Things That Make You Go Hmm...

I have been posting a bit less lately. I am nursing my injuries, and concentrating on my career, or lack there of.

I am trying my best to excel in my current job, and at the same time, expanding my business, buying a house and hopefully making a major career change.

This blog is my favorite thing to do, so in order to keep it that way, I am going to be taking a small break.

Unless I get the new job, then I will be going away for a month of training and probably won't be able to blog until I get back.

Wish me luck!

Deanna

Is it just me, or have women sunk to a new low on The Bachelor? I never really liked the show but this season is beyond pathetic.

One man is a god, and all of the women vie for his attention. He gets a license to fool around with as many women (who have no self esteem) as he pleases while they all cry for him.

Some highlights from last nights show. "He's a doctor! I can't believe it! He's so hot!" There are thousands of doctors, OK? If you really want to marry a doctor, I'm sure it's not that difficult.

One of the women, Allie G, she is also a doctor, she told the Bachelor, Travis, "I'm in the reproductive phase of my life, and if you have the same goals, pick me."

I know she is an Oncologist, but do be so clinical! Allie G did not get a rose from The Bachelor.

Personally, I would have said, "Go up to your room, grab your bags and take your dry eggs on the next plane back to the USA. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars."

She spent the last fifteen years working on her reputation and career, to have it crushed to smithereens in fifteen minutes. She may have been trying to fool us all, and get a spot on The Surreal Life.

I don't know if I can stomach this show next week, but for this week, it was a train wreck I couldn't take my eyes off of!

Image from ABC's The Bachelor

I have been on a diet, one of my New Years Resolutions of course. For Inspiration, I look to Victoria Beckham. She was always beautiful, even as a Spice Girl.

Now, she really looks like a million bucks even when dressed completely casual. Maybe it has something to do with her millions of bucks.

Lots of people trash her, and all I can say to that is Haters!

I'm not one to blow compliments up celebrities butts, but she always looks impeccable, and I was wondering how one human being could be so perfect.

Now I know, Victoria is said to spend $5000 a week on hair extensions, and $500 on a hair cut. I can only imagine the price tag on the rest of her beauty regime. (source)

Posh was quoted as never having read a book in her life, so the minute she dictates a book, I'll be the first one in line to buy it.

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I don't know what is wrong with this template, but I guess blogger is having some issues. I cannot fix it so that my picture is in the proper place.

I changed the templates numerous times to try and fix this issue, and it's not working.

I will be working on a fix, sorry for the wack appearance of the site.

Deanna

(Image from hollywoodrag.com)

We all know the basics, don't talk with your mouth full, no elbows on the table, chew your food properly.

That's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about aesthetics. I'm talking about people looking like dinosaurs devouring chickens.

Lately I have been noticing how ugly people look when they eat. I now have sound effects going through my head when I see people with their giant chomps, rips, and huge bites.

It all started with when I was watching Oprah's Favorite Things show.

Whenever they put the camera on the audience, they looked so hideous when they were eating! Giant bites, food falling down their chins, laughing as food fell out of their mouths. Chewing with the ugliest look on their faces on National TV!

I was like, dag! I hope I don't look like that when I eat. I hope I at least look dignified when I'm eating and not like some rabbit dog.

Nicole Richie looks so bizarre when she eats. I don't think it has anything to do with her supposed eating disorder. Girlfriend just needs a mirror.

So here is my idea. I am going to put a mirror in front of my kitchen table, and watch myself when I eat to make sure I don't look ugly. I think that would be a good way for parents to teach their kids to eat pretty.

Remember your first date? Remember how nervous you were at dinner. Yeah, me too. I ordered the soup to keep it simple.

So go prop up a mirror in the kitchen and we can make this world a prettier place, one bite at a time!

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I wrote a blog post yesterday, published it, and it was on the site. Somehow it has vanished. It is totally gone. It was there. Strange!

Maybe it happened after my blog was transmitted into space. Maybe it was the "aliens". Or maybe the Russians!

On November 25, 2005 Blog In Space, deemed my blog "Most likely to be contacted".

On December 28, 2005 my blog was then transmitted into space and now my post disappears. Hmm...

I'm sure it was just Blogger having some issues, or maybe my computer, but it is funny how it just disappeared.

If you would like your blog to be transmitted into the abyss, go to bloginspace.com , type in your URL and submit.





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2005 has rapidly ended, I took stock of why and how I did things.

My Main Resolutions for 2006:

1.To continue to get things that bother me out of my head and onto my blog. My little tiny way to try and make this world a better place.

2.To focus on what I want to stop doing instead of only what I need to start to do.

3.To work less, and enjoy my life more.

4.To stop post-poning my engagement and finally get married! (I've been changing the date for the last three years due to my excessive work schedule!)

If I change number 3, number 4 will be automatic.

These are just a few of my resolutions, but my most important ones. I now feel refreshed from taking a few days off and will be back to my daily blogging full force!

