Someone Is Talking about Me
Please folks, if you hear about the List in a place not shown here, drop me a note. I just can't understand why I'm so danged popular!
I know that somewhere out there, I'm getting some press. Or something. My
"People Who Have a First
Name for a Last Name" page gets more hits than almost all my other
pages combined. At last count, 3468 hits since it went up in January or
February. So far, sleuthing has uncovered the following - none of which
I was told.
How Does My Garden Grow?
Not well. Incompletely. Without plants. I know you all read with baited breath last year about my adventures in gardening. Well, this year Dad bought tomato plants for me while we were in New Mexico, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that if I planted them, I'd get 2 or 3 tomatoes, tops. (Crappy soil? We got it!) However, if he plants them in the garden at his house, I'll have bags full. So I did the smart thing. Now "my" tomato plants and "my" pepper plant are off by themselves and I can go and look at them any time I want!
Hair Cut
It was 93 degrees out on Saturday, and I think everyone had the same idea: SHAVE THIS HEAR OFF MY SWEATING HEAD! I actually had no intention of doing anything that drastic, but at least one person who was in line before me did. I just wanted to take 2 inches off the bottom and fix the bangs. Standard stuff. There were about 6 people sitting on the plastic seats when I got there, so I did a little math. I figured I could wait. Well I did. And did. See, what they don't mention is that in addition to the 6 people sitting there, at least 6 others gave their names and then wandered over to one of the other shops in the strip mall. As long as they come back before their names are called, all is fair.
Well, only two girls were cutting hair when I first arrived. One was pretty speedy. Clip clip and out. The other was very very slow. In the time it took her to cut one guy's hair (and he was in the chair when I arrived, although I don't know for how long), the other girl did 4 people! Of course I knew I was doomed to get the slow girl. There was no point in thinking otherwise. And by the time all was said and trimmed, I had left the house at 11am and finally got back home at 1:30!!!!! And one side is ever so slightly longer than the other!!!! I think I'm going to stay away from walk-in places - at least when it's really hot outside.
You know me. I hate to be critical. Really. But I think I made a huge mistake when I went to a walk-in haircutting place this past weekend.
Lord of the Dance Update
For those of you who have cable, (and if you don't? For shame!) this year's MTV music awards kicked off with a BANG as Mike "Austin Powers" Myers did a hilarious spoof of Lord of the Dance. If you missed it the first time, around, MTV has re-shown the program several times since then, and may again. If you have a friend who taped it, you don't need to watch much. It's the first activity after the credits roll.
People Magazine recently reported that Michael Flatley and his wife of 11 years, makeup artist
Beata Dziaba, 36, divorced on June 13 in Los Angeles. The
couple, who have no children, separated in 1995.
Today's List
Ways to Keep Cool during a June Heat Wave
- Walk away really slowly after you put the sprinkler down in a new spot
- Eat a red popsicle
- Find any excuse to run errands in your air-conditioned car
- Go grocery shopping and spend lots of time in the frozen food aisle
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