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This could be your chance to get back at your ex, let your boss feel your pain, or prevent the in-laws from taking their annual trip.
Cue ominous music, please.
Chocolate voodoo dolls are slated to hit the shelves sometime this month.
The maker of the playful candy, Chocoholics Divine Desserts, will release the chocolate threatener around Aug. 18, retailing for $4.95. Schemers can buy it at www.gourmetchocolate.com.
And you thought even regular chocolate was bad for you!
More than a stroll
This is no mere stroll in the park.
Stroller Strides is coming to Hawai'i, with a total-fitness program designed for new moms who have a baby on board.
While baby remains entertained by songs and activities in the routine, mom receives a grueling 50-minute workshop that includes power walking, interspersed with sessions of squats, shoulder and back presses, triceps dips, biceps burls and sit-ups.
The program uses stretch tubing, the stroller, the baby and the environment to create an outdoor gym.
Classes will be held 8:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday at Kapi'olani Park, starting Sept. 8. In celebration of the event's opening, the first session is free. The prices for all classes following are based on a sliding scale.
For details, call 371-6904 or click on www.strollerstrides.com.
'Maid' ain't makin' it
If you're a maid in Hawai'i looking for your big break, you may have to keep waiting.
Universal Television has canceled today's Waikiki casting call for "Maid In America," another prime-time "reality" television show that promoted itself as a "celebration" of the housekeeping profession.
The show's hotline, (800) 495-1480, once proclaimed that with this show, "there is no bug-eating, no secret love twists, no life-threatening stunts — just a chance-of-a-lifetime pageant with a fairy-tale ending."
But it might not be such a fairy tale after all. The hotline now says the show has been postponed indefinitely. That's reality.
