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The sore throat I woke up to on Saturday turned into a full blown flu/cold type thing on Sunday. I slept as late as the cats would let me, which turned out to be about 10. I got annoyed with their constant crying and fiddling with things on my dresser so I got up and went to the living room couch to lie down. I felt like crap with a capital C. But I got to watch Say Anything, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and The Breakfast Club, so Wheee.
I did make a run to the pharmacy for some supplies. It turns out I used my last pad the night before so I needed more of those. While there, I picked up some more cough drops, a box of soft tissues, a box of real juice pops, some 7-Up and cranberry juice. I'm si-i-i-i-i-c-c-c-k. *cough*.
I did manage to clean out the cat boxes even while feeling crappy. Poor health is no excuse for poor cat box management. The kitties, they like a clean cat box. As is evident the MINUTE I am finished cleaning, they fight over the right for the first pee in the clean cat box.
I did manage to drink my fluids and suck on my juice pops during the day. I watched a lot of bad TV and caught up on some journal reading. At 5, we ordered Papa John's pizza via the web. My confirmation email stated the wait could be as long as 90 minutes, but we had a hot pizza made to our specifications within 25 minutes. Score!
Bob and I attempted to watch the Superbowl, but not having a vested interest, we failed. He went to the store to see his buddies and I channel surfed until Grey's Anatomy came on. What a show! I can't believe it's a 2-parter. I hate those.
I didn't go into to work today seeing as how I feel all kinds of crappy and got about 20 minutes of total sleep due to the consuptive coughing I did all night. I do have to go to class tonight which is kind of hypocritical, but I've already missed one in this series and I can't miss another or I have to take the whole series over. Not that it would be bad. This is the easiest class I've had yet. The homework for today was to save 6 photos into 2 different formats with specs given to us by our prof. The whole thing took me less than 5 minutes. Cake! Still, it would be a shame to have to repeat a class I could do in my sleep. So today's schedule is to rest until it's time to go to class, go to class, come home from class, sleep.
Although, I do admit I have a hard time resting on a work day. I look around at the dishes that need to be done, the floor that needs vacuuming, the mail I need to get out, the phone calls I should make, and I think that I can do these things. That I SHOULD do these things because they need to be done. I am home and I can do them. Except if I start to do all these things then I get tired out and feel crappier yet. Why can I not shut off the guilt? I'm not playing hookey. I am sick as evidenced by my 101 fever, chills I can't shake, and wheezing. But I still think that I should do stuff around the house in order to feel better for "just lying around". Well, at least I can make phone calls and get the mail out. That doesn't require me to move from my indented spot on the sofa.
We found out today that Bob will most likely be getting matched with a dog on the week of the 20th! Yay!
Monday, February 06, 2006
Home Sick...Not Homesick
Posted by Finding My New Normal at 1:02 PM
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- Yseye said...
I hope you feel much, much better!
I hope the 20th is the day! ~ Yvonne
- Monday, February 06, 2006 1:47:00 PM
You poor thing! Yes the flu/cold crap is going around as is the stomach flu and just plain old colds. Hope you get to feeling better real soon!
Yippeeeee on the news regarding your dog. Keep us all updated,will you?
- Monday, February 06, 2006 2:33:00 PM
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Mutant Skeeters or Crazy Allergies?
Yesterday morning I awoke to find the mosquito bites I had all but forgot about were now flared, red, perfectly round, and about the size of a quarter each. This is the bugger between the pinky and ring knuckles of my left hand:
The curious spread I figure is from the the fact that I use my hands typing all day, so whatever my body doesn't like is getting to spread out a bit there. My brother does not have the same symptoms.
SO WTF? I understand that a toxin in the mosquito saliva causes the original bump, redness, and itching and affects different people different ways. But I got these bites 14 days ago. And they reacted like always: itch for a couple days, then go away. They hadn't bothered me in a week. What would make them all go nuclear 12 days after being bit?
Don't worry, I'm not being a typical stupid man about it either. I've already been to see the doctor if for no other reason than Cortizone10 was doing dick for the itch and I was either going to scratch them all until bloody or go absolutely mad thinking about scratching them all until bloody.
The doc said things like "weird," "I've never seen anything like it," and "Thanks for being my freak of the day" (we have a pretty casual relationship). And so it's antibiotics because of the timeline and off-chance of infection, topical steroid for immediate relief (knocks that itch down about 60%), and an oral steroid for overall inflammation control.
