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A long hiatus
It always seems that life gets away with me and my poor little blog bears the brunt of my neglect. Not that my meager audience misses much (Hi Mom and Dad!) because I see them nearly every day.
This year's harvest was completely different than the previous two years. A late plant, mixed with a wet fall meant harvest didn't really get underway until October, and even then, it was halted several times due to rain and even snow (!!).
The hub finally got everything in late one night in mid-November with the help of his father and mine. Of course, farm work doesn't end with the putting away of the combine; there are still stalks to be chopped, fertilizer to be applied and worked in and all the machinery to get cleaned up and winterized. And even with the best of intentions, Mother Nature still gets the best of you. A sudden cold snap meant the ground was too hard to work, and once it warmed up enough to even try, it rained. And that was followed by another cold front. What got done is done, the rest will have to wait until spring.
Even with the strange weather this year (and downed corn due to high winds this summer and pesky root worm beetles), the hub was pleasantly surprised with his yields. The downward trend in commodities pricing doesn't help the bottom line, but, as we're learning, we just have to take it year by year and do the best we can. Farming isn't for the faint at heart – I wish more people understood that.
Hopefully next year will be better. Kid3 will be able to spend a few days a week at daycare by that time, so I'll be able to help out more with harvest (currently my main jobs are bringing out lunches and driving people to and from fields when I'm not shuttling kids to and from school). I'll have to learn how to drive the tractor and wagons, or maybe the hub will even let me take a turn in the combine!
Despite the long hours, hard work and the unpredictability of farming, the hub and I are thankful every day we have the opportunity to do something to which we both feel connected and can raise our children the same.


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another weekend's gone by. :)
very proud of myself. i did not call/sms him the whole week. been realli hard, but very proud of my achievement so far. :D
and this weekend, i am gg to HK!!!!!
before i get started on how excited i am, recap of how i spent the weekend tt jus passed. surprisingly peaceful.
friday night, i had dinner at my beloved aunt's. after tt, we watched our 溏心风暴 tgt. 王宗泽 is so hot. :p my aunt likes 林峰, so we each had our own eye-candies. hahah. (btw, my aunt is not old, she is only mid-30s!) oh we also had a small dose of 美女厨房.. too hilarious to not watch! not to mention 方力申 is so cute. hahah. my aunt does not like him tho. :p i forced her to agree tt he is cute. hahah.
saturday, i met up with my poly mates, jocelyn and fay. we sang K, had lunch, watched movie (captivity - very very gross). pretty much a very aimless and easy day. went home abt 10pm and watch my 溏心风暴 until 2am.
sunday, er.. watched my 溏心风暴 from 2pm to 11pm. hahah.. marathon!!! i'm trying to finish it before i leave for HK! cuz when i get back, i might forget most of wat i watched!!
so u see, it was a realli peaceful weekend, the most disturbing thing, being the movie. not for the weak-hearted. the thot of it now, still makes me feel like puking. but the story.. mm.. nothing fantastic too. oh well, jus one of those days, we had to watch a movie and picked one randomly. :p
when i was in town on saturday, i went into HMV and picked up 2 CDs. dun laugh, but, one of them was Hanson. i'm sorry but i just had to! my childhood idols! in fact as i am typing this, i am listening to it right now. THEY STILL SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME. not literally their voices.. but the music style. it hasn't changed.. and i am starting to get a bit bored. taylor's "woah-oh" is still ringing in every song. haha. very very funny now tt i listen to it. it's weird but i think i jus had to buy it, for old time's sake. HAHA.
the other album i bought was 张震岳's "OK". haven't listened to it, but i think i'm gonna like it. alwaes liked him. but he alwaes takes so damn long to come out with one album. i hope it's worth the wait!
this week is gonna b a very very exciting week!!! 1st of all, my boss won't be in from mon to thur.. so no government for almost the entire week! and then, there is a HK colleague in the office this week.. who is William's colleague too.. :) he was also at the conference in BKK so he knows abt all the stuff happened in BKK. in fact, he was one of William's entourage. :p and then.. this sat i am gg to HK! hahaha. i think tt is the thing tt is making me excited la. keke. i jus hope i wun haf serious withdrawal symptoms when i get back!
sorry but this post is a bit random.. too bored in office la. hahahah. maybe one more random post after lunch. 张震岳's "OK" album review! :p
Monday, July 30, 2007
another weekend's gone by. :)
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 10:44 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
kelleia is going to hongkong, finally!
very weird. think i have been too caught up with my sob sob episode for the past weeks.. it didn't sink in that i wud be leaving for HK in 10 days!!! Thanks to .J who made an unconscious reminder to me last night. very funny leh, suddenly very excited!!! (as if i didn't kno i was gg before! haha!)
i think this is the best decision i made on impulse ever. (the 2nd being buying my SGD550 Gucci wallet!) concidentally, my tickets to HK cost the same amt!! wa lao, i am super happy with my "buys"!
few weeks ago after i had booked my tickets for HK, i started to regret.. shud i realli be gg to HK at this point?? jus after breaking up? shud i hang ard.. and u kno.. in case he calls and wants to meet up?? now i kno tt is not gonna happen anytime soon and this HK trip can't be more timely. and hello, it's HK!! the place i have been dying to go, the place with all the ppl i think are the coolest asians, and not forgetting, the chances of bumping in those hot hot hot HK celebs. OMG, i realli can't believe i am gg HK nex week!!!
aiyo, i sound so teeny boppy leh. but i can't help it la, i grew up watching those TVB dramas, my parents raised us up with canto pop music by alan tam and jacky cheung, the HK pop culture is my blood la. long before the aunties started "chasing" those korean dramas into the late nights, my mom and i were oredi "chasers" of all those TVB dramas by Adam Cheng, Leon Lai, Cheung Chilam and Ekin Cheng! and those days were when i was in primary school!! yes, i wud stay up late with my mom to catch the dramas on rented tapes. TAPES leh! hahah. super retro, can. unfortunately, i was a leon lai fan back then. *omg* i haf all his albums on tapes!!! wa, so nostalgic!
but of cuz, seeing celebs is not the only thing abt gg to HK, i also wanna go to Disneyland and Ocean Park! I dun care that Disneyland is gonna b flooded with china ppl, i have nv been to a single Disneyland in my life!! haf to go, haf to go. And Ocean Park is jus this place I have to go in HK. I've heard about this "Hoi Yeung Gong Yun" for the longest time, and all the TVB dramas alwaes go there also. hahah. So i haf to go also la!
