Report on Spanx

My conference is now over and I want to report on my experience with Spanx.

• Comfort - Excellent
• Ease of use - OK
• Durability - Poor
• Cost - Too Much since it was so thin I poked a hole in it right away
• Does it smooth the lines and such -- ABSOLUTELY

Overall I loved the look and the comfort. The version I bought is like a pair of pantyhose but not quite as sheer. It said on the packaging to be worn without undergarments. The cotton crotch had a built-in split that was a little strange and I was not sure if it was intended for use but I did not use it :-). Since this model came up to my bra line, I did not like the inconvenience of having to pull it all the way up each time when using the restrooms (and if any of you have spoken to an audience you know it gets warm and one tends to drink a lot of water...). I hated that I put a hole into it on the first day even before I left the house and another one the next day, although that did not prevent it from doing it's job...making my outfit look fabulous on me...but I was still disappointed since I had spent close to $30.

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OMG - Liposuction Without Surgery

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Well, tomorrow I am presenting at our annual two day conference. I have four presentations to do for an audience of about 25 to 30 in each session. As with most of us, I have gained a few pounds over the past couple of years so I needed to go shopping for a decent outfit, since I have limited upscale outfits and did not want to wear the same outfits as last year. My daughter came with me. Well I want to tell you that old dogs can learn new tricks from pups!!! She convinced me to buy Spanx...she had heard about them through one of her friends who had worn them, but I had not. I thought oh yeah, another girdle. NOT SO. I am here tonight taking the tags off of everything and getting things ready for tomorrow, so I tried them on. OMG. I think I'm going to be very happy in front of my audience. Please check out the site, and don't be put off by the cost. I decided to buy it even though it seemed a bit pricey. I got the one called High Falutin' Footless for $28 at Lane Bryant. I will let you know after my conference how comfortable this product actually is. Stay tuned...

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World's Smallest Snake Found in Barbados

clipped from zaxy.wordpress.com Excerpt from BBC News: By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News The world’s smallest snake, averaging just 10cm (4 inches) and as thin as a spaghetti noodle, has been discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The snake, found beneath a rock in a tiny fragment of threatened forest, is thought to be at the very limit of how small a snake can evolve to be. Females produce only a single, massive egg - and the young hatch at half of their adult body weight. This new discovery is described in the journal Zootaxa. The snake - named Leptotyphlops carlae - is the smallest of the 3,100 known snake species and was uncovered by Dr Blair Hedges, a biologist from Penn State University, US. Read the full article at BBC News online. Thanks again to the Amateur Naturalist for the tip.

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Better than a Barrel of Monkeys

OKAY, there are not too many things that can hold my attention but my daughter told me to check out this software and it is totally one of the best things I could have downloaded. It's simple and free, two of the best words around. Be prepared to spend some time because it is so fascinating that I have a hard time breaking away...I promise you will love the new worlds this application will open for you at the touch of a button.

Check out the other customer comments: http://www.stumbleupon.com/

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Great Creative Ideas & Solutions. Check it out.

For anyone who is interested in creating fabulous graphic design in a beautiful and simply stated style, this is the place for you. I have subscribed to this magazine since the early 1990's and it has never failed to astound me nor has it ever disappointed. I promise you will fall in love with how easy it is to understand. Great design does not have to sound like a foreign language.
They offer free downloads so you can sample the product. http://www.bamagazine.com

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Meno

Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues (e.g., justice, temperance, etc.). The goal is a common definition that applies equally to all particular virtues. Socrates moves the discussion past the philosphical confusion, or aporia, created by Meno's paradox with the introduction of new Platonic ideas: the theory of knowledge as recollection, anamnesis, and in the final lines a movement towards Platonic idealism.

From: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Bundle of Joy

Here is a photo of my little parti-pom, Maggie. She weighs in at 3.4 lbs. She thinks she's a rottweiler!

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Working on getting this blog up and running.

I'm finally getting around to taking a look at how to set up this blog. Will post interesting items that I find. I still have some work to do on getting it to look nice.

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First Blog..

This is a Test... A Test of the Emergency Blogcast Network... This is only a Test...

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