I was awarded the BzzCampaign for the Schick Hyrdo Silk razor...And I have to say this is one product I will continue to use!
When looking at the product through the packaging, the Schck Hydro Silk razor looked like any other femaile razor. I opened the package and was surprised at light weight the razor is and the design felt comfortable while in your hand. After using the Schick Hydro Silk razor on my legs I was happy to be left with silky, smooth skin. The moisture bar does a great job lubricating while shaving and providing moisture that keep your legs from feeling dry after your shave. My smooth legs lasted a couple days, and even when I did start to get stubble it took longer than my previous razor. Overall, I have, and will continue, to recommend the Schick Hydro Silk razor to my friends.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
I was awarded the BzzCampaign for the Schick Hyrdo Silk razor...And I have to say this is one product I will continue to use!
When looking at the product through the packaging, the Schck Hydro Silk razor looked like any other femaile razor. I opened the package and was surprised at light weight the razor is and the design felt comfortable while in your hand. After using the Schick Hydro Silk razor on my legs I was happy to be left with silky, smooth skin. The moisture bar does a great job lubricating while shaving and providing moisture that keep your legs from feeling dry after your shave. My smooth legs lasted a couple days, and even when I did start to get stubble it took longer than my previous razor. Overall, I have, and will continue, to recommend the Schick Hydro Silk razor to my friends.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
A Girl's Guide to Life by Katie Meier
I received a copy of A Girl's Guide to Life by Katie Meier from Thomas Nelson Publishers and I found it to be wonderful for young women and great reminders for adults too. I love the fact that it is split into three parts: Mind, Body and Soul.
It jumps right to self esteem (something that young women struggle with daily) then touches on other subjects like peer pressure and sex. To hit the current generation it even addresses the heart of every teen: text messaging and the internet and how to use caution when it comes to technology. What kept catching my eye was the biblical references and placing them in today’s context for young women. It’s a nice reminder of how to live a godly life while dealing with finding yourself as a woman in this world.
I have passed on this book to the youth director of my church. I believe the messages in this guide will remind young women of what is important. I believe this would also be a great guide for mothers of teenage daughters. Great for those “talks”. The message is a powerful one and can help young women make the right decisions. It would have been a wonderful book to read during my adolescent years!
It jumps right to self esteem (something that young women struggle with daily) then touches on other subjects like peer pressure and sex. To hit the current generation it even addresses the heart of every teen: text messaging and the internet and how to use caution when it comes to technology. What kept catching my eye was the biblical references and placing them in today’s context for young women. It’s a nice reminder of how to live a godly life while dealing with finding yourself as a woman in this world.
I have passed on this book to the youth director of my church. I believe the messages in this guide will remind young women of what is important. I believe this would also be a great guide for mothers of teenage daughters. Great for those “talks”. The message is a powerful one and can help young women make the right decisions. It would have been a wonderful book to read during my adolescent years!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Make it count, Friends!"
Geoffry Abert
The most important thing about goals is having one.
In my last post, I made mention that I have a knack for starting things and not finishing them. Well…thanks to my lovely friend Jess (Musings of a Home Schooling Mom)…Back in January, I started the Bible in 90 Days program. Ok yeah…I was supposed to finish on April 6th…and it’s now April 27th. But I am in the book of Revelations now, and WILL be done by April 30th! Task of reading the Bible will be complete. It has been a fulfilling experience, and I am really glad I did it!
Jim Rohn
Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
New goal at hand? Insanity! A.k.a I’m a glutton for punishment! It is a 63 day program of purely insane workouts. I am currently on Day 14 (Rest Day), and as brutal as each workout is…I’m really enjoying it! My ultimate goal is to lose 20 lbs. I’m still waiting for my body to start losing those unwanted pounds because surely I’m sweating enough! It’s that darn diet that I cannot get my head around. That little voice in my head still throws a temper tantrum and wins whenever chocolate or french-fries are present. Sigh………………. So if you have any extra motivational speeches on hand…I can really use them over the next 49 days!
