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The girls of "Jersey Shore" joined Ellen to chat about everything from booze to boys -- though Snooki is cutting back on her favorite vice.

"Yeah, when I was 21 and I didn't really care, I would go out like every single weekend and just go crazy," said Snooki. "Now that I have a boyfriend and I'm in love and I'm 24, I only have a couple of glasses of wine once a week."

"A couple of glasses of wine once a week?" asked Ellen.

"I drink like two Pinots once a week and I'm good… I'm 24 now. So it's kind of like I've matured. I still know how to throw down a couple of shots… I prefer to take it easy," she said.

Ellen joked, "Well, because you're 24. You're mature now."

As for Mike "The Situation"? Things are not going well.

"Well, you see in Italy he makes up rumors," said Snooki. "He hasn't really done it to me before, so the fact that he did it to me and yeah, no, we're like really good friends. I was kind of hurt by it and disappointed."

"So you're not getting

When Justin heard about Whitney Elementary, he knew he wanted to get involved. The superstar with the giant heart was here to show Ellen what happened when he visited the school and gave a special concert for the kids.

Vicky is a blogger who shares her wisdom with us at SheSpeaks.

Have you ever been the person who seems to know the answer to the oddest things. You often get the dumb-founded look of "how is it that you know this information"? Are you someone with an insatiable quest for knowledge and the ability to answer that wedge question in Trivial Pursuit?

Well, being the trivia expert that you are, you know that Wednesday, January 4, 2012 it is National Trivia Day in the United States.

This is perfect opportunity to share those trinkets of knowledge to everyone and even gather more valuable nuggets of knowledge.

Tell your family and Friends and use the opportunity as Family Game Night. Take out the 'Trivial Pursuit' or 'Scene It' and create a theme night. If you have kids use Disney and let your inner child out. It's funny to see that you may be more of an expert with the current movies than the ones you grew up with. If you are a Harry Potter fan and up to date with all the

Thank God for another day...VERY COLD, BLISTERING effect...stayed home today until 4:30 pm...had to pick Chemar up from after school program...came back home, made him dinner...I did some research on computer.....my arthritis pain is really minimal, if any at all....had bowl of soup and 8 crackers...2 cups of coffee and lotta water with orange slices....

After New Year's Eve there's a scramble to clean up the holiday decorations that you so gleefully put up just the month before. Taking away all that festivity can be a sad affair for those of us who enjoy a little sparkle in the cold months. My family had a lovely Christmas season, and I just want to hold onto it a little while longer.

So while I know that the tree must come down before my teen's birthday sleepover this weekend, I'm determined to make the rest of our holiday decor stay up for the rest of the year … in an acceptable way. And to my delight I found some great ideas for reusing holiday decorations.

One way to reuse decorations is to adapt them for other holidays. There are myriad ways you can revamp a Christmas wreath for other holidays like Valentine's Day and Easter. My very favorites, though, are the twinkling lights! Why spend all that money on Christmas lights, just to store them for 11 months a year? Here are 7 fun ways to use holiday decorations all year long:


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