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You’ve heard the saying, “You smell like an old Grandma” or “That perfume smells like a Grandma”- right? It’s supposed to be a bad thing. As if old ladies have poor taste in perfume. My Grandma passed away in 2005 on Easter (she was actually born on Easter as well), and I miss her a lot. Ever since then, I started using Estee Lauder products, because she always used them.
Recently I was on their website browsing the products that they are about to discontinue, and I saw the Private Collections perfume and lotion on there. Private Collection was my Grandma’s signature scent. I bought a bottle of the lotion, and it just arrived today. I put some on, and instantly it was as if I was in my Grandparents’ house in Ohio at Christmas time. It just made me miss my Grandma even more.
I think it’s so odd how scents can bring back memories, as if you are really there in that time and place that you are remembering. My mom died in 2003 on St. Patricks Day (which is also the day she was conceived, I know because her father was in the military and he was out on leave on that day), and when I went to her house to collect her things, I save her bottle of her signature scent, Charlie.
I still have that bottle, I don’t use it, but every once in a while I open it and smell it, and I can remember her.
I hate it when people die. It isn’t fair. But at least we can have scents and other things to help us remember the special moments

This blog is going to be about beer. I enjoy beer. My new favorite is Bud Light Lime. I don’t drink that often, maybe three beers on a Saturday or something. I stopped drinking hard alcohol in February, with my dad. I do miss it, and it sucks because I wasn’t the one with the problem, so it’s like if someone with an addiction to chocolate stopped eating salad. But whatever. So I think beer was a great invention. I wonder who thought barley and hopps would taste good in liquid form!? LOL! It’s so funny to think about how certain things came to be.
I guess wine is understandable but beer? Come on. I do love the small-town craft beers, I love the taste. It’s hard to get used to but I love them. Recently Miller came out with some craft beers, I have yet to try them. I have a thing against popular people/places/companies branching out from what is their standard. If you have a working formula, don’t change it! “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

So my husband loves to play video games. I like them too, but not the way he likes them. They become his life, they get 100% of his attention when he’s playing them, it’s actually kind of weird and funny.
I love the old school games like Galaga, Pacman, Mario Brothers, etc. but he’s all into his XBox360 and all of the new games. I must say though, I do love Grand Theft Auto IV, that game is awesome. You can steal cars, go get hookers, kill them and take their money, go to a bar and get wasted and then drink-I know all of that sounds horrible but for someone who would NEVER do that stuff in real life, it’s kind of fun to do it in a video game. Is that weird? Does that make me crazy/psycho/abnormal?
When I first got married, video games took over our marriage. I almost wanted a divorce over the video games, no joke. It’s so funny how a GAME can ruin peoples’ lives. I even read a few articles about people DYING from playing video games too much.

Who goes to a buffet restaurant and only eats one plate of food (actually my dad does, and it kills me!)? I mean, if you are going to pay the price for all you can eat, then EAT! I recently went to a buffet with my dad at a local casino, and it’s proclaimed “the best buffet in San Diego” - so of course I had to try it. I have always been a big fan of buffets. I love variety, and I love to have a little bit of a lot of food. Recently though I’ve lost about 20 pounds, which on someone that’s only 5′ tall, is a lot. I am currently 105 pounds, so now it’s hard for me to eat the volume of food that I used to eat.
So at this buffet, it was totally awesome, the food was great and there was a lot of variety. I ended up eating two plates full of food-pork fried rice, lots of different vegetables, egg rolls, tomato halves stuffed with egg salad, steamed asparagus, I mean the list goes on. The list of what I DIDN’T eat is smaller. Then of course I had to try a few desserts-cannoli, mouse cake, eclairs, etc. and boy oh boy, I almost exploded.
My dad had to actually take my plates away from me so that I would stop eating. I just wanted to get my moneys worth! Isn’t that was eating at a buffet place is all about? It’s like a competition. Can you eat the value of the price that you just paid? Can you make the price you just paid (which is usually too much, especially at a casino) worth it? I dare you to try next time you go to a buffet, to eat as much as possible. Think about what you’re eating and how much you paid. Make the buffet owners sorry that they made it all you can eat! I think that’s what I try to do each time, seriously.