And then, i also haf to meet up with William. the local HK guy who can take me to all the local local places, and not those touristy places. he has already drawn up an itinerary for my time there. super sweet. :)
and then.. desmond. haven't decided whether i will meet him. he does not seem to be coming clean with me on a lot of things.. and when i told him i was gg to HK, he didn't seem very keen abt meeting up. other than mentioning tt the same weekend is his brithday weekend, so i can join him to celebrate. but realli, i feel like he is feeling obliged to invite me.. so i haven't realli decided if i shud contact him when i am there. furthermore, i jus got wind yesterday that he's gotten real close to cheryl (this girl who does not kno me well, but does not like me oredi) lately and tt is definitely a warning sign for me to keep away from him. maybe jus for the sake of our "friendship", i'll call him. but it realli depends. :/
so i am gonna take so many pictures, i tell u! will be sure to post some of the best ones up here. the one with Mickey, definitely. :p
i realli can't wait for 10 more days to pass. maybe this weekend will be a happier one. :)
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 10:51 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
i kno my previous post sounded realli positive and hopeful. but i think i judged too soon. *sigh* i nv change, do i?
i left my handphone at home yesterday when i left for work. so it was a handphone-less day for me. when i got home, i saw that i had 2 missed calls and 3 messages. a bit sad right, only 3 msgs and 2 missed calls in almost 12 hours. no one wud kno if i had died at home.
so anywaes, the missed calls were from Tony. I swear, he is such a sweet guy. if he had chased me, i wud haf definitely fallen for him. unfortunately, even tho i am single now, i wud not fall for him. he is LC's fren. No-go.
then i went to check my messages, one from Tony, obviously, to check on how i am after the talk with LC. one from mommy, asking if i were coming home for dinner. one from LC. OMG. LEE CHAO. i was hoping for one, yes. probably along the line of "wanna meet for lunch?" but no, it was a very disheartening and disappointing sms.
"Thanks for coming down yesterday! I know u still care! Just wanted to explain why I couldn't make a decision yesterday. Our wounds are still very raw, impulse decisions would be made, promises committed are not real or beneficial to both of us, cuz a decision was made with the heart, not rationally. Hope understand, y some time is needed for both of us to think things through!"
i cried immediately upon reading his sms. all those things i said tt night. he thinks they are not real. GOD. they are from the bottom of my broken heart, literally. and since when has love ever been a rational thing? if u can think abt it rationally, then i think u do not haf feelings for the person. is he waiting for the day when he can think abt us "rationally" to tell me it's over? i will realli go mad if tt is the case.
also, i think he does not kno if he actually wants to be with me. for me, it's so simple. i love him. so i am willing to go the extra mile to make things work. but him? no.. he does not kno if he is willing to do tt.. he does not kno if i am the one still.
but if u read it in another way, at least he sms-ed to explain himself, why he cud not give me an answer on the spot.
either way, i am so hurt. this hurts more than not knowing wat is on his mind. ignorance is bliss. but i realli dunno if i do wanna kno or i dun wanna kno at all.
actually, all i wanna kno is does he wanna try again. simple as that. and right now, my gut feeling is telling me, no he does not want to. otherwise, wat can explain wat is taking him so long to think abt? HE IS CONVINCING HIMSELF, THAT HE DOES NOT NEED ME.
i want to jus walk away, away from him, and towards my new life. but i keep looking back, keep looking back to see how far behind he is.. i jus can't let go.. yet..
he sms-ed me this afternoon, to tell me the amt of my credit card bill. GOD. i can't believe the only thing he wud sms me now at this point of time, is my credit card bill. it is this practical side of him tt i hate. everything is abt money money money.
actually, the hating-him part after a break-up is starting to fall into place now. i hate him for being so wishy-washy abt us. i hate him for not giving a damn abt me after we broke up. i hate him for not answering my calls and sms-es. sigh i am so tired of listing things abt him all the time.
i haf to quickly get back into shape. i am due for my HK trip in 11 days!! haf shopping to do, and guys to see. :p
i realli need all the strength i can summon, i dun wanna b stuck in my crying fits and emo-momo self.
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 4:36 PM 0 comments
Monday, July 23, 2007
i finally met him yday. or shud i say, he finally met me yday. i felt so guilty, i cudn't look him in the eye when i spoke to him for the 1st 5 minutes. but i cannot describe how happy i was to see him, even tho there were more tears than smiles on my face during the one hour talk.
the talk went better than i had expected, even tho it did not end the way i wanted it. there was a stark difference in the last time we spoke and how we spoke last night. we were very careful with our words and even intonations. he was extremely attentive, and very encouraging. he still spoke the same way he alwaes did, but there were a certain tinge of gentleness in his voice.
at the end of the conversation, he still asked for more time to think abt it. i was disappointed, but not too dejected. cuz i cud sense a lot of hope during the whole conversation. before i left, i told him tt i missed him a lot. and he also replied with the same words. i felt more than contented to hear tt.
still i walked away in tears. the hug i imagined myself giving him, did not happen. the hurt was still written on his face, and also on mine. i thot it was a bit too soon to have tt warm embrace. even tho.. i had realli wanted to reach out and touch him so many times during the talk.
so now we wait. it's funny but i feel like i've jus gone for an interview and am now waiting for THE phone call. but if u ask me, i think the "interview" went realli well.
i dunno whether nat will read this.. but if u do, pls dun be mad at me.. i didn't mean to lie to you abt where i had gone last night.. i kno u wud not haf allowed me to go if u knew.. but i hope u can understand tt i realli think it had been my fault this time. he is not as bad as i haf told u.. u kno i am an extremist and i exaggerate more often than not. he is realli good to me when i look at the big picture.. i want to give it one last shot this time.. i hope u will happy for me.
if i dun blog for a long time to come.. i hope it is cuz i am too busy patching things up with him.. and not vice versa.. i realli hope i can do it this time.
have a little faith in me, everyone.
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 1:33 PM 0 comments
Friday, July 20, 2007
a whole new world!
it's weird. i feel awfully fine these days.. think i gotta thank him for that. he's ignored me so much that i am beginning to get used to sms-ing my messages to space (cuz he doesn't reply them) and calling a number just to hear it ring forever (cuz he nv picks up). i used to get realli hurt that he wud not reply my sms-es nor answer my calls.. but the last time i msged him, i expected a non-reply.. (which i did, of cuz) and from tt day on, i seem to haf recovered from my crying fits and warped mentality that seemed only capable to be thinking of him.
maybe this was his aim, to ignore me so i wud give up. congratulations to him, it worked. i jus hope he is happy abt this, and not miserable abt it inside. after putting me thru all this pain, one of us had better feel good abt it, and it certainly isn't me.
however, i wun say i haf gotten over it completely. it's been less than a month, and i am not wonder woman. but i have been feeling better these couple of days. when i think of him, i tell myself, this is normal, i jus gotta give myself time to get used to not having him in my head. no need to cry over it, right? when i see things tt remind me of him, i tell myself, tt's normal, after all i did every freaking thing with him! very hard to find something tt wud not remind me of him. plus, i'm probably reminded only cuz my mind is willing it.. given time, i'll be fine. when i feel lonely, i think abt all those times i didn't haf my own space.. and now tt i do.. i shud realli appreciate it while it lasts. who knows if we get back tgt the next day, i will be back in that shithole where i haf no space, literally, for myself at all. lastly, when i feel like i realli want someone to love me, i think of william, he is such a sweetheart. i wud imagine in my mind, all the rendezvous-ing tt we can do when i go to HK in Aug. :p and.. of cuz.. the ultimate attraction in HK.. has got to be Des!!! :p after all, wat is being single without flirting??
i kno i sound like i haf totally gotten over him. tt, of cuz, is not true. back of my head, i still think abt getting back with him, still check my phone if i haf messages/missed calls from him, still hope tt he will get in touch with me.. but truth is, i haf oredi tried my best.. the rest is up to him.. wat's left are things i cannot will to happen. so i'm jus trying to hide this part of my emotions underneath my big wide smile. maybe we will get back, maybe we will not. i realli dun wanna think abt it for now.. jus wanna take and enjoy each day as it comes.
the best way to get over a r'ship quickly, is to start a new one. but well, i wanna make sure i realli like tt person.. and that it is not a rebound.. plus only when i haf truly gotten over him, will i look into starting a new relationship. so i am treading my ground very very carefully. :)
so come join me, and celebrate my new found freedom. and possibly, a whole new life ahead.
