If I were a roller coaster, I’d be an e-Ticket

So last week at a party during our usual Q&A section where I allow anyone to ask me anything about the business or about me that they’re curious about, one of the girls asked me how embarrassing it is to go around telling people I sell sex toys. And the answer was, “I don’t. Ever. Never. You’ll never hear the words ‘i sell sex toys’ come out of my mouth.” She stared at me for a moment and then said “so how to do you tell people what you do?”

I do in-home parties for adult women featuring lotions, massage, bath products and bedroom accessories. I teach you how your body works and why it works that way. I show products that help you with your intimate relationship with your partner or by yourself. I Educate, Entertain & Empower Women. When it comes right down to it, I do comedy Sex Ed.   … Now, where in there does it say I sell sex toys?

Because if that’s all it was, I wouldn’t be doing it.

(and she agreed that it really was a better description of my job. )

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Raylene Taskoski, Senior Director
Pure Romance by Raylene • PR # 16238
Presidents Club 2008 • Board of Directors 2009/2010
O: 860.367.8056 • Web: PureRomancebyRaylene.com
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Cala and her friends need Valentine Chocolate hearts! They’re $1 at walmart. Send a bunch – I did!

Mail to:
Damien, Cala
BCO 173rd STB
SIGINT PLT
FOB SHANK
APO, AE 09364

Ok, so maybe they don’t need them, but they sure loved the ones I sent 3 weeks ago.  Other things they like – white knee socks (it’s cold over there and they wear them at PT), chips, salsa, snacks, books, crossword books.

Everyone sends stuff at Christmas but then the rest of the year they tend to forget that they’re still there.

Cala Kisses her Afghanistan Snow Man.

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Raylene Taskoski, Senior Director
Pure Romance by Raylene • PR # 16238
Presidents Club 2008 • Board of Directors 2009/2010
O: 860.367.8056 • C: 860.367.3920 • Web: PureRomancebyRaylene.com
Book a Party • Become a Consultant • Request a Catalog • Place an Order

Not sure what to call this tip — money saving? just plain smart? Either way it’s a Win•Win•Win for all involved and I’m always surprised by how many people don’t do this one thing that Mike and I always do when buying gift cards at an establishment in which we are already eating.

How many restaurants do you know that are offering a bonus of some sort for YOU in January if you buy $X in gift cards right now? I know off the top of my head Outback and Margs and there are many, many more. If you get a $25 gift card at Margs, you get a $5 gift award to use in January. If you buy a $100 worth of cards at Outback, you get $20 to use in January.

Mike and I generally spend around $60 or $70 at an average evening at Margs so we buy a $75 gift card (and here’s the key) use it to pay for our meal that night and now we have $15 in reward cards banked to use in January. (let’s be real, we have $45 banked already … we eat there a lot!!) (and we checked, they can all be used together). The same thing at Outback. I was already there eating dinner with a friend so I bought a $50 GC and two $25 Gift Cards. I used one of the $25’s to pay for my meal, the other 2 are gifts and voila – I have $20 to spend in January. At Subway, I bought a $10 GC and got a free cookie and then used the GC to buy my lunch.

The important thing is that it doesn’t cost me one thin dime more to do this and if I don’t use the reward cards I didn’t lose anything and neither did the restaurant … but if I decide to go out to margs or Outback one night in January because I have the rewards cards, I and the restaurant both win.  (OK, it cost subway a cookie … I think they will survive!)

Call that a Win•Win•Win tip from RayRay!

…raylene

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Raylene Taskoski, Senior Director
Pure Romance by Raylene • PR # 16238
Presidents Club 2008 • Board of Directors 2009
O: 860.367.8056 • C: 860.367.3920 • Web: PureRomancebyRaylene.com
Book a Party • Become a Consultant • Request a Catalog • Place an Order

Here’s the thing about ADD meds. You need to keep them somewhere safe and obvious because if you leave them on your messy desk and you start to move things around to try to find them, you’ll find that card that you forgot to mail because you didn’t know their address and so you’ll call your mom to get the address and talk for 45 minutes about everything EXCEPT the address and then forget why you called to begin with, which makes you laugh and realize that you’ve forgotten to take your ADD meds. Wash Rinse Repeat. *sigh*

…raylene

BRITNEY SPEARS is SEXUALLY ABUSING MY DAUGHTER! OK, I looked it up and it’s not really sexual abuse to introduce this crap to our kids, but seriously. Three? Really?

‘Cause this morning, in the car on the radio, I was enjoying the damned song, (because it has such a fun dancy beat)  but fully realizing how wrong the song is and Sara is also enjoying the song and I say, “this song is inappropriate for you. It’s ALL about sex!” and she said, “I know, it’s on my iPod” and I said, “do you know what she’s singing about?” and she said “Yes, sex with 3 people.”

And I almost threw up in my mouth.

Wow. Things that make me burst into tears. “Holy Crap, I forgot about my cell phone bill. It’s due Tuesday. Oh crap. Oh crap.” [cue cell phone ringing]. ‘Hi Raylene, this is Beth from the corporate office. I just wanted to let you know that you were one of the winners of the Cash Giveaway this weekend. You’ve won $250 and we’ll be sending you a check tomorrow.’

and this is the post I was writing 5 seconds before I remembered the Cell Phone Bill: It is November 3rd and I have paid all of the bills due through the end of November plus I have half of Decembers payments already stored in my savings account. I have $1200 in overrides sitting on my ADP card, a significant amount of cash to carry with us and a fairly large override hitting my card on 11/10. I will not worry while I’m in Hawaii. It’s all mahalo from tomorrow through 11/15.

