Who's On Your Freebie List?

Image: The Cradle-Robbing Martini Marauders 1999

Whenever my girlfriends and I get together for a Girls' Night Out, we always talk about the latest versions of our freebie lists.
The revelations usually take place just after dinner. We're relaxed, enjoying dessert, a little buzzed, and primed for some laughter and the inevitable swooning. It's one of my favourite times of the evening.

If you've watched Friends, you'll know what the "freebie list" is. For those who don't know, the freebie list is the list of famous people you can bed with the permission of your significant other, if you are able to lure them to your lair in the first place.

I'm sure, for a group of smokin'-hot babes, my girls and I would all have a decent chance with the dudes on our lists - if only we'd move to Hollywood, choose the guys that were still alive, and not have to invent a time machine to hook up with the hotties in question. Yes, I'm looking at you, sly and myrtle! "Sean Connery but only in Darby O'Gill and the Little People", indeed! Pfft!

Ross' laminated list had only 5, but we increased our lists to 10. For this post, I'll only reveal my top 5.

So, how about you? Have you made your own list? Who's on it?

Okay, without further ado, here's my Top 5...

Gerard Butler
My #1, this dude's appeal is that he's not a pretty-boy. Smart and funny, Ger would make a one-night-stand entertaining in more ways than one.
It's rather disturbing that, in some pictures, he looks eerily like Roomie. I mean, fantasizing about a guy that looks just like your spouse shows such a lack of imagination. But it also means I'm married to my fantasy guy. :)

Eric Bana
He was hot in Troy... well, who wasn't hot in Troy?! But he was truly the apex of hottitude in that movie, outshining even Brad Pitt, to me at least. Harmzie might disagree. :)


Olivier Martinez
Restaurant bathroom scene, Unfaithful... just watch it and you'll understand. :) Kylie's a lucky girl. He's also known as the Brad Pitt of France... do you see it? I do... a little.


Richard Dean Anderson
He never did anything for me as McGyver, but as Jack O'Neill in Stargate SG-1, wow. He rocks that black t-shirt when he runs. :) Once again, the humour is a big factor.


Sting
Requires no justification, n'est pas? :)

Okay, now you! I can't wait to see who's on your lists!

I'm on the Cover of Cosmo!

But first...

Isn't this cool?!!! I love gadgets like this... cool, modern and green.

A solar powered shaver... I think it would be perfect for traveling, no? It's only 10 x 5.5 x 1.5cm so you can just stuff it in your toilet bag, briefcase or even in your pocket. And you don't have to bring a whole charging unit or go searching for an outlet. Throw it on the dash of your car, and you're good to go. It's £34.99 @ ecotopia.co.uk

Meant for men, it may not be something women can use. If you try it, let me know... I'm curious... :)

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Check it out!!! This is me on the cover of Cosmo! Yes, the editors have finally come to their senses and called me to be their next cover model...

Yeah, I wish... :)

If you want to see yourself as a Cosmo Girl, now's your chance! Just go here, like I did:

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/fun/cover/

Goods 4 Girls

You all probably know about the new Always and Tampax initiatives to supply menstrual hygiene products to African school girls. These young ladies would typically stay at home from school during their periods, and with these products, they don't have to miss a single day or fall behind.

Unfortunately, the garbage produced by the plastic applicators, bleached cottons, and synthetic fibres of these disposable products just create an added burden on communities that burn their solid waste.

And burning plastic is not nice... try inhaling them fumes!

Fortunately, there's Goods 4 Girls, a greener initiative that works with aid and relief organizations to bring new, reusable cloth menstrual pads to areas of Africa with adequate water supply for washing.

Not only is this a more environmentally friendly alternative, it also eliminates the dependence on outside aid organizations for a continual supply of menstrual products. Super sweet, eh?!

Want to show your support? You can donate new pads that you make, buy at your local store, or buy online (just set the delivery address to Goods 4 Girls).
And if you have a blog or website, you can help promote Goods 4 Girls by putting up one of their banners.

Addendum:
I'm really excited about this initiative... so much so that I've even bought my own first set of new, reusable products at sckoon.com... yeah, yeah, TMI... but it's my blog, so... too bad. :)

Recommended Reading:

Chrunchy Chicken (the blog of Deanna - organizer of Goods 4 Girls)

Green as a Thistle (a cool blog with more green ideas)

Cut to the Chase...

Yesterday, I went to lunch with 3 of my closest girlfriends. And as usual, we went for sushi.
During the early days of my sushi obsession, I used to order a lot and often ended up with the most expensive bill. Yesterday, I had the least expensive. All I had was a chirashi... miso soup, green salad, assorted sashimi with rice.
While my girls enjoyed their tasty nigiri and rolls (LRM's volcano roll looked SO good), I slowly savoured my meal and found my stomach full and my taste buds entertained.

My friend Dee first turned me on to the delicious simplicity of the Chirashi. Dee is also responsible for my sushi obsession.

I've found my sushi tastes have changed over the almost 10 years I've been enjoying this delicious eastern cuisine. I've gone from trying everything to knowing what works for me currently.

This is also how I settled into my simple "putting on my face" habits. I used to live in Vancouver, BC where I could get my grubby little hands on all sorts of exotic, sparkly, and oh-so-sweet makeup products. My face was a canvas, and I was certainly no minimalist artist.
Over the years, I discovered that if I focused on improving the quality of my skin, I didn't need to use foundation makeup. And that led me to think, "if my skin looks good naturally, maybe my whole face would too", so I nixed the blue and green eyeshadow and opted to emphasize what was already there... and nothing more.
So, now, I just wash my face, moisturize, curl and mascara my lashes, and swipe on some lip colour. I look like ME, only more so.

I've simplified my makeup routine, and now I'm simplifying the rest of my life.

When I told my girlfriends that I was closing the hula school, one of them said, "wow, you're just getting lazy all around, aren't you?!" (or something like that). LOL! Trust Mich to cut to the chase. Damn, she knows me too well!

But I think that's exactly what it is. I'm lazy. I don't want to do the extra crap... especially when I don't need to, especially when my heart and mind hurts to do it, especially when my time is best spent doing other things, especially when I could be going out for sushi with my best girlfriends...

Looking Hot on Girls' Night with My Blood Blister

2007 has certainly been a year of "clean up and renew" for me.

As part of my clean up, I finally had a keratosis lesion on my face (that I've had since my teens) frozen on Wednesday. It's about sunflower seed-sized, located halfway between my nose and my left eye. It grew darker during my pregnancies, and changed size over the years, both positively and negatively.
It HURT during the freezing, and I now have a dime-sized blood blister on my face. It looks really bad. But after the scab falls off in a week and a half, I will be lesion-free!

Meanwhile, I and my very ungirly and unglamorous blood blister when for a fun Girls' Night Out with 3 of my best girlfriends last night. We went to Earl's on Main, where the beautiful people of Winnipeg go to see and be seen, and I had calamari with tzatziki, a salad with bacon and blue-cheese dressing, and a strawberry pavlova for dessert. Obviously, a very non-CRON day. I think the dessert alone filled my 1500 calorie quota.

But no regrets. I had a great time with my girls. And we did a lot of laughing, catching up, and making our latest Top 10 lists... you know, the list of men we (theoretically) are allowed to have a one-night stand with if we happen to meet them.
On her last list, my girlfriend Sylvia had a bunch of dead/older guys and men who she had to go back in time to have sex with (ie. Sean Connery in Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)). We've since convinced her to make a new list. :)