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Romantic Traveling Extrovert

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a Romantic Traveling Extrovert What are you?

Home remedies for a stuck fart?

I was looking for homeopathic remedies tonight for - it doesn't even matter what I was looking for... Because what I found was soo. much. better. The poster was looking for help with her STUCK FART!? I'm not kidding. It was posted ten minutes ago:

Home remedies for a stuck fart? I have a fart stuck at my butt opening for almost 90 minutes, with no relief. I tryed squatting, 'shaking it out' and jumping up and down. It's driving me crazy and I have to go out to a late office diner tonight. WHAT DO I DO? I NEED A HOME REMEDY FOR THIS STUCK FART? Thank you.

SERIOUSLY!? I was IMing with someone at a neighboring blog and shared my finding. I would never have thought to ask for help with something like this, but she had a recommendation:

Lay on your the ground with your chest on the floor and your knees tucked underneath with your tushie in the air. The air floats right to the top... totally works!

And then I remembered times I'd try to do that when I was a kid. Not because a fart was stuck, but because I wanted to freak out my sister. Hehehe.

Do you have a remedy...? Go, quick, help the poor girl whose fart is stuck!!! (EWE!)

Oh, Happy Day... Oh, Happy Daaay!

Okay, so I'm not quite that chipper this evening (more tired than anything), but yesterday afternoon I did catch myself whistling in the hall at work... An activity that hasn't occurred in at least six weeks. I'm not a complete debbie-downer, but I haven't been my positive self lately. Between school work, and real work, and a sick daughter, and a traveling husband, and missing you, my dark side has slipped out...

Well I think I'm on an up swing. I like to whistle while I work. I like to smile when I talk to you on the phone. I listen - or read - with full facial expressions... I miss the happy facial expressions. And it occurred to me as I caught myself whistling that I haven't been a positive force lately. So man in the coffee shop, thank you. Happy Starbucks Barista, thank you. Friends who help keep me keep it real, thank you. Bossman #2 who is a neverending positive force, thank you.

I'm just about BAAACK.

Please Come Back Smiling Grocery Store Cashier. Pleease? I Miss You.

One of my biggest pet peeves. Self checkout lanes at the grocery store. Ugh. I suck at being a grocery store cashier. Banana Republic cashier, I can handle, but GROCERIES.

Usually I'll wait in the long line that has a person there to help. And that's fine, I don't mind waiting. Unless I'm in a hurry. Or what if there's not choice - self check out ONLY. Or what if there's no one to help AND the self check out lines are bursting with people who want to spend their money AND blinking wait for an associate lights.

Do you feel me?

Or am I alone in my distaste for self-check out?

Am I along in missing the smiling grocery store cashier?

Am I alone in missing customer service excellent!?

Hot & Sweaty

Just what a little Bikram Yoga will do for you.

I've been doing a bit of the hot and sweaty lately as introduced to me by my good friend over at Daily Blinking. Today someone commented on my recent hot yoga love - I've always been a yoga lover, but this whole hot thing is new to me.

And, yes, it is hot. Imagine 105 degrees for with 40-60% humidity for an HOUR AND A HALF. 105 in the summer months and we start to experience power outages... When you leave the studio - that you are not allowed to leave early - you look like you took a shower with your clothes on.

Except you didn't. You just got really sweaty.

So why do I enjoy the hot yoga so much? It's my me time! It is truly the only time in the day that I can't think about anything but me.

Mostly I can't think about anything but the taste of the sweat dripping into my mouth, me not throwing up in front of all those people, or not falling on my ass.

But after that. I feel WONDERFUL. Energized. Motivated. Relaxed.

I recommend it for the yoga lover, the sports enthusiast, or someone who's just looking for something new. Guys and gals alike will be challenged by this one. If you live in the area (yes, I'm challenging Captain Porkchops to join me! I'd mostly love to see what she'd have to say about it.) give me a ring.

I'd love the hot & sweaty - sometimes stinky - company.

Mom and Maura... Expect to get hot and sweaty when you're out here next month!