Friday, June 23, 2006

The Best Kept Secret.........

I had a bout with body odor a month ago.  Desperate, with my high-end deodorants failing me, I decided to try THIS:

And it is THE BEST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER TRIED!!!!

I always wanted to try it, because Wal-Mart sells it (I was working in Health And Beauty Aids before I became a department manager), but didn't trust the claim that this "rock" and/or odorless, colorless spray would help me.  So, I continued buying my heavily perfumed and expensive brands that claimed that they were "strong enough for a man, but made for a woman" (well, I am a woman, and after awhile, they weren't working for me! LOL LOL LOL)  Worse, in the summertime, I sweat a lot, and I had to shower at least twice a day!  I was washing my hair once a week!  It was MADNESS, I tell ya, MADNESS!

One curious night, I searched for info on the Net about combating body odor, and they gave several suggestions.  Alcohol swiped in the offending areas (quite drying!), white vinegar or witch hazel, and this stuff.  Well, after trying the alcohol and finding that this didn't work as well as I would have liked( I smelled like a hospital! LOL) , I finally gave in and tried this crystal deodorant.  It was $2.97 a bottle, substantially less than my high-end favorite, but I tell ya, IT WORKS!!!!!!

The deodorant is a mixture of plain water and natural mineral salts that form a barrier against bacteria that causes you to have body odor.  I use it EVERYWHERE.....my hair, my feet, my armpits.....EVERYWHERE, and I am smell-free!  Plus, I LOVE wearing perfume, and now my fragrance lasts ALL DAY

I read somewhere that Howard Stern, the "shock jock" (and hairy mongoose of a man) was raving about this stuff, and I am following suit!  This stuff REALLY WORKS!  It is ALL-NATURAL, ALUMINUM FREE, INEXPENSIVE, and it WORKS

I implore anyone reading this journal to try this product for yourself.  I am not trying to sell ANYTHING; I just love sharing information when I have found something that WORKS!!!!!

Adrian   

Monday, June 19, 2006

WHAT'S UP

Gee, it's been a while since I have posted here!  I guess that means that now I have a life, huh? LOL LOL LOL LOL

I have been on several job interviews, and haven't heard anything from those folks yet.  However, the Wal-Mart that's ten minutes away from my house has hired me, and I start working on Thursday!  I will be an inventory control associate.  Basically, I will be assigned to a department, and responsible for making sure that inventory for that department is cleared from the warehouse and stocked on the shelves, making room for more merchandise to be ordered.  My hours are set, 11AM to 8PM, which are great hours for me (I have plenty of time to bring the girls to school before I have to be at work, and still have time to spend with them before bedtime), and I think I am off the weekends! 

Plus, I am doing SWELL with AVON!  I have expanded my customer base to include the teachers at the school, and I have my eyes set on my future co-workers and a few members of my church.  I am really excited, because I know that I will make a lot of money during the holidays.  It takes a representative six campaigns to build credit with AVON, but I have sold enough merchandise to where I have established credit sooner!  That means that I am able to order more merchandise and increase my profits.  Whatever needs my salary from Wal-Mart won't cover, my AVON profits will make up the difference! 

My AVON district manager is starting her representative meeting at 9:30 AM, and I am debating on whether I will join them.  I cancelled an interview I would have been having tomorrow for a telephone sales position, and I am free to go, but dang.......9:30 AM?  I have to think about that one a little more........I mean, it rained heavily all day today, and even flooded, and I don't even know if I will be able to make it to the meeting because of the location (Southeast Houston, where it flooded the heaviest), and water blocking the feeder roads. 

Hey, check out my AVON eRepresentative Page to order, sign up to take advantage of the representative opportunity, or just to see how cool it is to sell AVON on the Internet, and maintain your business on computer!  It is SO MUCH easier now!

