Kristen posts a tribute to the 80’s every Wednesday that I thoroughly look forward to. In my opinion, the 80’s produced the best movies and music of all time and for me, life in general was just plain fun. This week, she highlighted the movie, Mannequin, featuring Andrew McCarthy (yes I had a little crush on him) and Kim Cattrall - who knew she’d become a sex symbol on Sex In The City?!
To answer your question Kristen, YES, I am a closet Mannequin fan. And I LOVED the hit song, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now“. In fact, I wanted to play this song at my wedding recessional, but my hubbie vetoed, and as fitting as I think the song was, “I’m A Believer” by Smash Mouth worked out just fine.
One of the reasons my husband and I avoid the beach these days is because we have young kids. It’s such a chore to get from the hotel room to the beach. And it never fails. After half an hour of preparing and gathering (slather the spf, get the kids dressed in their suits, gather the floaties, the bucket, shovel and sand castle toys, towels, chairs - I don’t know why, it’s not as if you can actually sit in them. Umbrella. What else? Oh yea, sunglasses, I always forget the sunglasses.) to get out the door, not 5 minutes after hitting the beach, (after trekking through the thick beach sand, sweat rolling down our foreheads and the spf now burning our eyes) you’re running a kid back to the hotel because they have sand in their eyes (or they gotta go #2)! Oy!
Leigh just recently submitted the best tip that I have seen in a long time to Tip Junkie (one of my favorite bloggers that I follow) regarding baby powder and it’s other benefits. Apparantley, just a sprinkle of baby powder loosens the sand from the hands. Who knew??!! Now if I can just train them to sprinkle before they wipe their eyes, they’ll be no more emergency trips back to the hotel room!!
Thanks Leigh for this great tip and if my husband and I ever decide to brave the beach with the little ones, the baby powder will definitely be in the bag!!!!
So his sperm was used to artificially inseminate his girlfriend? So I pose the question again, is Clay gay? Thoughts anyone?
And NO, I do not follow his life, contrary to what a few of you (Gina & Edye) might believe. I just happen to subscribe to TMZ to get all of the latest Hollywood gossip.
What a brilliant idea for a business! As I was driving home through my neighborhood, I noticed this guy at my neighbors house. I stopped to ask him how much he charged and if he was available to do mine this morning - “$24.95, I’ll be right over”.
“Wow, do you take checks? And how long does this take?” “Cash or checks and it takes about 20 minutes!” “Sweet!”
Yes hon, my car is having it’s oil changed as I speak! Perhaps you should call him to come change yours………
Just one more thing checked off of my honey-do’s!!
Can anyone out there point me in the right direction? I’ve been searching for some cd/dvd print software for the MAC and I’m not sure what to choose. Too many overwhelming options. Also, a FREE software download would be even better. My husband has grown tired of helping me. I’m almost finished with a project that I’ve been working on and the only thing left to complete it is to print a label on the dvd. “chugga chugga, chugga chugga, all aboard the choo choo train, all aboard the choo choo train, all aboard the choo choo train, all aboard all aboard, choo chooooooo”
This was the headlines that came across in my daily email from People magazine.
Seriously. I don’t understand what the problem is here. I mean, I would PAY Rob Lowe to expose himself to me. Sorry honey - you know - only if he was in my top 5*. You all remember the “top 5″ episode from FRIENDS don’t you??!!
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Yea, I think I remember now. I’m pretty sure he’s in my top 5.
It’s like a black cloud hovering over me everyday. Just 30 minutes, that’s all you need Shawn, just 30 minutes. Just go do it and it’ll be over.
Excuse after excuse. Day after day. When am I going to hit my stride and do exercise on a regular basis? When am I going to find a time that works for me?
I really have no excuses. I could workout during naptime. I could get up 30 minutes earlier in the morning. Okay that would suck. But it’s an option. I could even workout when my hubbie gets home as he is this good to me. He’s even willing to go walk with me.
Still.
Nothing.
No desire.
I want to. I need to.
I just wonder, what is going to be the boot that kicks my a$$ in gear?
Today I read a few quotes from workoutmommy. (Yes, thank you Kristen, I learned about workoutmommy via your blog.) These were actual quotes from Gabrielle Reece in an interview with workoutmommy.com.
“If you have enough time to watch tv or get your nails done, then there is time to workout.”
“We are of no use to anyone else if we are not healthy and strong.”
There you have it. That’s my inspiration. For today anyway.
Do any of you out there struggle with exercise? Have any of you worked through the struggle with exercise and if so, how did you break through?
Please share your thoughts. I’d LOVE some advice. Please, I encourage you to become my boot.
A few years into my 30’s I was shopping at the grocery store. While grabbing up some peanut butter two teenage boys approached me. ”Excuse me maam?” <I look behind me as surely they’re not talking to me> “Could you tell us which is better for spreading, jelly or jam?” Before answering these 2 kids thoughts raced in my head all the while smiling and looking as confident as if I actually knew the answer to this question. I don’t think I ever really thought much about it to tell you the truth. Unfortunately my daughter has always been a picky eater and always turned her nose up at pb&j. I myself like only a thin spread of pb and a tad of jam/jelly. Personally I always bought jam, but only because that’s what my mom would buy, that is unless she made some of her own. We used to go to Plant City and pick our own strawberries and mom would make the best jam in the world. So really, I’m no expert when it comes to store bought jelly. Or jam.
Two seconds later I smile, point and confidently say, “why jelly of course!” I continued, “jam has real fruit in it which makes it more difficult to spread”. They smile, grab a big jar of grape jelly, “thanks alot maam”, and take off.
Looking puzzled after they left, I grabbed a jar of strawberry jelly and secretly put it in my cart so that I could double check myself later on. The next day I couldn’t wait to make myself a pb & jelly sandwich. I hurriedly spread a thin layer of pb. I open the jar of jelly and stuck the knife in. I pulled out the knife and some big BLOB of ‘jello like’ substance comes rolling out of the jar and kathunks on my bread. ”What the heck?” ”What is this stuff??” I took my knife and tried to spread some more. It rolled over to the other side, then the other and the other. I continued on until I just gave up. Might I add that for a person who only likes a thin spread of jam, this was an impossible task with jelly. I ended up with little mounds of jello all over my sandwich. Yuk. Then I immediately thought, “oh my gosh, I told those poor boys the wrong thing!” <sigh> It was as if I failed a test.
Here I am a mom in my 30’s. How come I didn’t know the difference between jam or jelly, or rather, which was the more spreadable of the two.
It’s been a few years since I steered two fine young boys in the wrong direction and I’ve made it my mission to figure out which is the better spread. It’s taken quite a while since I only spread a thin layer of jam the few times a year that I eat a pb&j, thus it takes about a year for our family to go through a jar of jam. (My husband and son eat pb & honey. Go figure.)
Today I finally got it right. The perfect taste and texture. No humps. No lumpy fruit. It’s spreadable. It’s delectable. It’s Smucker’s Simply Fruit, Seedless Strawberry Spreadable Fruit. It’s DE-LI-CIOUS!
The next time I’m asked the question, jam or jelly, I can 100% say without a doubt, “why Spreadable Fruit by Smuckers of course. Neither jam nor jelly!”
