The Ladies at Lemondrop are thinking about the right things:

Recessi-eh, we can’t even bring ourselves to utter the R-word. Yes, we’re all feeling the economic pinch, but we also refuse to scrimp on the primp routine. Fortunately, with a few smart swaps from the drugstore, getting gorgeous doesn’t have to cost a pretty penny.

So if you’re in a bind this year, check out the top five drug store beauty buys.

We’d like to formally congratulate Chris Brown for beginning his hard labor.

Chris Brown began performing his community service this week in connection with his sentence for assaulting Rihanna — and it attracted some media and fan attention where he was performing his work in Virginia.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg sentenced Brown to five years’ probation and ordered him to do 180 days of community labor — to be directly supervised by the police chief in Richmond, Va

You know what would be awesome.  If we wore a hardhat and whistled at Rihanna as she walked by.