Five signs that you and your significant other will make it happily ever after

You're headed toward happily ever after if…

1. You discover quirky things you have in common
It's
one thing to discover you both like the new Coldplay album. It's
another to discover your tastes or habits jibe in more surprising ways.
"What confuses people is that they think they're a match because they
have things in common that many people have in common, like favorite
books or songs, so they're fooled into thinking they're on the same
wavelength," says Sam R. Hamburg, Ph.D., author of Will Our Love Last?
"The more uncommon and surprising your similarities are, the better."
That was definitely the case for one Rochester, New York dater named
Patrick McAvoy. "I have this weird habit of belting out what I'm doing
in song, so when I started dating Bethany, one morning I started
singing 'Here I am, in the shower...' to the tune of Jesus Christ
Superstar," recalls the 29-year-old. "When she started singing back,
making up more words to the same tune, I couldn't believe it! I knew it
would work out." And it has—for three years so far.

2. Neither of you flinch when the future comes up
It's
a new-couple nightmare: One of you blurts out something like, "Ooh,
next summer we should go to Greece"—and then freezes, fearing the other
person will think, "Next year? We don't even know if we'll make it to
next month!" But if you and your date don't bat an eye — or better,
smile and agree — you've successfully crossed a crucial divide. "It's a
sign that you both feel stable in the relationship," says Sharyn Wolf,
author of So You Want To Get Married: Guerilla Tactics For Turning A Date Into A Mate.
So while we don't suggest making plans with your date for next
Christmas, take careful notes on what happens if you do mention some
advance planning.

3. It's super-important that your friends like your new partner
You
thought introducing your date to your parents was the ultimate test? On
the contrary, introducing him or her to your friends is even more
pivotal. That's because while you can't choose your family, you can
choose your friends, so they reflect the person you've become over the
years. So if you find yourself prepping your pals about someone you'd
"really like them to meet," it's a sign you're seeing this relationship
as more than just a fling. "When I introduced my girlfriend Yvi to my
friends, I was completely nervous beforehand because we were from such
different worlds—she was a Hispanic girl from Newark, and I was a
banker from the Jersey shore," says Dave Koczan-Santiago. "And
truthfully, things didn't click right away. But when I realized how
important it was to me that they all like each other, I knew the
relationship was a bigger deal to me than I even thought it was. Now
here we are, ten years later, happily married."

4. You think in "we" terms even when the going gets tough
Sooner
or later, all couples start transitioning from "Hey, what are you doing
Saturday night?" to "Hey, what are we doing Saturday night?" Sure,
that's good, but for a real gauge on your relationship, see how you
react to these scenarios: If your date wants to leave a party early, do
you happily offer to leave as a couple, rather than feeling annoyed or
wanting to stay on your own? If your boss wants you to plan a business
trip, do you wonder whether it fits with your sweetie's schedule? These
are signs you're truly willing to merge lives, and it's all the more
telling if you weren't into your date's "thing" to begin with. "I live
in New York and could live my whole life without a car and be happy,
but when my boyfriend said he wanted to bring his Chevy pickup with him
when he moved here from Boston, of course I offered to help him find
cheap insurance and parking," says Erin Brennan. "The interesting thing
is that after driving it a few times and investing all the time in
helping him, I found myself telling people about 'our' truck and really
starting to understand why he loves it so much."

5. You constantly stumble across things you want to share
Most
couples will exchange a few "thinking of you" phone calls or emails
when they're apart. But if you can't walk down the street without
tripping over some funny story to tell later or can't leave a store
without thinking at least once, "Oh, my sweetie would love that…" then
things are rosy indeed. Basically, it's a sign that while you may not
realize you're thinking about your date, you are and just can't help
it, explains Wolf.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
hope everyone ate up like i did. YUM!

sometimes you sit around and wonder why there isn't more public
attention, more care about causes you care about.  issues that
NEED addressing that everyone in the world just ignores or doesn't want
to look at. and then somedays...every so often, a public figure takes
notice that things aren't so easy and grand and a miracle happens, we
can only hope it's not fleeting.

