Big News!

We’ve had an amazing year hanging out here with all of you ladies (and gentlemen), but....

(drum roll, please...)

The ChickChat blog is relocating to www.chickchatradio.com/blog

So stop by the Cheetah Lounge and say hi - we'll be keeping the party rolling!

Special thanks to all our wonderful new iVillage friends who helped make this year happen. We will always tell your ‘stripper pole’ story to anyone who needs to know how much fun this company is (did you know that iVillage corporate has a stripper pole?!)!

And special thanks to YOU for taking the time to stop by to say hi and tell us what's REALLY going on in your bedrooms, kitchens, and make-up bags.

See you at the new “digs”!! We CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Muuuwwwaaaaaahhhh! (big wet sloppy kiss)

Heidi & Lara

We also got a lilac plant - which I hear will soon turn into a bush or something? Anyway - that's the fiance's department. I'm just waiting for the plant to bloom so I can smell some fresh lilac. It's resting next to the herb planter that my brother & sister-in-law gave us as a housewarming gift last year (note the dead herbs):

It is SO awesome to start the day watching birds eat breakfast.

Anyone know what kind of birds these are??

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!! Let's hope the snowing is over for at least a couple of months!

Cheers, Lara

Sometimes we need a little help getting "in the mood."

Some of us sleep in sweatpants (shame on us! not hot!!). Some of us are so distracted by work and family and busy with LIFE that we forget to want to get busy.

Rosie has admitted that she and Kelli have appointment sex. And comedian Louis CK has a HILARIOUS rant on what happens when his wife realizes that she's going to read about him in the paper if she doesn't help relieve the, uh, tension.

But good lovin' is such an important part of relationships, it can't be good to let the ultimate expression of lurve go by the wayside!

Have you figured out how to get in the mood? Do you recommend 'fakin' it til you make it'? Maybe you start thinking about it in the morning (hmmm..I'm in the shower, I'll shave my legs!). Or you go lingerie shopping. Do you light candles and take a bubble bath? Do you need anything on hand to relax and get into it? Say, birth control or Barry White?

Or better yet - does HE do something to get your engines revving??

ChickChat is working with a new partner, Zestra, a product to help get the party started. But it made me wonder - what do YOU do to get in the mood??

Cheers,
Lara

Now, I adore my future stepchildren (Girls, 9 and 13 years old). I wish we had them all the time - no diss to their mom, I just LOVE these girls!

But right now? I'm sitting in my QUIET apartment. Alone. In the room we call the "Girls' Room" because it's where my office is and where the girls sleep & have their stuff. In fact, the 9-year-old's Care Bear sheets are still warm in the bunk bed that I can touch from my desk.

Don't get me wrong here - we had a wonderful vacation! But trying to work from home with three other people around is really hard. I felt like everything got done to the least of my abilities last week. It was chaos!

As you real, full-time mom's know - that first day back to school is a reason to celebrate. I can only imagine what September is like for you!

Uh-oh. In the time it's taken me to write this, I'm already sad that I won't be seeing the girls tonight. I'll have to wait til Wednesday to see them - only two more days!!

Cheers, Lara

The weekend went smoothly. Everyone fell in love with my new family, we took a trolley tour of Savannah and we ate fried chicken and had a good ol' time. The weather was perfect! It was all good!

At about hour 40 (on Sunday), we heard that there was bad weather up north, and the airlines claimed that the only way to guarantee that we'd make it home on the same day as our departure was to wait out the storms a couple of days. We rebooked for Tuesday afternoon and hit the road for Charleston.

At this point I had to call Heidi and explain that ChickChat Radio was going to have to go on without me for two days. We've NEVER been down a co-host at the last minute for 2 days in a row. I felt terribly - essentially, instead of calling in "sick" I was calling in "well!"

But on the road to Charleston we rode through Garden's Corner, South Carolina, and came across these:

I LOVE boiled peanuts, and they are only available in the south. They taste a little like edemame...but are an acquired taste!