But it's all generalized guesswork, so I turn to you, my dear readers: Have you ever heard anything like this? Bites following a natural fade then BAM! 12 days later they get as big as quarters and itch 3 times as badly?
6 comments:
- Megan said...
Nope, never seen that before! Crazy!
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
The area in which I live (the Canadian prairies) is legendary for having gazillions of huge, hungry mosquitos every summer. Having lived with them for 50-plus years, I can categorically say -- NEVER have I seen or heard of a reaction like yours. Perhaps you were bitten by a mutant mosquito, all hopped up on nuclear waste or something.
- Silliyak said...
Republican mosquitos. No proof of citizenship (Cali) you're free game. If they were big fat ugly and annoying as hell then it was probably the Glenus Beckus strain.
- Randal Graves said...
Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll turn out to have been radioactive mosquitoes, then you'll have superpowers.
- Ricky Shambles said...
Could be the 'roids or the antibiotics, but they're fading. Only about 1/3 as bad now.
Unfortunately, no mosquito powers. Flying would be awesome, and my daughter would think me living on blood would be cool, but a giant mosquito proboscis shooting out of my mouth would be weird.
...or would it? Ladies?
- Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...
When we were kids we would convince someone to let the mosquito suck out as much blood as they could when we saw one land on someone's arm. We would tell them to squeeze the skin around the bite so that the mosquito couldn't pull away and had to take more of it's fill and exploding as a result. If we got the person to that stage we would tell them that the massive itchy bite had resulted in a condition called the 'dreaded LURGY'. If you got the 'lurgy' you basically had 24 hours to live. It was great fun. I think you might have the LURGY. Time to put your affairs in order.


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Even though, we do not wish anyone to be born into slavery anymore like Frederick was, we have taken him as a symbol of all the slaves as a wish that all who are still in slavery may have the spirit of Frederick Douglass and fight their ways to the freedom and work to free other slaves to make the slavery history.
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I am in awe of the brutality we survived. This is education that is not taught in school.
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That he ultimately escaped from slavery as well as how he protected the names of those who assisted in his escape.


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Hawks Aloft, Inc., is a non-profit conservation organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We work to conserve birds and their habitat through avian research, education and cooperation with others. Here you will find selected articles written by Gail Garber, Executive Director.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Old Cottontop
I knew that I should be driving slowly on the back roads of P-J land, shorthand for pinyon-juniper, because of the myriad of small animals that just might decide to cross the road at the exact same time as my vehicle arrived. It's happened to me before, even though I try my best to be alert to animals that have evolved over millions of years without the hazards wrought by high speed vehicles that have only been around for about 100. Once, a little House Wren inadvertently committed suicide by flying right into the side of my car. Another time, a Lesser Goldfinch crossed the road in front of my car, right at hood height. I picked tiny little, bright yellow feathers from my air filter after that, all that remained of a formerly vibrant songbird. Then, at night there are the rabbits! They sit quietly, nearly invisible, but as a car approaches, they run, first off the road and then right back onto the road, sometimes right beneath the wheels.
But, there is one group of birds that I find particularly endearing, quail, and they also tend to hang out near back country roads. In New Mexico, the two most common species are the Scaled Quail and the Gambel's Quail. Often, I'll catch a glimpse of one individual, generally standing beneath the shade of a low shrub. When I see that one bird, I just KNOW to drive slow, because it is NEVER just one bird. Spooked by the car, the observed bird waits until I am almost upon it and then dashes across the road, followed by one, then another, and finally a whole covey of them, sometimes up to fifty strong.
Gambel's Quail are the ones with the curly top knot, most common in the southern part of New Mexico. In our neck of the woods, we more often find their cousins, the Scaled Quail, also called Cottontop, so named for the distinctive white top-knot on its crest. They usually run from predators rather than fly, which is precisely why they are at greater risk of car strikes.
Because Scaled Quail are usually seen running or flying away, folks often don't get a chance to give them a good, once-over viewing, and to marvel at their buffy breast feathers, spectacularly edged with dark brown, giving them a lovely scalloped look. It's one of those cases where nature achieved subtle perfection in design, since the scalies actually do blend in with their surroundings despite their elaborate plumage.
