These Boots Were Made For Walkin'

Are You Ready Boots?
Padma Lakshmi

While it's a mere two days in to 2024 I thought we could use some inspiration. Here it is in the form of one Ms. Padma Lakshmi!

Seriously! This woman is showing of her beautiful gams and rocking a yellow mini dress with a blue fur coat, not to mention while boots in NYC while it's frigid AF!

How inspiring, fashion forward, not to mention balls out is that?! Nothing is I tell you, and while I am a little hesitant to throw in that she is 53 years old, I just did. Why? Because this too is inspiring, just look at her will ya???

IMHO she is one of the most beautiful women there is.

Be your own Padma and get out there and bend it!!!

Padma on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/padmalakshmi/?hl=en  

January 1st 2024

Happy first day of 2024 you Bad Seeds! 

Bend it like Rhoda Penmark and get down with your Bad Seed selves!

The Bad Seed on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/   

Happy New Year!

You know who you are...heading into 2024 like it or not! Have fun ringing in the New Year and please cautiously proceed into a year that should be one Hell of a ride, or simply throw caution to the wind.

Remember there is always the middle ground....

Gird your loins it's going to be a crazy ride either way!!!

New Year's Eve in Times Square on the WWW -

https://www.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-new-years-eve  

Expectation

Heading in to 2024 this quote is something I've learned in my later adult life to be 100% truth! It's also one of the reasons upon rewatching Sex and the City I learned to despise the character of Carrie Bradshaw (note I said one of the reasons, there are many other ones to despise about that character as well.) I noticed how she always expected people and situations to be the way she thought they should be it was an exhausting, not to mention annoying revelation to behold.

The less expectation you put on situations and people the less, as Bill would put it "Heartache" you will have.

So heading into 2024 I have no expectations of it. No New Years Resolutions. I'm simply waltzing into the New Year with my eyes wide open and expectation free.

The way things are anymore it's the only way to roll...

William Shakespeare on Biography -

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/william-shakespeare

Purgatory

"Yes" Minions it's that time of the year again where one is unsure of time and space. Consuming mass quantities of cheese (and whatever nosh is roaming free.)

It will all be over soon come this Sunday, then back to our regularly scheduled program...

January is just around the corner, gird your loins and hold on tight 2024 draws nigh!!! 

2024 on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024  

Michael's Musings

Michael Shinafelt

No full "Musings" column this week it will be back after the New Year. Speaking of 2024 I've noticed something different is in the air as 2023 draws to it's close...

Not a single person has said 2024 is going to be my year on Social Media. I see that everyone has learned their lesson.

Indeed!

Keep up with me all year round here -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

 https://twitter.com/MShinafelt

Hump Day & Chill

Tiffany Valentine

It's that time again, or as I like to call it purgatory. You know the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve that is less than a week so you really don't want to commit to anything and most likely have the time off. So let's act accordingly Minions and Hump Day & Chill with one Ms. Tiffany Valentine!

"Yes" the notorious Tiffany from Chucky fame is here to school us in the ways of Hump Day & Chill with a martini in one hand (gin straight up two olives for me) and a cigarette in the other (hard pass on the cancer stick here.)

Tiffany is played to perfection by Jennifer Tilly in the Chucky film series and the just wrapped second half of season three of Chucky the TV Series.

While she doesn't think were alone now, the character of Tiffany was a much needed boost to Chucky. Personally I find the TV Series better than the actual movies.

So there you have it and aren't you happy?!?! Get down with Ms. Valentine and Hump Day & Chill before it's too late!!!

Tiffany on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Valentine