AllMediocre

Howdy again to my Mediocre Peeps.  In my book you all are seriously the best, but lately you all have been a bit quieter than usual.  What’s up with that? Don’t you want to come out and play? Or has twitter seriously killed the comments? This week I want to discuss your piggies a.k.a your toes.  More specifically your toe nails.  Do you throw a splash of color on them or do you let them hang around au natural?

For me, most of the time I would have them au natural, that is until I got a fake nail put on my big toe.  Yes, I said it, I have a fake nail on my big toe. The reason my toenail is fake is because they totally botched up my nail when removing it for an ingrown toenail problem.  I have been told that my nail bed is damaged and I could possibly grow a normal nail but will have to have the current “thing” that slightly resembles a toenail removed.  But there isn’t a guarantee, so until they can say with confidence the toenail will be restored to its former glory, I won’t be enduring any extra pain. 

But as I was saying…I used to have them au natural as to not draw attention to my funkadelic big toe nail, but since I have the fake one, which looks totally real, yo….I have had them painted.  And I have to say that I really am loving the painted piggies.  In fact I find myself looking at nail polish colors more often, and I know sooner or later they are going to jump into my cart and come home with me. 

So what say you? Painted Piggies or are you of the Paint Free Variety? I need to know!!

Happy Tuesday to all my All Mediocre Peeps.  I am hoping that those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are finally getting to enjoy your summer.  I know, I know that some of you have had warm weather for quite some time, but I am pretty sure that at this point we are all enjoying the sun!  Thankfully it hasn’t been too warm here in Northeastern Ohio.  Not that I would complain about the heat after all the snow we had this year.  But it is still nice not to sweat when you are sitting perfectly still.  

This week I actually managed to get this done on Tuesday, altho I haven’t actually hit publish yet, so I guess I should get my hopes all up about it….yet. But my question to you is about swimming.  When you are having your fun in the sun do you prefer it at the beach or near a pool? Myself, I prefer the pool action.  Bathrooms are plentiful and there is no sand.  And around here when you lounge by the poolside, it normally means parking wasn’t too bad. Because to go to the beach around here by Lake Erie, plan an extra 20 mins to lug all the crap you need to where you want to sit.  And did I mention there was sand.  Sand that finds every nook and cranny in your body to lodge itself in.  Not a happy feeling for me AT all!

So what do you declare the Pool or the Beach? Because I really need to know!

So last week I got to talking about our showering, and wouldn’t you know that my mind is still in the shower.  With all the rain we have gotten here over the past couple of days I literally feel like I am in a shower anytime I go outside.  But a really bad shower, one in which the massager is stuck on “Holy Hell, what kind of crazy pressure do we have in here.”  But enough about the weather, I will ask what you have come here to answer.  

When it comes to shampoo do you follow the directions for lather, rinse, and repeat  or do you scoff at those and take your chances with the one time shampoo because it is just a crazy attempt from the shampoo companies to get you to use twice as much shampoo when you are in the shower thus needing to buy it all that more often.  As for me I am in the latter camp.  I think my girls later, rinse, and repeat more times than even the shampoo companies think nessesary, but that is for another day. 

So what have you? Lather, rinse, repeat or one time is good enough for me.

Hi Mediocre Peeps!  It’s been a long almost seven weeks.  But I figured it was time to finally get back on here and update everyone and add the new people I’ve been neglecting.

Here’s who we’ve added recently:

WashWords

Free Flan

Diaper, Dishes and a glass of Cabernet

Sail on Silver Girl

Resolving Timeline Issues

SWANEESINGER

Walking Punchline

The Pregnancy Accrding to Jude

Servant’s Heart

The Confessions of a  Stay at Home Mom

A Starbucks A Day Keeps Life at Bay

PooBou

Textual Intercourse

Fifi Flowers

Chains of Yesterday

Geekbloggers

My Life as the Glue

Tanna and Inna & the Big McGees

Cape Veneer

Momma Ali

The Basket Case Mommy

My Kids Might be Martians

Eraser Free

Raising Boys…and a Husband

You’ve Got To Be Kidding, Right

Blueshelled.com

The United States of Motherhood

Charmed and Dangerous

On Wings of Pigs

The Adventures of Bullygrrl

Irish/SA Mom Speaks

In other news, I heard about a new fundraising campaign that I thought I’d share with you, seeing as how todays is Memorial Day.  It’s called Tweet to ReMIND and it’s sponsored by the Bob Woodruff Foundation.  The idea is that you donate $5.25 to assist them in raising $1.25 million.  $1 for every military member who has served in the war.  I donated.  Will you?

You do NOT have to be a member of Twitter to participate.  But if you are, they ask that you follow them and tweet about the campaign.

Speaking of Twitter, I thought we should all make sure we connect there, too!  So, if you’re on Twitter, leave a comment here with your Twitter name and we can all be sure to follow each other.

