Thanks to Rowan for the tip about doing a showcase of projects especially for IT
… but I do not do any programming and I cannot really do a showcase of projects on my resume, even online in a website.
All of my IT consulting is mostly business process re-engineering and that is very hard to display something so conceptual online.
I do think it is a wonderful idea, however!!
Rowan & Foxie also wanted to know more about my aversion to tanning
As for not liking to tan, it is because of health reasons and vanity for the most part.
Tanning is just a way of your body creating natural SPFs of 2 – 4 (depending on how dark you naturally are) and as a reaction to the sun BURNING your skin.
I heard that under the age of 30 if you receive even ONE sunburn on your body, it increases your chances for skin cancer by 50% or 75%.
I have never burned in my life, but I am not excited to feel what a sunburn is like on my body.
In addition, when I tan, it does not disappear or fade for a YEAR AND A HALF.
Seriously, I went biking with shorts and the tan from my biking shorts (without my nifty De Soto leg coolers) lasted for a year and a half. It was like I had a two tone body suit happening all over my body…
BF was amazed.
I. HATE. TANNING.
Tanning is the #1 cause of visible signs of aging.
Sunspots and wrinkles are caused by the sun and the UVA rays are what stay in your body and appear only 10-20 years later.
There is no way in hell I want to look like wrinkly, leathered hag when I am 40, like some women I see around Canada or the girls here in Portugal who in their early 30s look like they have a masque of dead, dark, brown skin all over their bodies *shudder*
Those women started tanning in their teens well into their twenties and they look like they are 60 instead of 40!!
Do a Butt Check in 10 or 20 years.
You are going to see that it has less wrinkles, aging and spots than the rest of your body that has been exposed to the sun on a regular basis.
And that is why I am trying my best to avoid getting a tan.
Other than being sick, I am having great fun in Europe. Can´t wait for France next year!
The roads here are very curvy and small.
People drive like crazy ass mofos and I am nauseous. The heat is not helping my nausea .. so I am sticking to eating Nutella spread on tea biscuits with water.
And fruit.
And lots of napping – I think I sleep around 14 hours a day here.
I should also mention that bugs LOVE ME HERE. My whole arms are covered, literally covered in insect bites.. and BF is totally bite-free.
Life is not fair.
Hope everyone is doing better than I am.
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I adore this woman. She fights hard, picks herself up when she’s down and makes it work, all with a bit of much needed snark.
Her posts always generate heated debates, or strong, intense emotions, and love her, or hate her, she has an opinion, and it’s something that is sometimes sorely lacking in the blogosphere.
And it’s not always about mean or stupid customers, check out this quote below:
(I’m helping out a backup cashier as he checks a customer out.)
Me: “Corn is 4078.”
Coworker: “Thanks!” *punches it in* “What are the melons?”
Me: “4050.”
Coworker: “Thanks!” *punches it in* “What’s watermelon?”
Me: “4032.”
Customer: “What’s the winning lottery numbers?”
Me: “If I knew that, I wouldn’t be working here!”
Customer: “It was worth a shot.”
I love refreshing PF blogs. Just like how I am in LOVE with Dog’s blog, I just recently found this one called Punch Debt in the Face (catchy huh?).
While he doesn’t talk much about how to get out of debt and all those boring (to us) posts, I like the irreverent style of writing and that it seems relate-able. Something I try to do on MY blog, because I also write the way I’d speak in real life.
An instant favourite. Trust.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything this cute in a LONG TIME.
It’s a short stop picture story of two little milk toofs (ickle and Lardee).. and this particular post caught my attention – The Toof Cleaning.
Excuse me while I go and devour their archives (not many posts, won’t take long)
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