Half-Nekkid Thursday - #18

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I still haven't gotten my online shit completely together yet. I'm trying. I really am. For now, though, my real life is kind of running the show. And speaking of running...today I present my peds and piggies. (chipped polish and all!)

#16 in my half-nekkid journey....Two Feet...



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Way Back Wednesday - good to see (you again)

I'm am so late it is not even funny. Not that it would be funny if I was early...but whatever. I completely missed last week so late or not I'm playing today!

Time for Way Back Wednesday, where The Kept Woman asks us to post embarrassing pictures of ourselves online for all the world to see. This weeks theme is:

You again!?!? Surely you have a favorite sweater, accessory or something that showed up time and time again in your pictures. Calling all over-used accessories and clothing items!

Well I looked and looked and the only item that kept showing up were my all time favorite RED glasses. I LOVED these glasses and got so many compliments on them. I got them in 1992 and wore them for eight years. Yes, Eight years. I wasn't very diligent about getting those eye exams. A failed eye test, while trying to renew my drivers license was what finally sent me back for a new prescription. So here you go...

I wore them with permed hair...



...and with denim at Christmas...


...I wore them with tank tops and earrings and shy armpits...


...I even wore them nekkid with my hair in a ponytail.


(probably would have been cuter if that all rhymed, but, too bad, it doesn't)

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Making progress...

I'm still working on getting my shit together. Honestly, it may take a few more days, but I'm getting there. I had the worst ever week in sales. I literally made nothing on my dolls. Nothing! I made back what I put into them and that was it. This has never happened to me in the six years I've been selling them. I'm not sure what to think. Do they suck?? Is it just a bad time of year?? Is the market getting flooded?? Maybe all of the above. Rather than spending too much time on what I don't know, I'd rather focus on what I do know. And what I do know is, I need to make money. It's either that or attempt to cut our expenses back...way back. The problem is we're spoiled. We were DINKS for so long, that we got used to pretty much buying whatever we wanted when we wanted it. (for those of you who don't know, DINKS=double income, no kids). To go backwards is, well, hard. So, again, I need to make money. I won't be rushing out to find a real job right away, however. I'm going to hope last week was a freak occurrence and things will pick up and get back to normal. I'm going to hope...

Here's some humor mixed with truth, for all of us who are 30 something and over. Hope you get a kick out of it...



First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested
for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored
lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

(Okay, so we did have Atari and a Beta VCR eventually, but not during the early years ;)

Half-Nekkid Thursday - #17

Shit...it's Thursday! If you don't know what that means, click the link above and visit Osbasso to find out.

I haven't got my shit together this week. I didn't play WBW and almost completely forgot about HNT. Because I wasn't on the ball and didn't take any new shots, we'll have to settle for what was already sitting on my computer from a couple of weeks ago.

#16 in my half-nekkid journey....Long way down...



Let me know if you played!

(I'm hoping to get said shit together over the weekend so I'm back on track by next week)

What's new pussycat?

Okay. Before I begin I'd just like to give a special "shout-out" to all the assholes in the world...FUCK YOU!

There. I feel better. Those of you who are not assholes (and I'm sure you know who you are) please feel free to ignore the above shout-out. If any of you are sitting there, right now, and wondering..."am I an asshole?"...then you probably are. It's just that you're too much of an asshole to even realize that you are an asshole. I'm not hatin'. Just giving credit were credit is due.

Moving on. You are now reading the blog of a 10lb lighter blogger. Did you get that? 10lbs down in only 2 weeks. Woo f-ing Hoo. I heart this diet. Mostly because it's not really a diet. I'm actually changing. For the better...which is no easy feat for me. I look better. I feel better (and I'm no longer starving, btw.) The South Beach Diet kicks fat's ass!

Next on the agenda...I've been busyMaking Babies.Check them out!

That's all for now. I don't want to waste too much of naptime blogging. I'd rather spend it vegging out in front of the TV. :)

Over and out.

Half-Nekkid Thursday - #16

It's Thursday again. If you don't know what that means, click the link above and visit Osbasso to find out.

After last week, I was thinking I should just pack up my nekkidness and retire. How can I top my wet boobies? What?... With chocolate and whipped cream? Hmmm...not a bad idea. Maybe another time.

I decided to tone it down a bit this week and have some fun with my photoshop. So I present to you...

#16 in my half-nekkid journey....Burnt out...



(this is what happens when you spend too long in the sun)

Way Back Wednesday - Yo Mama

Is it Wednesday already??? I've been a very bad blogger. I have no excuses other than plain old laziness. I had some time to myself...and I kept it. So there.

Okay then. Time to play that game where The Kept Woman asks us to post embarrassing pictures of ourselves online for all the world to see. This weeks theme is:

Pre-You (a/k/a Fetuses R Us)! This week I am celebrating the first anniversary of the arrival of my final offspring...looking for shots of your mom as she anxiously awaited your birth and sported the maternity fashions of the past...

