Color is such an important factor in many
of our lives that we often don’t realize the signals we
receive from it. Just as red means stop and green means go, our
minds perceive colors as messages telling something about what
is to come, the atmosphere or a personality.
Does your hair color affect other’s reactions to you? Will it
make a difference in your chances of getting the job?
The human eye can see 7000,000 colors. Studies have been done to
tell what colors are productive for office buildings, restful
for bedrooms and healing for doctor’s offices and hospital
rooms. Experts even know what colors will increase the appetite
in fast food restaurants.
Since it is clear that color sends a subliminal message, lets
look at what your hair color may be telling about you. According
to my investigations, these are some typical first impressions
about hair color. Reactions to a color include both the positive
and the negative depending on the beholder.
Extra Light Blond: This is the color I think of when I think of
Marilyn Monroe. It gives a glamorous, youthful, feminine and
vulnerable appearance. On the negative side the wearer can be
seen as frivolous or not capable.
Peachy Blonde: This is a warm and inviting shade with youthful
charm. It doesn’t seem to evoke the same negative feelings as
the extra light blond.
Golden or Orangey: This hair color reminds me of Lucille Ball. A
glowing, bright and cheerful color although it can be seen as
“loud” or brassy.
True red: Giving the appearance of someone who has fiery and
passionate spirit, the color can also be construed as angry and
unreasonable. Many a redhead has been called “Hot Tempered”
without reason.
Brown: Brown seems to be a reliable, no-nonsense color. It can
also be construed as a color without imagination.
Dark Brown and Black: Very dark hair is often seen as mysterious
or artistic. Unfortunately it can also be seen as shadowy and
untrustworthy.
Beige or Taupe Blond: These are thought to be warm, practical
and classic colors. On the negative side, they are seen to be
colorless and unexciting.
Gray: Gray hair denotes wisdom. With that, it also denotes old
age.
White: White makes one think of someone pure and clean like
grandma. On the negative side it makes one think of someone of
grandma’s age.
All of these are general findings and are first impression
images. The positive and negative reactions can be altered by
something as simple as a smiling face, an energetic stride or
the clothing worn. The important thing to remember is that hair
color does affect how you are perceived.
Because you need it
Why Older Chicks Rule
By Andy Rooney 60 minutes
Submitted by Ken Moore Sumiton, AL
This is for all you girls 40 years and over.... and for those who are
turning 40, and for those who are scared of moving into their 50's...AND
60's....and for guys who are scared of girls over 40!!!!
As I grow in age, I value women who are over 40 most of all. Here are
just a few reasons why:
A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask,
"What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think.
If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit
around whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it's
usually something more interesting.
A woman over 40 knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is,
what she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of 40
give a hoot what you might think about her or what she's doing.
Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you
at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if
you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can
get away with it.
Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what
it's like to be unappreciated. A woman over 40 has the self-assurance to
introduce you to her women friends. A younger woman with a man will
often ignore even her best friend because she doesn't trust the guy with
other women. Women over 40 couldn't care less if you're attracted to her
friends because she knows her friends won't betray her.
Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a
woman over 40. They always know.
A woman over 40 looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true
of younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is
far sexier than her younger counterpart.
Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you
are a jerk if you are acting like one! You don't ever have to wonder
where you stand with her.
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately,
it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman
of 40+, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of
himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
Ladies, I apologize.
For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk
for free", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against
marriage, why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire
pig, just to get a little sausage.
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The High-Tech Housewife is back, ready to supercharge an organized home with her Palm PDA. Complete guide to using Palm organizers for home management: Tap. Tap. Tap. Today, personal digital assistants, or PDAs, are everywhere. Checking coupons at the supermarket, tracking game scores on the tennis court. or providing reading material in waiting rooms, small palmtop computers have intriguing applications for managing home and family. This High-Tech Housewife wouldn't leave home without her Palm Vx! Light, fast, easy to use, Palm has captured nearly 80% of the PDA market. While there are other PDA possibilities, from Microsoft-based Pocket PC to Cassiopeia to Handspring, this article focuses on the dominant products from Palm, Inc. Come on in! Whether you're a curious newbie or a Palm power user, you'll find tips, links and information to supercharge home organization and management with Palm PDAs. Ready? Set? Tap ... for an organized home: high-tech housewife links Well, for those of us behind the door when domestic smarts were handed out, devising and maintaining a workable home management system is no light matter. Yes, there are some to whom it is sufficient to say, "Clean the house!" and all falls into place. By training or inheritance or just plain luck, the domestically-gifted know where to start, what to clean, and how often to clean it. They don't even have to think about it; managing their household, from cleaning to menu planning to information management, is as natural to them as breathing. The rest of us, deprived of this miracle of intuition, know that home management has to be planned, scheduled, and carried out on a regular basis. That, ladies and gentlemen, calls for a home management system: a tracking mechanism designed to get housework done more-or-less regularly, information more-or-less recorded and meals planned, purchased and prepared more-or-less on time. Traditional wisdom prescribes a paper-based home management system. Entire books have been written on the minutia of setting up such systems, with detailed instructions and fill-in forms. Writers in this genre may differ in the way they lay out their systems--flippers or notebooks or index cards--but all concur on the basic elements for a home management system:
