Author: Hilary Shepherd

I’ve still got a little bit of a cold so when I watched this video I was immediately overcome by a coughing attack and missed part of it. So I had to watch it again. And then I coughed again. But it was totally worth it – it’s just that …

I’m leaving Tracy in January and will be moving to Berkeley, but I’m still a Notary – now I’ll just be a Berkeley Notary. I like the sound of that…..Berkeley Notary. I’ll be serving the Greater Bay Area but my business cards will most certainly say Berkeley Notary.…

I know you can’t tell by my typing, but I totally have laryngitis and it’s totally annoying. I was one of those kids who got in trouble all the time in school for talking too much, so being told that I’m not allowed to talk is practically killing me.…

So I’m doing some behind the scenes work on my blog this week and something crossed my mind – how come we’ve never heard from Owen Wilson about his August 2007 suicide attempt? I mean, wow! He’s really been left alone on this one.…

I’ve been home sick in bed today and doing some behind the scenes blog work that doesn’t take a whole lot of thinking, but I did want to check in with you and share a couple of things. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there are new developments in the Tiger …

Ok, so I got the Tiger Woods Christmas picture via email this morning from one of my friends and totally starting laughing. I then put it up on Facebook and Twitter. It never occurred to me the picture would be so popular, but when I checked out Google Trends this …

Amanda Knox, the American woman accused of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 while they were both exchange students in Italy, has been convicted by a jury and is now facing 26 years in an Italian prison. In a separate trial, Knox’s now ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to …

Happy Friday! Don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty interesting week – including trying to chop off the tip of my right thumb. Do you know how hard it is to function when the thumb on your dominate hand is out of commission?…

Hey everybody! Sorry I’ve been M.I.A. lately; things have been kinda crazy in my world. My site has been having issues for about a week, so that’s annoyed me to no end (and created countless tears). Plus my day job situation is taking an interesting turn – I’m on the …

Cyber Monday 2009 falls on Monday November 30th this year. It is said Cyber Monday started back in 2005 when e-tailers noticed a surge in sales the Monday after Thanksgiving. Since then, e-tailers like Amazon.com, Best Buy, Toys-R-US, Dell, Apple, and Wal-Mart offer rock bottom prices on their most popular …

Macy’s department stores have been around longer than movies have been in color, and so have their sales. This year’s Black Friday is no different. Starting at 5:00 a.m. on Friday November 27th, shoppers are invited to visit Macy’s and take advantage of all their great Black Friday deals.…

Best Buy is one of my favorite stores to visit when looking for movies on DVD – especially those movies that are difficult to find; you know, the movies that once upon a time were all the rage but now no one seems to remember what they’re called.…

Oh my goodness, Old Navy is serious about Black Friday 2009 – they’re starting their sale at 3:00 a.m. this year! I love Old Navy – it makes me think of scarves, warm hats, and cozy sweaters. And the clothes they have for babies and kids are so cute!…

If you love the outdoors you’re probably used to getting up at the butt crack of dawn, so getting to the 2009 Bass Pro Shop Black Friday sale by 6:00a.m. will probably be a walk in the park for you. Enjoy Bass Pro Shop Black Friday savings in every department: …

I’m not sure why, but when I think of JC Penney department stores I think of bed linens and fluffy towels. For Black Friday 2009, JC Penney stores will being opening at 4:00 a.m. So get up early, take advantage of the JC Penney Black Friday deals, then go back …

GameStop is opening at 6:00a.m. on Black Friday this holiday season. Game on!! Digital Media Cards SanDisk Memory Stick Pro Duo 4GB (PSP) SanDisk Wii/DSi 4GB SDHC Card (Wii) Video Games Assassin’s Creed II (Xbox 360) Beatles Rockband (Xbox 360) Chicken Blaster w/Wii Rifle (Wii) Family Game Night (Xbox 360) …

This year Target is throwing open their doors at 5:00 a.m. on November 27th so we can all take advantage of the incredible Target Black Friday sales. Target has a ton of Black Friday specials… …on cozy stuff… Gilligan & O’Malley Women’s Quilted Robe Merona Men’s Cozy Robe Infant and …

So this year Walmart is taking a pro-active approach to the Black Friday madness by keeping most Walmart locations across the country open overnight on Thanksgiving. This move comes out of last year’s trampling death of a Walmart employee. The retail giant said it was hoping the extended hours would …

By my calculations, Americans will consume over a billion pounds of turkey this coming Thanksgiving. Ok, so it’s not an exact number, but there’s still gonna be a whole lot of turkey chewed up next Thursday. There are also going to be several hundred turkeys ruined because they’re not done …

I was at Walmart the other day, and after I made my way through the chaos, I found an adorable red velvet winter holiday dress for my sister’s new baby – who will be approximately 6 weeks and 3 days old on Christmas morning.…

Kmart Black Friday sales 2009 kick off at 6:00 a.m. on Friday November 27th. The store’s “door buster” deals will last from opening until 11:00 a.m. The great Kmart Black Friday specials can be found throughout the store. 18-kt gold earrings as low as $9.99 a pair Women’s cashmere hats, …

In an interview airing Wednesday night on ABC, Janet Jackson tells Robin Roberts that the Jackson family did in fact stage drug interventions for her older brother Michael, but that they ultimately “weren’t very successful.” Michael Jackson never accepted the help but knew the family’s attempts to intervene were “out …

Today happens to be Homemade Bread Day so I thought it would be fun to share a homemade bread recipe or two. Given the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays, the timing couldn’t be better. I found the following homemade bread recipes on TipNut.com…

All I have to say on this one is wow. Just, wow. L.A. restaurateur Josh Woodward stands accused of causing the miscarriage of a woman said to have been pregnant with his child. According to the search warrant affidavit obtained by TMZ, police believe Josh Woodward used a drug called …

