Here I am posing for my birthday…some old broad. : ) 

I had a really bad experience with this company. I am sharing a post I made to a group.
Just to let you know that I just got ripped off from an online site. I am passing on the info to you so please do not visit them. The site is SpaWish.com. My husband bought me a gift certificate from them for Valentine’s Day and I just got around to using it. I really didn’t want to blow $75 (really cost him about $90-I could kick his butt-lol) on one lousy massage-that’s not my cup of tea. I went to their website where you can buy things. Most of their items were really expensive, so I picked out a massager machine that we all could use. I thought, wow-this has to be a great item for $73! I got it the other day and it’s not that great. And guess what-no refunds! So I did a search on the web for the same item and it ranges in price from $26 to $40, but most of them were around the $26 mark. I was fuming! I wrote them an email, but I doubt I will hear back. I feel like reporting them to the Better Business Bureau. So please, pass them by and pass on this info. They are robbers.

I’m trying to turn over a new leaf. I want to try new dishes, to savor new combos of foods. I want to utilize my vast collection of cookbooks and Martha Stewart Food magazines. I did just that today. What usually holds me back is searching for the ingredients in the grocery store. Today I decided on two recipes from Food-‘Ginger Shrimp and Red Pepper Stir-fry’ and ‘Ricotta and spinach stuffed chicken’. We had the shrimp dish tonight with Uncle Ben’s wild rice and the guys liked it a lot! If I could have found my grater, the ginger would have been finely chopped and a bit milder. I had to cut it up and when you got a big piece you knew it! I also went through coupons and saved $12 using them. It cost $14 for 8 weeks of the Sunday paper, so I guess I paid for that if you want to look at it that way. I have to sit down and do this for our tired tastebuds.

This is on my calendar today: ‘The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star’-Brillat -Savarin

Yes, ‘that time’ of the year has rolled around again. In about 4.5 hours it will be my birthday and I’ll be 45 . I know I was born at 4:09 am and it took only an hour. I guess I knew I needed to get out and see the world! I was the loudest baby in the nursery and my poor mom could hear me down the hall! Funny how I turned into a quiet child with a speech impediment. I had a lot of things going on growing up-parents divorcing; my father disappearing for months at a time before that; being the only daughter with 3 brothers and being raised by two women who didn’t trust men (more mom than my grandmom). So Barbie, the doll and I are getting up there. I don’t know where the 40s went, but now I’m smack in the middle of them.

My son and his look-a-like Jude Law-‘The Sexiest Man Alive for 2004’.  

I am getting sick and tired of hearing about the Nicollette Sheridan stunt on Monday Night Football. Was it a copy cat version of the Janet Jackson ‘overexposure’? I know our local sportscasters were already fired up about the Eagles playing the Cowboys. So is that the best they could do was copy a scene from the movie ‘Starsky and Hutch’? (basically-and I didn’t rent it, my teen son did). The tv show ‘Desperate Housewives’ is a big hit too. And isn’t Nicollette (why all the double letters?) pushing 50?
Here’s what I would have done-have all the actresses from the show in football gear and actually trying to play football. Then have a hunky football player show them ‘the moves’. What do you think?

Which among your traits or habits is a mixed blessing?
Identify an element of your personality with which you have a love/hate relationship — one that can bring as much joy as grief. Is it that you’re trusting? Generous? Stubborn? A perfectionist? Is it that you speak your mind? Have no inhibitions? Have a wicked sense of humor?
Describe moments in which this trait has both been a blessing and a curse. Would you give it up, if you had to lose both its liabilities and benefits?
When I was younger I was a very quiet person who let few people in my circle. I would say now that I am a private person. I have friends, but most are friends I have met online. This is a mixed blessings, as I hardly get to see them. I have met a few who live nearby and have talked to many of them on the phone.
I use to be more of a joiner, ask any of the teachers who knew me when my son was in elementary school. I was also a PTO board member at one time. I was in the church choir and sang in it for 4 yrs.
Maybe being too private has inhibited my relationship with people. There are times when I have opened up and have been really nice to people and they are the ones who didn’t work on the friendship.
I think I am too generous for my own good. I love to give gifts to family and friends. My mom can’t understand why I send gifts to people who I have never met. They are people I admire and I call them my friends. We have more in common then people who live around here. They send gifts to me too.
I now speak up more to others. I just sent an email to a friend who is worshipping some man in another state who she said she is crazy about. I told her I don’t understand how this can be as she is dating men in her own area too. She needs to be shook a bit. I love her as a friend, but come on!
And I am somewhat of a perfectionist. Now this was grating my nerves as my husband is not one at all. I use to have all my lps in alphabetical order when I was younger. I like things orderly, but am not breaking my back to have a neat as a pin house anymore.

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Diet buster? Does this make your mouth water or make you sick? It only has 107 grams of fat and about 1400 calories, so you wouldn’t have to eat for at least 4 days! Look at all the protein too. Thanks Hardees!
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