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 12:27 PM 0 comments
Monday, July 16, 2007
Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face
You told me how proud you were but I walked away
If only I knew what I know today
I would hold you in my arms
I would take the pain away
Thank you for all you've done
Forgive all your mistakes
There's nothing I wouldn't do
To hear your voice again
Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won't be there
I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself by hurting you
Some days I feel broke inside but I won't admit
Sometimes I just want to hide 'cause it's you I miss
You know it's so hard to say goodbye when it comes to this
Would you tell me I was wrong?
Would you help me understand?
Are you looking down upon me?
Are you proud of who I am?
There's nothing I wouldn't do
To have just one more chance
To look into your eyes and see you looking back
I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself
If I had just one more day, I would tell you how much that
I've missed you since you've been away
Oh, it's dangerous
It's so out of line to try to turn back time
I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself
By hurting you
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 7:53 PM 0 comments
July 16, 2007
i haf nv felt so miserable before. but this time it realli isn's anybody's fault but my own. i realli dunno why i did tt.. but only after i did, did i manage to see wat i reali want, and wat i need to do. but am i gonna get tt chance, to prove tt i am willing to make it work? after all the mistakes i haf made?
there are so many signs telling me, tt i haf lost all chances. and i reali dun blame him, i've hurt him so bad. done all the wrong things, said all the wrong things. he has lost all trust in me, even if i swear to change, he wud think twice abt believing me.
i miss him so much, my heart is realli bleeding. for the 1st time, i realli feel like this is the end.. and i am the one who caused it. in a way, i feel like i dun deserve any pity from anyone. i feel bad tt his frens are all trying to make it work for me.. i realli feel like telling them.. tt i am not worth helping.. i can't even forgive myself for wat i haf done, how can i expect him to forgive me.
there are so many things i wish i cud tell him, even if he has nothing to say to me, i wish he wud jus listen, and give me one more chance, but i reali feel that it is not going to happen. he has given up on me. he wud rather be upset and hurt, than sms me, call me or see me. he is slowly letting go, and making me give up too. i cannot describe to anyone how this feels. the person i haf planned my life with, all the things i do and say remind myself of him. the words i say, the way i think, everything. i wake up in the middle of night crying, not being able to get back to sleep. i realli need him so much.. so so much.. but he doesn't want me anymore. i jus dunno how to move on.
i now kno, the things i am willing to do and sacrifice, in order to be with him. i realli can't live without him. i am such a total mess now. his frens talk to me, tell me to be strong, give him time and space.. but all i can do, is cry. how can love hurt so much? if u love somebody, why wud u make each other hurt like tt?
i go to sleep every night, with only one thing in my mind.. how glad i am that one more day has passed.. and once i open my eyes the nex day, it will be a brand new day. but the very same night, i will b awakened by dreams.. and memories.. and my tears.. the night.. is so haunting.. the darkness in the room.. makes me afraid of being on my own.. i wish he was next to me.. his hand holding mine as we slept. i hold on to my sheets, the ones without his familiar smell. i wipe my tears with them. i close my eyes and force myself to sleep.. comforting myself tt he might call tmr.. and if i'm lucky, i might actually get to see him. that i am living each day closer to tt very day.. when i will eventually get to see him.
last night, i did such a silly thing. i took a cab down to his place.. hoping to explain things to him.. but his frens told me they were out playing b-ball.. so i turned the cab around to where they were.. and told his fren i was on my way. his fren told him i was coming and he flared up. he realil did not want to see me. he even said vulgarities at his fren. he hated to see see me tt much.. i turned the taxi back around to his place.. and sat there from 10pm to 2am. i went downstairs to his carpark.. and saw his motorbike parked there. he had gone out in his sister's car. and i was so glad to see xiaoma.. the bike tt took us to all our dinners, movies, beach walks.. everything. i saw his jacket hanging from his bike, i reached out to touch it.. i missed him so much. i want so much to ride on tt bike with him again. so so much. i went back upstairs to the ground floor to wait for him. when his fren called to ask em where i was, i told him i was at his place.. he told me to go home.. said he was not ready to talk to me.. and if he saw me there, he wud flare up at me.. but i realli realli wanted to talk to him.. i dunno if it was more that i wanted to talk to him.. or tt i realli missed him and wanted to see him. i reali dunno.. i jus.. reali miss him so much. but when i sat there till 2am, i told myself, wat is the point of forcing him to talk to me when he clearly does not want to.. i dun want things to get worse.. i shud give him his time and space.. after i haf no more right to ask for anything from him, not even his time. so i headed for home.
when i was there for the 4 horus, i had to hide from his mom, his bro and sis. the bro came down 1st to walk the dog. when i saw him coming down, i scrambled to hide behind a wall. after tt i saw his sister coming home.. i scarmbled to hide behind another wall. later tt night, sapphi saw me downstairs.. and started to bark. his mom, who was at home, thot she needed to pee again, so she brought her down. i quickly went to hide behind a wall.. but sapphi cud smell i was ard.. so she came dashing in my direction. i ran and almost kicked her. i ran into some bushes, and squattted down, hiding. sapphi came sniffing, with his mom close behind. i cud not think wat wud happen if his mom saw me.. wat wud i say? wat was i doing here behind the bushes? i do not kno.. i realli prayed tt sapphi wud not find me.. she didn't. when they went back upstairs, i came out of the bushes.. and cried. why was i in such a mess? i realli dunno wat else i was capable of doing, jus to get him bac. the more i thot abt him, the more i felt sorry, the more i thot i shud not force him, so i left.. i had wanted to leave a note on his bike.. but i took it back before i left.. he wud not be happy to kno i came to his place and waited for him.. leaving him a note in the end..
i am realli feeling so hopeless now.. i kno it is probably gonna b as bad i haf thot.. but i still harbour some thots of him coming back to me.. i realli pray and hope tt it will happen..
i think i need more than luck and miracle this time. maybe a voodoo doll. let's hope i wun haf to go there.
