Let's not spread this around, but yes, I've been taken in for exposing my face without makeup--indecent exposure.  My husband turned me in...  And all this for what? For a chance to win a goody bag from AVON.  Don't believe me?  Check it out on The Mom Buzz.  You can get all the juicy details to enter there....

(Lovely picture, eh?) 

 


Comments

erin

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:08:57

Awww - you are pretty without make-up! I am not wearing make-up in the gorilla photo. LOL! I am when I have Paris's body.

Hey - you are a teacher. Would it be Paris' body or Parises body or Paris's body? I always get confused with ownership of words that end with S.

 

Nicole

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:12:16

Hi Erin--

Technically both are used... The rule is to make a word possessive, you add "apostrophe + s." (Paris's) Even when the word already ends in "s;" however, AP recommendation is that you can just add the apostrophe. (Paris') If there were two Parises, you would punctuate Parises'...

So confusing ;) Newspapers, for space reasons I assume, perpetuate the "just add an apostrophe" just as they do not use the serial comma--dogs, cats and mice. Popular culture picks up on it and eventually it becomes standardized...

Hope that clarifies!

I loved your Paris picture--hee,hee! Very creative!

 

erin

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:38:22

I know that grammar rules change over time. My sister just told me that the plural of fish is now fishes. ????

I like just using the apostrophe for ownership. Good to know I wasn't insane. I learned a lot of grammar in PR, things might have been a little different?

 

Nicole

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:51:19

Are you still working in PR? What did you do? Back before I was a teacher I worked in advertising a little--fun! You do such a fabo job on your blog I figured that you must have a marketing background... :) Have a wonderful Thanksgiving--and no, you're not insane--I use the apostrophe solo, too!

(Huh--I though fish was plural?) Weird... :)

 



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