Friday Favorites - My Favorite Guests No. 2

In an effort to rid myself of all blogging responsibility on Thursday nights and to not have to wrack my brain to try to pull from it something - anything - that I've enjoyed even mildly from the previous week, I'm once again passing off the Favorites to someone else this week. 

Okay, I'm kidding. Not about the passing off the Favorites part, but about not wanting to write the FF post. In all honesty, it's my (irony alert) FAVORITE post to write each week and I rarely have trouble coming up with random and inconsequential things that have whetted my whistle from the week (not proper grammar (or even actual grammar), I realize, but it's my blog so I get to use my own language). 

But last month I had this idea to let my (irony alert #2) FAVORITE bloggers share their Favorites with you, and it quickly became another (you guessed it) FAVORITE thing. 

It's been a Friday GIF before, I know. But it's a (wait for it)…FAVORITE.  

So I've decided that it will be a recurring thing, and every couple of months you will be treated to the scintillating writings of women like these, who are my Favorites today (somebody stop me). 

The Dose Girls (who together write the blog, The Dose of Reality) have become some of my best blogging friends - hell, forget the blogging part even - ever since we all were lucky enough to wind up in this book together. Over the past six months we've bonded over our love of all things celebrity, GenerationX, and The Bachelor. I'm so happy to have them as my guests today. Make sure to check out their blog and follow them on Facebook and Twitter. 

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When Michelle asked us to share our favorites this Friday, we felt like two ladies stuffed into our double layer of SPANX, decked out in our finest pageant-inspired evening dresses during a very special Rose Ceremony on The Bachelor.

It's been a busy week on the old interwebs, so it was difficult to pick just four things, but here we go...

1. Duck Dynasty

No longer is Ashley one of only 12 people in the continental US who had yet to fall under the magical spell of Uncle Si and the gang! Lisa's cajoling finally paid off, and Ashley finally began watching the show!! Beside making us laugh, the Duck Commanders even inspired a blog post. Who knew the bearded Robertson clan would become our muses?

*interruption from Michelle - OMG THIS PHOTO IS BEYOND BRILLIANT. Poster, please. 

2. The Selfie

It's been a GOOD week for the selfie! It's not just for making duck faces in the bathroom mirror anymore! The Oxford Dictionary has declared "selfie" their Word of the Year for 2013. So hold your cell phones out at arms length and smile away. The selfie is legit!

3. Catching Fire

No we do not need to stop, drop, and roll...we are talking about the next installment of the Hunger Games movie franchise. We could not be more excited!! Even though we hadn't been out past 11 pm since the mid 90s, we actually went to a midnight viewing for the original Hunger Games opening in 2012. We even *might* have had "Team Peeta" t-shirts made to wear with our yoga pants to the theater. It was a BLAST. Time has taken its toll and we didn't get to the midnight showing for Catching Fire, but we are at least seeing it opening day! As rabid fans of Katniss we cannot WAIT!

4. Girl Power

Toy company Goldie Box is determined to change the fact that the vast majority of engineers and scientists are men. They make toys that defy the usual definition of "girlish" and encourage girls to channel their inner engineer. At Goldie Box they "believe there are a million girls out there who are engineers. They just might not know it yet." With a video like this and toys that inspire, we have a feeling that is going to change!

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Thanks, Dose Girls! This now leaves me with much more time on my Thursday night to sit on my butt in my snuggie, drinking wine and watching a craptastic holiday movie on the Hallmark channel - favorite, favorite, aaaannnnd favorite. 

Make sure and come back on Monday for a fabulous appetizer recipe. It's what I'll be eating for dinner tomorrow night just so I can take pictures to post. *shaking head* - The things I do for you guys.... :)

Have a great weekend!!! 

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