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What I have to go through to get beautiful…
November 23, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Books & Hooks, Daily Random Fact, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Pleasant Memories, Reality Bites, Super-Belle!, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup?, Writing Gems | Leave a comment
So, it goes like this . . .
Hairspray haze, a couging mess.
Squinted eyelids shield me from the fog of beauty!
UGH!
Do you think it’s easy to get this beautiful?
Hair dye.
Shampoo, Conditioner.
Shave my fricking legs. Timberlines on either side of the razor. Holy Crap.
Lotion, “Slick me up like a greased hog! Whew Doggy! I want to get beautified, Momma!”
Right.
I hate lotion.
No dang lotion, okay?
Mousse.
Mineral freaking make-up.
8 cleansers.
Scrub.
Toner and 9 cotton pads later.
Eyeliner.
Shadow.
4 kinds of shadow, so you think I have some depth here.
I’ve got some friggin’ depth, okay?
Shadow primer. Give me an f-ing break. What a sales pitch.
Foundation. Yeah, we’re building a mountain here.
Conture color.
Bronzer.
Rouge.
Dusting Powder.
11 different expensive brushes. You’d think I was her highness, Oprah right?
Mascara on my puny, insignifigant eyelashes. Trying to make them more signfigant.
Okay, screw the lashes.
Blow dryer with a comb, and cone on the end. Makes it look like a blow horn. Helps me to yell at my kids. “Get out, I’m trying to frickin’ beautify myself. This is serious and dangerous business. Save yourselves! Get out!”
Whew.
Brush.
Hot Curlers.
ouch, Ouch. OUCH.
And, those ridiulous pins that are supposed to keep them in? Who the heck designed those?
Asshole.
These feel like hot coals in my hands. Burning, burning. Melting. Melting?
Aaaaah! Screaming.
“Get out I said!”
Bend all the way over in front of me and toss my hair around.
Toss, shake . . .
All the way forward . . .
Toss, and shake . . . open eyes
Ooops, forgot my underwear.
Where’s my freaking underwear?
“Who’s got Mommy’s underwear?”
Silence.
Cricket. Cricket.
Forget about it.
Today, commando.
Yeah! I still got it . . .
Stand up.
Spray that mop that I call hair.
Nice.
Hard, like a rock.
Hair should be hard like a rock, right?
Human . . . once again.
“Get out! I’m not ready, yet.”
Perfume. Which perfume am I to wear today?
Yes . . . there it is . . . “Eau de Bee-atch.”
Nice.
Okay, kids. You can come in and see Mommy now.
“Are you sure?” they ask.
Don’t worry, you won’t turn to salt . . . again.
I think.
See. See what I have to go through . . . ?
Do you appreciate me now?
—–
Be well,
Belle
A 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winner![]()
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
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Farmville — A Picture is 1000 Words… or a Couple… (Part 3)
November 9, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Belle's Pics, Daily Random Fact, Farmville Anonymous, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Internet Doo-Dah, Just a thought . . ., Life is Like Real Estate, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: Writing Gems, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK, belle, karper, love, Author, Speaker, Grief, Life, Date, Coach, Edgy, Memoir, Outspoken, Survivor, Book, 2009, Los Angeles, fair, California, bitter, ouch, mountain, pictures, picture, farmville, coins, goth, real estate, commercial, development, veteran, cows, tool shed, villa, million, experience credits, level, college, blueberries | 1 comment
So, it goes like this . . .
TO GET THINGS STARTED AGAIN, we’ll back track a little or you can get the whole prior parts of the story by ******* CLICKING HERE *******
So in need of FA… (Farmville Anonymous).
“Hello… My name is Belle… (pause)… and, I play…”
“Go ahead honey, you can say it… you’re in a safe and accepting place…”
“Hello… My name is Belle… (pause)… and, I play…FARMVILLE!” WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying).
There is a rumble in the audience. People twisting in their chairs. FA is a tough crowd, man… they have all survived… FARMVILLE! WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying again — can you hear the addiction in that cry?).
Sad, huh?
Sad. Sad. Saaa-aaad.
“It’s okay, Belle. How many times did you go on ‘the game that shall not be named?’”
And, I mutter through my sobs… I turned on my computer… and I never… I never got off!” WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying still more).
My husband and my parents are sitting next to me for moral support… they are shaking their heads…
“We lost her. She’s our only daughter… And, she’s… well, you heard her… gone… to Farmville.”
My dad pulls out a hanky and blows his nose. My mom… suffers in silence. Slight whimpering, her only evidence that she hasn’t fainted… My husband twists his wedding band around his finger… questioning his 2-year old, “I do.”
The tragedy.
Belle…. Lost to Farmville…
So my life has now hit a new level…
I would like to say it hit a new low, but that may be aiming too high.
It wasn’t that long ago that I scoffed those that posted their Farmville Photos on Facebook.
Ha!
Ridiculous!
Like, whoooo would ever want to do that? Right?
Well…
Hmmm…
Maybe I was a little too judgmental.
Yes, my husband reminds me that a mere month ago, I giggled at the thought of people taking pictures of their cartoon farm.
So, in response to that, I am here to show you pictures of my farm keeping skills…
Enjoy!

