Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Solstice or Yule, you have an equal opportunity this year to destroy all hopes for any beautiful memories from social gatherings by following a few simple rules.
People get too stressed trying to make the holidays perfect: cooking, cleaning, buying, singing, organizing and spend, spend, spending. They put up trees, light menorahs, bake cookies, mull wine and in the process, gain weight, lose hair and empty their bank accounts
BITCH:LIFE
09 Dec 2010 10:00 GMT
Do you have a blogger in your life? You know, one of those antisocial types who spends their life taking photos of what they’re eating and posting it to Twitter and Facebook? That teenager or grown adult who spend copious amounts of time hunched over a laptop writing down their thoughts or taking photos of their outfits?
BITCH:LIFE
06 Dec 2010 19:00 GMT
When the seasons become colder we often succumb to nasty viruses that can lay us low when we need it least. Many foods, herbs and spices have restorative ingredients that can help you keep those sniffles, aches and pains at bay.
1) Eat Garlic Every Day
Garlic is natures antibiotic. It is at its most powerful when raw, but is still effective when cooked. The stronger the smell, the more powerful it is. Add to stir fries, soups or stews. For those wanting the raw power, ...
BITCH:LIFE
03 Dec 2010 10:08 GMT
Everybody's a writer or wants to be. At least that's what the internet tells me. There are all kinds of ways to help writers or writer wannabes.
For example there is the persistent Twitter spam telling you that writers are needed very badly. There are ways to get paid for this, our urgent friend tells us. As Victoria Strauss writes at the Writer Beware® blog, the ...
BITCH:LIFE
02 Dec 2010 13:00 GMT
When four weeks are no longer a month and every movement had better be the sign of a genius in the making.
The minute you get pregnant, conventional maths goes out of the window. The day you conceive, you’re two weeks pregnant. Even though there was nothing there for two weeks before. In fact, you’re pregnancy is counted from the first day of your last period even though by definition you couldn’t have been pregnant then.
BITCH:LIFE
01 Dec 2010 19:00 GMT
Break-ups are, for the most part, quite horrible things and there are no real rules for how to do it well. But what if you still want to hang around with your ex? How do you move from being lovers to being friends?
When a sexual relationship comes to an end, for whatever reason, sometimes you don't want to cut all ties. Whether you don't want to lose a good friend, or whether you simply want to remain cordial with someone who sha...
BITCH:LIFE
26 Nov 2010 19:00 GMT
Like many other traditions not observed in the UK, the Brits don't really 'get' Thanksgiving. You can read the definition of something all you like but, unless you actually do it, you'll never really understand its significance, so I was quite excited when an American friend said that she wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving in London. This time, she wasn't just inviting her American friends - this ...
BITCH:LIFE
25 Nov 2010 16:15 GMT
Being far away from home on Thanksgiving doesn’t mean the holiday should be miserable! No matter how unconventional the celebration, it’s all about the people in your lives.
Thanksgiving has never really meant all that much to me. Growing up in a family of vegetarians basically ruled out any possibility of a traditional turkey feast and so we did the unthinkable – we went out to dinner. Surprisingly, we were not the only ones comm...
BITCH:LIFE
25 Nov 2010 14:15 GMT
As we hurtle headlong into autumn and winter, the nights become longer. Sunlight begins to wane. For those of use living in the Northern hemisphere the changing of seasons can have dramatic affects on our health. Not only are we assaulted by a barrage of viruses that are often kept at bay during the spring and summer months, we have colder weather and our capacity to get vitamin D from sunlight drastically reduces.
BITCH:LIFE
23 Nov 2010 15:30 GMT
Finding the time to get a non-work related glass of wine with your buddies can be difficult, but so can finding the time to get your butt to the gym.
This time of year I find most of my body parts slowly morphing into the shape of mince pies, sausage rolls and blocks of white Stilton with cranberries, so getting motivated to do some proper exercise is handy not only for fitting into your clothes, but for preventing yourself from keeling over from a heart attack.
BITCH:LIFE
22 Nov 2010 14:30 GMT