I thought that at my age, I knew that what I saw in magazines and on billboards that portrayed "beautiful" women wasn't real. But it is so easy to get caught up in the thoughts of, "Why can't I look like that?"
Someone sent me this link and it is amazing to see what is done to a photograph digitally! Now I know when I ask, "Why can't I look like that?" it is because the model doesn't look like that either! She never did!
Check it out: www.campaignforrealbeauty.com
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Carrot Cake - I missed you so
Today I felt like "Suzie Homemaker"! I baked a delicious gf carrot cake from a recipe I found on a great gf blog . Since becoming gf I have really missed cake and this one was terrific! I even made the frosting from scratch! I am so proud! And I made dinner in the crock-pot! My house smells wonderful!
Dinner is a french beef stew, yum!
Dinner is a french beef stew, yum!
Monday, October 09, 2006
I love these things!
Directions: Place an x by all the things you've done, or remove the x from the ones you have not, and send it to all of your friends (including me). Tell the truth!
(x) smoked a cigarette
( ) crashed a friend's car and/or motorcycle
( ) stolen a car
(x) been in love
(x) been dumped
( ) shoplifted
(x) been fired
( ) been in a fist fight
( ) snuck out of your parent's house
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) gone on a blind date
( ) skipped school
( ) seen someone die
( ) been to Canada
(x ) been to Mexico
(x) been on a plane
( ) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
(x ) eaten sushi
(x) been skiing...snow only
( ) met someone from the internet
(x) been at a concert
(x) taken painkillers
(x) love someone or miss someone right now
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
(x) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up
( ) jumped into a pile of leaves
( ) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game.
(x) been lonely
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake ID.
(x) watched the sunset
(x ) felt an earthquake...twice!
(x) slept beneath the stars..
(x) been tickled
(x) been robbed
(x) been misunderstood
(x) petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo... goat and kangaroo
(x ) won a contest
(x) run a red light/stop sign
( ) been suspended from school
( ) had braces
(x) felt like an outcast/third person
(x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
( ) danced in the moonlight
(x) liked the way you looked
(x ) witnessed a crime
(x) questioned your heart
(x ) been obsessed with post-it notes
(x) squished mud through your bare feet.
(x) been lost
(x) been on the opposite side of the country
(x) swam in the ocean
(x) felt like dying
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons
(x ) sang karaoke
(x ) paid for a meal with only coins
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
(x) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose...grape soda on my friend's new yellow outfit!
(x) caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) danced in the rain
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus.
( ) been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
( ) crashed a party
(x) gone roller-skating
(x ) had a wish come true
( ) jumped off a bridge
Wow! I was really a 'goody-goody'. I was too afraid to sneak out or cut class, I 'knew' I would get caught. This brought back a lot of memories tho...
(x) smoked a cigarette
( ) crashed a friend's car and/or motorcycle
( ) stolen a car
(x) been in love
(x) been dumped
( ) shoplifted
(x) been fired
( ) been in a fist fight
( ) snuck out of your parent's house
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) gone on a blind date
( ) skipped school
( ) seen someone die
( ) been to Canada
(x ) been to Mexico
(x) been on a plane
( ) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
(x ) eaten sushi
(x) been skiing...snow only
( ) met someone from the internet
(x) been at a concert
(x) taken painkillers
(x) love someone or miss someone right now
(x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) made a snow angel
(x) had a tea party
(x) flown a kite
(x) built a sand castle
(x) gone puddle jumping
(x) played dress up
( ) jumped into a pile of leaves
( ) gone sledding
(x) cheated while playing a game.
(x) been lonely
(x) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake ID.
(x) watched the sunset
(x ) felt an earthquake...twice!
(x) slept beneath the stars..
(x) been tickled
(x) been robbed
(x) been misunderstood
(x) petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo... goat and kangaroo
(x ) won a contest
(x) run a red light/stop sign
( ) been suspended from school
( ) had braces
(x) felt like an outcast/third person
(x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) had deja vu
( ) danced in the moonlight
(x) liked the way you looked
(x ) witnessed a crime
(x) questioned your heart
(x ) been obsessed with post-it notes
(x) squished mud through your bare feet.
(x) been lost
(x) been on the opposite side of the country
(x) swam in the ocean
(x) felt like dying
(x) cried yourself to sleep
(x) played cops and robbers
(x) recently colored with crayons
(x ) sang karaoke
(x ) paid for a meal with only coins
(x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) made prank phone calls
(x) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose...grape soda on my friend's new yellow outfit!
(x) caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) danced in the rain
(x) written a letter to Santa Claus.
( ) been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
( ) crashed a party
(x) gone roller-skating
(x ) had a wish come true
( ) jumped off a bridge
Wow! I was really a 'goody-goody'. I was too afraid to sneak out or cut class, I 'knew' I would get caught. This brought back a lot of memories tho...
Monday... it's getting better
Last week, one of the Michelles sent me flowers. Aren't they beautiful!
She is so sweet! And she remembered that daisys are my favorite! I guess that quiz I had my friends take at my birthday dinner paid off :)
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The weekend was quiet. The boys were at the Dodger game in LA and the girls spent the weekend at the mall and crocheting. It was nice. DD is crochetings scarves like they are going out of style! She has done two and is working on two more.
But I am wondering when the laundry and grocery fairy will show up, because those things didn't seem to get done this weekend. :)
She is so sweet! And she remembered that daisys are my favorite! I guess that quiz I had my friends take at my birthday dinner paid off :)
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The weekend was quiet. The boys were at the Dodger game in LA and the girls spent the weekend at the mall and crocheting. It was nice. DD is crochetings scarves like they are going out of style! She has done two and is working on two more.
