If you read my blog on Friday you saw the post all about my very first pedicure! How could I not write about it? It was exciting, fun and I was accomplishing one of the goals I set for myself for 2010! I didn’t stop and think about the fact that there are pervs out there that like feet a little too much!

Here on this blog I posted a picture of the finished product (my pretty girly toes) but over on my weight loss blog I posted a quick little video. Let’s just say that quick little video that I thought was harmless and fun attracted some attention on YouTube. Attention I didn’t want to attract.

I opened my inbox on YouTube this morning to find a very disturbing email from a nasty gross disgusting pervert talking about what that video did for him and I could contact him (and he gave a list of places to contact him Skype, Instant messenger, etc) so he could show me exactly what my “gorgeous, sexy, hot feet” (ok so I guess I had to giggle at the fact that someone actually thinks feet – let alone my feet are HOT and sexy and gorgeous!) did for him.

I should have saved the email instead of deleting it so I could have reported it or something but I was so disgusted my initial reaction was to just get rid of it. It made me feel guilty – like I did something wrong!

Why oh why are there those out there that have to turn something fun and silly into something nasty and disgusting? Blech!

Tish

It’s never taken me so long to do a book review as it did for this book. When I received the book I had a really hard time getting into it. It was one of those books that started off a bit slow for me. In fact, I actually put the book down three times not sure whether I was even going to be able to finish it.

Finally towards the middle of the book – chapter 14 or so – Penguin Luck
grabbed my attention and I found myself intrigued and wondering what was going to happen next!

What is Penguin Luck about?

It’s about a young woman – Doreen Lowe – who’s a junior associate in a small Manhattan law firm and has a burdensome family history, which includes a trio of ghosts that plead with her to carry on for them (after the Holocaust) to face.

While engaged to one man – a man that fulfills her family’s wishes – Doreen falls in love with another and they hastily marry which sends her ‘family’ into an uproar.

Now that she feels the ‘freedom’ of making her own decisions (the hasty marriage to someone her family doesn’t approve of) she’s now faced with both external and internal pressures. Her three ghosts from her family’s past are constantly urging her to carry on their lineage by pursuing the life they imagined for her including the marriage to her ex-fiance and a brood of children, which she can’t provide for them. Penguin Luck is all about Doreen coming to terms with the choices she’s made and having to deal with the ghosts from her family’s past.

Would I Recommend the Book?

While I didn’t enjoy the first portion of the book I would recommend it because the middle to end of the book was great! The beginning was all about filling in the details that needed to be in place to transition into the rest of the book. I just didn’t care for the beginning.

Oh my gosh how have I went through life this long (I’ll be 35 TOMORROW! Yikes!) without ever experiencing one of the most insanely awesome things ever – a pedicure?

I have this thing about people touching my feet. It makes me uncomfortable. Put it this way back when I was engaged to be married to a man named Bruce and I waited tables and was on my feet all the time he always wanted to rub my feet for me and it just grossed me out. Even though my feet were so sore the mere thought of him rubbing them sent me running for cover! Seriously!

Ok so back to the point…for my birthday my friend Kelly McCausey bought me a pedicure. I was totally nervous! I walked into the salon and told the lady how nervous I was. It worked out great though because I knew her from back when I was 18 and waited tables at the local bowling alley (we waited tables together). She laughed at me & was like “you have nothing to be nervous about”!

I just got back from the hour long pedicure and oh my girls it literally ROCKED my world! And my toes are so darn pretty and cute now! How am I ever going to be able to put socks & shoes on now?

See look how pretty they are!

So guess what I have scheduled for exactly 3 weeks from today?

Yep my next pedicure! This will be put into my MONTHLY budget! Silly? Yes but I deserve to pamper myself and I plan on taking that me time once a month and enjoying it and not feeling guilty about it!

So here’s one more goal for 2010 that I set that I can now cross off my list. How silly that I was afraid of something so insanely awesome as this! I’m eagerly awaiting 3 weeks from today!

I don’t make New Year Resolutions but back on January 1st I did Make A Commitment To Me for this year. I shared in that post that new year resolutions have been to easy for me to give on and not stick with in the past. So I started creating goals instead.

This year it came down to setting goals that are attainable instead of some off the wall ridiculous ones that I’ve set in the past and only found myself discouraged (just like with New Year Resolutions in the past & the whole reason for switching to goals instead) because I didn’t meet them.

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Blech I hate being single this time of year. There’s nothing worse than being on Twitter or FaceBook seeing all the lovey dovey talk going on. Definitely nothing worse than being in public seeing all the lovey dovey couples! And it’s even worse because the last several days I’ve been in a bit of ‘funk‘. But I digress. I decided to still have a great Valentine’s Day!

My kiddo melted my heart when he came home from school the other day with this for me:

It’s a rose (made of 2 Hershey kisses) that he so proudly informed me he spent $1.50 on!

And I put a smile on my face when I bought myself some of these:

They are gorgeous! The picture doesn’t do them justice.

So whether you’re single, married or have a boyfriend/girlfriend I hope you are having a fantastic Valentine’s Day!