Summer is here, Skin is out (well I mean IN really)!

Now that we FINALLY have nice weather many of us will be baring more skin and that is HOT and SEXY. Remember it is all about LOOKS BETTER NAKED. Here are some great tips to keep you skin looking great for the summer but really all the time, all year around.

This is deep folk…but like anything for our body’s health and wellness comes from with in ourselves. Be sure that you have some good way to deal with life stress. Stress reflects on the skin causing aging to quicken. We cannot avoid stress so learn to deal and coop with it in a healthy way. Getting enough sleep and rest is also important for the whole body and well being of our souls. Be sure that you are getting enough or take step to help you relax so you can.

That is the end of the deep stuff, but still with in the body. Drink plenty of cool clean fresh water everyday all day long; it is great for the entire body! Keeping hydrated helps keep body temperature regulated in the warmer weather, helps the body run more smooth and efficient and keep the skin looking clean and clear. Eating good nutrition food is a must all around and will reflect in your skin. Yes, that mean smoking is BAD for you thus bad for your skin.

For the outside of the body, deep the skin well moisturized. Here is a little recipe for a great body moisturizer: mix in an old lotion bottle or a spray bottle about 1/4 (or a little less) of baby oil, 1/4 of Aloe gel and 1/2 of what ever lotion you like. Shake it well to emulsify. It is a little runnier then your normal lotion so it is easy to put on larger body part. Great for the skin and gives a lovely healthy glow.

Last but not least to keep your skin looking young and health for life use a sunblock. The sun causes damage to skin thus accelerated aging and in worst case cause skin cancer. An SPF of 30 or greater is what is usually recommended by dermatologist. Reapplied if you are out door all day or sweating it off with vigorous activity or in water. You can put it on after your grease up with lotion or find a moisturizer you like that has it build in. KEY: remember to wait 20 – 30 min after you put your SPF on before you head outside. Give it a chance to soak in so it will work.

Look great for the summer and continue using these tips all year round and have great skin from the inside and outside of the body will be yours for the rest of your LOOKS BETTER NAKED life.

Finally a Computer or was I better without??

Trying to get into the new job has been a challenge to say the least. After only two week of work I finally got a proper work station with my own computer, sign on, passwords, and e mail address. Again only 2 week of working but the organization has know that I have been coming for 3 weeks and has known about having this position for over 5 weeks. It was still a surprise that I was coming.

What I was doing is every morning come and ask someone to log me onto their computer. Not everyone was in the office at the same time so this worked. I would only last a couple of hours on one computer before the owner of the work station came in and I would have to do it again. Some days I used 5 different computers. I would think that constantly asking the General Manager, "Oh would you mind logging me on. Sorry to interrupt this very important meeting...AGAIN but I still do not have a log on," would help hurry things up a bit. Not the case.

A lovely lady in the office was going for a well deserved vacation so I got to use her work space. Still did not have a log in so every time I left the computer I logged off. Then had to interpret someone to get logged on again. That sure escalated the need for me to have a log in. So after two week FINAL a log in and a computer with e mail.

First day on the new computer and all the computer has done all morning is load update after update after update. Every 15 minutes it has to shut down and restart to install the update and then download the next one. Getting a lot done but also just as many interruptions because the IT person did not set that up. Strange thought that would be done and I would be just ready to start working away. NOPE!

One of the update somehow change everything to French (Canadian of course). No a huge deal as I can read enough French to change everything back. I did not notice this until I was typing an e mail and did a spell check before sending. I am already dyslexic so if a word looks like it is spelt right I'm good. Often do no discriminate between weather it is French of English spellings. Never occurred to me until accent marks started popping up, then I knew something was not right.

Oh excuse me a second another SHUT DOWN, update restart!
Meanwhile ALL DAY another lady in the office is walking up and down the hallway dragging her feet. I'm thinking she may need a new hip and cannot pick up her feet but please...

After this shut down I change the language preferences back to English (Canadian of course). Meanwhile yet another update has started downloading.

