Got RHOK OUT Tickets?

Hi RHOK friends!

Mrs. Sinclair here again. Have you ever tried to write a post waiting for the POTUS to announce Bin Laden is dead? Yah. Me either. But, alas, here I am. It's kind of distracting.

Anyway. I am going to be doing my best to remind y'all how much fun it's going to be on May 12, when we party with 918moms.com at El Guapo. Don't forget to pre-buy your tickets! We only have so many and most of those are gone. We want to meet all of you and can hardly wait!

In the meantime, I am going to give you a little taste of what we will be giving away. Remember we will have door prizes every 15 minutes! You just can't believe the cute goods we have girls. It's possible I just might forget to bring my finds with me to giveaway to you guys. I don't want to part with them!

We will also have several RHOK tees to giveaway, but also, for the FIRST time, we will have RHOK shirts to offer for sale! We are very excited to offer 2 styles. First our logo tee:

Secondly, we have a new tee we will offer for the first time:

What do you think about that??

All the RHOK ladies and 918moms.com are super thrilled to host this special lady's night out for you. Don't forget we also get to hear Sarah Roe, the coupon queen, too. That and the queso, alone, should woo you-let alone the chance to get out on the town with your friends and live it up! 

It's super easy and safe to buy your tickets with PayPal. Just choose HOW you will be paying from the drop down menu and voila! If you have no PayPal access, contact one of us or send the RHOK an email and we will try and make other arrangements. Remember, if you do not prepurchase, they are $15 at the door IF we have any remaining. We don't want to miss you!

Payment options

Bank Account transfer $10.00 CREDIT CARD $11.00 E-Checks $10.50

Mrs. Sinclair

who is ready to RHOK!

Dump The Guilt, Girlfriend: A Special Guest Post by Cindy Morrison (& another giveaway!)

The RHOK is honored to have Oklahoma's own Cindy Morrison guest posting for us today! And, there is a special chance to win a treat when you get to the bottom! You can read all about Cindy here.

As I sat at my daughter's rehearsal, I should have been all smiles and full of pride. But I wasn't it. I wasn't watching her steps and enjoying her smile. No, instead I was tense, preoccupied and frantically answering emails on my iPhone. Why? Well, I really didn't have a clue that anything was the matter until the lights came up and all the other mother's were applauding. (What?! Did I really just miss EVERYTHING! Oops...) As my eyes began to adjust to the bright auditorium, only one thing came to mind: Guilt. Yep, I felt guilty for working when I should have been playing. But hey, maybe I was working BECAUSE I felt guilty for playing when I should have been working. Did I lose you?

Welcome to the world of GUILT.

This feeling is nothing new to me. I mean, I grew up in the South, where there is plenty of guilt to spread around! Let’s see, where should I start? Leave the house without lipstick? Guilt! (If you doubt that...just ask my Mom! Speaking of my Mom...) If I don't call my parents in Texas enough? Guilt! I have a hard time saying no and I generally end up over-scheduling my schedule? Guilt! After all the stress of reinventing myself, I’m too tired for a little something-something with my husband? Guilt! But I thought my guilt of being a working mom would go away when I established my own business and could "work the schedule around my kids" after my corporate lay-off. Ha!


For 20 years, I worked morning until night as a TV news anchor and investigative reporter. At a moment's notice I was ready to leave because of breaking news and always had a bag packed. I'd spent nights at the station when major storms rolled in. And I thought I always had to be reachable 24/7. Uffda. (That's a hat tip to my great Minnesota friends who have endeared me to the term "uffda".) Being ready to leave meant a babysitter on-call. Spending nights at the station meant a fab husband. And being reachable 24/7? That meant I wasn't always there for my kids. Was I a journalist or a Mother? Oh dear, more GUILT!
That's why I thought things would change when the economy took a turn and I got laid off. As an entrepreneur, I could structure my work around my kids, right? How hard could it be? I'd be working from home, for goodness sake! As you might guess, it didn't take long for me to learn that beginning my "work" after they went to school and then stopping by the time they got home didn't leave much time to write a book, create a business and market the whole dang thing by myself. Even my hubby (God bless him) wondered why I hadn't cleaned house since I was working from home. Seriously?! DOUBLE GUILT!!!


