w/ the purchase of one song All that Matter (its a Beautiful Life) then I wanted to follow her on Twitter and had to actually Google what is Keshas twitter handle lmao she dropped the $ sign. Well dont ask me how I ended watching every single episode of her MTV show. (Well I still have some more to go) and yes streaming of course. Anyway, she is amazing, vocally , her personality is that of a 7 year old KKB w/ satchels of gold and gummie bears, unicorns and rainbows, with of fetish of bearded men. She actually went to the Bahamas and decided to take her best friend , camping! who does that? I really hope it was just for shows, because I'm sure she could afford a resort. I hope so. A++ on the show and music
• You-Tubers: well hmmm lets see after being told by my 12 year old that I'm older than dirt because I was born BEFORE the internet, I snapped back saying that I have my own You-Tube account, thank you very much. So Millenials in my family basically know us old folks as A.I. (after the Internet) or B.I. (before the Internet).Yesterday a couple of You-Tubers interviewed POTUS, were they sitting in kid chairs? I appreciated the fact that the White House took the time to sit down w/ them and they did have some very interesting questions, bam! they were intense! 
• Finally, OMG , was reading New York Mag latest issue and creepy creepy creepy spread on this book that will be coming out on February 24th . Written by Anonymous! Yep you have to see these polaroid pics. The title is Type 42: Fame Is the Name of the Game. Description according to Amazon: In spring 2012 artist Jason Brinkerhoff (born 1974_yes before the internet) discovered a collection of around 950 black-and -white Type 42 Polaroids featuring head shots and intimate close-ups of actresses taken from the tv screen beginning in the late 1960's. The origins of the series-and, most notably, its creator-remain entirely mysterious, their author's only trace being scribbles of actresses names and dates on the Polaroids' edges. Ok stop right there, when you actually see these photographs they (New York Mag) suggested that the photographer may be male, umm ya think? I was so scared, and disturbed I couldn't sleep. This guy portrays these beautiful women , in the most intimate way, in bath tubs,etc. I think they (the actresses were close to this psycho) It scared the crap out of me. Especially seeing Sophia Loren / Bridget Bardot in that light. And whats with the measurements scribbled on top? and that hand-writing at the bottom of each pic. I have goose-bumps.I am telling you this guy was Manson-like taking these pics. But will let you know what I really think if I can get a copy. So far I am hiding under the bed. 

xo @latinabug_nj

Boo!

OF SNIPERS & SUBSCRIPTIONS...

#rip Chris-WE LOVE YOU

So American Sniper the Movie is out in theaters today, and American Sniper the book (Memorial Edition) is on my nite stand and I've only made it to the Chapter where they just assigned Chris to be a Sniper. Gasp if I am going to watch this movie by Monday, I have to become a hermit over the weekend. Bye bye visit to Anthropologie. Anyway today driving to work , I couldn't help thinking about how torn Chris must have been between being a Seal / sniper & hanging on to his relationship with his wife and kids.
It put into perspective to me , how my husband also struggled between a hobby of race car driving & his nagging wife and newborn.
Now I totally get it, but when he told me he was going to CA , I was upset, was pacing and we really really needed him to stay put. But just like Chris it was his calling and it was freaking strong, so strong that he died 3000 miles away from us. Alone.
How many things did we miss out, how many kids we could have had, how many more memories we could have , should have had. I notice I live with tons of anger because of all this frustration. That someone had to die at 38. I know exactly what Taya went / is going through. Don't forget Chris died early 2013,  my hubby died 10 years earlier. But it doesn't get easier. I just couldn't speak, stand up and speak before an audience, I couldn't even stand on my 2 feet when ppl were coming over to give me condolences.
To this day , I still believe I wouldn't have that strength. I'm proud of her , that she could get up there and say such a beautiful eulogy.
Yesterday, I fell in love, with a Quarterly Magazine!! @LaphamsQuart . Lapham's Quarterly is amazing, so many subjects that I am interested in. What caught my eye was a tweet regarding manuscripts actually medieval manuscripts and how the poor monks would write side notes
of weak ink and frigid hands. I have always been a huge fan of manuscripts , I remember visiting the Getty Museum in Santa Monica, California and walked straight into a Manuscript exhibit, of course nobody wanted to go in there with me. Boring, and rolling eyes is what I get from my party. But I love it. Of course I will want to subscribe and get every single back issue. Cause I'm anal like that. Actually there is a phobia / name for what I have: the fear of running out of reading material. Yep.
Also, yesterday I came across a wonderful new tweep! I totally recommend you guys subscribe to her You Tube Channel as well as follow her! Shout out to>> @pradaliz731_liz and her You Tube channel>> 4halex
 Tomorrow I signed up for a Boxing class at 10 a.m. I totally respect boxers, love their discipline, their reflex, it just a total body work-out. Of course , I will be totally exhausted after walking 6 miles, 2 strengh training classes back to back. Meaning 4 times this week I've worked out and with tomorrow that 5. Because I am on a quest to lose those stubborn 40 lbs. Will probably write about my gym chronicles progress on my next blog.