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 7:51 PM 0 comments
Friday, July 06, 2007
l o s t . . . .. .. . .....
how did all that happen so quickly?
i rem meeting him for the 1st time at jos's plc during CNY..
i rem dashing across the road from Somerset MRT to Peranakan Place with him behind me, watching out for the cars.. almost thot he wud hold my hand..
i rem sitting on changi beach with his frens, when he reached out to hold me..
i rem sitting in his room, trying to study for my exams but not being able to concentrate feeling his glances on me..
i rem sneaking up on him while he was still sleeping.. tt innocent, happy look on his face..
i rem his baby blur tee-shirt, the one tt smells of his bath soap..
i rem him stroking my hair while watching tv..
i rem him giggling in my ears at st. james..
i rem him hugging me so tight when i am sleeping that i woke up..
i rem him whispering "i love you" into my ears when i am sleeping, thinking i didn't hear them..
i rem him buying me an iPod and hiding it in the fridge..
i rem quarelling about the iPod cuz it was so expensive and he did not want to buy it for me..
i rem him lying to me abt not telling his mom anything abt us..
i rem him working so hard every other weekend that he neglected me..
i rem him gg out for his fren's wedding dinner and getting home dead drunk..
i rem him saying the meanest things to me when we argued..
i rem him ignoring my pleas and cries to talk to me..
i rem him taking off for holidays on his own with his colleagues, and not taking me along..
i rem him getting angry over me getting angry..
i rem him telling his mother almost everything tt goes on his life.. and not me..
i rem him watching soccer every other weekend night and not spending quality time with me..
i rem him playing soccer every sunday morning, falling asleep after he came home and not spending any time with me on sundays..
i rem begging him to talk to me when he refused to..
i rem waiting for him downstairs his office, but he refused to see me..
i remember feeling so hurt that he would leave me in such a sad state and not care and my feelings..
i rem him getting upset over a misunderstanding and not allowing me to explain..
i remember struggling with the thot to break up with him..
i rem seeing him after we broke up, that relieved look on his face..
i rem how much i loved him.. and how much he loved me..
i rem telling myself not to think back on all these and move forward..
cuz they are nv coming back.. those feelings, emotions.. and him..
4 years and 25 days of my life.. just disappeared.. gone..
Posted by Mrs. Lee at 4:01 PM 1 comments

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So many times we equate love with an actual feeling, but to love someone is a choice. To love your spouse is a choice and one you have to make daily. I have been married twice before and never prayed for my husband's the way I pray for my husband this time around. The days that I feel hate for him, those are the days I chose to show him love.
When I first started this blog (I have deleted everything before now) it was about the wrong and anger my husband did and caused me. But how I chose to love him anyway even while I was hating him. I had the same number of followers as I do now.. ZERO lol… but even with that I couldn't be completely open and honest. These are my confessions, not his. My struggle, not his.
Men are jerks, it's almost as if it's in their DNA. Not all the time, but they all have those tendencies! They can be hurtful in their words, actions, and other ways. Our picture of love is different from theirs. You can be married a lifetime before you see things eye to eye it feels.
Let me get back on track!!! We will just say, my husband wasn't doing right by me in a biblical sense, and isn't where he needs to be. Should we have waited to get married? You can definitely say that. But we didn't. And my emotions are paying the price for it. But honestly, i don't think I was fully where I needed to be until we got married and then expected him to be there. Thats not how it works. But now I expect him to change, just like a woman…
To change for the better and based off the premises of what he said he wanted, i don't see anything wrong with that. There's nothing i can do, but pray.
I was praying he would do A.B.C. then my prayers started to change… I started being real with God!!!!
God, I HATE HIM!!!! WHY IS HE SUCH AN ASS?!?!?!? and for about a week, it was my feelings for him. What I felt. But I knew I couldn't treat him the way I felt.
John 13:35 says… by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
And the end of Acts 11:26 says the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch….
So one way to show Christ, is to show love, no matter how we feel…
So i was real with God, while showing my husband respect, and just hating him on the inside, but showing him love.
My prayers started to change. One simple thing… he has a heart for you Lord. That's it. His heart loves you first. Days still go by, moments when you feel like you want to throw the TV at him, but you take a moment and you pray, you remember he's not God, hes not Jesus, hes just man. But hes your man, you chose him, you made that vow before God, you said you weren't getting a divorce. And here you are. Choosing to love him in the midst of your pain, while he doesn't understand. And as you pray, things get better, but not overnight. And these are my confessions. Maybe not as juicy as you would like! But they're what I need.


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Hieg Khatcherian | Manager of Information Systems at Vision Critical

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Hieg Khatcherian, Manager of Information Systems atVision Critical, about how he's using Active Directory and OneLogin to increase security and employee productivity. For those of you that don't know, Vision Critical is the world's leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide including one third of the world's top 100 brands. With offices across the globe in North America, Europe, Australia and Hong Kong, Vision Critical leads the world in interactive research.

Using OneLogin, Vision Critical quickly extended Active Directory to the Cloud, providing access to applications through a secure portal, eliminating the costs and resources associated with managing passwords and resolving password-related issues.

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Vision Critical employees access about a dozen different SaaS-based applications daily. The company was managing passwords manually, and needed a simpler, less time-consuming solution that would extend Active Directory to those cloud-based applications. "I didn't want users to have to know more than one path to get to the apps they needed," said Khatcherian.

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Vision Critical deployed OneLogin in June of 2011, eliminating the burden and security risk of individual passwords. "To start, we rolled out Citrix ShareFile across the entire enterprise without any problems. The rest of our apps quickly followed, and all authentication is now handled by OneLogin," said Khatcherian.

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They are also very socially responsible and concerned about the environment. You can see some cans pasted to the Clear Channel bus stop advert in the picture above. When I took this picture on the 23rd of May, these cans were in the process of being removed because people vandalised these empty cans by crushing them or taking off the flaps, which caused much concern by some members of the public who felt that the opened cans posed possible dengue hazards, collecting rain water.
But what interests me most about Anything or Whatever is the campaign itself - lodging permanently into consumers' heads and creating awareness about the new product. Early May all the Clear Channel bus stop adverts were carrying messages like "Ask for Anything on May 18!", "Grab Whatever you see on May 18!" etc. Yes, I am one of those who saw the website address on the advertisement and went to their website where I got to see a semi-erotic video that was very suggestive and then I got to wish for "Anything". Being a "yippie" or hippie as you may better understand, I obviously wished for "peace". Then they brought me to this screen with a huge tree with a bunch of leaves that show a message when you hovered the mouse over it. My leaf marked "peace" was also there, among others.
I just wonder if it is possible to sue a media giant that promises you "Anything" and gives you a huge tree instead. They could argue that there is a deeper meaning because "Anything" is the name of the product, which is a carbonated beverage. But this is so misleading! Singapore law entitles me to the truth!
I went to the Shell Select shop behind PGP after the product was launched on May 18, and I saw the can marked "Whatever" so I had to try it, and it turned out to be white grape tea. I found out that when you buy Whatever, you could get any of the following:
Ice Lemon Tea
Peace Tea
Jasmine Green Tea [eugghh!]
White Grape Tea
Apple Tea
Chrysanthemum Tea
If you buy Anything, you can get any of these:
Cola with Lemon
Fizz Up
Cloudy Lemon
Root Beer [yuck!]
So for me, the main problem is that if I ever think of buying Anything or Whatever, there is a 1/6 probability that my money will go to waste and I will have to throw the drink away. Root beer tastes like toothpaste and I can't go beyond taking more than two sips of Jasmine green tea.
All in all, I think it is a very unique product, which has been launched successfully and effectively. The TV adverts are incredibly funny and what can I say, I am just a great fan of the entire marketing campaign for Anything and Whatever. Considering what most of the Singapore population's taste-buds are like, I think Anything and Whatever will sell loads. My question is, what happens once the excitement of getting "Anything" or "Whatever" is over, or when people stop seeing the humour in it? And what if they want "something" rather than "Anything"? I guess it could not be a more perfect launch if the company is planning to launch each of these twelve drinks individually in the future. As a product, I think sales will soar in the short run, but in the longer run they will tend to drop, and that can't be good.
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Le Coq Sportif has created a totally original and exclusive pack, digging out and pushing back into the limelight a very special winter fabric: velvet.
