Tuesday, January 31, 2012
MY WORST NIGHTMARE EVER....
BEACHES OVER IN STUPID OKINAWA, JAPAN.....GOD SAVE US ALL FROM THIS HELL ON EARTH....this was not around me anywhere, they will do anything to get anyone to come over to their Alcatraz Prison Island to harrass the life out of you...I'm still suffering from nightmares over that *&*(&*(*&^*^T%&%&^T&T*IYFVCVFD place...NEVER AGAIN EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
15 Of The Grossest Foods That You Keep EATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shrimp Coated in Cleaning Chemicals
What it is: Depending on where your shrimp comes from, it could be tainted with chemicals used to clean filthy shrimp farm pens. Just as gross, farmed shrimp from overseas is often full of antibiotics, mouse and rat hair, and pieces of insects.
Where it is: Contaminated shrimp tends to come from critters imported from overseas shrimp farms. If you're looking for safer options, choose domestic shrimp. For the best options, consult the good fish list.
Why it's bad: Only about 2 percent of all imported seafood is inspected, meaning this nasty stuff is making its way onto your plate.
Brain-Frying Fake Food Dyes
What it is: Many artificial food dyes found in hundreds of everyday foods are made from petroleum-derived materials.
Where it is: Dyes are used in cereals and candy to make them more "fun" for kids, in pickles to make them appear fresher, and in place of actual real ingredients in a variety of foods. Example? Betty Crocker Carrot Cake Mix is actually a carrot-free product, with "carrot flavored pieces" cooked up from corn syrup and artificial colors Yellow 6 and Red 40.
Why it's bad: Orange and purple food dyes have been shown to impair brain function, while other dyes have been linked to ADHD and behavioral problems in kids and brain cell toxicity. You're getting ripped off, too. It's cheaper for food companies to use fake dyes than real ingredients. (Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast contains 0 percent berry and cherry juice, despite its name.)
Ammonia-cleansed Beef
What it is: Factory-farm conditions are rife with bacteria. On top of that, processing plants mix meat from hundreds or thousands of different cows, potentially creating a public health hazard in the mix. To try to make the meat "safer," industry typically puts the beef through an ammonia gas bath.
Where it is: The USDA deems the gross process safe enough, and allows the meat to be sold without any indication that it received the gas treatment. (The process is banned in meats earning organic certification.)
Why it's bad: You might order your burger with pickles or lettuce, but you likely don't want a side of ammonia, a poisonous gas. The kicker? Evidence suggests that blasting beef with it might not even be fully effective at killing germs. Look for organic, pasture-raised meats for a safer option. Often, you can buy these meats directly from local, sustainable farmers.
Crushed Bugs
What it is: Carmine, a bright red food colorant, is actually the crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, an African beetle-like insect.
Where it is: Look for it in red candies and red-tinted yogurts and juices (particularly ruby red juices)—it's often listed as carmine, crimson lake, cochineal, or natural red #4 on ingredient labels, according to Bradley.
Why it's bad: Not only is the thought of eating bug juice gross, but it also poses an ethical issue for some vegetarians and vegans.
Human Hair and Feathers
What it is: L-cysteine is a non-essential amino acid made from dissolved human hair (often from China) or duck feathers.
Where it is: It's used as a commercial dough conditioner to improve the texture of breads and baked goods.
Why it's bad: Eating something derived from the human body violates Muslim beliefs. Hair and duck feathers pose an ethical dilemma for vegans, too.
Bake your own homemade bread (without hair and feathers) using bread recipes from the Rodale Recipe Finder.
Shampoo Chemicals in Produce
What it is: Phthalates are plasticizing chemicals used in everything from pesticides and fragranced soaps and shampoos to nail polish and vinyl shower curtains.
Where it is: A 2010 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found phthalates are winding up in our food, too. The source could be direct exposure to pesticides containing the hormone-disrupting chemical. Or to another potential source, human sewage sludge applied as a fertilizer to farm fields. The sludge can be tainted with shampoo chemicals that wash down the drain—it all winds up at the water-treatment plant, the source of the sludge. (Note: Use of human sewage sludge is banned in organic farming.)
