What do I think of Skinny Cow's Snickerdoodle Ice cream Sandwiches?

This is what the website says the thing looks like and how many calories, etc:

Funny enough, this kind of what the ice cream REALLY looks like.  Actually, I think the real thing looks better, oddly enough!  See what I mean?

 I was expecting meh as I normally do on "diet" foods but this thing is tasty!  I have had Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches before and they were OK but nothing to jump skips over.  This one, however, I'll do a few jumping jacks for and be happy.

It's not overly sweet, which normally is the death of me because I love sweets so if it isn't sweet, I tend to not like it.  But the cinnamon makes up for the lack of sweet.  The oatmeal cookies also give it flavour so while the ice cream it self isn't sweet, it has a nice balance between all the flavours.

I had to stop myself from eating the whole box!  I had two... one to take pictures with and one to just enjoy.  I will definitely be buying more of these things as long as they're still there!  I don't know if this is limited edition as in we're trying the flavour but we'll see so it may or may not go away.

I say give it go.  They're not that expensive and it's a nice treat you can feel kinda good about eating.  It's not a lot of calories or fat grams for the treat.  I tell you what... if you don't like it, send it my way and I'll eat them for you!  (Yeah OK so over night it with dry ice, but you get what I mean)

All in all a good thumbs up! :D

A store just perfect for people who are left-handed!

So my daughter was touring around San Francisco's Pier 39 during her school interim's Photography class when she came across the store called Lefty's.

I remember seeing it before and not thinking too much of it.  I'm a rightie, so all that stuff in there was funky but neat.  Nothing useful for me in it but I do remember going now I know how the left-handed people feel.  As a rightie, trying to use a leftie's scissor was interesting to say the least...  Who knew it made a difference, right?!  Well it does, because I could barely use the thing!

Anyway, month's later, I saw it again with my then boyfriend and I don't think we went into it too much but he's a left-handed person so I thought it was fun.

In any case, my daughter took a picture of it thinking of my now fiance'.

https://www.leftyslefthanded.com

I actually wrote them asking about left-handed mice.  Something, we righties take for granted.  See all those fancy mice with the buttons all up the sides?  You seen the gamer mice with all kinds of gadgets that make them look like robo-mice right?  No?  Well... if you were dating a gamer you would know...

In any case, the mouse I have has two buttons on the left side of it and it's so you can go forward or back on your browser.  Pretty simple, right?  Well, if you're a leftie, you can't use those buttons. Why?  Because they're on the wrong side.  You try clicking those buttons with your pinkie and/or ring finger... it's not easy... and uncomfortable to hold your mouse that way.  So... I asked Lefty's, do you guys sell mice?

Unfortunately, they don't.  They send me an email within a day (super prompt! I love that!!) saying that they used to carry them but not too many people bought them.

My guess is they (lefties) got used to going without, like my fiance' who has to buy the el cheapo mouse because that's the only one without the buttons.  But wouldn't it be nice if there were more options?  Well... as it turns out, there is!  Lefty's was kind enough to send me the name of the mouse for lefties.  If you're interested, drop me a line and I'll tell you.

What I love though is the customer service from Lefty's.  They could have just said no, sorry we don't.  Or they could have ignored me or wrote to me days later like some other companies I've "talked" to in the past.  They could have done many a things.

But they didn't.  They got back to me quickly and I appreciate that so much!  I'll find something to buy from them. 

It is SUPER nice to know that there are still companies out there with a heart.  Those that REALLY know what customer service is all about!  So, here's my shout out to Lefty's!  If you happen to be around Pier 39 give them a looksie. :)   Learn how to write with your left hand and be ambidextrous like I am. 

At the moment, I'm looking at the left-handed notebooks and realising how annoying (not to mention painful) it must be to write with that coil digging into your hand as you write.  I'll most likely end up buying the pruning shears.  I *do* have a hard time cutting with my right hand because sometimes you need a left handed angle and it just feels weird with the left hand, I have to twist my hand around so it cuts properly. 

