1. If you are in a hotel room and have put lotion on your hands and can’t unscrew the screw top on your mini-bottle of merlot/cab blend travel wine (travel wine being the only acceptable reason for wine with a screw top), don’t despair. A mini-pad works like a charm. Pull off the adhesive backing and wrap it around the top portion of the screw top. (Don’t wrap it too far down or you’ll just have a bottle of wine decked out in a mini-pad.) Voila. Pour and enjoy. Not particularly elegant, but very effective. 
2. On a warm day when you’ve worked up a sweat doing yard work, a Girl Scout thin mint along with an ice cold beer is wonderful. And if your husband says you’re embarrassing him guzzling a beer from the bottle in the front yard of your suburban neighborhood, pleasantly invite him to join you in a little spring yard clean-up.
Okay, so maybe I exaggerated a little and these aren’t necessarily secrets to a full and happy life, but they sure do feel good for about fifteen minutes.
LOL, Jen. Sounds like excellent advice to me. Though it has taken effort, I have dutifully ignored the Girl Scout cookie stands around here. :rolleyes:
Comment by Rhonda — March 13, 2006 @ 9:32 am
It’s my husband. Some crafty little girl scouts had positioned themselves in front of the Blockbuster. The girl scouts, however, were not hawking the beer. :hehe:
Comment by Jen — March 13, 2006 @ 11:03 am
good advice alright
Comment by KIM H — March 13, 2006 @ 11:21 am
You and your feminine protection stories! :P I’m betting you’re saving the best one to tell the Girl when it will do the most psychological harm? (Perhaps I’m judging you by my own parenting methods?)
I had no idea those crafty girl scouts were traveling. Here, they’re in front of the WalMart, bearing absolute tons of those coconut cookies no human being can resist! Thin Mints, I can resist. Coconut–whatevers–it’s like they shout at me to buy them! :crazy:
Anna
Comment by Anna — March 13, 2006 @ 7:27 pm
The evil fat-laden coconut chocolet cookies that issue their siren’s call from my freezer? Samoas. :satisfied:
Comment by Jen — March 14, 2006 @ 8:32 am