Why it's bad: Phthalate exposure, even in small amounts, has been linked to behavioral problems in children, allergies and asthma, eczema, and unhealthy changes in our hormonal systems.
Sex Hormones in Milk
What it is: Today's cows produce double the amount of milk they did just 40 years ago, thanks largely to a genetically engineered, synthetic hormone called recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST.
Where it is: It could be in milk that's not organic or not labeled as rBST free.
Why it's bad: Scientists link rBST to prostate, breast, and colon cancers. It's banned in other countries, and although still legal here, many dairies are moving away from it due to consumer demand. Choose organic milk to ensure that the cows producing your milk are fed a diet free of antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides.
Beaver Anal Gland Juice
What it is: It's a bitter, smelly, orange-brown substance known as castoreum, explains Bradley. "In nature, it's combined with the beaver's urine and used to mark its territory."
Where it is: It's used extensively in processed food and beverages, typically as vanilla or raspberry flavoring.
Why it's bad: This gross ingredient won't show up on the label. Instead, companies using it in making processed food list it as "natural flavoring." This poses a dilemma for vegans and vegetarians—and anyone who wants to avoid eating any creature's anal excretions.
Herbicide-Flavored Food
What it is: Glyphosate, the active chemical ingredient in the popular weed killer, Roundup, is a hormone-disrupting chemical now used primarily on corn and soy crops genetically engineered to withstand a heavy dousing of the chemical. Nonorganic farmers dumped 57 million pounds of glyphosate on food crops in 2009, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) figures.
Where it is: Roundup is so heavily used around homes and in farm fields that it's now being detected in streams, the air, and even rain. Because it's a systemic herbicide, it's actually taken up inside the plant…meaning we eat it. Yep, it's legally allowed in our food, and in an amount that worries scientists. It's found in most nonorganic packaged foods because most contain corn- or soy-derived ingredients, the crops that are most often heavily doused with Roundup.
Why it's bad: Glyphosate exposure is linked to obesity, learning disabilities, birth defects, infertility, and potentially irreversible metabolic damage. To avoid pesticides in products, eat organic and avoided processed foods as much as possible. And use caution—"all natural" foods often are chockfull of pesticides and genetically engineered ingredients.
Flesh-Eating Bacteria
What it is: Grocery store meats are commonly infused with veterinary medicines, heavy metals, and staph bacteria, including the hard-to-kill, potentially lethal MRSA strain.
Where it is: Unfortunately, the problem is far from rare. A study published last year in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that half of grocery store meat tested harbored staph bacteria. Researchers ID the overuse of antibiotics in industrial agriculture as a major cause in the rise of superbugs in our grocery store food.
Why it's bad: MRSA kills about 19,000 people a year in America—that's more annual deaths than from AIDS in the U.S. Purchasing grass-fed meat and eggs from organic farmers is a more sustainable choice.
Cloned Cow's Stomach
What it is: Traditionally, cheese makers used rennet derived from the mucosa of a veal calf's fourth stomach to create the beloved, versatile dairy product. But Bradley notes that cost and the limited availability of calf stomachs have led to the development of several alternatives, including vegetable rennet, microbial rennet, and—the food industry's rennet of choice—a genetically modified version derived from a cloned calf gene.
Where it is: It's used to make the vast majority of cheese sold in the United States.
Why it's bad: The long-term health effects of eating genetically engineered foods has never been studied in humans. And since GMO ingredients aren't listed on the label, it can be tough for consumers to avoid rennet from this source. "With all these rennet varieties often listed simply as "enzymes" on an ingredient panel, it can be very hard to know exactly what kind you’re eating when you buy cheese," says Bradley, author of the soon-to-be-released book, Fat Profits.
What it is: Depending on where your shrimp comes from, it could be tainted with chemicals used to clean filthy shrimp farm pens. Just as gross, farmed shrimp from overseas is often full of antibiotics, mouse and rat hair, and pieces of insects.
