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Disclosure: I purchased "Go Set A Watchman" by Harper Lee from my local book store. The comments that follow are my own personal opinion. I received NO compensation of any kind, or from anyone, to provide this review. I had no desire to continue reading this book and I did not finish it.
This book proved to be a total disappointment for this huge fan of "To Kill A Mockingbird". I truly felt this was rushed to press and sent out to readers without benefit of ANY editing. It read like a bad first draft.
If you could sort out the read and get past the multiple editing errors, you still had a meandering story and stereotypical characters that seemed to be living in several different decades. I could not get into this book. I found myself re-reading sentences and paragraphs trying to understand the writing, and put this story into some kind of context. I've read more interesting and better-written work from novice authors.
This is the second book I've read this month by a noted author and published by a long-standing publishing house. Both have been super-hyped commercially and both turned out to be a waste of my time. I burned for $34.99 on this one. I understand there are some booksellers giving refunds on this book and I'm definitely going to check that out.
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We would like to welcome you to our little piece of paradise near Cabarete. Ralph comes from Chicago, USA and Tina comes from Odessa, Ukraine. As a management team we complement each other with our dedication to the various aspects of operating a successful vacation rental enterprise. Ralph speaks English and German, whereas Tina is well versed in Russian. Our prime objective is to provide our guests with a pleasant and relaxing environment. We may not always be visible at our complex, but we are continuously at work behind the scenes to ensure our guests will have great memories of their stay with us.
We are very accessible thru various means of communication. We believe this is one of the most important aspects of successful rental property management. For our tenants, we are available on Facebook, by email, in person, or on the telephone. There is nothing worse than a manager who cannot be reached and nothing worse than visiting a foreign country without knowing what awaits you there. Prior to your arrival and during your stay, good communication is a priority for us.
Additionally, we have created a section labeled USEFUL INFORMATION, where we share with our tenants direct contacts, basic orientation information and useful tips for local knowledge. We realize it can be difficult for first-time visitors to our tropical area, so we try to assist with our own experiences here. We share tips on what products to buy, and what information would be most useful to you for comfortable living in a tropical environment.
We want our guests to feel as much at home here as we do. We take great pride in being not only the managers, but also being the catalysts to promote a sense of well being, camaraderie and friendship among our guests. Please do not hesitate to approach either one of us with a good suggestion for improvements, changes or anything else that may be useful in our endeavor to make your time here "the best vacation ever".
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Jake Haas is a vice president in the Portland office of Kidder Mathews. Since joining Kidder Mathews in 2010, Jake has focused his practice on the sale, acquisition and leasing of office and investment properties primarily in the Portland metropolitan area and I-5 corridor. While at Kidder Mathews, Jake has closed more than 250 transactions totaling more than $270 million dollars in value.
Prior to joining Kidder Mathews, Jake Haas was a financial analyst with ScanlanKemperBard Companies. His real estate experience includes acquisitions, dispositions, leases, construction, and financial and debt analysis. In 2008 alone, he underwrote more than $1.3 billion in assets for office, industrial, retail, self-storage and multi-family properties on the West Coast. Jake has a strong understanding of the investment market, market rents, improvement costs and market trends. Jake is committed to sustainability practices and holds the LEED GA (Green Associate) credential from the Green Building Certification Institute.
- Bachelor of Science in business administration – University of Montana
- Masters in business administration – University of Oregon
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- SIOR Candidate
- US Green Building Council
- City Club of Portland
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
- Commercial Association of Brokers
- Investment Sale: Medical Portfolio ($26M)
- Investment Sale: Lovejoy Medical ($10.1M)
- Tenant Representation: US Bank, N.A. (300,000 SF, various assignments)
- Tenant Representation: Kaiser Permanente (500,000 SF, various assignments)
- Tenant Representation: Cricket Wireless (Portland HQ)
- Tenant Representation: American Heart (Portland Office)
- Investment Sale Team: Historic Office Building ($40M, pending)
- Investment Sale: Macadam Place ($4.9M)
- Acquisition: Kaiser Permanente (80,000 SF)
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pacific northwest born and raised; photographing my way through the day till bed time, doing my best to raise three little ladies with teenager tendencies. all the while, studying to be a doula and navigating this new life as wife to my damn hot husband.
who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Find the running monologue of the misadventures that is our life.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Been awhile since posting, sorry about that! I have LOTS of new images piling up to share with you guys and I thought I'd start with some of my new favorites first. These photos are of Abigail Greydanus basic bra and basic girdle shorts shot on a roof top in Hollywood. They were taken by the amazing Bequiling Images and as you may have already guessed the lovely model is Miss Victoria Veins. Enjoy!
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Rosario annual festival of mini soccer
Over 600 mini soccer players invaded Ulidia playing fields on 12th May 2012 for our annual football tournament.
After the success of last year's event, the net was widened to include teams at 2002, 2003 and 2004 age groups and the action stretched over the whole day. Over 50 teams competed in the spectacle of wall-to-wall soccer!
The day kicked-off with a parade led by young musician of the year, Bradley Parker. The 2002 and 2004 teams competed in the morning and the 2003s took to the pitches for the afternoon sessions. Jim Shaw, President of IFA and Niall Ó Donnghaile Lord Mayor of Belfast inspected the parades and made the presentations.
The winning teams were:
2002s Aquinas (runners up St Mary's)
2003s Cup - North Belfast (beating Rosario Spartans on sudden death penalties)
2003s Championship - Ridgeway Rovers (runners up Lurgan Town)
2004s Ridgeway Rovers (runners up Castle Juniors)
This was very much a family event and attended by parents, grannies, grandas, brothers and sisters who witnesses the unbridled enthusiasm and committment from our young players.
A big thank you to everybody who contributed to making the day a success. Also thanks to our sponsors:
Rosario festival of mini soccer Sat 12 May 2012. Photos by Dermot MacGreevey (top gallery) and John McGettrick (bottom gallery)
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It's Valentine's Day tomorrow, which means that people everywhere will shower their significant others in chocolate, gifts, and sexy lingerie. If you think human mating rituals are bizarre, then you're in for a real treat. We're going to imagine how different Valentine's Day would be if humans were more like fish when it comes to romance.
Male Angler Fish Are Amorous Vampires
And this hunky beefcake is a male angler fish.
And this (number 4) is a male angler fish latched onto a female.
Males bite onto their female lovers and suck their blood like some sort of vampire. The female gradually absorbs the male's body until he's nothing more than a lump dangling in the current.
Male Seahorses In Labor
Male seahorses have pouches on their stomach, kind of like what you'd find on a kangaroo. After two seahorses have finished mating, the mother injects the eggs into the father's pouch where the eggs can mature. Eventually, the male seahorse will spew a cloud of bouncing baby boys and girls.
If we were all more like seahorses, then women would rejoice and men could look forward to hours of labor and Lamaze classes.
Male Clownfish Promote the LGBT Cause
You've seen Finding Nemo, right? A father clownfish swims across the ocean trying to find his beloved son. It's a heartwarming story on the surface, but once you take a closer look at clownfish mating practices you realize just how perverse the story actually is. If the dominant female clownfish in a hierarchy dies, then the dominant male undergoes a biological sex change to become female.
If we were like clownfish, then after a divorce your Dad might have a sudden urge to hit up the nail salon and go shopping for bras to support his new man-boobs.
Kissing Hooks
A good kiss can be so romantic that you never want to stop. Phallosthethus fish rely on something a little bit more effective than kissing skills: they have barbed hooks on their chins that grab onto their partners.
We can all breathe a sigh of relief that we're not more like the phallosthethus fish. If we had chin hooks, then two people kissing would look like something straight out of a slasher horror movie. I've heard of some girls who say that the coarse hairs of a man's beard can be uncomfortable during kissing. Can you imagine how much worse it would be if we replaced facial hair with kitchen knives and meat hooks?


