When I was a little girl, I loved getting mail. It happened so rarely unless it was my birthday. When an envelope came addressed to me, I would get absolutely giddy! Things have changed considerably since then. I HATE mail. I let it pile until it’s such a huge mountain that I have no choice but to go through it. Most of it is credit card offers and mortgage refinancing offers. This afternoon I decided to go through the pile and as I ripped open each envelope, shredding the contents, my shredder broke. MY SHREDDER BROKE! There was still a pile of mail left and I ended up just ripping everything into tiny little pieces. I now have tons of little paper cuts all over my right index finger. I wonder if I use the shredder too liberally? Is it really important to shred Christmas Card envelopes? Perhaps it is enough to just rip out my address and rip that to pieces keeping everything else intact. I don’t know.

Do you shred every single piece of mail, envelope included? How do you deal with your mail?

What do you guys think about extended warranties? The dealership is telling me I should purchase an extended warranty above the 36 month one that comes with the car. The salesman says that if I plan on keeping the Monte Carlo for anywhere near the time I kept the Caprice, I should definitely do the extended warranty. He said, if at month 37, the air conditioning goes, the extended warranty would cover it and that type of repair usually costs a lot of money and I wouldn’t have to pay anything at that time. My dad said I shouldn’t do the extended warranty but I kinda think that it makes sense but then again I am used to the Caprice breaking down every three months. I have a feeling new cars don’t break down that often. Any advice you guys have would be much appreciated. THANKS!

(One of the things that is making me wonder is that the guy who had me sign all the paperwork said that if I come back on Tuesday, he would give me a 150.00 discount on the extended warranty… that seems a little flim-flammy to me)

Today is Martin Luther King Day and in celebration I decided to set myself free from all the excessive emails I get and unsubscribe to all the stupid mailing lists I am on. I have spent the last half hour going through my email and clicking unsubscribe to all the emails I receive and never read. These are the emails that clog my inbox and make it practically impossible for me to see the good emails. I can’t tell you how many times I have wanted to reply to someone but I don’t have the time and I think to myself, I’ll do it later. The thing is, so many emails are coming at me that the email I wanted to respond to is suddenly buried and now it’s out of sight and out of mind. (I know, excuses are like butts, everyone has one and they all stink)

You would be surprised at the different unsubscribe methods there are. Some are super easy. Click the unsubscribe link and a window pops up saying, “You are Unsubscribed.” That is my favorite. Then there are the ones that you have to input your email. This isn’t that easy if you have a bunch of emails. This means I have to go back to the original email and try to find which email addy I used to subscribe, copy it, go back to the unsubscribe page, paste it in and click submit. There are some that ask you to send a blank email to a certain email address that will then remove you from the list but that doesn’t always work if you used an email address that is just a forwarding address so the email addy you would be sending is different from the email they have on file. The most painful removal method, in my opinion, is the one where you click on the unsubscribe link and you are taken to a page where you have to enter either some customer number or username. Of course, I don’t know the number or the username and then I have to request them to send it to me and somehow they don’t have my email address in that system so I have to write to their customer service department asking them to remove me. UGh! Regardless, I have removed myself from at least 20 different mailing lists and I am already feeling free… SPAM FREE! 🙂

I don’t know if it was a Philly-thing but I spent a good part of my formative years watching G.L.O.W. That’s Gorgeous Ladies of Wresting for those not in the know. I found a great clip on Youtube and I really think that this very well might explain a few things about my personality….

Found two more great Suzi Quatro videos! Check ’em out!

I am the proud owner of a 2006 Monte Carlo!

This morning, I gave Kevin the keys to the old Chevy Caprice and in exchange (along with tons of money) he gave me the keys to a beautiful Chevrolet Monte Carlo! I feel so good! I am happy with the decision (especially since the Caprice stalled twice on the way to the dealership).

Here’s some of the cool options:

• MP3 player integration
• Power tilt and slide glass sunroof
• 6 disc CD Player
• Remote ignition
• OnStar (for 1 year)
• XM radio (for 3 months)

The old trusty ’94 Chevy Caprice Classic is no longer trusty. The darn thing has stalled on me numerous times and the thought of taking her to my mechanic, Howard, sends me into total body shock. I do not want to put any more money into her. The time has come that I need a new car. No more putting this off. Either tomorrow or this weekend I am going to buy a black or silver Monte Carlo.

As Yul Brunner said in his role as Rameses in the epic movie, The Ten Commandments,

So let it be written,
so let it be done.

Command them to kneel before Pharaoh!

Yvonne De Carlo, the 1950s screen beauty who became a household name in the ’60s as Lily Munster on the CBS sitcom The Munsters, died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in Woodland Hills, Calif., the Associated Press reports. She was 84.

What kind of pop culture junkie am I? I thought she was long dead!

Maybe I had her mixed up with Carolyn Jones?

Looking at the new Donnaville logo, which I quite like, it hit me that some people might think that the girl on the logo is supposed to be me! I don’t mind that comparison one bit but truth be told, there isn’t much resemblance. Suddenly I was wondering what it would take to make the girl on the logo look like me. With that thought motivating me, I opened up my pirated version of Photoshop and got to work.

Here she is:

• I removed the bangs and gave her brown hair
• I gave her some nicely arched eyebrows
• I completely reduced her boob size
• I enlarged her feet
• (I also removed the tv set since I rarely watch it)

THAT’S ME!

Worry not, the logo stays in its original form.

My plan was to rise at 5:30 and be out of the house by 6:30. At 5:15, I awoke but rather than just get up and start things, I decided to lean back and sleep until my alarm would go off. It never went off. At 7:00 I peered out from under the covers to check the time. I couldn’t believe it! Faster than a speeding bullet, I got myself ready. I was in the car, heading to the train station at 7:05.

This morning, on the train, I called my dad and he told me he likes the new design. SUCCESS! I think we have found a keeper!