A true must have straight from the '70s, revamped and yet as charming as the original.
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Everything You Need to Know About the SIBO Diet
There are 60 to 70 million Americans suffering from some sort of digestive disease, with nearly 50 million visiting the doctor each year. (1) Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet (SAD) combined with the hectic lifestyles many of us lead are likely contributors to these staggering statistics.
We rush through our meals, eat processed foods and give ourselves little time to recover from the hustle and bustle of each day. This lifestyle is taking a toll as we forego nutrient-dense foods that take time to prepare in favor of foods that actively do damage to our gastrointestinal tract overtime. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) affects 15.3 million Americans, while Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease add almost another 1 million to the mix. (1)
SIBO isn't listed in the U.S. Digestive Disease Statistics, but it could be contributing to these three ailments or could be a result of them, along with a number of other digestive disorders. SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. This complex syndrome is often responsible for chronic cases of diarrhea or constipation. SIBO sometimes causes IBS or is mistaken for it. (2)
The solution isn't simple, but with proper testing, medical care, diet and lifestyle changes, SIBO is curable and controllable. We're going to break down everything you need to know about SIBO, including the special diet that goes along with it.
What Is SIBO?
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth occurs when the small intestine becomes overrun with bacteria that don't belong there. Humans are hosts to trillions of microbes (bacteria, yeasts and viruses) that live on and inside of our bodies, especially our digestive tract.
When all is going well, we enjoy a symbiotic relationship with most of them, especially the helpful types that reside in our colon. You might know these helpful types as probiotics — the good bacteria and yeasts living in our gut that help build up our immune system, digest dietary fiber and keep our health in good working order. In the case of SIBO, problems arise when bacteria (even the good kind) begin colonizing in high numbers where they don't belong — in the small intestine.
The small intestine is the longest section of the our digestive system, spanning about 20 feet long, and is responsible for the absorption of certain nutrients, especially vitamin B12 and fats (3, 4). When bacteria are present in higher-than-normal numbers in the small intestine, they interfere with absorption, causing nutrient deficiencies and gastrointestinal distress (gas, bloating, cramping). The bacterial overgrowth can also generate inflammation, causing damage to the gut's mucosal lining and inducing leaky gut syndrome. (4)
Diagnosing SIBO and Recognizing Symptoms
Because SIBO symptoms overlap widely with other digestive issues, such as IBS, Crohn's disease and celiac disease, diagnosing SIBO can be challenging. The most common method for diagnosis is a lactulose breath test. Patients follow a specific diet for 12 hours and then fast for the following 12 hours. They then consume the lactulose solution and breathe into the testing device at various points for the subsequent few hours. (5)
These tests, while not considered 100 percent reliable, use breath analysis to ascertain whether hydrogen or methane-producing bacteria are present in the small intestine. (4) An overabundance of methane gas is associated with constipation, while an overabundance of hydrogen is associated with diarrhea. (5) Because these two symptoms directly contradict or can happen intermittently if both gases are abundant (as is often the case with IBS), initial misdiagnosis is common. The results of a breath test can sometimes be the only difference between a SIBO diagnosis and an IBS diagnosis.
Typical SIBO symptoms include:
- Diarrhea
- Constipation
- Gas
- Bloating
- Abdominal cramping (5)
While in more severe cases, symptoms can elevate to:
- Dramatic weight loss (due to malabsorption)
- Steatorrhoea (fatty stool due to malabsorption)
- Malnutrition
- Vitamin B12 deficiency (due to malabsorption)
- Liver lesions
- Skin disorders (like rosacea, eczema, acne or rashes)
- Leaky gut syndrome
- Anemia
- Oedema of lower extremities (5)
These more severe symptoms are often comorbid with other diseases that can either exacerbate SIBO or be exacerbated by it. Additional symptoms include nerve pain (due to a B12 deficiency caused by SIBO), joint pain, depression, asthma, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. (6)
What Causes SIBO?
The human body has a number of built-in mechanisms to keep our microbial guests in check, both in number and in location. We have gastric juices in the stomach that kill most living microbes before they reach the small intestine.
Intestinal motility and the migrating motor complex (MMC) both prevent putrefaction inside the intestine. Motility is the movement of the food bolus through the digestive tract, while the MMC sweeps the intestines between meals to collect any residual particles that could be hiding. The ileocecal valve separates the small and large intestine, acting as the gateway between the two sections of the bowel and locking off the billions of flora in the colon. Finally, we have bile secretions from the pancreas that kill off anything that's made it past the stomach acids. (5) Disruption or weakening of any one of these protective mechanisms can open us up to bacterial overgrowth and cause SIBO.
A little-known fact: Stress can profoundly affect the protective mechanisms we've just laid out and is one of the underlying causes to a number of digestive disorders. You may have noticed your own digestion change during a stressful time in your life if you've experienced butterflies in your stomach, indigestion or intestinal cramping.
A 2005 study on mice indicated that psychological stress significantly slowed small intestinal motility, increased the presence of the E. coli bacteria, and damaged the mucosal lining of the small intestine. (7) In healthy hosts, the bacteria inside the digestive tract work to keep each other in a state of equilibrium, but this study showed that the protective features of Lactobacillus bacteria diminished, allowing E. coli to over-colonize and disrupt regular gut function.
In addition to altering motility and colonic transit, certain types of stress have also shown repeatedly to alter visceral sensitivity, which might explain those cramps and bowel pain during stressful situations. (8)
Stomach acid production is greatly heightened in highly stressful situations as well, which might suppress mucosal immunity and allow damaging bacteria like H. pylori (the bacteria implicated in gastric ulcers) to proliferate. (9) The problem compounds itself when a chronically stressed individual opts to use medication to alleviate heartburn rather than addressing the underlying cause of the stress in their life.
Long-term use of proton-pump inhibitors like Prilosec or antacids like Pepcid AC or Zantac can also allow SIBO to take hold. They reduce the production of stomach acid, sometimes to a low enough level that would allow live bacteria to pass from the stomach into the small intestine.
Other Factors
Beyond stress, other underlying causes of SIBO include "anatomical abnormalities: small intestinal obstruction, diverticula, fistulae, surgical blind loop, previous ileo-cecal resections, and/or motility disorders (e.g. scleroderma, autonomic neuropathy in diabetes mellitus, post-radiation enteropathy, small intestinal pseudo-obstruction)," along with a number of diseases and syndromes. (5)
Many of these diseases involve a vicious circle where SIBO exacerbates them while they also exacerbate SIBO. These diseases include Crohn's, celiac, diabetes mellitus, certain diseases of the liver and immunodeficiency syndromes like AIDS. (5)
Curing SIBO
SIBO is a complex syndrome and requires multiple interventions to cure it. It's often a chronic problem, requiring cyclical treatment and regular intervals of testing and retesting in the event of persistent symptoms.
Dietary interventions that reduce inflammation and starve the misplaced bacteria have proven effective at reducing the uncomfortable and potentially damaging effects of SIBO, but they can't fully eradicate the harmful bacteria on their own.
Prescription antibiotic treatments or herbal antibiotics administered by a naturopathic doctor are necessary for comprehensive SIBO treatment. These treatments target the types of bacteria colonizing the small intestine.