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Pure Love ceremony 2015
Shiner pure love is going on the road. On April 15, 2015 a pure love ceremony will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hallettsville, TX. This will be the first time Shiner pure love will travel out of Shiner. A chastity talk will be given to over 200 high school students in Hallettsville on April 8 and then the Pure Love ceremony will be held on April 15,2015 at 6:pm in the church.
The Pure Love ceremony in Shiner will be held on April 22, 2015 at SS Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church at 7 pm. This will be the 12th year for the Pure Love ceremony in Shiner.
Pray for all the young men and women who will be at the talks to be inspired to follow God's call to live a chaste live.


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A personal portrait of the Queen Mother will be on the agenda at the Lichfield Garrick in September.
Hugo Vickers will be highlighting the much-loved Royal's private side at the Garrick Studio on September 12.
Hugo is an acknowledged expert on the House of Windsor and in 2005, his book, Elizabeth: The Queen Mother, was published.
Harold Nicolson called her "the most amazing Queen since Cleopatra", while Cecil Beaton described her as "a marshmallow made on a welding machine".
The Queen Mother's image is well known throughout the world – the pastels, the pearls, the feathery hats, the smile. But what was she really like inside? Hugo spent 17 years researching her life, having observed her for 40 years. He saw her in public and in private and talked to her close friends and staff.
In a performance sparkling with images, music to capture key moments and footage of the Queen Mother in action, this is a portrait of one of the most enigmatic characters of recent times.
Tickets to The Queen Mother; A Personal View are £12 (£10 concessions) and available by calling 01543 412121 or visiting the Lichfield Garrick website.
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The Brooklyn Social Cards enterprise is a joint venture, established in 2008, between seasoned Brooklyn letterpress printers Breck Hostetter (Sesame Letterpress) and Rebecca Kutys (Moontree Letterpress). Both businesses had increasingly frequent requests for letterpress printed business cards and pleas for help on where to begin with the custom design process.
As entrepreneurs, we are always inspired to help enterprising people take their work to the next level by providing fine letterpress printed business cards. In effort to keep the design and ordering process simple and affordable for our clients, we decided to collaborate to develop a letterpress collection that represents our preferred designs, the best paper stock and a variety of ink colors.
By offering a few custom options throughout the process, clients can use one of our collection templates to create a totally unique letterpress card to represent their business. Although the designs are standard, we do treat each card as a custom layout and carefully adjust the type and spacing to be sure everything fits well and looks polished.
Our Story
Back in 2005, we were both operating our own letterpress studios (one block apart) in Dumbo, Brooklyn. In those early days we were sharing our studio spaces with other artists/designers, and would often check in with each other on issues like press troubleshooting and the day-to-day challenges of running small businesses in New York City. In the process, we became really great friends. In 2007, we were both looking to expand our space and decided to lease a large letterpress space together in Brooklyn. While we continued to operate our own businesses separately, we were able to share resources while also leaning on each other for moral support and entrepreneurial comradery.
In 2008, we teamed up to create Brooklyn Social Cards. For the first time, this collaboration allowed us to work together directly (Breck handles correspondence and design, with Rebecca printing and shipping each order). Once we launched our new website, the process worked seamlessly and our new small letterpress business was off to the races. In 2010, Rebecca moved back to her native Pennsylvania and the transition couldn't have been smoother. Today Brooklyn Social Cards maintains headquarters in Dumbo, while Rebecca prints and ships from beautiful Bucks County, PA.
We love that our joint venture has allowed us the opportunity to work together and stay in such close touch all these years, and we'd like to thank the hundreds of great clients we've worked with since 2008. This year we are celebrating our 10th year anniversary with lots of improvements to our website and ordering process. We look forward to providing you with great customer service and excellent craftsmanship for many more years to come! -Breck and Rebecca


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Professional social situations can be awkward. And, unfortunately, many people wind up making fools of themselves because they don't understand that etiquette rules in business differ from those in other settings.In "The Essentials of Business Etiquette," Barbara Pachter writes about the rules people need to understand to conduct and present themselves appropriately in professional socialRead More
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Author Signing with Bibi Gaston
The Hickory Stick Bookshop will partner with The Steep Rock Association for a Family Weekend Workshop Saturday, April 28th at 2:30pm. Join Steep Rock at Macricostas at 1pm and then head over to The Hickory Stick Bookshop for a book signing with Bibi Gaston, author of Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters (Baked Apple Club Productions, $22.95) during The Hickory Stick's celebration of Independent Bookstore Day.
In 2005, six tattered blue boxes were unearthed in the Library of Congress's Pinchot Collection in Washington D.C. Inside were 5,000 pages of letters describing the work of early resource conservation professionals. The boxes were labeled simply "The Old Timers." Penned between the years 1937-1941 by the first class of American Forest Rangers to serve under President Theodore Roosevelt and First Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, the letters offer a mirror to the America we once were, and a guidebook for the road ahead.
These narratives tell of extreme hardship, fearless struggle, confrontations with cattlemen, miners, loggers, and the challenge of turning confrontations into cooperation and gratitude. It wasn't an easy life by any means, but to these men and women, their life of service was the best life they could imagine. To a one, they were grateful for the chance to live a meaningful life in a time of struggle.
Bibi Gaston is a nationally recognized and fully licensed professional Landscape Architect, as well as an author. Her first book, The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Literary Arts Society's 2010 Oregon Book Award and featured as book of the month in March 2009 by the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. She has been invited to speak on television and radio, including NBC Portland, FOX News Portland, WLIU Long Island Public Radio, and CTR, the Contact Talk Radio Network syndicated nationwide, among others.
This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit www.hickorystickbookshop.com or email email@example.com
Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters: The Untold Story of the Brave Men and Women Who Launched the American Conservation Movement (Paperback)
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I get a paid holiday today commemorating the great man, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. So with this day off, I get a chance to reflect and to try to do justice to this classic portrait photo of MLK with a watercolor painting. I don't think it's too bad for a first try. I worked on keeping things pretty loose. I wasn't very successful with his clothing, so that's cropped out. I'll need to work on my fabrics.
After working on those tiny portraits for my masseuse, it was very liberating to work much larger with this King portrait. This 10″ x 14″ is the minimum size I prefer working in.


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ESRB's Trichet says crisis systemic, risks rising• www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - The sovereign debt crisis has become systemic and risks to the economy are increasing swiftly, European Systemic Risk Board Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet said on Tuesday.
Trichet, who heads the European Central Bank as well as the continent's super-watchdog on financial stability, said the euro zone bailout fund should be made as flexible as possible, but without involving the ECB in leveraging it.
"The crisis is systemic and must be tackled decisively," Trichet told the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
"The high interconnectedness in the EU financial system has led to a rapidly rising risk of significant contagion. It threatens financial stability in the EU as a whole and adversely impacts the real economy in Europe and beyond."


