Archive for December, 2009

New Years Eve To Remember

December30

New Year’s Eve party in your future? If so, this year I suggest you make yourself memorable. Anyone can be respectable or even a drunken boor, but of whom can it really be said “I will never forget this night because of you”. Be that “you”.
Here’s how: 
1. Toilet Paper Icebreaker!People love toilet paper. Walk up to anyone and say “I have [...]

Super Mario, Poppy, and Me

December28

I have always hated uncertainty.  When I was just a babe we had a video game called Super Mario Brothers that was played on the pinnacle of technological miracles, the Nintendo. (Way, way back in the late eighties for those of you too young to know that of which I speak.)
On that  game, there was a chance to earn extra [...]

People Pleasing Anonymous

December7

( Cough)  “Hi, um..I am Amanda Sanders and a recovering People Pleaser”.  (Hi Amanda)
I am not proud of my people pleasing past. I admit that I have done many unsavory things in order to keep the “peace” in my life. I have sold things I did not want to sell to people who did not want [...]

Some Of My Favorite Birthday Gifts

December2

December 3, 197#, I made my big debut into this amazing world. (You didn’t really think I was going to put my actual age out here, did you?) I can’t claim to have been born laughing, but I can assure you it was on my “To Do List”. Mom, feel free to put the actual age [...]