In china hundred of infants are killed or abondonned by their parents
becuase of China's one child law.  Orphanages are overcrowded,
unfunded, and unable to provide the care and attention every young
infant needs to be a healthy individual.  And yet, apart from the
rare occasions of independent journalists visiting China and noticing
this great tragedy, to date, the biggest issue is that America needs
China's business.  Because of this need great discrepencies in
gender issues are ignored. It's nice to know Maria Shriver might take
an interest in this cause and raise awareness and aide the young girls
of China, whose only crime was being born female.

First Lady Maria Shriver left her husband's side and visited a Shanghai orphanage where rows of children reached out to her, crying "Mama." "It breaks your heart," she said.

State's first lady tours Shanghai orphanage and vows to 'shine a light' on girls' plight

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Friday, November 18, 2005

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Shanghai --
California first lady Maria Shriver, walking slowly through the nurseries
of the Shanghai Children's Home, stopped short at the rows of orphaned
toddlers, mostly girls, in identical silver cribs, holding out their tiny arms
and calling, "Mama.''

"It breaks your heart,'' Shriver said Thursday, her eyes welling up. "You
can't help but be moved as a mother.''

While Shriver's husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is busy with a
six-day trade mission to promote California business in China, the first lady
has her own mission: trying to "shine a light,'' she said, on the deeds and
needs of women and girls at home and abroad.

"You're struck by how much work needs to be done,'' said Shriver, a former
NBC television reporter. She has tried to highlight women's issues on the trip,
on Monday visiting the Maple Women's Psychological Counseling Center in
Beijing, a women's organization that helps victims of domestic violence, sexual
abuse and poverty.

Shriver took reporters on a visit Wednesday to highlight the extraordinary
work of Jenny Bowen of Berkeley, the founder and executive director of a
program called Half the Sky. Bowen's program, a California-based nonprofit
operation that has bloomed into an international organization with 20,000
supporters, has been credited with changing the lives of thousands of orphaned
girls in China since 1998.

Bowen, a former screenwriter and filmmaker, says she arrived in China
nearly a decade ago and was shocked to see orphanages so understaffed and
underfunded that babies were left lying in cribs for days without being
touched, hugged or loved. She adopted a 2-year-old girl who was a victim of
that system -- so developmentally delayed, Bowen says, that "she didn't know
how to come out of herself.''

And after a year of care, nurturing and "just holding her,'' Bowen says
she and her husband realized while watching their daughter at a party that "she
had become a different kid,'' running, laughing, playing -- outgoing and
happy. "I looked at my husband and said, 'Why can't we do this for all the kids
we can't take home?' '' she recalled.

Bowen founded her program -- named for the proverb attributed to Mao
Zedong that "women hold up half the sky'' -- to train nannies and preschool
teachers to give the orphaned children the love and nurturing they need to
develop physically and mentally. Today, about 10,000 children have passed
through her program, funded through private donations, including from
Californians who have adopted Chinese orphaned children. Half the Sky has been
embraced and expanded by the Chinese government into more than two dozen cities
around the country.

Shriver said this week that part of her work in China would be to
encourage such efforts and to seek out more corporate and private funding from
Californians.

"I try to mention it to everybody I meet,'' she said. "We'll mention it to
the people on this trip.'' And, she said, back home she will continue to push
the program (www.halfthesky.org) as an example of what can be done to improve the
lives of girls in meaningful ways.

The theme has been central to her work as California's first lady since
she first took over the role two years ago. She reflected with reporters on
Thursday's anniversary of her husband's swearing-in as governor, saying the
work had had "great, great highs" and "great challenges" as well.

Shriver described her role as challenging, humbling, exciting and
inspiring.

"I feel pretty good about how I've done,'' she said. "I've navigated a
gravel road,'' one that has had some bumps for which she wasn't prepared, she
said.

Shriver's work has included shepherding the annual Governor and First
Lady's Conference on Women and Families, which has sponsored networking,
seminars and programs aimed at encouraging women's growth in health, home and
business.

Shriver's schedule on the trade mission has showcased programs and causes
that have not traditionally received attention in China, such as aid to the
intellectually disabled. The Special Olympics, founded by her mother, Eunice
Kennedy Shriver, today includes 500,000 athletes here and has been lauded for
helping change the lives of families and children across China.