My daughters have mixed feelings about my returning to work.  My baby girl doesn't want me to go; my older daughters are glad, but want me to work part-time instead of full-time.  My husband wants me to go back to work now, since he is still in school.  However, he hopes to be employed somewhere soon, too.  Everything will work out for the best.  Someday, everyone will have what they want.  Today is not that day!

I have been assigned the position of Assistant Director Of Shadow Sisters for W.O.R.D.  Now, I am a Shadow Sister, Intercessory Prayer Warrior,  a writer for the web site/group, and now an Assistant Director!  This is a BIG THING, because God is moving in that ministry, and I am honored to be involved in such a movement that strives to uplift and encourage women in their daily walk with Christ!  

Shucks, enough about me (but then, this IS my journal.....LOL LOL LOL LOL)!  I have been visiting all my friends, while not having the time to write in my own journal.  Thanks for reading (even when I post "fillers" like that last entry, LOL)!  Y'all are great!  Be blessed!  

Adrian

Saturday, June 10, 2006

WHY MEN NEED SEX

I'm sitting up late, surfing  the net, when I ran across this article (for no particular reason).  However, it is VERY interesting!  Check it out.......

Men's Confraternity (WA) Inc. Why Men Need Sex!

Men's Confraternity has listed this page to give a better insight into the true nature of male sexuality. There are many feminist publications which make outrageously offensive statements about the male sex drive and male physiology in general.

Statements such as:

"As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they're doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they're manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don't take place anywhere near an ovum. I don't know that the ecosphere can tolerate it." - Germaine Greer

"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes." - Marilyn French 'The Women's Room'.

"The fact is that the process of killing - both rape and battery are steps in that process- is the prime sexual act for men in reality and/or in imagination," - Andrea Dworkin 'Letters from a War Zone' p22.

"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire, and the first crude stone axe," - Susan Brownmiller 'Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape' p5.

"All men benefit from rape, because all men benefit from the fact that women are not free in this society; that women cower; that women are afraid; that women cannot assert the rights that we have, limited as those rights are, because of the ubiquitous presence of rape," - Andrea Dworkin 'Letters from a War Zone' p142.

"Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," - Andrea Dworkin 'Liberty' p58.

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman," - Robin Morgan

Statements such as these can be found in almost any feminist book and yet these women claim to be 'the more reasoned' and 'superior to men'. Astonishing !

This is the truth from a scientific perspective, not from a jaded and intellectually bankrupt ideological perspective:

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Both men and women may desire sex but only men need sex. This is one of the crucial differences between men and women, a fact that very few men and fewer women know.

In every man's body there are two small organs called "seminal vesicles". Only men have them and, although they have a profound effect on men's behaviour, men have no conscious awareness of their existence or function. The seminal vesicles are probably the most neglected organs in discussions of human sexuality.

Each seminal vesicle looks like a little wrinkled sausage about 5cm (2") long. Inside there is a coiled tube. Their function is to produce seminal fluid, which is produced continually. Since they never cease their production, the seminal vesicles keep filling up after each ejaculation, and as they fill they swell. The swelling is accompanied by elongation, just as a coiled garden hose tends to stretch out when filled with water. The seminal vesicles cannot release any of the seminal fluid other than by ejaculation.

Closely surrounding the seminal vesicles is a network of pressure sensitive nerves called the "vesicle plexus". This vesicle plexus is connected through the spinal cord to a mid-brain region known as the "hypothalamus". In the hypothalamus of men there is a uniquely male structure of specialised "neural circuits" that appear to be specifically designed to trigger sexual arousal in response from impulses received from the vesicle plexus. As each seminal vesicle swells it presses against and starts to put pressure on the nerves of the vesicle plexus that sends a message to the hypothalamus.

When the hypothalamus is energised to a sufficient level by nerve impulses from the vesicle plexus, to effect an ejaculation of seminal fluid, it causes testosterone to be released into the bloodstream. This triggers the man's conscious awareness of being in a state of sexual need.

