Monday, September 2, 2013

Signs You Should Skip a Meeting...lol!

So I was all set to go to this fancy meeting, tomorrow night, today I get an email reminder of said meeting, and it says, remember to wear all white!  What the helll??  Wear all white?? Why, is it a cult, and we're all ascending to heaven, tomorrow?  Is it P. Diddy's White Party?? Yeah, I don't think so... how crazy is that? Then it took me ages to figure out how to remove my Yes to the RSVP - took me soo long to finally find a No button - so crazy!

And I was really looking forward to the meeting, right up until the semi-cult invitation - this is a group I've just recently heard about, supposed to be for entrepreneurs, I thought, oh, maybe I'd hear something interesting, maybe I'll meet like-minded people, make some good business contacts, but what was with this whole 'wear white' thing??  What on earth??  What kind of crazy is that??  Were we gonna have a surprise group wedding??  Surprise!!  You're wedded in a cult... creepy... and it was pretty funny I was in such a panic to get out of it... the first thing I read about it was all about talking about business with a beer on the side - that sounded good - beer AND business, now that's a good business meeting... but Wear White?? That's horrifying... and super-weird... will add that to the list of 'Things I will skip'! lol!

Too bad, I really did want to find some new people to chat about business, with, see what kind of opportunities are out there, what other people are finding successful - but, now that I think of it, maybe the people at the super-weird 'wear white to the meeting' aren't exactly fully successful, just yet?? hahaha!  Perhaps not?? hahaha!  Okay, that makes me laugh... whatevs, I'm gonna have to go back to the whole 'What's for you'll no go by you'... I've made that more 'people friendly', it's really, "Wha's for ye'll no go by ye"... little more old fashioned, and Scottish, but it sure gets me through some tricky times.... I'm sure I'll find a good business that actually brings in a solid income without a huge overhead... the dream of every business owner! lol!

If you're thinking about starting your own business, let me know all about it! I love to hear a great story! Good Luck! Ailsa : )

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

This Tiny Cookie Has 16 Grams of Fat - but it's soo little! And only a little bit tasty! lol!

Look at this cookie. Tempting, right? Looks tasty. Looks sooo innocent. But is it? No. It's neither tasty nor innocent, but do I love them, accidentally? Yes. They are addictive little things, but I canny buy these, any more! hahahaha!  I gots to stop, and here's why - I bought these a while back - I had been eyeing them up in the bakery aisle at Safeway for a few weeks - it's the icing sugar, they remind me of these delicious cookies the mother of one of my friends used to make at Christmas Time, but these are NOT the same cookies. These little addictive cookies are called Pistachio Mamoul. You had me at Pistachio! hahahaha!  A cookie with pistachios in it, AND it's covered in icing sugar, AND it looks like it's shortbread??  I'm in.

So I'm casually, and slowly, Thank God, making my way through these lovely little virtually tasteless cookies (it's a very light flavour, and clearly I have developed a taste for! lol!), when, the other night, I thought, My God, it's entirely possible these little cookies have 5, count em', FIVE grams of fat in them... then I quickly dismissed my thought as ridiculous, went about my tiny task of making a nice cup of tea to go with my little Pistachio Mamoul cookie....

So jump to the NEXT night, I'm in the kitchen, still thinking, it's entirely possible these teensy tiny cookies could have a lot of fat in them, and the nutritional information is right on the bottom of the package, so it's not like it's not right there in front of me, I had simply chosen not to look at it, and spoil all my teensy tiny flavour fun! lol!  I wanted to live in the dark. Happy to live without knowledge that this little cookie might be bad for me. No. I didn't want to know. Like a very bad boyfriend, sometimes, you don't want to know the details, you just want to enjoy the boyfriend.... been there? Yeah, me, too! hahahahaha! Boyfriends and cookies, my very slight downfall! hahahaahaha! (Okay, I think that's jus' for me, really makes me laugh, while I'm sitting here, writing... passing the time before I eat another COOKIE!! hahaha!)