Here… You can appreciate the sense of order that I have here on the farm.
All my animals shoved to nicely into a row.
As you can see, I have the ultimate “brown-nosing” farming techniques DOWN.

Yes… things are a’blooming!
Life is grand now that I have invested in fencing, yes?
It is that I have two types of fencing here. I have regular white fencing, and I have my new “scary” fencing that is termed as dreadful, that I dropped $48,000 of precious Farmville coins on.
Somehow no one appreciates the beauty of my “goth” gatekeeping skills. My only concern is that I might not have bought enough of these overpriced limited edition funky fake cartoon fencing pieces at $1000 a clip.
Me, being an 18-year veteran of real estate commercial development (no lie), it is imperative that I get this set up just right.
Frankly… I have big plans, but in the beginning, if you would have checked my farm you might have noticed that even my cows have a house.
Five of them.
Yes, my cows had a house, but I was sleeping in the tool shed.
And, not even the big tool shed.
The little one.
That I got for free… from Farmville… because I was so damn fricking cheap to buy it myself.
Well…
I DID have plans, and I was working real hard… saving up my Farmville dough… hoarding my money so that I could make a cool million and invest the beautiful Villa mansion on level 34.
What can I say, baby? Real estate is in my blood.
….
Please, pity me at this moment.
I am now developing cartoon real estate.
So, like I said, I’m working hard on saving up my “experience” credits for the big digs.
Yep, holding out for the Villa.
Million-dollar price tag…
Until I noticed that level 34, the people at that level had about 80,000+ Experience credits compared to my 27,000 Experience credits at level 25.
Well, I don’t need to be a brainiac (or maybe I do) to understand that to get to level 25, took an average of 1000 credits a level.
And, THAT was a pain in the ass.
Now, facing a difference of 53,000 experience credits to be made up in 9 levels — well, that makes my new average of needing to accomplish approximately 6000 experience credits PER LEVEL from now on.
Well… crap.
Uh… Holy crap.
Can you tell that I was a Math Minor in college?
Well, let just say that I easily can breakdown costs to benefits… and basically I would have about a billion “Farmville” coins before I would even be allowed to buy the freaking villa.
Yeah… like that’s gonna happen.
I’ve got a life, man!
I can’t sit here nursing a cartoon farm up the wa-wa!
I ‘ve got things to do…
People to see…
Places to go…
Oh, yeah…
And, crops to turn. Hold on… My blueberries are withering….
….
…. … .. .
Okay, I’m back.
The blueberries are fine. I am sure that you were concerned, so don’t be.
Well, like I was saying…
I can’t wait for dang villa and level 34!
I can’t sleep in the tool shed… the little tool shed until the end of time.
It’s time to spend some freaking Farmville cash!
So, yeah… I bought the Dreadful fencing pieces… And, the whitewash gates… and a house…

And, a barn… and a silo… whatever that is.
Bridal arches. Maybe for my daughter’s wedding there…
I’ve got a bird house, and a lawnmower, three lakes, a harvesting machine, a tractor, and a seeder.
I have spent a whole bunch on money on arches and entries and mail boxes… and…
Oh, wait…
Look here… a little greeting…

Maybe a Hello… How thoughtful!