At low levels of pressure in his seminal vesicles, activation of the man's hypothalamus barely triggers enough sexual arousal to intrude upon his consciousness - it stays in the back of his mind, so to speak, but, after minutes or hours have elapsed since his previous ejaculation, the pressure in the man's refilled seminal vesicles again reaches such a level that the release of testosterone into his bloodstream is accelerated.

At a certain point, the accelerating rate of release of the male hormone into a man's bloodstream affects his conscious mind in a uniquely male way. It has the psychological effect of sensitising the man's attention to any and all of the sexual stimuli in his environment. Consciously, the man involuntarily finds himself being intensely and powerfully distracted by sexual thoughts and fantasies as well as having his attention and interest being drawn magnetically to the females in his vicinity.

Because of his possession of the uniquely male seminal vesicles, the uniquely male structure of the hypothalamus and the uniquely male hormone testosterone, the male alone is subject throughout adult life to a compellingly distractive and recurrent sexual cycle of involuntary arousal, bodily excitation and partial ejaculation followed by temporary quiescence.

Only evacuation of the seminal vesicles by ejaculation will acquiesces a man's sexual desire and within seconds after the ejaculation a man has no sexual desire at all. Ejaculation can occur through copulation, masturbation or wet dreams. Only in very rare circumstances can semen escape through the urine.

A man with distended seminal vesicles does not experience a conscious need to ejaculate seminal fluid. He merely is aroused and sensitised to what are, for him, "sexual stimuli". It is at the point of a man's conscious sexual arousal that his sexual fantasies, generated by his individual sexual "orientation", and his unique cultural conditioning combine forces and intervene to determine a man's choice of behavioural responses, to his sexual stimuli, which for him, will be most likely to result in gratification of his sexual fantasies and satisfaction of his sexual appetite. That is why whatever constitutes sexual stimulus for one man, can leave another man coldly indifferent.

It needs to be stressed that a man is not compelled to rape in this situation, but is placed in a situation where he is constantly thinking of ways to acheive sexual release. Social, cultural and environmental conditioning along with a multitude of other factors must come into play before a man could even contemplate rape. Almost all men can channel this need for sexual release into an appropriate form of behaviour. A man in a loving and monogamous relationship will naturally and unconsciously seek to initiate sexual intercourse with his partner. This is called marriage not rape.

A man's recurrent involuntary urge for sexual activity can hit him at any moment - regardless of his ongoing activity, his situation or the availability of female company. For example it can happen while he is walking down the street, attending a finance lecture, watching a movie or driving a car. It is very frustrating for a man not to be able to have sexual intercourse when sexual arousal is activated. Men do not willingly consider masturbation to be an acceptable alternative to sexual intercourse.

Men can be sexually oriented towards women they pass in the street, even though the man knows nothing about the women's personalities, ideas of right or wrong, or their mental capabilities - men are attracted by the mere sight of the female form itself. This is due to thousands of years of evolution. The urge to ensure the survival of the species is not conducive with the emotional demands of the modern relationship.

On the other hand, whilst women might admire a man's body, there is no physiological mechanism of sexual release to be triggered in women by what women see. A woman's sexual desire is generated consciously by herself in her own mind and, unlike men, women can go through their whole life without ever having the need for a sexual thought. Women find it difficult or impossible to understand the predictable, insistent, often unromantic, subservient and indiscriminate aspects of men's sex driven advances and therefore usually express anger or contempt for them.

Very few men and fewer women understand the physiological and biochemical forces within a man's body which govern his sexuality. Better understanding will enable both men and women to maximise their sexual fulfilment.

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Seminal Vesicle: Continually produces semen and as it fills, puts pressure on the vesicle plexus.

Vesicle Plexus: A network of nerves exited by the swelling of the seminal vesicles, sends impulses to the hypothalamus.

Hypothalamus: An area in the centre of the brain which in males has neural circuits to trigger sexual arousal in response to impulses received from the vesicle plexus.