Common in the lower elevations of New Mexico, they call to each other as they wander through brushy arroyos, cactus flats, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper woodland. They charming call, "pay-cos, pay-cos," has become synonymous with the arid lands which they call home. Here, they wander along, picking up insects, seeds, and berries as they go, opportunistically foraging for whatever foods are available. They are often found around ranches, farms, and even on the outskirts of urban centers. They readily come to seed placed on the ground or in platform feeders positioned low to the ground, and have become a familiar and much loved back yard bird. However, their nests are extremely well hidden, often in dense, shaded vegetation, under brush piles, old machinery, and along fields, and very difficult to detect.
Scaled and Gambel's Quail populations cycle through "booms and busts" generally associated with drought years where low rainfall results in a lack of succulent foods. During these times, quail suffer widespread reproductive failure. Succulent vegetation is especially important to quail during drought periods, as it is to other desert dwellers that must obtain their fluids from moisture in the plants they consume rather than water.
Scaled Quail are a high priority species for many North American bird conservation initiatives due to long-term population declines. Although quail are game birds, hunting does not appear to be a factor in their decline. However, like many other upland game birds of the desert Southwest, they are particularly vulnerable to overgrazing by livestock, which has severely reduced feeding, nesting, and roosting cover in many areas.
So, the next time you are meandering along a back country road, remember to give a bird a brake. If you take the time to stop, look, and listen, you just might be in for an eye-popping extravaganza, especially during the spring and summer when Mom and Dad Quail have little ones. They look like cotton balls on short, little legs as they race along behind their parents. Wait until the whole covey passes and then wait a tad longer. There's often a straggler racing to catch up.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Meet the Butcherbird: Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike. Photo by Doug Brown.
Far from home, along the Texas Gulf Coast, the birding had been exceptional for our small group of wanderers. We'd already covered many of the noted birding destinations such as High Island and Bolivar Flats, and now were looking for wetland obligate species at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge northeast of Houston.
Initially, I thought that the gray bird with the white wing patches might be a Northern Mockingbird, but its flight was direct, nothing like the undulating, almost flirtatious flight pattern of the mockingbird. Indeed, the Loggerhead Shrike seemed to be a bird on a mission, with a purpose for alighting on the bare branch of a tree only about 30 feet distant. It just sat without moving though, and our birding group soon lost interest. We turned our attention to the numerous wetland birds, remarking on the Least Bittern lurking in the vegetation and the abundant Northern Rough-winged Swallows gracefully swooping over the open water, snaring aerial insects.
Suddenly, a piercing shriek broke the otherwise idyllic sounds of nature. As one, our heads turned toward the sound, only to witness two birds, shrike and swallow, locked in mortal combat. It seemed improbable that the shrike even would have tried to capture the swallow, so buoyant and aerially superior in flight, but it did just that. As we watched with mixed emotions, the shrike first pinned the hapless swallow to the ground, biting its neck, and then flew off out of sight with the victim firmly clamped in its bill.
Loggerhead Shrikes are medium- sized songbirds with bird of prey personalities. At first glance, the shrike hardly appears to be a predator, but it regularly preys on insects, lizards, mice, and birds, hence the common name, "Butcherbird". Its head is large in proportion to the rest of its body, hence the name "Loggerhead", which also means blockhead. Not a kind moniker for the little fellow trying to make a living on larger than average-sized prey for songbirds. Although it is technically classified as a member of the order, Passeriformes, to which all songbirds belong, its behavior mimics that of its larger, distantly related cousins, raptors.
Like a raptor, the shrike scans for food from perches. It kills by biting prey in back of neck, cutting the spinal cord. Because it lacks the strong feet and talons of a raptor necessary to hold down and tear its food, it uses thorns and barbed wire to hold large prey while it rips it up, and may wedge prey into a fork in a branch for the same purpose. In some cases, an individual will store, or cache, several carcasses for later consumption and, occasionally a cache cactus or barbed wire fence might be festooned with bodies. Like a raptor, it has a strongly hooked bill for gripping flesh. And, like a falcon it has a strong notch or "tooth" near the bill tip that helps sever the spinal cord of its prey.
Although these attributes sound like a recipe for success, the outlook for the total population is not rosy. Significant declines in this once abundant species have been documented across almost the entire United States since at least the 1970s. Scientific estimates place the total population somewhere between 2.9 and 4 million birds, down from about 10 million birds 40 years ago. This represents a population decline ranging between 60-70%.
In New Mexico, Loggerhead Shrike frequents open pinyon/juniper woodland and deciduous forest. Because they require large territories to adequately support themselves and their offspring (up to 7 per clutch), densities are low, and the bird might be difficult to locate. Keep an eye out on those mockingbirds that also have large white wing patches on their gray bodies. Perhaps you will be lucky and find one with a distinctive black face mask – that would be a Loggerhead Shrike.
