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Tweet Tonight's all new "Are We There Yet?" episodes feature Laila Ali and Sinbad! As a judge! Check out the sneak peek of tonight's episode below. Remember! Don't lie to your spouse!!! UPDATE So ... why am I tweeting about Are We There Yet?  with nearly the same passion I have for all things Castle ? Because of a contest. The more retweets I get, the higher my chances on winning a trip to New Orleans . Are We There Yet?   on TBS will reward the best influencer with   a trip for two to the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans this July.   This getaway includes airfare, V.I.P. hotel accommodations and tickets to the biggest event of the summer! To increase your chance to win, tweet with the hashtag -- #AreWeThereYet -- and the more retweets you get, the closer you'll be to the Grand Prize. Please help me out. I NEED a vacation! And even if you don't, check out "Are We There Yet?". It's worth it's weight in laughs. You can...

I keep winning things that are good for me.   It started with the Borders Android app (ok, not a win, but the free books were available only for a short time). One of the free books was Jillian Michael's Master Your Metabolism . That got me to buy the related cookbook and also Eat to Live . Both of which I am still working through.   Then I entered a Klout Perk and received a Southland jacket - perfect for walking/running in. In the last month I have won a bag of Coach's Oats, just by entering a contest on Facebook and a Tribal Dance DVD from Mamavation from the blogging carnival (can't wait until I can actually participate in Mamavation TV) and another sample of Coach's Oats. I think the universe wants me to eat more oatmeal too....     Related articles Don't Irk The Influencers: The Power of Klout (compete.com) Oatmeal Month Roundup ( www.coachsoatsblog.com/ Mamavation Monday: Maintaining and Wellness (annetteholland.com)  

I grew up in LA, right off of Crenshaw and Adams – West L.A. but after the Rodney King riots it got "reclassified" as South Central. I went away to college in San Diego, then moved to Oregon, vowing that I would never live in L.A. again. Klout and TNT offered me a sneak preview of the full episode of the season premiere. Southland shows me how things have changed over the years since I was a child. Some things have changed, some have not. Uncaring employers (ok, maybe that hasn't changed that much). Culture clash between Blacks and Latinos in L.A. Latino gang wars (instead of Crips vs. Bloods) Cop with a pain medication habit and a bad back (boy can I relate) From Emmy Award winners John Wells, Ann Biderman and Chris Chulack comes a raw and authentic look at a police unit in Los Angeles. From the beaches of Malibu to the streets of East Los Angeles, "Southland" is a fast-moving drama that will take viewers inside the lives of cops, criminals, vic...

Art. Murder. A beautiful European backdrop. A seductive psychotic couple. And a distraught father hell-bent on catching his daughter's murderer. I recently finished reading James Patterson’s The Postcard Killers , co-written with Liza Marklund – a Swedish journalist and crime writer,  courtesy of NetGalley and Klout *. I may be one of the few who has not read the Alex Cross series, but I do love Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club series. Like most Patterson books, The Postcard Killers  is a suspenseful page turner. I was actually a little upset when my eReader stopped being able to read it and read this on the bus on my laptop and on the weekend and lunch breaks. I only stopped for work and the kids. You are transported to Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and Finland as Jacob and Dessie track down the killers and eventually … now, I don’t want to give away any spoilers. But the second half of the book gets steamy and even more exciting than the first half. Paris is stunning in ...

I'm really putting myself out there for this one. I usually only post photos of myself here when I know I look good. Today, you get to see the before and after.   http://cmp.ly/2 Clean up nice, don't I? I'm ready for my close-up The "Before" is pre- foundation, gloss, and eye-makeup. I was given a sample of Covergirl's Smoky Shadowblast in Silver Sky  to try out ( http://cmp.ly/2 ). Now, I don't get out much to do "smoky eyes", but there was this fundraising dinner theater  for Josh's trip to Haiti that I thought I would glam up a bit for. I really appreciate that the CoverGirl Shadowblast came with instructions on the back of the package on how to create a "smoky eye" and I think I pulled it off. The one bad thing was that towards the end of the night, there was creasing and it looked really bad. Otherwise I loved it, quick and easy to put on, the applicator fits in a small bag for the inevitable touch-up, and that amazon ...