Episode #4

Below you can watch Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES (Episode 4- YOU CAN'T HIDE).  Enjoy it! Episode 5- LET IT ALL HANG OUT will be available on December 1 2011.  Visit ShittyFab.com to find out more about the series and upcoming projects.

As always we suggest you watch them in order... IT'S FUN THAT WAY!

Watch Episode 1- SOMETHING THAT FITS

Watch Episode 2- SHE'S HERE

Watch Episode 3- GOING SOMEWHERE

It's Celebration Time!

"There's a party going on right here..."

Yep you guessed the occassion- we now have 100 followers on our wee blog! As promised, our 100th follower and the first person to comment after we reached 100 followers would be the recipients of our very first giveaway! So Brown English Muffin and Helen Stanley get ready to receive your fab gifts. We'll be contacting you by email later this week because we can't send this prize via the internet.  GET EXCITED and snap a pic when you get your goods.!!!

Thanks to all of our followers for the support, the comments and the love... we are looking forward to our next 100.

Oh, and we are doing an "ask us anything vlog."  If there is a question you want us to answer (it can be about ANYTHING) add it as a comment to this post or email us: info@mindogndmetch.com.

...and you know what tomorrow is.  Episode #4 of Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES will be available here (it's already available over at shittyfab.com but don't tell anybody).

Uniquely Who? YOU!

Teyonah Parris on the red carpet
at AFI FEST 2011 "Shame"Gala Screening

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open... "  -Martha Graham

 Say it again Graham!!!

At the moment, among other things, I am all about exploring what makes me ME.  The stuff that makes me unique.  You know- the goods.  Shout out to my sister friend, pictured above, who is doing the same(YOU LOOK BEAUTIFUL- love the hair).

It's so nice to surprise yourself sometimes...

What are you exploring these days?

Episode #3...

Well the time has come for us to share another installment of the Shitty Fab Series.  Enjoy.  This is Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES (Episode 3 - GOING SOMEWHERE)!

CLICK HERE to watch Episode 1 - SOMETHING THAT FITS.
CLICK HERE to watch Episode 2 - SHE'S HERE.  We must admit that watching the episodes back to back is kind of fun!!!  This here love project has life.  WOOT!  Episode 4 - YOU CAN'T HIDE will be available on November 15th.  Be sure to tune in.

Hey Young Metch

Lately I've been reading quite a few posts about what each writer would tell their younger self.  Those posts got me to thinking and asking, "what would I tell my younger self and all the young Metch like ladies who may happen upon this blog?"

I WOULD TELL MY YOUNGER SELF SO MANY THINGS!!!  

I'll give you five from the million.

1. Pounding cement in heels for more that 8 hours a day is a very bad idea.  Join the masses and put a sensible pair of shoes in your bag.  Being cute is not worth the pain you happen to be experiencing right now as you type this post.

2. Put the muffin down.

3. You don't need it in every color. You are only going to wear one color anyway... save your money girl and put that back on the over priced rack.

4. Don't be proactive when you want to be... be proactive all the time!

5.  Your mother is right.  She does know best.  Suck it up and listen now because later you may find yourself wishing you had.

I really could go on and on and on and on...  You guys know how I love a list but 5 is enough. 

What would you tell your younger self?

On Time

Everything happens for a reason, right?

We believe this wholeheartedly.

When things happen we often find ourselves trying to figure out what the reason for the happening is.

This happening was one of those rare occasions where we didn't need to figure out the what or the why.

So happy, so thankful, so surprised!

Follow me...

The other day I happened to be clicking my way through The Lady Bloggers Society website.  That's appropriate.  I'm a lady and I'm a blogger.  Anyway, on the site it was announced that new owners are running the ship over there and since that sparked a little bit of excitement in me I decided to comment on a post... fast forward...

When I checked our email today I found out that we happen to be the recipients of an LBS giveaway that not only includes advertising but an amazon.com gift card.  AHHHHHHHH!  This was the best news ever!!!   It's great to win things, it's even better when you actually need to win a thing and you win it.

