Sunday, July 31, 2011

Greetings From Cape Cod, Massachusetts!!!







I have most definately been having the time of my life!!! I absolutely LOVE it up here in Massachusetts...I've been from Boston, to Plymouth, to Sandwich, (yes that is a real town here, the oldest on Cape Cod). I've loved everything...I haven't seen this since I was only 13 years old, but it all stil looks the same, and I love it even more now...It will take a good few months to get my pics on here, but I pulled a few off the internet to show where I've been up here since I love this place so much...From Boston, we went to the town of Plymouth where the colonists settled back in 1620, and saw their village they built up, and also Plymouth Rock. I loved seeing those places again, it's even more precious now than it was before whenever I was still a kid...Also, I went to go and tour the Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower they used to come over here to America. It's really outstanding seeing all that face to face. We stayed at a Bed & Breakfast in the town of Sandwich and I absolutely love that town. It was Belfry Inne & Bistro, and was absolutely gorgeous in that town. Everything still was kept to its originality, and it truly felt as if you had stepped back into the 1700s. We also saw a water mill, something that they definately do not have back where I live, and they definately didn't have anything like that over in junk Japan...I've still going to see different lighthouses, and the vineyards/islands whenever we go and take the ferry over there for the day..I absolutely LOVE it here...anyone who wants to come and visit the states should definatly think about coming to visit up here cause it will leave an impression on you for a lifetime....check out my pics and you will see what I mean...I miss chatting with you all sooo much!!!!!!!! Anyone who wants me to send them a postcard from here, just leave me your address in an offline message, and I will get it sent out before the end of the week... :) hugs from Cape Cod.... :) xxxx

Thursday, July 28, 2011

I Love You Boston & Salem Massachusetts...

It's sooo great to finally be back up here in gorgeous Massachusetts after soo many years of being away from it....We got here yesterday and I've been having sooo much fun...I've visited the Hard Rock Cafe here in Boston, the beautiful town of Salem, then back to Boston, to visit the U.S.S. Constitution. That is a SHIP, when I first heard it, I thought it had something to do with the written part of the American Constitution. I love it here, and everything about it.. The town of Salem reminded me of the town of Manly, in Australia, and Sydney of course, and Boston reminds me of Sydney everywhere I look. I love it here and am so happy to be back...It's about 80-low 90's for the temperature and people are going around wearing jackets and things like that here....I had to grab a few sweatshirts cause I was freezing..Back home it was over 100 degrees every single day...big difference up here, and this is the middle of July....I miss you all and once we are settled in resort next week, I Hope to be on here more than I am right now. hope you all are doing well..here's a big hug from Boston, one of the greatest big cities ever....

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Going On Vacation To My Boston & Cape Cod...Chat With You All Up In Glorious Massachusetts My Friends....xxx

I CAN FINALLY TYPE IN PURPLE AGAIN ON HERE....XOXO with I had the best family dinner tonight with everyone after so many years of being apart...I loved the story that my brother in law told when they were going to get a new car, and told my neice that, and they passed an 18 wheeler on the freeway, and she sees it as well and goes "ooohhh get that one..." too funny..I'm too happy to say that I was the one who introduced my neice tonight to fruit punch flavored sparkling shimmering lip gloss from my Bath & Body works...I was soooooooooo happy that she took to it so well and knew right how to put it on, so we are going to get a long just fine now that I have someone to introduce my make-up and lip gloss obsessions to...talk with you all up in Boston...xxxx

Monday, July 25, 2011

It's A Peacock, Not A Rabbit....

One of the greatest stories ever....I just came home from our Zoo, and the boring Science Museum...I'm not into Science, that's why it's dead boring to me..Anyways, while at the zoo, we were walking around and came across a huge pure white peacock. I was kind of looking at it and taking pictures of it, then all these kids ran up and saw it, and one of them yelled out "Whooaa is that a RABBIT!?!? and I was instantly dying laughing and choking all over...I looked up the pictures side by side, and they don't look anything alike. The only similarities are that they are both pure white...I'm thinking that's where they got confused at..wow I miss those kinds of comments...totally priceless...