Harvey Mackay
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Another goal? Yep! I am making a tote bag to take to the Farmer’s Market. I have until May 8th to get it done…though my goal is Saturday night. These bags are adorable…I would love to make our mom’s each one for Mother’s Day…but I fear that is stretching my abilities to complete these types of tasks timely. But one never knows. A few more rainy Saturdays and it may happen! I fear buying the materials because of the hundreds of dollars of quilting projects sitting unstarted in my sewing room.
Herbert A. Otto
To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
So my theme here? Setting goals for myself. And not just pipedream blanket goals that the majority of us set. Attainable goals. Goals where I realized my capabilities, and perhaps add just a smidgen extra for that superior sense of accomplishment. So for now, as I work on finishing goals, projects, tasks at hand…my sights will be on the small things. Achieving a goal is a confidence booster and I intend to use each one as a stepping stone to the next. A friend of mine always says “Make it count, Friends!” That is what I shall do!
Elbert Hubbard
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
All Fired Up!
Phew! Been a while since I’ve posted anything here. Let’s see here…Life’s been busy, things have changed, wasn’t inspired, nothing to say, don’t want to just complain… Did I cover all the possible excuses?
Since I last posted…I am no longer in public accounting and no longer travelling like a nut…Thank you economy. But it has actually been a good thing. My stress levels are lower and I get to sleep in my own bed at night. I’ve entered the world of contracting. So that has presented me some opportunities that I probably would have never had…like learning anything and everything I would want to know about soybeans! (My current contract is as a Senior Cost Accountant at Syngenta Seeds in Ames.)
What else? Spencer will be testing for his Tiger brown belt this weekend…Ty tried TKD for four months…became a Tiger yellow…but that was the end. He played basketball over the winter and is now “patiently” waiting for t-ball to start. Besides TKD…Spencer has taken on swimming and baseball…and is eager to get out on the golf course this summer and learn to swing a club!
Josh has made it his quest to qualify for the Boston Marathon…so “we” are back in training. Him running…me trying to keep him fed! So throw that intense training in with his high profile gig at Aviva, poker league, golf league starting and our family activities……he’s one busy man. But when he qualifies for Boston…it will all be worth it!
Now…in my “spare” time these last several months, I have taken up spin classes, sort of running again, and Josh and I have started swimming on Sundays. So I’m determined to do the Okoboji Triathlon over my birthday weekend! God help me!!!! But I find I love being active…and I want to be healthy and fit…so this gives me a goal for my working out. I also hope to do Dam 2 Dam in June…but I need to get my feet back on the pavement if that is going to happen.
Anyways…Spinning. LOVE IT! And I have found an instructor that I really enjoy. She kicks my bum each class all while playing great music. One of the songs she plays has come to reside in my brain…and I find myself singing it! So I had to go download it and add it to my workout mix. So I’m making it my lyrics for this post. Oh! What would you know……I had the lyrics wrong the whole time. But that just adds to my thoughts behind it.
All Fired Up by Pat Benatar
Livin' with my eyes closed, goin' day to day
It seems to me that I have lived half my life this way…”goin’ day to day.” And just like my blog…before you know it almost 9 months have passed…and you’re left wondering where it all went. Periodically, I would get these bouts of inspiration that will charge me up for about a week…then any ambition I had fizzles. A new distraction always comes along. I mean…look at my sewing room and all the unfinished quilting projects down there. That’s just a starting place of the many things I’ve started and never finished. So I’m left with the millions of other peole searching for that one thing that will kick me in gear and keep me forever charged!
Ain't nobody livin', in a perfect world
Oh…isn’t that first line the truth? And boy, haven’t some of use gotten really good in our years at faking it in front of others that our lives are perfect? I wonder how much energy I have spent over the past years faking it………………Anyways, a new fire. Maybe it’s the fact that the weather is warming up and the snow is finally gone. Maybe is this new contract I started a month ago. Maybe it’s these fitness goals I have set on myself. Maybe it’s making new friends and reconnecting with some old ones. Maybe it is the flowing love and energy in my little family. I dunno…but I currently have a fire to do “something”. Now to figure out what that something is. That is the real task! But for the first time in many springs…my heart has the energy to move like that meteorite! Even if I’m moving in a whirlwind of chaos…by gosh I’m going to be moving in my life. Finishing tasks, doing something new, relishing in what I have……really just living my life in confidence!