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The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service is looking for donors at sessions in Bishopbriggs.
The mobile donating team will be at Cadder Freestone Social Club in St Mungo Street on Monday, January 5, from 2-3.45pm and 5.15-7.30pm. The next day, Tuesday, January 6, they will be there from 4pm to 7.30pm.
A spokesman for the service said: ''We urgently need to attract more new and returning blood donors. Only five per cent of the eligible population currently give blood. Every day we need to welcome 1000 blood donors in Scotland. We need more new volunteers to ensure that we continue to meet hospital requirements for blood and blood products.''


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On the Website http://zinkundzauber.de/termine/?wcalendar=1491004800&app_service_id=1&app_provider_id=7#app_services_dropdown_title, the following possible times are displayed on April 4:
09:30 free, is correct
12:00 not possible, is correct
14:30 free, is correct
17:00 not possible, is correct
19:30 not possible, this is not right.
For the service "Workshop 2,5 Std. (mind. 8 / max. 16 Personen)" there is the service provider "Workshop 2 5 Std", the working hours "Workshop 2,5 Std" Has.
According to the working hours, a booking should be possible at 19:30.
Can someone please check this and check if there is an error in the settings or in the program.
many thanks for the support.
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Day 21 :: Arte de Calle
Yesterday amidst the madness of the streets I passed some old ladies selling hand made oil pastels (or so I thought) and decided to seek them out once again to buy some for my brother back home. Some hours later, lost in the sea of pear-shaped women with firmly fastened Charlie Chopin-eque hats and sacks full of babies and food stuffs, I luckily found the women only to find that I was wrong. Disappointed I ventured towards the graffiti gallery I mentioned yesterday.
Along the way I couldn't help but notice the largeer-than-expected presence of Westerners roaming the streets. Their natural height didn't give them away so much as their goonish fascination with "experiencing an indigenous culture," for which I will never understand. Their dreadlocks and bright eyed optimism at experiencing a culture that in their very core they are simply pitying, is obnoxious at best. At least I thought I was going to find something here.
Regardless, back at the gallery I met a new cat by the name of SERES, a 20 year old guy whose been writing for several years now. I sat and drew beside him as he worked on his piece and we made plans to go out later tonight to tag; it's been a good while since I've done the whole guerrilla artist thing, but hopefully I am not too rusty.
At dinner this older woman sitting next to me leans over and asked, "what is a handsome man like you eating alone?" I laughed and just said I'm traveling alone. We got to talking and it turns out her advances were less the work of a cougar, rather she worked as Marketing Director for Movistar (a large telecommunications company in South America) and said I would make a good model for their advertising campaign. Imagine that. I took her card but don't intend on becoming the poster child for cellphone usage in the third world.
Unfortunately the last thing I will bring with me tonight is a camera, so a story in the morning will have to suffice. Tomorrow: Santiago, Chile.
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This one is lifted from one of the many shoots done in West Yellowstone at the parade Guest Ranch last June. I kinda had it in mind before I arrived actually and I was just thrilled that the model, Mike, had the physique to pull it off. I planned to shoot pure silhouette, all black against the blue sky, but then, since he showed up with this stunning tattoo, I adjusted my exposure so that it could be seen. I think it makes the shot more interesting, and since it sold right away, that was probably the wise choice.
You can view more from this model and other shoots done in Montana in this IStockphoto lightbox, or in this Photoshelter Gallery.


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Story of Habil and Qabil (Abel & Cain)
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Story of Habil and Qabil in the Quran (Abel & Cain) Allah the Almighty says:
{And (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him» recite to them (the Jews) the story of the two sons of Adam (Habil and Qabil) in truth; when each offered a sacrifice (to Allah), it was accepted from the one but not from the other. The latter said to the former: "I will surely kill you." The former said: "Verily, Allah accepts only from those who are Al-Muttaqun (the pious)." "If you do stretch your hand against me to kill me, I shall never stretch my hand against you to kill you: for I fear Allah, the Lord of the `Alamin (mankind, jinn, and all that exists)." "Verily, I intend to let you draw my sin on yourself as well as yours, then you will be one of the dwellers of the Fire; and that is the recompense of the Zalimin (polytheists and wrong-doers);" So the Nafs (self) of the other (latter one) encouraged him and made fair-seeming to him the murder of his brother; he murdered him and became one of the losers; Then Allah sent a crow who scratched the ground to show him to hide the dead body of his brother; He (the murderer) said: "Woe to me! Am I not even able to be as this crow and to hide the dead body of my brother?" Then he became one of those who regretted}. (Al–Ma'idah, 27-31)
InshAllah soon to come, lessons I got from reading this verse!
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An old-fashioned comic-book style movie based on an old-fashioned comic book, this—in Jack's and my opinion—far outshines the others in its genre: Pirates, Transformers, Green Lantern, Thor (did I forget any of these forgettable flicks?).
This could be the end of our beautiful relationship, but I have to tell you, I found the first half of the new Potter movie disjointed and a big expensive bore. But I liked the second half almost as much as I disliked the first half. So I'm only half a Muggle.
Sharp dialog, nice performances by Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, but overworked concept: let's just be friends, not screw like little bunnies.


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Sometimes new stuff doesn't always make a wave in your life until later...when it suddenly hits you that it is large and important. So remembering the beginning is tough.
But that hasn't been the case for me with running - I remember standing in the cafeteria at work staring at the electronic announcement board advertising the first ever Girls on the Run Mother's Day race. I remember thinking "Yeah - I should do that!" without a clue as to what it really meant. It was a crazy-hair-brained idea that has landed me in a whole new place in life...as sometimes crazy-hair-brained ideas do.
And I have so much to say about this 1 year anniversary.
A lot has changed in the last year. While I still have definite room for improvement in the fitness area, I have come a long way. I mean, I ran a half marathon for crying out loud. If you had told me a year ago that would happen, I would have laughed. In fact, I did laughed at a co-worker (yes - in his face...) when he mentioned he heard a rumor I was training for one. And that was 6 mo after I started running...
In a nutshell - here is the change in my life that has occurred...Friday I volunteered at Rebekah's school. They were having (basically) a track and field day. As the PE teacher handed out assignments to activities, asking if there were any physical limitations she needed to be aware of...my only thought was that she should give me the toughest assignment she had. I was sure I could handle it.
I don't know that I got the toughest, but the one I did get definitely had a physical aspect to it. It was called "canoeing", and basically there were gym mats on top of wheels (a plastic square with four wheels attached to it...two of these were under a gym mat) for the canoe. One kid pushed the other across a parking lot - they swapped places and came back.
The only problem was that some kids couldn't push their partners. Sometimes the wheels needed to be adjusted. Sometimes kids had to be adjusted. This resulted in a lot of physical activity for me for the day. I pushed kids. I ran from one side to the other to help each and every team that had problems.
Side note? These school activities are always fascinating. The people I meet are always...interesting. I made the mistake of asking the gal who was partnering with me if she happened to work outside the home. She replied she sold "slumber parties". "Slumber parties?" I inquired, wondering if there was really a market for such a specific type of party organization...yeah...I walked into that one. Turns out "slumber parties" was a simple code for sex toys. I also got to hear about hairy legs and ingrown toenails. I wish I could make this stuff up.
Anyway...back to the real purpose of this blog post...my only regret was that I had worn jeans. I had started to put on my running capries, but they had a bit of an odor to them. In hindsight, I would have taken the odor. It was rather hot to be darting about in that type of clothing. But I survived. The kids survived. I was blessed to see some rather amazing things.
Some things were rather comical (even if a little sad)...for example the scrawny 60 lb kid trying to push an (at least) 150 lb kid. I stepped in and gave a good heave-ho and pushed the kid back across the parking lot. He had a blast and the smile was totally worth it.
Some things touched my heart. One girl eagerly pushed her partner. I noticed she was struggling about half way. "You can do it!" I shouted. Then I jogged over to help get them to the other end. As I squatted down to help, I noticed that the girl was missing her hand. She didn't complain one time. (Trust me - plenty of kids said "I can't do this!") Her partner was also on the smaller side, so I happily pushed the girl with the missing hand back. She had worked so hard with so little said, it was the least I could do! I told her "WAY TO GO!" but didn't make much more of a deal out of it, because I didn't want to embarrass her. I was seriously impressed with her though.
This event was small - but it seemed to make such a big difference in these kid's lives. As I pushed and jogged, all I could help think was that my journey over the last year helped me get to this place to enjoy these moments. Physical health is about more than losing weight. If it hadn't been for that journey I would have been scouring the list of assignments trying to figure out what I could handle without embarrassing myself. Instead I was given the opportunity to make a difference in some kids' lives - which of course rubbed off on me.
To celebrate my runniversary, I ran in the GOTR Mother's Day race - but I'll post on that separately. This post has been hanging around for a few days as is. :)


