The Divine Secrets of a Southern Diva

Observations drenched in chocolate, best enjoyed with a fine wine.

A Bowl Full of Crazy For Christmas. JOY!

What the fuck is wrong with people? Please, someone ‘splain this to me. Now, about a year ago, some internet person I barely “knew” lied about some crap (shock!) and got busted. Of course, my friends and I made fun of him for a hot minute then moved on. This got his woman’s panties all [...]

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A Tribute to Steve Perry…

by a bunch of drunk crazy bitches. Me, Mike, Dianne, Sarah, Seth, Savannah and Jacques (yes, Jacques was in town ) all headed out to dinner and Howl At The Moon last night. Initially we were going to Max’s Wine Dive, but since they can’t answer the phone or even be polite, we didn’t get [...]

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Sneak Preview: Thanksgiving at Ali’s…

I think Madeline enjoyed our paisan Thanksgiving… More to come… *burp* -Ali addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southerndivasecrets.com%2Fblog%2Fsneak-preview-thanksgiving-at-alis%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sneak+Preview%3A+Thanksgiving+at+Ali%26%238217%3Bs%26%238230%3B’; addthis_pub = ‘alil’;

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DAY 2: Dianne and Ali Take Over THE WORLD

Yesterday we sat around in our PJ’s most of the day, watched Definitely Maybe and drank coffee.  It was fabulous. Later, Sarah and Kristen came over and we headed out to 1/2 price wine night at The Daily Review Cafe.  Every bottle under $50 is half price. I can dig that. And the food is [...]

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You know how you have one of those days…

When you just want to tell everyone to fuck off? It’s one of those days. I’m just flabbergasted at some shit right now and it’s eating at me. Hopefully I’ll be over it soon because I feel like I’m going to burst into tears at the drop of a hat and then cut a bitch. [...]

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A Moment of Downtime

Mike’s parents came down for the weekend so it’s been a flurry of organizing, finishing up old projects, shopping and planning for the past few weeks. It was sorta the kick-in-the-ass we needed to finish off some projects we’d been talking about and what not. Plus, our raid on Linen’s-N-Things proved to be incredibly lucrative. [...]

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Bump Bump!

That’s my nick-name for Dancing With The Stars because of the first beats of the theme song. Yes, I’m a dork. Bite me. I’m not really happy with the season– the Judges, specifically. I’ve not been happy with how they’ve been treating Lacey Schwimmer. It’s her first season and they have just been mean to [...]

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In Memory of Leo

I found out that a family friend had died yesterday.  Leo Olivier was married to Beth Olivier and together they were one of my parents best friends. They lived in our neighborhood, were from Louisiana and had kids our age. My mom and Beth are so much a like that everyone mistakes them for sisters.  [...]

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My new internet love.

I was perusing a website that hipped me to this little gem: http://myitthings.com It’s like someone said “I am going to make a site for Ali and Dianne to geek out over all things girly. It will be awesome- they can blog and show off all their new shit AND find people just like them. [...]

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Reasons Why I Know I’m Old.

1. On Facebook, I’ve been befriended by girls who I babysat. They are in thier mid-twenties with serious boyfriends and real jobs and all that crap. 2. Molly Ringwald is on a tv show where she plays a 40-something mom with a pregnant teen daughter. Remember when she was the teen queen who wanted Jake [...]

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