My car will be 7 years old this year.  (Thanks again to TNuts who pointed me in this direction!)  I love my car.  I only have about 60,000 miles on it and have kept it maintained as Ford suggested (synthetic oil every 5000 miles, radiator flush, transmission flush, all that stuff when it comes due, change air filter when it gets dirty, etc.)  The car has run like a kitten ever since I got it.  I paid it off in 2005.  It’s been my experience that as soon as you pay a car off, you start dumping money into it.  Not so with this one. 

But I finally did have to put some money into it.  I had to have my brakes done (all four) today.  This is the first major repair I have had to put into this car.

Can you guess what my next car will be?

Here’s a hint:

Your Karaoke Theme Song is “I’m Too Sexy”

You’re a total goof ball and a bit of a nut job. You don’t take yourself seriously at all. And while you may not be the greatest singer, you’re the first to volunteer for karaoke. You have a wild and unpredictable sense of humor that always gets people cracking up. Irreverent and rebellious, your humor knows no bounds or limits. You enjoy shocking people. You might also sing: “Like a Virgin,” “Ice Ice Baby,” and “Hey Ya!” Stay away from people who sing: “Sweet Home Alabama”

Every time I hear about a government stimulus package, or any kind of government handout, this crosses my mind:

“Let’s give money to the taxpayers.”
“Where are we going to get it?”
“From the taxpayers.” 

Or does it go more like this?

“Let’s give money to the low-income and non-working non-tax-payers.”
“Where are we going to get it?”
“From the idiots that worked their butts off, went to college, worked their way up through the ranks, and became successful.  They are the ones who live within their means, don’t borrow more then they can repay, pay off their credit cards every month.  What idiots they are.  They could have gotten in over their heads and then held out for a guvmint handout.”

I fall into that group of idiots.  Silly me.  What was I thinking, living within my means?

I know I’ve written about this before, but like backing up to a 3′ flame, just hearing this stuff burns my butt.

Not even sure why I did this, since I have a little over 4,000 credits and don’t use them very often.

Oh well, free anything is hard for me to resist, which is why I have 15 Estee Lauder makeup bags, 9 tote bags, 17 tubes of lipstick I’ll never wear, 11 sample eye creams…  Which reminds me, I need to get to Carson Pirie Scott before their gift with purchase is over with.  They are giving a really cool white tote (plus a makeup bag and some lipsticks and eye cream) with any Estee Lauder purchase over $35 and I need some more of my tinted moisturizer, which qualifies at $38.

Hmmm….I wonder if that was last week.  I’m always behind in these things.

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One of my weaknesses is buying shoes.  Okay, so I know that doesn’t make me unique among women.  In fact, it probably adds me to a sisterhood of millions.

But there is one pet peeve I have with shoe manufacturers.  That is when they sew a brand name tag onto the insole of the shoe.

I just bought a pair of Skechers shoes from endless.com that I really like with one exception.  The brand name is sewn into the shoe’s insole.
 
I’ve experienced this with other brands, too, like Mudd.

Am I the only one with thin-skinned feet?  This is really uncomfortable for me.  I’m going out at lunch today and buy some insoles to put in these shoes so I don’t have to feel that tag.

I can’t believe people really ask this question.  Maybe people would rather go back to the way things were, say, at the turn of the 20th century when the life expectancy was 46 years.  By those standards, I’d have been dead 6 years now.  People are living longer, healthier lives – despite all of the hype about all of our unhealthy habits. Why would they say “50 is the new 30″ if we weren’t healthier than our parents’ generation?

I’m amazed at the ignorance of people.  Who knows where we would be if not for medical science. 

I am dependent on insulin.  If not for insulin, my life expectancy would be much shorter.  Sitting in a lotus position saying “oohhhhmmmmmm” isn’t going to cure my diabetes.

I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!

What are your middle names?

How long have you been together?

How long did you know each other before you started dating?

