Worth Your Time: Why Men Love Bitches

Looking for a book that can boost your self-esteem and dating life? Why Men Love Bitches might be the book for you.

Though Why Men Love Bitches was published back in 2002, it has recently come into mine and my friend Brenda's hands by accident after she found it at her work.

Why Men Love Bitches is not what some might think it is, it's actually a book that can make a woman a strong force in what sometimes is called a "mans world".

The author, Sherry Argov a semi-famous radio host, defines "bitch" as being a woman who can hold her own and stand up for herself, though, more commonly, the word suggests a rude, tough or manipulative woman.

The book gives good insights into how a man actually thinks and wants from a woman. It also delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself.

The Argov offers compelling answers to the confusing questions women typically ask:

- Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change?

- Why do men take nice women for granted?

- Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself?

- What do I need to do to become that one woman he will fall for?



The read is full of advice, comical real-life relationship scenarios and much more might need before, during or after a relationship. It helps you find who you truly are, how to stand up for yourself and overall relate to men on a whole new level.

This book might just be what your relationship and your guy need, or even just plain you...an efficient time waster for sure.

If you're interested in more of Argov's Why Men ______ Bitches, you can visit her website that holds other books on this great topic as well as pod casts and message boards.

Worth Your Time: Mid-life Crisis at the Age of 25

Did anyone ever tell you that life’s hard out there…especially after you graduate college?

Well it can definitely be true in this time and economy. This period of anxiety and depression within the age of the mid-twenties is typically known as the quarter life crisis.

According to dictionary.com, it is an emotional crisis in one's twenties with anxiety and self-doubt after leaving academic life.

There is even a special website that only handles this calamity, quarterlifecrisis.com. A worthwhile time “waster” that can help almost anyone boost their self-esteem during this un-sturdy time period.



The website is full of interesting and helpful suggestions on how one might survive this situation as well as practices one can do before this predicament takes over their mind. Topics on the site range from simple life situations of finance and living circumstances to one’s social life.

Quarterlifecrisis.com is an easy site to navigate with sections listed concerning any problem one might have during this situation with updated monthly articles that relates to each section, books that might assist, along with links to other websites that would be helpful. There are also multiple surveys that can be taken and message boards that can be written in or read.

•Life – This section within the website gives advice for people in their twenties on the financial needs and wants and how to plan for their future. It even has links to other websites that you can test your knowledge on finance planning and spending, as well as where one might find roommates online.

•Work – This section relates to how someone can achieve a career rather than just a job and situations and hints on how to keep it. It also has a side panel that allows a site visitor to complete a quick job search.

•Play – This section explains and gives advice on how to mange one’s social life, all while trying to build your financial and career areas within your life. It gives links to other sites that could advance your social realm if that is what one is trying to do. Links of dating websites, dating advice websites and even links where you can purchase a variety of books that could help you even further.



I personally talked with a friend, lets call her Ashley (as she doesn’t want to be identified) about this website as she was going through this crisis without really knowing she was, and found the site to be interesting and worth the time she spent reading the advice and visiting the links that were given.

“I didn’t think there was a site that catered to a problem like this” she said. “But I googled some of what I was feeling and the term quarter life crisis popped up along with this website. I’m glad I came across it.”

Whether your still in college, graduating a few months away or even have graduated already, this website is one that could help with life’s little and big problems you could or already be facing. It’s just a click away.

Unrelated to the website I found a comical but also informative film relating to the quarter life crisis. I figured I would share just in case more of you were interested in this topic.

Worth Your Time: RSVP to Bride Wars

If you like to watch catty girl fights, comical scenarios and have and hour and half to “waste”, then Bride Wars is the movie for you.

Though Bride Wars is categorized as a “romantic comedy”, it really isn’t that type of “lovey duvey” movie plot that has two love characters, typically a man and a woman go from good to perfect to bad to good again; it’s actually a movie that has a intriguing plot both men and women can enjoy.

I only say this because when I went and saw Bride Wars the theater was packed (which was surprising as I went the second weekend after the release date) with women and men and both my roommate and I noticed and thought it was funny that there was in fact men seated and stayed seated throughout the whole 90 minutes of the movie.

Bride Wars’ plot exemplifies on just how far a woman would go to have the perfect wedding. The film’s humorous situations leads both characters, played by Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway into a war of all girl wars ranging from black mail to just plain scary and hurtful tactics.



