Posted 2:58 PM by Bonnie

CURVES update: Well, I searched the web, found the email contact for CURVES Intl. and Gary Heavin and wrote about the upcoming changes in the Sumter CURVES, along with the ideas I had and got from my post here on how to make a CURVES center for the total woman. I was incensed to think he thought adding a hair and nail salon, to the exercise part, would take care of the total woman. Here is the response....

Curves does not provide hair or nail salons. I am sorry for the incorrect information that you received.

Sincerely,


Peggy Taylor
Curves International
Customer Relations Specialist

Posted 2:20 PM by Bonnie

More Dreams: Last night I dreamt about chocolate eclairs and when we woke up this morning my husband asked me why I wanted 6 glazed donuts. He had a dream we were at a cafe and I ordered 6 glazed donuts with my coffee. I then told him of my dream.... hmmmm.... any one care to comment on the meaning of these dreams?

Posted 12:01 PM by Bonnie

DREAMS:

The other night I had a dream I was in a mental asylum and the only way I could get out was to beat all the other inmates at scrabble. Okay, Vic and Bernie! I have to win our games or I'll never get out!

Last night or early this morning I dreamt I my legs were paralyzed. Okay, when I woke up I had two cats sleeping on my legs so that explains that one.

I find dreams interesting and whenever I can remember one I will try to post it, but I especially liked the scrabble one.

Posted 7:34 PM by Bonnie

Refunding, savings and purchases: Well, as everyone who is close to me knows I have been in search of a love seat. Preferably a sleeper loveseat, but that was not to be. The only one I found in this area was an ugly burlap covered one with no arms. Yuck! So, I kept looking and by chance stopped by a furniture store around the corner from me and outside was a beautiful loveseat that matched the colors of the new queen anne chairs I had purchased AND it was on sale for $100!! How could I pass it up. I didn't! It will be delivered Monday morning.

Since I can't find a job here I have been seriously doing grocery refunding and have managed to pay for a beautiful $250 chair for my husband for his birthday last year, put $300 towards my visit to Erie last summer, buy the Queen Anne chairs when they went on sale, and now buy this love seat. Between coupons and refunds I manage to save quite a bit for us each month. But, this is the best purchase I have made! I couldn't believe my luck.

Just wanted to update everyone who has been following my love seat search and teased me about the one with no arms... it's hard to love with no arms... ha ha ha.

I'll put pics on a page when the room is complete and maybe even an updated much thinner one of me!

Happy blogging!!

Posted 2:05 PM by Bonnie

Makeup, Hair cuts, nails and wedding rings:

Hair and nails: I work out at CURVES 3 days a week and every once in awhile chat with the women who are working there. Today one very proudly announced the man who founded CURVES wants to open up a place, in Sumter, for the total woman... it would not only have a CURVES, but a hair salon, a nail salon, etc... I looked at her and said I am going to write him and explain what the total woman is all about, because I find it demeaning that he would think all women who work out at CURVES are nothing but fluff. I told her if she wanted to suggest this to him, she might tell him the total woman is more than that... he should put in a karate school or at least have some sort of self defense course, a day care for women who would like to go to CURVES, but have no where to leave their children... I made a few suggestions and got jumped on by my sister-in-law, who likes to have her nails done twice a week and pay $25 a shot even though she and my brother are struggling with bills because he was layed off for so long... but that's another part of this blog... anyway... I am going to let this man know women are brains and think about things other than getting their hair and nails done. The total woman has brawn as well as brains and a body, and real women have muscles and a lot of women would find his idea of a total woman insulting.

Make-up: A few weeks back, while at CURVES, with a couple friends they told me they were going to give me a make over. I asked why? They said I would be so much prettier with some make up and a new hair do. I told them I liked me fine the way I am and so did my husband, so who were they to try to make me different. They became quite argumentative that women should wear make-up. I asked why I should make-up for being a woman? In the end I told them they no more had the right to try to tell me I should wear make-up than I had to tell them they shouldn't. I asked how would they like it if I told them I was going to take them some place and have all the gook washed off their faces. End of conversation.

Wedding rings: Today over coffee my sister-in-law asked me why I never wore a watch. I told her I didn't like wearing jewelry. I had never gotten used to it and even putting a ring on felt odd and awkward, so I didn't even wear a wedding ring. She became incensed over this insisting all married women should wear their rings and if they didn't it was because they wanted to cheat. I told her I was just as married without a ring and would not consider cheating. She said men did the same thing. I told her I knew plenty of men and women who wore their wedding rings up to the time they decided to cheat, including herself, so who was she to talk. She said, well, your brother cheated on me first. Yes, I said, but you took off your wedding band and shacked up with some guy in Las Vegas, and put the wedding ring back on when you begged my brother to take you back, so how much did a wedding ring mean then. She still insisted it meant a lot... uh huh... well, I will continue to go ringless and not cheat on my husband. The ring is a symbol, not what makes me married. I was married to this man long before we said I will.

