Yo yo yo… don’t you miss the days when you had thick, luxurious yout hair?
Now you can have it again, with Yout Hair!
Or maybe that’s Youth Air.. which is even worse.

I hope that you all have a wonderful, warm and (ful)filling Thanksgiving!
This year our family went away for the holiday, and this is where we are staying:

But we do wish that they wouldn’t skimp so on the pillows.

Some of you may remember that last summer I posted this post to this site with the title “So Cute I Could Puke“. It dealt with this picture, of this baby bird, and how it was so darned cute that it lead me to register a website, SoCuteICouldPuke.com.

Well, I’m happy to say that the site is now live. Here it is: SoCuteICouldPuke.com.

Please fill it up (with pictures of cute thing, not puke!)

There is something wrong about “light whipped cream”. But there is something *really* wrong about *peppermint* light whipped cream!

Hard to believe though it may be, a pair of shoes really can correct your posture, diminish back and hip pain, and even give your legs and core muscles a workout! And those shoes are the Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) shoes. It all started with my aunt…

As many of you know, in April I suffered a herniated disk in my lower back. This followed my having been diagnosed in March with advanced osteo in my left hip. Whee!

Fast-forward to October, after months of physical therapy and chiropracty. My back still isn’t stable, although it’s definitely better. As I put it when people ask me, “It’s better than it was, but not as good as it was before that.”

Meanwhile my hip continues to deteroriate, although the deterioration is, we hope, being slowed by my PT.

It was in October that we dropped in to visit my uncle and aunt in Carmel. Nearly the first thing out of my aunt’s mouth was “look at my shoes! Have you heard about these? They are the asai Barefoot Technology shoes!”

Uh..excuse me?

I looked at her shoes. They looked like sneakers with thick soles and a cutaway heel. Kind of a cross between Famolares and Earth Shoes, if you remember either of those (and, if you do, you’re dating yourself!)

My aunt then proceeded to rave about how these shoes are this advanced technology that is supposed to mimic walking on sand, and how it causes your body to constantly adjust your posture, keeping you aligned and forcing your core muscles, glutes and leg muscles to fire and correct and work.

Uh huh.

But then came the clincher.

“And since I started wearing them about a month ago my back feels so much better, and my walking feels better, and I’ve lost a whole pant size!”

Ok, that got my attention. Being a woman of a certain age, and so having been socialized in a certain way, the instant appeal was losing a dress size without having to do any extra work. But of course, that wasn’t what my aunt was saying. She knew my back and hip problems, and was suggesting I try these shoes out for that reason, wise woman that she is.

I went home and researched Masai Barefoot Technology shoes (MBTs, are they are affectionately known) on the Internet. And the reviews were very hard to find, and about evenly split. People either loved them, or felt apathetic about them.

Thus I wasn’t sure whether to try them or not, particularly as, hey, these shoes are not cheap (about $250.00 before tax).

So I decided that on Tuesday, when I was going to be seeing a friend who has a medical background, and is also someone who gives careful consideration to things, I would ask her if she had heard of them, and what her opinion was.

On Tuesday, as I walked up to her to ask her whether she had ever heard of MBTs, and what she thought of them, I happened to glance down at her feet, and..yep… she was wearing a pair of MBTs.

That pretty well clinched it, and I bought a pair that weekend.

Now, here is what you all want to know: Yes, they are worth it. They are worth every penny.

I bought the white sport unisex version, and I actually ended up getting a size too large at first, and even with them – you know what? You really do feel as though you are walking on sand. You really do feel yourself working your core, glute and leg muscles.

And after I returned them and got the right size, wow!

Now, a word about sizing. It’s really important to get the right size, just as with any shoe. However, going too large is just as bad MBTs as is going to small. In my case I at first went with a size a bit too large, because that is what I am used to doing, as I’m always in between sizes. That was a poor choice, and when I got the next size down, it turned out to be perfect.

Also, some styles run a bit larger than others. Their unisex styles, like the ones I got, run a bit wider and bigger than do, say, their womens’ styles.

And check this out! I got mine from the Walking Company, but they now carry them through Amazon(!), and so you can get them with free shipping and no tax!

I got the MBT Sport in white, which is this one:

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But they are also available in a myrid of other styles, such as the cute blue “Lifestyle”:

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…and the sandals, which is what my friend has. This will be what I get next, as they are the kind that you can wear socks with without it looking too dorky:

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Just returning from hearing the Silicon Valley Symphony do a fabulous rendition of “Pictures at an Exhibition”.
Listening to a live symphony performance, particularly one like “Pictures at an Exhibition”, is so much more than an auditory experience. Your whole body wants to get involved. You want to grab the music and hug it. The music gets inside your body and swells in your chest and you feel as though you just can’t contain it and you can’t sit still and…
I felt like I needed a cigarette when it was over.
It was wonderful.
Here’s what I don’t get. So many people there tonight just sat stone still, unmoved. It was as if they didn’t have a pulse, rather than this magnificent music pulsing through their body.
What’s up with that?

Leg warmers are, apparently, back in. And with a vengeance.
Over the weekend I saw a young lady wearing legwarmers and …I kid you not….shorts. WTF???
I’m only sorry that I couldn’t get a picture for you. But you’ll be seeing it soon enough I reckon.
Because the next day I saw yet another young lady wearing short shorts ….and leg warmers. And sandals!!!
And then another.
Once can be accounted for by the terrible taste of the wearer.
Twice to excrutiating coincidence.
But thrice can only be explained by mass hysteria. Or a new fad.
Maybe both.
Anybody got pictures?

Somehow “upgrade” is not a term I would usually associate with a feminie protection product. “I’m going to upgrade my tampon” just sounds… wrong.