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Pineapple tarts are a must in every home during Chinese New Year. I chance upon this recipe in a Baking group and fell in love with it. I couldn't resist the beautiful and lovely colors. The traditional pineapple tarts are made with butter, ghee and plain flour. But this recipe uses corn flour. So it's quite crumbly and a melt in the mouth type of tarts. The best thing about this recipe is that you don't need a mould. Just use your hands to shape and crimp. Or also can use a piping nozzle tip 106 to pipe out the tart base.
Rainbow Pineapple Tarts
Ingredients for Filling:
3 pineapples
400 gms sugar
2 pandan leaves
Grate pineapples finely and leave in a sieve to drain away some of water.
Transfer to a pot and cook over medium heat till water evaporates.
Add in sugar, pandan leaves and cook till dry. Remember to stir occasionally this or else it will burn.
Cool before using.
Ingredients for dough:
300 gms plain flour
3 tbsps icing sugar
3 tbsp corn flour
200 gms butter (cubed)
2 egg yolks
Sieve the icing sugar, corn flour and plain flour into a mixing bowl.
Add in the cubed butter and mix until like breadcrumbs.
Add in the egg yolks. Knead lightly into a dough.
Divide dough into 3 parts and add desired colouring.
Leave aside for 10 mins. Pinch out 10 gms dough.
Roll into a ball and make a dent in the middle.
Crimp sides of tarts with a pastry crimper.
Top with a pineapple ball and bake in a 160°preheated oven for 15 - 20 mins.
Leave tarts to cool on racks before storing.
Note: I used a star nozzle to pipe the pattern on the tarts. Using the same non coloured dough.


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A week containing Friday the 13th AND Valentine's Day is a scary thing … especially when it's the anniversary of your marriage breaking up.
And mine somehow found new dramas to deliver. Fortunately, it's become a bit water off a duck's back.
So I was totally whatever when I got a nasty comment yesterday from David aka "crosscountry6969." He wrote on my Dickless Dad post: "Think God i don't have that problem. But then, i would never marry a bitch like ya'll. Ya'll sound like ya'll are proud of making your husbands feel like a useless piece of shit."
Cheers David … I can think of other reasons you don't have "that problem."
Yep, I'm totally crushed that you'd never marry a bitch like me.
Aside from that cheery little message, Valentine's Day was lovely. The kids and I cooked up our three-course feast: roast tomato soup for entree, meat pies with heart-shaped roast potatoes and heart-shaped tomatoes for main, and heart-shaped brownies for dessert.
Nom nom.
As for the rest of the week …
Here's what went down at housegoeshome:
>> Stop the presses … on Monday I blogged about going kayaking … that's right, Alana House went kayaking. I still don't believe it. DD is annoyed that I didn't mention it was also spontaneous kayaking, my least favourite kind.
>> On Tuesday I blogged about the Fifty Shades of Grey spoofs floating around.
>> On Wednesday it was Unhappy Anniversary time – one year since my husband announced he was leaving me. And I celebrated by miscarrying my Mirena. I possibly didn't explain what the Mirena was properly – its a plastic thing that was in my uterus to try and mitigate some of my lady plumbing problems and it came out rather traumatically. I didn't have an actual miscarriage. When I went to see my gyno, he got very giggly about my old eggs and their inability to bear fruit. I gave him a VERY stern look.
>> I was a bit wobbly on Thursday after the Mirena incident and considered getting the youngest a blow-up water slide for her birthday. The verdict from HouseGoesHome's lovely, loyal readers was NOOOOOOOOO.
>> On Friday, I revealed just a small portion of the shite that went down on Thursday in a blog called Comprehensively Wrecked. Thursday WAS NOT a good day. But I still had a laugh, some char kway teow and a chardy with DD, so I remember bits of it quite fondly.
>> And Saturday was a plea to not accidentally arrive on my doorstep for a 70s party because it was cancelled. It was called Tonight's NOT the night and also contained lots of navel gazy blather from me about regenerating.
And here's what went down at escape.com.au:
>> The world's best hotels to pop the question (who knew romance curator was a job position in a hotel???) >> http://bit.ly/16Iu22E
>> The world's first hotel to be staffed by robots opening in Japan – creepy or cool?
>> Lisa Curry's bikini bliss in Western Australia … I would KILL to have a body like hers at 52 >> http://bit.ly/1M4LmzD
>> Australia's best value holiday destination is … Yamba!
>> The hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers has finally closed it's doors – it was fascinating to research this one and read about the bloke John Cleese based Basil on … http://bit.ly/1uCSL3k
>> When Aussies book a hotel room the number one thing they want to do in the bed is … not what you'd think … http://bit.ly/1MaWpqW
>> A Star Wars themed cruise has launched … in the West Caribbean … sign me up! Details and awesome pics here >> http://bit.ly/1E29XPU
>> And finally, I finished up at Escape with a Friday the 13th special – 13 places to go horror movie sight seeing >> http://bit.ly/1EZCUQ9
How was your week?
Song of the day: Simple Minds "Alive & Kicking"


