Hello Texas!

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I'm off today. Traveling to Texas! Actually, not quite true. Just like Roman Polanski didn't perform a rape-rape, I'm not in Texas-Texas. I'm in the Blue Orchid of Texas. Yeehaw!

Dear Potential Employer

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Obviously if I am writing you today, it is because I know that I am not only the best choice, but let's be frank here: I'm the only choice. Not only for this position, but just about any position. Just take a look at my résumé. Is there a field, any field, left untouched by my chocolate covered fingers?

A Job Interviewwwwww!

I got an email yesterday.

*happy dance*

Inviting me to a job interview.

*happy dance*

For a job I applied to at the San Diego Zoo.

Paint My Pole!

I posted this "doodle" on Sunday for a giveaway Mynx is hosting. When I initially posted it here, it was still a work-in-progress.

I think it's done! Of course you're missing the above water details, but that part hasn't changed. I kinda made a photo-montage trying to give a better view, so this is what the pole looks like all around...

Watch out Picasso, Renoir, DaVinci and Van Gogh - here I come!

Are You Happy Now?

According to a study published by the NY Times, in what makes people happy: children are on the bottom of the totem pole.

“Yet contrary to previous research on daily moods, the study found that the women rated TV-watching high on the list, ahead of shopping and talking on the phone, and ranked taking care of children low, below cooking and not far above housework.”

Is this a scary thought?

It’s one thing to judge a sense of instant gratification and an entirely different thing to assess a lifelong sense of personal accomplishment. In retort to CNN and even the NY Times study, I ask: Is this the right question? Shouldn’t the question be: Does having children make you a complete and well rounded person?

In all honesty, this is the question that’s been mulling over and over in my head since the finality of my decision to not have kids: Will I ever be a real complete woman if I don’t have children? Or will I always have the sense that… something is missing?

Read more here!

Oddly Enough...

The coolest thing about Cake Betch is she doesn't know she's marvelous.

You find yourself in bed by your pretty little wife, and you may ask yourself "This isn't my pretty little wife?".

The last time I posted, many many moons ago, was to accept an award I'd received from superstar Cake Betch. And today I'm back, and guess what? The Cake'ster has ME over in her Hot Mess Chronicles featuring my shower story with her amazing drawr-ings! And it's AMAZING! I'm so thrilled!

I'm Part Of The Momfia: And I'm Not A MOM!

I'm over there today! Yayyyyy! Come on over and read me at the San Diego MOMfia website. Click here for the link!

Rule of Thumb: Don't Fall On Thumb!

THAT is MY thumb. No trick photography was used...

 My thumb looks like crap! It also hurts too. *Mwah* Last night when I fell, I wanted to cry. But I didn't. I was tough. I'm totally badass like that!

I'm loving roller derby so much that I went ahead and created a new blog just for Marr Bulls.  That's my derby name by the way. Cool hunh? Yeah, I thought so. In case you're curious, I put a link in the sidebar for the derby blog. I'm doing a one-way thing though. I'm keeping my cyber house rules as a safe haven for me, my venting and basically saying the real shizz fo' shure. Ya hear me?

Whereas "be the doll" is shared among the derby world, and anybody who knows who Marr Bulls is will know who I am, get it? In other words, if you know Nikki Rules it's ok if you know Marr Bulls. But if all you know is Marr Bulls, then you don't really need to know Nikki.

I should probably go find some ice for my cocktail and I'll stick my thumb in it. That's practical thinking right there! Have a great weekend peeps... I'm going scuba diving!

I'm A Star!

What are you waiting for? It's almost Oscar time, so grab a bag of popcorn, a pair of glasses and I'll see you there! Roger Ebert even (unknowingly) gave me 2 thumbs up!