Ongoing stress-reduction practices and lifestyle changes will help prevent recurrence and are critical to effectively treat SIBO. It's important to work with a doctor familiar with a holistic protocol for treating SIBO, as general antibiotics — especially if repeat treatments are necessary — are not recommended, nor is the use of antibiotics a complete solution to the problem. Tackling only one area of the three-fold approach of diet, medication and lifestyle change won't be enough to properly treat SIBO.
The SIBO Diet
To treat SIBO with dietary changes, your first goals are to manage the symptoms and stop the damage. Your next goal is to nourish the gut and encourage it to heal and rebuild itself with specific foods.
Many holistic medical professionals will recommend starting off with the strictest version of the SIBO diet — one that combines aspects of the SCD diet (Specific Carbohydrate Diet) and GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome), but also restricts further by only allowing very low-FODMAP foods. Quite a few acronyms! Don't worry, we'll explain.
The goal in both SCD and GAPS is to promote healing of a damaged digestive tract through nutrient-dense foods that are easy to digest. Patients with IBS, IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's disease might try one of these diets to help alleviate their conditions.
GAPS, which is a more detailed and nuanced protocol, actually grew out of SCD research. It incorporates gut-healing foods such as bone broth and fermented juices and vegetables with every meal.
While these two protocols promote healing in a damaged gut, treating SIBO requires more restrictions at the onset. That's where eating low-FODMAP comes in.
The first goal of treating SIBO is to starve out the bacterial invaders. If they can't eat, they can't reproduce or release inflammatory compounds that damage the digestive tract. So what do these bacteria eat? You guessed it, FODMAPs. FODMAP stands for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols. Quite a mouthful! Thank goodness for the acronym. They can also be called fermentable carbohydrates for short.
FODMAPs are the foods to avoid on the SIBO diet. The concept of a low-FODMAP diet was developed by Sue Shepard, Peter Gibson and others at Monash University in Australia to help manage digestive disorders.
In addition to restricting specific foods, a low-FODMAP diet also stresses the importance of eating distinct meals throughout the day and avoiding snacking. This allows time between meals for that migrating motor complex (MMC) to do a thorough sweep of the small intestine. (10) It's also important to slow down at meal time, chew your food completely, and focus on the meal in front of you. Digestion begins in the mouth!
You might be tempted to automatically assume that all FODMAPs are unhealthy foods, since they're on the restricted list, but that isn't the case. In a healthy individual without SIBO, these foods actually contribute to a diverse ecosystem of microbiota in the lower intestine. The main reason we're avoiding them now is because in a patient with SIBO, those same bacteria are living in the wrong place, so we don't want to feed them. Make sense?
The Strict SIBO Diet
It's up to you how aggressively you want to treat SIBO with diet. Dr. Nirala Jacobi, ND, recommends a bi-phasic approach to treating SIBO, which starts out with an extremely restrictive diet and then begins expanding the food list after the first few weeks. Quantities of certain carbohydrate foods change how SIBO-friendly they are as well, so portion control matters on this plan.
You can learn more about Dr. Nirala's bi-phasic approach and get her free 10-page guide here. Another naturopathic doctor, Dr. Allison Siebecker, created a user-friendly PDF in addition to a helpful app that will help you navigate the SIBO diet, including quantity recommendations. You can download her app here.
The Standard SIBO Diet
Overtime, as your digestive tract heals from SIBO, you can begin to introduce FODMAP foods back into your diet. At the beginning, it's important to be pretty strict about restricting FODMAPs. The standard SIBO diet allows for a greater variety of fruits and veggies, although quantities are still important. Below, we've created a list of high- and low-FODMAP foods in somewhat broad strokes. As you continue to research this way of eating, you might also find that some lists contradict each other. We've done our best to compile the most agreed-upon list of SIBO-specific foods in both categories. Please consult the lists we've linked or the app for more detail.
High-FODMAP foods:
- Alliums (garlic, onions, shallots, leeks)
- Most brassicas (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi — kale is OK)
- Asparagus
- Legumes (beans and peas; lentils are OK in limited quantities)
- Root vegetables (beets, yams, sweet potatoes, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, yucca)
- Starchy vegetables (artichokes, okra, turnips)
- Mushrooms
- Certain fruits (In the bi-phasic form of the SIBO diet, initially avoid all fruit except lemons and limes. In a standard low-FODMAP diet, some fruit is allowed. Always avoid jellies, jams and juices.)
- All grains
- Sugar (includes agave, honey, maple syrup, molasses, sucralose and natural sugar substitutes that end in -ol; stevia is OK)
- All conventional dairy products
- Bacon sweetened with anything other than honey
- All processed lunch meat and deli meat
- Condiments that contain sugar or artificial ingredients (catsup, relish, etc.)
- Chia seeds and seed flours
- Soybean oil
- Bouillon cubes or dry seasonings with anti-caking agents or unknown ingredients (11, 12, 13, 14)
Any new eating plan can start to feel pretty restrictive when you focus only on all the foods you can't have. Let's shift to what's allowable on the SIBO diet. In addition to starving out the unwanted bacteria, it's important to begin adding in nourishing foods that are easy to digest and nutrient-dense. Nutrient-absorption is often a problem for SIBO patients, so replenishment is essential.
Low-FODMAP Foods:
- Leafy greens (arugula, lettuce, collards, chard, kale, endive, baby spinach, radicchio, bok choy)
- Certain veggies (bell pepper, bamboo shoots, carrots, eggplant, green beans, cucumber)
- Limited quantities of squash (kabocha, zucchini, yellow squash, butternut)
- Certain fruits (bananas, berries, guava, pineapple, grapes, melon, dragon fruit, kiwi)
- Certain organic dairy products (dry-aged cheese aged at least one month, homemade 24-hour yogurt and sour cream, butter, ghee, dry curd cottage cheese)
- Nuts and seeds (in specific quantities; each nut or seed has its own quantity)
- Organic fats (butter, ghee, coconut oil, olive oil, organic animal fats, MCT oil, polyunsaturated fats except soybean oil)
- Organic unprocessed meats and eggs
- Wild fish
- Bone broth
- Honey (certain sources better than others)
- Stevia (pure, no additives) (11, 12, 13, 14)
Following the SIBO Diet
Reading through this list of foods might feel overwhelming at first, but you'll get the hang of it after a week or so of trial and error. Having a cheat sheet or app with you as a quick reference while you're away from home will definitely help you stay on track and navigate food you're not making for yourself.
Recipes that focus on the low-FODMAP foods, like eggplant and tomato with fresh basil and organic parmesan cheese, or leg of lamb slow-cooked in bone broth with stewed tomatoes and carrots can help you enjoy this process without feeling overly restricted.
Experts don't always agree on which is the best diet for SIBO patients or how long they should stay on such a specific diet. In fact, some conventional GI doctors will simply prescribe an antibiotic (usually Rifaximin) and make no mention of any dietary changes.
Naturopathic doctors like Drs. Siebecker and Nirala stress the use of this therapeutic diet to reduce uncomfortable symptoms and promote the healing process. They argue that to forego the diet is to risk an uncomfortable "die-off" process as the antibiotic or herbal antibiotics do their work of killing off the bacteria. The diet is meant, in part, to make that process more bearable.