Uh… Oh My…

Oh Goodness… “HELP ME NOW!”

“Or the Cow is… ?”
My heavens.
Hmmm…
This is worse than even I thought.
Worse than you even thought, I am sure…
Or the cow is…
What?
Or the cow is… toast?
Or the cow is… finished?
Or the cow is…
What?
Steak?
This is serious.
Now you all saw it, right?
That poor cow…
But, wait… another…

Farmville back to normal… Where did the message go?
It’s as if it were never there… the plea… the hope… the warning…
Gone.
….
TO BE CONTINUED…!
Be well,
Belle
78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winner![]()
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
and Belle Karper Face Book & the popular Twitter-Belle - all on Website
Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

Farmville… Keep It Coming! (Part 2)
November 6, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Farmville Anonymous, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Internet Doo-Dah, Just a thought . . ., Life is Like Real Estate, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup?, Writing Gems | Tags: 2009, Author, belle, bitter, BLACK, Book, California, circus, City, Coach, dad, Death, Edgy, elephant, facebook, farmville, gift, gifts, goat, Grief, husband, karper, Life, Los Angeles, lost, love, Memoir, mom, ouch, Outspoken, paramedics, pig, Speaker, star trek, Survivor, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK, truffles | 2 comments
So, it goes like this . . .
TO GET THINGS STARTED AGAIN, we’ll back track a little or you can get the whole prior part of the story by ******* CLICKING HERE *******
But… Then all my peeps and buds on Facebook started sending me all these gifty things for Farmville…
Who knew?
A Pig here.
A Goat.
Two people even sent me some elephants.
Elephants?
Yeah… like those belong on a farm.
Right.
Guess what they make?
Circus Peanuts.
They make circus peanuts.
Hmmm… I hate to break it to you… but those are awfully large “circus peanuts” that come out of a cute little elephant, if you know what I mean.
And… I wouldn’t recommend eating any of those so-called peanuts, okay?
Eeeeeeuuuw.
It’s just wrong.
Well… I had 82 (eighty-two) gifts sitting on my Home Page of Facebook.
Go figure.
82.
That’s quite a bit, right?
But… remember, I was NEVER going to play Farmville.
I have got no time.
Right.
My son nearly died when I told him that I had DELETED THEM ALL.
Yes, I deleted all 82 gifts.
I mean, what hell am I going to do with a pig that finds truffles, right?
I don’t even freaking like truffles.
Gag.
So, needless the say, “am-scray on the ig-pay.”
Until… my son showed me the Farmville light…
I never deleted any gifts again.
Yes, until my son “showed me the light” of Farmville.
I can here the angels sing like the old Star Trek theme song when I think of the word Farmville, now.
How even sadder is that?
Yeah… not good.
You better call the paramedics now.
But, you better make sure that they bring with them a pig that finds those stinking truffles that I can’t stomach (and now I found out that I don’t have to actually eat the truffles), a duck whose down feathers I can sell, or a horse with a “hair problem” or… I am not letting them through the front door.
Come bearing gifts, baby, or the deadbolt stays locked!
So… my dear son made me RE-announce to my FB friends that he was going to suck it up, and help his lame mother with the starting of her farm, and to please start sending gifts again.
Yeah… please forgive the old bag that she deleted all those fabulous gifts… she didn’t know the value of them then. Please forgive that she wasn’t a FV convert, and start sending us some goods so that we can get our farm thing started…
Please…
Little did I know that I was inviting my first “crack” addiction…
Yeah.
Stupid, I was… please send me stuff… and keep it coming… I need to fill my veins with the stuff.
It looked so innocent, right?
So “neighborly”…
And, in the gifts came.
I got so excited!
My son and I were actually able to communicate with the same glazed monitor-ial stare I used to only attibute to him when he played “Martian Rangers Kill Texas Hold-Em.”
I feel so proud.
So honored.
So in need of FA… (Farmville Anonymous).
“Hello… My name is Belle… (pause)… and, I play…”
“Go ahead honey, you can say it… you’re in a safe and accepting place…”
“Hello… My name is Belle… (pause)… and, I play…FARMVILLE!” WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying).
There is a rumble in the audience. People twisting in their chairs. FA is a tough crowd, man… they have all survived… FARMVILLE! WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying again — can you hear the addiction in that cry?).
Sad, huh?
Sad. Sad. Saaa-aaad.
“It’s okay, Belle. How many times did you go on ‘the game that shall not be named?’”
And, I mutter through my sobs… I turned on my computer… and I never… I never got off!” WAaaaaah-waa-wahhhhh (me crying still more).
My husband and my parents are sitting next to me for moral support… they are shaking their heads…
“We lost her. She’s our only daughter… And, she’s… well, you heard her… gone… to Farmville.”
My dad pulls out a hanky and blows his nose. My mom… suffers in silence. Slight whimpering, her only evidence that she hasn’t fainted… My husband twists his wedding band around his finger… questioning his 2-year old, “I do.”
The tragedy.
Belle…. Lost to Farmville…
….
TO BE CONTINUED…!
TO PROCEED TO THE NEXT PART OF THE STORY ******* CLICK HERE *******
Be well,
Belle
78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winner![]()
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
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Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