Where it is: Contaminated shrimp tends to come from critters imported from overseas shrimp farms. If you're looking for safer options, choose domestic shrimp. For the best options, consult the good fish list.
Why it's bad: Only about 2 percent of all imported seafood is inspected, meaning this nasty stuff is making its way onto your plate.
Brain-Frying Fake Food Dyes
What it is: Many artificial food dyes found in hundreds of everyday foods are made from petroleum-derived materials.
Where it is: Dyes are used in cereals and candy to make them more "fun" for kids, in pickles to make them appear fresher, and in place of actual real ingredients in a variety of foods. Example? Betty Crocker Carrot Cake Mix is actually a carrot-free product, with "carrot flavored pieces" cooked up from corn syrup and artificial colors Yellow 6 and Red 40.
Why it's bad: Orange and purple food dyes have been shown to impair brain function, while other dyes have been linked to ADHD and behavioral problems in kids and brain cell toxicity. You're getting ripped off, too. It's cheaper for food companies to use fake dyes than real ingredients. (Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast contains 0 percent berry and cherry juice, despite its name.)
Ammonia-cleansed Beef
What it is: Factory-farm conditions are rife with bacteria. On top of that, processing plants mix meat from hundreds or thousands of different cows, potentially creating a public health hazard in the mix. To try to make the meat "safer," industry typically puts the beef through an ammonia gas bath.
Where it is: The USDA deems the gross process safe enough, and allows the meat to be sold without any indication that it received the gas treatment. (The process is banned in meats earning organic certification.)
Why it's bad: You might order your burger with pickles or lettuce, but you likely don't want a side of ammonia, a poisonous gas. The kicker? Evidence suggests that blasting beef with it might not even be fully effective at killing germs. Look for organic, pasture-raised meats for a safer option. Often, you can buy these meats directly from local, sustainable farmers.
Crushed Bugs
What it is: Carmine, a bright red food colorant, is actually the crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, an African beetle-like insect.
Where it is: Look for it in red candies and red-tinted yogurts and juices (particularly ruby red juices)—it's often listed as carmine, crimson lake, cochineal, or natural red #4 on ingredient labels, according to Bradley.
Why it's bad: Not only is the thought of eating bug juice gross, but it also poses an ethical issue for some vegetarians and vegans.
Human Hair and Feathers
What it is: L-cysteine is a non-essential amino acid made from dissolved human hair (often from China) or duck feathers.
Where it is: It's used as a commercial dough conditioner to improve the texture of breads and baked goods.
Why it's bad: Eating something derived from the human body violates Muslim beliefs. Hair and duck feathers pose an ethical dilemma for vegans, too.
Bake your own homemade bread (without hair and feathers) using bread recipes from the Rodale Recipe Finder.
Shampoo Chemicals in Produce
What it is: Phthalates are plasticizing chemicals used in everything from pesticides and fragranced soaps and shampoos to nail polish and vinyl shower curtains.
Where it is: A 2010 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found phthalates are winding up in our food, too. The source could be direct exposure to pesticides containing the hormone-disrupting chemical. Or to another potential source, human sewage sludge applied as a fertilizer to farm fields. The sludge can be tainted with shampoo chemicals that wash down the drain—it all winds up at the water-treatment plant, the source of the sludge. (Note: Use of human sewage sludge is banned in organic farming.)
Why it's bad: Phthalate exposure, even in small amounts, has been linked to behavioral problems in children, allergies and asthma, eczema, and unhealthy changes in our hormonal systems.
Sex Hormones in Milk
What it is: Today's cows produce double the amount of milk they did just 40 years ago, thanks largely to a genetically engineered, synthetic hormone called recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST.
Where it is: It could be in milk that's not organic or not labeled as rBST free.
Why it's bad: Scientists link rBST to prostate, breast, and colon cancers. It's banned in other countries, and although still legal here, many dairies are moving away from it due to consumer demand. Choose organic milk to ensure that the cows producing your milk are fed a diet free of antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides.