What I finally realized? We CAN'T do it all! Superwoman is a GREAT concept but there's a reason she's only a comic book character! The fact is, we are REAL women who are trying to do all the right things while going in a thousand different directions. While we're generally fabulous at multitasking, there's really only so many balls we can really keep up in the air. So, let's STOP the guilt, take a deep breath and try to do one good thing at a time. Hmmmm... maybe we could even enjoy that one thing while we do it! What a concept! (On a side note: I just saw a study that says when we multitask, it actually takes us much longer to do simple tasks. So, we're really NOT saving time by combining activities.)


I vote we take an oath right now:
WE ARE *NOT* GOING TO FEEL GUILTY JUST TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!
Let's say that all together...
WE ARE *NOT* GOING TO FEEL GUILTY JUST TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!


Yes, feel guilty when you do something you shouldn't. Feel guilty if you screwed up. But DON'T feel guilty for trying to do it all, Girlfriend! Sometimes our personal lives and work collide. But as much as you can, give yourself permission to ENJOY life! For me? How awesome that my new "situation" means I can set my own hours! That's right, I can enjoy spending time at my daughter's rehearsal, even if it means staying up later to get work done. I don't have to feel guilty because I'm not working during traditional work hours. Sure, that may mean less beauty sleep, but it doesn't mean I have to feel guilty! Create the life that works best for YOU!


So, shed the guilt and live your life the way you want to live it! It doesn't mean you have to do it the way your neighbor does it or the way your mother did it. Chart a new course and ditch the guilt! As long as you're living life fully and trying to do what's right for you and your family, the word guilt shouldn't even be a part of your vocabulary. I can promise you that during the next rehearsal I won't be checking my iPhone for work emails. Instead I'll be using that cool gadget to take video of my daughter. Let's face it, work will always be there but our kids are only young once. We shouldn't guilt ourselves for doing what we need to do, but we also shouldn't guilt ourselves for enjoying life and living in the moment.


Mrs. Morrison

special guest, and RHOKer girlfriend extraordinaire


**The RHOK is pleased to be able to offer the chance to win one of Cindy's books, Girlfriends 2.0! Simply comment about what you like to do best with your girlfriends below, and a comment will be chosen at random and announced next week, when we announce the winner of yesterday's way cool necklace giveaway.  Contest open until 11:59pm 12/18/10! Tell all your friends to come on over and enter!

Sex and the City 2: Soundtrack Review, Giveaway & RHOK out news

It's been a long night for this RHOK star, as a large group of us all went to see SATC2 last night at the midnight premiere!  It was a very anticipated RHOK out (aka, Girls Night Out).

We are so happy to get to giveaway an original motion picture soundtrack for the movie, thanks to the One2One Network! So, first, we're covering that. Then, I will get to the movie.

Sex and the City 2: Original  Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on May  25th while the film opens in theaters, today,  May 27th.  

The soundtrack  features a brand-new duet "Love is Your Color" by Grammy and  Academy Award® winner Jennifer Hudson, along with global superstar, multi-platinum recording artist and three-time Grammy Award nominee Leona Lewis. It also includes a new song by platinum-selling  CeeLo and International superstar Dido also contributes an exclusive new track.

You also get Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony and Academy Award® winner Liza Minnelli covering Beyonce’s chart-topper “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”.  Oh, this one is stellar.  Liza doing Beyonce? Who thought that up!?!

Then, there is 12-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys performing her own extraordinary new version of the Blondie classic “Rapture” and "Empire State of Mind". The soundtrack also features the stars of Sex and the City 2, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, performing the Helen Reddy classic “I Am Woman.”  Not to mention some Cyndi Lauper. You can see all 18 tracks listed right below.

Tracklisting

1. Alicia Keys “Rapture”

2. Dido “Everything to Lose”

3. Cee Lo “Language of Love” 

4. Erykah Badu “Window Seat”

5. Natacha Atlas “Kidda”

6. Michael McGregor “Euphrates Dream”

7. Liza Minnelli “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”

8. Ricki-Lee "Can't Touch It"

9. Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down"

10. Jennifer Hudson and Leona Lewis "Love Is Your Color"

11. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon “I Am Woman”

12. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “If Ever I Would Leave You”

13. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “Sunrise, Sunset”

14. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “Till There Was You”

15. Shayna Steele, Jordan Ballard, Kamilah Marshall “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”

16. Liza Minnelli with Billy Stritch “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”

17. Cyndi Lauper “True Colors”

18. Aaron Zigman “Divas and Dunes”

Normally, friends, I am not a soundtrack lover or buyer. I've just never loved one all that much.  In fact, the last one I remember buying was for Far and Away. Oh, no, I am not kidding.