Now about paying $25 twice a month to have your nails done, when you are struggling to pay bills. I find this selfish as all get out, but she doesn't see it that way. She thinks she should come first. She complains my brother is always tired and not romantic. I asked why should he be, when he works so hard then comes home and has to do the cooking and cleaning because she is always too tired? Because it would please her. I asked her if she didn't think it should go both ways? Somehow she thinks that watching tv all day (she talks about dumb shows and soap operas all the time) and getting her nails done should be all she needs to do.

My brother wants to join a gym but, she joined CURVES and she said they can't afford both. I asked didn't she think that he deserves to join a gym too and maybe she could give up having her nails done twice a month and limit it to once and then put that extra money away for him to join a gym. She was aghast she should give something up for him. This is nothing but a I can't believe she said that blog, because I am just amazed at how selfish and self centered some people can be.

Well, off to play some scrabble then compose a letter to the CURVES guy and let him know what a total woman is and wants.

Happy Blogging!

Posted 1:43 PM by Bonnie

I know, I know, I haven't posted in ages and the first thing I put up is something that someone sent me. But I thought this was great and should be shared, so here it is.

The Bush Doctrine
by Harry Browne

David Kay (George Bush's personal weapons inspector)
has made it clear that Iraq had no weapons of mass
destruction and that the pre-war assertions of the
danger from Iraq were wrong.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4066462/

Should George Bush apologize to the American people?

No - not according to David Kay. You see, it wasn't
George Bush's fault. It was bad intelligence. Kay said
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4066462

"I think if anyone was abused by the intelligence it
was the president of the United States rather than the
other way around."

George Bush was abused?

George Bush was _abused_???

Someone should pass on to Mr. Kay the immortal words
of W.C. Fields that "you can't cheat an honest man."

* George Bush is the man who said he doesn't need to
read newspapers or watch TV news (where he might see
dissenting views) because everything he needs to know
he gets from Condeleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Donald
Rumsfeld.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/US/bush_sawyer_excerpts_1_031216.
html

* This is the man whose Secret Service keeps all
protesters out of sight of presidential parades,
cavalcades, and rallies – while lining up enthusiastic
supporters to cheer the President.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL&type=printable

* This is the man who came into the White House telling
his aides that his only preconceived policy was to get
rid of Saddam Hussein no matter what.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker28.html

* This is the man who didn't bother to ask for hard
evidence before telling Americans over and over that
he was certain Hussein had chemical, biological, and
nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/LyingForALiving.htm

* This is the man who thinks his knowledge is so
complete and infallible that we can junk the Bill of
Rights, fair trials, and the rules of evidence - and
detain indefinitely anyone he thinks is a "bad guy."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/11/dirty.bomb.suspect/

* This is the man who had his aides tell Congressmen
that Iraq had the ability to drop nuclear bombs on the
East Coast of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5385.htm

* This is the man who wanted so much to believe that the
WMDs had been found that he reacted to a report of the
discovery of two mobile trailers by telling the world,
"We found the weapons of mass destruction."
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq31_20030531.htm

And we're supposed to believe this innocent little man
was abused?

Even now he is unrepentant. He says the world is a better
place with Hussein gone - even though there are
governments in power today that are far more oppressive
than Hussein's (in China, for example).

Far from apologizing for the deaths his mistakes have
caused, he implies that the thousands of deaths
- American and Iraqi - were worthwhile because the
surviving Iraqis are free today. But, of course, he has
no knowledge of what "freedom" in Iraq is like today.
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/LiberationOfIraq.html

Ancient History

For almost 60 years, American Presidents have been
pushing the world around. But they've been doing it
pretty much in secret.

As a result, very few Americans are aware that
U.S. money and forces were used to overthrow
governments or to aid dictators in
Iran
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html
Indonesia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,2763,200716,00.html
Guatemala, Vietnam, and many other countries.

Unfortunately, however, the people in those countries
are well aware of the U.S. role and they hate us for it.

I doubt that even one American in ten is aware that
American airplanes bombed Iraq continually throughout
the 1990s.
http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm

America subverted foreign governments using money,
the CIA, special forces, and occasionally overt
military power. But mostly it was done on the Q.T.

The New Doctrine

But now we have the Bush Doctrine.

No longer do American agents act in secret. It's
all out in the open. In effect, this is what the Bush
Doctrine says:

I am the King of the world. What I say goes. I
decide which governments remain and which must
be overthrown. Even the most oppressive
governments may be able to remain if they pledge
their allegiance to me. I decide who can have
nuclear weapons and who can't. I decide who can
live and who will die.

Some people are saying that George Bush is like
Adolf Hitler.

But that's absurd. There's quite a bit of
difference.

For example, when Hitler had been in power for
three years, he hadn't invaded a single country.
George Bush has already invaded two.

---------
Harry Browne is the co-founder and president of the
American Liberty Foundation.