This one is pretty early on so you can't even tell I'm in there. No maternity fashion here but I thought this picture was pretty cool because this is so something that I would wear just hanging around the house. Gray shorts and a man's t-shirt.



Some of you have seen this one before. Please just pretend like you haven't. Thanks. Some stylin' maternity wear of the early (very early) 70's. Green rocks. So do orange tree's in Florida.



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TGI F-ing F

More random shit...

I'm Hungry. So very very hungry. BUT...it is now day five of the The South Beach Diet and I've lost 6lbs. Woo fucking Hoo! 6lbs. Water weight? Maybe, but who cares. I even feel better, well other than being hungry. I'm expecting that to pass. I can do this! By week three I will be able to add carbs, and honestly having a banana, or an apple, or a piece of bread is going to feel like a real treat. So far, I'd have to say this is working and I'm fairly certain I will be beach ready long before June.

My moving itch has passed. Only because it's gotten nicer out. Once fall hits it'll be back I'm sure. We'll worry about that in the fall. The Dominican Replublic seems nice...

Last night was my last art class for a while, so I'm thinking of taking a tai chi class during my break. I know nothing about tai chi...only that they teach a class about 2 minutes away on Wednesday nights and it fits perfectly into my schedule. Yeah. I think I'll do it.

For some reason I have the constant need to keep changing things. Everything. From what I do during my day (and it what order) to my stupid little profile pictures or myspace song. I can't keep anything the same for too long or I'm finding it bores the hell out of me. I'm tired of doing the same things I've always done. I want to mix it up, try new things, get excited, get scared and most of all LIVE. K. I'm gonna go do that now...

Half - Nekkid Thursday - #15

It's Thursday again. If you don't know what that means, click the link above and visit Osbasso to find out.

Fuck shyness...because you only live once. (as far as I know anyway). If I do happen to live another life, this photo will come back to haunt me, I'm sure.

#15 in my half-nekkid journey....All Wet...

Way Back Wednesday - Sweater Ugly

Does everybody know what time it is? (no, not tool time) It's time to play the game where The Kept Woman asks us to post embarrassing pictures of ourselves online for all the world to see. This weeks theme is:

Calling all ugly sweaters, I repeat calling all ugly sweaters of the past: As an "adios" of sorts to winter let's have an UGLIEST SWEATER OF THE PAST Contest! There may even be a prize involved (assuming I get to the store, buy it, get it packaged and sent to the post office... don't laugh, it COULD happen)!

I almost thought I was going to have to stretch the rules today, but after almost an hours search I found the ugly. Can you think of a better way to waste an hour?? Didn't think so.

So here we go. All the way back to my fifth grade school picture. Okay, technically it's not a sweater, but a vest. It was constructed with yarn, though, so I think it counts. ORANGE. You're jealous, aren't you? Thought so. As hideous as it was, I think I was able to pull it off. Not a completely bad color for me.



Next, we're back in Paris, 1987, I believe. My sophomore year in high school. That's me on the left and my friend (at the time) L. I'm wearing my super cool jean jacket so you can't see it in all it's glory, but you can see the man on the front. Yup. Navy and white stripes with a guy on the front. Who the hell is that... and why was he on my sweater?? Looks like some kind of sailor dude, I think. What's really sad is that I remember LOVING this sweater. It had big shoulder pads and was nice and cropped...perfect to show of my super high wasted jeans. Hot.



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Sorry to keep you on hold..

I'm back. I took some time off to attend to my real life, like that is any excuse. Jack's Daddy will be away on business in a few days and I will have ample time, then, to work and blog my little heart out. I haven't had time to make my rounds either but I will, I promise.

We've been having gorgeous weather. Spring is officially here and I'm a happy woman. We've been spending a lot of time doing things like...

picking up rocks...


scraping the bark off the trees...


and poking things with a stick...


Gotta love Spring...

Anyway...my back is once again in tip top shape. Well...as tip top as it gets. I'm back to working out, but taking it easy on the big scary machines. I had myself a spa day on Saturday. Oh yes I did! An hour and half facial followed by and hour therapeutic massage. I swear I could barely talk after they were done...but I felt good. So. Fucking. Good. If you've never done the two together, you must. Normally I'm not that much of girl...you know... to get a facial...but I had a gift certificate. Now that I've done it though, I may have to go back.

In other news, today is day two of The South Beach Diet. It's Hard. For me anyway. I don't have a ginormous amount of weight to lose... I'd like to drop about 10 lbs or so. My main goal is to get myself on the path of eating right. I still want to eat wrong, just not as often. You're supposed to lose your carb/sugar cravings at some point. I haven't reached that point yet. I still want cake. But... I'll keep eating turkey rolled up in lettuce and hope for the best.

And lastly, I heart Chris Daughtry. He sang to me tonight, you know. Looked right at me through my TV....