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While visiting the Today.com blogs and videos today, I came across a video from Easy Living called Shopping as a Size Zero. Why’d everybody get so quite? Okay, yes I thought the same thing. Now settle down ladies. It is hard to be petite and shop for clothes, I’m petite at 5’1” and shrinking…umm…in height, and let me tell you, it is very hard to find fashionable clothes in my size that fit me.

Easy Living followed this British woman who recounted visiting New York City and not being able to find any clothes while she was shopping (maybe she was in the wrong part of New York City). So when she returned home she visited some shops that dressed her up in Size 0 couture. At least they think it was couture.

It broke my heart to see her pick up the clothes off the rack and declare each piece too big. It also broke my heart that they kept dressing her in black and grey. Not to mention the stilettos to give her height. Hey, there is nothing wrong with being height challenged.

Watch the video, but I warn you it is over six minutes, a very long six minutes of a woman shopping…for size 0 clothes. Please make sure you are not alone in the house and that you have nothing to beat yourself over the head with incessantly.

So, tell us your biggest problem when shopping for clothes, is it the fashion or the size?

The last thing I want to hear about when I send my daughter off to college is about her field trip to the local brothel. Apparently that is what some parents will hear about after sending their daughters to Randolph College.

Randolph College, of Lynchburg, VA, had a field trip to Chicken Ranch, a desert brothel outside of Las Vegas. Oh! It was a legal brothel, where the college crossed state lines. That is different, I’m sure. I have a whole new perspective on it now.

Surprisingly enough the college was able to schedule the trip without protest from parents. Also surprising was the fact that this is the first class tour requested in 21 years at Chicken Ranch…you don’t say.

If this is the best we have to offer in the college’s American Culture Program I am saddened. It is impressive that they have visited post-Katrina New Orleans, and not so impressive Walt Disney World, but what does it say about our culture to visit Chicken Ranch?

I mean no disrespect to the ladies at Chicken Ranch either. If I recall I remember a great-relative (I won’t say which one), tell me that men have to take care of their needs. However, for the money parents are spending to send girls to college, where they are already being confronted with the needs of men, is it necessary to reinforce what men need and what a business opportunity this is?

The kicker here, and pay attention to this, Randolph College, until recently used to be an all-girls college. Hmmm.

Many of us would rather walk barefoot on coals than try on swimsuits. Have no fear, all you is here.

I just got the May issue of all you and I have to hand it to them, they do a nice job presenting swimsuit wear for the summer.

The magazine is touted as Ideas - Tips - Life with a Reality Check, and they do serve it up. Although their website topic Find your best fit in swimwear doesn’t compare to the magazine presentation it is informative so visit if you can.

In the magazine they have a page with swimsuits sorted out by body types, Pear-shaped, Curvy and Apple-shaped. I think I will rip it out and put it in my purse when I shop for my next swimsuit instead of ripping out my hair.

Oooh, I have a secret admirer in advertising. I noticed all my ads are shoe ads today. But my blog isn’t really about shoes. However this will be good for all the lost people searching for shoes who say “Who is Violette DeSantis and do I want to buy her shoes?”

Mags wants to know if she should click on my ads. Well, it is a great frontier in Ad Land, or is that the Land of Ad…anyway, enter at your own risk is what I always say. My previous post wasn’t exactly the hard sell, it was more about the humor I had continued to find day after day in my ads. I imagine I’ll be more popular if you click away though.

Everyone has been quite polite and never complained and I’m sure if you find me as entertaining as Mags then the ads were of no consequence. I am sorry that you didn’t get a good laugh before the shoe ads appeared though!

Oh well, back to the old drawing board. I am having fun with this blog and love all the people at Today.com, even the mysterious ad person who will probably hear from me soon and wonder why I’ve inquired to have the shoe ads removed from the blog called BigShoes.

I hope I don’t get a reputation like David Letterman.

Today we are going to talk about ads…ads for which I will apologize for, as I have no idea why they show up in the margins of my blog. I think it has something to do with me being a women’s interest site. Perhaps the meaning of women and interest has currently taken on a meaning not meant for us women.

I do think you should browse them though because occasionally quite a good one pops up. Especially if you are like me, looking for Indonesian women or gay men, I’ve always had a problem making up my mind there. How about you? I know it is such a hard habit to break, which is why the financing ad is usually up top.

And what are those ad links in another language? Yes I want some of that too.

But soon we are bored, and it is back to the TV and Movie listings and when we are done wasting time there we can either check out the kitchen blog or the emergency checklists blog for moms. Now see if we were watching our kids we wouldn’t have too much need for that one. And if we had a good catch, we wouldn’t be spending nearly enough time in the kitchen.

What’s your favorite unrelated ad to your blog?