Charleston was, of course, beautiful:

If you've ever called in "well" to work (instead of "sick"), you know how I felt for the two extra days. A little guilty, but a little thrilled to have a bonus 2 days added to a weekend.

Have you ever called in "well'???

Cheers, Lara

Um, I dunno. Doing our radio show is so time consuming that very little time is even left for the business of getting stations and selling ads. So my office is a PILE.

Soooo, I brought the vacuum cleaner into the office yesterday. Nope, we do not have someone cleaning our office. And its been far too long since its been vacuumed. I think the carpet is BLUE not BROWN! And I thought it really did match the Cheetah Chaise!!! (boy was I wrong).

I threw out two hefty bags of old paper. And those stacks of books "Divine Divorce" and "Magnificent Menopause" are about to go also. I only hold onto the "How to Trap Him into Doing What You Want, WHEN You Want It" books....you know, the USEFUL ones...

What else do I do? Sit around and track every moment of the Virginia Tech massacre since my brother-in-law went there some years ago, half my high school did also, and I live north of there up against those Blue Ridge Mountains.

I've been taken aback by all the reports in the past months about men killing, burning, dismembering wives and girlfriends.

Then this Virginia Tech killer has to go add a few (30!) other people to his list?

What possibly in their past could make them so freakin crazy????????

When we're despondent over loosing a guy? Us women go get boob jobs. (ok, after a little tiny bit of stalking...) Men maim, kill, burn and dismember? What went wrong here??? I continually ask my husband if he is embarrassed by his species. (I call men a "species" when I'm upset and don't understand them).

I don't get it. I want to get it. I don't know why, but I want to. I wanna sit down with an entire room of FBI profilers and really understand why people feel the need to do this.

I guess I think it will make me feel better. But intellectually, I know it won't. Having my co-host back? THAT will make me feel better!

Cheers!
Heidi

He also brought home these:

He's got excellent timing. I've been wound pretty tight lately, and too busy to do things like make dinner. We're heading south this weekend for an engagement party that my Dad is throwing us. By "we" I mean the two of us, his children, his parents, my brother, my parents & step-parents. And a ton of my relatives are coming in from all over the country - one of them said she can't wait to "meet the man that captured your heart."

Does it go without saying that I'm a wreck?? This is like a mini-wedding! Which of his daughters will have a clothing emergency? Did I get the right shoes? Will he finally get the cold that I've had for a week now? Will the storms mess up our travel? Will EVERYONE GET ALONG??

These family weekends are my favorite childhood memories, but what if his quiet northern family hates my loud southern family??

Last night when he walked in the door with flowers and dinner, I almost burst into tears with relief.

Despite the train wreck I've turned into this week, he must still love me enough to do something nice like bring flowers home two days before we go away. This weekend, as I introduce my new family to my "old" family, I'll remember the flowers that are slowly rotting in our apartment.

What has he done for me lately? He's taken care of me in the most basic way (food) and in a way that he knows I'll appreciate (flowers).

What has your guy done for YOU lately?

Even when you have a job that you love, some weeks Friday can't come soon enough. This is one of those weeks!

I'm glad it's Friday because...

- We get to do an extra hour of ChickChat Radio just for XM, from 4-5 pm ET on Take Five, Channel 155
- I get to spend the entire weekend with my fiance - just the two of us!
- Sure, the Sopranos starts on Sunday night...but so does Entourage!! Yay!!!
- Even though it snowed this week, every day later into April we go is another day closer to spring & summer!
- Since I don't live with small children, I'll get to sleep late!!! Saturday AND Sunday!
- One week from tomorrow, I'll be eating Johnny Harris fried chicken in Savannah Georgia (just like in the picture). My Dad's throwing us an engagement party there and I can't wait! I'm TGIF'ing today for NEXT Friday, how weird is that?

Why are you glad it's Friday?

Cheers, Lara