Humor
Published: 16/12/2007
The difference between friends and acquaintances is whether you'd let them see you without makeup or leave them alone in a room with your mother-in-law. My grandmother told me it was better to have one good pal than a room full of acquaintances. I know she was right; but when I want to know how I...
Published: 16/12/2007
How do you know when you're grown up? Is it when people stop asking you what you want to be? One of the first things I wanted to be was an only child - no hand-me-down's, no sharing, no comparing, no competition.Then I realized if I didn't have siblings, I wouldn't have anyone to share the blame....
Published: 16/12/2007
Who knew that 46.4% of the average American's food dollar is spent in restaurants? Our lives have gotten so hectic we don't have time to defrost dinner or put something in the microwave.
I remember when going out to eat was a treat. Now, in spite of eating out being more expensive and less...
Published: 16/12/2007
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, is skin deep and is 99% attitude - we hear it, but we don't believe it. If we did, we wouldn't spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics.
But it's not just women. Ten years ago women spent ten times more than men did on beauty products. Now we...
Published: 16/12/2007
Defining trivia as being unimportant trivializes its importance to me. I love to be surprised by who-knews. Who-knews aren't furry, little creatures that escaped from a Star Wars movie. They're the unexpected facts that make us stop whatever we're doing and say, "Who knew?"
The Guinness...
Published: 16/12/2007
A funny thing happened on the way through our marriage. John and I have reached a state of contentedly happy companionship. The excitement of new love has matured.
When we were newlyweds, I didn't make dinner until John got home. A few years later life and children got in the way and I kept...
Published: 16/12/2007
They say you don't know someone until you walk a mile in his shoes. If you walked a mile in mine, you'd have to walk in heels. I'm more comfortable in heels than flats - usually.
My luggage was lost when my husband and I went to Costa Rica. Lost luggage wasn't a surprise. Wearing heels to...
Published: 16/12/2007
Blowing out birthday candles, seeing a falling star, saying a word at the same time someone else does, blowing away an eyelash - although there are lots of ways to make wishes, my mother-in-law still makes surprise visits. I still wonder if I'm the only one who worries about people spitting on...
Published: 16/12/2007
Hopefully confessing bad habits makes us better people. My first confession is spell check had to remind me habit is spelled with one "B".
According to behavioral scientists, it takes three weeks to "change the way you do something" and to be successful you have to replace the bad way with a...
Published: 16/12/2007
Ask people what they do when they go to Las Vegas and they'll say they play slot machines. I play slot machines too, but not only in Las Vegas. There are legal slot machines where I live.
Because all free parking spaces seem to be taken by fire hydrants, I learned how to play suburban slot...