I think I was originally a leftie, to be honest, but where I grew up, they weren't "allowed" so I was probably forced to be a rightie as a child.  In any case, I'm glad there's a store like Lefty's.  If anything, to help lefties out there! :D

Here's their website if you want to check them out online: https://www.leftyslefthanded.com/default.asp

Males Vs. Females... WHY are we still doing this?!

So I got into a rant/discussion about females and males, feminists and girls like me.

Girls like me I say because I'm not a feminist but I'm not into being unequal with males either.  I start off the rant saying I hate how feminists think all men suck.  I then have to apologise because I am HOPING not all feminists feel this way.

I want to say, I hate how PETA members do things like kill professors conducting animal experiments or freeing lab animals into the wilderness when said animals don't know how to hunt...how could they? they were raised in captivity...

I then have to apologise and say I'm HOPING not all PETA members think this way...

But my new rant has to do with women wanting men to be women.  This also sucks.

I have had soooo many girls complain that he "doesn't talk much" or "he's insensitive" or god forbid he's honest, "doesn't know when to shut up."

I hate female games.  I got dropped into a bucket when those were passed out I think because I get sucked into them too.  I'm too honest and I get yelled at or called names.

I feel like a man sometimes.  Yes you're too fat, god you look ugly in those clothes, I don't care if your grandma gave it to you, it's ugly...  Why are you wearing bright orange?  you look like a cheetoh...

Or ...  No I'm not mad, I just don't know what to say anymore...  You get mad when I say something anyway so why bother saying anything at all?  No I'm not shutting you down.  No I'm not hiding.  I simply have NOTHING to say on the matter (that wont make you angry.)

I'm a girl.. I feel like sh when I get hit with these games... no I DON'T know what the hell you're thinking.  No I can't read your mind simply because I'm a girl.  HOW was I supposed to know to do X behaviour or say X thing? Osmosis?!?  No I didn't get the hint...   SPIT IT OUT ALREADY... What the hell do you want?!?!

So if I'm feeling trapped to my own gender I can imagine how men feel.  They have NO CLUE at all why we girls act the way we do.  Why we talk so much about nothing or why we have to tell THE WHOLE WORLD everything but nothing.  Why we complain about things we have no intention of fixing.  Why girl talk goes on for days.  Why do we need the opinion of 20 other people to make decision?  Why we second guess ourselves so much or why we're so obsessed with insignificant things.  TBH I don't even know half the time... but I know that I do it.

I also know men speak when there's something to say.  They don't tend to say stuff for no reason but we women hate that so we force them to say stuff they don't think is necessary.  Guys do it, I suppose, to keep the peace.

A man isn't insensitive just because he can't tell you that you're gorgeous as you try to sausage your way into an outfit 3 sizes too small!  He shouldn't have to flatter your ego or lie to you... which of course gets him in trouble too because now he lied and that's some horrid sin these days.  Never mind that he did it to make you feel better!

I say let men be men.  They can't be women.  They like to scratch their balls because it feels good.  We have no clue why hurting yourself would feel good but WHATEVER...  We don't go around scratching our boobs, do we?  (the equivalent in orbital objects that isn't the eyes... lol.)  We don't understand why they're so visual that if a hot girl drops by he HAS to look at her.  It doesn't matter that he's just entertaining his visual, he's still with you, isn't he??  Can't a guy dream?  Shoot, we know you've done it with certain celebrities.  Let him have his fun too.  To be fair though, I CAN understand this one... I too like to at hot people.

Maybe we all just need to lighten up.  Accept each other as we are and quit trying to change everyone to fit our own mold... What do you think?  Maybe?

Network Marketing

So on Friday I get a text from a boss saying I don't need to come in on Monday but maybe the week after... this was after informing me on Wednesday...yes, three days before...that my hours were cut from 7 to 3 per day.