I totally missed this one; guess I was too caught up in the Carrie Prejean sex tape brouhaha, but apparently Miss Prejean was not the only beauty queen stripped of her crown this year. Miss England 2009, Rachel Christie, relinquished her crown earlier this month after she was arrested for …

I don’t want to insult your intelligence, so I’m just going to assume you already know about the Carrie Prejean sextape of self-love, and that it’s the real reason good Christian Prejean withdrew her lawsuit against the Miss California USA Organization.…

Believe it or not, the two photos below are of the same person. No, really. Last week former baseball star (and steroid taking bat corker) Sammy Sosa showed up at the Latin Grammys with his wife Sonia looking…..well…..interesting. And very white.…

Yet another celebrity has been arrested. Except this time it’s not for drugs or a DUI, it’s for burglary. Funny man Katt Williams, real name Micha Williams, was arrested Sunday night in Newnan, Georgia and booked into Coweta County Jail on suspicion of burglary and criminal trespassing.…

Well, poo. I was really hoping this would turn into something. It just sounded so juicy. Can’t you picture it? “Your honor, I would like to enter into evidence Exhibit 1 and 2, otherwise known and Carrie Prejean’s boobs.” Ok, so it probably wouldn’t have gone down quite like that, …

Did you have a good Halloween? My night didn’t exactly turn out the way I thought it was going to, but it was fun nonetheless. I love Halloween. LOVE it, but I always seem to have this image in my head of a great big grand exciting night, and it …

Today may be Halloween, but the ghosts and goblins roaming the streets are not what is scary these days. I am simply horrified by the number of celebrities in need of a good tax attorney in Los Angeles because they owe so many back taxes.…

Earlier this week I had no idea what I was going to do for Halloween night this Saturday (other than turn my clocks back an hour before I go to bed – don’t forget!). Now I have plenty of options, but still I have no clue as to what I’m …

I am 31. I am proud to be 31. People often think I’m much younger. That makes me proud too. It means I’m doing something right – I don’t look all tore back and old before I actually am all tore back and old.…

Pssst! Can you keep a secret? Halloween is in less than three days! Are you ready? Is your pumpkin all set to be carved? Have you got your candy? When I was a kid my friend’s dad did the most awesome pumpkins.…

They’re heeeere! No, not aliens silly – those have been roaming the streets forever. I’m talking about my Bridge School Benefit 2009 pictures. Like this one of me. Do you like my hair? I got it chopped last Friday. Now, before you get all huffy, I want to apologize for …

Well it’s the week before Halloween, which can only mean one thing. Time for The Bridge School Benefit Concert. WooHoo! For those who don’t know, The Bridge School is the result of Pegi Young (Neil Young’s wife) and Jim Forderer joining forces with speech and language pathologist Dr.…

We all know the story…Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner on the beloved sitcom Full House, dove face first into the Hollywood drug scene and had a real hard time getting out. But then she got clean and now everything is fine.…

Halloween is 10 days away and as usual I have no idea what I’m going to do for the night, nor do I have a costume. If you’re in the same boat as I am, perhaps this will help. Personally, I want to find out what I’m doing before I …

I have a confession to make – before today the only thing I new about Alexander Skarsgard is that his last name is really fun to say, and that he plays Eric Northman, a 1,000-year-old Viking vampire from Sweden on HBO’s True Blood, which is now in its 2nd season.…

While Stephanie Pratt was getting busted for drunk driving, I was getting my ass beat at Scrabble – but I got to sleep on a bed in a real house, and not on a cot in the big house. As if being related to Spencer Pratt and having to appear …

On this day in 1989 the San Francisco Bay Area did a little rocking – and rolling; and a whole lot of quaking. I cannot believe it has been 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake. I don’t feel like it just happened yesterday or anything – I just can’t …

In the middle of writing my post last night about Lindsay Lohan having to appear in front of a judge about her probation, my internet went down. So a-noy-ing! It was still down this morning, but now it’s finally back. Oh how I missed it so.…

Welcome to the intersection of Avenue T and Van Sicklen in Brooklyn, NY. Just a few doors down is a teeny-tiny house – the smallest one in the borough, as a matter of fact. Located on a lot that used to be a driveway only 7.25 feet wide and 113.67 …

In 1991, an 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street as her horrified step-father watched in disbelief. For 18 years she was held captive in a crap-hole tent compound in the backyard of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in Antioch, CA.…

It’s finally officially official – after what seems like forever and a day, Heidi Klum has finally given birth to her latest genetically superior spawn with husband Seal – a little girl they named Lou Sulola Samuel. Rumors have been flying for days that the ex-supermodel had checked into the …

So the other day I says to myself, I says, “I wonder what ever happened to Lorenzo Lamas?” I mean, we see his plastic mcnasty ex-wife Shauna Sand gallivanting around town in next to nothing and her infamous clear stripper heals all the time.…

Ok, so I know I saw these art cars in Berkeley a few weekends ago – but whatever. I’m sharing them with you now so be happy. You’re welcome. Held on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley – near the UC Berkeley campus – the Berkeley Art Car Fest displayed most of …

Well I warned you, and now it’s happened – the Duggar clan has officially added a generation. Image Source The eldest Duggar boy, Joshua, and his wife Anna welcomed a daughter into the world this week, naming her Mackynzie Renée Duggar.…

Like most other cancers, breast cancer sees no gender lines; affecting both women and men. It’s true that women are about 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer, but men also have breast tissue that can be attacked by cancer.…

Oh Lindsay, Lindsay – what is going on with you, child? Your dad Michael Lohan says you’re addicted to prescription medication and that’s why your career is in the crapper. Is he right? Have you fallen into the black hole of pill addiction like so many celebrities before you?…