Caution: The SIBO Diet Isn't Forever
While we do recommend following the SIBO diet as part of your overall plan to treat SIBO, it's important to remember that this diet isn't meant to last forever. It's a temporary, therapeutic regimen designed to starve out bacteria in the body.
Sharing your body with your microbial inhabitants is critical for healthy immune function, digestive function and fighting chronic inflammation. When the good bugs are in the right place (the colon), we don't want to starve them out.
Once you've removed those bugs from your small intestine, it's important to begin feeding and replenishing the ones in your colon. Slowly reincorporating FODMAP foods and fermented foods, along with possibly supplementing with a good-quality probiotic, will help keep your gut health on track.
Preventing Recurrence
As we mentioned at the beginning, SIBO can be a chronic problem, recurring often and requiring a repeat of the protocol we've outlined here.
The best ways to prevent recurrence are all about making healthy choices, both in the kitchen and in your day-to-day life:
- Avoid processed, sugary foods and focus on nutrient-dense foods.
- Eat only gluten-free grains or baked goods (sparingly).
- Continue eating distinct meals and avoiding ongoing snacking.
- Chew each bite of food well before swallowing.
- Slow down at meal time and try to focus on eating without the distractions of TV or your phone.
- Continue drinking bone broth and consuming probiotic foods.
- Find a stress-management practice that works for you.
Every day is a decision about how you will take care of yourself. Choose to prioritize your health and you will be far less likely to relapse.
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We are delighted to bring to the market this deceptively spacious 2 BEDROOM SEMI DETACHED VILLA situated within a popular residential area in the town of Coupar Angus.
The property offers well proportioned accommodation over two floors and comprising entrance hall, bright lounge, kitchen, rear hall with W.C. off, all on the ground floor level and two double bedrooms and bathroom on the first floor. There is double glazing and electric heating through. The property benefits from having garden grounds to the front and rear and parking is available on street.
Although the property would benefit from some cosmetic upgrading, it would make an excellent first/family home or indeed an investment purchase. Early viewing is therefore highly recommended. EPC Rating F
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Room InformationAREA Coupar Angus is a small town at the centre of the rich agricultural heartland of Strathmore, situated on the southern side of the river Isla, some 14 miles Northeast of Perth and 12 miles Northwest of Dundee. Within the town there is an array of shops and facilities together with a primary school. Secondary schooling and further amenities can be found in the nearby towns of Blairgowrie and the cities of Perth and Dundee.
Entrance Hall 1.24m x 1.14m (4'1" x 3'9") Entered via an opaque glazed front door the hall provides access to all accommodation. Telephone point. Electric Creda storage heater. Carpet. Smoke alarm.
Lounge 4.39m x 3.99m (14'5" x 13'1") A very bright and spacious public room entered from the hall via an obscure glazed door, the lounge has a double window to the front overlooking the town toward the surrounding countryside. Dimplex electric storage heater. Large under stair storage cupboard. Recess with displays shelving and storage cupboard under. Electric fireplace. Television point.
Kitchen 4.01m x 2.67m (13'2" x 8'9") Entered from the lounge via an obscure glazed door the kitchen is spacious and fitted with a range for wall and base units including drawer units with pull out ironing board and contrasting work surfaces. Stainless steel sink and drainer unit. Space for freestanding appliances. Pulley. Window to the rear. There are two storage cupboards, one of which houses the hot water tank with additional storage over and the second is shelved with window to the rear. Linoleum floor covering. Xpelair fan.
Rear Hall 1.02m x 0.97m (3'4" x 3'2") Entered from the kitchen the rear hall has a handy storage cupboard and glazed door providing access to the rear.
W.C. 1.70m x 0.84m (5'7" x 2'9") The W.C. is located within the rear hall area and is fitted with a white suite comprising W.C. and wash hand basin. There is splash tiling to the sink.
Landing 2.08m x 2.03m (6'10" x 6'8") A carpeted staircase leads to the first floor landing where there is a window to the side. Hatch providing access to the attic space. Smoke alarm.
Bedroom 1 3.99m x 3.07m (13'1" x 10'1") A very spacious double bedroom with window to the front, again affording magnificent views over the surrounding countryside. Two large walk in storage cupboards. Electric fireplace. Creda panel heater.
Bedroom 2 4.04m x 3.00m (13'3" x 9'10") A further double bedroom with a window to the rear. Fitted double wardrobe with shelving. Creda panel heater.
Bathroom 2.01m x 1.83m (6'7" x 6'0") Fitted with a three piece suite in peach comprising W.C., pedestal wash hand basin and corner bath with shower over. An opaque glazed window to the rear provides additional light and ventilation. Chrome electric radiator. Wall mounted mirrored medicine cabinet. There is partial tiling to the walls.
Exterior To the front of the property there is a well maintained area of garden ground which is planted with an array of plants and shrubs providing colour during the summer months. A path leads round the side of the property to the rear garden which is enclosed with timber fencing and is predominantly laid to lawn with planted borders.
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Episode 4: Jenny Blake - How To Pivot Your Way To Your Dream Career
In episode 4 of our "Unleashing Superpowers" season, we are talking with the wonderful Jenny Blake, business and career strategist, international speaker and author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One".
Jenny's motto is "If change is the only constant, let's get better at it." She wants people to have careers and lives that they truly love but understands how difficult change can be. Jenny has made it her work to find the practical strategies that help people to not only survive change but to positively thrive from it.
On a personal level, we love Jenny's warmth, compassion and generosity. She gets the reality of pivots having not only helped thousands of people through change, but having been many pivots of her own. She has the rare gift of not only making change doable, but downright desirable. Jenny is an absolutely true-hearted member of the Maverick tribe.
In this episode, some of the highlights of our conversation include:
- How nothing will teach you more about yourself than entrepreneurship and creative ventures
- The kinds of pivots that people are going through, either through choice or circumstance
- The trend of 'high-net growth' people who are not willing to stay put
- How people are becoming more fluid in their careers in and out of companies
- Career development as 'downloading apps' rather than 'climbing the ladder'
- The 4- stage PIVOT formula to make change while minimising risk
- How to use small experiments to check out potential pivot moves
- The '30/30' and 'mentor from afar' methods for learning from other people who are already doing what you want to do
- The kinds of pilots you can do if you are in an organisation
- "Build first, courage later" as a way to build momentum
- How to fund your pivot - money, bridge income and runways
- Why the next step you take is the most important one
Jenny Blake - Author of PIVOT
Jenny Blake is an author, career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people organize their brain, move beyond burnout, and build sustainable, dynamic careers they love. She is the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, September 2016), which won an award for Axiom Best Business Book in the careers category. Jenny also hosts the popular Pivot Podcast, which CNBC listed among 6 podcasts to make you smarter about your career, Entrepreneur selected as one of the top 20 female-hosted business podcasts.
After two years at a technology start-up followed by five years at Google in Training and Career Development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 where she has been running her own consulting business in the years since. Jenny combines her love of technology with her superpower of simplifying complexity to help clients pivot their career or business. Her motto: if change is the only constant, let's get better at it.
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Chicks With Guns
Now it's art in New York City. As a side note, I had no idea Beretta had a gallery on Madison Ave. in New York.
6 Responses to "Chicks With Guns"
You should see the London Galleries of the custom shotgun makers.
So it's true, once people can't have it, don't see it and never used it.. it's to be seen in a museum or gallery, placed on the wall..
shows the sad state of affairs in NY… some female visitor should ask if they can bring their own..