During our last taping one of the cameras we use to shoot Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES died.  It's finished.  Kaput.  We're so positive that it will never turn on again.  We knew we would have to buy a new one but we didn't know when we would be able to do so.

WE CAN DO IT NOW!  That's why we won.  With the amazon gift card we received we will be purchasing our new camera tonight.  So, when you see episodes 4-6 in season 1 and all of season 2 please know that some of that footage was made possible by our LBS winnings.

We loved LBS before but now we are in love with the team over there.  THANK YOU!!!  Random or not- THANK YOU!!!  This giveaway was right on time.

Seven Away & A Sneak Peek

When MinDog's mom(CrazyHeart),  the writer, became our first follower/promoter/sole comment leaving reader/one woman pep squad encouraging us to keep going with our crazy blog I personally thought she would be our only follower forever.  At first we told people via email and our facebook status updates that we had a blog in an attempt to make them followers.  We quickly let go of that and just kept blogging for ourselves as we figured out why we were really doing this.

The only thing I/we knew for sure was that we had to commit to it and we did.

It's very easy to start a blog, to start anything really but to maintain and keep something(in this case our Shitty Fab blog) going, growing, changing evolving is another thing...

We are still baby bloggers but we are here and this blog is becoming a reflection of us... of our growth of our journey.

Somewhere way back at the beginning we landed on the idea that this blog could/would document our living out front journey, this blog would be a testament to letting go of the crap and embracing the wonderful(at all times no matter how hard), this blog would be whatever we needed it to be at any given time and it would be honest and when we felt like not doing it anymore we would keep doing it anyway because it's too easy to give up.

In the past few months we came up with new blogging goals and decided that we should once again tell people that we exist and introduce ourselves.  What I'm getting at is this:  WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO BE ON THE VERGE OF HAVING 100 FOLLOWERS.  That is the whole point of this post.  

CrazyHeart isn't the only one interested in our crazy!  There are a few others and there will be more...  What's exciting is knowing that every now and again our living out front helps someone else do the same; even better is knowing that we have made a few people laugh- out loud.  There is nothing better than laughing out loud!

*DEEP HAPPY SIGH*

Because we are so excited we will have  a special gift for our 100th follower  and the first  person who comments after we reach 100 followers...  Trust me this gift is good.  We do know a few skilled people in high places...  It's good!  So if you're aleady a follower send one or some or all of your friends to our blog and maybe you can split the gift/s...

Thank you so much for joining and following our journey!

 "I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right.  When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars."                                                        -Nancy Willard 

Found the quote above on Joyful Jones and fell in love with it... Maybe I'll have to get in to some Nancy Willard. 

She's Here

It's October 15th you can finally breathe again.  Enjoy Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES(Episode 2- SHE'S HERE).  If you missed the first episode click here.  Get addicted to the series, tell us about your addiction, tell your friends about your addiction, tell your friends to watch and become addicted... you get the point.

Thanks for watching.

For Us?

A soft spoken, stiletto minded diva  who can appropriately be found over at her stiletto minded blog, has given our loud mouths the versatile blogger award.  WOOT, WOOT!!

Any award and every award we get- we accept.  It's only right.  Right?

We are over joyed, we are shedding tears, we are jumping up and down... Yes I tend to exaggerate a bit...  We are thankful for the recognition and the opportunity to share and spread some blog love.  Who doesn't want to be thought of as versatile?

Stiletto Minded thank you for thinking of us!

As you may or may not know these blog awards come with rules so we will get in line and follow them.  The rules for this award state that we must link to the person who gave it to us. Since we are SHITTY FAB- that means we go above and beyond- we'll link to the giving diva for the third time in this post just because we can.

The next rule- we have to list 7 things about ourselves(since there are two of us we will give you 14- once again- above and beyond). Last but not least we must pass the award/torch on to 15 other bloggers(see below our lists of 7 things).  Check out the blogs we decided to shout out and then come back and let us know how much fun you had hopping around.

