The Facts of Life

We all remember it, right? The 1980's T.V show with Toodie and Mrs. Garrett! I thought this was a fun blast from the past to introduce what's been in my brain the past few days. It's funny and random things that I've learned since 1979, which happens to be the year that "The Facts of Life" T.V show came out. Enjoy!

1. Climbing a tree while wearing roller skates is not possible. Found this out around 1986. A lot of people were watching.

2. Recently found out that wearing a Breathe Right strip on your nose for too many nights in a row to bed can leave a hickey on it.

3. When trying to do your own auburn highlights for the first time-a few tips from 2005. Do not use regular pieces of tin foil and make little squares. Even if your husband is helping you, do not start in the front, as the process takes longer than you might imagine. That's how I ended up with purple hair. I had actually always wanted to try purple hair, and though it wasn't planned, I did enjoy it!

4. Avoid working in jobs where they literally pad-lock and chain the doors and won't let any employees leave until everyone has completed their duties. In 1997 I worked for Cracker Barrel in Utah and found that this is the policy at all their restaurants. Three months after I quit, one of the managers when crazy taking hostages with a gun. Weird. Still a good place to eat though.

5. If a cut is deep enough to see severed veins, you need stitches. Hence the scar on my left middle finger. (I wasn't using it!) It got cut on a bunk bed. But, the scar on my left pinky is barely visible after a plastic wrap blade attacked me while working at Sizzler, and I had stitches on that one!

6. Men really are just grown up boys. Their toys just get more expensive. My garage is full of things with grease and dirt. The toys at our house are paintball gun, X-Box, cars, and whatever else that's in the garage that I don't know about. I love my boy.

7. Toes can accidentally fit into a bathroom sink drain. All I'm saying is, that all the accident prone people need to be careful.

8. Ducks are not indoor pets. Summer of 1994 in Pennsylvania visiting my mom. The duck slept in my room and all I remember was poo on the floor everywhere. I don't know why my mom permitted that!

9. Pumice stones are not for lips. Yeah...I recently found this out for myself unfortunately. When your lips are rough and chapped feeling, if a warm wash cloth doesn't help the exfoliating, do not take it to the next level. You'll wish you hadn't.

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