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The Financial Brand, one of my favorite banking sites, recently published it's top ten most popular stories during the year. One, in particular, caught my attention: "10 tweets you shouldn't send (and why)" from June, 2009. For the details, I suggest that you check out the actual post. Here, though, are the primary lessons I took from it.
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Josh and I have been feeling under the weather this week and have very low stores of food in our house.
Yesterday I looked in the freezer to see what we had. We had a bag of frozen cut up veggies that I had cut up earlier this year and froze for just this situation. It was turnips, carrots, and peppers. What kind of peppers? I have no idea, but one was VERY spicy and one was not. There was also a frozen bag of yellow that for weeks and weeks now I've been telling myself it's corn. And then the other part of me goes, No, that can't be corn I remember eating all of the frozen corn. I also found 4 frozen chicken legs in the freezer and a container of low sodium veggie broth in the pantry.
I poured the broth in a big pot and added 1.5 Cups of water. I put in the legs frozen and waiting for the water to boil. Then I cut up an entire onion and put it in with the chicken. Once the chicken legs were cooked through, we removed them from the soup and added the rest of the frozen veggies. The bag of "corn" turned out to be grated yellow squash and added a nice thickness to the soup without gross squashiness. We pulled the meat from the chicken bone and skin and put it back into the soup.
Spices included: Salt, pepper, Terregon, ground savory, basil, celery seeds, and powdered slippery elm for health.
I think you could use any spice you wanted. These were just what was out and celery seeds are my favorite so I put them in everything really.
BAM! Delicious chicken soup! No need to thaw anything. I think it still took 1.5 hrs to cook b/c it all started frozen, but we were also just taking our time to cook it...I bet you could cut it down if you were smart enough.


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People: Noteworthy career moves around Puget Sound
Mark Hugh has been named board chairman of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, in Bellevue.
MulvannyG2 Architecture has named Gary Edmonds to be global practice leader and Gary Larson to be global design leader, in Bellevue.
PSF Mechanical Inc., of Seattle, has added Michal Malasiewicz as project engineer, Gualberto "Pops" Martinez as network engineer, John Munson as HVAC detailer, and Kevin Rich as senior CAD technician.
Brightlight Consulting, of Redmond, has added Jenny Moshea as senior project manager.
St. Thomas School, of Medina, has named new board officers Campbell Mathewson, president; and Madeleine Valdman, vice president. Joining the board are Thien-Di Do, Rita Egrari and Kelly Taylor.
Tom Horkan has joined HDR Inc. as vice president and deputy manager of the SR 520 Bridge replacement project and HOV general engineering consultant contract team, in Seattle.
Wells Fargo Private Bank has added Ken Kilbreath as a vice president and wealth advisor, in Seattle.
KeyBank has named Antoinette Harkess to be manager of a branch in Kenmore.
Washington Federal has promoted three people: Eric Waidman, to special assets officer at the Bellingham Cornwall office; Andy Pohlman, to vice president and community business banking sales manager, in Seattle; and Nicholas Arenson, to assistant branch manager at the Bakerview office in Bellingham. The bank has added Norm Culbert as special assets officer, in Seattle.
Adam Droker has joined WaterRock Global Asset Management, in Bellevue, as senior portfolio manager, executive vice president.
Gov. Chris Gregoire has named state Sen. Phil Rockefeller to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, based in Portland.
The Puget Sound Regional Council, based in Seattle, has elected Josh Brown to be president and Pat McCarthy to be vice president.
Swedish has named Mike Carter to be chief administrative officer of the First Hill campus, in Seattle.
Sesame Communications, of Seattle, has added Matthew Schiltz to its board of directors.
Suzanne Anderson has been elected an at-large member of the National Board of Medical Examiners executive board, based in Philadelphia.
Renaissance Seattle Hotel, in Seattle, has named Alix Mendonca to be association accounts director and added Tania Ostronic as sales manager.
Destination Hotels & Resorts has added John Murphy as general manager of The Woodmark Hotel, Yacht Club & Spa, in Kirkland.
Parker, Smith & Feek has added Dan Guy as manager of the Employee Benefits Department, in Bellevue.
