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Actually a bad week… So… What to do, what to do?

I’m going to create a prescription for Bad Day Therapy!

First: Laughing Yoga.  Oh yes.  It’s real.  We do it in my office all the time.  All you have to do is get a group of people together and laugh for 60 seconds!  It may sound silly, but can you really hang?  I feel a little better already, just thinking about it.

Second: Food Therapy.  Not the  – bury myself in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, type.  Just… cooking a yummy, home cooked meal.  That kind of thing works for me, I think because I’m a cooker and a feeder.  It also helps to make me feel accomplished when I can concoct something that everyone will enjoy.  =^.^= I suggest inventing a new mac and cheese recipe.

Third: Blog about being a sad panda and what you plan to do about it.

Fourth: Play-time with my dogs. I bet you know somone you can borrow a dog from if you don’t have one. 😉

Fifth: Take a nice, hot, for REALS bubble bath!

Sixth: Reflect on all the other things that could have gone wrong, or all the other people who are worse off than I am.

Finis

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They’re tall and bright, striking and unusual, sunflowers are one of the most fun flowers to grow. Read on to discover some fascinating facts about these sunny, yellow flowers!

1. The name sunflower comes from its scientific name, Helianthus. Helios means sun and Anthos means flower.

2. Sunflowers have a long history. Remains of sunflower seeds found in archaeological digs in North America date them as nearly 3,000 years old.

3. There are lots of different varieties of sunflower, but the most common form is bright yellow, with dark brown centres filled with seeds.

4. Sunflowers are believed to have first originated in Europe in the early 1500s. The seeds, as well as the flowers themselves, were brought over by Spanish settlers returning to visit relatives.

5. As well as being grown for pleasure by members of the public, sunflowers are also grown commercially. Part of the commercial growing focuses on producing edible seeds and the other half is concerned with producing sunflower oil. Every mature flower is able to yield 40% of its weight as oil.

6. The Aztecs were fascinated by sunflowers, which often towered high above the ground. In fact, they even ended up worshipping sunflowers and used images of the distinctive flowers in their temples.

7. In the past, stems of sunflowers were used inside life jackets.

8. Sunflowers are well known as having the ability to grow very tall! As well as having a long stem, the heads of sunflowers can be equally huge.

9. In recent years, a form of low-pollen sunflower has been created. As well as helping to reduce the risk of asthma for pollen sufferers, it’s also helped extend the life of the flower itself.

10. New varieties of sunflowers are continuously being developed. Some of the newer forms are orange, tan or maroon in colour, or even have striped petals. Plus, they have greeny yellow centres instead of the distinctive brown one we all know and love.

And lastly, do you know where in America is known as The Sunflower State?

Answer: Kansas.

the above text was taken from hot fact.com

My good friend, Tambra, and I like to have what we call ginger time.  Due to crazy circumstances, we haven’t been able to get together in a very long time, so, this weekend we decided to have a ginger weekend.  It was a blasty-blast!

On Saturday we got together and went shopping for a barbeque we’d been planning all week.  That might sound a little mundane, however, nothing is mundane when you’ve got gingers involved.  We bought tons of food and took it back to her place to get started on the grub!

We had: smoked beer up the butt chicken, elk kabobs, tossed salad, spicy shrimp and pasta salad, corn on the cob, a giant fruit tray, cheesy garlic bread, and this awesome layer dip that she made with cream cheese-cocktail sauce-veggies-shredded cheese-and avacado! So Yum!

On Sunday we got together thinking we would have a girl day with her teenage daughter, but the pet teenager ditched us for her boyfriend… lame!

So – we decided to hit up the thrift stores in town.  Fun, fun, fun.  Those places are like a giant time machine!

NEXT – we went geocaching.  <– You see that Mr. Secret Society Hoity Toities? We figured it out! We are ON TO YOU! We stopped at 4 but only completed 1.  It was alright, though, because we thought that we weren’t going to get any and were the world’s new worst treasure hunters.  We got this.

Next a trip to the mall to eat some yummy soft pretzels with nacho cheese and have fresh squeezed lemon-aide.  We found Across the Universe, which we’d been half assedly looking for all day, for five dollars!

We parted ways so that we could meet our boys when they got home from fishing (together) and make them dinner.  A new ginger age is upon us!

Finis

Yesterday, after a glorious Ginger Adventure (which I will blog about later on), I turned on the tube to watch something while I folded laundry.

Bitchin’ Kitchen.  Whoa.  I almost didn’t even stop because it seemed like a dorky damn name.  Nope, I was wrong.  This chick is bad ass.  I don’t know what she cooked because there was so much else going on.  It was great!  She was dressed up really cute, she was laugh out loud hilaroius, and she kept having demonstrational clips to reiderate what she had already said.

The chick’s name is Nadia G.  I love her accent and style, she’s like a super hard core Fran Fine.

You HAVE to check out the link.  I think it’s my new favorite show!

 

SJT

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I feel like I need to say something regarding the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.

Problem is I’m not too good at that sort of thing.

I remember almost every single second of that day ten years ago.

I was a Junior in high school. While checking my E-mail around 6 a.m. before school when I saw a report on the news about a fire at the world trade center. Before that was a story about bottled water leading to cancer, and Michael Jordan retiring from basketball… again. Then a plane crashed into the second tower. At that point it was discovered that the fire was actually the first plane. We watched, bewildered, as the building crashed down.

I went to school and carried on my day. In my first class of the day we were instructed to write a story using the events of the day as a starting point, which I still have. By the time we got to our post lunch classes, we weren’t even carrying out curriculum, just glued to the news, learning about more attacks.

After school I was sent home from my job after less than an hour to be with my family. We had not even had 1 customer. There was some ridiculous fear on the air that the area I lived in could be another target because of some missile silos from the cold war era.

We all know about the war that waged after that. We aren’t through that yet.

Many artists of all facets have given tribute in one way or another.

This country has suffered a great loss.

I don’t have anything profound to say, but I wanted to say something.

And there you have it.

SJT

I am completely in love with any soap, hand sanitizer, serum, or what-have-you that contains those little bursting, orbital beads of fun. I don’t even care what it is, I love them.

Pictured is my favorite pocket bac from Bath & Body Works, if the tiara fits. =^.^=

SJT

Enjoy!

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Coney Island.  I had no idea that there were no longer side-show attractions there!  It’s one of those things that’s on my list of stuff to do before I die.  Bummer,  I guess I can’t really marry Bruce Willi either, but in my mind this one was a little more attainable. 

Bummer.

Of course I’m the kid that’s into circus freaks, but I’ve always been that way. 

I gather that the whole entire Island (peninsula, actually) is one huge, giant amusement park.  It’s got rides, the beach, resorts, crazy carnie food, and until recently had all kinds of skilled side show performers.  Unbeknownst to me, side show performance is a dying art.  (If they’d have checked with me first, things would probably be different, but no-one ever does!)

I’m sad.  There’s some kind of mystique that goes along with the whole entire idea, at least in my mind.  I guess I’ll just have to move on to Vegas, though I’m not so excited about that idea, it seems to commercialized for my liking.  We shall see.

SJT

I’m throwing a mini party inside this very blog for all the special people I know that have had a birthday’s this week!

My Parent’s Marriage – 09/04

My Aunt Heidi – 09/06

My Sister Clare – 09/07

My Friend Cathy – 09/07

My Brother BJ – 09/08

My Otha Brotha’s G/F Bacon (Tasena) – 09/08

Ron… – 09/08

My Pal Sugar Poppa – 09/09

 

Good on ya, guys!