All The Rage
February 16, 2012 1 Comment
I got rejected…again.
Starting Weight
February 15, 2012 Leave a comment
I cryptically updated my Facebook status this morning to say:
SW 205.8, GW1 180, GW2 160, GW3 140, TW 120, SW 125-135, TLE -85.5 (let’s do this)
It means:
Starting Weight: 205.8lbs
Goal Weight 1: 180bs
Goal Weight 2: 160lbs
Goal Weight 3: 140lbs
Target Weight: 120lbs
Satisfied Weight: 125 – 135lbs
Total Loss Expected: -85.5lbs
I’m on the diet/ weight loss train again and I plan to post similar status updates every Wednesday. I’m going to do it for real this time.
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Dude, Wrong Number
February 14, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s some universal rule that whenever I receive a “wrong number” call, it’s not a sincerely apologetic person who actually made a mistake. No, I get the belligerent a-holes. The last wrong call I got went something like this:
*phone rings*
Me: Hello?
Dude: Heeeeyyyy, wassup? Did you forget about me?
Me: What?
Dude: Did you forget about me?
Me: Who is this?
Dude: You know who.
Me: No…I don’t.
Dude: Aww, you really did forget about me.
Me: I can’t forget you if I don’t know who you are. Who is this?
Dude: This is [dude's name].
Me: I don’t know anybody named [dude's name].
Dude: [laughing] You for -
Me: YOU have the wrong number.
*hang up*
…always the weird ones…
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Aaahh! Real Monster.com
February 6, 2012 Leave a comment
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Currently, I’m in scouring the job market for a something that I actually want to do. Today I found a listing I liked on Monster.com. The description was almost too good to be true. My imagination kicked in and I could see myself doing this particular job and enjoying it! I gleefully clicked the bright orange “Apply” button at the bottom of the page and chose the resume that I wanted to submit.
Monster wanted to know “Cover Letter?” I thought, “Yes, Monster.com, I want to put the cherry on the sundae that is my potential dream job.” Like all professional unemployed people, I copied & pasted my most brilliantly composed cover letter (that I had written last week with the intention of utilizing it to submit multiple applications to different companies with maximum timeliness and efficiency) from Microsoft Word into the text box. Oh! I was so excited! Buzzing with the anticipation of possibly waking up each morning to do something I wanted to do that – I…forgot…one…small…thing…
This absolutely awesome cover letter that I had just sent with great relish had a mistake in it. I neglected to change where I had written ”[Fill in where listing seen]” in the first paragraph to read instead “Monster.com”. When I wrote the letter, I had intended to change that detail on an as needed basis so I wouldn’t have to spend a great deal of time writing and re-writing multiple cover letters to submit with my resume with multiple job applications. Oops.
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Super Bowl XLVI? Whatever.
February 4, 2012 3 Comments
I don’t even know who’s playing in the Super Bowl XLVI, nor do I really care. So why bother even tuning into the game? Here’s my list of reasons:
- Finger food (wings, nachos, those little jalapeno poppers with ranch dip…)
- Beer
- Athletic men with nice butts in spandex pants
- Half-time (maybe…)
- Commercials
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Go Red For Women
February 3, 2012 Leave a comment
Today is National Wear Red Day to raise awareness for The American Heart Association and their Go Red for Women campaign.
Go Red posted this funny video on youtube to help the cause. What makes this comedic is its basis in the sad truth.
Raise Awareness www.heart.org
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Warming the Heart
February 1, 2012 1 Comment
The American Heart Association has named February National Heart Month. The Go Red for Women campaign gets spotlight treatment and National Wear Red Day happens this Friday, February 3, 2012. Statistically, heart disease kills millions of Americans each year, so I think it deserves more than one day, or one month in the spotlight. That’s why this Spring/ Summer season, Scentsy has made me so happy.
Their charitable cause warmer is called Heartfelt and it’s available for order from March 1, 2012.
The warmer sells for $35 and the proceeds go to the American Heart Association.
I will be happy to accept early orders from anyone interested, but it will not be available to be shipped until March 1st.
Any questions or orders can be emailed to me at ora.jeffreys@verizon.net
Items from Scentsy’s Fall/Winter 2011 catalogue are still available!!!
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Apple vs. Amazon
January 26, 2012 Leave a comment
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Let’s take a hypothetical situation (that is very close to reality, but it’s still hypothetical…) and say that my main PC hard drive crashed and burned like Chernobyl baby. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a music-aholic. Seriously, my music collection is everything from ABBA to ZZ-top in every available genre. Or at least it was until our hypothetical blue screen of death.For the last few days I’ve been trying to salvage my music collection.Apple, thankfully made finding my digital downloads extremely easy. God bless Steve Jobs and his iCloud. Any music purchased through iTunes is available to be downloaded to supported devices – no buying your music all over again. So, from what I understand, if I buy a new computer, install iTunes, and authorize the device, all of the music I’ve purchased through the iTunes store can be downloaded right to my new machine.
Amazon – you suck. Their “cloud drive” has been around just as long as Apple’s iCloud, but it blows.
This has been my recent experience. I have called Amazon twice in the last 24 hours. The first time, I told the help-desk representative that I had lost my files and I had no way to retrieve them. She apologized (for what I’m not sure) and said that she would “gladly” put my files on my cloud drive. Okay, until I checked this morning and felt the need to call them again because a great portion of my music was still missing. This time the help-desk representative informed me that MP3’s purchased more than 90 days ago could not be uploaded to my cloud.
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The busted business part of Amazon’s cloud is that unless you have your purchase settings worked so that all MP3 purchases go automatically to the cloud drive, you will need to upload them yourself. If you don’t and 90 days later you find yourself without the file you downloaded it’s your loss not theirs.
All the Amazon guy could do was give me a $10 credit to help me “re-purchase” about $200 worth of music that had been purchased over the last 4 years that I’ve been a “valued Amazon customer.” Thanks….
The moral of the story is back up your music files, but the score of the Apple versus Amazon game:
Amazon 0, Apple as per your 60 page user agreement my first born is yours.
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Goodbye Childhood
January 21, 2012 Leave a comment
Recently, access to Netflix has allowed me to go back and watch television shows that I spent plenty of hours watching back in the 80′s. Remember MacGyver? The guy who taught any kid paying attention how to turn a bubblegum wrapper and a few other key chemicals into explosive devices? That awesome theme song that’s easily recognized by anyone born before 1989? Richard Dean Anderson….love it…which is why I feel really guilty for laughing at the irony of a demotivational poster.
My childhood is kinda dead.
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