Farmville… It’s Time We Spoke Out! (Part 1)
November 3, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Books & Hooks, Daily Random Fact, Farmville Anonymous, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Internet Doo-Dah, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Life is Like Real Estate, Make Me Smile, Middle Finger Award, Now You See Me . . ., Parent Traps, Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Super-Belle!, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup?, Writing Gems | Tags: 2009, addiction, anonymous, Author, belle, Book, California, City, crack, dad, easy, easy listening, Edgy, electronic, elephants, facebook, fair, farmville, free, gift, gifts, gree gifts, Grief, guitar, guitar hero, horse, husband, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, memory, mom, neighbor, never, old fashioned, olive tree, ouch, Outspoken, paramedics, pig, pomegranate, rules, son, Speaker, stress, Survivor, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK, virtual, virtual assistant, wii, Writing Gems | 7 comments
So, it goes like this . . .
Okay. First, we need to set a few ground rules here:
1. I was never going to play Farmville.
I think that it is important to repeat that first assumption here, so I’m to give it a subheading, and going to call it 1A.
1.A. I was NEVER going to play Farmville.
I mean it.
Next…
2. I don’t know how I’m supposed to deny anybody wanting to give me “Free gifts.”
That’s just rude.
My Momma raised me better than that.
Well… she did…
I mean, if somebody wants to give me a free gift, who am I to deny them the intrinsic beauty of this sharing of two souls when one bestows a gift to me, and then I to them…
Of course, I am simply going to lovingly accept it.
“Thank you, Dahhhling, for the fabulous Banana Tree. It does so come in handy when my husband is away…” ;-)
Yes… I will love and adore… cherish, even… every gift.
Even if it’s a lowly apple, cherry or plum tree (lowly as in Farmville standards, of course).
No offense, Dahhhhlings!
By the by… neighbors and friends… keep those Olive and Pomegranate trees coming, ya hear!
Sorry, I had to put in a plug for which free gifts I prefer now.
How sad is that?
Well, so the Lord Almighty, and my Farmville neighbors all know that Belle (that’s me) is a loving and generous receiver of all gifts great and small, and likewise I am a loving and generous gifter.
Shut-up… I am, too.
Everyday, I make a list of the people that give me the Farmville gifts just to make sure that I reciprocate and don’t accidentally skip anybody.
I need a fricking virtual assistant to keep up with the stress of my Farmville.
Yeesh.
Next…
3. I have never played an electronic game beyond “Guitar Hero.”
And for the record, I play a mean freaking guitar that has buttons on it, okay?
Don’t try to convert me to the ”real” guitar.
Not going to happen. No way. No how.
I would never cut my acrylic nails, and besides I think those guys are just showing off. The guys playing with the wire stringy “old-fashioned” guitars. They might think that they are more talented than we…
The true heroes of the guitar… the guitars with color-associated buttons on them.
But, we know better… don’t we?
Yeah… guitars with wires on them are old news.
Get with the program, man!
Buttons are “in.”
Just give me a guitar with buttons on it any day… and a couple of double AA batteries, and a Wii that’s plugged in… and I play a mean three-fingered colored-coded guitar.
Oooh, Baby!
Yeah, I know it’s got more than three buttons on it… give me a break.
I can count.
It’s kind of like painting by numbers… but for the guitar… with three to five colors… of buttons.
But, I play on the EASY level — which means that I only play with three buttons… and that since I am a woman, it further means that I am entitled to believe that the EASY level means “Easy Listening.”
And, nothing else.
Got it?
Don’t try to correct me.
We’d all hate for you to get on the “bad list” today.
So, let’s just understand here… just so that we are all on the same page and everything… I play on the “Easy Listening” level with three fingers, three buttons, and three brain cells.
Oh, yeah… And, I only play three songs… But, I am damn good at those three songs.
Right.
I digress.
So, I am trying to apologize in advance that my field of play in the electronic alter-universe is limited, to say the least… and even with that analysis, I am being generous… even to myself.
Next…
4. I’ve never liked any of those electronic games.
My son plays them with unbelievable expertise.
Not that I’m thrilled with that knowledge, mind you.
I know this because if he had his druthers, he would be playing his Electronic Games every hour of every moment of every day.
Without pause. Without food. Without oxygen.
Heck, let’s face it — the whole world could be caving in and he would still be shooting out power blazers on a level 39 “Alien Cucumbers Battle Mario’s Speed Racer and Godzilla Fireballs.”
His mad pounding of the keys… well, I just don’t understand the hopping and jumping around and disappearing exploding fire-gonzos and stuff like that.
Big deal, right?
So what, that he hasn’t eaten… done his homework… or blinked his eyes in four hours…
Mere details.
He can’t be bothered.
So, no… I was never really good with the game thing.
But…
Then all my peeps and buds on Facebook started sending me all these gifty things for Farmville…
Who knew?
A Pig here.
A Goat.
Two people even sent me some elephants.
Elephants?
Yeah… like those belong on a farm.
Right.
Guess what they make?
Circus Peanuts.
They make circus peanuts.
Hmmm…
I hate to break it to you… but those are awfully large “circus peanuts” that come out of a cute little elephant, if you know what I mean.
And… I wouldn’t recommend eating any of those so-called peanuts, okay?
Eeeeeeuuuw.
It’s just wrong.
Well… I had 82 (eighty-two) gifts sitting on my Home Page of Facebook.
Go figure.
82.
That’s quite a bit, right?
But… remember, I was NEVER going to play Farmville.
I have got no time.
Right.
My son nearly died when I told him that I had DELETED THEM ALL.
Yes, I deleted all 82 gifts.
I mean, what hell am I going to do with a pig that finds truffles, right?
I don’t even freaking like truffles.
Gag.
So, needless the say, “am-scray on the ig-pay.”
Until… my son showed me the Farmville light…
I never deleted any gifts again.
Eeeeek!
TO BE CONTINUED!!!
TO CONTINUE THE STORY ******* CLICK HERE *******
Be well,
Belle
78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winner![]()
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
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Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