As you know this is a group blog, so we all had our turn and took a listen.  Personally, I, Mrs. Sinclair, thought: it was a great compilation of a very diverse group of songs.  I enjoyed the obvious middle eastern tones it has, it kind of makes you want to belly dance.  

Mrs. McGillicutty remarks: If Sex and the City 2 at a desert cocktail party is what you want from a CD, then that is exactly what you will get.  Although smattered with the occasional dance song such as Rick Lee's "Can't Touch It," the Sex and the City 2 sound track consists mostly of mellow, relaxing tunes from some familiar artists  such as Cindy Lauper and Liza Minnelli  while mixing newer artists such as Alicia Keys.  It's perfect for playing in the background of your own cocktail party with all of your favorite girlfriends, whether you're in the desert or not. 

Mrs. Albright adds: When coupled with the movie this soundtrack is perfect, but alone it doesn't quite hold together. However, there are a few songs that you'll find yourself singing along to or tapping your toes.

Mrs. Priss offered: Listening as we did before seeing the movie, I could picture different movie scenarios in my head. It lends itself well to interpreting the movie.

Mrs. Nesbitt dished: Cool & classy. Mixes a couple of oldies with new tunes. Girl's trip anyone?

Mrs. Hart says: "Totally Girlalicious!" Hip with an Egyptian/Middle Eastern flow. Makes me want to put on a long flowy dress with a pair of sling back's, with my hair down and enjoy a night of nothing but laughs, great convos, and a fruity drink with my girl's!

If you would like a chance to win your very own copy of the CD, comment below and point out the obvious discrepancy between the information on the track listings and the picture I added of the tracks printed on the CD insert above. Whoa! Who missed that type-o? You have until Friday night, May 28 at midnight, CDT to leave your comment and answer. (Even if you can't find it and give the wrong answer, it's okay. We'll forgive you and put your name in the hat anyway!) A winner will be chosen at random and announced Saturday, May 29th.  Also, don't forget, you can sign up to win a call from Sarah Jessica Parker! 

Now, about the movie! It was a great girls night out! We had a blast.  I thought it was a great sequel.  Without giving too much away, it was very fun, very funny, and as always- great fashion! The best part was about their friendships and how far they've come and evolved- some more than others. And, of course, Carrie and Big. Wedding vows are the new black diamond.

All the best,

Mrs. Sinclair

MckLinky Monday: GIVEAWAY(s)

So, we promised, and it's here!  Plus, we are having not just ONE, but TWO giveaways this week here at the RHOK.

FIRST, today we are giving away the RHOK tee shirt.  All you have to do is link your post to MckLinky Monday below for "What are you doing on summer vacation?" or post a comment on THIS post.  If you do one or both of those things, your name will go into the hat.  Give away entries must be in by 11:59pmEST Tuesday, May 25th, 2010.  Winner will be announced on Wednesday.  (*shirt type pictured is not necessarily the type being given away)

SECOND, the RHOK is thrilled to announce we have been chosen to giveaway a Sex and the City 2 Soundtrack CD in conjunction with One2One! So, in honor of SATC2 opening on Thursday- we are hosting the contest that day. Hop over and read our post on Thursday. There will be a secret clue in the post and instructions on what to do! Don't miss it. The CD is loaded with awesome artists. Also you can enter win a call from Sarah Jessica Parker, herself.

CD Tracklisting
1. Alicia Keys “Rapture”
2. Dido “Everything to Lose”
3. Cee Lo “Language of Love”
4. Erykah Badu “Window Seat”
5. Natacha Atlas “Kidda”
6. Michael McGregor “Euphrates Dream”
7. Liza Minnelli “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
8. Ricki-Lee "Can't Touch It"
9. Alicia Keys "Emire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down"
10. Jennifer Hudson and Leona Lewis "Love Is Your Color"
11. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon “I Am Woman”
12. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “If Ever I Would Leave You”
13. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “Sunrise, Sunset”
14. Sex and the City Men’s Choir “Till There Was You”
15. Shayna Steele, Jordan Ballard, Kamilah Marshall “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”
16. Liza Minnelli with Billy Stritch “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”
17. Cyndi Lauper “True Colors”
18. Aaron Zigman “Divas and Dunes"

See what I mean? Do not miss it.

~Mrs. Sinclair~