Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Tips/Thoughts/Advice


1) Never ever ever take vitamins on an empty stomach and then drive to work. Doing this will make you sick. I use the term "drive" loosely - I guess this sentence should really read something like this "Never ever ever take vitamins on an empty stomach and then sit in the passenger seat while your husband drives to work." There - that is much better - and much more factually correct. And let's face it . . . I love a chauffeur. Especially because I am a magnet for tickets. I can't help it - the car just naturally goes fast when I am behind the wheel. Even if it shakes a little (the shaking is not unexpected, the sube just hit 193k miles).

2) If you ask someone to write you a letter of recommendation. DO NOT ask this person via a post-it note and place it in the letter writer's mailbox. This will just make the letter writer think, "I will spend as much time writing this letter as the person did asking me to write this letter." Do you think the recommendation letter will look bad if I submit it on a post-it note?

3) If your husband wakes up at 5:00 am ready to go to the gym you should probably just go with him. You won't really get any great sleep (although I lied and told him that I slept like a rock while he was gone) and now you just have to go to the gym after work. Except this means I go to the gym and Ross has to make dinner. So really - you just need to weigh the consequences carefully. Right now - it looks like I made the right decision.

4) You should watch Mad Men. We rented it from the library (thanks to Tracy's recommendation - she never has steered us astray) and we like it. A lot. But the main character is flawed and I must admit that this bothers me. A lot.

5) Don't even think about wearing these shoes that Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing. Don't even think about it. They are uglier than sin and people will simply compare you to a goat.

Wow. These are all good tips. I think I should write an advice column.

8 comments:

Greg said...

I am happy with the decision I made to work out this morning - even if I get to make dinner tonight. Sounds like a good excuse to make my famous "yellow death." My roommates at the boat house will remember this as the recipe I got off the Western Family mac & cheese box: make the mac & cheese, stir in one can of tuna, also add one can Cream of Mushroom. Enjoy. Delicious.

Darcey said...

THAT'S Sarah Jessica Parker? Her nose looks so much smaller than in "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" ... weird.

Christina said...

Is this a baby announcement?

Greg said...

Just squashing any rumors - negative on the baby. Let's not jump to any hasty and/or ridiculous conclusions.

More importantly, why isn't anybody commenting on how delicious my yellow death sounds?

Shana said...

Greg.. That is the most important. That concoction is 10 times worse than even Hamburger Helper, which let's face it, is a pathetic excuse for real food.

Those boots are camel toes, you can only wear them if consuming the "yellow death" (Which no one would really do, so we are safe)

Mad Men only gets slower, if that is possible. But Adam and I continued to watch every episode. It is on Comcast on Demand if anyone else has a crappy library where it is not available.

It depends on the post-it notes, was it one of the scratch and sniff kind..if so then totally appropriate.

Read the box...take with a meal and/or a full glass of water.

Lindy said...

I hate, and I mean hate vitamin sickness. I especially hate when I take omega 3s on an empty stomach--everyone knows that means the fish burps. Sorry if that's TMI, but it's true.

I think you made the right decision with staying in bed, but I also think you should forbid Ross from making yellow death. Ever.

Mauri said...

Do her boots have toes?! Those are the ugliest things I've ever seen, right up there with open toe booties. Yuck, what is the fashion world coming to?

meg said...

If you google "nike air rift" you'll find a fantastic assortment of athletic shoes that may remind you of the goat shoe. I saw them at the Nike store and just shook my head.