I’m looking into the best air cleaners to use at work because even though I work in a nice clean office, my office is in the middle of cornfields. When I drive to work every morning, I can feel my allergies get progressively worse, until I’m sitting at my desk, eyes burning, nose dripping, and cheeks red hot.

After looking at the Air Cleaners Guide, I think a HEPA air filter would be the best for my allergies, because it is able to remove teeny tiny particles from the air which aggravate my sinuses.

My mom and I flew Jet Blue to New York this weekend, and I just wanted to rave about the airline. Their why you’ll like us page pretty much says it all (extra legroom, Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, Direct TV, free drinks and snacks), but what most impressed me was the flight attendants and pilots.

I’m a nervous flyer, and on the way back from NYC, the pilot stepped into the cabin and introduced himself and gave the flight information in person instead of over the intercom. I always like to see what my pilot looks like and know what his name with before I take off (not like it’ll make a bit of difference if something goes wrong), and it really spoke volumes to their customer service police and calmed my nerves to meet the pilot.

In addition to getting all the important stuff right (good pilots, comfy planes, TV to take my mind off the fact that I am 37,000 feet in the air), their advertising and marketing is super cute, the fares are cheap, and I love that they give their planes names like “Blue Streak” and “Blue Yorker”.

Jet Blue couldn’t do anything about the woman next to me eating a stinky Greek salad over Detroit or the Rabbi that picked his nose and put his findings in his pocket, but that may have been asking a little much of a value airline.

I love going to Disney World, and one of my favorite things about the Disney property is the foliage and topiaries. I’m amazed that trees, bushes, and shrubs can be molded, clipped, and trimmed into dancing hippos, teacups, and lions with bushy manes.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the horticulture skills nor the time and space necessary to nurture my love of topiaries. Luckily, silk plants aren’t just dusty ferns and bad table settings anymore, they are beautiful and realistic looking trees, plants, hanging baskets, and topiaries that are a real art form! Silk plants are now made from the highest quality materials and are often mistaken for a real live plant.

www.artificialplantsandtrees.com doesn’t carry dancing hipps or teacups, but they do carry classic topiary styles that can displayed inside and outside and mix beautifully with real landscaping without all the maintenance! Silk plants obviously don’t require watering, weeding, fertilizing, or trimming so you look like a gardening star without the farmers tan.

If you love the outdoors, but suffer from allergies, artificial plants are a lifesaver. They bring the beauty of flowers and greenery to your home without the itchy eyes and runny nose. Not to mention that they can be enjoyed year round. There’s no seasons when it comes to silk plants!

When I was in college, I was friends with a guy who worked at the local tanning salon, which means that I bought one tanning package and it miraculously never expired in four years. So, when I should have been concerned with skin lightening and staying pasty white for my health, I was at the tanning bed every day, which leads me to the two beauty marks, one on my leg and one on my nose, that I am suspicious of.

I’ll be locating a dermatologist for a full-body check in the near future, and it will be quite the exam because I am loaded with beauty marks on my neck, shoulders, and arms. I’m guessing at least a hundred of them.

Has anyone ever had this done? Have they located or removed any beauty marks to have analyzed? How did they do it and what were your results?

We talk about poop a lot in my family. We don’t chart anyone’s bowel movements or discuss color and consistancy, but we do make poop jokes on par with second graders and recommend reading material. We’ve been known to do a Colon Cleanse or two for a little body detoxification before we start a new diet, and we even taught my little cousins to pinch their noses and say “pee-ew” when we changed their diapers. Every body poops, and my family isn’t afraid to talk about it, but we try to keep the comments to a minimum when there is company.