So I love Spongebob. I have been watching him since he first came out, I think I was about 18 years old. I don’t know what it is, but it’s just a super funny, weird show! I have tons of Spongebob memorabilia, more than any 25 year old should LOL.
If you’ve never seen the show, you totally should. It’s not your typical childrens’ show. There are adult jokes, and it’s just off the wall, and very entertaining. Anytime I see anything Spongebob at the store, I must buy it. I think my favorite Spongebob thing is my Mr. Potato Head Spongebob. It’s Spongebob, but it’s exactly like a Mr. Potato Head, remember him? Removable eyes, mouth, accessories, hat- it’s awesome.
Right now I have him set so that he has a spatula in one hand, his Krusty Krab hat on, a frown on his face and angry eyes - like he’s angry to be at work (which of course would never happen, but I was trying to show how I’m feeling, through him. LOL!

So a while ago I posted a blog about finding a new job- but I have decided to stay at my current job. I’ve been there almost 3 years and I do love what I do.  I care about the company I work for as well. We may not be doing that well financially, but the economy is effecting everyone and everything right now, so I know things will get better.

One of the main reasons I was going to leave my company is because of the General Manager. I won’t go into detail on our differences, but I had put in my notice in the middle of June, but then reconsidered and ended up staying. Then 2 weeks ago I put in my notice, officially and that was that. My last day was supposed to be this coming Friday. But then last Thursday (3 days ago), the General Manger called me into her office and we had a long talk, and she basically apologized to me and long story short, I ended up reconsidering my resignation, and am going to give her and the company one last shot.

If things don’t change though, I am not staying. I do love that I can wear jeans to work, and it’s only three miles from where I live, and I am familiar and comfortable with my position, and I do make good money for having no college education. Everything I’ve learned has been over the last 5 years from my last 2 jobs, so I am very lucky.

But I also don’t take anyone’s crap, so three strikes, and I’m OUT!

I recently read that cell phone insurance is pretty pointless. I guess that the main cell phone insurance company that most cell phone providers use has a thing where they don’t have to send you a brand new phone. They can send you an equally-valued phone, that may not even be the same phone you turned in that broke, and it may even be used, not new!
I did get cell phone insurance recently since I seem to always be dropping my cell phones in water (water, toilets, etc). So instead of having to pay $200 all at once for a brand new phone, I only had to pay $50 and I got a ‘new’ phone through the cell phone insurance. And of course I pay $10 per month I believe for the insurance (or was it a one time fee of $10? I can’t remember).
Anyways, little did I know that the phone they sent me may have been used and just refurbished. I have a Pink Razr, and I love my phone but the new phone they sent me did feel a little bit different. The original, brand new one that I had was smooth and light weight, whereas the ‘new’ replacement phone the insurance company sent me was rougher feeling and it just felt cheaper. Of course I thought it was my imagination, until I recently read the article about the cell phone insurance companies.
I will never pay for cell phone insurance again, next time I get a new phone which will be next May. It’s pointless and you never know what you’re going to get! You may not even get the same phone you had, as long as the cell phone insurance company THINKS that what they are going to send you is equal value to the phone that you had before, they will send it to you. RIP OFF!
Just don’t do the following things and you shouldn’t need a new phone:

Don’t take your cell phone into a bathroom where there are sinks and toilets.
Don’t put your cell phone in your back pocket, and then pull your pants down to go to the bathroom. The phone will fall into the toilet.
Don’t keep your phone near a glass of water, or any beverage that does not have a lid on it.
Don’t take your cell phone on carnival rides.