#rip Bill-WE LOVE YOU

xo @latinabug_nj 

OF BIEBERS AND BRANDIS....

Of course Perez Hilton hit it right on the head when Mikey Marks wife said his 1992 Calvin Klein underwear ad w/ the infamous Kate Moss was better. First of all I dont think Mark was AS photo shopped as Justin, 2nd whats with all the tatts?? I like tatts but ughhh, and the bulge...

....don't get me started w/ how many folded socks were in there.
Has it been over 20 years since the original ad??? sick.
Anyway, I titled this Biebers and Brandis in plural , why ? because this Earth is populated by imitators and Rude people. Brandi has arrived to a new low, an unbearable, unjustified low. And Bravo of course loooooves this with passion.
Not to mention that I almost was revolted to find out that Tre is already being considered for an early release ...wtf.
Speaking of Perez, how cute was he on the Segway with his gay date, they were so adorable together, but awww no chemistry. I am so proud of Mario a.k.a Perez, hope he finds his true love.
And on a final note, speaking of Love, Tariji lead actress of the Hit Fox show EMPIRE ,IS SINGLE, and now I dont feel so bad about kissing my cat on New Years Eve, cause she told Wendy Williams that she kissed herself on New Years Eve .Booohooooo, single ladies cry together.
But actually I dont feel so bad, cause I love myself and as the Emily Post of Housewives Brandi says>> "I love my life"!!!! or was it BabyFace?
xo +latinabug nj

OF RUBIK'S CUBE & RESOLUTIONS...

LOVE THIS EXHIBIT

THIS CLIMBING CONTRAPTION ENDED YESTERDAY :(

HAPPY NEW BRIGHT & SHINY 2015!! and we started at the Liberty Science Center which I totally recommend you guys visit, besides the view there is tons to do! So we started bright and early 10 am for us nite owls and headed down the NJ Turnpike, and woah we had 2 good things going for us , no traffic, good weather & mommy had a cup of Java ... I know I said 2. Anyway, line for checking bags is the first to greet you, I asked if I had to take my shoes off. It was the last day to climb inside the above right maze, so of course in our true curious fashion we had to see this, the picture doesnt due this justice , it is literally hanging off the side of a wall! But time quickly passed with the Viewing of the Galapagos movie in 3D, tasting coconut NITROGEN LIQUID ice-cream made before our eyes, and of course the icing on the cake was the Rubik's cube exhibit ! And yes I bought my Rubik's cube earrings to boot. Hey have to start the New Year fashionable. Ok speaking of New Years , ppl lets not start with resolutions, this is what you should have been doing this whole time: exercise (especially if you are over 40) it gets harder to get on that treadmill, dont drink & dont eat bread. Thats it. Simple. Now can you keep that going, forever and ever amen. Or until you drop dead, just dont break your ribs or face bones in the process a.k.a Harry Reid. Actually before we all make fun of Harry with : tweets like "Hope #harryreid recovers, but at his age his needs to accept it's a little late to get a Body by Jake & another tweet that reads> News Flash! +Nevada Senator Harry Reid gets beat up, breaks bones & injures face working out while shadow boxing ////and these are just some examples. But it actually almost happened to me last week, when I was trying to be cool and jump to the sides of the treadmill and of course I almost lost balance! Wew that was close! I could have done a #harryreid
i know, I know,
xo +latinabug nj 

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