Beaver Anal Gland Juice
What it is: It's a bitter, smelly, orange-brown substance known as castoreum, explains Bradley. "In nature, it's combined with the beaver's urine and used to mark its territory."
Where it is: It's used extensively in processed food and beverages, typically as vanilla or raspberry flavoring.
Why it's bad: This gross ingredient won't show up on the label. Instead, companies using it in making processed food list it as "natural flavoring." This poses a dilemma for vegans and vegetarians—and anyone who wants to avoid eating any creature's anal excretions.
Herbicide-Flavored Food
What it is: Glyphosate, the active chemical ingredient in the popular weed killer, Roundup, is a hormone-disrupting chemical now used primarily on corn and soy crops genetically engineered to withstand a heavy dousing of the chemical. Nonorganic farmers dumped 57 million pounds of glyphosate on food crops in 2009, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) figures.
Where it is: Roundup is so heavily used around homes and in farm fields that it's now being detected in streams, the air, and even rain. Because it's a systemic herbicide, it's actually taken up inside the plant…meaning we eat it. Yep, it's legally allowed in our food, and in an amount that worries scientists. It's found in most nonorganic packaged foods because most contain corn- or soy-derived ingredients, the crops that are most often heavily doused with Roundup.
Why it's bad: Glyphosate exposure is linked to obesity, learning disabilities, birth defects, infertility, and potentially irreversible metabolic damage. To avoid pesticides in products, eat organic and avoided processed foods as much as possible. And use caution—"all natural" foods often are chockfull of pesticides and genetically engineered ingredients.
Flesh-Eating Bacteria
What it is: Grocery store meats are commonly infused with veterinary medicines, heavy metals, and staph bacteria, including the hard-to-kill, potentially lethal MRSA strain.
Where it is: Unfortunately, the problem is far from rare. A study published last year in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that half of grocery store meat tested harbored staph bacteria. Researchers ID the overuse of antibiotics in industrial agriculture as a major cause in the rise of superbugs in our grocery store food.
Why it's bad: MRSA kills about 19,000 people a year in America—that's more annual deaths than from AIDS in the U.S. Purchasing grass-fed meat and eggs from organic farmers is a more sustainable choice.
Cloned Cow's Stomach
What it is: Traditionally, cheese makers used rennet derived from the mucosa of a veal calf's fourth stomach to create the beloved, versatile dairy product. But Bradley notes that cost and the limited availability of calf stomachs have led to the development of several alternatives, including vegetable rennet, microbial rennet, and—the food industry's rennet of choice—a genetically modified version derived from a cloned calf gene.
Where it is: It's used to make the vast majority of cheese sold in the United States.
Why it's bad: The long-term health effects of eating genetically engineered foods has never been studied in humans. And since GMO ingredients aren't listed on the label, it can be tough for consumers to avoid rennet from this source. "With all these rennet varieties often listed simply as "enzymes" on an ingredient panel, it can be very hard to know exactly what kind you’re eating when you buy cheese," says Bradley, author of the soon-to-be-released book, Fat Profits.
OMG THIS IS BEYOND NASTY......
Maggoty Mushrooms
What it is: Maggots are fly larvae, tiny rice-shaped creatures that feast on rotting foods.
Where it is: The Food and Drug Administration legally allows 19 maggots and 74 mites in a 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms.
Why it's bad: While maggots do have their place in the medical world—they can help heal ulcers and other wounds—most people think it's pretty gross to eat them!
If you need another reason to ditch canned goods, consider this: Most are lined with bisphenol A, or BPA, a plastic chemical that causes unnatural hormonal changes linked to heart attacks, obesity, and certain cancers.
Paint Chemical in Salad Dressing
What it is: Titanium dioxide is a component of the metallic element titanium, a mined substance that is sometimes contaminated with toxic lead.
Where it is: Commonly used in paints and sunscreens, big food corporations add it to lots of things we eat, too, including processed salad dressing, coffee creamers, and icing.
