My Life As A Mommy Mogul

To tell you guys who called us this week asking us to Fedex overnight 2 of our beer soaps for consideration in her magazine.  We should know by Monday if we are in or not!  I won’t say it totally, so I won’t jinx myself, but her initials are RR

Will keep you updated!

This is an interesting case:

Man Seeks Custody Of Son

I really think that men should have more rights when it comes to their kids. If this were the other way around, and it was him that abducted the child and took him to Brazil, the mother would have had him back years ago.  But since he is a man then there is some kind of a problem? To make matters worse the wife is now dead, and the family of the wife won’t give the boy up. I think there are many unanswered questions to this story.  One would be what made the mom run off to Brazil anyway?  Was she having an affair (judging by how fast she married other other guy?)  Was she being abused? I guess now we will never know.  But the fact remains that the boy’s biological father wants him, and he has every right to him.

Woman walks away unharmed after being trapped under train

Now that I read about it, I see that she was actually trying to commit suicide.  Well, she did not try hard enough.  Wouldn’t she just throw herself in front of the train?  Or lay across the tracks?  I have always said that if a person lives after trying to commit suicide, they did not really want to die in the first place, and should seek psychiatric help immediately.

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Well, it looks like I will be leaving earlier than expected.  Since we are driving to New Orleans, we just decided to go from there to Florida, rathen than driving back to Cleveland for 19 hours, and then driving back down to Florida for another 18 hours.  Changing our route saves us almost $400 in gas, and saves us a day of driving time.  I know we will be pooped out after that, so a 5 day rest will probably be called for.

This past week I retook pictures of all my soaps. I also redid all of the solid perfume pictures. I want to send a big “Thank you!” shoutout to Amina on Coup de Coeur for featuring the solid perfumes and our beer soaps! She has one gorgeous blog, and she is a total product diva!

What do you think of the new pics:

Next on the agenda are body butter pics, roll on pics, and other items. Once my latest batch of deodorant is finished, I will be holding off on making more till I am back in Florida. I am working on a new recipe that eliminates the use of propylene glycol.

The new look for the website is not complete yet, but I am hoping for a completion this week. Until then, please check out the latest collection on Etsy.

I will be in Chicago for 1 day on Monday. I am accompanying my kid sister there to help her find an apartment (she’s going to DePaul for grad school), then coming back home. So glad to get out of the city, even if it is to just walk around another one for a day, lol. Who would pass up a chance to go to Chicago anyway! Last time I was in Chicago was almost 9 years ago for a fencing match.

I will also be out of town from the 19th till the 22nd. Going to New Orleans for J’s best friend’s wedding. He is the best man in the wedding. Which reminds me, I need to pick out a nice style for my mom to sew for me to wear!

Then we are only going to be back in Cleveland for a few days while we pack up the house for our move to Florida. We finally settled on living in Homestead. Its about the only place in southern Florid where you can get a house that is over 2000 square feet with multiple floors for less than $2000 a month. So we might be buying there next year, we shall see. I can’t wait! I grew up in a huge house, and literally I feel claustrophobic in anything smaller. Plus our business is just about to swallow us and I need space.

Time to go an wake my kiddo up for school, talk to you later!

Lisa Barr, an amazingly wonderful writer over at NY Bridal Examiner wrote up a great feature about The Beer Soap Company:

Grooms -Wash Your Mouth Out With Beer Soap

Thank you so much Lisa!  I am hoping by this time next summer beer soap will grace many wedding favor table across the coutry!

I like my underwires as much as the next gal.  I mean, something has to keep these 36D bad boys in check.  But after reading this:

Death by Underwire

I might be ditching them all.  That and the fact that underwires have been linked to causing breast cancer.  Perhaps I should just start strapping them down with an ace bandage like Hillary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry.

Think this is bad, how about dieing by drowning in molasses, what a sweet way to go:

Death by Molasses

I was driving the kids to school today and heard on the radio about the 20 year old that saw a cop speeding and chased him down. Here is the video, be warned, there is a lot of profanity in it so watch at your own risk:

The guy to me was incredibly stupid, and given his age, quite immature. But…I have often felt that if cops want us to obey the law, they should lead by example. So often I have seen cops flying down the highway, or residential neighborhoods, no sirens, nothing at all, speeding for nothing. Or running red lights for no good reason. There should be no reason for them to be doing 90 mph unless absolutely necessary.

My babysitter’s husband is a cop, and she tells me that they have to carry the highest grade of insurance and its pretty expensive, considering that a lot of cops are reckless drivers when they are not behind the wheel of the police car. I have seen him flying down a few roads in one of their cars.

Just because you are in a squad car and you have a badge and a gun does not make you immune to the same rules everyone else has to follow. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for police officers, and I am happy they are there to protect us. I just don’t want to be hit one day by a squad car going 90 mph without its sirens on.

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An amber alert was also released while I was in the car. Some guy in Elyria has kidnapped his ex girlfriend and their 10 month old daughter and 3 year old son at gun point. He is in a 2007 silver Ford Fusion, considered armed and dangerous, headed to Lorain to kill the girlfriend’s new boyfriend.

I do hope the girl and the kids pull through this, but I tell you, cases like this do not always end well.

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A pharmacist in Oklahoma shot and killed a 16 year old male after the 16 year old and a friend attempted to rob the pharmacy:

Here’s The Story

You know, its hard for me to feel bad for people who break the law, no matter how old they are. If you do not want to get shot, don’t rob people. But I am puzzled as to why the pharmacist came back and opened fire 5 more times on a guy that was already shot in the head. My only explanation is that he was in shock.

I am interested in seeing how this one goes.

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Great Cavs game last night! I am so happy that Cleveland managed to beat Orlando, and I hope they can pull through and beat them in the next 2 games. They need to bulk up on the defense (Anderson Varejao is an absolute clown, I swear he makes me laugh with all of antics on the court!) Always falling even when no one is near him. What’s up with that. I was pretty upset when they had over 20 points in the lead, and then Orlando caught up with them so fast. Don’t get lazy with the shots guys! Grab that lead and stick with it.

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Well, I have to go, my daughter’s school just called and apparently she left her jacket in the car, and I have to go and drop it off because they are going to be outside today, and of course, its 50 something degrees at the end of May in Cleveland Ohio.