November 24th, 2006 — 3:56pm
Day 24
Mood: Relaxin’
Just finished watching
Thank You For Smoking.
Aaron Eckhart is a babe (though he’s no Patrick Dempsey–don’t worry Patrick I haven’t given up on you)! Do you think Katie Holmes thought her role in the movie would be an omen for her decision to ride Tom Cruise’s wave to stardom? I mean I know I’m supposed to support my fellow woman…and I usually do…but seriously?! Tom Cruise?
I gotta say if any guy I was dating started jumping up and down on couches–even if it was on the Oprah Winfrey show–I’d have to end the relationship right there. There’s no place you can go but down when a guy is that crazy about you. The pressure to be that perfect would be too much. You couldn’t burp, you couldn’t floss your teeth in front of him, shoot forget getting a wrinkle or swearing during labor. What if you gnashed teeth during sex or bonked heads when he went in for a kiss? Without a full time director choreographing your every lovemaking scene there’d be a strong chance that his rose-colored lenses would get dirty.
The pressure! I have a hard enough time remembering to wear matching panties and bra on date night. Then add shaving your legs and maybe getting your nails done? Better schedule all of my big events in the same week, because I’m not going to be able to keep up that look for too long.
Oh and along the same lines…here’s another
fun product that found its way across my screen. Yet another step in ever-lengthening process to be beautiful. I think I’m going to go for the pink, if only for the reaction. Though with my luck the timing of the process would probably coincide with the need for some emergency gynecological exam. I know my esthetician’s seen it all before, but my ob/gyn? I blush just seeing him if I’ve recently had a bikini wax. I mean I know he’s delivered two of my children…but does he need to know I have sex too?
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November 17th, 2006 — 9:45pm
Day 17
Mood: Happy
Today was a great day!!
Here’s a
little nugget I found on the web that I hope will make your day just a little brighter.
And it actually seems to be for real.
Watch tomorrow for yet another great shopping find.
Don’t forget
Merit Badge Day coming up this Sunday. Go ahead…tell us what award you earned this week.
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November 4th, 2006 — 5:36pm
Day Four
Mood: Relaxed/Sore
I love spring flowers. I can almost smell the scent of suntan lotion as soon as the bulbs start peaking up through the dirt.
Now that I’m a homeowner (okay I’ve been a homeowner for a while but in comparison to the length of my life it hasn’t been that long) I feel the need to fill my gardens with daffodils, tulips and irises. And every year when they bloom I’m left with the feeling that I still haven’t planted quite enough. So today I made the trek to Costco to buy bulbs (at noon on a Saturday no less–what kind of masochist am I? Well, there are all the free samples).
At first I thought I may have waited too late to find them. But lo and behold there they were. Bags of 50 bulbs for $11.99 each! Score! I left with three.
Well it was all a great plan in my head until I realized that it meant I had to plant 150 bulbs (actually 180 since I already had a bag of 30 taunting me in the car port)! And for some reason, it never occured to me to do this math until I arrived home. Yeah, I never was a mathlete.
It’s November 4th as you know, so I don’t have a whole lot of time to get these “bolts” (as Mr. 4 calls them) planted. So out in the yard I went this afternoon armed with an “as seen on TV” bulb-hole drill bit lent to me by my neighbor and the desire to plant my bulbs.
These things always work as well as they promise on tv.
The first 50 went in quickly–or so I thought–until I looked in the bag and realized that there were two packages in each bag. UGH! Of course with the “help” I received from Mr. 10 and Mr. 4 the job went even more quickly–yeah right.
I finally convinced Mr. 10 that I was not going to let him use the drill–like I’m sharing the power tools–and Mr. 4 departed soon after I took back control of the shovel, so the process sped up a bit. But I didn’t beat the dark. One hundred in the ground…only 80 more to go.
So much for sleeping in tomorrow morning.
PS–In searching for the image a daffodils I wanted to include on this post I realize that 180 aren’t nearly going to be enough. If I could just remember from one year to the next where I planted them.
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