Symetra Financial Corp. has added two people in the Retirement Division: Brent Martonik as vice president and director of Capital Markets Pricing, and Rich Smolinski as vice president and senior actuary, based in Bellevue.
Eric Bardwell has joined Lane Powell as an attorney in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group, in Seattle.
Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, of Seattle, has added Thomas Breen as an associate.
Greg Clark has been named chair of Foster Pepper's construction industry practice group, in Seattle.
Sally Kim has joined Gordon & Rees, in Seattle, as an insurance coverage associate.
Keller Rohrback LLP, of Seattle, has named Cari Laufenberg to be a partner.
The Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County has added Greta Kaas-Lent, Todd Dunnington and Chris Peterson to the board, in Seattle.
PAWS, of Lynnwood, has named Norma Fuentes, Dora Leung, Brian DeFoe and Alexandra Smith to the board.
Pacific Science Center, in Seattle, has added Ed Millet, Chris Witherspoon, Grace Yuan, Ash Awad, Phil Quartararo and Ed Fries to the board.
Alan Sugiyama has joined the board of InvestED, of Seattle.
Patricia Brunjes has been elected to the board of the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation, in Marysville.
The Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce has elected five new board members: Tonya Clark, Larry Coomes, Scott Hulet, David Kwok and Cathy Wegner.
Bellevue BPW (Business and Professional Women) has named new officers: Estrella Chan, president; Faith Morisoli, secretary, Janice Brady, vice president; and Christina Fay, treasurer.
Joe Fugere has been named vice president of media, marketing and events for the Associazione Verace Pizza Napolenata, of Naples, Italy, and the VPN Americas, in Los Angeles. He will be based in Seattle.
Brian Ditmore has joined Northwest Protective Service, of Seattle, as business development manager.
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The blue-footed booby and 39 other animals, each unique in its own way, are available for adoption through World Wildlife Fund's symbolic animal adoption program, which allows gift-givers to adopt an animal in honor of a friend, colleague or loved one. Adoption levels range in price from $25 to $250 and for the month of December, all adoptions of $50 or more will get free priority shipping. Blue-footed boobies shown here with the blue-footed booby plush, available with an adoption of $50 or more at www.worldwildlife.org/gifts or 800-CALL-WWF.
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Blue footed boobies for adoption
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- Shane said...
i am doing a blog on blue footed boobies would you like to take the time and have a look,tell me what you think.
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i love caramel candies and milkshakes , but havent had luck with caramel vapes so if you nail it let me know id like to try it , if you post your recipe i think it may help so others can see what you have tried , good luck
Fix My Mix - Bring your trouble recipes here!
Thx. I'm just being a lazy bum, I've tried so many it's getting tired. I guess it wouldn't hurt to post a few.
Any particular brand you recommend?
Had TPA Irish cream and CAP Pralines and cream lying around not getting used so i decided to experiment a bit with them. Just mixed this up tonight and so far its a decent shake and vape - cant wait to see how it turns out after a good steep. I am still very new to DIY so any help or suggestions are much appreciated! I feel like there are probably things i could do better in this mix. Going to wait and see how things settle after a steep, but i feel like it should have a stronger nutty note to it.
Chunky Irish Pralines and (ice) Cream: http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/1813071/Chunky%20Irish%20Pralines%20and%20(ice)%20Cream%20(give%20me%20feedback!)
1% Biscuit (INAWERA)
2% Cake Batter Dip (FW)
3% Irish Cream (TPA)
5% Pralines and Cream (CAP)
1% Sweetener (Sucralose) (TPA)
4% Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (TPA)
Flavor total: 16%
Here's what I can tell you based on my experiences.
Dragonfruit (TPA) is a rather weak flavor. So 2% of it will have a tough time standing up against "heavy" things.
Cake Batter Dip (FW) I'm not familiar with. But judging by the name it may not offer much in the way of a baked cake. You may want to shop around for a good cake flavoring. I used FW Yellow Cake until I tried Purilum Yellow Cake. Won't go back to FW for it now and would recommend you try that. That and CAP Cake Batter (small dose) may well give you the heaviness you seek.
I like where your head is with the strawberry. I think you should definitely start low and build as it could overpower an otherwise great mix.
Vanilla Custard will also aid in the heaviness, but adds zip to moistness. So 1-2% of that may bring out the notes you want in terms of richness.
As for the creamy icing, I would recommend FLV Frosting.