Ureter: A tube carrying urine to the bladder from the kidney.

Bladder: A reservoir for urine.

Vas Deferens: A tube carrying seminal fluid from the testicles. This is the tube which is cut and tied in a vasectomy.

Prostate Gland: Produces some seminal fluid and contributes to ejaculation.

Urethra: A tube which conveys semen or urine out of the body.

Cowper's Gland: Makes an oily substance for lubrication.

Urachus: A tube not used since birth.

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Thursday, June 8, 2006

NO LAUGHING MATTER

This morning, we received a call from our church member in New Orleans, telling us that my mother in-law and her sister's house caught fire yesterday, and suffered severe damage.

My husband and I were able to see the extent of the damage to the house on wdsu.com ("Video: Fire Destroys Three Houses In Mid-City").  Our brother-in law is there, and he had given us an up-close, detailed account of what has been destroyed. 

The family is in an uproar; my husband has been on the phone since this morning.  We are going to try and do our very best not to let the younger ones know about this yet, because they really had their heart set on going home really soon.  Now, it seems the return home for us will take longer than we expected it to.  Matthew is going back to New Orleans Saturday. 

God will take care of everything; knowing that still doesn't stop the news from being devastating.   

Adrian

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

PROPOSAL FOR DOWNTOWN NEW ORLEANS

It just might work! LOL LOL LOL LOL 

 ROTFL 

Adrian

P.S. For all who asked, yes, we did go to New Orleans, and recovery is slow, but progressive.  Click on the New Orleans news sites listed in the My Favorites section of my blog if you are interested in staying abreast of the conditions down there.  

Thursday, June 1, 2006

HELLOOOO, EVERYBODEEEEEEEE!!!!!! (LOL)

Hello, everyone!  Well, I hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend!  I know I sure did!

My husband planned a "date weekend" for me!  It was kid-free (girls stayed with Grandma in South Houston), dinner, music, movies, and...well...you know the rest.... Afro LOL LOL LOL LOL!  It was some much needed time together, and much needed rest, that was long overdue.  I enjoyed every minute of it!

My daughters started summer school/after school program today, and from what I heard from them, they had a GREAT time!!!  They were pooped, though....Maya went to bed early! LOL

I went to the Wal-Mart that is ten minutes away from my house, and they claim that there are several positions available that they can place me in.  The co-manager wants to put me in inventory control here, since I was a Merchandise Supervisor at the New Orleans store, and my expertise is, well, inventory control (LOL).  They are having my availability information and evaluations faxed to them from my store for review, and I am waiting for them to call me in.  I have to interview for this position, but I am willing to take whatever position they have available; I just want to WORK

I also found out from a friend of mine that our store received bonus checks!  Why am I surprised?  Because after working so hard to prep the store for inventory last year, some Wal-Mart big wigs came down and spoke to the associates in a store meeting.  They claimed that although we did an excellent job of making sure that EVERYTHING in the store was counted, we had a HUGE amount of shrinkage.  Shrinkage is lost or unaccounted for merchandise.  The losses cut into whatever we receive at bonus time, and because shrinkage was so high, we were not expected to receive a bonus check for that year.  So I was so happy to hear that we did get one after all, and from what I heard, it was pretty substantial!  I didn't ask them how much my check was when I called; but I did fax my address to them so that they could mail it to me.

I am washing clothes and fixing dinner now.  The pork chops smell SO good!  LOL  I will try to read all of your journals before the end of the week.  Oh, and Shermeen let me know that I have an ad for smileys showing up at the bottom of  my journal entries!  Sorry about that, guys!  The software that I am using is free, and this is their way of advertising their product.  She says that the ad isn't all that annoying (I was about to stop using it! LOL), so please excuse them.  I am not able to see the ads on my own computer, but I did see them when I pulled my journal up on someone else's computer.  God bless you all, love you, hope your weekend was a good one; PLEASE tell me about it!!!!  Bye!

 Morph 

Adrian