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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 23 2008, 12:01 PM
More research….this time about tattoos.
A simple study and obvious finding. More women remove tattoos than men. But the next question is why? Why do they, after wanting them in the first place, feel the need to remove them?
Before I read the article I thought about it for a minute. I don’t have a tattoo, but it wasn’t hard to imagine that if I did, at my age why would I want one removed. Let’s see…
I thought I’d make it a nice one…I like flowers…If I had a tattoo of a rose (that’s common) on my shoulder, at age 40, would I still want it?
I’m trying to be open minded …when I was younger I used to dress differently… always had my shoulders showing….I guess that’s when someone would want to flaunt a tattoo (that wouldn’t have been me). Now, at my age, I can’t imagine having been at my child’s wedding all dressed up with a rose tattoo on my shoulder. I can’t imagine a 50 year old sitting in a church dressed formally that way. I would be embarrassed.
So I read the article.
“Most of them decided to have tattoos at their ages from 16 to 23 and decided to remove them at their ages of 30.About 44% of tattoo wearers said they wanted to feel unique, this is why they decided to have tattoos, 33% wanted to feel independent, 28% said it is a way for life experiences to 'stand out'. To the question on why they decided to remove tattoos 57% answered that it causes embarrassment, 38% said they feel that body image is lowered because of body art, 37% had problems while choosing clothing, 25% said that feel shame, 21% did it because of a special occasion, such as marriage.”
I guess I pinpointed that pretty well. I don’t think you needed a study for this one.
But you can read about it here. 
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 23 2008, 06:40 AM
You hear a lot about families with troubled kids. Kids dropping out of school, joining up with gangs, doing violent crimes. Eventually someone gets hurt or someone gets killed. Then blame is handed out. There is always a lot of blame. It isn’t very often that the blame takes a full circle and comes back to the parents, though. Usually the parents are blaming everyone else instead.
In Cleveland, Ohio there is a small group of woman who are on the streets trying to be moms. That’s because they’ve lost their real children…killed on the streets. Instead of taking the easy way out and blaming everyone else, they are taking the responsibility. They know their sons were "tearing up the community." They’re telling people it’s time “to take the blinders off.”
These mothers are working against youth violence in Cleveland
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 05:44 PM
But…
While I certainly have nothing against a kilt, nothing at all, mind you…I believe it has its time and place.
I believe kilts do belong on this Irish pipe band
And also, on this fine Scotsman
And especially on the Prince of Wales
But, there is no way that I want to open my door or drive down the street and see this
Do you????
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 11:51 AM
Sometimes I drive out towards 27th Street and go past a home that has a lawn that gets mowed by a teenager. There have been times I wished I had my camera with me because I swear I would stop and take the guy's picture and put it up here for you to see. He actually mows the lawn with his pants down below his rear end...his entire butt hanging out, with boxers showing. I can't understand how he is doing it. Pushing the lawn mower up and down the slight hill when he can barely walk. I wonder if it is his way of getting back at his parents for making him mow the lawn...saying "I'll show you, if you're going to make me mow the lawn, I'm going to do it looking like this"...and he literally makes an ass of himself (in my opinion anyway).
Well, this fashion trend...pants hanging below the butt...I don't understand it, but I'm not meant to understand everything.
Many cities across the country are passing ordinances against wearing pants that way...and I'm not sure how they are getting those laws passed, but they are. New York, Flint, and Chicago are among them.
MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP
Flint Police Chief David Dicks pats down a man who was stopped
Monday in Flint for his sagging pants.
The man was warned and released.
Dicks said his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that
expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms
It's The Law: No sagging pants in Chicago
Are your Jeans Sagging? Go Directly To Jail
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Jul 21 2008, 11:55 AM
Mine? Not so good...not when it comes to mastering the the Hula Hoop, anyway.
Can you Hula Hoop?
"The hula hoop marks its 50th anniversary this year, and its popularity is still going strong."
I don’t know that I could master it now if I couldn’t before, but there are a lot of people who are giving it a try, and they are loving it.
Right…I rank that up there with baton twirling…another thing I could never do.
I was more of a stilts and pogo stick kind of girl….
Read the story from the Boston Globe
Hula Hoops Have Come Full Circle ×
View the Hula Hoop Photo Gallery ×
Hula hoop moment from Circus Smirkus performance 2006
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By Janet Evans
Saturday, Jul 19 2008, 09:09 PM
She calls it a miracle….