So, if I were to remix your mix, it would look like this…
Cake Batter (CAP) 0.5%
Yellow Cake (PUR) 2.75%
Dragonfruit (TPA) 3.5%
Golden Butter (CAP) 0.75%
Strawberry Ripe (TPA) 3%
Sweet Strawberry (CAP) 1.5%
Vanilla Custard V1 (CAP) 2%
Ethyl Vanillin (TPA) 1%
Frosting (FLV) 1%
Not sure how this would be, but just ideas based on past experience. Never even thought of Dragonfruit in a cake
Party on Garth
Hey Sm! Whats the Ethyl Vanillin do? Interested minds want to know~
I've found it can aid in giving a heaviness to bakery flavors while adding some sweetness. It also seems to make vanilla flavors pop and provide more mouthfeel.
Ok. Four weeks steeping and still trying to figure out how to vape it!!
http://tjek.nu/r/ea6r?token=b243a96c0ac50a6 what can be done to make this better.? needs to be a stronger strawberry to it. needs more of a POW!!!
Might be the creams/dairy are drowning the sb. I'd prob lower the dairy (maybe the sb milkshake) and bump up the shisha. You probably won't get much from CAP Sweet Sb at that low a %
Hold out for more suggestions though!
Like @Lolly said, I'd bump up the strawberries to probably 2% for shisha and 4% for sweet.
Thank you. I will try what you said. I also would like something like the McDonalds milkshake. nice n sweet and lots of flavour.
This is a delicious sb milkshake by @Amy2 :
If you needed more sweetness you could add sweetener to taste
Looks damned tasty to me!!
I'd want to add something to "cool it down" though!
(thinking koolada or WS-23…)
Can't stand melted shakes or ice creams.
Awesome thanks for the help! Gonna give this a mix tongiht and see how it goes!
thats funny , have you tried WS23 ? koolada doesnt do it for me ( cooling effect ) it comes off as a menthol/ mint flave at all kinds of pcts
Not yet… So I should probably have kept my yap shut in that respect. But it was more me trying to comment on the "ice cream has to be cold" for me. chuckles
I'll try and be more mindful.
no need for that , i get what you were saying , i was just looking for feed back , ive heard good and bad
I appreciate the sentiment… But I think there's definitely a need for that. I don't want to get "too relaxed" and inadvertently become a member of the "parrot brigade". =(
The community is far better served by first hand experience and opinion, even if/when those opinions clash, as long as they remain based in 'fact'. Which I generally try really hard to do.
So yeah, I need to be a bit more mindful.
Thanks though!
Maybe I'm taking it a little too serious, but I'm just
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Potted Potter
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Colorful and playful towels
just one stack of towels from the bin
up close and personal with the towels
and as weavers, we inspected each towel carefully,
deciding on what weave structure, sett, dent
just plain weave--JUST, sure!
on same warp, but different looks!
happy colors!
color combinations we hadn't tried before
bright and festive! We're thinking about a challenge called
Gypsy--what would you weave
we all were thrilled with this weave--dots and dashes!
more dots and dashes
This is my towel now!
Even the hems are neat and tidy
same warp, different wefts
color and weave napkins with spot bronson
broken twill with color!
Which would you choose to take home? It was definitely a pleasant chore!
Thanks Charlene for the tour of your handwoven towels
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Creative Enclave: "Celestia" by Wendell Ward
by Wendell Ward
Her style was musty thrift store, And I swear I saw a mite
Buzzing the dried-up feather
She'd taped to her Robin Hood hat.
Her lashes: a burned-out forest
Clumped with ashes and soot,
But her eyes! How they smoldered—so fervid! We had dinner later that night.
She insisted on tacos and brätwurst, Which seemed a ridiculous coupling, But it was a food-truck festival,
And I did feel suddenly daring.
At moonrise she sucked on a snow cone, And gnawing it like a squirrel,
Her cold blue lips they erupted
With a cackle startlingly feral.
I stared at the sickly-sweet syrup
Dribbling down her chin
As she yanked on her three-ringed earlobes, Shouted "brain freeze" then "kiss me, you loon!"
At midnight we pitched a tent
In her mother's (and father's!) backyard, And reveled in tacos and brätwurst
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I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it! *in my best Jessie Spano voice*…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Bars with Coffee Granola Crumble
Things are about to crazy.
Like, majorly delicious and fun crazy. The best kind of crazy….
Peanut Butter Espresso Fudge Cookies {+ a video!}
It's officially holiday baking season! Well, I guess it has been for a couple weeks now, but I'm just starting to get into it….