I’m AMomTwoBoys personally, and there’s even an AllMediocre account.  Which I don’t use all that often now, but I’ll start using!  Pinky Swear.

Now, go enjoy  your Memorial Day.  Remember what it’s all about.

**Also, I’m hoping to have a Giveaway up in the next few days, I just need to finalize a few things, so stay tuned!**

Howdy All Mediocre Peeps.  How is your Tuesday treating you? Mine, well….it has been treating me alright.  No major surprises, yet. Tuesday isn’t over yet, and unlike Mondays, Tuesday seems to be bitchier in my opinion. Although since Tuesday isn’t over yet, I should bite my tongue, or sing Tuesday’s praises instead.  

But onto Mediocre Topic Tuesday, that is why you are here. Needing to know the answers to life’s most pressing questions such as apple or orange, credit or debit, cats or dogs.  Or for Today’s MTT-Washcloth or Body Poof?  We use Poof  things at our house.  Each person has their own color bath poof.  Altho I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not the only one using my Poof.  Can we all say Ewwww together? They all deny it, but I will catch them, or hide my Poof in my room like I do my bottled water.  But that is a topic for another day.  

So which do you prefer. Washcloth, Poof or maybe even a Loofah? We are dying to know!

Is it Tuesday again.  I have to admit that it almost slipped away from me.  But I caught Tuesday by its slippery ankles and didn’t let it go.  Well, not yet anyways.  

Today I am curious about the ATM card in your wallet.  No, not the pin number, silly! But on how you use it.  Most places will let you use your ATM card as a debit card or a credit card.  Which do you find yourself saying more often?  Sadly I never get to say debit because for whatever reason my credit union’s checkcards are only for credit transactions.  I try to use it as a debit and I get declined everytime.  I said something last time I was in & they told me that I could go ahead and get a debit card if I wanted to use the debit function at the register.  Since I am able to take cash out of the ATM with it, I declined.  Because seriously, do I really need just one more thing? But when I do say credit to the cashier I always feel the need to explain myself-to reassure her (or the rare him) that I am really not charging anything-its the bank’s fault. 

So how about you…when you swipe it what do you say?

* Photo credit to Alpharetta CVB

Hey there All Mediocre Peeps-how is your Tuesday treating you?  Mine has been pretty good-the weather is perfect (jeans and 3/4 sleeves weather), I got to vote, and I actually remembered it was Tuesday! I think I feel more accomplished today because I wrote down a list of things I needed to do and I have been getting them done.  My list is in pen, but not just any pen, it is a black pen, medium tip.  (You know that you guys are going to find out all of my neurotic tendencies while I write MTT.)

So do you have a pen preference, perhaps you prefer no pen at all.  But the big question today is Blue ink or Black ink.  If you want to elaborate more I won’t complain.

Until next week….

Hi there, Heather here.  Yea, yea…I know its Thursday-but like I told you before the ‘T’ in MTT could stand for Thursday, and today it shall :O) Tuesday came and went-didn’t even bother to say hello or even ask how I was doing before it was gone.  So good riddance Tuesday, we are celebrating Thursday now.  But enough of my ramblings, you want to hear about today’s Mediocre Topic Thursday.

Today’s question is do you prefer Matte (or luster) finish or Glossy finish on your photos? You do print out photos still? Right? I, myself, prefer the matte or luster finish, its basically the same thing, but for whatever reason Costco doesn’t call it matte.  I like it for many reasons, mostly being that they don’t show the fingerprints like the glossy photos do, and they don’t seem to catch as much glare as they are hanging.  Secretly I wish that there wasn’t an option and all photos were Glossy, but what are you going to do? (Okay, okay, what am I going to do-in this case suck it up and make sure to check the luster box)

So, do you get your photos in the Glossy or Matte finish, because I won’t rest until I know!

For a number of years in my 30s, I shared a house with my brother. Almost without fail, whenever I met someone new and got to the point where my living situation would come up, they would express amazement and tell me that they could NEVER live with their sibling!

Now I am living with my mother, taking care of her as she’s in poor health, and once again most people tell me that’s something they wouldn’t be able to do. It’s a little different because taking care of elderly parents is becoming somewhat more common as generational shifting continues, but it’s still not something most people would leap at the chance to do.

So, here’s the question: Could you live with a sibling or parent for an extended period of time?

What have you been up to this glorious Earth Day? Have you been doing your part to help out the Earth?  I did my part today by buying some recycled clothes at our local 2nd hand store.  I was surprised to find some of them new with tags on them still.  I would say who the heck buys clothes and then without wearing them once dumps them off at these places.  But, alas, I have been guilty of this.  So I won’t judge, I will just reap the benefits. 

I also finished up putting the finishing touches on our 2nd hand china cabinet. My fiesta ware looks so nice in there sparkling back at me.  

So, what have you been up to? Share it with us.  Or just watch this awesome commercial that always brings a smile to my face. Because if there is something that the world needs is more smiles :O)