A text.  How tacky?  I heard of breakups through text.  I have even heard of divorces...but 'firings' I thought were a new low.  Well, I guess people's characters are just different.  I thought face to face firings were bad but this was an insult...no common decency.

Then again, what do I expect from the same woman who fired the last two people while they were on medical leave?  Right.  I'm like a lovesick puppy dog girl.  But she'll be different with me...   Right.

Needless to say, I was angry.  And from the start of this blog, I guess you could say I'm STILL angry...but not for long.

I will start a new day and a new week with this attitude:  I don't need a boss.  I don't need to waste my time with unappreciative people.  What I need is to keep my own damn money.  I need to keep my time as my own.  The time I spend working should be the time I get paid for and not have to give a boss a cut of my hard earned time and money.

Did you know that most of us only get pennies?  I saw my boss get profit margins of over $1000 a day for weeks.   Did I ever get to see any of that?  Of course not... I got the leftover peanuts after she had her numerous trips elsewhere, her payments for the house and Mercedes...he kids' school stuff and whatever else she did with them profits.

Out of those $5000 PLUS profit margins, my pay wasn't even 10 percent... 

Let's sit on that for a moment... not even TEN percent....




And who was at work every single day without missing ONE day.  Not even for a sick day?  Me.  Who stayed all 7 hours (sometimes more but usually not) because she was so scared of overtime that she never put me for a full 40 hour week? Me.

NOT EVEN TEN PERCENT!!!!

Had I said to her, hey look, you keep paying my salary but I'll only be here less than 10 percent of my time, she would have fired me on the spot.  No doubt.

So I woke up.  She pushed me to wake up.  I need to do something else.  I need to keep my money.  I need to make time my own.  If I'm helping someone make a 5000 plus profit, it's going to be just ME keeping it.

In comes network marketing...oh yes, that scary word... 

I'm not scared.  I know a kid less than 30 years of age making $2000 a week on his BAD week...and almost $25,000 a week on a good one.  He's not a brain surgeon, he's not this unattainable figure.  He's just a kid, like you and me.  A super nice kid too!  He's retired from his job, by the way...  sounds like a sweet deal to me!

I know another kid who's making $1000 a week PART TIME because he's a high school kid and has to go to school.  He doesn't even speak English or know how to write well.  I now know three other kids in Utah who own their own homes outright...  That's right, OUTRIGHT.  No mortgage to pay. Ever.  They're not even 25 yet!!!

The cat's got a point...I got this money thing all wrong.  I'm getting a fifth of what he's getting a week and I'm doing as much work as he but I'm giving away the rest of my money to this unappreciative boss.  NO MORE.

I'm thankful for the boss who showed me the light.  She had it right all along.  Work for yourself.  What I WON'T do is pay peanuts to my helpers and gauge my customers.  That's how she gets so much profit.  Not me.  I have higher ethics and morals than this Christian woman.  I believe people should get service and be charged accordingly, not gauged.  And I believe in equal pay for equal work.

You don't have to agree with me but here I go.  I'm going to make some calls now and I'm going to see just how this kid makes so much.  See you on the flip side!

If you want to join me on this ride, give me a holler but if not, that's OK too.  I'm going to see how the other side lives either way but if you're at all curious, hit me up at cnith2@gmail.com

DARE TO DREAM!!

Just like my book, In Dreams She Slept (available in Kindle) that I just published because of this wake up call, I'm going to dream out loud.

DIY nails. Yup, I'm *that* frugal!

So... I've been taking to doing my own nails.  Why?  Because I see no point in paying someone to do what I can do on my own.  The tips, OK I get it, those were hard but now my nails have grown out and to be honest, the "fill" they do is not that hard.  I can't waste 20 or more bucks on something that simple.  I rather waste it on something useful or treating myself to stuff more worthy... pleasurable... you know...?

You tube to the rescue!  A few tips here and there and I'm set to go! :)

I buy something called PRO IQ from like Rite Aid.  It works OK I guess... but why is the acrylic so rubbery!?!?  Weird...  Well, it worked for the purpose...

