Neck slimmer...... ouch!

I woke up this morning with such a sore neck, you have no idea. It starts at the base of my neck and goes down into my shoulder blade. Ummmm, the only EXERCISE I"ve done in the last 24 hours was the neck slimmer.....so, I'm going to say that it caused my problem. I think I'm going to put the neck slimmer back in the box and hopefully I won't get a turkey neck!

As seen on TV.......

Ok, I really like these "as seen on tv" gadgets. Today, I'm trying out the Neckline Slimmer.

I've used it a few times this morning. It's easy to use..... put the base on your chest, rest your chin on the pad and open and close your mouth. Easy. You get three different springs to use for resistance and they're easy to change out. So, stay tuned for the results.

I'm still using the shake weight and it seems to be showing some signs of success!!

Shake Weight

Ok, so I saw the infomercial and I was hooked! The arms these women got from using this, "thing"..... unreal. I'm not one for going to the gym and doing free weights and I don't even use the treadmill that I DO have at home. So, I thought I might like to give this a try.

I figured it was like any other tv product that costs $19.95. But, I like to try these things out. The one thing I really wanted and never got was the thing that peels the shells off your hard boiled eggs. Maybe the "As seen on TV" website still has them. Anyways, I thought I would blog my progress with this shake weight. I am currently on day 5.

Day 1- I pulled this out of the box and felt al little silly..... I'm sure you can understand! I shook it for about 30 seconds, and I kid you not, my muscles were feeling it. I used it for the six minutes they suggest. I felt the muscles burning. It's only day one..... don't get too excited.

Day 2- I wake up and my arms don't want to move right away. Hmmmmm.... maybe I slept funny? Nah, the shake weight. I did another six minutes today. Burn baby burn!

Day 3- Wake up with a slight neck ache. Arms feel good though. Forearms really feeling it!

Day4- Did six minutes. Love this! No sweat involved, no getting dressed up in gym garb, no leaving the house. I did my six minutes while drinking my coffee! Six minutes is nothing anymore.

Day 5- Up'd my time to 9 minutes. My forearms are feeling tight and so are the triceps. I think we have a winner with this thing. It's so easy and it really does work.

The Bachelor: On the Wings of Insanely Ridiculous People

Ok, so I'm watching the Bachelor, not something I normally do, but lately there's been a lot of buzz about this show. So now it's piqued my curiosity.

Jake: handsome, seems romantic, pilot.

The women. OMG!!!
Gia, now, I really liked her. She seemed honest and sweet. Not to mention beautiful. Ali..... she left the show because of her job. Did she not realize when she signed up that she could be gone from work for, however many weeks this show lasts? Or did she just have such low self esteem that she didn't think she'd stay in the game that long? Vienna. Well, I didn't have to go bungee jumping snuggled up to her to to tell that she's just a touch on the trampy side. The rest of the women, I don't recall since I just started watching this show two weeks ago.

Tonight all of the women Jake sent home are on this show. Discussing how they felt when they were there and when they were sent home. Seriously? You come on national tv and say things like, "I really loved him!" "I was totally in love with him and ready to marry him." Are these women nuts? How on earth can you possibly know this? In a week, in a month??? And how, after only spending what, MAYBE thirty minutes a week alone with him?

Either there's a lot more desperate women in this world than I thought or there are more nut jobs in this world than I thought. This is really just a cleaned up version of the Jerry Springer show.

I'm watching it because I think it's hilarious to watch these women sit and cry about a man they fell in love with in ten minutes. Who know nothing about this man but act like they've never met anyone like him before. It's a competition chicks! You'd act the same way fighting over a pair of Jimmy Choo's! Not the way I want to find my husband. Wait, I'm married. I knew my husband 5 years before we got married. I knew exactly who I was marrying. I'm glad I went with the traditional way of finding my husband. Plus, I didn't have to make a complete ass out of myself on national tv.

Since I'm not a fan of this show, and I'm not really sure how many bachelors there have been in the past, I'm just curious to know what the success rate is. I'll have to check into this.

Barnes and Noble: my therapy

Tonight I went to my happy place. Barnes and Noble. The smell of books and Starbucks coffee just gives me that, "I'm home" kind of feeling.
You grab a bunch of books that you don't intend to buy, find the comfiest chair in the place and snuggle in like you're getting ready to watch a movie on tv. It's the most welcoming store I've ever been to. You sit and read, do a little people watching .... it's the perfect end to any day.
Walking out with your green B&N bag full of books and magazines in one hand and your venti coffee in the other, you feel like you're leaving the spa.

"911- What is your emergency?"

After a long twelve hour day at work yesterday, I just fell into my bed at around 9:00 last night. I was so tired. I think it took about two minutes for me to actually fall asleep. I was so excited to think I was actually going to get about seven full hours of sleep. Until....... "ding dong"....... I woke up thinking it was a dream. Who would be at my door that late? Then, "ding dong, ding dong." Somebody really wanted to get my attention. I rolled out of my bed and stumbled to the front door. I looked out before opening the door because, well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? I saw a police officer standing there. My heart sank. My son had just left an hour before. I opened the door and this officer looked at me with obvious concern on his face. I said, "is something wrong?" The officer looked at me and said, "ma'am, are you ok?" I said, "yes, shouldn't I be?" He proceeded to tell me that someone called 911 from my residence and hung up. After my heart got back into a normal rhythm, I advised him that I haven't had a home phone in four years so this was not possible. He looked perplexed. And I'm sure that I looked pissed, as this call was obviously not made from my residence and I was woken up from my deep sleep for this? As I've been a police dispatcher in the past, I know that when a cell phone calls 911, it does not give a physical home address. So how they got my address out of a 911 cell phone call is beyond me. Needless to say, I crawled back into bed, tossed and turned and could not get back to sleep. So my wonderful seven hours of sleep turned in to 5 hours of tossing and turning.