My first time on the Red Carpet

What kind of wine do you pair with chicken? 

What kind of wines improve with age?

Does high price equal high quality?

If you are a wine lover, but are not as cultured about it as you wish to be, keep reading. You and I…yeah, we’re on the same boat. 

I had heard that the customer service at Red Carpet Liquor was great, but “great” does no justice to the type of  “Red Carpet Treatment” I received Saturday night. I walked in looking for some Cabernet. The Co-Owner of Red Carpet, H.K Hedlund, approached and assisted me as I picked out a couple of bottles. As we made our way to the register, I hesitantly told him about my love for wine but my lack of experience with it. As apposed to the “It’s not for everyone.” response I’ve gotten by other wine experts; I got the total opposite response from H.K.

“Here, I tell you what my dear...” Before I could say anything, H.K. ran to the back and returned with a huge stack of magazines. “Take these, they’re on me. It’s your first homework assignment. They are good reads filled with lots of information that will help you. Consider it lesson number one.”

We all know that this type of generosity and passion coming from a business owner is rare now a days. The good old-fashioned customer service is probably why I, without doubt, recommend all of you to go check out the local family run store. You will find such a huge and diverse selection of wines, beers and spirits. For those of you who smoke cigars, they carry cigars from some of the best producers in the world. They also offer a wine bar where they host private parties and special tasting events. Red Carpet will definitely see me as soon as I am done with my first “homework” assignment. Thanks again H.K.!

FOR LOCATION, HOURS, EVENTS AND MORE..CHECK OUR THEIR WEBSITE!

http://www.redcarpetwine.com/

XOXO, LALA. 

An invitation to the Fiasco..

"I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit

Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets

How much money does it take to really make a full clip

9/11 building 7 did they really pull it

Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups

Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts

If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut

The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up

Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the upper-crust

You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough

If you turn on TV all you see is a bunch of “what the fucks”

Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such

And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news

And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth

Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist

Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit

Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either

I’m part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful

And I believe in the people.

Now you can say it aint our fault if we never heard it

But if we know better than we probably deserve it

Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship?

Murdering is not Islam!

And you are not observant

And you are not a muslim

Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them

Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went

Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?

Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?

Just listening to Pac aint gone make it stop

A rebel in your thoughts, aint gon make it halt

If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor

Pills with million side effects

Take em when the pains felt

Wash them down with Diet soda.

Killin off your brain cells

Crooked banks around the World

Would gladly give a loan today

So if you ever miss payment

They can take your home away.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it

We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth

So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you

Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to

I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you

Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few

My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through"

Lupe Fiasco-Words I Never Said

XOXO, LALA.

TOWARDS UNCHARTED TERRITORY #25.

I  was strolling around Barnes and Noble looking for inspiration when I came across Dansk. I think it's safe to say that, “The world’s most independent fashion magazine” has got me hooked.

My favorite editorial from the Spring/Summer 2011 issue: 

Snap, Crackle and Pop by Joachim Mueller-Ruchholtz, with Ashley Smith.

check it out!

XOXO, LALA.

No motivation, no victory

Everybody needs motivation to keep going. Here are some of the things that are imprinted in my mind. Enjoy the fuel for my FIRE...

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth." -Rocky Balboa.(ROCKY)

"Float like a butterfly...Sting like a bee."-Muhammad Ali

"We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time." -Tony D'Amato(ANY GIVEN SUNDAY)

"Fall down seven times, stand up eight."-Japanese Proverb

"What I'm doing right now...I'm chasing perfection." -Kobe [BLACK MAMBA] Bryant

"Cause sometimes you just feel tired. You feel weak and when you feel weak you feel like you wanna just give up. 

But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength 

and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up 

and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse." -Marshall Mathers

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender." 

-Tupac Shakur

XOXO, LALA.

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