Houseplants- An ounce of prevention.....

Some of my houseplants got a parasite called "mealy bugs". I saw it on just a few of them at first about a year ago. I tried a few things to get rid of them, but they came back. Only when it affected almost all of my orchids did I actually take steps to fix it (why did I wait so long???!!) I had to take them all outside and spray them with an insecticide and I'll have to repeat it 3 more times in the next month. I have about 30, so that was no small feat. I think I used at least half of the spray bottle. I'll have to get more soon! Hopefully the 4 applications will solve it.

All that to say, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I strongly beieve that now and will look for little things I can do in my daily life and work to prevent small things from growing into larger problems.

Live and learn!

Clothing Sizes....

So... I've lost weight recently, and to reward myself, I bought some new workout clothes. I went to my favorite discout stores-- Ross, TJ Maxx and Marshalls. At Ross, I found a huge assortment of sports bras. I grabbed any that I thought were pretty and were a good price. I was in the section labeled "small" since that is apparently my new size. I took the 20 or so pieces to the dressing room to try them on. Most of them were size small. One had a pricetag of $3.99, while most were around $8. I thought the $3.99 one was really cute, so I tried it on. I noticed that it was mis-labeled as a "large". It definitely was not a large. It fit just fine and I thought it was so cheap because it was mis-labeled and no one wanted it. I went to the other stores and bought about 3 at each store, knowing I'd need to return a few to not have sports-bra-overload! As I was trying on my collection a few days later, I started reading the labels and figuring out which ones I should return and which I should keep. I tried on most of them again and weeded out a few. I had bought the wrong size for one, so that went in the bag. I had duplicates of the same color, so I set one of those aside. I got back to the cute little orangy-pink, size large one. I tried it on and then read the label. I didn't notice anything strange until I glanced at the Spanish translation.... it mentioned a "nina"... that means "little girl" in Spanish. Yes, I did the unthinkable! I bought children's clothing. It get's worse. I knew that and still decided to keep it! I wore it today to my workout and it fits just fine. I really like it.

If I end up wearing out all of these new sports bras soon, for Christmas, look for Adidas children's large, or ladies small and we'll be set.

Bathrooms in Restaurants

I hate it when I'm in a public bathroom and I go to get hand soap.... and nothing comes out! I try the next one and the next one, but none have any soap! So then I look around to see if I'm on Candid Camera and I notice 2 soap dispensers on the wall. Great! I have soap, but thanks for wasting a minute of my time trying the other dispensers. I think they should at least take out the pump part of the unused dispenser and cap that baby up! Heck, they cut a hole in the counter top for me to put trash in, why not just leave yet another hole where the old soap dispenser was....?