Thursday, February 21, 2008Dates for Dollars -- LiterallySo there's a guy in Los Angeles who is newly back in the dating game thanks to a divorce. Brave man. I've been divorced for seven years, and I am still not back in the dating game. (Of course, the fact that I have two kids probably has something to do with that. Post for another day.) I'm not sure I... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, February 19, 2008Give 'Em a Number!Most career counselors will tell you that you should never, ever answer the question "What are your salary requirements" with a number. While they usually have some good reasoning behind that advice, I've never suffered from breaking it. In fact, the three times I broke the "rule," I ended up with a... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, February 6, 2008What a Night!The storms that hit in our area last night were something else! The craziness started much earlier, with the schools letting out at noon so that all the kids could be home before the storms hit. Then it was pretty much an afternoon of listening to the weather reports and watching the radar at... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, February 3, 2008Is It a Scam?The weirdest thing happened this weekend. I put my washer and dryer in the newspaper to sell. I got several calls, one of which was a lady who said that her friend, who is deaf, needed a washer/dryer, so she was trying to find a set for her. This lady (let's call her Ann to make it easier) was very... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, January 30, 2008Whooping Cough Warning!Okay, I've been sick off and on since October, but the last two weeks I have had the most pernicious, evil cough. As in "I'm going to cough up a lung or break a rib if I can't stop coughing this hard." I finally broke down and went to the doctor on Monday, and they are doing lab tests to see what it... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, January 26, 2008Who Is Certegy, and Why Won't They Let Me Write Checks?I'm going the rounds with trying to shop right now, and it's getting really annoying, especially since there doesn't seem to be any way to resolve the problem I'm having. I'm trying to write checks more, instead of using credit cards, because my spending is way out of control and I need to be more... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, January 17, 2008Checking InWow! So many days without a post! It's just been busy and hectic here, and I've been sick. Go to work, come home, go to bed. That's all I could really manage for the last week. But I've started work on my book, and work on getting healthy, which includes a goal of losing 100 pounds this year. I'm... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, January 9, 2008Stress Can Kill You!We all know that stress is bad for us. Stress can have a really negative effect on every facet of your life. When I am under stress, I put on weight, even though I usually don't eat much. The reason has to do with certain hormones --- especially cortisol. When you are in a stressful situation, your... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, January 2, 2008Do You Know About IBC?This is one of those For Women Only kinds of posts -- though the men who love them might want to be informed as well. And I suppose a TMI warning is also appropriate. Those in the know will recognize IBC as a really scary form of breast cancer that is not nearly as well known as the "lumpy" kind of... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, December 31, 2007She Lied. Why Are We Surprised?So a little girl and her mother wanted tickets to a Hannah Montana concert. A local shop was offering an essay contest, with first prize being tickets to said concert. Mom and kid wrote an essay, which began, "This year my dad died in Iraq." (See the full story here.) What I want to know is... Why... Sign in to see full entry. |