{"id":2636,"date":"2011-10-26T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T21:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:51:08","slug":"personalize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Personalize it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a personalized licesnse plate I thought was brilliant.\u00a0 It has some number then MENNME&#8230;. Men &amp; Me for those who have difficulty reading these types of things.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled and remembered when I had a personalized plate.\u00a0\u00a0 The same plate on my &#8217;84 Escort, my &#8217;96 Prelude (loved that car) and my &#8217;91 Mustang Convertible.\u00a0 It said, REDI4Me.\u00a0 Or Ready for Me for those who have difficulty with these.<\/p>\n<p>And believe me!\u00a0 I actually met someone who DID!\u00a0 A friend of a friend saw me walking to my car and said, &#8220;Heather!\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know you smoked pot?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I looked at her like she was crazy&#8230; or stoned&#8230; which she probably was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But your plate,&#8221; she insisted&#8230; &#8220;Red Eye for Me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drat,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;I should have gone with the E and not the I!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been missing not having visual advertisement of the new me.\u00a0 Toying with the absolutely delicious idea of putting a plate that said COUGAR on it.\u00a0 Or even a bumper sticker.\u00a0\u00a0 The shock value alone just thrills me!\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly not unwilling to tell the world who I am nor anything about what I do.<\/p>\n<p>But my kids ride in my car with me.\u00a0 And because they are MY kids they won&#8217;t hesitate at ALL in asking me why this is on my car and what does it mean.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m not ashamed to tell the cute little buggers&#8230;. its not a Good Mom move when they are still this young.\u00a0 And I REALLY dislike lying to them in any way.\u00a0\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve been refraining.<\/p>\n<p>And toy with other little ideas that might get my point across.\u00a0\u00a0 Paint my car with Cougar footprints all over it?\u00a0 Naw&#8230;. to subtle.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve run through many possible bumper stickers from the obvious&#8230; I heart men&#8230;.\u00a0 to the humorous&#8230; marriage sucks&#8230;. to the obscure&#8230; this cat has claws.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when I saw that license plate I realized it would be perfect.\u00a0\u00a0 If I added the number 3 to it I can tell my kids its cuz they are the men in my life.\u00a0\u00a0 3MENnME\u00a0 or if that&#8217;s taken MEnMEN3 or MEn3MEN&#8230;. you see where I&#8217;m going with this?<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of it is I really DO love the idea of me and three men!<\/p>\n<p>I like to turn heads ONE way or ANOTHER! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a personalized licesnse plate I thought was brilliant.\u00a0 It has some number then MENNME&#8230;. Men &amp; Me for those who have difficulty reading these types of things. I smiled and remembered when I had a personalized plate.\u00a0\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}