All in all, these systems add up to one heck of a lot of writing. Enter the high-tech housewife, who asks the central question: "wouldn't it be easier to do this on a computer?" Exactly. In today's business world, no secretary--excuse me, administrative assistant--would dream of recording appointments, schedules, and contact information in a hand-written paper-based system. There, this need is handled through computer software programs known as PIMs: Personal Information Managers. Trouble is, adapting a business-based PIM to the needs of a home manager isn't always easy. Where do you put the car pool schedule for the soccer team? How do you list baby-sitters in the Contacts database? Unless you're a super-alpha geek, it's not easy to make an old business dog learn new domestic tricks. Have home management computer software programs have solved the problem? Read on to learn more about how a high tech housewife runs her home: It seems only natural. Home management systems require calendars, contact tracking, to-do lists and tickler files. How better to handle these tasks than with a computer? Enter home management software. Programs bearing this name began cropping up in shareware several years ago. CEO envisions the birth of the category something like this: high-tech housewife is married to true code-crunching computer geek--the kind of guy who dreams in PERL. Housewife says, "Honey, you should make a computer program for all the stuff we need to do around here--you'd sell a million of them!" Husband gives no outward sign that he has heard her and continues his assault on the Death Star. One week later, husband proudly calls housewife into the den and presents her with his heart's delight: a "home management" program designed to contain databases for Star Trek videos, rock CDs, bulk purchases from Price-Costco and his collection of 3000 beer bottle labels. An upscale version might include "The Wine Cellar", "Inside The Humidor" and "My Boat Maintenance Record." One programmer's idea of "all the stuff we need to do around here." These programs, and they are legion in the world of shareware, are not exactly what the High Tech Housewife had in mind. They're heavy on the databases, tracking information you never knew you had. While most include a calendar function (with complete dates for Comdex to the year 2025), the central component is usually missing: an integrated calendar, tickler file and to-do list that manage and track 90% of the chores it takes to make a home. [CEO's private opinion is that this oversight is an accurate depiction of male-female chore division in most marriages, media surveys-of-the-month notwithstanding. It ain't here, in other words, because male programmers don't know that housework is "stuff we need to do around here."] An Organized Home went looking. To evaluate home management software programs, we looked for these elements: Been dreaming of using a computer to supercharge household chores? Oh, if only! Wake up, home managers, the day is here. FamilyTime software is designed to shoulder an array of home organization duties from scheduling to meal planning. Best of all, the FamilyTime software is available free by mail, simply by filling in a form on the Web. Is FamilyTime the answer to your home management needs? What's FamilyTime?The folks at FamilyTime designed this product with input from homemakers. FamilyTime offers a scheduling calendar, to-do list, family records organizer, meal planner, recipes, a shopping list function and a guide to money-saving offers and promotions on the Internet. The software provides weekly recipe and promotional updates via the FamilyTime Web site. Connect to the Internet, push the "update" button, and new recipes and money-saving offers will be downloaded to your computer. Easy Installation:Installation is simple for most users: insert the CD in the CD-Rom drive, and Win 9x's auto insert function starts the installation program. Disabled auto insert on your system? Run the program from the Start Menu's Run dialog box. Instructions for either install routine are included in the program's User Guide. Explore FamilyTime Features:Once installed, register online to take advantage of the integrated Web site update feature. Next, add family members to the program in order to explore the calendar and family records functions. Busy mothers will appreciate the easy-to-use Calendar. Each family member has a separate calendar, but all family appointments and events can be viewed, color-coded by family member, by clicking on the "All" tab. Family Records permit the user to record information about pets, contacts, children, medical information, home maintenance, and a home inventory. FamilyTime's strongest features are the Meal Schedule and Shopping List functions. Set up a staples list, plan menus, or make shopping lists--and the results are easy to print, grab and go. Click Recipes to add a special recipe to the Meal Schedule or Shopping List. Add your own recipes, or use the numerous recipes included with the program, or added through online updates. Finally, tightwads and frugal fiends will love the Savings function. Savings is a database of online or mail-in offers, updated weekly. Click each category to find special offers on products from automotive to clothing to food to health and beauty products. Is There A Catch?Sound too good to be true? FamilyTime is easy to install, easy to use, and a fairly comprehensive home organization product. They're giving it away, free. So what's the catch? No catch, really, but keep two points in mind as you investigate this product: privacy concerns, and limitations of the software functions. Privacy Issues:First, this company's revenue will be derived largely from the Internet component: advertising, product partnerships, and other relationships