First Class, baby

I'm just a simple Classic girl from Cleveland with a taste for Champagne and ... First Class. Now, despite my 'disadvantaged' start living in the mistake on the lake (I prefer to call it a hidden gem), I've had the good fortune to fly First Class for business reasons a plethora of times and a few times for personal trips using miles.

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Download It for Goodness Sake

Some of you may be wondering what Craigslist has to do with downloading music & movies. Simple. It's a cheap labor source for someone to download FOR you (that is if you don't have ready access to cheap teenage labor). We are here to implore you to do the easy thing and transfer all your DVDs, CDs and LPs onto your computer and iPod. Actually an external hard drive would probably be the better source so it doesn't bog down your computer memory. Or even an offsite place like Mozy because hard drives sometimes fail.

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Consider It Done

Classics and Organic Structure often do a LOT of things for themselves because it's cheaper as they value their own labor at $0. It's as if we'd never heard the old economic saying "Time = Money." Here's the problem with this line of thinking, it means we don't value our free time. We should. It's often the difference between sanity and well, you know. 

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Making Mountains of Photos into Molehills

Here's why you have to stop doing traditional albums and printing photos beyond those intended for decorative frames. First, photos disintegrate. Second, most personality types rarely take albums out. Third, there is an easier, better way that doesn't involve shoe boxes of photos waiting for you to put them into an album.

 

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Low Carb Madness

I lasted on The Carb Addicts diet exactly THREE days. In it, you can’t eat carbs during the day, but after dinner you can eat as much as you want, or something to the effect. I was so hungry and CRAZED by dinner that I overate all the healthy food. It turned me in a rabid hungry beast. I did not even wait to find out if it worked.

My mom, however, an Organic Structure (and my dad a Smart Structure) were able to do this program and the weight melted off. But mom contends that it was difficult and hard and, well, she didn’t keep the weight off. It’s hard to sustain this kind of abstinence from food, especially when you’re craving it. Also, when your body kind of needs it.

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