Coconut Macaroon Ice Cream Sandwiches
Man oh man, have I been excited to tell you about these oh-so-decadent frozen treats.
I've been sitting on this recipe for about a month now. And before that, I was sitting on the idea since last summer. Yup, I've been holding out on you….


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School is cancelled, not due to snow but due to the temperature! This week my school had three "freeze" days where school was cancelled, because the temperatures were below -25 Celsius every day (about -15 Fahrenheit!). Other schools in the area had the whole week off, but my school only took off Wednesday-Friday. I'm not complaining though, three days at home plus the weekend was plenty of time for me to be completely lazy and get bored with the idea of staying home every day. But the weather was so bad I didn't want to leave my apartment either, so towards the end I was going a little stir crazy.
You might ask what I accomplished with all this free time, but sadly, the answer is not much. I spent oodles of time on Skype (which is time well spent, in my opinion!), did a little more research on the "life after Peace Corps" chapter (which commences in 8 months!), and caught up on my favorite guilty pleasure, the TV show Dexter. I recently acquired the whole fifth season, which was guess-starring Julia Stiles, and it was such a good season that I ended up watching the whole thing… in less than three days. In my defense, I had nowhere else to be! And it was really hard to put down : ) I was really impressed with the character development of the fifth season, but I guess when you go through a whole season in 3 days, you notice a lot more about a show then you would if you spaced out the episodes to one a week, like you do when you watch it on T.V. But I would definitely say that season 5 of Dexter is the best season yet, hands down.
As for the online research, I found a really useful website with information about grad schools that have a special relationship with Peace Corps and offer RPCVs (Returned Peace Corps Volunteers) top priority. I was mostly focusing on the degrees in law and international development, but one program caught my eye sheerly out of location—HAWAII! The program is for a doctorate in Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Hawaii, and takes five years to finish, but offers really interesting specialties such as Conflict Resolution or Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. Plus, part of the program is built-in graduate research in New Zealand at the University of Victoria, so I'd get to live in Hawaii AND New Zealand! I could see myself applying for this program just for the locations ; ) That and I really loved the psychology classes I took in undergrad, so this isn't a huge stretch for me. I need to modify my list of potential plans for life after Peace Corps to include this!
And the last way I've been enjoying my "freeze" days is by planning a trip for Spring Break—one that gets me out of this siberian winter and onto a beach! Its my way of getting back at the wintry weather… I sit here in my apartment, all bundled up and as close to the heater as possible, plotting my trip to Egypt and shaking my fist at this Ukrainian winter that seems determined to wear me down. I thought it'd be easier, knowing this is my last winter in Ukraine, but the weather here has definitely got me down. And unfortunately, my spring break destination is not complying with my travel plans. The news from Egypt has been pretty dismal, with reports of kidnapped tourists and more protests. But my friend (and former room-mate from when I lived in Cairo in 2009) Becca, who currently lives in Cairo, said that the protests are just a result of the one year anniversary of the uprising, and an expression of the people's disappointment with the limited progress that has been made since Mubarak was overthrown. She's keeping an eye on the situation and I'm holding off on buying a ticket until March, but she feels quite safe where she lives in Cairo and I know this is probably my last chance to get back to Egypt and visit her and my Egyptian friends before my Peace Corps service ends. So I'm trying to make a wise choice, while I feel like my heart already committed to going. Well, for now I'm waiting and praying a trip there will be not only possible, but safe : )
One option for the trip would be spending most of our time out of the city, most likely in the little town of Dahab on the Red Sea. Becca and I traveled there in 2009 and went snorkeling, because Dahab is world-famous for its coral reef and the "Blue Hole" dive site. And if we stayed in Dahab, we'd be far from any protests or danger in Cairo… plus, we'd fulfill my beach requirement ; ) Another option is visiting our Siwan friend Ismail, who lives in the desert oasis of Siwa, a 12-hour bus ride away from Cairo and in the middle of the Sahara desert. Siwa's an incredible little town, untouched by time and full of fun things to do. Ismail really wants us to visit and promised to arrange everything, so that's an option too.
But for now, all I can do is sit in my apartment and stew, longing for better weather and for an end to this miserable winter. I hope you're staying warm, wherever you are!
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What Age is the Best to do PE ?
What age is the best to do PE ?
Is it when you are in late teens, when you are still growing ?
Is it between twenty to thirty, when you have finished growing but still young ?