On Wednesday, some Chinese families traveled for hours to Shanghai to meet
Shriver and tell her how the program has flung open the doors to a new way of
thinking in China, where once disabled children were literally locked away in
homes out of shame.

As she travels across China with Schwarzenegger, Shriver says her first
and most important job is still at home as mother to her four children. But she
says the trip has reminded her about what she calls "the power of ideas'' and
the power of her position to shine a light on them.

"Very few people get to do that,'' she said. "I feel blessed in that
way.''

E-mail Carla Marinucci at cmarinucci@sfchronicle.com.

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Shampooh's Halloween Costume..

hhehe pooh was SO cute as a bee.

wasn't she?

i got the costume for her in japan.

they have THE cutest doggy stuff in japan. tough finding the places if ya don't kno the language tho. hahahha.

but every sighting uncovered the best finds...i bought pooh SO much stuff from japan. more so than anyone else. hahahaha.

crash is a such a good movie.

i've really been enjoying reading everyone's xangas to see wat ppl had thought up to be for halloween this year.
AWESOME COSTUMES XANGANS!

that said...in the spirit of halloween costumes i share with you

apparently the gossip du jour is that Paris Hilton has ass goiter,
you can apparently see it here (as well as the cavernous area that one
calls her crotch)

and even more so here, image provided by http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/

camel toe, butt flap, bizarre pose and she looks totally high.

further analysis of said ass goiter provided by http://www.defamer.com/

HAHAHA. that has to be EMBARASSING seriously. i never even knew
someone's ass could sag that much. and i actually will confess, i had
no idea what ass goiter was:

a goiter is defined as
goi·ter    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (goitr)

n.

A
noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland, visible as a swelling at
the front of the neck, that is often associated with iodine deficiency.
Also called
struma.

my post here is mild. please follow instructions to enjoy more Paris butt goiter bashing by following the simple instruction:

1) JUST TYPE IN ass goiter INTO GOOGLE SEARCH BAR.  PARIS ASS GOITER GOSSIP GALORE WILL ENSUE.

Now I end with even MORE EVIDENCE FROM CITY RAG:

I'm sure that it could easily be removed with a little surgery.

Paris Hilton's ass cheek goiter [cityrag]

lol. i really REALLY feel bad for her tho. that just sucks for the world to know your butt is a bit off kilter.

omg...this doggy camper is so EXPENSIVE!!!

Limited Edition Pet Camper $5,475.00

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another twist on horoscopes

 GEMINI
Love is one of a kind. Great listeners
Very Good in bed. Lover not a Fighter But
Still Punch Your Lights Out .Trustworthy.
Often the Agressor; Best Sex.


CANCER
Great Kisser. Very high sex appeal.
Great in bed. Most horny.

PISCES
Caring. Smart. Center of attention. Too Sexy, DAMN IT.
Very high sex appeal. Has the last word.


LIBRA
Very gentle. Nice. Love is one of a kind. Silly and fun!
Have own unique sexiness. Most caring person you will ever meet!
GREAT in Bed.

CAPRICORN
Sassy. Intelligent. Sexy. Predict future.
Irrestible, awesome kisser. Great talker.
Always gets what he or she wants.

AQUARIUS
Trustworthy. Sexy. Rare to find. Loves being
in long relationships. Extremly energetic.
Amazing in bed, the BEST lovers.

ARIES
Outgoing. Spontanious. No one to fuck with.
Have own unique sexiness. Unpredictable. Erotic.
Funny. Addictive. Take you on trips to the moon in bed.

TAURUS
Aggressive. freak in bed. rare to find. loves being in long relationships. Likes to give a good fight for what they want.
Extremly outgoing. Outstanding kisser.


LEO
Dominant in relationships. Horny. Freak in bed.
Always want the last word. Quiet. Caring. Smart.

VIRGO
Great talker. Sexy. Always Horny.
Laid back. Knows how to have fun.
Is really good at fucking. Great kisser.


SCORPIO
Very sexy. Talkative.
Energetic. Predict future.
Most erotic.

SAGITARIUS
Spontanious. Horny. Sexy. High sex appeal.
good in bed. Rare to find. Good when found.
Outstanding kisser.Loves being in long relationships.

a great movie about the wrongfully accused and the framed.

its also kevin spacey...he picks good scripts.