Breaking The Dress Code

Best Photoshop Action Ever!!

Are you one of those people that is always hiding behind the camera so you don’t have to be in front of it? ME TOO!!!!

All that might be about to change though! I recently found THE BEST PHOTOSHOP ACTION EVER!! I had the these picture from Halloween and they looked yuck. I had on a ton of makeup because well it was Halloween and it was dark and well how the heck cares..as you can see after a few cocktails flash pictures of me just came out a weird combination of splotchy and shiny. Note to self, there is such a thing as too much glitter makeup on Halloween. See. That’s me on the left. Yuck. 

Normally a shot like this would just go in the delete pile but I really liked this picture and wanted it to look as cute as we really did. So I started Googling how to try and airbrush the picture myself. What I stumbled across was this: Mama’s Powder. (Please note I am not being paid one red cent to say this, in fact I paid her.) It looked pretty cool so I forked out $25 to save myself the headache of trying to learn how to do it myself. And viola!!

 

Granted that was my first try at it but it’s pretty awesome. Easy to use. Simple to learn. Way Cool. And and easy to undo if you overdo it. Which trust me you will because it’s so much fun!

So yeah! Now I’m more likely to keep pictures of myself and just fix them. Now if only Mama had a butt reducer then I’d be set!!!

Today’s Business Blog Nosh: You’re Never Too Big To Introduce Yourself

When I first came across today’s post on SmartWomanGuides it reminded me of a episode of Designing Women that I had seen years ago. Charlene had been to visit Charles’ rich and upper crust family for a big dinner and they had made her feel less than equal because she didn’t know her way around a fancy place setting.  Julia was most upset and launched into one of her famous monologues but in there was this little nugget that has always stuck with me…

“Good manners are not something we’re taught to make ourselves took better, they have nothing to do with our self. Truly good manners are meant to help others, the people around us, feel comfortable and happy. That is the point of good manners”

I had never thought of manners that way and that point has stuck with me throughout the years. To use good manners to give the people around me comfort.

Vicki’s post about profiles struck me exactly the same way and I never thought of profiles as being about others, about making them comfortable, and not about me. Creating a personal profile on Facebook or Twitter or on your own blog can feel so braggish, so self serving that often we don’t do it or we don’t do it well. We downplay the very things that will make others feel comfortable contacting us, buying our product, reading our recommendations, or getting to know us. 

This post not only insprired me when writing my bio for Blog Nosh but also got me to go back and re-think the bios I had elsewhere.

Trans Siberian Orchestra

They’ll be every where all over the US in the next two months!! Go see them, it was awesome! A must see for the Christmas season – yeah I know it’s early but they only come to town here once a year and it’s always before Thanksgiving. If you’re not sure who they are, you’ve heard the music, trust me, it’s everywhere at the holidays but you might not know their name. I’ll put some links to videos at the bottom.

These pictures were taken last night with the Dr.’s iPhone.

 

Watch a Video of their Music Here

Best Birthday Present Puddin Received

Here’s a little tip for you If you’re shopping for holiday presents for a 7 year old. Puddin’ received this version of Hasbro’s Guess Who for her birthday and we’ve been playing it non-stop for days.

I don’t think she even remembers I bough her a Nintendo DS. All she wants to do is play this game. And the beauty of it… she can play it with other children. It does not require adult participation  Yeah!!!

It reminds me of Battleship but instead of guessing a location on a grid your guessing the character they chose on their side by asking questions like “Does your person have brown eyes?”  If the answer is no you can use the little door to cover up all brown eyed people and by process of elimination guess who the other person choose.

Hours Hours the kids have been playing this game!!!

This version folds up into a traveling case and has fancy red and green buttons that you push for yes and no that light up and have sound effects so I think that is part of the fascination. I think there are less fancy versions of the game so I’m not sure without the bells and whistles they would like it so much.

This is a perfect gift for a gift exchange where you didn’t know gender. We’ve had everyone from 5 to 10 year olds playing it. I’ll definitely be getting one to throw in our Angel Tree bag this year.

Wordless Wednesday – Because there are no words….

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images North America)

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images North America)

If the election was at the end of the month

It sure would help me with the whole NaNloPoMo thing…

Starbucks, Vote, Free Coffee  … by now you know the drill

More Food for Votes

At this pace we'll be be able to eat free all day on Tuesday

D’oh! The one drawback to voting early…

The “Free Taco”

The Dr. is both a fan of Taco Bell and Major League Baseballs so imagine his excitement  upon hearing there were free tacos to be had were their stolen bases. He immediately had me use That Internet Thing to look up the details. What found in their legalize had us rolling on the floor.

 

 

 

…If a base is stolen during regulation or extra innings play by any player for either team during any Game, Taco Bell will offer every person in the U.S. the opportunity to obtain one (1) free Crunchy Seasoned Beef Taco (the "Free Taco")…

You will evidently be required to use those little finger “air quotey” things when ordering.

We are no longer able to discuss tacos without using the finger motions.

But let’s move on shall we.

…Participating Taco Bell restaurant manager reserves the right to deny Free Taco to any person he/she reasonably believes has already received a Free Taco or has engaged in any other fraudulent activity. …

I’m wondering if Taco Bell has been frantically dispersing emergency training sessions to it’s store managers on how to handle this New Power.  “How to Determine Someone's Free Taco Status” must be riveting! Beware of the head games your local store manager will be playing that day people! And other fraudulent activity? Exactly what other taco related forms of fraud are there?

…All restaurant managers' decisions are final regarding to Free Taco offer. …

Cause you DO NOT want to mess with this DUDE!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

As a condition of the offer, each consumer agrees: (a) to release, and hold harmless Major League Baseball … from any and all claims, demands, losses, promises, causes of action, injuries, damages and/or liabilities, that may arise, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from the participation in this Promotion or from the receipt or use or misuse of the Free Taco, 

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