I call myself an eticket for a reason.

I started taking my ADD meds again today for the first time in many weeks. After I first stopped taking them I didn’t notice too much change but over the last few days I’ve seen some old, i dunno what to call them, tics, traits, habits, THINGS that I don’t like suddenly start showing up again. I swear I never truly realized how bad it was before. I have these complete brain stops if someone is talking to me and I’m trying to do something else or I want to be doing something else and you can hear it if you’re on the phone with me or see when you’re talking to me. It’s like the conscious side of brain is saying “this person is talking to you, stay focused!” and the ADD side of my brain is screaming LOOK A CHICKEN. LOOK AT IT. LOOOOOOOOOK! and then I’m talking to you and I’m like, “yeah. what? wait. I. ugh! I. wait. uhmmm.”  

The other thing I noticed was reading… I guess I never thought I was ADD before because I could sit down and read a book without a problem … the problem was that if I sat down to read a book I would do nothing until that book was done. And THAT my friends, is classic hyper-focusing.  And who do you think powered through not one, not two, but THREE books in 2 days? to the detriment of nearly everything else? That would be me.

One other thing, I’ve noticed an extreme increase in power noshing at night. I don’t know whether is has to do with not being on meds, or just the bodies desire to fatten up for the winter, or my brain desire to sabotage my trip to Hawaii, but it’s gross.

So back to meds. If I don’t like the way the new increased dosage makes me feel, I’ll just call the dr and ask her to put me on the lower dose again or we’ll have to try something else.

So. Speaking of books. I just read The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game because I saw the preview for it at the movies the other day, and I can’t wait for the movie to come out because it has Sandra Bullock in it and I LOVE Sandra Bullock. I got the book because I wanted to find out about Michael Ohers life right now. The problem is, the book really IS more about the Evolution of the Game of Football than it is about Michael Oher. I mean, Michael’s Story is in there, but it’s interspersed between long passages about football and how the game has changed over the last 20 years and because of the change in football, why there is even a need for someone like Michael on the field. The movie most definitely will be the human interest side of the story, the book is not so much.

On the bright side, learning is never bad and I now know quite a bit about the position of Left Tackle and  the Quarterbacks blind side, which will come in handy never. But whatever, I took algebra too.

Off to work now. I have to figure out how to make 12 catalogs last through 4 parties this weekend. *whoops* I guess no one can take them home, that’s all! Heck I had a party once with 4 girls no catalogs, no order forms, no internet access {!} and still had a $400 show, so if anyone can do it, it’s me!!

…raylene

Bike
48:28
10.21 miles

OK, so after the 3.5 miler this weekend, [which I ran without stopping and finished 75th out of 87] it became pretty evident that I do, in fact, have plantar fasciitis  and running is not going to be possible until I let it heal and lose some damned weight. If you have no idea what that is, it basically feel like you have a hot coal shoved into your heel every time you put your foot down. It’s worse in the morning and after standing after any period of inactivity.

So, I biked today. Because I liked it when everyone kept telling me it looks like I’ve lost some weight. Time to lose a few more pounds and get those compliments coming again … plus I’m leaving for hawaii in 44 days and I’d like my clothes to fit on the first day AND the last day.

I still can’t figure out why my iTouch insists on playing the SAME songs every time it’s on random. There are SO many awesome songs on there and it insists on playing mostly fergie and good charlotte. Geez.

…raylene

I’m freakin’ MacGyver today! Instead of being dismayed that the dorm window was a LOT wider than I’d imagined, I used a mini-pink stapler, the too long and too narrow 54 x 84 curtain, two command hooks, some ribbon and a dowel to create two 42 x 54 curtains WITH tie backs. And it looks *high pitch* awesome!

Plus, I used a plain 18 x 24  pink poster frame, a pink & black feather boa, a silver marker and a little more ribbon to make a cool message board for Tori’s friends to write messages and she can change the paper when she needs to and save it if she wants.

M2 would be so proud.

I ran! Again! It was so hard! Did I mention I hate running? I did 2 miles, I wanted to do 3 but I just couldn’t, it was too hot. and I’m a wimp. I ran most of the lap and then there was like a 50 foot space that I allowed myself to walk and then right back to running again. I’m a little concerned because the bottom of my foot hurts, right on my heel. First thing in the morning it’s pretty bad, but then it loosens up a bit and it just aches. Doesn’t sound good though. I have a 3.5 mile run on September 19th that I’d prefer not to die during so I have to keep adding a little bit more each time. I wish I hadn’t gotten off track. *sigh*

My bike tire was flat again yesterday morning so I missed my ride. I think I need another new tube. I replaced the front tube when I started riding so the back one probably needs replacing now. Instead I spent the day drinking rum by the pool at a friends house and jumping off a rope swing. No lie! I did it 3 times! I bought all the stuff that Tori needs for her dorm today. ka*ching.

Drop off day is Saturday. I’ll probably cry even though I keep telling her I won’t.

…raylene