Those Weight-Loss Ads on Facebook

I’m getting tired of all the weight loss ads in my Facebook news feed. Have you seen these? “What Body Shape are you?” Hmm… Is Jabba the Hutt one of the shapes? I don’t think you people are representing ALL the body types. “The five vegetables that will make you gain weight.” Okay I don’t

Why did you un-like me?!?!

I had 170 “likes” on my facebook page and now I only have 169. Who stopped liking me? And why? I really want to know.  

Zumba tried to kill me. (But my family didn’t help much either.)

So I went to my first ever Zumba class yesterday. I know, I know. I’m behind the times. Zumba has been popular for the last 10-15 years. But I am slow. A fact that was driven home to me most forcefully during a high-energy exercise class with about fifty women in a mirrored room. I looked

A Cautionary Tale

I was at Victoria’s Secret getting my teenage daughters some bras and underwear. (They were quite modest ones. Really.) The twins were running around like crazy people, climbing under the display tables, jumping off pretty padded benches, and screaming “UNDIES!!” at the tops of their lungs. I looked around at all the beautiful airbrushed photos

Life Hacks?

Have you seen those “Life Hacks” on pinterest? They give you weird and interesting advice that may or may not work. Some of them are useful, but many seem to me to be COMPLETELY made up. Here are some examples of the ones I suspect are fabricated: Um… exactly how am I supposed to test

My dishwasher has been disabled by ants

Recently I noticed an invasion of ants in my dishwasher. I’ve never seen this before. I thought dishwashers were supposed to be clean! I called an exterminator. He seemed unsurprised. He said dishwasher are a great place for ants to hang out, full of water and tiny bits of food. Ew. He set up poison

How’s the weather in Hawaii?

The short answer: It’s always almost exactly the same. Every day. All year. In fact, here’s the weather chart from the preschool at church: As you can see, we have TWO weather choices here: Rainy and Sunny. I seem to remember from my own preschool/kindergarten days that our weather chart was an entire WHEEL with