Bodacious Boomer

I’ll admit that there are moments when they should think about revoking my Mensa membership. I’m not always the brightest bulb, the sharpest tool in the shed, however, you want to say it. But these next two things make no sense to me so I say WTF?

First- There’s only 1 more week of the second phase of the Census going on and boy am I glad. After the first phase, the giant heads cut their workforce drastically as was expected. They reshuffled the people that were going to work in the second part so the same people didn’t go back to the same properties they had already canvassed. Doug had a great crew the first time; they all worked hard, got along, returned phone calls and showed up for meetings.

Now, not so much. Apparently there had been a number of people in the first phase that had been fired, then they complained to the EEOC about it. Well they got rehired to put an end to their bitching and guess who got them? Doug.

He is not a happy camper now and is really frustrated. Before his crew was always at the top in production. This time round, it’s last. WTF Census?

Second- Yesterday I went to Barnes and Nobel to look at a couple of books. There were at least 15 people sitting on the floor reading. They were not all little kids by any means. There were plenty of AARP’ers on the floor too. WTF B&N? You used to have comfy chairs everywhere. Now, the few chairs that you do have look like they came from the interrogation room on Law and Order- wooden, old and worst of all- hard. And you don’t even have enough of them. Are you trying to discourage customers from staying too long? Do you want people to just keep moving along?

Well if that’s your goal, you succeeded. I moved on along in short order without buying a thing. I’m ticked. There’s a Borders Books in town. I’m going to go check it out.

And now two entries from the TMI files:

In May I wrote about a product called BraMates. This a product for ladies such as myself who have significant boobage. If you have TB and every other woman you know also has TB, you won’t need to even read this paragraph. But if you suffer from MMS or know someone who does, you’ll want to know about these; read on.

I called the company and they sent me a pair to try. I told them I’d do just that and write a review- good or bad. Well, I’m happy to report that the product did do what it was supposed to do, which was reduce sweat from my ta-tas onto my bra.

Since I live in Houston where the humidity is so pervasive, having a sweaty bra in the summertime is just something you have to get used to if your bra doesn’t have training wheels on it. And as if the yuckky feeling bra wasn’t bad enough, you can get a nasty rash called intertrigo.

Well, I’m happy to report that BraMates has solved that problem. No more rashes for me!

I liked them so much that I ordered and paid for, a pair for myself and Evelyn. (I was going to show you my invoice, but it has all sorts of personal info that I can’t figure how to delete; so you’re just going to have to take my word for it.)

Also, if for some reason you don’t like them, BraMates has a double your money back guarantee.

Yesterday I read about a simple solution to another problem I wrestle with in the summertime. Dinosaur feet. I wear Crocs sandals about 98% of the time from March to Thanksgiving. Because of that the skin on my heels gets super dry and would occassionally even start to crack. I tried every foot cream on the market with limited success.

Then yesterday I read about a home remedy. So I gave it a try. Eureka! It worked! Here’s the recipe: Take two aspirin- the generic, cheapo kind work great. Crush them and put the powder into about a T. of Vaseline. Mix and apply to the problem area. Wrap with a piece of plastic wrap. I didn’t have any so I cut a hole in a baggie for my big toe. Then put a sock over your foot.

Sexy it is not. Don’t expect a lot of action.

Go to sleep. Unwrap the next morning and marvel at your smooth skin. My skin is smooth as a babies tushie. I’m still going to use body lotion, but it is so much better. Who knew?

If aspirin can do this to funky skin though, then why are we ingesting it? It’s a conundrum.