I am a Winner in the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition – Memoirs/Personal Essay!
October 31, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Books & Hooks, Daily Random Fact, Friendly Links, Holy Crap..., Internet Doo-Dah, Life Is Good Moment, Literary News, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Pleasant Memories, Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Super-Belle!, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir of an Outspoken Survivor, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, What's Up, Buttercup?, Writing Gems | Tags: 2009, 78th, Author, belle, bitter, BLACK, Book, California, competition, Death, digest, Edgy, Grief, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, memory, Outspoken, personal, personal essay, Speaker, Survivor, writer, writer's, writer's digest, writing competition | 2 comments
So, it goes like this . . .
Oh my gosh!
I have been working so for hard for this…
I am a winner in the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Winners – Memoirs/Personal Essay!
Aaaah!
That’s all I can say!
Tens of thousands of people each year compete in this competition — the biggest competition in the writing world, next to the Nobel or the Pulitzer…
And, I am a winner!!!
Aaaaah! Once again!
Double Aaaaah!
And, for me to not have anything to say except ”Aaaaah” … well, that’s pretty incredible!
Here’s the link to see my name and I came in pretty high on the list…
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Aaaaah! Yeah!
Be well,
Belle
78th Annual Writer’s Digest Award Winner![]()
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
and Belle Karper Face Book & the popular Twitter-Belle - all on Website
Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