Why it's bad: The food industry adds it to hundreds of products to make dingy, overly processed items appear whiter. "White has long been the symbolic color of 'clean,'" explains food industry insider Bruce Bradley, who shares the tricks, traps, and ploys of big food manufacturers on his blog, BruceBradley.com. "Funny, when you use real food, you don't need any of these crazy additives—I think I prefer the real deal."
Flame Retardant–Laced Soda
What it is: The toxic flame retardant chemical brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, was initially used to keep plastics from catching on fire.
Where it is: For decades, the food industry has been adding it to certain sodas, juices, and sports drinks, including Mountain Dew, Fanta Orange, Sunkist Pineapple, and some Gatorade and Powerade flavors. BVO's purpose? To keep the artificial flavoring chemicals from separating from the rest of the liquids.
Why it's bad: Scientists have linked too much BVO to bromide poisoning symptoms like skin lesions, memory loss, and nerve disorders.
Disease-Promoting Popcorn Bags
What it is: An industrial nonstick chemical that falls under the perfluorinated chemicals class is utilized in certain food packaging.
Where it is: These suspect chemicals are commonly used to coat the inside of popcorn bags to prevent sticking and grease leakage. The same chemicals are also in the nonstick coating of many pots, pans, and baking sheets.
Why it's bad: A study published in January 2012 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that nonstick chemicals in popcorn bags significantly damage the immune system, opening the floodgates for a whole host of other health problems. Nonstick chemicals are also linked to high cholesterol, sperm damage and infertility, and ADHD. Popcorn—made the good old-fashioned way, in a pot on the stovetop—is still a great option
STRAIGHT A'S AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooohooo!!!!!!!!
yahhh I finally had a chance to go and get my transcript from last semester, and I made all solid straight A's the entire year in 2011. too good to be true really, but I really had nothing else to do here, everything has changed sooo muchhh, and everyone I knew before has either moved or completely DIED, or they are just busy with their own stuff....I threw myself into college work again, and it's A's all the way down and to the other side...soo I have a solid 4.0 now, and should have absolutely NOOOO problem at alllll finding a job up teaching up in Anchorage. :) Never again am I going to put up with high school kids talking to me like they did in Japan, and I wouldn't put up with them for a second and told them what I thought of them...The brats who still lived with their parents and just barely got outta high school, and still complaining about curfew and junk like that....I don't want to hear it, and they come freak out on me about how pissed they are at stuff like that cause I'm so past all that garbage it's not even funny....I won't get to go back to my college classes until falltime of this year when we are done moving and finally settled, so I'm already counting down the months until that finally happens again....
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Fabulous Fondue Experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.meltingpot.com I haven't had fondue since I was back in France and Switzerland and back in middle school...I'm sooo thankful that I live this close to our beautiful downtown to get to experience this kind of life style...I really really can't wait to go back to this one, and will definitely look for a fondue place up in Anchorage...It's just tooo good to pass up!!!!!! I know where I wanna go for my birthday at least!!! this is A MUST if anyone comes to or through Oklahoma City!! Of course I won't be here, but you won't be disappointed, until you're a never-ending complainer like some of the ones on here who give reviews who are never satisfied with anything!!!!!!!! I loved it though, and still can't stop talking about it!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
"Happy (LATE) Birthday Mozart!!!!!!
Happy (Late) Birthday to one of my greatest music icons of all time Mozart!!!!!If he were still alive today, he would have been 255 years, 10 months and 18 days old
on 27th January!!!! My internet was totally down, but it was announced over and over on the radio and I"m sure was all over here as well!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Go Out & Inspire Others!!!"