Is it older than thirty, where it might be easier to stretch the ligaments because they might be weaker ?
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Confirmation #2: I am excited to live in a THREE ROOMED (that is three rooms, not three BEDrooms) wooden house with holes in the slates and a crude (but indoor) bathroom. Normally a house like this would not thrill me, so I know it is God giving me a peace beyond understanding.
Friday, August 10, 2012
To say that property options in Jataity is lacking, is a HUGE understatement. A friend showed us 2 options. We should have been more specific – we were looking for a house, not a shack. We knew moving to a town this size that we couldn't be picky about housing, but seriously, these places lacked A LOT – walls, plumbing, electricity, roofs, a floor, a yard, windows, etc. Jeff turned to me and jokingly asked, "Do you think they're trying to run us out of town by showing us these?" The thought had crossed my mind too. Luckily we were in no rush to move, and could wait for something "approaching satisfactory".
A week later, as I was visiting a friend, she mentioned that she was stretched so thin keeping up with her house (where she sleeps), her mom's house (where she lives during the day to take care of the animals and her mother) and her new restaurant. When I told her that we wanted to move to town, her eyes lit up. She asked if we would be interested in renting her home. As we drove to it, Jeff and I immediately felt peace.
This is it. We will live in house on the left and will put our washing machine and second freezer in the shed to the right.
Confirmation #1: It is WAY better than the other two houses we had seen. I mean this place actually has a bathroom! The view is gorgeous and the grass yard is big enough for volleyball and soccer. We will make some improvements, like adding windows to one side of the house where there is just lattice now, patching up the big holes in wall and roof, and adding light fixtures and outlets.
If you walk down the path between the two building (look at the top picture), you come to this:
The green closed door on the left goes to Jeff and my bedroom. The open door leads to the living room and kitchen. If you look through the open door and to the right, you see this:
We are planning to put windows in place of the lattice.
The door to the kid's bedroom is visible.
I couldn't get pictures of the bedrooms because they are too small!
If you look straight ahead through the open front door, you see this:
A bathroom. Remember, to therightwas the wall with the lattice work and to the left is the door to the kids' bedroom.
This is the back of the house.
Confirmation #2: I am excited to live in a THREE ROOMED (that is three rooms, not three BEDrooms) wooden house with holes in the slates and a crude (but indoor) bathroom. Normally a house like this would not thrill me, so I know it is God giving me a peace beyond understanding.
Confirmation #3: Our kids love this house and cannot wait to move into it. It's tough to move and we never want to take a kid kicking and screaming. So before breaking the news about moving to the kids, I prayed that they would be excited. And sure enough – they cannot wait to go. Wow! I think it has something to do with the fact that we have been praying for months about the community and a possible move. Their hearts were already prepared. Even Ryan is excited about going and he is the one who has friends here and his own room here. He will be back to sleeping with his 5 siblings. Plus, they love the house and the huge yard to explore. We hear that there is a little creek close by as well. Our kids are hoping that the cart comes with the house!
Confirmation #4: We have great neighbors. We get to bless a friend by renting from them (they will be one set of neighbors). Our friend mentioned that her 18 year old could housesit for us when we go out of town, feeding our animals and staying the night for added security which is a huge help. Also, we are right next door to the house where we currently have Bible study.
Confirmation #5: Empanadas. When people visit and then ask, "How do you survive in San Francisco?" I jokingly say, "Celia". Sometimes it is not joke at all. Celia makes empanadas and sells them at her house. Celia makes empanadas (and at my request) delivers them to my house. Remember, we don't have restaurants here where you can take your family for an evening out. We don't have fast food or ready-made, microwavable meals. It takes time to cook EVERYthing from scratch, EVERY meal, EVERY day. I love cooking, but not that much. So on days it has been one of "those homeschooling days", when we have unexpected guests, or come home late from travels, or on Sundays when we try to cut down on our work (cooking and dishes).....I call Celia. She keeps me sane. Well, our future landlord is just opening an empanada stand. We assured her that we will be regular customers. What a reminder that God cares about the little things.
This is what I mean when I say we start from scratch.
Empanadas (left) and milenesa (right)....yum!
1 comment:
- Ken Hagerman said...
We have been praying for you guys. I am so excited that not only you found a house but more for the excitement your family feels in moving. We have been in our new locale for 5 weeks now. It is not as rustic as yours but a change none the less. We will continue to lift you guys up as you make the transition.
- August 12, 2012 at 6:43 AM
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