Bite Me! (Pic)
October 30, 2009 in Belle Hell, Belle's Pics, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Parent Traps, Pleasant Memories, Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Super-Belle!, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: 2009, Author, belle, bitter, BLACK, Book, California, chicken, Date, Death, Edgy, Grief, halloween, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, memory, ouch, Outspoken, shrimp, Speaker, sugar, Survivor, teriyaki | Leave a comment
So, it goes like this . . .
Here I am having lunch with my husband… beautiful chicken teriyaki and shrimp on skewers… and I noticed that he has on the shirt that I got for him last fall.
Once you see this your going to understand why it was definitely from me.
You all by now understand my sense of humor and sometimes I’m a little quirky.
To say the least.
I say, “Hey, you are wearing that Halloween shirt that I got you last year! Yeah! Why do you have it covered up?”
“Well I went into the plant today because they were having a Halloween celebration, and so I wore my special Halloween shirt.”
“Yeah, and…”
“Well, H.R. thought that it might offend some people.”
Wow… let me think about that… that I would buy something for my husband that might offend someone…
Hmmm?
That doesn’t sound like me. (Wink, wink).
So, leave it to me to buy something for my husband that would offend certain parts of the population.
Dang.
I hate it when that happens.
And, he has to cover it up with another shirt.
Aww… the embarrassment.
How could I?
Well, I’ll tell you… I did it with a MasterCard, and it was quite easy.
So H.R. told my husband that he better button up his overshirt and hide it.
He told H.R., “Bite me!”
Now, THAT’S the guy I know and love!
H.R. laughed as he walked out the door.
So, on this beautiful Halloween Eve…
I only have one thing to say to all of you…
“Bite me!”

Be well,
Belle
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
and Belle Karper Face Book & the popular Twitter-Belle - all on Website
Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

This is Freaking Hilarious! Must See for All Twitter and Facebook Junkies!
October 28, 2009 in Belle Hell, Daily Random Fact, Friendly Links, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Internet Doo-Dah, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Reality Bites, Song of the Day, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: 2009, @BelleKarper, @BillZucker, Author, belle, Belle Karper, bill zucker, bitter, BLACK, Book, California, Edgy, Grief, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, ouch, Outspoken, song, Speaker, Survivor, twitter, twitter song, zucker | 1 comment
So, it goes like this . . .
Okay, so I, @BelleKarper have to tell you about one of my twitter followers… and for the record, I am following him too… @BillZucker…
And, I don’t think he will mind if I post his new video which all of us tweeters I know can totally relate to.
You absolutely must see it.
I wish I had done it myself! ******* Bill Zuckers Twitter Song *******
Thanks a lot, Bill… it’s stuck in my freaking head!
I got it last week, but I had a lot going on soooooooo… Enjoy!
Love you Silly Billy!
Be well,
Belle
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
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Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