Now I believe there comes a time
This is the part of the song that I had the lyrics all wrong in. I thought the last line said “The deepest cuts are HUMAN MADE”. And each time I heard it…I thought about how true that is. Yes, we all get physical wounds that take a long time to heal and often times leave scars, reminding us of how it happened. But the cuts that take the longest to heal are the ones that are cut so deep it hits your soul…and more times than not, made by another human. I don’t know of a single person who has not been hurt like this. Now how much of the cut is seen by others varies…as well as how each of us deals with these wounds.
Which leads to what the song really says… “The deepest cuts are healed by faith.” But once again…how true that statement is! I take it as a religious context…because my faith is in God and that he would never let anything happen to me that I wasn’t strong enough to get through. But faith could be something as simple as the hope for things to be better. For where there is hope…there is mercy…and when we find mercy…we can begin to heal those deep wounds.
And it’s the charge from these healing wounds…having the puzzle pieces of our lives fall in to place…the weights being lifted from our shoulders…the inspiration we find from the little and big things in our lives that will keep us from getting back in to a life where we are just living day to day.
All Fired Up!!!
Since I last posted…I am no longer in public accounting and no longer travelling like a nut…Thank you economy. But it has actually been a good thing. My stress levels are lower and I get to sleep in my own bed at night. I’ve entered the world of contracting. So that has presented me some opportunities that I probably would have never had…like learning anything and everything I would want to know about soybeans! (My current contract is as a Senior Cost Accountant at Syngenta Seeds in Ames.)
What else? Spencer will be testing for his Tiger brown belt this weekend…Ty tried TKD for four months…became a Tiger yellow…but that was the end. He played basketball over the winter and is now “patiently” waiting for t-ball to start. Besides TKD…Spencer has taken on swimming and baseball…and is eager to get out on the golf course this summer and learn to swing a club!
Josh has made it his quest to qualify for the Boston Marathon…so “we” are back in training. Him running…me trying to keep him fed! So throw that intense training in with his high profile gig at Aviva, poker league, golf league starting and our family activities……he’s one busy man. But when he qualifies for Boston…it will all be worth it!
Now…in my “spare” time these last several months, I have taken up spin classes, sort of running again, and Josh and I have started swimming on Sundays. So I’m determined to do the Okoboji Triathlon over my birthday weekend! God help me!!!! But I find I love being active…and I want to be healthy and fit…so this gives me a goal for my working out. I also hope to do Dam 2 Dam in June…but I need to get my feet back on the pavement if that is going to happen.
Anyways…Spinning. LOVE IT! And I have found an instructor that I really enjoy. She kicks my bum each class all while playing great music. One of the songs she plays has come to reside in my brain…and I find myself singing it! So I had to go download it and add it to my workout mix. So I’m making it my lyrics for this post. Oh! What would you know……I had the lyrics wrong the whole time. But that just adds to my thoughts behind it.
All Fired Up by Pat Benatar
Livin' with my eyes closed, goin' day to day
I never knew the difference, I never cared either way
Lookin' for a reason, searchin' for a sign
Reachin' out with both hands, I gotta feel the kick inside
It seems to me that I have lived half my life this way…”goin’ day to day.” And just like my blog…before you know it almost 9 months have passed…and you’re left wondering where it all went. Periodically, I would get these bouts of inspiration that will charge me up for about a week…then any ambition I had fizzles. A new distraction always comes along. I mean…look at my sewing room and all the unfinished quilting projects down there. That’s just a starting place of the many things I’ve started and never finished. So I’m left with the millions of other peole searching for that one thing that will kick me in gear and keep me forever charged!