designed to use FamilyTime to connect to home decision-makers. Will there be a potential privacy issue using FamilyTime? FamilyTime addresses these concerns, pointing out that the only personal information transmitted over the Internet will be the user's zip code. You can read their privacy statement at the FamilyTime Web site. Taking advantage of the Savings offers is another matter. Most request extensive personal information, including name, address, demographic and marketing data. Because the Savings offers are made by third parties independent of FamilyTime, they're not bound by FamilyTime's privacy policy. Be warned! Responding to these offers may lead to an avalanche of direct mail and e-mail. Review your own family's privacy policies before you go online to take advantage of these special offers. Product Limitations:Second, be aware that FamilyTime, while easy and intuitive, won't replace many functions better served by other software. Neither a true PIM (personal information manager) nor a full-fledged database, FamilyTime has limitations on the way it can compile and manipulate data. For example, there is no Import or Export function included with Family Records. Should you move up to a PIM like Franklin Planner or purchase a PDA (personal digital assistant), don't expect to be able to transfer FamilyTime information to another software product without tedious re-typing. FamilyTime's Recipes won't replace a full-featured cooking software product like Sierra's Mastercook. Yes, you can enter your own recipes in FamilyTime, but if you make an error, the HTML storage format won't permit you to edit or correct the recipe. While you can e-mail recipes to others, you won't be able to import or export your recipes to other programs or other users--central functions in today's cooking software. On the other hand, FamilyTime is an ideal program for new computer users, or for those who don't need the advanced capabilities of more costly, more complicated software. Even advanced users will want FamilyTime for the things it does best: menu planning and shopping list generation. An Organized Home synopsis:Fast, fun and free, FamilyTime is a great addition to a computer-savvy home manager's software shelf. Harnessing the interactive power of the Internet, the program truly shines with menu planning and shopping list functions. Don't expect FamilyTime to replace your PIM or cooking software, but considering the price, it's a great package for high-tech housewives interested in more organized home management. didn't meet all our criteria for "home management computer software"--but we couldn't pass up this unique program. Designed to organize housework and menu planning, Chore Genie deserves special mention. It's the perfect complement to a more traditional home management program. Chore Genie does two functions and does them well: organize household chores and make monthly menu plans. Users run the Chore Builder to assemble a chore database. Frequency, time of day, location and chore-doer can all be modified to create a unique job list for any family. Alternately, Wecosoft offers a "starter" database of over 200 chores available through their Web site. Download this database to start the Chore Builder with many common chores included. It's easy to modify, delete or add any further chores your household requires. Once the Chore Builder has built a database, custom chore lists can be generated by time (daily or weekly), or by assignee (daily, weekly or Master). Want the whole depressing caboodle? Click the Master Chore List, read it, and weep. Chore lists display on the monitor, or may be printed for refrigerator posting. The print function produces chore checklists for any family member--or for all. There is no "but you didn't tell me!" wiggle room with these lists. No refrigerator should be without them! New in version 2.0: Menu Builder, a menu planning function. Run the Menu Wizard to setup the Menu Builder, and banish the "what's for dinner" blues, creating menus for up to five weeks. What, the family doesn't like liver twice in one month (or once in one month)? No problem. The Menu Builder is easy to change and customize--and the user need never sweat over menu plans again. Chore Genie 2.0 is supported by a full array of Web and e-mail support options. A message board and e-mail support request forms are available at Wecosoft's Web site. This is a family affair; you're likely to correspond with Jeannie Weeks over chat or ICQ to smooth out any problems. Stay tuned: other Chore Genie users share sharing menus and recipes in Genie's Corner, while Jeannie posts a regular e-mail loop to share Chore Genie tips and pointers. Our install and setup went smoothly, as did the installation routine for the supplementary database. The program is easy-to-use and intuitive; you won't be squinting at rows of meaningless little buttons here. If you're totally drowning in chaos and don't know where to start, Chore Genie provides a fast, computerized alternative to those paper-based authors and their flippers and file cards. With Chore Genie 2.0, set up a database once, and get a firm grasp on the housework forever. Of course, persuading family members to follow through on their jobs is a matter for another time . . . . Chore Genie 2.0 runs on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT systems. It requires a 486 or better CPU, 8 megs RAM and 8 megs hard disk space for installation. Chore Genie 2.0 is shareware. You may download a fully-functional version of the software here, and use it for 60 days for evaluation. Registration is $19.95. winter preparedness checklistWhen wintry weather blows, will your family be prepared? Take time now to review your family's emergency preparedness: out and about:Will your home welcome winter visitors ... safely? Be prepared for snow, ice or rain on walks and driveways with:
the inside story:Household emergency supplies should include enough food, water and supplies to last four days without power or help. Check your home emergency kit against this basic checklist:
on the road:Winter transportation can mean ice, snow, and hazardous roads. Road conditions can change in an instant. Before traveling, give cars a winter preparedness exam:
Make sure automobiles contain the following emergency supplies:
When traveling by car, include emergency food and clothing for each traveler. Pack supplies in a backpack in case you need to abandon your car. An emergency backpack should include:
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