Positive Weirdness

Are you the type of person that stands out or do you just blend in? 
I believe that you should make sure that when you decide you want to
stand out you should find positive ways to do it.

There are so many ways to be weird in a positive way. I'm stressing the word
positive because some people decide that negative weirdness is the way to go
and that's just not true.

Ways to have positive weirdness:

• Change your hair color to something unusual
• Get an uncommon haircut
• Wear your make up in a creative way
• Modify your clothes and wear them differently
• Buy an odd outfit you wouldn't normally wear
• Change the way that you trim your beard
• Wear an extra large mustache
• Dance on the dance floor alone before anyone else does
• Ask someone a weird question
• Wear a strange hat

Raw Meat and Vinyl Gloves

I like cooking, but I hate touching raw meat, so I wear vinyl gloves to keep the
meat germs off of my hands. I haven't always been this way, but now I'm a major
germophobe. When I touch raw meat I feel like I can't get the greasy fat particles
off, and I don't like the thought of having raw meat under my fingernails.

When I see someone touch raw meat and mix it with their bare hands I always think
about how gross it is. Oh...and if someone is mixing meat while wearing a watch and
rings, I really get squeamish. How could you not worry about getting meat stuck in
your rings?

If you've been wanting to fix a recipe requiring raw meat and you've not wanted it to
touch your bare hands now all you have to do is purchase some vinyl gloves, and
make that meal you've been dreaming of.

UPDATE: I no longer use vinyl gloves because they contain cancer causing
chemicals. Use Nitrile gloves instead.

"Fun" at the Health Insurance Marketplace

I just spent over two hours trying to obtain dental insurance for my son. I've been
dreading going to the Health Insurance Marketplace, because I heard so many
horror stories about it. I figured by now though things would be running a little more
smoothly.

I filled out information about myself then I had to create a username, password,
then give them an email address, so they could then email me to tell me to go back
to the marketplace website to finish my application. When I went back and finished
the application I thought I was set to pick out the dental insurance, but the section I
needed to click on was mysteriously "locked." I ended up calling the marketplace's
phone number for help and after an hour on the phone I was told that, "because 
you didn't pick out a health plan first, we cannot simply give you dental insurance on 
its own." The representative was really polite, but it would've been nice to have 
known that information before I spent an hour filling stuff out online! All I wanted 
was dental insurance, so that was all I applied for. So if you only need dental insur-
ance be warned, you have to pick out a health insurance plan first and if the plan you 
choose doesn't include dental insurance... then you can choose a dental plan.

We're Being Watched

I don't understand why the news is making such a big deal about how we're being
watched by the government. The government has always and will always watch us.
What is the big deal? If you're not doing anything wrong I don't think you have any-
thing to worry about. I guess paranoid people shouldn't use the telephone, a com-
puter, or even leave the house.

Does it bother you when everyone else watches you?

We're being watched by people and businesses like...

• your neighbors
• websites you visit
• retail stores
• grocery stores
• doctor's offices
• schools
• police officers
• cameras on street corners
• your TV may be watching you too

The Perfect Butt

A lot of people are butt obsessed. People with big butts want little butts. People
with little butts want big butts. It seems like women are pressured more into hav-
ing perfect butts. Women have to worry about panty lines, but men don't have
to worry about underwear lines. A man can sag if he wants to (not that I recom-
mend sagging) or a man can wear his pants pulled up where they belong.

Some women are so concerned about having perfect butts they'll wear fake butts,
get butt implants, or wear bottoms so tight they look like they're in pain. So...
whether your butt is big, little, fat, or small be glad you have a butt at all.