Ain't nobody livin', in a perfect world
Everybody's out there, cryin' to be heard
Now I got a new fire, burnin' in my eyes
Lightin' up the darkness, movin' like a meteorite
Oh…isn’t that first line the truth? And boy, haven’t some of use gotten really good in our years at faking it in front of others that our lives are perfect? I wonder how much energy I have spent over the past years faking it………………Anyways, a new fire. Maybe it’s the fact that the weather is warming up and the snow is finally gone. Maybe is this new contract I started a month ago. Maybe it’s these fitness goals I have set on myself. Maybe it’s making new friends and reconnecting with some old ones. Maybe it is the flowing love and energy in my little family. I dunno…but I currently have a fire to do “something”. Now to figure out what that something is. That is the real task! But for the first time in many springs…my heart has the energy to move like that meteorite! Even if I’m moving in a whirlwind of chaos…by gosh I’m going to be moving in my life. Finishing tasks, doing something new, relishing in what I have……really just living my life in confidence!
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
This is the part of the song that I had the lyrics all wrong in. I thought the last line said “The deepest cuts are HUMAN MADE”. And each time I heard it…I thought about how true that is. Yes, we all get physical wounds that take a long time to heal and often times leave scars, reminding us of how it happened. But the cuts that take the longest to heal are the ones that are cut so deep it hits your soul…and more times than not, made by another human. I don’t know of a single person who has not been hurt like this. Now how much of the cut is seen by others varies…as well as how each of us deals with these wounds.
Which leads to what the song really says… “The deepest cuts are healed by faith.” But once again…how true that statement is! I take it as a religious context…because my faith is in God and that he would never let anything happen to me that I wasn’t strong enough to get through. But faith could be something as simple as the hope for things to be better. For where there is hope…there is mercy…and when we find mercy…we can begin to heal those deep wounds.
And it’s the charge from these healing wounds…having the puzzle pieces of our lives fall in to place…the weights being lifted from our shoulders…the inspiration we find from the little and big things in our lives that will keep us from getting back in to a life where we are just living day to day.
All Fired Up!!!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Falling in love...
Trying to gain more prospective...better myself...do what it takes to strengthen my marriage...I have listened to many of my friends and got a copy of "The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman off of Amazon. So far I'm at least intrigued.
The premise of the book is that there are five languages of that we speak. And one of the five is the language we need to hear in order for our "Love Tank" to be full. Those languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch. The end of the book there is an assessment to help you determine what your love language is...and there is one for your spouse to complete. The author states that in order to full our spouses love tank to give them fulfillment in love is to learn to speak their language...and vice versa.
The book goes through what each of these languages mean and what you can do to learn to speak a specific language. It also helps you gain a better understanding of the language you need to hear. But before the author goes in to these languages, he discusses love and what it is...and what it takes to keep a love tank full...and he has a chapter dedicated to falling in love. This is the chapter that I read last night.
The author refers to some research that states that falling in love is not really love...it's more a state of a euphoria. This immediately made me say "Huh? How is falling in love not real love? Isn't love just that? Love?" He goes further to say that once a couple gets past the falling in love stage (said to last about two years) that is when the work for that real love starts...this is also when people don't realize that you have to work for love and they give up. He gave three reasons why it is said that falling in love isn't really love.
The premise of the book is that there are five languages of that we speak. And one of the five is the language we need to hear in order for our "Love Tank" to be full. Those languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch. The end of the book there is an assessment to help you determine what your love language is...and there is one for your spouse to complete. The author states that in order to full our spouses love tank to give them fulfillment in love is to learn to speak their language...and vice versa.
The book goes through what each of these languages mean and what you can do to learn to speak a specific language. It also helps you gain a better understanding of the language you need to hear. But before the author goes in to these languages, he discusses love and what it is...and what it takes to keep a love tank full...and he has a chapter dedicated to falling in love. This is the chapter that I read last night.
The author refers to some research that states that falling in love is not really love...it's more a state of a euphoria. This immediately made me say "Huh? How is falling in love not real love? Isn't love just that? Love?" He goes further to say that once a couple gets past the falling in love stage (said to last about two years) that is when the work for that real love starts...this is also when people don't realize that you have to work for love and they give up. He gave three reasons why it is said that falling in love isn't really love.
- Falling in love is not an act of will or a conscious choice.