Surprising of all, the film ends in correlation to one short scene most viewers won’t pick up on (though I did pick up on it, my roommate didn’t) leaving viewers pleased with an ending they didn’t predict, unlike most movies out there.

Worth Your Time: Buying a Home for the First Time Can Be Fun to Watch and Informative Too

My First Home is reality television show on the TLC Discovery television network that provides a real life of prospective home buyers and the process they go through to find and purchase a home for first time buyers.




This show is very interesting as it appeals to a diverse audience since the soon-to-be first time home buyers range in ages from the mid-twenties to people in their early forties. The show simply illustrates the process step by step that one must do to buy a home in any market across the United States; though typically, the show is filmed and produced in higher real state markets such as Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia and Concord, New Hampshire just to name a few.

The show demonstrates each step within the show in order to make it simpler for the viewer to understand, as most viewers are typically future first time home buyers as well.

The process includes:

•Touring the real estate and picking out the right house.

•Making an offer or even a counter offer.

•Waiting through escrow along with safety inspections.

•The final exchange of keys along with all the paperwork.


This show truly represents the ups and downs that first time home buyers go through and must tackle before they call their home really theirs. Though, at times it also serves to the amusing side of home buying when couples tend to disagree among themselves or even with their own realtor.



My First Home is not only on television, but it also has an interactive website within the TLC Discovery network online. The website allows viewers to catch up on the latest show, take a home buyer quiz, read through a property guide and even chat with other viewers of this show and other TLC shows through a real estate forum.

Overall, this show is best to “waste” your time on because it is an example of real life home buying situations some might not be recognized with just yet, but will need to learn if home buying is in their near or even distant future.

Saves You Time: It can be 'Real Simple' to keep your New Year Resolutions

With 2009 just beginning, a majority of people across the world begin their New Year’s Resolutions that either involves exercising, money management or even finishing things that they began but never finished from the previous year or in some cases previous years.

Real Simple is a helpful and easy to navigate website that could actually increase your chances of sticking to your New Year’s Resolutions or even add more resolutions to your list to check off.


The website includes a number of topics that explores any type of life from stay at home parents to college students. The topics also have weekly articles and weekly solutions within each.

Some topics include:

•Food and Recipes: Hi-lights recipes given by professional chefs to ordinary at home cooks. It also gives web surfers of the website entertainment ideas for dinner parties.

•Home and Organization: Gives organization ideas for any room in a home, cleaning directions, maintenance and repair guides, gardening suggestions, a list of new uses for old things (see below for my new use of an old thing that the site suggested), along with multiple check lists to organize one’s life.



•Beauty and Style: Offers fashion and beauty advice and ideas for every day women and sometimes men.

•Life and Soul: Explores and suggests ideas on how to manage money, travel situations, proper etiquette and health information.

•Celebrations: Provides holiday decorating ideas, gift giving ideas and even directions and other websites on how to send e-cards.

The website also offers places to purchase products from Real Simple. Such products can even be found at Target stores nation wide. I do in-fact have a product from their line and it does actually does make my life real simple at times.


Real Simple also has a monthly magazine that can be purchased and subscribed to on their website that offers more ideas and updates of the things that can be found on the site.

Another attractive part of the site offers recap videos of Real Simple’s own television show Real Simple, Real Life that airs on the TLC network. One recap is show below.



The Recap: Sue Procko Boxer - Real Simple
http://www.realsimplereallife.com/television/episo...

Overall, if you're looking for a website to search a variety of useful topics to browse quickly or to take your time on, Real Simple is the one for you.

Worth Your Time: A Reality Show with a Rush

There are numerous reality television shows out in the “T.V. World” as I like to call it; though there are only some that make the cut to actually “waste” your time on.

Rookies, a reality show featured on the television network A&E TV is a show that takes viewers into the extreme first days of police officers in major cities. The show shoots on location in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, and just hours away in the nearby city of Tampa.

Each week viewers can escape their dull everyday life and reality and voyage through the rookies’ real life reality that takes them into dangerous situations; though, at some points, the show can become comical because you can point out the rookies mistakes before they do themselves on the show.






The show also offers attractive tools online if you really enjoy and get caught up in all the police action and don’t want to leave it just yet. You can watch video recaps, see photos of the rookies at work and even compare notes and chat with other viewers of the show.

Overall, if you enjoy watching reality shows with risky situations, humorous scenes and a show where you can feel smarter than a trained police officer, Rookies is the one to “waste” your valuable time on.