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Thinking Of You Norway...

http://news.yahoo.com/norway-gunman-fired-1-5-hours-island-170527353.html



Friday, July 22, 2011

We LOVE U Norway...So Sad About What Happened...

(Hebrew for:"Be strong & have courage") OSLO (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through Oslo's central government district on Friday and a gunman dressed as a policeman then opened fire at a youth camp on a nearby island, killing at least 17 people altogether. In the biggest attack in western Europe since the 2005 London transport bombings, seven died when the bomb exploded in the Norwegian capital in mid-afternoon scattering glass, shattered masonry and twisted steel across the streets. Shortly afterwards, a gunman opened fire at the youth camp of the ruling political party on Utoeya island, north-west of Oslo. Police said at least 10 were shot dead as they fled shooting on the small, wooded island. The island was evacuated and police found undetonated explosives. "I saw young people running around, jumping into the water," Kristine Melby, who lives across the narrow channel on the Norwegian mainland, told Al Jazeera television. "We heard people screaming." The gunman, a 32-year-old Norwegian citizen, was held by police. The double attack bore some hallmarks of al Qaeda but analysts suggested right-wing militants might also be responsible. "I have a message to the one who attacked us and those who were behind this," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in a televised news conference. "No one will bomb us to silence, no one will shoot us to silence." The bomb, which shook the city center at around 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT), blew out the windows of the Prime Minister's building and damaged the finance and oil ministry buildings. "People ran in panic," said bystander Kjersti Vedun. With police advising people to evacuate central Oslo, apparently in fear of more attacks, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Norwegian TV2 television in a phone call that the situation was "very serious." He said that police had told him not to say where he was speaking from. "This is a terror attack. It is the most violent event to strike Norway since World War Two," said Geir Bekkevold, an opposition parliamentarian for the Christian Peoples Party. A Reuters witness saw soldiers taking up positions in Oslo shortly after the bombing. The gunman, described by a police official as tall and blond, was reported by Norwegian media to have taken advantage of the confusion caused by the bombing to attack the summer camp of Stoltenberg's Labour party youth section. "There was a lot of shooting ... We hid under a bed. It was very terrifying," a young woman at the camp told British Sky television. NO CLUES YET FROM DETAINED MAN NUPI political think tank Senior Research Fellow Jakub Godzimirski said he suspected a right-winger more than a militant Islamist attack. Right wing groups have grown up around the issue of immigration in Norway. "It would be very odd for Islamists to have a local political angle. The attack on the Labour youth meeting suggests it's something else. If Islamists wanted to attack, they could have set off a bomb in a nearby shopping mall rather than a remote island." Deputy Oslo police chief Sveining Sponheim told reporters that the gunman in the Utoeya shootings had been disguised in a blue police-style uniform but had never been a police officer. He said that the police also believed that the man may have been involved in both the Oslo bombing and the shootings. So far, the detained man had not said anything to the police. NATO member Norway has been the target of threats before over its involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya. The attack came just over a year after three men were arrested on suspicion of having links to al Qaeda and planning to attack targets in Norway. It also came less than three months after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan. Violence or the threat of it has already come to the other Nordic states: a botched bomb attack took place in the Swedish capital Stockholm last December and the bomber was killed. Denmark has received repeated threats after a newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in late 2005, angering Muslims worldwide. In Oslo, the building of a publisher which recently put out a translation of a Danish book on the cartoon controversy was also affected, but was apparently not the target. Police have been on the alert for complex gun-and-bomb attacks on European cities since the assault by 10 gunmen on India's financial capital Mumbai in November 2008 which killed 166 people. The Oslo attacks, though hitting two targets, were not simultaneous and the delay between them left open the possibility of a single perpetrator. Madrid suffered an Islamist militant bomb attack on commuter trains in 2004 that killed 191 people. Four suicide bombers killed 52 people in an attack on London's transport system in 2005. The Oslo district attacked is the very heart of power in Norway. Nevertheless, security is not tight in a country unused to such violence and better known for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize and mediating in conflicts, including the Middle East and Sri Lanka. The Reuters correspondent said the streets had been fairly quiet in mid-afternoon on a Friday in high summer, when many Oslo residents take vacation or leave for weekend breaks. The failed December attack in Stockholm was by a Muslim man who grew up in Sweden but said he had been angered by Sweden's involvement in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan and the Prophet Mohammad cartoons. That attack was followed weeks later by the arrest in Denmark of five men for allegedly planning to attack the newspaper which first ran the Mohammad cartoons. In July 2010, Norwegian police arrested three men for an alleged plot to organize at least one attack on Norwegian targets and said they were linked to individuals investigated in the United States and Britain.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

