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9. You’ll need to take bubble baths. Lots and lots of bubble baths. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Take one whenever you can. Every night if you need it. Then do what I do and marinate yourself in some olive oil lotion. Mmm.

Okay, this is going to be a “random thoughts” post because I was going to do this anyway, but I didn’t realize that it was going to be my 500th post. So maybe this is anticlimactic? I don’t know. Either way, there are some fun things I’m including here! Some will be added later this evening, including a coupon for free food, so you’ll want to come back for that.

• Today is $1 Tan Day at Tan & Tone America in the OKC metro area. All 17 locations. If you would like to find one near you, visit TanandToneAmerica.com and go fry your innards on your lunch break.

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8. You’ll need your security blanket more than ever. Embrace her. She’s been your faithful friend for over 24 years now and though she’s nearly in shreds and people give you funny looks and call you Linus, she’s definitely someone you can lean on right now.

I was blipping this morning and decided to share. In second grade (1992) we did this awesome musical. In it we sang this song.

And around that time, this was the look I was rockin’.

Or me forgetting to post yesterday. Whoops.

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6. You will wake up from a good night of sleep and still be tired. Combat this with the nectar of the gods–coffee AND 7. You will look like you’ve had no sleep. Try not to scare your readers by covering your face with your hair that has gotten terribly long. Fail at not scaring them by resembling a Cousin It and That Scary Chick from The Ring hybrid.

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5. You’ll start to scrimp and save as a good deal of your funds go toward things like tulle and cardstock and stampsMYGOODNESSthestamps. One way to save is to turn off the heat/air conditioning. I experience temperature changes like a menopausal woman anyway, so you may see me bundled up in a blanket one moment and doing chores around the house in my bathing suit the next. Whatever works.

Our big news hit the local papers this week. Last weekend it was in the Pauls Valley Daily Democrat and today in The Duncan Banner. Of course, the Banner managed to mess it up a little (When do they NOT? Can someone please answer this?), but I thought I’d share the text of the announcement that appeared in the PVDD last weekend (written by moi).

Elizabeth Michelle Johnson and Kevin Blackmon Crumpler, both of Norman, have selected Saturday, June 6, 2009, as the day they will exchange vows at 6 o’clock in the evening at Bethel Church in Duncan, Oklahoma.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Tim and Nita Johnson of Pernell.

She is the granddaughter of Arnold and Wynema Johnson of Ratliff City, Gerald and Barbara Wheeler of Duncan, and Sally Griffin of Weir, Texas.

The prospective groom is the son of Stewart and Susan Crumpler of Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

He is the grandson of Julia Mae Crumpler and the late John Franklin Crumpler of Clinton, North Carolina, Robert and Phyllis Kohler of Currituck, North Carolina, and the late Catherine Luceil Kohler.

The bride-elect graduated from Elmore City – Pernell High School in 2003. She received a bachelor’s degree in English – Writing from the University of Oklahoma in 2008. She is employed by a church media company in Norman.

The prospective groom graduated from Magruder High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1999. He received a bachelor’s degree in history in 2004. In 2009 he will complete his teaching certification and will begin his career as an educator in the fall.

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4. You will forget things. Like the fact that a human being needs to consume a certain amount of water to not go crazy or die. So, if you’d like to stay sane and out of urgent care in the middle of a workday where a doctor asks you if you’ve been drinking enough water and you can’t recall the last full glass you’ve had, drink some water. Eight glasses per day, ladies. You’ll thank me.

Don’t kid yourselves. It will be the robots. Have you seen Artificial Intelligence? *shudder*

They’ve created this little monster in Japan.

Not exactly Kid Sister or My Buddy. You can read more about her here.

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3. Things will fall by the wayside. Like getting haircuts. And then you’ll have split ends. My advice is to go ahead and let it be things like haircuts, pruning your fruit trees, and scrubbing the baseboards that you push aside. Not something like, oh, I don’t know…showering.