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Cape Codder - 1981
Route 6 passes through Eastham, Wellfleet, and Truro center (blink and you've missed it) before the highway begind to climb a high bluff and suddenly there is a beautiful view stretched out below. In the distance Provincetown and the monument rise above the fist of the Cape. In the foreground Pilgrim Lake and Cape Cod Bay nearly meet, separated only by thin strands of asphalt highway -- and a row of tightly-packed cottages lined up with their foundations nearly touching the Bay.
For decades, people have driven past these cottages, either on Route 6 or Route 6A just beside, and called out the names of flowers written on the sides of these otherwise identical cottages; Zinnia, Dahlia, Peony, Tulip, Lilac, Marigold, Wisteria, 22 all told. "People write several letters a year addressed to 'Flower Cottages, Beach Point'," says Bernard Days, owner of the cottage colony. "I get them, too."
Days' Cottages is the real name of the business, just as it has been since they were built in 1931. Various members of the Days family have managed the cottages and general store attached ever since; Bernard has taken over after 14 years in the post office, and Bernard's son Joe seems interested in taking over when his time arrives, too.
The story behind the building of these cottaages is intriguing. 1931 of course was the depth of the Depression; F.A. Days and Sons, a prominent construction outfit in Truro at the time, had seen its work pretty much dry up and its crews go idle. John C. Worthington, a Truro oldtimer, remembers that Joe Days then approached his men with a proposition: "Days told his carpenters that if they were willing to work for a certain amount, a fixed amount, then he'd supply the materials and build the cottages. It was a very great thing for his group of carpenters because there was no employment at the time."
Bernard Days says that Mr. Worthington's memory is exactly correct. "My father owned a few lots of land here," he remembers. "He decided to bring his house down from Provincetown and put it there. He took it in sections and had it all ready to put up, and then decided it wasn't worth it. We took the house to the beach and made a bonfire.
"Then he decided to build [four] or five cottages... He said to his fellows, 'If you want to take a pay cut, I'll go to the bank and get some money to build.' They thought it over for about five minutes and said, 'Get the money'."
Days started with five cottages, but there was a problem. "He found out after he built them that not one of the five was on his land," laughs Bernard. Joe Days then went out and bought 17 lots, adding cottages all the time. Each lot was 50 feet wide and carried from the bay across Route 6A [then Route 6]. The price per lot? From $100 to $500.
The Days' rented the cottages right away. in 1931, they went for $5 a night and $50 a week during the season, or $3 a night and $15 a week during the spring and fall. The original screen porches were glassed in abotu 30 years ago and the fireplaces have been replaced by gas floor furnaces for cool May and October nights, but basically the cottaages remain as have always been. Today, over 50 years later, they rent for $47 a night or $525 a week during the season, and $30 a night or $200 a week during spring and fall.
Many people think Days' Cottages are in Provincetown, but actually they are a part of Truro's Beach Point, the northern section of town which reaches the P-town line. From the 1930s to the present, Beach Point has provided a crucial tax base for tiny Truro. "Truro depends on two things," says Truro Selectman Sam Levy. "Tourism, and building. Other than that, there's no industry or other business. Beach Point supports the general (town) economy, and provides an excellent service."
Bernard Days
Days keeps the cottages open from May 1 through October 15. It used to be that spring and fall would be slow except for weekends, but now, as Days says, "When we close up in October, we're better than 90 percent booked for next season." A business guarantee like that is tough to beat.
Almost all of Days' customers are families, and they usually book a week or two at a time. The arrive here from Connecticut and New York, and there are plenty of situations where the next generation of visitors has picked up where the old folks have left off. "I have one customer, if he makes it this year it'll be his 50th consecutive year," says Bernard.
Some quick multiplication shows that this cottage colony. modest and old-fashioned as it may look, must be a solid income-producer. With the rates and high occupancy which Days can get, the property probably brings in $100,000 a year in rents alone. Plus, the family has a grocery store across the street with plenty of handy customers in walking distance.
The figures look good, but maintenance is no joke either. Days haas a bulkhead on 850 feet of beach to protect his cottages; it cost $65,000 to build a few years ago and needed another $12,000 recently when a section popped out during rough weather. Each year he paints a third of his cottages; last year he went to vinyl siding on all of them. The ever-present utilities and taxes add up as well. He has cut his insurance down to a bare minimum because the premiums are so high.
All of which brings up the fundamental question facing every coottage colony owner these days: To condo or not to condo? Even though the "flower cottages" are very modest, with two small bedrooms, a galley kitchen and a living room, and even though there are only 18 feet between them, there is still no doubt that they would move like hot cakes if they were offered as condominiums. After all, they are right on the beach, and there are no more where those came from.
"I've been approached two or three times about turning this into condominiums," says Bernard Days, "But I'm not going to do it. There' a certain tie between us and the people who come, and I'd hate to do that to them. Maybe 10 percent coould afford to buy, but the other 90 percent couldn't afford it."
So the "flower cottages", like the vacation form they represent, will remain.


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Local company honored among award-eligible insurers in Northwest region
SEATTLE – PEMCO Insurance, known for being "a little different" and serving the Northwest exclusively, has been recognized for ranking the highest in customer satisfaction among auto insurers in the Northwest region by J.D. Power in its 2013 U.S. Auto Insurance Study.The J.D. Power study measures customer satisfaction for interaction, price, policy offerings, billing and payment, and claims."This is great news for our customers, and for us," said Stan McNaughton, PEMCO CEO. "We're a mutual insurer owned by our policyholders, and this study affirms the strong relationship between us. We thank our customers for their trust and for enthusiastically referring us to their family and friends." The J.D. Power study reflects consumer opinions from 45,521 total responses measuring 12 award-eligible auto insurers in the Northwest. The survey was conducted in March-April 2013.
This is the first year that J.D. Power ranked insurers in its newly designated Northwest Region that comprises Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. PEMCO is a regional insurer that serves Washington and Oregon residents from its Seattle headquarters. PEMCO's regional identity is underscored by its popular ad campaign that profiles Northwest personas with the tag line, "We're a lot like you. A little different.""We're delighted to be ranked the highest by our Northwest neighbors," said McNaughton. "And we won't be satisfied unless we continue to serve them even better. We believe we can know them and serve them like no one else because we live, work, learn, and play in the same corner of the world as they do."Disclaimer: PEMCO Insurance received the highest numerical score among auto insurance providers in the Northwest region in the proprietary J.D. Power 2013 U.S. Auto Insurance Study℠. Study based on 45,521 total responses measuring 12 providers in the Northwest Region and measures opinions of consumers with their auto insurance provider. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of consumers surveyed March-April 2013. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.About PEMCO InsurancePEMCO Insurance, established in 1949, is a Seattle-based provider of auto, home, boat, and umbrella insurance to Northwest residents. PEMCO Insurance is sold to consumers by the method they choose – phone, local community agents, or online. For more information, visit www.pemco.com.About J.D. PowerJ.D. Power is a global marketing information company that represents the voice of the customer. For more information, visit www.jdpower.com.