But I am wondering when the laundry and grocery fairy will show up, because those things didn't seem to get done this weekend. :)
Friday, October 06, 2006
I made it through the week! Thank goodness!
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Yesterday afternoon, after a very rainy day, we were blessed with a beautiful rainbow. I saw the whole rainbow and a smaller double rainbow on one side. It is things like this that make me wish I had the ability to take pictures. I am glad I got to see it...
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I am reading another good book called "The Price of Privledge". It is not an easy book to read, both the topic and the way it is written. It is hard to read how people are screwing up their kids because they don't allow them to solve problems on their own. I do that! It is hard not to. You think about how difficult your life was and you want to prevent that difficulty for your kids, but when you step back and look at the bigger picture, you realize that is what shaped your life. Your ability to make mistakes and learn from them. And by stepping in and solving things for them or making their choices for them, you are denying them of that education. Ouch!
Where do you draw the line? Do you tie their shoes? Do you let them lose something they want? (i.e. DS lost his Ipod) Do you let them fail a test? There was one example in the book where the power went out in a town and two students had a large report due the next morning. When the power came back on, one student grabbed his notes and started re-writing his report from scratch so he could turn it in the next morning. The other student handed his notes to his mother and told her to re-write the report and he went to bed! Sounds like someone needs "line drawing" lessons!
I didn't get the memo that parenting was going to be this difficult! It's bad enough my 8th grader has Algebra 1 and I can't help her! I am not looking forward to high school!
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Yesterday afternoon, after a very rainy day, we were blessed with a beautiful rainbow. I saw the whole rainbow and a smaller double rainbow on one side. It is things like this that make me wish I had the ability to take pictures. I am glad I got to see it...
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I am reading another good book called "The Price of Privledge". It is not an easy book to read, both the topic and the way it is written. It is hard to read how people are screwing up their kids because they don't allow them to solve problems on their own. I do that! It is hard not to. You think about how difficult your life was and you want to prevent that difficulty for your kids, but when you step back and look at the bigger picture, you realize that is what shaped your life. Your ability to make mistakes and learn from them. And by stepping in and solving things for them or making their choices for them, you are denying them of that education. Ouch!
Where do you draw the line? Do you tie their shoes? Do you let them lose something they want? (i.e. DS lost his Ipod) Do you let them fail a test? There was one example in the book where the power went out in a town and two students had a large report due the next morning. When the power came back on, one student grabbed his notes and started re-writing his report from scratch so he could turn it in the next morning. The other student handed his notes to his mother and told her to re-write the report and he went to bed! Sounds like someone needs "line drawing" lessons!
I didn't get the memo that parenting was going to be this difficult! It's bad enough my 8th grader has Algebra 1 and I can't help her! I am not looking forward to high school!
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Bad things and good things
Wow, sometimes life can really kick you in the balls... there are days where the stuff I am struggling with is under control, and then one thing happens, and it all becomes overwhelming and now I am drowning in all this crap I thought I could deal with.
All I want to do is crawl back into bed a cry. I don't cry, almost ever (thanks to anti-depressants) and today that is all I want to do. But it is almost time to pick up my kids and I have to stay in control...
Today my boss, who is one of the most wonderful men I have ever worked for, got canned. They eliminated his job. No warning, no notice and then the entire department was re-organized and my job description was re-written. Now my supervisor is someone who has been a peer since we were all hired last summer. While she will be a good supervisor, it is hard to have someone who you confided in become your boss.
So on top off all the other stuff going on in my complicated life, I have to deal with this.
Well, I'll deal. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I love this job and I don't want to leave. I have passion for what I do and the organization I work for. I may not be happy with the decision, but I will keep moving forward.
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DH and DS are in heaven because the Dodgers are in the playoffs :)
We went to one of the last home games two weeks ago for DS birthday and had a great time, even though they lost. And when they won on Sunday with a grand slam in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, guess who got blamed for us not going to that game, but the one the night before? You guessed it! ME
Well on Sunday, DD and I were at the Orange County Swap Meet shopping for 5 hours. And in 5 hours I bought....................................................................................................
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......................................................................wait for it............................
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..........a pomegranate.
Yep, that's it! 5 hours and I bought one piece of fruit. And two weeks later I still haven't eaten the damn thing!
Oh well, we had fun :)
All I want to do is crawl back into bed a cry. I don't cry, almost ever (thanks to anti-depressants) and today that is all I want to do. But it is almost time to pick up my kids and I have to stay in control...
Today my boss, who is one of the most wonderful men I have ever worked for, got canned. They eliminated his job. No warning, no notice and then the entire department was re-organized and my job description was re-written. Now my supervisor is someone who has been a peer since we were all hired last summer. While she will be a good supervisor, it is hard to have someone who you confided in become your boss.
So on top off all the other stuff going on in my complicated life, I have to deal with this.
Well, I'll deal. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I love this job and I don't want to leave. I have passion for what I do and the organization I work for. I may not be happy with the decision, but I will keep moving forward.
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DH and DS are in heaven because the Dodgers are in the playoffs :)
We went to one of the last home games two weeks ago for DS birthday and had a great time, even though they lost. And when they won on Sunday with a grand slam in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, guess who got blamed for us not going to that game, but the one the night before? You guessed it! ME
Well on Sunday, DD and I were at the Orange County Swap Meet shopping for 5 hours. And in 5 hours I bought....................................................................................................
...............................................................................................................
......................................................................wait for it............................
.............................................................................................................
..........a pomegranate.
Yep, that's it! 5 hours and I bought one piece of fruit. And two weeks later I still haven't eaten the damn thing!
Oh well, we had fun :)
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