No Spam Please

So I am doing pretty good with my goal this year to give myself a break and not worrying so much.  Today for instance, after I got Big Girl, (Audrey) (- that was for you Paula-) off to early morning French today, I climbed back into my bed (unshowered btw) and went back to sleep while Little Girl (Eliza) watched Shrek the 3rd.  [An aside: Shrek the third is possibly the worst of the Shrek movies with the exception of the Snow White scream/sing scene].  I had intended to actually cuddle up with my daughter and watch a movie while the dishes sat undone but soon it turned into a nap.  A nap at 8:00 am!  Can you believe how incredibly well I am doing at relaxing?  Now let me assure you of my non-laziness.  The previous day I never stopped for a moment.  And the day before that was a very similar story.  So I was due for some rest.  I am also doing great this year at avoiding getting sick.  People around me have been getting sick right and left!  Even in my own home.  I don't know how I am doing it but I think changing the filter in our heater at the beginning of the cold months has helped.  Someone said it would and I believed them.  Now that I have said this openly I will probably be sick by the weekend.  Keep me in your thoughts please!

Now for my next resolution (just recently made) I am trying to cut out spam in my life.  Due to online shopping (a weakness) I am cursed with an incredible amount of emails from vendors that I would just assume not be getting.  I will come to them if and when I am interested but I don't want to hear about every sale going on 10 times a day.  Oh my goodness!  I just checked my email in the midst of writing this post and got some spam comment on my blog.  Lovesecrets.com is calling and I don't want to answer.  That has to be some sort of weird fate.  It's like Big Brother is always watching and He can see what I am writing about.  I guess I better put my spam blocking word verification back up.

To stop all the emails I have been "unsubscribing" like crazy for the past week.  I know it takes time for the block to work but I am not seeing any improvement yet.  The ones I hate are the ones where you are directed to the shopping site itself in order to unsubscribe.  They are just counting on someone as impatient as me to forget about reading all the fine print, possibly go shopping for a bit, and keep getting their stupid junk mail.  Yes, I mean you QVC.  And I never even bought from you but I had to sign on with an account just to look.  Pretty sneaky Sis!  Someone showed me a trick of 'bouncing' the email back to the sender making it seem as if it's not a valid email address.  I haven't had much luck doing this.  Maybe I am not bouncing the right way.  If anyone knows of some good suggestions for me I am all ears.  Those are some emails I would be glad to click on.  I will also be glad to open up a can of processed meat and grill it up for dinner.  We can all use more of that kind of Spam in my opinion.