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I have jokingly been referring to Madeline as my little fashionista for awhile now. She gives me a run for my money every day when it comes to her wardrobe....changing her outfit at least five times each morning (leaving a trail of clothes in her dust). There is usually a small, if not large, amount of drama that we go through each day over what she is or isn't allowed to wear, what her sister is wearing that she wants, what's appropriate for the weather or the occasion, etc. Clothing drama. All. The. Time. Tonight, I put her and Claire to bed but Emma was out with Ryan. About a half hour later, they got home and I went upstairs to put Em to bed and Claire was sound asleep but Madeline was still lying there awake. She quietly called me over to her bed and asked me this...with all of the seriousness in the world: "Mommy, in the spring is it ok to wear like a short sleeve top with something long on the bottom?". I couldn't help but burst out laughing. First, I told her that yes...that is a totally acceptable outfit option for spring weather and then I asked her if that's always what she thinks about while she's lying in bed at night. The bashful grin on her face let me know that yup, it is. Oh dear! At least I know that girl has the world's biggest heart and sweetest soul.....otherwise I'd be in even bigger trouble.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
{future style star}
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{birthday dinner}
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{happy birthday to daddy}
Today is Ryan's birthday....it's still early but we're already off to a fun start. He woke up to a trail of balloons, a coldstone cake, some gifts, lots of cards and pictures made by the girls and this poem from Emma:
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Friday, March 30, 2012
{easter inspiration}
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{another fave!}
I need to take a minute to add to my list of favorites because it's still Friday and this is topping my list right now....
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{friday favorites}
Friday? Again? Already?? As the girls get bigger and our days get busier, time flies by at warped speed. The past few weeks have been filled with those types of days where every time slot in my day is accounted for. I have been crashing early each night and sleeping like a rock recovering and gearing up for each new day. Alas, here we are....another week has bitten the dust. Here's a few of my faves from this week (or at least what my fried brain can remember):
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
I have a confession. Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time), I have no idea what to write about or why anyone is actually reading this blog. I check in, I see the numbers and I automatically freak out thinking "Who are these people and why are they are coming here. What is it they are expecting from me?!". I don't know if you are here out of habit, hoping to get a funny self-degrading story, looking for pics of what's being going on with my family, checking out my latest party planning finds or hoping that I've come up with some profound thought for the day (yeah...prob not that). There are times when I find myself with nothing to write and times when my soul is overflowing with new things that the Lord is teaching me and I can't help but share. No matter how intimidating it is to be so completely raw about what goes on in my heart, I am led to share it with you in the hope that even one person will be touched and make it all worthwhile. Still, I often struggle with putting it all out there. I'll often write a post, hit publish and then ask myself what in the world I was thinking exposing my heart to the masses.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
{almost a sister}
Since moving to New Jersey, the most difficult thing for me hands down has been forming new friendships. It has been a lonely year and a half to say the least. This is an area of my life that I am constantly trusting God to show up in....and he Has and I know He will continue to.
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{besties and worsties}
A few years ago, Ryan started a tradition at the dinner table where we each have a turn sharing the best and worst part of our day. Or as Claire calls it "doing our besties and worsties". Yesterday was one of those days for me when I couldn't even think of a single worst part of my day because my entire day was just so darn good. I got back to the gym for the first time in a month, got a much needed eyebrow wax (you would not believe how long it took me to find the time to do this), cashed in my free iced coffee (pumpkin no less!) from dunkin donuts, ate lunch with my hubby, devoured the bible at nap time, took the girls on an outing to the craft store after school, cooked a delicious dinner in blissful peace while the girls crafted away....all this and the girls were on their best behavior all day; obeying me, not fighting, not even just tolerating, but all out loving on each other. It was amazing and a breath of fresh air. A much, much needed one. This was the same day, remind you, that started out with me losing my cool with Emma before school. But I learned so much from it that it wasn't enough to put a damper on my day. And you can imagine my joy to learn that that wasn't Em's worstie either. As a matter of fact, going to the library for your special at school is worse than getting yelled out by your mom and spending all morning in time out. Either she gained a lot of wisdom from our "talk" too, or she's learned to completely tune me out already at the age of eight. I'm crossing my fingers that it's the former:). One day at a time, I'm learning to slow down, take a deep breath and be thankful for all of my many blessing. Every last little one of them.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
{failing flesh}
So remember my last post that ended with me wanting to treat my girls in a way that brought glory to God? I made it exactly three seconds this morning before I failed miserably. Emma had been giving Ryan and I a run for our money all weekend. She was picking on her sisters left and right and was being repeatedly disrespectful to the two of us. And we had had it. This morning, I woke up and came downstairs and was greeted by a very grumpy eight year old who has gotten a little too big for her britches. Within thirty seconds, she was talking back to me and giving me major attitude and let me tell you...if it is not yet 7am, don't mess with me. So, I lost it again. It was one of those moments where I put her in time out, told her what she was doing wrong and then continued to let her know just to make sure she got it. While I made breakfast, I drove my point home. While I did the dishes, I made sure she really knew and as I packed her lunch for school I told her again. Just in case she didn't get it the first fifty times. What I realized later was that I was upset with her for not controlling her emotions and for being unkind to the people around her....and that that's exactly what I was doing to her in return. While her punishment may have been justified, the way I went about it was wrong. It needed to be done out of love for her and not out of my own frustration.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Some days you just have no words. Today started out as one of those days for me. I had some other things going on that were upsetting me (and therefore wearing my patience level waaaay down) and the girls pushed my buttons one too many times while getting ready for church this morning and I LOST IT. Like lost it, lost it. Like yelling at my girls and telling them about fifty times too many exactly what they were doing that was driving me absolutely crazy. And not in a nice, loving way. More like in a "I have zero tolerance for you or anything you say or do right now" way. Yup, as patient or laid back as you think I may be, that's not always the case. There are those moments like today when my stress or emotions get the best of me and I react in the worst way. Of course this had to happen on the way to church. Ha. Gotta love the irony. We dropped the girls off at their classroom and went in to the service and I was just numb and speechless. I was even speechless inside my head (trust me, this rarely happens). I was just completely mentally and emotionally drained, not to mention feeling a little guilty for being so harsh with the girls. I was just done. I was already over the day and the day had just started. And then the band started playing my song. This is one of the songs that gets me every time....it always has a way of speaking to me right where I'm at and reminding me of the merciful grace of my savior. The grace that redeems me over and over again.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
{friday favorites}
1. SPRING!!!!: I thought I would be sad to see winter go...especially with our lack of snow this year. I was WRONG. I can't get enough of the warm weather. It's ahhhhhh-mazimg! The feel of the sun beating down on me, ditching my boots and throwing on flip flops, driving with the sunroof open and the windows down, long walks with my girls, tired and dirty kids at the end of the day, tan lines....I'll take it!
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
{man pants}
Yes, you read that right. I said man pants. As in the most important article of clothing that I own. As in run out immediately and buy yourself a pair. My beloved man pants have been around for quite some time now (much too long for Ryan's liking, I'm sure). If by now you are wondering what man pants are and why in the world any self respecting woman would own a pair, this is the part when I tell you:) The technical name for them is "boyfriend pants" and they come from Victoria's Secret. I just happen to think that man pants has more of a ring to it. And I just happen to kind of resemble a man when I wear them. But seriously, they are my best friend. My man pants are an XS but fit like an XL. They are made that way (hence the boyfriend part). Genius. If I am in a bad mood, if I am freezing cold, if I am sick, if I am just too tired to deal with life, if I have eaten my fair share of cupcakes or engorged myself at dinner....they are there. Alway waiting with their eternal softness, loose waistband that will never ever feel too snug (therefore never adding to the bad mood), they are my dream. Oh, and add a hooded sweatshirt with them and forget. about. it. Seriously. Ryan usually knows it's been a long day if he walks in the door at night and I've got my man pants on. The rest of the world probably knows it's been a long day if they see me in Target and I've got them on. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I hosted a playdate recently and had them on. The house looked great, the kids had their cute little party food all ready to go, and there I was in my man pants. I'm sorry, but sometimes it's just gotta happen. Lately, I've been a lot sick, a little bit lonely, a tad down about the race and the man pants have been making frequent appearances. Sorry hubs. I didn't have many favorites again this week (I kind of stink at that part lately but I'm working on it!) so instead here's an ode to my faithful friend.....my good old man pants. Go ahead and try them....you'll thank me for life;-)
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{bright sunshiny day}
The tears of yesterday's disappointment have quickly faded. I admit, I woke up totally still grumpy, numb and let down but all of that left the moment I walked into church and started to worship. In that moment, I was able to let it go. Every song we sang today was a great reminder that my savior's love is enough to carry me through any hurt and disappointment....even one so trivial. The rest of the day was absolute perfection....lunch with the entire Boyd clan, touring ridiculously gorgeous homes at some open houses and hours upon hours in the beautiful sunshine getting our backyard ready for spring. Even gave the girls a perfectly simple dinner on the back lawn at dusk. Like I said....perfection. All that and I didn't think about the race for one single second. God is good! But then again, I kinda already knew that. I just needed a subtle reminder today.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
{when dreams die}
Today will go down in history as one of the hardest days of my life. Race day. Or not race day as I should say. I know it may be hard for most people to understand the loss I feel by not being able to run this race....all I can compare it to is a job promotion that you've been working your butt of to get but don't; a college that you've always dreamed of attending but you're denied acceptance; a proposal that you've been anxiously anticipating but he dumps you instead; anything that you've longed for and almost achieved only to have it slip through your fingers at the last minute.... a dream that is dead.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
{friday favorites}
....bed rest style. Ok, so it's actually Saturday, but I've been sick in bed all week and this is the first time I've felt like typing so give a girl a break;-). I haven't really left my bed this week, so here are the favorites that have carried me through:
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{reality strikes}
Remember that big race that I've been training for for months? Turns out, it's not gonna happen. After a few days of being terribly sick and a few scary episodes where I could hardly breathe, I wound up in urgent care....with pneumonia. I know that soon the realization will hit me that all my hard work has gone to waste and I'm sure that my stomach will sink when the starting gun goes off yet my feet stand still, but for now I'm focusing on getting myself better and thanking God that He let me get sick when I did; if only to protect me from something worse. I know that He works all things together for good...and even if I can't see it yet, this too is for my good.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
{friday favorites}
My bff happens to be an amazing photographer and she also has a blog that I just love to read (mariaglassfordphotography.com...check her out!). My very favorite part of her blog is her "friday favorites". I love to check in each week and get a little glimpse of what's been going on in her life through her self proclaimed favorite things of the moment. I love it so much I decided to steal the idea for myself. If nothing else, hopefully it will keep me accountable to not let forever go between posts and will give you something to look forward to reading. Let's get started!
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Hi there....remember me? It's been bugging me for days (ok, weeks maybe) that I haven't been blogging....all it took was a few nudges from friends and a sleepless night with a head cold and here I am. I'm proud to announce that it wasn't so long between posts that I forgot my password...got it on the first attempt this time. That's gotta count for something, right?;). I wish I could tell you I've been busy, sick or tired and that's why I've been so quiet....it's not. Actually, I have been busy (marathon training is serious stuff), we have all been sick (stomach bugs, fevers, coughs and congestion have been raging in our house and I have been tired (apparently three year olds with broken bones don't get much sleep. More on that later.)....but all excuses aside, I've been off developing thicker skin for awhile.
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Cafe Luna is committed to using organic, local and non GMO products in our menu items. Making the best choices in our food purchasing is a work in progress as we continue to research the latest information and product options. Following is a list of ingredients we are currently using in our barista counter and kitchen.
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Barista Counter Snacks
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Alternative Baking Cookies (Vegan)
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Organic Corn
Organic Canola Oil
Organic Eggs
Organic Sunflower Seeds
Organic Raisins
Organic Cranberries
Imported Olive Oil
Non GMO Spectrum Canola Oil Baking Spray
Organic Mayonnaise & Brown Mustard
Organic Spinach
Organic Carrots
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Mooresville, NC – Risk Racing recently introduced their new Seal Doctor with rave reviews. Now they have created a great demo video to show you just how this innovative tool works. Watch Risk Racing spokes model, Terri, as she demonstrates how to fix a leaky fork seal in seconds! Be sure and watch the video to the very end to see if Terri can keep her cool even when she is taken way off script!
More about the Risk Racing Seal Doctor…
Risk Racing developed the Seal Doctor due to the fact that most dirt bike riders are faced with leaky fork seals several times a year. Riders are then challenged to repair a complicated and sensitive suspension system which requires specialty tools. The alternative is to pay for an expensive repair bill and take time off the bike while it is in the shop. Additionally, it can ruin a race day or an epic trail ride. However, having the ability to quickly and easily repair a leaky fork seal at the track or on the trail can save repair costs, race entry fees, salvage valuable title points or reclaim that weekend trail ride!
The majority of fork seals leak due to dirt being trapped in the seal. Obviously this leak will affect the suspension tuning of your bike. It can also soak your front brake pads creating unsafe riding conditions. This common problem is exactly why the Seal Doctor was designed. Just snap the Seal Doctor on your fork tube, insert it into the leaky seal and twist. The design of the Seal Doctor maintains the proper position and angle as you rotate around your fork tube. It effortlessly pulls the dirt out of the fork rather than pushing it deeper into the fork. The Seal Doctor also comes with a protective holder so that it can be stored safely in your toolbox or trail pack ensuring you always have the appropriate tool for the job.
The Risk Racing Seal Doctor with protective holder retails for $24.99. They are distributed by Risk Racing, Tucker Rocky, and Marshall Distributing. Ask for them at your local dealer. For more information call 704-658-9332 or visit www.riskracing.com.


