Beauty….It Is In The Eyes….Or Rather Eyelashes.

In the quest to be perfect and gorgeous, the beauty industry keeps pushing the envelope, by coming up with even more bizarre products for women to spend money on and “try” to achieve perfection.

 

 

The company, Allergan has discovered that the same formula that is in an eye drop that is used to treat glaucoma, has the side effect of providing long thick eyelashes.

To have these wonderful lush lashes will cost you $120 per month, or about $4 per day. And since women spend roughly $5 billion a year on mascara….this is the biggest thing in the beauty world since Botox!

 

What is the name of this wonderful new product? “Latisse.”

 

Here is a funny foreign advertisement  for  “fake lashes”:

 

What?  Eyes  have God????

 

 

Wanted: New Government for Egypt (job posting)

We are looking to replace the government of Egypt. Please submit your resume for this exciting opportunity to serve under the great leader Mubarak!

 

Required Skills:

• • Crowd control skills
  • Willing to be deceptive and lie
  • Not above corruption
  • Ability to swiftly say the word “yes” to any and all requests
  • Great negotiation skills
  • Experience handing tear gas launchers and guns
  • Most importantly, be able to restore order when there is total anarchy

There will be a personality evaluation for this position, we are looking for the desired attributes of a narcissist.

You must comply to an extensive criminal background check (If you have a clean record, you will not be considered).

Interviewees are recommended to come prepared for the interview by wearing running shoes and fire resistant clothing, just in case.

• • Location: Cairo, Egypt
  • Salary and compensation contingent on experience and brown nosing.

Principals only

I live Vicariously Through The World Of Josh Freese

You may or may not know, awhile back I did a post about how my life was boring, and I needed an angsty boyfriend…to spice things up.

The obvious person to fill that role was Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and I explained the reasons for this choice in that particular blog.

Well, the former drummer for NIN is Josh Freese. He works with all kinds of bands, I can’t even name all of them (I do know one is Devo). But anyway, I like to follow Josh on Twitter, http://twitter.com/joshfreese), as he has some really interesting and funny things to say, as he describes in his Bio, he is an “All around nut.”

I decided that he is really kind of nutty, as he posted pictures of himself driving to go get a vasectomy, and also post-op pictures of his recuperation.  That is really getting personal with “the whole world” if you ask me.  But, for whatever reason he does these things, you just don’t know what he will post next (so intriguing huh?).

Josh makes these bizarre short video clips about various things going on in his life, and I happen to find them quite entertaining. This is how I live my life vicariously, watching the strange things that other people do. Yeah, I know….don’t tell me.

Well, check out this video he made:

Oh, to have a life where all you are worried about is getting some “Sweet’ n Low.”

X-Box 360 Techno Kitten Adventure…..Its Awesome!

My 16 year old son is a big-time X-box 360 gamer. For those of you out there who don’t know any better, this is how teenage boys spend their free time with their friends. They can play video games “online” and talk with each other, plan, make teams, etc….while battling Natzi-zombies (Call of Duty Black Ops), or other evil disgusting things. The graphics in these games are light-years beyond the days of playing “Atari’s” pong.

Anyway, from time to time, my son will come and get me to watch something he says is, “so awesome”. I will stop what I am doing, as this IS our quality time (when he wants to share something with me). I go into his game-room, plop down on the couch and try to decipher what is happening on the TV screen. I usually have no clue what I am watching, or what I am supposed to be looking for, so I ask him for a quick update to clue me in.

Usually, his idea of “awesome”, and mine are quite different. He likes killing everything, especially the zombies….the bloodier the better. Me on the other hand, I don’t like gory stuff, so I usually don’t watch those excerpts for very long.

Tonight was different, he comes into the room, “Mom, you have to come see this” He’s laughing between his talking. “This is hilarious…you have to come see it.”

“Ok, what is it?”

“I’m trying this new game….Techno Kitten Adventure.”

“What?” I can hear some crazy techno-music playing. “Ok, sure, I have to see this.”

I follow him to the game-room, he starts the game…..it looks like an eight-year old made this game….and it is really funny. A cat is flying through the air with a jetpack on its back….you have to guide it pass obstacles, while things fly towards it from the psychedelic sky/background. When you die (or rather when kitty dies), it falls and breaks into pieces…while meowing as it falls.

It really is hilarious….that made my evening.

The Best Game Ever!!!

Description of the game:

Navigate a kitten by jetpack, fueled by hopes and dreams, through a fantastical world of techno music. Featuring DJ Hixxy’s Sea of Love …

Screen shot 1

• Release date: 9/6/2010
• Developer: xMONOx
• Genre: Music

Features

• Offline players 1
• Dolby Digital

Screen shot 2....of kitty's awesome adventure!

I just love the part of the description that kitty is fueled by “Hopes and dreams”.  Do kittens have hopes and dreams?

Wow….it is so awesome!

Oh to be the “Best Wife”

So, I found this old advertisement for “vitamins”, that gave housewives “super energy”………. and it it hilarious.

I’m thinking, “I need those vitamins”, as it seems I just don’t have the energy to  “shampoo the carpet, give the dog a bath, clean out the garage, go through all the closets and get rid of extra “stuff”, clean the baseboards, dust the lamps and fans, weed the flower gardens….all that besides the everyday stuff of cooking, cleaning, laundry,and basic pick up and put away things that everyone else didn’t put away.”

Oh....the good ol' days!

What do you suppose was in those vitamins?  I’m sure today they are “illegal”…..oh well.

Any thoughts?

 

 

A Time To Reflect

It is that time when we reflect on how our life has played out…… for yet another year. There have been studies that show it is in January and February that most divorces occur. Perhaps this is because we do not want to be the one to “ruin” Christmas, or we don’t want to be alone on New Years, but for whatever reason…..after all the holiday cheer, reality sets in and we decide it is time for a major change, as we discover we are not happy.

 

I really like the following quote:

 

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

 

 

From the movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 2008

 

 

I would like to add that besides “strength”, there would need to be “courage” to “start all over again”.

 

Life is short, so, as you reflect upon your life so far, choose “happiness” for yourself, and do whatever it takes to achieve it.

 

A Christmas Day Wish For You

May you be happy and at peace….. from Koko, (the humble dog)

May you be blessed with much food and merriment ….from Pokey (the gluttonous cat),

Avoid all grinches in your life…..from Meiko (the grinch)

 Enjoy life to the fullest!……