So there it is, the guilty culprit, the tiniest, almost most flavourless, cookie on the planet, and I want them very badly. See how tiny it is? I put it on my BUSINESS CARD, just so you could see the actual size.

That teensy tiny cookie has 16 grams of fat. SIXTEEN GRAMS of FAT. What the helll???  I just about bloody dropped. And then you can't take information back out of your head, much as I tried, because I have big plans to finish off the rest of these little cookies.... but I have GOT to never buy them, again ... said the girl with no resistance! hahahaha!

16 grams of fat!!  Omg, that's almost half of my normal 'goal' of 37 grams of fat per day - I am NOT against fat, don't get me wrong, here - I happen to LOVE fat! hahaha!  And I don't like fat-free products, because they just fool your body, which can't be fooled - it's just your mind that can be fooled, not your body... your body always knows what's goin' on....but your mind, well, as I know from personal experience, and a LOT of personal experience, a mind is a very easy thing to waste......no, that's a different campaign... a mind is very easy thing to fool...you can easily pull one over on your very own mind! hahahaah!  Think how many times a day you try to pull the wool over your own mind!  Hilarious! Is so funny! Tryin' to trick ourselves, all the time! Humans - we be crazy! hahahaha!

Okay, I'm gonna go have that cookie!  It's sitting right beside me, patiently waiting for me to enjoy it, a little... seriously, there's virtually no flavour! So funny, and I want it so badly.... oh, and it really is filled with pastachios, that's most likely where the fat comes from (says my mind, who is sooo easily fooled), so is maybe a healthy cookie?? hahahaahah!! Okay, hope you are enjoying your delusional day as much as I'm enjoying MY delusional day! lol!  Happy Cookie Eating! Ailsa xoxo!

And now for some Great Deals for you!! lol! 

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Time Warner CBS Blackout - Oooh, but look at what you get in exchange for Letterman...so crazy! They need to put David Letterman back on for ALL viewers...

Okay, so I just got an email from Time Warner Cable, I guess because I used to be a customer, I just stopped being a customer before this whole withdrawal of CBS shows has come to be - what on earth are they thinking???  But I've been watching The Late Show with David Letterman, and, omg, he is soo funny with the whole Time Warner blackout thing... it's the craziest thing! 

So here's a little tidbit I just got in my email from Time Warner Cable:

Offering Starz Kids & Family premium channel on a temporary preview basis;
Making the Tennis Channel available to you at no additional charge during the two weeks of the US Open beginning August 26*;

Hahahahaahah!!  Ooooh, did you just say all your Time Warner customers can have TENNIS (riveting, just like the banter between David and Paul on Letterman...), AND Starz Kids and Family???  Oh, boy!  Sounds like top-quality shows I would NEVER watch....

So what gives??  What are Time Warner customers doing about this? Do they have any real recourse? I know where I had Time Warner, it was part of my HOA package, I just paid extra for all my fave shows (noooo, that didn't include Tennis ans Starz Kids.... and Family! hahaahahahaha!

Is Time Warner trying to shut itself down?  Make all their customers so mad, there's a mass evacuation... who else is out there? AT&T? I can't remember who else is in the Los Angeles area... I'll check into it for you, and for my own curiosity, because I'm pretty sure we had a different company for a while at a different place.... I'll check for New York, too, since a lot of the jokes on David Letterman were about TV viewers in New York - oh, man, when Letterman brought out this old guy who was pretending to be the CEO of Time Warner, that was hilarious! Soo funny!

Okay, I hope they sort this all out - seems like the viewers are the ones who are losing out on everything - I hope Time Warner and CBS can work this whole thing out, put all our fave shows back on the air for everyone - and I'm sooo glad I have Shaw!

Oh, and for the record, I love the people who work for Time Warner, especially all the folks at the bottom of the hill in Culver City, California - they couldn't be any sweeter, so this is from the higher ups, not the regular people at Time Warner... : )

Happy TV Watching!

Ailsa xox!
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