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If you're human you've probably, at some point, felt like you were trapped between a "rock and a hard place"… quite a few times. I would like to bring to your attention though that if you have been between rocks and hard places before, and dug yourself out to twll the tale, there is a high possibility that you have developed some proficiency, nay a talent, for difging and climbing out from under rocks. So, the next time you feel trapped under a challenging experience, allow yourself to be reminded that you've been schooled in rising from under "rocks and hard places." You have the scars (medals, trophies, awards and degrees) to prove it. There is nothing too hard for you. You got this!! #spiritspeaks @JayeMcken
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Pizza Love and Real Love
"People use the word 'love' a lot of different ways. Take me, for instance. I am often heard saying that I love my mom and dad. I am also often heard saying that I love pizza. What am I saying when I say I love my mom and dad? I'm saying that I care about them. I'm saying that I love spending time with them and that I talk to them every chance I get. I'm saying that if they needed me, I would do every humanly possible to help them. I'm saying that I always want what's best for them. What am I saying when I say I love pizza? Am I saying that I care deeply about pizza? Am I saying that I have a relationship with pizza? Am I saying that if pizza had a problem, I would be there for the pizza? (What? Not enough pepperoni? I'll be right there!) Of course not. When I say I love pizza, I'm just saying that I enjoy eating pizza until I don't want any more pizza. Once I'm tired of the pizza, I don't care what happens to the rest of it. I'll throw it away. I'll feed it to the dog. I'll stick it in the back of the refrigerator until it gets all green and moldy. It doesn't matter to me anymore. These are two very different definition of the word 'love'. It gets confusing when people start talking about love, and especially about loving you. Which way do these people love you? Do they want what is best for you, or do they just want you around because it is good for them, and they don't really care what happens to you? Next time someone looks deeply into your eyes and says 'I love you', look very deeply right back and say, 'Would that be pizza love, or the real thing?"
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Saying good-bye is never easy and on Thursday I had to say it to Guinness, my heart and soul kitty. I loved him to bits and will miss him terribly.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Saying Good-Bye
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I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Our furry kids are so precious to us.ReplyDelete
{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}} ... My heart goes out to you. Guinness is beautiful and has soulful eyes. I keep the photos of all my dear departed kitties near me. The love of a kitty is forever ... <3 PatReplyDelete
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Yesterday, Apple announced two new iPhone's. The iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c. However, this post will only be about the 5s. Firstly, it does include a fingerprint sensor behind the home button and can be used to unlock the device (of course) and buy media and apps from iTunes and the App Store. It also comes in a new colour, gold. Yep. A gold iPhone. The other two colours are grey and silver.
Next, it has a 64-bit A7 processor, this thing will be very powerful, very powerful indeed. It's the first smartphone ever to have 64-bit. It will also ship running Apple's latest operating system, iOS 7. Finally, as well as the very powerful A7 chip, the iPhone 5s also has a sidekick, it has a M7 motion co-processor. It's designed specifically to measure motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass, all of which, would normally fall to the A7 chip. It will be released on the 20th of September but won't be available for pre-order, you'll either have to queue up at your local Apple Store or order it online.


