tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56624240709018502372009-12-13T16:41:07.099-05:00A nice menu assortment of girlie topics, fitness, child care, and just the life of a lowly suburban housewife!Melinda Zookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706404613228845440mzook22@gmail.comBlogger957125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5662424070901850237.post-54879090498281513112009-09-08T22:40:00.003-04:002009-09-08T22:54:47.019-04:00

Here's some facebook status updates I thought up but never wrote (feel free to steal them if you are at a loss for words)......loves believing in reincarnation. It is just fun to imagine rude and mean people as crickets...hasn't cried wolf in a while...perhaps a meow is in order...is not buying everything Annie says; especially that part about the sun coming out tomorrow...feels like a woodpecker

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I got a new gadget this weekend. I am so excited! It is a smartphone, not an iphone, but something similar that I can use for texting, email, web browsing, the whole kit and kaboodle. I am so excited. I feel like a nerd now...technologically with the "in-crowd." We have really come a long way from just relying on desktop computers I feel like I can do what I need to do anywhere now. I can

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So if you read my latest post, you know that I am giving up this old shack...turning over a new leaf, and staying goodbye to Melinda Zook. For those of you who don't know, that is not my real name. I started this blog anonymously due to the fact there are way too many creepies out there and no way did I want to put myself out there for anyone to look up. Not that they'd really care to but you

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It's back to school time and like clockwork the sun is setting earlier and the weather is getting cooler. It really makes a change feel like a change. As much as I love fall weather, apple picking and Halloween, I feel like this summer just went too fast. I could use one more week to take a few more day trips. I could use one more day to soak in the sun. I guess it really isn't a sign all

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It's been kind of a tiring day. I think I am just mentally exhausted too trying to think about getting things ready for school, work, schedules changing...ugh, just when I thought everything was settled. Is it ever really?Things have been really crazy too at work. I really hope that the dust settles. Projects get started, then stop, then start up again. I feel like my head is swirling; plus

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Yo, yo, so I moved my Entrecard up to the top of my page. Come on and drop on my baby! I am making it easy for you....please, please, please. I want to be on your list!By the way, here is a great list of blogs that have their Entrecard right on the top. I am just starting this list but plan to get a list of 300 to drop to daily. If your Entrecard is on top and you want to be on my list,

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Holy smokes, my neighbor is out there again, half naked mowing his lawn. I would love it if I had some mass notification system to let everyone know. The guy is a personal trainer and so he is chiseled. People should really see this... I wonder if I can sneak my camera over to the window to get a shot of his bod. Seriously, anyone who stops by my little old blog deserves a little eye candy.

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One green bean...that's all I got in my garden.One measly little green bean. It looked so sad there on the vine, all by itself. I figured I could saute it up with some onions and make it feel really good. It must have been lonely out there, all by itself.

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Death...luckily it seems to be nowhere around me. I feel so fortunate (knocking hard on a big piece of wood) that we have had no deaths recently. The last person I knew who passed away was a distant cousin who unfortunately took his own life and for what reason I have no idea. I have a few people that I know that have cancer and are in remission and doing well, and I bet death crosses their

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So tonight I had one of those moments...when you stop and just think...about life, about things...I was pausing with a glass of merlot at my lips, savoring the taste of those red grapes, hopefully induced with some resveratrol, providing me with an ounce of anti-aging benefits and that's when the thought came to me...more than a million people have touched my life...well, in some shape or

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So after reading this article in Time magazine that exercise doesn't make you thin...which I know already. You have to eat right too. Still, I agree that exercise reaps more benefits than they so meagerly list. Exercise is a mental release too. You can really help alleviate so much stress by just grabbing a 20 minute power walk or letting a little sweat out kickboxing.Still, I want to shed 10

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So I am finally catching up on a few more of my old bloggy friends, hunched over my laptop, reading like a maniac...although still feeling a touch sad for a friend who has up and gone away. Ah well, it happens to the best of us.On a good note though there are a few still around, still doing what they do best, write, create, and flesh out those human emotions dealing with trials and tribulations