25 Things To Do When You're BORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This video is soooo funny...Let's see...I've flashed my cat already, but now people can't figure out why I keep going around saying "pineappllllllllleeeeeeeeee" for no reason when there are no pineapples around here...LOVE IT....lol enjoy everyone...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

I Was Just Wondering...What's REALLY In A Hot Dog!?!?!

HOT DOGS A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is commonly garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish or sauerkraut. HISTORY OF HOT DOGS Claims about hot dog invention are difficult to assess, as stories assert the creation of the sausage, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of sausage) on bread or a bun as finger food, the popularization of the existing dish, or the application of the name "hot dog" to a sausage and bun combination most commonly used with ketchup or mustard and sometimes relish. The word frankfurter comes from Frankfurt, Germany, where pork sausages served in a bun similar to hot dogs originated.[1] These sausages, Frankfurter Würstchen, were known since the 13th century and given to the people on the event of imperial coronations, starting with the coronation of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor as King. Wiener refers to Vienna, Austria, whose German name is "Wien", home to a sausage made of a mixture of pork and beef (cf. Hamburger, whose name also derives from a German-speaking city). Johann Georg Lahner, a 18th/19th century butcher from the Bavarian city of Coburg, is said to have brought the Frankfurter Würstchen to Vienna, where he added beef to the mixture and simply called it Frankfurter. Nowadays, in German speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are called Wiener or Wiener Würstchen (Würstchen means "little sausage"), in differentiation to the original pork only mixture from Frankfurt. In Swiss German, it is called Wienerli, while in Austria the terms Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstel are used. Around 1870, on Coney Island, German immigrant Charles Feltman began selling sausages in rolls. Others have supposedly invented the hot dog. The idea of a hot dog on a bun is ascribed to the wife of a German named Antonoine Feuchtwanger, who sold hot dogs on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, in 1880, because his customers kept taking the white gloves handed to them for eating without burning their hands. Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger, a Bavarian sausage seller, is said to have served sausages in rolls at the World's Fair–either the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis[8]–again allegedly because the white gloves he gave to customers so that they could eat his hot sausages in comfort began to disappear as souvenirs. The association between hot dogs and baseball began as early as 1893 with Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant who owned not only the St. Louis Browns, but also an amusement park. Harry M Stevens Inc., founded in 1889, serviced major sports venues with hot dogs and other refreshments, making Stevens known as the "King of Sports Concessions" in the US. In 1916, an employee of Feltman's named Nathan Handwerker was encouraged by celebrity clients Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with his former employer.[12] Handwerker undercut Feltman's by charging five cents for a hot dog when his former employer was charging ten. At an earlier time in food regulation the hot dog suspect, Handwerker made sure that men wearing surgeon's smocks were seen eating at Nathan's Famous to reassure potential customers. ETYMOLOGY The term "dog" has been used as a synonym for sausage since 1884 and accusations that sausage makers used dog meat date to at least 1845. According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase "hot dog" in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius "TAD" Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds. However, TAD's earliest usage of "hot dog" was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term "hot dog" in reference to sausage was already in use. In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found. The earliest known usage of "hot dog" in clear reference to sausage, found by Fred R. Shapiro, appeared in the December 31, 1892 issue of the Paterson (NJ) Daily Press. Somehow or other a frankfurter and a roll seem to go right to the spot where the void is felt the most. The small boy has got on such familiar terms with this sort of lunch that he now refers to it as "hot dog." "Hey, Mister, give me a hot dog quick," was the startling order that a rosy-cheeked gamin hurled at the man as a Press reporter stood close by last night. The "hot dog" was quickly inserted in a gash in a roll, a dash of mustard also splashed on to the "dog" with a piece of flat whittled stick, and the order was fulfilled. Other early uses of "hot dog" in reference to sausage appeared in the New Brunswick (NJ) Daily Times (May 20, 1893), the New York World (May 26, 1893), and the Knoxville (TN) Journal (Sep. 28, 1893). GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF INGREDIENTS!!!!!!!!!!! (MY FAVOURITE PART...yeah right...) Common hot dog ingredients: Meat by-products and fat Flavorings, such as salt, garlic, and paprika Preservatives (cure) - typically sodium erythorbate and sodium nitrite In the US, if variety meats, cereal or soy fillers are used, the product name must be changed to "links" or the presence must be declared as a qualifier. Pork and/or beef are the traditional meats used in hot dogs. Less expensive hot dogs are often made from chicken or turkey, using low cost mechanically separated poultry. Hot dogs often have high sodium, fat and nitrite content, ingredients linked to health problems. Changes in meat technology and dietary preferences have led manufacturers to use turkey, chicken, vegetarian meat substitutes, and to lower the salt content. If a manufacturer produces two types of hot dogs, "wieners" tend to contain pork and are blander, while "franks" tend to be all beef and more strongly seasoned. CONDIMENTS Common hot dog condiments include ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, coleslaw, sauerkraut, onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, cheese and chili peppers. They are served in a bun. The National Sausage and Hot Dog Council US in 2005 found mustard to be the most popular condiment (32 percent). "Twenty-three percent of Americans said they preferred ketchup....Chili came in third at 17 percent, followed by relish (9 percent) and onions (7 percent). Southerners showed the strongest preference for chili, while Midwesterners showed the greatest affinity for ketchup." COMMERCIAL PREPARATION Hot dogs are prepared commercially by mixing the ingredients (meats, spices, binders and fillers) in vats where rapidly moving blades grind and mix the ingredients in the same operation. This mixture is forced through tubes into casings for cooking. Most hot dogs sold in the US are "skinless" as opposed to more expensive "natural casing" hot dogs. HOME COOKING HOT DOGS Hot dogs are prepared and eaten in a variety of ways. The wieners may be boiled, grilled, fried, steamed, broiled, baked, or microwaved. The cooked wiener may be served on a bun (usually topped with condiments), or it may be used as an ingredient in another dish. NATURAL CASING FOR HOT DOGS As with most sausages, hot dogs must be in a casing to be cooked. Traditional casing is made from the small intestines of sheep. The products are known as "natural casing" hot dogs or frankfurters. These hot dogs have firmer texture and a "snap" that releases juices and flavor when the product is bitten. Kosher casings are expensive in commercial quantities in the US, so kosher hot dogs are usually skinless or made with reconstituted collagen casings. SKINLESS HOT DOGS (this just keeps getting nastier and nastier...another reason why I research everything before I even think of eating the stuff...) "Skinless" hot dogs must use a casing in the cooking process when the product is manufactured, but the casing is usually a long tube of thin cellulose that is removed between cooking and packaging. This process was invented in Chicago in 1925. Skinless hot dogs vary in the texture of the product surface but have a softer "bite" than natural casing hot dogs. Skinless hot dogs are more uniform in shape and size than natural casing hot dogs and less expensive. HEALTH EFFECTS Unlike other sausages which may be sold uncooked, hot dogs are precooked before packaging. Hot dogs can be eaten without additional cooking, although they are usually warmed before serving. Because an unopened, packaged hot dog can have listeriosis bacteria, it is safer to heat them, especially for pregnant women and those with suppressed immune systems. An American Institute for Cancer Research report found that consuming one 50-gram serving of processed meat — about one hot dog — every day increases risk of colorectal cancer by 20 percent. The Cancer Project group filed a class-action lawsuit demanding warning labels on packages and at sporting events. Hot dogs are high in fat and salt and have preservatives sodium nitrate and nitrite, believed to cause cancer. According to the AICR, the average risk of colorectal cancer is 5.8 percent, but 7 percent when a hot dog is consumed daily over years. Hot dogs have relatively low heterocyclic amines (HCA) levels compared to other types of ready-to-eat meat products, because they are manufactured at low temperatures. CHOKING RISKS Hot dogs present a significant choking risk, especially for children. A study in the U.S. found that 17% of food-related asphyxiations among children younger than 10 years of age were caused by hot dogs. Their size, shape and texture make them difficult to expel from the windpipe. This risk can be reduced by cutting a hot dog into small pieces or lengthwise strips before serving to young children. It is suggested that redesign of size, shape and texture would reduce the risk. Pediatric emergency doctors note that a stuck hot dog is almost impossible to dislodge from a child's windpipe.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

