Everyone who reads this needs to rush out and buy a 5lb. bag

And as it says right there on the wrapper - they are indeed, delicious caramel. They start out hard in the wrapper, but as soon as they encounter the warmth of a salivating mouth, they acquiesce into creamy goodness. These might actually be the best candy of ever.

Consider it me doing my part to encourage childhood obesity.

Cheers!

I took a few days off last week because I wanted to work on the book. For the first couple of days, all was well, until Saturday when I woke up feeling nauseous, light headed, and woozy. That’s a technical term.

I slept most of the afternoon, after barely finishing a delicious breakfast that David made, and by evening I was feeling a tiny bit better.

Sunday, however, the congestion packed itself in, and my nose plugged up, I started coughing constantly, fever, cold chills, hot sweats, I was going through my 4th or 5th menopause I think.

Anyway - Monday. I still feel like crap, I got about 4 hours of sleep once I finally found some old nasal spray and gave myself the chance to breathe again…I’m worn out and feel like patoopie. Another technical term.

Anyway - that’s why I’ve been hiding for a few days. Thanks to all zero of you who missed me :-).

I was taking the Facebook My Personality application test, and here were the results:

You think you have avoidant personality disorder

You have an extreme fear of the potential negative opinions of other people and that leads you to avoid social situations altogether. You feel inferior to other people and expect them to reject you. The worst thing that could possibly happen is being embarrassed in front of all of your friends.

I like the way they phrased that…. “I think” I have a PPD. I don’t really think that, it’s just what the application determined based on my answers.

And anyway, I KNOW what kind of personality disorder I have…

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Today’s ponderous point from Heath - Do pets have friends? Do they build relationships like people do? Are they better than humans?

I consider my pets to be my children, and I tend to treat them as such. They offer unlimited and unconditional love; they have strong and rich emotions (did you know that the emotional center of cats is very similar to that of humans?); they are never dishonest; they require very little to be insanely happy.

Is it wrong that I prefer them to humans? I think if given the choice, I would take a pet over a human friend. Is that wrong? I think not. I have never found a human that offers unlimited and unconditional love, has strong and rich emotions, is never dishonest, and requires little to be insanely happy.

Some people have some of those things, some people have many, a lot have very few. I don’t think this makes me stuck up at all, but if given the choice, I know who I would want to spend the day with.

So what do you think…do pets have friends? Are they better than people?

I was at the dentist the other day and I asked about teeth whitening. It seemed like a relatively quick and easy and not very expensive thing to do, so I said, what the heck?

So here’s what my teeth look like when cast into plaster moulds:

Obviously, my teeth are not green, but for some reason they wiped this gooey green stuff onto the teeth to identify them.

I got the moulds in case I needed to get any bleach tray replacements.

So here’s the starting point of my upper and lower teeth….we’ll see how the bleaching process goes and just how white these things will get:

Not too bad huh? Hopefully the bleaching will get these a bit whiter - I want to get rid of some of that yellowing which comes from age and from tons of coffee/tea/wine. So I’ll post now and then and you can see how it work out in case you’ve been thinking of doing it yourself.

Cheers!

I realize that many of you come to me directly for the blog, so you may not have noticed that I’ve been revamping the home page.

Here’s a visual, and if you click the picture it will open up the home page in a new window for you to view.

I’d love to hear your comments / thoughts / ideas / suggestions. I really didn’t spent a HUGE amount of time on it, because after all, it’s just a home page - which to me is more a jumping off point for my blog, gallery, etc. Anyway - give it a view and let me know what you think.

I love diet Pepsi Vanilla.