Comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates have graced the pages of Video Dumping Ground before, so I will not waste everyone's time talking about how amazingly funny, talented and great these two ladies are. I also won't talk about how their relatively flippant attitude to gender roles that they express in comedy and song help heal wounds we all deal with daily and let us all grow together across gender lines. Instead, I will let them regale you with this song about a college bisexual experience. Because everyone likes thinking about ladies doin' it with each other, right?

Just the other night, I managed to lose my eyeglasses somewhere in either my bathroom, closet, or bedroom. I retraced my steps many times, looked in all the usual spots, plus the trash bin, and just could not find them. Glasses are expensive and I dreaded the idea of buying new ones, or choosing to go without. Seriously, where could they have gone?

As I was attempting to find those misplaced eyeglasses, it struck me that yes, I have a lot of clutter, and that clutter was making it really hard to find anything. I have receipts in my bathroom cupboard from years ago, just in case I decide to return that jar of face cream that was used up in 2008, I guess. The closet has a pile of unmatched socks, just waiting for me to take the time to match them up and put them away. The bedroom was better, very little clutter there, but a few books that I have no immediate plans to read. 

This little exercise in futility got me thinking...it’s time to clean up the clutter. I turned to eBooks, which I frequently do in times of need, and came across this helpful little number entitled Declutter Your Home Fast by Dale Homes. 

The book reviews some of the reasons people clutter, and the benefits of de-cluttering. It also included ideas for planning your de-cluttering attack, along with space saving ideas. Many of these ideas will be useful for apartment or small home dwellers, so even if you aren’t prone to clutter, these can be helpful. 

So far, I’ve thrown out those old receipts, along with some long expired credit cards. I did choose to go through the socks this morning and match up two to wear from the pile, so slowly, the clutter is being reduced. 

And my glasses? Yes, I did eventually find them...in between the blankets on the bed.

Do you love the look of cat eye makeup that is inspired by many celebrities such as J. Lo? Do you think this is a look that only professional makeup artists can accomplish? Do you wonder if it is a look that you can pull off for that next night of fun you have planned?

First, anyone who can apply eye makeup can accomplish this look. Yes, you can also become better at it, with practice. Second, anyone who is glamorous and daring will look good with a cat eye.

What do you need? You will need a pale pearly base cream eye shadow, a dark brown eye shadow, a white eyeliner, a dark eyeliner and classic black mascara. Begin by applying some of the pearly base cream eye shadow over the lids of your eyes. You can do this with your fingertips. Do this in a gentle motion. Now using your eye brush, apply the dark brown eye shadow to the crease of your eyelid. Apply as far as your brow line runs.

Take your dark eyeliner and draw a thin line on your top of your eyelid, close to your lashes. The goal is to fill in any gaps you see between your lashes. This line should be close to the lashes. Now you will begin to draw the wing that makes this look such a statement.

Continue with your dark eyeliner and bottom rim of your eyelid. Again, this should be a thin line from your nose to the center of your eye. At the corner, you will want to begin applying the liner a bit darker and then extend the line past your line and upward a tiny bit.

You will finish emphasizing the wing, by taking your white eyeliner and applying it above the dark liner on the top corner of your eyelid as you extend it out toward the wing line. Your last step is to add mascara to your lashes. You should apply two coats to make your lashes stand out more, as well as give them a bit more volume.

If you keep up on the news at all, you’re probably aware that pit bulls have been depicted by the media as blood-thirsty killers, and largely because of stereotypes, have been the target of some communities’ breed specific legislation. The breed has supporters as tenacious as its reputation, and some of these supporters are fighting the stereotypes and bans in a way that I believe will be effective, and also healthier for the pit bulls. 

What are these pit bull advocates doing? They are encouraging obedience training. In my local community, a pit bull rescue group has begun offering training for the families who adopt one of their dogs.The owners learn about dog behavior, and they develop better relationships with their new family members. The pit bulls thrive on the positive attention, and they thrive on being given a job to do, a job that is not only active, but that also uses their minds.

This is just my opinion, but when I’ve talked with various camps of dog people over the years, I’d be struck by one thing. People who get herding breeds usually understand they need to give their dogs plenty of training and exercise, or the dogs will behave poorly, and can become destructive and neurotic.

People who got pit bulls, however, often seemed to think they didn’t need to work with their dogs. They usually had little interest in dog sports. Pit bulls are energetic and intelligent, making this belief a recipe for disaster. I’m relieved to see that the tide is turning, and that opportunities are being provided for pit bulls to get the training they need, that almost any dog needs, to fit in with our society.