Well, maybe if I had $20,000 socked away into a pair of diamond earrings I could think of miracles in terms of material things.
And I can’t imagine I would be so careless with a pair of $20,000 earrings, either. But I guess you don’t know how you would be with luxuries like that until you have them.
I bet she wasn’t feeling too luxurious when she was sifting through the city dump looking for those gems, now was she?
A miracle? I call it lady luck.
Jeweler Somehow Finds Her 3-Carat Gems At Fresh Kills × here
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jul 17 2008, 11:59 AM
If you ever drive through Louisville, KY….mind your speed.
Landon Wilburn is on the prowl.
He doesn’t like people who drive too fast and he lets you know it.
Vigilantes! Taking the law into their own hands.
Read about it at MSNBC.com å
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 16 2008, 12:42 PM
I prefer swimming holes, brooks and creeks.....
When I was a kid...we lived near "Branch Brook" in Watertown, Connecticut. We would take the long walk down the skinny, winding road, under the cool trees in our bare feet and then lounge in the bubbling brook.
The brook had huge slate edges in some places that made it look like a giant bath tub. There was a cliff area where my brothers would swing off a rope. And there were little water snakes too. I can still smell it...the combination of fresh, cool water, green foliage, and warm wild berries in the woods.
The brook led to a reservoir in Thomaston, CT that I blogged about back in December. Another place my family spent time. There are some beautiful places in Northwestern Connecticut. I miss those times very much.
Here is another way to cool off....to each his own I guess.
Sometimes you do what you have to do to keep cool...
A very crowded swimming pool
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jul 13 2008, 10:48 PM
Ah, yes…weddings.
Do you give the couple a gift from the bridal registry?
Sometimes you may not be able to find where the couple is registered.
Perhaps you don’t want to get a gift from the registry and would rather write a check.
Take a look at this from Reuters….
Do you take this credit card? Ã here
Just a little bit too tacky for me.
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jul 11 2008, 11:02 PM
Eat your food, there are people starving in__________________
Enter name of country ….
During my childhood the country of choice was “China.”
I cringe when I think of being told that statement.
It was the thing to do during the 60s…
Maybe not everyone went through that, but I know from talking to others, they did too.
So I was supposed to eat more than I really wanted to because there were starving children in China?
My eating and cleaning my plate made it better?
Oh, wait…don’t waste any food on your plate…not when there are starving people in China.
I’m still cringing and would never think to say such a thing.
Then there's "waste not, want not."
That's the new motto of Britain.
Because of the economy and food shortages, they are being encouraged to think back to the time when the did have actual food rationing, during wartime.
"Well, of course, in the war years it was not only immoral to waste food — this was one of our slogans then — it also was illegal," said Marguerite Patten, 92, who worked at the Ministry of Food during World War II and urges a return to those more thrifty days.
"I know it's old fashioned, but some old fashioned things are worth doing," she said. During the war, Nazi Germany's U-boats crippled the flow of ships carrying food to Britain. Diets were tightly controlled by rationing. Bananas and pineapples became exotic treats, and enterprising housewives traded recipes for baked hedgehog and carrot fudge."
Britain Urging Return To Wartime Frugality í here
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jul 11 2008, 06:24 AM
Christian Science Monitor has come up with the Top 10 Ways to know When The Economy Is Really Bad...
Here is #7
Your neighbor digs up his backyard to grow corn to make ethanol
Maybe after reading the other nine, some of you can come up with your own humorous additions.
Mine?
You know the economy is really bad when you go to the store and bring your own cloth shopping bag, roll a cart in from the parking lot, do your own price check while shopping, run your ATM card through the card processor yourself, bag your own items, thank yourself since the clerk didn't, and then the store tries to charge you for a percentage of your health insurance...
Read the remaining nine here Ã
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jul 10 2008, 11:47 AM
I don't know how many times I have driven through road construction sites and have seen husky, burly men working on the roads with women right alongside them, and "Men At Work" signs next to the road and have never thought anything of it.
As a woman, the actual sign is the last thing I could care less about.
The important thing is that I give both the men and the women credit for doing the hot, and dangerous work out on the roads.
But here we go, we have to have Atlanta-based PINK magazine editor, Cynthia Good make a PINK stink over the fact that the signs only say "MEN" at work.
Who the hell cares?
She allegedly goes out and paints a "WO" in front of the MEN.