Hey all, my internet has been out the entire week...I'm glad it was finally reset somehow and I can get back to talking on here nonstop. I've missed being on here, and have got a bunch of catching up to do!!! Wow most of all a week's worth of posts on this so sorry for all the mishaps this month with my laptop acting up, and then my internet going out. I've still yet to move, and get set up in our own place, and wait for the internet guy to come out and hook us up with Internet Service whenever that is...I can't believe it, I've got only 3 days left here before I move up to the North Pole!!!!!!!!!! yeehawwwwwwwwww too excited cause I never wanna be around intense heat like I was back in Okinawa and here in Oklahoma again. I've faced temperatures up to 113 degrees so I never want to go through another summer like that again. I went for the last time tonight to LifeChurch. The rest of the times I get to see it will be online at LifeChurch.Tv.com One story that really got my attention was the one delivering the message tonight was talking about going out to Inspire others and to make a good name for yourself. Even if you don't have a good name, you can change that and change people's views on you. I have that problem with the military bases I'm forced to live at, because everyone hates each other mostly, and everyone talks trash behind everyone else's back. esp. mine. mostly because I'm an Honor's Student, I don't have anything to do with them or their sick parties or drinking games, and I could careless about fitting in since I move around so much. I do have others come to my defense though when some start talking trash about me just because I DON'T do anything that they expect me to. He went on to say that one time he was at a funeral of a girl who passed away. They were going around telling stories of what they remembered best about her. No one was really saying anything, and then someone spoke out and said, "well, she was really funny", it was quiet a little bit more, and then someone else said "she was a lot of fun, and liked hot sauce"...but no one else really said anything else. I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly don't wanna be remembered that way, for being funny, but everyone is totally blank in what way, and for liking hot sauce when I can't stand that stuff anyways. I've been working on stuff for St. Jude Children's Cancer Hospital again for Valentine's Day. I've been filling out the Valentine's, and I got 3 bags of stuffed toys from the thrift stores. It filled up an entire box, so I think it will be able to cover at least one whole floor. I plan to get it mailed off this week along with everything else I'm sending on ahead of us up to Alaska. It really makes you stop and think about what is important.. Needless to say, the entire room was pitch quiet, and I was told then "it looks like that is a really special place..." :)
Saturday, January 21, 2012
"Just A Reminder!!!!!!"
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews who were massacred. Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
This is intended to reach six million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.
Please don't just delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this along - Thanks!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Check Out What I Made!!!!
I made a scarf exactly like this one only in a very light pink colour with light pink roses for my sister in law...I couldn't believe that I figured it out on my own, and it actually turned out looking right!!!! When I get my laptop and all my pictures, camera, etc sorted out, I will post everything on here then!!!! Sunday, January 15, 2012
"Do What You Love!!" My 1,000th Post!!!!!!!!!
Found this on pinterst.com!!!! I found me another website to play on besides hanging on facebook all the time now!!! I can't seem to pull myself off of it, and there is toooooo much and tooo many things to post!!! Go and check out www.pinterst.com it's really amazing!!!! I so agree with this poster...esp. about the part on watching tv!!!!!!! :D
Missin' My Laptop!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss my laptop sooo muchhhh I hardly know what to do with myself now... :p My brother in law finally came through after a busy week at work and could hardly wait to do all the technical garbage on it that I can't stand doing. So I should have my laptop back in a week while it's being set back to normal and getting upgrades etc etc etc. and anything else that I have no idea about...It's been so difficult to keep up on here cause I don't like the computer that I have to use, and I can't be online all the time like I usually was before...I hope that everyone is doing well and I look forward to being back online as soon as I can...I only have a week and a half left here in Oklahoma before we move to Alaska... I can hardly sleep some nights I"m so excited, and I'm experiencing hatred from people all over again that I don't even know since they don't like the way their life turned out, and are jealous of mine...I'm not feeling any pain either way, so I really don't care what they think...Only about 10 more days to go here...PLEASE HURRY UP AND GET OVER WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Turning Point In My Life!!
What a beautiful song!!! I recently heard this version the other night on my radio station here, and was about to leave the room, and couldn't bring myself to do it I was so hypnotized by this version of this particular song... I don't know one of these languages from another, but they actually do sound really gorgeous together along with the English parts!!! Maybe someone else out there can identify one from another and let me know which is which!!!! I know what they are saying, I'm just not able to identify them!!! I came across a great story yesterday...check this out...