How Easy is Facebook?!
October 27, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Daily Random Fact, Friendly Links, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Internet Doo-Dah, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Reality Bites, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir of an Outspoken Survivor, Things to Ponder, Twitter-Belle, What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: 2009, 33000, Author, belle, blog, California, Coach, Death, Edgy, facebook, fan page, farmville, follow, followers, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, memory, Outspoken, Speaker, Survivor, twitter | Leave a comment
So, it goes like this . . .
So for all y’all 33,000 Twitter followers of mine ( @BelleKarper http://twitter.com/bellekarper – Let me know your twitter!) — I think it’s time that I share the secret (not really a secret), but the ease of signing up for FACEBOOK.
Now I know that some of you are avid Twitter followers, but it is so much more fun to communicate on Facebook because you can use so many more letters!
Like way more than 140…
First, you just go to the link here that I have for FACEBOOK and you type in your name, your e-mail, and give yourself a password.
Here’s where the scary part fits in for some people… you have to put in your birthdate.
Eeeek!
I know… I was bothered at first.
I mean… I am a woman, and am entitled to lie about my age, right?
Well, get your panties out of a wad.
Nobody does anything with this information and frankly when you set up your profile page you get to choose whether you want your birthday to be public information or not.
So… don’t be afraid of putting in the real date!
The fun part of putting in your birthday is that it notifies all the people who are your “friends” when your birthday is, and then you get a whole bunch of birthday messages from all your buddies.
So fun, huh?
Now once you get your account, you can fill out your profile… or not.
You can put in your picture… or not.
But, what you really need to do is put in a friend request for ” Belle Karper !”
Now, that’s not too difficult is it?
You can follow my Blog — Belle Karper’s Beauties and Beasts (I almost wrote Bastards there!! Ha!)
And, then click into my fan page!
You don’t even need to reveal too much, just friend me and then we can talk more over Facebook.
I’m digging it!
And… we can play Farmville together.
You can be my neighbor!
I’ve got an awesome farm — due to my son! He’s my Farmville Prince!
Be well,
Belle
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
and Belle Karper Face Book & the popular Twitter-Belle - all on Website
Save it, Baby! Count me in! 

What I Missed… and What I Didn’t…
October 25, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, 1001 Things to Do Before I Die, Belle's Pics, Holy Crap..., Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Now You See Me . . ., Parent Traps, Pleasant Memories, Q & A "Belle-view", Reality Bites, Things to Ponder, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: 2009, Author, belle, bitter, BLACK, Book, California, Coach, dance, Dating, daughter, Death, Edgy, Grief, homecoming, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, Memoir, memory, mountain, mountain biking, ouch, Outspoken, picture, pictures, son, Speaker, Survivor, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK, utah | 1 comment
So, it goes like this . . .
My darling husband went on this moutain biking trip.
I couldn’t go because I had to stay home and do the “Mommy Thing” and send my kids off to the Homecoming Dance in style (my son’s first!).
So this is what I missed in Bryce Canyon…

Utah...

Riding the "fin" in Bryce -- I have had nightmares about rides just like this!

Beautiful Bryce Canyon


This is the trail... Riding between rocks instead of trees...

I call this "The Balls" of Bryce Canyon!
AND this is what I didn’t miss… My kid’s Homecoming Dance…

And, here he is...

My Handsome Guy

My Precious Duo

My daughter and her date... Yowza

Some of the Gang...