Now in Atlanta the signs are being replaced with "Workers Ahead."
"We're calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination," said Good, 48.
Don't we have better things to do with our tax money ?
Like repair our roads?
Read the story from AJC.com
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Jul 7 2008, 06:40 AM
 Failblog.org
Who knows?
Maybe Debra Jackson wears pajamas to go to Dollar Palace. I’ve seen other people wearing pajamas out in public thinking that is appropriate in the name of being casual.
Then again, last week I listened to some footwear flip-flopping employees all day long. How people think footwear that is so noisy is appropriate for an office baffles me.
Anyway, I guess Debra hasn’t experienced the joys of internet shopping yet…
Why...she wouldn’t even have to dress if she didn’t want to…now that would be casual.
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 02:39 PM
Is anyone having short-term memory problems?
I find myself having them on occasion.
Life seems so busy and there is so much to remember.
I write Post-it notes, but half the time I forget them on the desk.
If you suffer from the same problem as I do, would you ever resort to
using this í here
No?….I didn’t think so....
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jul 4 2008, 05:05 AM
“As American as apple pie" is a phrase that traces its ancestry back to the early American settlers. Apples were brought from Europe to America and apples dishes became a staple of the colonial dinner table.
One of the many reasons apple pie was favored among early American settlers is that it used little precious flour and required only a brick oven to make. Apples were fare for the common man.In his book "Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy," Peter Wynne noted that while the American taste for apples may have come from the British, many of the new recipes, such as "slumps," were the products of "American invention.
"That spirit of cooking innovation was given voice in the expression "as American as apple pie" as John Lehndorff, of the American Pie Council, wrote in his book "As American as Apple Pie.""When you say that something is 'as American as apple pie,' what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
As we celebrate this Independence Day, I hope you’ll take a moment to remember those who protect and serve here at home, and around the world.
And brought to you by the U.S. Department of Defense, a festive and unique page of Symbols of America…truly worth your visit.
Find out if Betsy Ross really did sew the first flag…
What is the real name of the Statue of Liberty…
Why was the Bald Eagle a tough choice for the founding fathers?
Who was Uncle Sam’s inspiration?
What is the home of both houses since 1800?
The story behind the Great Seal…
What was first printed in 1777?
The history of an American pastime…
What is the origin of the national flower?
All-American cowboy...a tough life
and 10 patriotic songs....
Symbols of America á here
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Check out Righty Blog for my post ~
Another Declaration of Independence
Have a happy and safe holiday!
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 1 2008, 11:15 AM
(Shrugging my shoulders and smirking as I write the title of this blog)
With the price of gas at the highest levels we’ve ever seen, and truckers especially feeling the pain at the pumps, their “profession,” if you will, has really been suffering.
Well, another profession, the “world’s oldest profession,” that is, is also feeling the pain. With the price of oil going up, their business has dropped. And truckers are a large part of that business, especially in Nevada.
Hardest hit are independent truckers, who must pay for their own fuel, said George Flint, a lobbyist for the brothel owners' association.
"So there goes your disposable income to have a little fun," Flint told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Since January, the number of long-haul trucks based in Nevada has dropped by 4,100, or 12 percent, said Paul Eons of the Nevada Motor Transport Association.
Arnold predicted the industry would weather the slowdown."The customers won't be spending as much, but the brothels will still be there," he said.
"After food, the most important activity, at least for men, is sex. Sex is not going away."
The downturn also has affected brothels by leading to an increase in the number of women seeking jobs as legal prostitutes, [Geoffrey] Arnold, [president of Nevada Brothel Owner’s Association] added.
Read the article from CNN
So what does that mean?
Will truckers start finding legitimate girlfriends? Kind of like old-time sailors…“A girlfriend in every port?”
With the price of oil going up…so is the price of plastics…so that blow-up doll is probably out.
Poor guys…
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By Janet Evans
Saturday, Jun 28 2008, 09:36 AM
Hot Mom's Club - Alex Woodard
It’s one thing to want to have children and look your best, eat healthy, be as fit as you can, and be happy. What woman wouldn’t want that? That can only make you a better parent.
Lately, there seems to be too much attention given to the fad of “hot moms,” “hot mamas,” “sexy mamas,” you name it.
O.K. you want to go out with dad, and dress up and look sexy…nothing wrong with that.
But do you need to look like a “hot mom” when you are going to the PTO meeting, too?