Now that I can do some e mail and continue working on my other stuff I logged onto the public drive where i was saving my stuff. Oh another problem...Every computer has a different Office and Widows editions. Most are 2003, One has 2007, and mine yup 2000. So when I went to open some of my files. Yep you guest it some of my files will not open of this computer. I tried changing them to a compatible versus and poof they are all gone. One would think that every computer in the organization would all have the same version of the same programs so that things like this do not happen... One would think anyway. So starting from scratch on many of them. I was able to salvage some of them so not a complete and total loose.

Ohh I guess I'm done now. Another SHUT DOWN, update, restart

Crimes Against……. on 17th Ave!

A good friend and I decided to go out for a lovely meal together. It had been sometime since we last chatted and needed to catch up. It was a great chat and wonderful catch up session (as always). We are also among the most observant people I know. A favourite hobby of hers as well as mine is people watching. As many Calgarian know 17th Ave brings out the best people and on Monday night many of the worst. There were many crimes committed by the common people.

Crime #1 The Chatter Box – Right beside us, just after we sat down, arrived a young (new) couple and his father. It was the first time the dad was meeting the new girl friend. She was a skinny pretty little thing and well attired for a first meeting. If it was my son’s girlfriend I would have had a good first impression. Then she opened her mouth, and I swear to the Lord was not shut the whole time. Talk, talk, talk talk talk talk! I wanted to remind her to breathe. She was talking so much and not paying attention to her cutting of her food that a peice flew onto my lap. She did not miss a word. She talked so much that her boyfriend and his father finished their food before she even picked up her fork. The boyfriend helped by switching plates with her so that it look like she had eaten something anyway.

Crime #2 Crimes against Hair – There were many people that were guilty of this crime. There was a much over processed platinum blonde. It makes it wrong to say platinum because platinum assumes something precious or expensive. This hair looked like she dyed it herself from a box and then left it on for 24 hours instead of doing it twice for 4 hours. A small tree branch got caught in her hair and her hair broke off. Yes her hair broke like a dry tree branch. There was some girls with unconventionally colour hair. Now blues and pinks and oranges can be pulled off if the style of the person fits and it is executed correctly, really all about the execution. One girl looked like a Condor bird shat blue on her head and she did not wash it off or combed her rat’s nest for the last month or more.

Crime #3 Crimes against Fashion – These happen all the time everywhere I look. Constant bombardment of fashion crimes. Two outfits that convinced me the capital punishment show be brought back. A not tall girl was wearing a short coat that looked like several Muppets died to make it, it needed to be groomed. She was wearing very tight blue leggings and a tight SHORT mini skirt that was purple with some patterns and characters on it. The skirt was very faded, not sure if it was because it was stretched so much so tight or if it was an “achieved” piece of clothing. She was blocking herself up so badly with her colour choices it made her look shorter and squatter then she really was. Another girls was in all black however ever piece was old and you can tell. When your clothing is really showing age it is time to get ride of it. It was badly faded and very pillie from being washed. The blacks did not match anymore.

Crimes #4 Crimes against my taste buds – When this friend of mine and I eat together we ALWAYS have dessert. We LOVE chocolate. We did the order two and share thing. A classic Crème Brulie and a Chocolate layer cake. The Chocolate layer cake promised to be moist and delicious (like a McCain’s deep dish thing). Well it was not far form it. The cake was dry and boring to say the least.

Crime #5 Crimes against SOMETHING I AM SURE – later that night and not on 17th Ave I was at my local Shoppers getting some supplies: dental floss. lotion, and face soap. In walked a old cougar trying too hard and face still paralyzed from her Botox treatment, behind her a younger not yet Botoxed mini version daughter. Both were wearing black half Ugg boots (yes only the half ones) and they sported the two biggest noses I have every seen in my life. I ducked when they looked at me in fear that they would poke my eyes out. Botox was such a waste of money, mom is not going to look any better with a tight face and that massive thing. It was like an army Tank. She should save her money instead of the Botox. Then give the surgery to her daughter for the 18th Birthday.