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I am doing so well with my KettleWorx exercises! It shows you how to work out using a kettlebell and it is really cool, plus the guy trainer is hot!I started it about 2 weeks ago and man, it is hard! The workout is 20 minutes a day for three times a week, that's nothing! I thought I had this one in the bag being that I am a gym rat but no joke, it is really challenging. That in no way is

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This is why I definitely don't agree with co-sleeping. That is what cribs were made for...so your 100+ pound body will not squish your 7-20 pound baby. Plus, I just can't understand why people would share a bed with an infant/or child...this is the same bed, I assume, that you sleep in with your husband. I just believe private time should be private time if you know what I mean. There is

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Hot damn do I love my Canon camera. We bought it a few months ago and I have been taking pictures non-stop. Seriously, after year and years of red eye pics, it has been the biggest relief to finally have a camera that easily takes nice pictures. I have heard people talking about their Canon cameras before but I didn't quite believe it until i went to the store and tried them out a few times

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Okay, now what the frick am I supposed to do? One of my longest, dearest blog bitches has quit blogging...just like that *snap.* Now I know I have been a bad blogging buddy lately, not keeping up as rigidly as I used to but still...she is like a long lost sister of mine. Uh-huh, she has been around with me since day 1. Literally. Seriously, she has been a lifeline to all that I hoped for my

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I just read my horoscope and dude, it says the good luck pendulum is swinging my way. Yay! Something about "financial ease"...goody, goody! I was just doing our bills the other day and was freaking out because our Disney vacation is coming and we haven't saved up to our goal yet. I don't want to use credit cards and build up debt right before Christmas so we have got to figure out a way to

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OMG, I just noticed today that this is my 950th post! Holy cow! I am a blogging maniac. Well, maybe not so much these days but when I had time...yes. Well, we have had some really crazy weather around these parts. I almost feel like I live in Florida. It has been hot and humid and the thunderstorms are just coming out of nowhere! Creepy. I mean I like a good thunderstorm here and there

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So I had 3 heart attacks today...I won't list why I did...let's just say it had to do with my little devils kids. Kids can do stuff that absolutely scares the crap out of you. I know I wanted to raise my kids to be independent, and to not hover over them, even though I know I do. Still, for whatever reason, both of my blessed babies were always risk takers; they both like to climb the

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Wow, I have so much to tell and not enough time. So I took a week off of last week, had both kids home. Let's just say by Thursday night I was up for drinking a bottle of whiskey and hanging my head on a shelf so I wouldn't drown in my own drool after passing out. Now you know I am just joking here, whiskey is gross. Anywho, I made it through the long, and tiring week. All I can say is with

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Gawd, I can't even believe how long it has been since I posted. I must be in some sort of weird time warp lately. I don't even try to keep track of the days, the hours, the minutes... life is just flying by.Anywho, tonight we decided spur of the moment to go to the movies...with the kids. If we could have gotten a sitter of course we'd jump at the first chance to go see The Hangover, because

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Today I was considering the idea that I really need to start saving money, in whatever ways I can. There are some people who are just such good bargain shoppers. Sometimes they shop at 3 different stores just to get all the discounts. I am so jealous! I usually forget to even bring my coupon book with me. I bought it months ago and it is collecting dust...probably in my husband's car.It

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Well the FDA caught them again, red handed. I see these ads all the time for these penis enlargers and it makes me chuckle. Yes, increase your manhood baby. Have you ever heard the radio commercials? Some woman with a silky voice comes on..."yes, you know you want it baby."Anywho, the FDA has slammed them for finding that these "nutritional supplements" are actually containing tadafil, which

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My cat, Star, has been very devious. Actually, he has been getting into a rather annoying routine every morning at exactly, and I mean exactly 6:35 AM. How does this little devil do it? Well it is quite elaborate actually. He starts off by going up to "scratch" with his non-existent front claws the trunk of our tropical plant in the corner of our room. That makes a nice leaf rattling sound.

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Well I will spare you any talk about MJ. Seriously, the media has been over doing it just a little bit. His little girl's last farewell was definitely heart wrenching but enough already! I am starting to loathe the media anyway...too much time and effort is wasted in redundancy.So I have lots of random stuff on the brain and I want to share it randomly.- I am finally getting some veggies in my

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