When you are sitting with your 12-year old son at a teacher’s conference, is that how you want to portray yourself?
Or would you want your child wearing a t-shirt at the meeting that said my mom is hot? Do mom's really buy this stuff for their kids to wear?
I’m just wondering.
I don’t get it.
Perhaps it stems from Hollywood celebrities who are having children.
It’s one thing to feel good about yourself, or to want to make your husband proud to be with you, and especially to be proud of yourself, but it’s another to make your children embarrassed to walk with you.
I find a music video where a child is telling their mom that she’s a “hot mom now” a little odd.
I've got news for you Alex...most mom's aren't "hot." And their kids love them.
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jun 26 2008, 09:52 PM
I like love very good chocolate.
I know I’ve said that before.
But sometimes the little kid in me creeps back in.
The one who loved that old fashioned candy bar made with overly sweet, sort-of grainy, (I’ll say it) cheap chocolate.
I didn’t have a whole lot of candy when I was a kid. I lived out in the country in Connecticut in a small home, with five brothers and sisters, on a lot of land. We had a huge garden with a fruit orchard…organic fruits and vegetables; lots of flower gardens and organic berry patches.
Milk?
We went to a farm and it was put in bottles with thick cream floating on top.
Eggs?
We went to the chicken farm and got fresh eggs…I think they were still warm.
Soda?
We made our own…only root beer. I still make it…in glass bottles that I saved in two wooden crates from American Soda Co. I have two bottle cappers, too. Nothing better than a yeasty glass of cold homemade root beer. Ask Mrs. Meinhart’s third grade class from back in 1984-85 at old Ben Franklin School. I taught the whole class how to make it. Each student bottled their own, it brewed for a week on the rooftop, and then we all enjoyed it together. Great memories.
Anyway, my favorite old-time candy bar?
Sky Bar.
Chocolate candy bar with four molded centers--fudge, vanilla, peanut and caramel
It’s made by Necco (New England Confectionery Company). Check out their link...you'll be surprised at which of your favorite candies they make.
You may not have ever had a Sky Bar...but it gives you a variety of candy bars all in one. It's all you could want in an old fashioned candy bar.
I bet you've had this ….
Necco Assorted Wafers
Sugar treat with eight pastel colors and flavors--Chocolate, lemon, lime, orange, clove, wintergreen, cinnamon, licorice
(I only like the rolls of all chocolate :)
In the past few years, Nostalgic candy shops have come back. Kids can now have some of the candy from long ago.
Oak Creek has Debbie’s Sweets and Treats
8880 S. Howell Ave.
Suite 300
Oak Creek, WI 53154 Retail Store Hours
Monday through Friday - 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday - 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday - 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What’s your favorite old fashioned candy?
P.S.
I was so disappointed when Bonomo Turkish Taffy stopped being made in 1989.
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 05:37 PM
I happened to come across this blog regarding 12 Beers You Should Only Drink In College and noticed that there are three or four Milwaukee beers on the list.
“Everyone loves college. You live in a building full of your friends and the opposite sex sans parents for months, with a veritable smorgasbord of food, parties and alcohol to distract you from worthless schoolwork. But the sacrifice is that you’re broke. Still, you have to get drunk. What do you buy? Here’s a list of beers that encourage you to do your homework so you can afford the good stuff after graduation. But for now, you drink these purely out of circumstance.”
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That’s what the “Campus Squeeze” says……
It’s a scary place, parents….be afraid…be very afraid….
It was just easier before their were blogs and websites...it was easier when you asked your college student how things were going and the just said, "Fine, can I have some money?"
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jun 24 2008, 04:40 PM
Oh, Lieve Heer!
What will become of us?
The Dutch say the world is going to end.
When?
Why, in 2012!
That’s not very far off.
So what are they doing to prepare?
Why, stocking up on life rafts!
That makes sense.
“Prepare?”
Why prepare if the world is going to end anyway?
And then there is one Dutch citizen who thinks it might not be so bad....
"You know, maybe it's really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed," Petra Faile said. "I don't like it here anymore. Take immigration, for example. They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse."
Has someone been in those mushrooms?
Hmmm…let’s continue looking for that new name to replace Boomgaard, shall we? Are those 120 days up yet?
Take a look at the full article from UPI.com.
And while you’re there…check out the plethora of comments. Some of them are “grappig.” That translates to funny in Dutch.
Many Dutch Prepare for 2012 Apocalypse à here
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