Who asked whom out?

How old are each of you?

Whose siblings do you see the most?

Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?

Did you go to the same school?

Are you from the same home town?

Who is smarter?

Who is the most sensitive?

Where do you eat out most as a couple?

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?

Who has the craziest exes?

Who has the worst temper?

Who does the cooking?

Who is the neat-freak?

Who is more stubborn?

Who hogs the bed?

Who wakes up earlier?

Where was your first date?

Who is more jealous?

How long did it take to get serious?

Who eats more?

Who does the laundry?

Who’s better with the computer?

Who drives when you are together?

Oh.

My.

Gawd.

When I was 16 or 17 my girlfriends and I snuck into an R rated movie called Last House on the Left. (It was a double-feature playing along with Don’t Look In The Basement – a movie about an asylum being run by the patients.)

So all I remember about Last House on the Left is that these two girls, best friends, are walking through the woods when some weirdo hippies catch up to them an start making them do stuff to each other before they rape and kill them.  For example, they make them kiss each other.  Then they make them take off their blouses and fondle each other’s breasts.   Then they make one slap the other.  I don’t remember much else, except that both girls end up dead, and the people are staying at one of the dead girls’ parents house.  Fast forward…the mother figures out they killed her daughter.  I remember shaving cream being sprayed on the floor in the hallway to see if the perpetrators leave the bedroom. The mother entices one of the guys (rapist/killer) out with promises of weird sex.  She convinces him to let her tie his hands behind his back, seductively unzips his pants, takes him in her mouth, then bites it off.  THAT part stuck with me.  I don’t remember much else.  But all it all, it was a really stupid movie.  It ranks right up there with the “women in prison” movies that were  popular back then, too.

And they’ve REMADE it!

Hollywood must be hard up these days.

Stolen from swamprad

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?
I didn’t go to the prom.  I was against all that phony bullshit.  At least, that’s what I told people at the time.  Truth was, I didn’t like the person who asked me to go so I stayed home.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
No.  We broke up 33 years ago.  I have no idea if he’s even still alive.

3. What was your 1st alcoholic drink?
Cherry vodka, straight out of the bottle

4. What was your FIRST job?
I worked with my grandmother cleaning motel rooms for $1/day on the weekends.  A tenant that we just called “Capizi” paid me $5 to clean his apartment.  One day Capizi left and never returned (left all his stuff behind).  We figured he was probably mafia and was ‘made’ to disappear, a la Jimmy Hoffa style (though this was about 7 years before Hoffa disappeared.)

5. What was your FIRST car?
Chartreuse ’66 Dodge Charger Fastback

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
I don’t do text.

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
David

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Miss Monroe.  I thought she was mean.

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
Riding around the neighborhood.  My mom knew a guy who had his own plane and he took us for a plane ride.

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
Jeannie Sommers (Summers?)  She moved away after kindergarten and I haven’t heard from her since.  She moved to Colorado. (That was almost 47 years ago.)

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
Not sure I can remember.  Maybe Jan Ferguson’s house.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
David

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
I was Vivian’s maid of honor

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Threw on a pair of sweats and went to Burger King for sausage, egg and cheese croissants

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
Ray Charles

16. FIRST tattoo?
No tattoos

17. First piercing?
When I was 24 I got my ears pierced so I could buy some Avon rose earrings that only came in pierced.

18. First foreign country you’ve been to?
Canada

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing?
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao – I’m sure there were others.  We went to the Saturday Matinee every weekend when I was little.  This was the first one that sticks in my memory, though.

20. When was your FIRST detention?
We didn’t do detention.  I got kicked out of school for three days in 9th grade for smoking.

21. What was the first state you lived in?
Michigan

22. Who was your FIRST roommate?
Trudy Stearns – she switched rooms because I was a smoker, and Audry Harriman moved in.

23. If you had one wish, what would it be?
World peace

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
To play the guitar