No Costume? Got Balloons?

I just had to share these costumes made of balloons. Every year, my sons run around trying to manufacture a costume on Halloween. These balloon costumes take a lot more time, but I think they are great.

This could be a wedding dress if it were toned down a little.  Note the hair accessory.

These two dresses are cute and I love the hats. So creative!

Monster and updated Roaring 20s dress. I love it! Note the shoes and headpiece on the monster.

My favorite is the alien on the left.

Have a wonderful Halloween and if someone needs a costume, hand them a bag of balloons and tell them to get busy!  LOL

Eyeglasses as a Fashion Accessory?

My husband and I are really trying to economize. Two adult children have moved back in with us, we are finding it difficult to budget on a monthly basis. I find myself doing without to cover monthly expenditures.

However, I was trying to read the customer service phone number off the back of a credit card and could not do it—with or without my glasses. My eyeglasses are scratched, the finish is tarnished and the prescription does not correct my vision.

It is time to make an appointment to have my eyes examined and send the new prescription in the mail to zennioptical.com. This way, I can receive new glasses and keep within my budget. The glasses, even for my old eyes, are relatively inexpensive. To sweeten the deal, zennioptical offers flat rate shipping and a 50 percent refund/30 day policy if you are unhappy with your new glasses.

While reading their blog, I was amazed that some people purchase eyeglasses to match their clothing or mood. One woman has 20 pairs of eyeglasses and more coming in the mail. Another woman and her daughter each have 10-12 pairs of eyeglasses. I have never thought of eyeglasses as a fashion accessory, but I am going to start. I have been wearing eyeglasses for over 50 years, so I think I should start to enjoy them. What do you think?


Tags: zennioptical, prescription eyeglasses, online optical store

Happy Halloween

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

~Scottish Saying~

Untitled Jersey City Project

This post brought to you by Untitled Jersey City Project. All opinions are 100% mine.

The Untitled Jersey City Project is an ongoing experiential television drama. You may view eight short episodes on YouTube. I viewed episode one and it was action-packed.

The first scenes of the first episode show New York City and New Jersey waterfronts as you will never see them: quiet, deserted and peaceful.  It reminded me of a post-apocolypse city.

Cut to a deserted building site, complete with barbed wire protection, As your perspective changes to a high floor in this building, your attention is riveted by two gunshots.

Moving perspective again, you are standing on the sidewalk with a body falling toward you from the top of the building. You do not see the body hit, thank goodness.

Seque to Frank, a young architect, who does not answer his cell phone because his libido gets in the way.  When he finally does answer the phone, he is told by Ray, that his associate is lying in a pool of blood in front of the project.

As if to make up for his dilly-dallying earlier, Frank breaks all records getting to the murder site. In fact, when he pulls up to the building he has a police escort!

I think this Jersey City Project may be a good series if it makes it off YouTube. If you watch one of the  videos, stop back by and let me know your thoughts on the video you watched in the comments.

Car Jackings are UP--Pass It On

Something Evil This Way Comes


Last Friday night we parked in a public parking area in Galveston. As we drove away I noticed something sticking to the rear window of the car. Luckily, my husband told me not to stop. He warned that someone could be waiting for us to get out of the car. When I took the tag off after I got home, I realized it was a cash receipt for gas. Puzzling, but nothing frightening! Then we received this email yesterday:

Warning

WARNING FROM POLICE  * APPLIES TO WOMEN AND MEN *  BEWARE OF PAPER LEFT ON BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE * NEW WAY TO  CARJACK  

New Form of Car Jacking


Here is what can happen to you. You walk across the parking lot, unlock your car and slide inside and lock your doors. You start the engine and check your mirrors. When you look into the rear view mirror, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window. So, you shift into Park, unlock your doors, and jump out of your car to remove that paper.

Stay in Your Car


When you reach the back of your car, that is when the carjackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and drive off with your purse, your keys, your driver's license, checkbook, credit cards, insurance documents and any other personal items you may have had in the car. Your home and identity are now compromised! So, if you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just leave it.

Other Forms of Carjacking

You do not have to be in a parking lot to be carjacked. Below is a graphic detailing many other ways you may lose your car. Someone can run into your car at a red light or stop sign to get you to exit the vehicle. Do not exit.

Call the police and ask them what you should do. Insist that they come to the scene of the accident or tell them you are driving your car the police station. If something is hinky, get out of there. You can go to the police department within 24 hours to report the accident with penalty.

Stay in Your Car


Men are not immune to carjacking.  Women carjackers may appear beside their apparently disabled car dressed in sexy attire or these women can walk up to the car like they need help. Open that door and you will have a gang driving off your car within less than five minutes. Some carjackers have even staged dead or stuffed animals in the roadway, complete with crying children, so that people stop, thinking they ran over the family animal.


Your Belongings or Your Life


Give up your car, your keys, your purse, your jewelry or anything they want. AVOID getting in the car with the carjackers. If you do, there is a good chance you will be killed. Stay aware for opportunities to bail out of the car and run for your life. 

Children in the Car


One aspect I did not cover is what to do if you have a child or children with you.  It is best to think how you would best handle this type of situation: drive away, call the police or On Star and like services, use teargas, gun, stun gun . . . Think it through BEFORE it happens. Nothing will make a parent crazier than a child in danger,  Have your plan mapped out before it happens.

Be Aware of Your Surroundings | Do Not Enter Space that Feels Wrong | Call Security Guard to Escort You | Do Not Shop at Night | Park Close to Building | Shop in Groups | Leave the Kids with Babysitter | Bring the Dog with You

RIP Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Founder of Apple Computers 

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Give Peace a Chance : BlogBlast for Peace 2011

One easy way to put peace out there in the world

November 4, 2011


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Join us this year. It is fun and pulls a bit of creativity through your neural pathways.  We will be sending a huge blast of peace out into the ether.  Cannot hurt and it may help!  Join us.

Please visit with peacebloggers on FaceBook, Twitter, Mimi Writes and many of sites around the world. By 11/4, I will have a different peace globe on each of my blogs.

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Magic Brownies?

Cheech and Chong are always funny, so General Mills could not miss using them for the ad campaign for Fiber One 90-calories. The "Magic Brownie Adventure," is about Cheech and Chong taking a van load of magic brownies to a festival on the West Coast. There are several episodes of the adventure posted on YouTube.

Of course, the magic brownies are filled with fiber and not marijuana. Worse, when they finally arrive at the festival, the announcer bursts their bubble: "because now that you are getting older, you need a new kind of magic from your brownie."

Good concept, I guess, but from the comments, it is evident that people expected another Cheech and Chong movie and not a fiber commercial. This attempt to draw in the Boomers with icons from the past is transparent and contrived.

Most Boomers I know are concerned with health, but these "magic brownies" are 90 calories of sugar, palm oil, chocolate flavored chips and fructose, to name the worst ingredients. Unfortunately, not only does palm oil promote heart disease, but the vast plantations that grow oil palm trees have contributed to the destruction of the rain forest and wildlife of Southeast Asia.

 

Perhaps General Mills could draw in environmentally conscious boomers by making healthy brownies.  Now, that is a concept!