7 Things About MinDog	7 Things About Metch
My full government name is Amina Sabreen Na’eem Robinson	My full government name is Onyemaechi Gwedru Aharanwa
I prefer Pepsi to Coke and had my first taste when I was about 2 years of age	I drink lots of soda water
I’m still afraid of the dark	Anything in the rodent family scares me, it's a real fear- don't laugh
My newest obsession is Hawaiian culture	My newest obsession is teaching myself how to use different editing software while baking
I went to Philadelphia High School for Girls	I went to Brooklyn Tech- a science and mathematics high school… I'm an actor... that's funny
I am not a fan of bodily fluids	I hate when people chew with their mouths open- NOT A FAN OF NASTY BODY SOUNDS!!!
I tried to pee standing up when I was little	I tried to fly off the top of the fridge with a cape when I was little – it seemed like a good idea

When you have a moment checkout the very varied lot of fab blogs below:

My Inner Chick, Brown English Muffin, Ro Gets Fit, Cup 'a Hot Chocolate, 

Sundaes With a Little Butterscotch, Refractions, The Brown Berry, 

Chubby Vegetarian, Do Sweat The Small Stuff, Journalicious, The Clumsy Coquette, Chronicles of Pookah's Mom, World of My Imagination, Thoughts at the Time, Mi-Inspire, Racialicious, and ShittyFab.com - am I allowed to list this one? Either way I've listed it so visit it when you visit the others.

Enjoy!!!  

Can I Be Down

While Mr. Denzel Washington is donating millions I'm wondering how I can get somebody, anybody to donate 5 bucks to my cause.  What's my cause you ask?  Anything that will get you to give me five bucks.

All jokes aside I love to hear and read about giving especially if the giving assists someone pursuing a career in a " lucrative artistic field."  Wait, does that exist?  Hmmm...

Giving is even better when I'm the recipient.  Not this time, maybe next.

Hey Mr. Washington, got a dollar?  I couldn't resist typing that.  Forgive me.

P.S. - Don't forget to watch episode 1 of Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES because the second episode will be posted before you know it.  You wouldn't want to fall behind would you?

101 DAYZ: Big Big Baby

This is more of a rant than anything else about the medical profession and how they need to leave my "big baby" alone!

I'm an average sized woman, I was born 8lbs, 4oz. My husband while born at a more average weight, now stands at 6ft, 3in and 185lbs.  My dad is 6ft, 3in... etc.

At this point it's safe to say that my baby is going to come out BIG!


So what?

I'm tired of doctors and people in general treating their PREFERENCE as FACT!

The only true thing about all pregnancies is that the baby is gonna come out... OTHER THAN THAT EACH PREGNANCY IS DIFFERENT. There are SOOOOOO many variations! It's 2011 everyone KNOWS THIS!!

Clearly, my doctor doesn't like delivering big babies because everyone in the practice keeps commenting on X-Man's size.


The thing that is working my nerves is that MY BABY IS MEASURING WELL WITHIN THE RANGE OF "NORMAL" But no, they prefer to deliver 6lb babies vaginally so they are trying to make me think my baby is too big and that his size is a problem for natural birth!

I am 39 weeks tomorrow and the X-Man is measuring 7 1/2lbs (according to the doctor feeling the baby in my womb). Everything that I've read says that the baby, at this point, should weigh about 7lbs. So by my calculation- I'm doing WELL and he's doing WELL!


If I were to deliver tomorrow (which is very possible) I'D HAVE AN AVERAGE WEIGHT BABY! So why are they trippin'? And even if he gets bigger...who cares? I was over 8lbs myself.

So I'M PISSED...well sort of... I was pissed yesterday. Today I'm blogging so you can know how pissed I was yesterday.

I've done A LOT of RESEARCH!!! I'm that kind of person... and I don't think they like that. They just want to cut me open...NO!

Something That Fits

There isn't much you can do with a $43.00 budget but if you're MinDog & Metch you can make things happen(like the first season of your original web series)... this is where we begin. Enjoy Shitty Fabulous Lives THE SERIES (Episode 1- SOMETHING THAT FITS).

Be a part of  the craze now, it can/will only get better.

Let us know what you think and tell us if there are any new things happening on your blog, in your life, or just in your head.