- Falling in love is not real love because it is effortless.
- One who is "in love" in not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person.
This got me to thinking. I met my husband back in high school, though we dated off and on for two years before we became a permanent item, I remember being in that state of falling in love. I don't really recall making the transition from falling in love to loving him, but I can recall times in the past 16 years that both of us have stopped working on loving the other person. We are in one of those spots now.
It's not that we don't love each other because we do...but that love that is needed to endure anything is what we are learning to do again. It's not easy to be here but we are both working on it. "Nothing will work unless you do" ~ Maya Angelou is the quote that I came across many months ago and I have made that my status message on GoogleTalk. It is my constant reminder to keep my end of the bargin to be a better wife and to work on that third point, to make sure that I am doing my part to help my husband be a better husband.
We are working on that "real love" that Mr. Chapman spends the rest of his book talking about. I'm hoping that once I'm done that I can talk my husband in to reading this book as well, but for now...I'm just waiting for him to ask me what I'm reading.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days...
Sometimes I'm mesmerized at how my parents and grandparents made growing up and older appear so seamless and easy...as a child, I don't ever remember seeing my parents hit any major bumps. I know as children we were protected from seeing problems, but by time I was old enough to notice...things seem to be ironed out. So why is it that these days...seamless and easy...aren't even part of my everyday vocabulary?
During both eulogies for my grandparents the pastor dedicated a large portion of his talk about how my grandparents were true partners. They were each other's greatest compliments. They challenged each other from completing the daily crossword puzzle first to last minute entertaining of many dinner guests. My grandfather was a lawyer, law professor and dean...but I'm told that he always said his biggest challenge would be if her were to meet up with my Grandmother in a court room. The stories I'm told are of a perfect love affair that lasted beyond the 60 years they were married.
I'm sitting at home tonight...Josh is gone on a trip with his brother and both boys are asleep...and I'm listening to music feeling reflective. Thinking about the things going on in my life...taking and assessment that I am truly doing everything I can to make each day better that the one before. The song Grandpa begins to play...and I think about how I would love to sit down with my grandpa and say:
I would then ask:
During both eulogies for my grandparents the pastor dedicated a large portion of his talk about how my grandparents were true partners. They were each other's greatest compliments. They challenged each other from completing the daily crossword puzzle first to last minute entertaining of many dinner guests. My grandfather was a lawyer, law professor and dean...but I'm told that he always said his biggest challenge would be if her were to meet up with my Grandmother in a court room. The stories I'm told are of a perfect love affair that lasted beyond the 60 years they were married.
I'm sitting at home tonight...Josh is gone on a trip with his brother and both boys are asleep...and I'm listening to music feeling reflective. Thinking about the things going on in my life...taking and assessment that I am truly doing everything I can to make each day better that the one before. The song Grandpa begins to play...and I think about how I would love to sit down with my grandpa and say:
Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Sometimes it feels like, this worlds gone crazy.
Grandpa, take me back to yesterday
When the line between right and wrong
Didn't seem so hazy.
Grandpa, everything is changing fast
We call it progress, but I just don't know
And Grandpa, let's wonder back into the past
Paint me a picture of long ago.
I would then ask:
Did lovers really fall in love to stay?
And stand beside each other come what may?
Was a promise really something people kept?
Not just something they would say and then forget?
Did families really bow their heads to pray?
Did daddies really never go away?
Oh Grandpa...tell me 'bout the good old days......
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
What I Learned This Week
I saw this over on Jess's page...and figured it's been a while since I've done this.
I've learned that "sometimes...there's those times...it's gotta be you."
I've learned that when I feel like I'm at the end of my rope...I can alway find more patience stored away to hang on just a little longer.
I've learned that butterflies will always be butterflies.
I've learned once again that I have really awesome friends!
I've learned that laughter truly is a great medicine.
I've learned that smacking someone in the ass with a volleyball generates great laughter!
I've learned that no matter how closely I watch her in the yard...Cede will always come up with a frog to eat.
I've learned that the sun is another good medicine.
I've learned that no matter what...the things that calm you...will forever calm you.
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