No matter how unreachable your goals may seem, once you write them down your mind will find a way for you to reach them.

I extend a challenge to anyone who reads this to go to futureme.com and send yourself an e-mail to be delivered in the future.

List your goals and resolutions for 2006 to be delivered to your inbox on January 1, 2007.

I will be posting the results of my e-mail time capsule goals next year on the blog.

If you want to participate in this challenge, I ask if you could put a reminder in your e-mail to visit this blog at thedhidaily.com, or Email me
to let me know what happened with your goals. You don't have to give details of the individual goals, just your thoughts on the results.

This year, as I write my list of goals and resolutions for 2006 I am going to ask myself the following questions:

What is it that I need to stop doing?
What is it that I am doing, that I should continue to do?
What is it that I am not doing now that I need to start doing?
What is it that I really want?

2006 is a New Year, and a New Beginning. Even if you have already written your goals, I challenge you to do this e-mail time capsule, the results may surprise you.

What do you have to lose?

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Why the Tom Cruise couch jump of course! I have to say, I never really liked Tom Cruise before this year.

I remember watching Oprah that day thinking, "This guy is making me very uncomfortable, yet it's strangely fascinating."

I didn't like Tom Cruise because everyone worshipped him. I just saw him as a guy. Even I have to admit the way he shook up Hollywood this year was amazing.

He made so many people so uncomfortable without even doing anything so horrible.

Actors get arrested all the time and no one so much as bats an eye. A jump on a couch and shaking Oprah a few times and this guy is labeled a lunatic.

I respect when people can stand up for what they believe in even if it goes against the majority.

Tom Cruise also caused quite a stir during an interview with Matt Lauer when he put down Brooke Shields for her use of anti-depressants. Brooke Shields fired back saying his comments were dangerous.

Since when do people trust actors with medical advice? I mean, if he did a commercial and said, "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV" and then spoke against the drugs wearing a white overcoat, maybe some people would take his advice.

But he didn't, and again Hollywood acts as if we the people are some inferior humans who can't think for ourselves and take everything they feed us as gospel.

For this event that marked the beginning of Tom Cruise's fall from grace, I deem Tom Cruise's Couch Jump "The Biggest Celebrity Moment of 2005".

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I don't know what it is, but every time I write down my goals, they happen.

I keep a ton of journals. I usually fill three to four per year. I am always writing down my goals. I write them, and usually forget about them. I go back through my journals six months, a year, or two years later and I am constantly amazed at how everything I wrote happened!

It's truly amazing. One of my favorites was when I wrote my ideal guy. I wrote it so detailed and specific, personality, ethnicity, age, height, weight, even income bracket.

I packed it away and forgot about it for three years. When I found it I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. I had written it two years before I met my fiance and it was him.

That forced me to pull out many of my journals and read through them. It was amazing how many things that I had dreamed, written, and later accomplished.

With the New Year coming, my wish for everyone is that they write down their goals. You decide your future.

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My favorite person will be 25 years old today!

In honor of his Birthday, I would like to write a bit about my fiance Fredi and highlight a few of his wonderful qualities.

Fredi is the youngest of 14 children. All the children have the same Mother and Father, and they are still married today.

Everyone always tells me how fortunate I am to have found him. My question is, "What about him! He's fortunate to have found me too, right?" They always say, "well, yeah, but you know what I mean."

Fredi can do anything. He is good at everything. He can fix a roof, fix a car, hang drywall, paint better than a professional, do plumbing, electrical work, train horses, drive a race car, and can speak two languages. Oh, and he's super hot too.

In the four years we have been together, we have only had one argument, and it ended in less than an hour. He has never raised his voice toward me, and has never called me a bad name, or talked bad about me to anyone else.

Fredi also never lets anyone take advantage of him, and can read a persons character from one conversation. I have to admit, he's right 99.9 times out of 100!

One quarter of a century. How the time flies!

I've learned a lot from Fredi, and I look forward to the 25+ more Birthdays we will spend together.

Happy Birthday Fredi!

This is one of my favorite books. Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kioyosaki. "What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!"

I first read this book one year ago. I am in the process of reading it again. I have pretty much destroyed the book from all of my highlighting and underlining.

I would seriously pay $50 for this book, and realize I got a bargain. The list price is $16.95.

This book turned on a light for me. I learned that the rich don't work for money, rather their money works for them. Robert Kiyosaki put some ideas into my head. He said to always look for a good investment, to notice things.

When I made an offer on a property, everyone told me I would never get it. My offer was just too low.

My realtor told me I was going to lose the property and it was already "priced to sell". I was told I needed to make a higher offer if I really wanted it.

Funny thing is, I didn't listen and now I am closing on that property at the end of next month.

I kept my eyes and ears open, and now I will own my first investment property at a bargain!

I advise anyone who is serious about getting out of the "rat race" to give this book a try. It would have taken me a lifetime, possibly two to get the information that Mr. Kiyosaki spent his life learning.

