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Friday
Sep082006

Crap I can do without....

Decorative throw pillows. A warning to the pretty pillows on the bed, pretty pillows on the sofa, pretty pillows in the chair—be useful or die. I’m tired of looking for a place to put you when I want to use the furniture. I’m over 40 and I’m so freakin over pretty, which brings me to…

Moisturizing lotions with glitter in them. Makers of Olay Quench and Jergens Natural Glow, this applies to you! I’m an adult woman with dry skin who knows it’s ludicrous for women over 21 to sparkle like a Disney character. Leave the pixie dust out of the lotion! If I wanted to glow, I’d live on Three Mile Island, which may be the origin of the…

Big honking brown slugs from hell that are everywhere these days. They’re as long and fat as my pinky and look like mobile turds with antennae. They leave more shiny snot trails than a preschooler with a cold.

Hmmm. Key words for this post: Useless. Nuclear. Sluggish. Snotty.

That’s the PMS muse talkin’.

September 8, 2006 

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Reader Comments (10)

Ya know something weird... I had not yet read your post when I emailed you and mentioned slugs... Is it scary that we both were thinking about slugs today?
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterShirl Grrrl
The slugs - beurk. I don't think I have ever seen one here.

Funny you wrote that list, I was thinking of writing a list of things that are totally useless. I will probably post one sometime this weekend.
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterElisabeth
I thought the glittering lotions paragraph was funny.
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterDan
LOL!
But I am not yet over 40, and I am already over pretty pillows... Unless we are talking abotu the ones in my bra, and they ain't so pretty anymore. So yeah. Over pretty pillows. ;)

:)
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered Commenteramber
I hear you with the throw pillows. They usually spend more time on the floor than on the couch.
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterNeil
LOL. I can do without all of these things too. ;)
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered Commentermamatulip
PMS muse, yeah, that's just what I was thinking. I'm full in her throes myself. :)
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLisa
we have those giant slugs here too sometimes... hope you don't mind the link... http://www.flickr.com/photos/danagee/199649925/
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterdanagee
thought I would stop by and see how you are today. Angry obviously. Totally with ya on the whole glitterati lotion.
September 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie
Oddly enough, I couldn't agree with you more...
September 9, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterTamara

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