I Got Half Of My Hello Kitty Art Shelf Put Together Today With Help Of Course...

That is the most complicated thing EVER that I have ever ordered in my life. I had no idea we would run into soooo much trouble, and that thing is still not finished. I have no idea what I'm doing without someone who actually knows how to put stuff together, so more waiting on my part for it to be completed....

Sunday, July 17, 2011

That's Not Confetti...That's GUM....

One of the THOUSANDS of reasons that I'm not a gum chewer...it's just sick, and can't stand to see people just forever endlessly chewing on something....

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Do Not Offer Me Rice Ever..It Looks Like Maggots!!!!!! Here's PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maggots On A Plate...
Brown Rice...(down below!!! hard to tell them apart huh?!!? why do you think I stay away from it totally!?!?!)

You Decide!!!!!!!!!!!!When I went to dinner tonight, I said DO NOT GIVE ME RICE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!! What did they do?? They give me rice anyways, and I Hatttttttteeeeeee that stuff...It seriously looked like boiled maggots...I came up with that little joke when I was living over in Japan, cause they even eat that garbage for breakfast, whenever I can't even stand to look at it...Next time they do that to me, I'm raking it all over the floor and walking out and yelling behind me before I slam the door...I THOUGHT I SAID NOT TO GIVE ME RICE...THAT CRAP LOOKS LIKE A HEAPING PILE OF MAGGOTS....that oughta do it I should think.....

Friday, July 15, 2011

I'm NOT A Harry Pothead Fan!!! I Don't Get Excited About Anthing That Comes Out Over That Freak,So Don't Talk To Me About Whack Job Harry PotHead!!!!!

Yep I got into it with a know nothing stupid female today on the base here when I went to do my legal paperwork to transfer from Oklahoma up to Alaska, and this loser started in talking to me about Harry Pothead and I smarted off of course, cause I'm not into stupid kids movies, and I'm definately not into junk that doesn't exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was just like bitch don't talk to me about Harry Pothead cause I don't give a hell and I could careless...talk to someone else who is into that pathetic garbage like you are, cause (ahem) I ACTUALLY HAVE A LIFE AND NOT A FAKE THING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT LIKE HARRY POTHEAD FANS DO OVER SOMETHING THAT ISN'T EVEN REAL....wow there's some funny pics on here on those stupid movies...most which I can't even put on here or that glorify drugs, and well...I'M.JUST.NOT.INTO.THAT.....


Wednesday, July 13, 2011