Holland & Holand also has a store in NYC.
I've been to the Berreta store in NYC… it was cool to see it… but all they had on display were overly expensive shotguns going for $130,000…
I mean… they're nice shotguns… but… why???? (prolly for the dumb rich new yorkers who want a fancy gun they never us in their gun case)
I've been to the nyc store. in addition to the high-end guns, they had their silver pigeon line. I didn't buy there. but own one now.
I think I knew about the gallery for some reason – some HGTV show I think.
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Informatica's Social Media and Master Data Management (MDM) demo provides an organisation with a nice vantage point to increase productivity and humanise the customer experience. As social media becomes more pervasive in the daily lives of everyday consumers, organisations will need to provide for a customer experience that fosters intuitive relationships with consumers.
The demo captures the spirit of natural tendencies that can often be taken for granted. It humanises the face of an organisation ensuring it is better equipped to improve the customer experience by enabling it to relate a customer's off-premise persona to what is already known about a customer on-premise. It provides an organisation with a window into how customers that are more connected discover, communicate and share based on their social graph and interest.
As digital technology continues to accelerate economic change, a critical factor of competitive advantage is an organisation's ability to humanise its social web presence, learn how to listen and adapt. The future business will need to ensure its cultural dynamics are continuously in tune with consumers' behaviour which are triggering market shifts in business. The inability of organisations to adapt with consumer behaviour will ultimately impact the customer experience and the bottom-line.
Organisations that are winning in this new reality have recognised this is a time when customers can work with you not just against you. This social media and master data management (MDM) demo is a reflection of this new reality. It shows how organisations will conduct future business, humanising their band as they fluidly interact with customers seamlessly and transparently.
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Humanising Customer Centricity: Informatica's Social Media and Master Data Management (MDM)
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- Seth Grimes said...
Thanks for sharing the link. I viewed the Informatica recording, and I have remark, either I misunderstand the meaning of "master data" or Informatica is way misusing the term. What the recording terms "master data," I'd simply call data and profile records.
Seth, http://twitter.com/sethgrimes
- November 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Torrance Mayberry said...
Thanks for the comment. The meaning of Master Data is definitely becoming more encompassing and ubiquitous.
- November 23, 2011 at 1:38 PM
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To maintain the high quality of your toy collection and personal hygiene, it is recommended to clean your toys with antibacterial cleaner before and after use, and keep them stored in a protective bag.
Taking care of silicone:
Silicone is one of the most popular materials used at Essence-Boutique. It's soft, smooth, safe, supple and aesthetically pleasing, and a lot of our favourite items are made from this material. It's one of the easiest materials to look after because it's so resilient, but it does need special consideration.
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Glass is a luxurious material from which to make a sex toy. It's smooth, hard and very resilient, so it's easy to look after. But it does require some special precautions.
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Do you have any advice on my cat's litter box? I recently bought this one, and he won't use it! He either waits and and goes outside, or he goes on top of the box, not in it. I thought he'd love the privacy. Doesn't privacy matter to cats?
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Hey, Disappointed!
Eeeuuu... I wouldn't use that box either! Your cat's litter box is so important, and that one would be like diving into a Porta Potty headfirst. Eeeuuu...
Oh. Sorry. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings!
To answer your question about your cat's litter box, we don't really care about privacy. After all, we're just doing what comes naturally. That human need for privacy doesn't make a lot of sense to us. All we want is a quiet peaceful place where we won't get jumped by another animal or chased by a human.
The Perfect Potty For Cats
Here are a few tips.
- Put the litter box in a place that's convenient for the cat. Outside, we don't have to walk down stairs and trudge through a dark basement just to use the bathroom. A litter box on every level of your house is really best.
- The best places for your cat's litter box are quiet and away from lots of activity but not closed in. Your bathroom works perfectly as your cat's bathroom, too.
- Choose a roomy box with very low sides. Remember, outside we don't have to step into some kind of container to... ummm... eliminate (not sure why my human typist is being so proper about this).
- Give your cat a box without a top. We like to be able to see an escape route from our litter boxes, and that's not possible when the boxes are covered. And covered boxes trap nasty smells that only a cat can notice.
- Use unscented litter. We like our boxes to smell like us, not some kind of cheap perfume.
- If you have more than one cat, you need more than one box. The rule of thumb is one box per cat, plus one. If you have several cats, they'll like having litter boxes scattered around the house so they can always get to one without having to deal with the other cats. You should see our condo. We have litter boxes everywhere!
Oops! Gotta go now! Mother Nature is calling, and I don't feel like using my litter box, so I have some things to take care of outside.
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A British cyber-security specialist has been condemned by fellow industry professionals after his company demonstrated weaknesses in Twitter's security by hacking in to celebrity accounts.
The attacks on accounts owned by the documentary maker Louis Theroux and TV and radio presenter Eamonn Holmes occurred on 27 December. In the attacks, Insinia Security posted a message claiming to have taken over their accounts temporarily to "highlight an important vulnerability".
Other accounts that were attacked were journalist Simon Calder and presenter Saira Khan. Calder told the BBC that he had not authorised the attack which he described as "tedious" and "annoying".
Insinia CEO Mike Godfrey has written about the attacks and the research which led up to them in a post on Medium. He said that the demonstrations followed seven years of research and warnings about vulnerabilities in text messaging and cell networks which had largely fallen on deaf ears.
In March, Insinia were featured in a story about SMS hacking in the Telegraph in which it demonstrated the vulnerabilities by sending fake messages to the journalist's phone – with her permission.
SMS is widely used for two-factor authentication (2FA) despite persistent warnings from security researchers that it is not secure due to SIM hijacking attacks. In the US, a cryptocurrency investor is suing telecoms provider AT&T claiming he lost £19 million after a company agent was able to gain access to his mobile phone account and intercept a 2FA message.
The attack itself was quite simple: Godfrey used mobile numbers of the celebrities, which he had obtained through various means including previous contacts with them. He then used SMS spoofing tools to send messages to Twitter purporting to be from the mobile numbers.
Twitter provides a number of legacy tools, dating from the early days of the site, that allow users to post messages and control their account via text message.
Insinia said that with this level of control, hostile actors could ruin reputations of people and organisations by posting offensive messages, send direct messages to other users which include links to phishing sites and Trojans and harass or blackmail victims.
It also claimed it would be possible to enumerate and harvest valid Twitter accounts.
Kevin Beaumont, a security researcher, criticised Insinia, saying the message was "companies can openly flout the Computer Misuse Act…"
I think the message here is UK cyber companies can openly flout the Computer Misuse Act to hack celebrities because it's only being applied to teenagers. https://t.co/DDSOqJLG7Z— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) December 29, 2018
Prof Alan Woodward from the computer science department at the University of Surrey said it is standard practice in situations like this to hack one's own account.
"Interfering with many people's accounts in this way is irresponsible," Woodward said. "As frustrating as it might be for the researchers in question when Twitter maintain this functionality that can be abused, unauthorised interference with accounts is unacceptable."
A Twitter spokesperson told the Guardian that the issue had been fixed: "We've resolved a bug that allowed certain accounts with a connected UK phone number to be targeted by SMS spoofing. We'll continue to investigate any related reports to ensure our account security protocols are functioning as expected."


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