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Category: FUN
Anything to do with fun & enjoyment
because they’re really two different things………….
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. – Aleister Crowley
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. – – shing xiong
It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
In the last couple of months I was lucky enough to escape the cold by going to places like California and Arizona. You can’t beat the heat! I live in a mostly damp environment so it was a welcome change for winter. But I also managed to gain a few pounds and go up at least a size. Even one size makes a huge (no pun intended) difference when you’re not so tall to begin with. Then my running suffered because it was either too hot to run, not convenient or I was feeling the worse for wear from the night before or just plain didn’t feel like it (on vacation after all). That combined with eating everything in sight and partaking in happy hours (which always makes me happier) did not make me a happy camper on the return home.
Now I have to start all over again – back to square one and not only that but my sister signed me up to do the annual 10K Sun Run right after I got back and I tried to figure out how to get out of it. I was feeling anxious and sorry for myself. My first yoga class in almost 3 months was a disaster and my “starting to get back into shape” run started out with me eating a freebie (although tiny) bag of promotional potato chips handed out at Granville Island within the first 10 minutes. I could have said No but I weakened. They were pretty good.
Then something happened to put everything into perspective. We found out that our lives can change in a Boston minute. Life is full of ups and downs but sometimes it’s not even in OUR own hands. What happened in Boston was tragic and unthinkable and lives were lost and many more could have been. Innocent people died or were maimed. This should NEVER have occurred and it hit home for ALL. The fact that it took place at an event where people trained for months on end to run for hours on end to cross a finish line at the world’s most renowned marathon is even more difficult to fathom. It makes you stop and think – about life and the stupid little pressures we put on ourselves. At least we can change them.
We have to WALK before we can RUN and not take that for granted (that we’re able to run in the first place is something). So…
If we’re healthy enough to begin with we can work a little bit harder to lose those measly extra pounds (even if it means pushing ourselves), eat healthily, laugh lots and just ENJOY LIFE. Because……you never know what’s around the corner. Moving on…
of Paradise……
I love birds of flight so it makes sense that the “Bird of Paradise” flower is a favorite. They look almost human & so very PUNK ROCK. I love the orange/purple mix. Ohhh….the perfect flower!
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MAKEUP is Essential, MUSIC is My Therapy, TIME is Uncontrollable, FASHION is My Life, FRIENDS are Precious, INDIVIDUALITY is Everything.
Because I always thought that great Style has No Size. Go Figure – you don’t have to be Twiggy to be stylish.
I think attitude has a lot to do with it too. Kate Moss might say “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” but I think it should be “nothing feels as good as feeling good about yourself.” Let’s have a look at some stunningly SEXY….smallish PLUS sized ladies comfortable in their own skin who can give any of us a run for our money in the style “with attitude” department.
Of course there’s a PLUS side to being thin in the advantage that clothes drape well on smaller sized bodies. That’s why almost every model you see strutting down the runway is stick thin (except for Giselle who has an amazingly toned body). But that doesn’t make you a stylish person. It makes you a fashion(able) person.
So could skinny finally be on its way out? Realistically, no.
Even Supermodel Lara Stone who is, by normal standards, very slim, admitted: “A lot of people say it’s nice to see someone who won’t break in half when you touch them. But I am still a woman and a person, and if you’re compared and confronted with your colleagues and they’re half you size you think, “F***, I’m really fat!”’
But is seems that the fashion world is slowly making progress by beginning to accept more varied body shapes (it’s about time – women come in all shapes & sizes), and that there remains plenty of opportunity to embrace women that really look like women.
This recipe came about while on a camping trip to Canada’s East Coast including Newfoundland. The East Coast is known for its fresh local seafood and particularly chowder. It started off as a seafood only trip as we were sampling the best all over the Maritimes. Scallops & Clams in Digby, Lobster in P.E.I. & Nova Scotia and chowders everywhere.
I wanted to make a chowder with some nice fresh Cod we bought from a local fishing boat in Newfoundland but keep it simple and still have the consistency and flavor of a hearty meal. We camp in a Eurovan not a tent and have two stove top burners. You have to be somewhat creative. So while this is cheating with adding the can of prepared soup, don’t laugh because you’ll find it pretty close to an original without a whole lot of work. It only takes about 10 minutes. This serves two for a meal (along with fresh bread) or four as an appetizer. Looks like the real deal and tastes very close – well we thought so.
Instructions:
Put a 10 oz (284 ml) can of condensed cream of potato soup (I used Campbell’s) into a medium size pot. Heat gently.
Add ¾ cup (175 ml) of milk (whole or skim) & stir until smooth.
Add 1 chopped celery stalk
Two diced plum tomatoes
Pinches of Tarragon or Oregano (I used both)
*You can add 1 Tbsp. of butter and a little dry white wine (optional)
Simmer, covered for about 5 minutes or longer depending on how crisp you like the celery.
Then add 1 lb. (500g) fresh cod, halibut or any white fish fillets (or a combo of) that tend not to fall apart, cut into chunks. Cook until done – about 5 minutes uncovered. Garnish with Tarragon leaves. Season to taste. Hope you enjoy this condensed (pun intended) version of the real thing.
This is a *glamping tested recipe. When we do not stay in hotels with spas we *glamp on occasion which is camping with flair.
SUPER, Natural British Columbia (the ads say this). Vancouver is a cultured city and marijuana is a BIG part of our culture. On Saturday we celebrated (in the best way we know how) an event called 4/20 Vancouver but I only went to LOOK, that’s all. A lazy, hazy Saturday afternoon so what’s a girl to do? And If you didn’t know exactly where you were going once downtown you could just follow your nose. Also a great way to catch up with many friends and acquaintances you haven’t seen for a while. Well if you missed it there’s always next year.
Every year on April 20, thousands of people gather on the north side of the Vancouver Art Gallery to celebrate the marijuana culture. This year’s celebration took place on a Saturday with record breaking crowds in the neighborhood of 20,000 but it was hard to tell exactly with all the smoke in the air.
The very first celebration in this town was held in 1995. Each year 10,000 to 15,000 people actively participate (ha, the magic word) in this event, making it one of the, if not the largest 420 celebrations in North America. The food trucks were smart and got set up in droves around this event. But many brought their own munchies. Next year I plan to have a little kiosk selling cookie dough and potato chips and think I’ll do just fine.
THEN SUNDAY……
I ran the Vancouver Sun Run. Many people registered at the last minute that weren’t originally intending to run in support of what happened in Boston and so the theme colors were that of the Boston flag – Yellow & Blue. There must have been about 50,000 people.
The Vancouver Sun Run is Canada’s largest running event.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. – Gracie Allen.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it. – Mitch Hedberg.
Brain Waves – the purpose to keeping brain function strong.
The brain…one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body, made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions of connections called synapses.
When people start to experience forgetfulness (what did you just say?), free radicals (those little suckers) may be the cause. Neurologist David Perlmutter, the author of “Power Up Your” Brain (Hay House) says this is the case.
These by-products of processes as basic and vital as breathing hurt the structure of cells. “When your brain cells become damaged, your brain kills them off. Nobody can afford the results,” says Perlmutter.
“Certain foods can help by triggering the brain to make antioxidants, which protect healthy cells from harm,” and at levels far greater than you can achieve with supplements,” he says. Add green tea, omega-3 fatty acids, broccoli, tumeric, and garlic to your diet, and exercise regularly, Perlmutter suggests.
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