The road to financial freedom is a long one, but I think I am going to enjoy the journey. One investment property does not make me a millionaire, but what I learn and apply can.



If you would like to learn more about Robert Kiyosaki you can read his column at Yahoo! Finance or visit his website richdad.com.

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If Jennifer Anniston is America's Sweetheart, what does that make Angelina Jolie?

Dialog that is now etched in my mind as a "classic".

Can anyone guess where this from?

"Feliz Naviblah"

"That dosn't mean anything."

"In American, that's Mexican for Merry Christmas."

I think I'm not the only one homesick for Hawaii...

My friend Amber has moved off of the Rock and on to Italy. Here is a picture of her with her snowman, er snow-woman, Aloha Style.

I'm going to have to dig out my coconut bra and grass skirt and build one of these myself. But, the ukulele stays in the house!

Should you tell your kids the truth about Santa Clause?

My answer, Yes!

Picture this, I'm in first grade, in the lunch room at school with my classmates.

There were some sixth graders seated at our table. One of the sixth grade bullies says, "There is no such thing as Santa." My friends and I, jumped to Santa's defense. The bully laughed at us.

I remember my comment distinctly, "My Mom said there is a Santa, so there is! "She does not lie!" That was the first time in my young life I ever stood up for what I believed.

I had spent countless hours listening to my Mother spin tales about Santa. How she waited for him on Christmas Eve and would be so excited when she heard his reindeer and sleigh bells on the roof of our house.

All year, she would tell me, "Santa's watching!" Even when I'm alone? I wondered. I was a bit creeped out by this I must admit. It put the fear of Santa in me.

Finally, I learned the truth about Santa. Immediately I remembered that afternoon in the lunchroom. I was devastated. I felt like a fool, humiliated.

What bothered my was not that Santa did not exist, what bothered me was that my Mother would trick me. She could no longer be trusted!

What about The Easter Bunny? Lie! The Tooth Fairy? Lie! All lies! How about God? Jesus? They're real. Are you sure? Why should I trust you Mom?

It was difficult from that point forward to trust anything my Mother said. Not all kids have this type of devastation, but I did, and so do some others.

Why ruin your credibility? Let Santa be what he is, a fun character based on a Saint. Not a lie. Santa is fun, I think he adds to the Christmas experience.

Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, but I don't want to see a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes taking pictures with kids. It just wouldn't be sanitary. Ya dig?

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Yahoo! has a new toy. Now when I go to the welcome screen of my Yahoo! E-mail account, I see this cartoon version of myself.

It's called an avatar, and it is a free service for Yahoo! users. You can customize the skin, hair, eyes, change the clothes, mood, and background.

Build one for yourself one HERE.

This is virtual me in my virtual Christmas outfit on the virtual beach.

Don't I look great?

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Animals are better to have around than people because:

-They don't talk back, they just listen.
-They are so simple and easy to please.

People are better to have around than animals because:

-They talk back, they don't just listen.
-They are complex and not always easy to please, but they always surprise us.

I sure am glad we have both people and animals. No matter how annoying people can be sometimes. It's just nice to have a pet that can give us a break from the people once in awhile.

If you are stressed out from family and friends this Holiday Season, spend some time with a dog or cat and just relax. If you don't have a pet, borrow one for a few minutes.

Studies show a few minutes with a pet can lower your blood pressure and boost your immunity.

You can read more about the healthy affects of animals on humans HERE.

So from now on when people come to my house I'm going to add to my usual "Would you like something to drink? Make yourself at home."

And say "Take a load off, and pet the dog."

Be careful about getting one of those toy electric cars for your children this Christmas.

One year, my daughter got an electric Barbie Lamborghini for Christmas. You know the little electric cars that kids can drive?

She was three years old at the time, and I had asked her to put her toys away. She was giving me a difficult time. I was not backing down, she had to put her toys away. What I say goes!

Haley choked back her tears, stood as tall as she could as she puffed out her chest as she pointed to the driveway and said, "If you don't stop this right now I am going to get into my car, and drive to Mimi's!"

It was all I could do to hold back my laughter. It was just too cute. Mimi is what she calls her Grandmother.

I gave her a hug and put the toys away myself. I lost to a three year old.

I went to a seminar by Kalei Inn, Ph. D.

One of the things I will never forget is when she said, she was always stubbing her toes.

You know how that is, right? You walk into a dresser and bang goes your toes, then you are doubled over in pain.

She said that what she did was say to herself "I'm not going to stub my toes anymore!" Then, from that moment on it just stopped.

I decided to try it, I had the same problem. I was walking into things and always losing my keys.

I said "I'm not going to stub my toes or lose my keys anymore!" You know, from that moment on, I stopped bumping into things and I stopped losing my keys. It worked!

It's been two years, and I can't remember stubbing my toes since that time, but I do remember misplacing my keys once.

Not bad considering I used to do both of those things almost on a daily basis.

It is amazing the things we can learn, if we can stop being so skeptical and think outside the box once and awhile.

Thanks Kalei!