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03/13/2006: "Secrets to a Full and Happy Life"


1. If you are in a hotel room and have put lotion on your hands and can't unscrew the screw top on your mini-bottle of merlot/cab blend travel wine (travel wine being the only acceptable reason for wine with a screw top), don't despair. A mini-pad works like a charm. Pull off the adhesive backing and wrap it around the top portion of the screw top. (Don't wrap it too far down or you'll just have a bottle of wine decked out in a mini-pad.) Voila. Pour and enjoy. Not particularly elegant, but very effective. big grin

2. On a warm day when you've worked up a sweat doing yard work, a Girl Scout thin mint along with an ice cold beer is wonderful. And if your husband says you're embarrassing him guzzling a beer from the bottle in the front yard of your suburban neighborhood, pleasantly invite him to join you in a little spring yard clean-up.

Okay, so maybe I exaggerated a little and these aren't necessarily secrets to a full and happy life, but they sure do feel good for about fifteen minutes. big grin

Replies: 5 Comments

on Monday, March 13th, Rhonda said

LOL, Jen. Sounds like excellent advice to me. Though it has taken effort, I have dutifully ignored the Girl Scout cookie stands around here. rolls eyes

on Monday, March 13th, Jen said

It's my husband. Some crafty little girl scouts had positioned themselves in front of the Blockbuster. The girl scouts, however, were not hawking the beer. hehe

on Monday, March 13th, KIM H said

good advice alright big grin

on Monday, March 13th, Anna said

You and your feminine protection stories! razz I'm betting you're saving the best one to tell the Girl when it will do the most psychological harm? (Perhaps I'm judging you by my own parenting methods?)

I had no idea those crafty girl scouts were traveling. Here, they're in front of the WalMart, bearing absolute tons of those coconut cookies no human being can resist! Thin Mints, I can resist. Coconut--whatevers--it's like they shout at me to buy them! crazy

Anna

on Tuesday, March 14th, Jen said

The evil fat-laden coconut chocolet cookies that issue their siren's call from my freezer? Samoas. satisfied

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