Follow those rules, you should be fine. Trust me, I know first hand

In February I signed my cat Cootie pet insurance thru PetCo, whichever one they have on the website. Everything was cool. Then all of a sudden last week I got a notice in the mail saying that my service is being canceled due to non payment.
That blew me away since the payments have been automatically taken from my credit card since February, and I have received NO phone calls and NO letters in the mail about anything regarding this at all. And of course the company is in New York so by the time I get home from work and can call them, they are closed (since I’m on pacific time). So I called them, left them an angry message and asked for a call back.
Last month I had signed up my cat Phyre for the same insurance, but unfortunately I went out of town and my husband forgot to take him to the vet for the check up, so that the vet could send all of the informatin to the pet insurance company to make the insurance valid, and our time expired so his insurance never fully went into effect.
So the following day after I left the message with the Pet Insurance company, I decided to email them to cancel BOTH of my policies and refund me for the month of July. I told them about their terrible lack of customer service and their insane letter saying that I was “past due” and had not paid, when the payments had ALWAYS been automatically deducted.
OH I left something out- what promted me to finally cancel the pet insurance was that I was reading an article in Readers Digest, and there were 7 ’scams’ to watch out for, or something like that. One of them was Pet Insurance. It said that most people pay around $5000 before they even need to use their insurance for even the smallest amount. They also said that most pet owners never, in the pets’ entire lifetime, ever need to spend over $1000 so they suggested instead of putting a monthly fee to an insurance company, just put the money into a savings account. Sure, it’s a big chunk of money at once but you will be prepared, and you will still be saving WAY more money than if you had gotten the pet insurance.
And it makes total sense.
So all of you out there with a needless expesnse like this, I hope you take mine and Readers Digest’s advise.

Last night I was reading my Readers Digest, and recently they got a new editor. I hate when magazines get new editors. The new editors always change things around. If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it, please! I’ve been noticing the slight changes for the last few months but for some reason, last night it really got to me. I ended up writing Readers Digest a long email about what I don’t like since the new editor came on board. I could go into detail here, but I wont. There was just 1 thing that really set me off. If you’ve ever read it, you’ve seen the “Laughter- the best medicine” section where people can write in with jokes or stories that they have, and they get PAID to submit these jokes/funny stories. Well I always assumed that these had to be ORIGINAL stories/jokes, because why would Readers Digest PAY someone money to COPY someone else’s joke? They wouldn’t. Or so I thought. SO I was reading this section last night, which by the way they renamed to be “Laugh, it’s the best medicine” or something stupid like that. Why not just keep it the freaking same? Anyways, so there was a joke that had been submitted that I read YEARS ago, one of those ones that gets passed around via email. I was furious that someone actually got PAID to submit an old, copied joke. It’s just ridiculous! I work currently for a publishing company (a Horse magazine) so I understand that it’s important to keep up with the times, and try to do what your competition is doing and do it better, but Readers Digest is a CLASSIC. When something is classic, you don’t have to change or update it. It just IS. Readers Digest hasn’t lasted as long as it has because they were constantly changing. People read it because they know what they are going to get with it. They know what to expect. Readers Digest found a formula that works a LONG time ago, and they stuck with it, and now this new editor wants to CHANGE it! It just makes me sooooo irritated (can you tell? LOL). The analogy that I came up with is this: The Beatles are classic. They have a certain style, a certain sound. They never tried to copy anyone else’s style, they never tried to change with the times. The Beatles were just the Beatles. What Readers Digest is doing right now is like if the Beatles tried to re-do a Backstreet Boys song. It just wouldn’t work! People like Pink Floyd, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, they need to stick with what works. They got famous for a reason. If they change their sound, people won’t like them anymore and the same goes for ANYTHING- even publications.
OK so I’m done with my rant

A friend of mine that I used to work with is taking care of a litter of puppies right now. The mommy dogs’ owner is out of town, so my friend is taking care of them all for now. There are six puppies and they are a lot of work! One of them got milk in his nose, and probably inhaled it, so he had to be taken to the vet, but is doing OK now. I told her I was jealous of her, that she gets to be around these babies, and she said it’s a ton of work and DON’T be jealous!
I am craving a puppy or kitten fix. I haven’t been around a kitten since my cat Phyre was a baby (2 years ago). Kittens and puppies are the best. They are so playful, and need so much attention and they are so tiny. I love that you can just pick them up, pet them, do whatever you want and they are so small they can’t get away They are definitely a lot of work- almost as much as a human baby!
To me, that is the best part though. If you aren’t ready for a human baby yet, an animal baby is totally the way to go!