My Girl and her Crew!
Be well,
Belle
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
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Who Won?
October 24, 2009 in 1001 Things I have Done . . . So Get Off The Freakin' Couch!, Belle Hell, Daily Random Fact, Holy Crap..., I'm Bothered, Just a thought . . ., Life Is Good Moment, Make Me Smile, Middle Finger Award, Now You See Me . . ., Parent Traps, Reality Bites, Things to Ponder, Utopian Thoughts (AKA Yeah. Right.), What's Up, Buttercup? | Tags: 2009, ass, Author, balls, belle, bitter, BLACK, boobs, Book, California, catatonic, City, Coach, coco, coco's, Date Coaching, Death, devil wears prada, diapers, dickhead, Edgy, extra-large, garbage, Grief, grudge, grudges, karper, Life, Los Angeles, love, mascara, Memoir, memory, morning, mother bear, muzzle, neighbor, ouch, Outspoken, pampers, plastic surgery, prada, saturday, score, soccer, Speaker, Survivor, teenager, teenagers, tension, THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK, therapy, tits, tragic, utah, victory, voo-doo, world, Writing Gems, XL | 1 comment
So, it goes like this . . .
Well, let’s just suffice it to say that I had to spray a lot of perfume on this morning. There was no time to shower, much less mascara my eyelashes. This game was just too dang early…
I’m not happy to admit this, and so I am not formally admitting this… but my husband informs me that I may not be a “morning person.”
Huh?
What does he know?
He is off riding the mountainsides in Utah right now.
He may or may not be right. I don’t have the freaking patience to find out at this early hour, but I did have a hard time waking up this morning.
Go figure.
My only incentives being:
A. To see my son play
B. To see my son play well
C. To see my son play well against ”dickhead.”
Now, I am not one to hold any grudges.
Like, I have almost forgiven that little bitch in high school… almost.
I don’t use the voodoo doll on her anymore… well, only semi-annually.
Heck, I have other things to do than live in the past.
And, that neighbor that I used to have living near me, emphasis on used to (and no, nothing mysterious happened to her… much to my regret. She just moved… how common, right?)
Let’s just say that when the book came out, The Devil Wears Prada, I thought it was about my neighbor.
Bee-atch, with a small ass and rock-hard boobs.
Yikes. I remember the first time she hugged me. I was bruised for a week from her plastic surgery stone tits.
Well, I am still in therapy over all of that neighborhood nonsense stuff.
No one here misses her dropping her garbage into other people’s cans.
Yeah baby, you can keep your dirty diapers to yourself.
Schtinky.
My dog misses them though. Evidently, there is something attractive with the scent of toddler diarrhea rolled in a Pampers disposables…
Eeeeeeuuuuw.
So, like I said I’m not one to keep grudges. So the fact that we are facing up dickhead and his team this morning is double-edged.
First off, I had to drive all the way back to my house because I forgot my chair.
I knew this was not going to be a good sign.
My sweet little sugar-coated ass would melt on the beauty of the morning dew if I were to sit on the ground. We can’t be having any of that wet dew sinking into my “down there” now can we?
Right.
So, I drove back to get my chair.
Gosh.
Secondly, I can’t help it that I express myself verbally.
Calling a kid dickhead seemed and still seems appropriate, and if the conditions arise again… and I feel the need to express myself in these and other matters, then I am bound by the “Mother Bear” Codes of Conduct to protect my little cub.
Regardless.
And… I am going to disregard the coaches messages left on my cell phone informing me of various muzzle supply shops.
A muzzle?
For who?
Dickhead?
That might be a little extreme for a 15-year-old, but I picked one up for him just in case.
I do understand the mouths of these babes, because I live with two teenagers and I could see how it could come in handy.
Like… everyday.
So, I bought him an extra-large.
Because he has an extra-large dickhead.
Du-u-uh.
I learned that from my kids… that “duh” thing.
Doesn’t it just make you feel good all over?
….
Well, right now… we are knee-deep in the second half and the score is one-to-one.
The kids are dripping with sweated competitiveness. Licking their teenaged chops for this victory that is due them. The tension hovers over the parents around me.
And me… well, I am in a catatonic stare… they are all navy colored enemies against our white shirted boys, and now those 15-year-old little penile wannabes threaten our good Saturday.
They have kicked two of our guys in the balls.
Hard.
One of their players received a red card.
And if that is not enough, they have tackled my son to the point where he was lying on the ground for literally two minutes.
Just lying there.
Unmoving.
And, I was not allowed to go on the field.
Mama bear does not like this part.
And, I’m going to tell you that two minutes is a very long time when your son is in pain, on the ground and not moving.
….
I would like to say that we won the game, but we did not.
We played a hard fight, but a clean one.
I left my comments until after the three tweets of the whistles were heard, signaling the end of the game.
Then I let a few “explicatives” fly…
A tough loss for all…
For us…
For other dickheads across the world…
And… for the world…
I don’t think that I am over exaggerating here, when I say that this IS a tough loss for the entire world…
Tragic.
And then of course, we all went to CoCo’s for breakfast.
Hug, hug, kiss, kiss, Y’all — Even you with hard boobies — Still love ya! xoxo
The is the final to:
If you don’t know who dickhead is … ***** Then Click Here *****
A must read story.
A follow-up story with pictures is ***** Here*****
Be well,
Belle
S. Belle Karper, Author, Speaker www.BelleKarper.com
THE WIDOW WEARS BLACK - An Edgy Memoir from an Outspoken Survivor
Check out S. Belle Karper’s – Beauties and Beasts – Blog! Baby! Blog!
and Belle Karper Face Book & the popular Twitter-Belle - all on Website
Save it, Baby! Count me in! 