I've since moved on to Beauty Secrets who I'm told is OK but ASP is better.  We'll see...

I'm doing alright with the Beauty Secrets so far and as frugal as I am, you know I'm going to spend the whole thing before I move on to ASP. 

I should mention, I'm already kind of ambidextrous as far as putting nail polish on both hands.  Since filling is pretty much nail polish addition, although a bit thicker and patting not stroking, it does help that I already have the skill.

Lesson to learn... if you can't do both hands, learn how to do that before you attempt this.  Another lesson to learn is not to forget steps... I ended up with a "lift" from the a) sucky PRO IQ stuff but also because I forgot to do primer... also, it helps to use the dehydrador stuff...and the cuticle oil.  It takes me practically all day to do the nails but that's because I'm still learning.  Once I get it down it should take me the same as the salon or less. :)

Til next time!!  But remember, it's not spring yet... no planting! ;D

Life sure has its ups and downs doesn't it?

One minute you're a rock star and the next someone flattens your tires!  Well that's alright... as I learned from someone quite awesome named Roger Anthony, who founded Crocodiles not Waterlilies, when life throws you an obstacle, you need to get excited like the platypus!  You know why?  Because, he says, behind said obstacle is a prize you were waiting for, a delicious morsel like one you've never tasted before!

Well, that was my take on what he said.  His way was much more eloquent, of course.  He touched my very soul the day I met him and he's so down to earth!  I was very privileged to meet him.

Roger Anthony

So with that in mind, the holidays are upon us and normally some of us get depressed around this time of year.  Mourning over families you never had, friends you had and have moved on, past loves, past losses of any kind, etc. etc.  Every year it seems we feel more and more alone and the holidays just seem to point out the obvious, everyone has someone but me.  You could be surrounded by a mob and feel like the loneliest person on earth!

Well, much like what I said last year, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!  I even created a group on facebook for this purpose, so we can all remember that we are never alone.  There is always someone else who feels as you do and therefore, you are not alone, we are all connected.

But unlike last year, I also say, it does NOT have to be this way anymore!!

You can actually CHOOSE to be happy without anyone in the world, in the crowd or by yourself, you can be fulfilled and NOT be lonely.  Life is about choices and though sometimes you get the sucky choices, you STILL get a choice.


Don't let ANYONE take away your choices!  Not even yourself.

So this year, fellow "I hate the holidays" folks, let's shed off that coat and try on a new one.  One that says, "I'm OK during the holidays!"  I am loved, beautiful, fantastic, and people want to be with me and they will be, as long as I LET them in!!

So let's share the spirit of love and sharing, let someone in your life and be open.  It's scary as hell, trust me, I know (!) but so worth it, I promise you!!!

Frustration over money..... what else is new?!

I realise working for yourself is the ONLY way to get ahead... but don't go falling for schemes and things.  Working for your employer, not good, you make HIM or HER money.  Working for some kind of MLM or commission based opportunity?  Nope... that gives THEM money.  Unless of coures, you're the guy at the top of said MLM because you're the one that created it... but that takes talent and money and/or skill to run.  If you can do it, go for it!  Otherwise, just know what you're doing, making someone else rich with your work.  Although sure, you'll make more there than you do at a "job."

Which brings me to my frustration.  I've recently wanted to go to a jungle and just forget the whole civilisation thing.  IT'S ANNOYING to have to live with this green god of money.  I don't want to worship it, I'm a heathen and in this case, a severe atheist!  People forgot what fortune really is.  It's not how much green god you have, it's what you do with yourself and how you touch others that matters.

Although I guess, the green god helps with that too... for those who don't want to do the actual WORK, it works perfectly.  Just throw more green god at whatever...

So I leave you with a thought... what are you going to do?  I'm goign to bitch and whine for a while.  Then I'm getting my boot straps on, my Harley wheels going in my head...and I'm taking off!  To the jungle or to kill the green god, I have no idea yet... but I'm DEFINITELY going somewhere!!