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    October 29

    Mouse's Tips for Building Self-Esteem

    I've been pondering these ideas for awhile ... finally decided today to get them down for you ...
     
    1. Buy a GREAT mirror ... if you pull it out at the store and check your reflection, you may actually look thinner!! This is way better than actually losing weight or doing any exercise
    2. Use the new energy-saving flourescent style bulbs in your cream painted pink porcelain bathroom!!  It will not only make you look better ... you'll look tan!!  Which for a pasty midwestern girl is saying a lot!
    3. Going along with that, invest in some Jergens Daily Glow lotion.  You'll have to pay attention to where you apply it and how it tints your skin, but a little bit of attention will keep you looking GREAT.  And, maybe not the pastiest girl on the beach ... or block ... or wherever you are.
     
    Ok, that's it for today ... your thoughts???
    October 23

    Tuesday Night Problem

    For those of you who aren't aware, I work 2 jobs.  I work 8-5 at an insurance agency during the day ... and at night I'm a super hero.  No, not really, just a little super hero on the brain.  2 nights a week I work a couple hours at my local Curves.  Gives me a bit of extra cash and a FREE membership.  Overall a pretty good deal.  I've been there over a year and a half.  I like it. 
     
    For the past few months I have worked Tuesday and Thursday nights.  I work until around 8 on Tuesdays.  I get done, come home, make something for supper, check my e-mail etc and settle in to watch my show.  I have two shows on Tuesday night that I enjoy.  One of them I enjoy THOROUGHLY and therefore, I watch it right away ... usually while eating supper. 
     
    Here is the problem.  That show?  Is Bones.  Inevitably I am trying to eat some sort of meat inclusive supper when they're showing some disgusting body in some form of decomposition!!!  How's a girl supposed to enjoy her cheese burger when you're showing me a body that just fell out of a composting pile!!!  Mostly I avert my eyes and wait for the part where they've boiled the flesh off the bones and ... it's just bones.  Then again, by that time I'm usually done eating. 
     
    :sigh: 
     
    what's a girl to do. 
     
    :shrug:
     
    Wink
     
    (I do want it noted, if you do watch this show, I knew  WAY before Zach that the murder weapon was a pitchfork.  WAY before.  proud you say?  Well, YES I AM!  hee hee hee)
    October 21

    Sunday Love List

    As commanded by Lori of Superfantastic ... here is my list of Loves for today ... the recent past ... whatever.
    • Love that as a single gal with no close guy friends there is ZERO expectation that I wil have any clue who is playing football when or where or any of those other pesky details.  However, I can tell SOMEONE important is playing because I can actually hear the guys across the yard yelling about the game. 
    • Love the layout of my apartment ... especially that at this moment I can sit in relative comfort at my computer which is technically in my dining room and watch Hitch for the 128th time on my TV.
    • Love that I had all the windows in my apartment open today and the most FABULOUS breeze.
    • Love my friend, Michelle, who drove out from Milwaukee explicitly to help me clear out/unpack/reorganize my spare room.  It was the dumping ground in the move two months ago and I, apparently, never managed to fix that.
    • Also love that now that my spare room is cleared out that #1 I actually have space to put an air mattress and a friend if need be, and #2 that I have room for a recliner and then some SPARE SPACE!!!  Unheard of for me.
    • Love that there are easily a half dozen ways to measure progress on my journey towards better health and less weight and smaller size clothes.
    • Love that I scrounged a microwave cart off the curb the other day so now my microwave actually sits on a stand designed to hold it rather than a file cabinet turned sideways that was technically about 1/4 inch too narrow.
    • Love that I have friends (Luke and Jessica) who will come and hang out with me, not only eat but actually compliment my cooking multiple times and evne play cards with me! 
    • Speakin of which, Love playing cards and games
    • LOVE this fabulous fall we're having.  Lovely roses at a friends, pics here, lovely fall tree changing color leaves, pics here, perfect weather for sleeping and leaving windows open and wearing long sleeved shirts and light weight sweaters etc ...
    • Love my friends ... Kelly, Kathy, Mary.  I've said this before and, to be honest, I will likely continue to add this to every list.  I am so truly grateful that not only do they put up with me, they actually seem to LIKE me!!
    • LOVE Sparkpeople.  The tracking is so incredibly helpful and encouraging.  The people on there are FABULOUS and, to be honest, it's probably the only reason I've managed to keep off the 25 pounds I've lost since last year.  Now if only I could manage to lose another 25 I'd be EC-STATIC!!!
    • Love my fish, Mortimer, thanks allison!!!!
    OK, now your turn ...  what are you loving today??
    October 09

    GEORGE CARLIN'S NEW RULES FOR 2007

    New Rule:
    No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

    New Rule:
    Stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com ! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days --- mowing my lawn.

    New Rule:
    Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar.
    What did you expect it to contain? A Lobster?

    New Rule:
    Stop saying that teenage boys who have sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently damaged.
    I have a better description for these kids: 'Lucky bastards.'

    New Rule:
    If you need to shave and you still collect baseball cards, you're a dope. If you're a kid, the cards are keep sakes of your idols. If you're a grown man, they're pictures of men.

    New Rule:
    Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Good, we're done.

    New Rule:
    There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but, without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

    New Rule:
    Stop screwing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, his behind will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the Social Security crisis.

    New Rule:
    The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the jerk. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low, and One NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge jerk.

    New Rule:
    I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering My PIN number, pressing 'Enter,' verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want Cash back, and pressing 'Enter' again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

    New Rule:
    Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you Spiritual. It's right above the crack of your .... And it translates to 'beef with broccoli.' The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

    New Rule:
    Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. ESPN Recently televised the U.S. Open of Competitive Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too damned exciting. What's next, competitive farting? Oh wait, they're already doing that. It's called 'The Howard Stern Show.'

    New Rule:
    I don't need a bigger mega M&Ms. If I'm extra hungry for M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

    New Rule:
    If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie.

    New Rule:
    And this one is long overdue: No more bathroom attendants. After I zip up, some guy is offering me a towel and a mint like I just had sex with George Michael. I can't even tell If he's supposed to be there, or just some freak with a fetish. I don't want to be on your webcam, Dude. I just want to wash my hands

    New Rule:
    When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.'
    'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

    New Rule:
    If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than Minimum wage, then for God's sake don't pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If so, then plan your future around saying, 'Do you want fries with that?'
    October 03

    Gotta love the Firemen

    Mom and I went to lunch today.  When I got there outside the building there were two firetrucks just sitting there.  No lights, no nothing.  The firepersons (there was one girl there so I can't say men ...) were just leaving so mom and I were joking about how I should get a move on to see if I can catch the attention of one of the guys.   I tried, it was unsuccessful, but as I was walking into the building my mom says ...
     
    What is this? 
     
    Take your firetruck to work day?
     
    Cracked me up!!  Had to share.