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In their latest Baseball Futures, leading online sports bookers Bovada, cast the Mets with 33/1 odds to win the World Series, that's higher than last month when they were at 25/1.
The Nationals jumped ahead of the Dodgers and Red Sox to become the odds-on favorite. Both the Marlins and Braves gained some ground and are now tied with the Mets at 33/1.
Washington Nationals 6/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 8/1
Boston Red Sox 12/1
Chicago Cubs 12/1
Los Angeles Angels 12/1
St. Louis Cardinals 12/1
Detroit Tigers 14/1
Seattle Mariners 16/1
San Francisco Giants 18/1
Toronto Blue Jays 18/1
Chicago White Sox 20/1
Baltimore Orioles 22/1
Kansas City Royals 25/1
New York Yankees 25/1
San Diego Padres 25/1
Cleveland Indians 28/1
Atlanta Braves 33/1
Miami Marlins 33/1
New York Mets 33/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 33/1
Oakland Athletics 40/1
Texas Rangers 40/1
Cincinnati Reds 50/1
Houston Astros 50/1
Milwaukee Brewers 50/1
Tampa Bay Rays 66/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 100/1
Colorado Rockies 100/1
Minnesota Twins 100/1
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Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta: a lifestyle rather than a place, thousands of square kilometres of waterways and islands, wide silty rivers, small tributaries and man-made canals. These are the motorways, A roads and B roads of life here – everything revolves around living on and around the water.
Unusually we took a tour so that we got to see the main highlight of the floating market, but along the way, they showed us loads of traditional crafts. Things like coconut candy making, rice noodles and rice paper, bee keeping and trip through the canals on a sampan as well as taking us through the exotic fruit orchards to sample the local fruits. (for instance, I never knew dragon fruit grew on a cactus).
The floating market was on the second day, so to make things a bit more interesting, we put ourselves up for a homestay with a local family. The place was out of the main town, so we had a taxi to take us near and then walked through the rice fields to the village. Imagine our surprise when we turned up with little kids and big backpacks front and back and we were faced with a bamboo monkey bridge. This bridge crossing in the relative dark of early evening will probably be my lasting memory of the delta.
The homestay itself was great – certainly at the more rural end of accommodation. After cooking us a lovely meal (they did great rice pancakes in a wok on an open brazier) we settled in to playing cards with some of the others we were travelling with before retiring to our room. I say room, more of a semi-open structure with a tin roof made from bamboo and banana leaves, with a raised area and a mattress. Being around slow stagnant water – the mosquito net was also pretty invaluable. And that was it.
Before we settled for the night, I spotted a suspicious looking hole near the door, so a put a couple of hefty books on top, and thus satisfied went to sleep – until the cockerels started at around 1am. It went on all night!!!! About 6.30 sunrise and we were up. I got out of my mozzie net to be greeted by a big toad, looking forlornly at the books that someone had placed over his home. I moved them and off he disappeared.
The kids loved the homestay – they don't see the open sewers, lack of sanitation, adjacent river, local dogs or the bamboo bridge as a danger. They just played around in the dirt and with their pet monkey trying to get the monkey to shake their hands without scratching their eyes out!
With all this excitement, we were ready to take on another day, scaled the bamboo bridge a second time, and made our way to the local market to be picked up by the boat and get into the thick of the floating market. This was more of a wholesale place, so lots of bigger boats rather than the small sampans you imagine, but nonetheless, it was pretty spectacular.
Once this was over, it was time for the tour to return to Ho Chi Minh, but we had already made plans to stay in Can Tho another couple of days so that we could slow down the pace and enjoy the delta without the straightjacket of the tours.
One of our first stops was for a bit of lunch; what we were not expecting was a menu of frog, snake, eel, coconut worm, bird, rat or turtle. Once again, we chickened out and we chose vegetarian – we are just not brave enough.
We were glad we stayed longer in the Mekong because Can Tho was a lovely town with a promenade, bustling little market, loads of restaurants and numerous little boats ready to taxi people around, usually driven by smiling toothless women. We chose one with more teeth than most, and hired her boat for a couple of hours to explore the smaller canals and get a taste of the place – and it was brilliant. Away from the hectic cities, life is much more peaceful, and whilst obviously poor, it is not poverty, and people are out and about on the river cooking, washing, collecting the floating greenery and occasionally emptying their bowels. It was all so harmonious; we wondered how they were not sick all the time.
The kind toothless one did not speak, but instead, she spent the trip picking fruit out of the river and feeding it to us (before we saw the bowel incident!) then making us sculptures of locusts and flowers out of the bamboo she picked out of the river – all whilst standing up and navigating the boat down the narrow canals. Multi tasking – very clever.
Our time in the delta had to come to an end, and we booked ourselves onto the local bus back to Ho Chi Minh and surprise surprise, as with all buses in developing countries, an inappropriate film for children was on. We thought Rambo was a particularly strange choice in Vietnam!! The kids seemed to like it though – luckily it was overdubbed and only a few of the "f" words came though.
February 7, 2012 at 2:39 am
Wow to much to take in, you will be happy that with all the pix and commentary great to look back on in years to come.
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Top 10 Hardest Video Game Levels of All Time
Only for the brave.
Hotline Miami – Assault
Hotline Miami's addictive gameplay, shocking violence and relentless difficulty quickly earned the game a reputation. Assault, is one level in particular that really tests both your reflexes and strategy.
Starting out on the first floor, you'll have to work your way through a police station heaving with heavily armored officers. There are several different tactics that are effective, but if you're trying to earn an A+ achievement, you'll need to bait enemies toward you and take them out in successive combos. Things can get very hectic, very quickly, and with so many bodies piling up it's hard to tell which are dead and which are simply knocked down. If you allow one to get up and retrieve a weapon laying on the ground, you can say good night.
The level is a myriad of small rooms, many of which have windows that enemies can shoot through. If you fail to spot on or miss time your movement by just a fraction, expect to die instantly. Scraping through the level with a low rank is possible with only a few dozen deaths for most people. But if you want an A+ ranking, you can quadruple that number.


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The Hikurangi Multi-Use Hard Court is now complete and just waiting for a few things to be sorted out behind the scenes before it officially opens.
Last year the Hikurangi Tennis Club (which had gone into recess) sold its tennis courts to Council for $1 on the basis that Council would upgrade them into a multi-use facility for the community.
The old asphalt surface was ripped up and levelled, a 'dynamic aggregate surface' (a scientific arrangement of gravel in different layers designed to provide a good support for the turf) was laid and 3-4m high fences were installed. Court lighting is proposed and will be installed once resource consent is granted.
A number of codes including hockey, tennis, netball, futsal, rugby and football (for wet weather training) are all poised to use the space.
The court was constructed by Hutton and Cameron Contractors and the artificial surface installed by Game On Turf Ltd. It is the size of two tennis courts. Different areas have different colours and the whole lot is held down by tonnes of fine sand laid over the turf and swept down into the fibres.
Reports back are that the community is pleased to see this investment made in the Hikurangi township and keen to start using the surface.
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