Carrie Underwood Saves Injured Dog
By Vicki Salemi
Just call her a good Samaritan!
American Idol winner Carrie Underwood visited her parents' house during the holidays and pulled over on the median of a highway between Oklahoma and Tennessee to rescue two injured dogs.
OK! NEWS: CARRIE UNDERWOOD ON HAVING KIDS — "WE'RE NOT READY"
One of the dogs' "bloody" and "limping" bodies was moved to her car. Sadly, the other dog died. "My guess is that the dogs were thrown out of their car by their owners on the highway," she explained.
Carrie took the injured dog to the vet to get groomed and even gave her a name — Stella! It sounds like they bonded pretty quickly, as Carrie pointed out the pooch "follows me around from room to room."
After Stella was house trained and her teeth were cleaned, E! News reported she was adopted by some neighbors.
"I cried when she walked out the door," Carrie wrote on her fan website. "[Hubby Mike Fisher] told me not to be a crazy ex-girlfriend about it and stalk them... I cant help it! She deserves the best life ever!" Awww.Languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Zulu, Africaans, Mandarin
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Look What's Happening Right Around Me....
this first event happened first, and then like half an hour later, the news came on, and said there was another drive-by shooting up the street from where I live now...Someone had been walking and a car drove by and shot them and kept on going...We had police cars here and they yellow-taped everything, and 3 news vans were here with 2 different helicopters flying overhead...then I saw my entire neighbourhood on tv...I was out there of course, and everyone kept driving or walking by and asking me everything...I had an entire audience explaining what had happened...very scary but me and everyone else is fine though...I'm ready to move to Alaska, even with all the snow they are having like crazy...I am never around it so I absolutely can not wait...I've lived in burning hot climates my whole life...never again!!!! http://www.koco.com/news/30179756/detail.html
http://www.koco.com/news/30181404/detail.html
http://www.koco.com/news/30181404/detail.html
Monday, January 9, 2012
Finished More Scarves...
I finally finished 2 of the scarves I was working on...It was just putting the last few finishing touches to them...The first one I did, same gray colour and everything, only without the bird on it...and the black one I did just like the one in the pic, only I put a ton of fringe on the ends...Can't stand the plain look for anything....With the weather I saw in the Alaska pics yesterday, I can feel it that I"ll have a booming business since I will have nothing but time on my hands for about the first 6 months trying to unpack and get settled in...I sooo miss being on here all the time like I usually am...I've got 3 weeks left here and it's dragging worse than sitting through a funeral....It's like springtime everyday here now...Everywhere else is having tons and tons of snow, and I am still stuck with sunshine...not something I want to see in the middle of winter when everyone else is having snow days...
Sunday, January 8, 2012
If ONLY I Could Remember All Of This!!!!
I'm not scientific at all, so I would NEVER remember any kind of an argument like this like ever...it's quite interesting the kinds of things I stumble across on here from having friends from all over....miss you all hope to get my laptop slapped back into working order tomorrow cause I"ve been going outta my mind....
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student :Yes
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No ,sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelled your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends /colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN
Friday, January 6, 2012
3 Days Until I Get My Laptop Fixed!!!
I had no idea how much suffering I would go through without my laptop once I wasn't able to use it...I hope to get my brother-in-law over here in the next few days to deal with my stubborn laptop and where I can be on anytime I want like I am so used to...Now my time is very limited, and not very long at all whenever I am on...I'm just glad to be able to get on at least and where I'm not completely silenced on here...worst feeling ever!!!!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Don't Mess With An Oklahoman.... ;)
Everyone, meet my newest friend who is getting nation-wide attention... :) so happy for her...I'd have no trouble at all whatsoever doing this either to someone trying to break in either here, or whenever we move to Alaska...I am on my own all the time, so I definitely know the feeling...this has been all over the news channels, internet, tv, front page of the newspapers, everything...I first saw it after midnight last night, but couldn't respond to anything cause nothing was showing up on here...Blanchard is a very small town, you blink and you'll miss it going through there...it's about 30 minutes away from the city where I live...still scary though, guess I gotta learn how to use a gun now since this break in stuff is much more common than I realized...http://news.yahoo.com/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-911-operators-okay-091106413.html "Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It's OK to Shoot" http://gma.yahoo.com/okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-911-operators-okay-091106413.html A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer. Sarah McKinley says that a week earlier a man named Justin Martin dropped by on the day of her husband's funeral, claiming that he was a neighbor who wanted to say hello. The 18-year-old Oklahoma City area woman did not let him into her home that day. On New Year's Eve Martin returned with another man, Dustin Stewart, and this time was armed with a 12-inch hunting knife. The two soon began trying to break into McKinley's home. As one of the men was going from door to door outside her home trying to gain entry, McKinley called 911 and grabbed her 12-gauge shotgun. McKinley told ABC News Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO that she quickly got her 12 gauge, went into her bedroom and got a pistol, put the bottle in the baby's mouth and called 911. "I've got two guns in my hand -- is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?" the young mother asked the 911 dispatcher. "I'm here by myself with my infant baby, can I please get a dispatcher out here immediately?" The 911 dispatcher confirmed with McKinley that the doors to her home were locked as she asked again if it was okay to shoot the intruder if he were to come through her door. "I can't tell you that you can do that but you do what you have to do to protect your baby," the dispatcher told her. McKinley was on the phone with 911 for a total of 21 minutes. When Martin kicked in the door and came after her with the knife, the teen mom shot and killed the 24-year-old. Police are calling the shooting justified. "You're allowed to shoot an unauthorized person that is in your home. The law provides you the remedy, and sanctions the use of deadly force," Det. Dan Huff of the Blanchard police said. Stewart soon turned himself in to police. McKinley said that she was at home alone with her newborn that night because her husband just died of cancer on Christmas Day. "I wouldn't have done it, but it was my son," McKinley told ABC News Oklahoma City affiliate KOCO. "It's not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son. And it wasn't going to be my son. There's nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child." we are friends now by the way on here...I said I would have done the same thing since I am alone so much...if this thing cooperates with me, I'll try and post a video on here about it...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Of Course I'm Right, I'm MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! :D
Wal-Mart shopping...you just gotta LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean that sarcastically of course...I only go there, cause there really is no place else to go here, and Wal-Mart has put everything else completely outta business...Ask anyone who has also been flooded by Wal-Marts in their state...We used to have a nifty little store here back in the '70's called TG&Y, they've been out for years now...It's hard to remember what was really around before Wal-Mart completely took over...I go to do my shopping for one of the last few times while I'm here, and to also go to my art store to get some of my artwork framed before I move so I don't have to worry about it getting ruined...Then it was Wal-Mart...groannn..crowds weren't tooo bad, kids are back in school, the nutty Christmas shoppers are done for at least 11 more months, so it was one of my last few times to enjoy Wal-Mart before having to move away againnnnnnnn....I'm heavily into art, almost any kind that you can think of...I found yarn before to make my Christmas scarf for this year, the shiny red, and a dark green colour...I finally found another green, and decided to dye a white one...I go over to find the dye, and someone I don't even know, does a double-take when they see me, and just all of a sudden comes up with this random off the wall question asking me where the water is...I was like okay whatever, the water is where the rest of the water is....you really think I can't figure that out....Some guy I had no idea who it was, and just used any excuse possible to talk with me...He goes off, I go back to doing what I was doing looking at dyes to make a mess with, and then go to leave that area, and run into this same guy again announcing to everyone around that "I was right" as loudly as he could and has all this water he's trying to balance on top of another carrying it... Some people are so clueless it really makes me wonder on how they even make it out their front door since they are always asking me everything....I'm glad this is a big city, since it will be very unlikely to run into this guy again...
Monday, January 2, 2012
What's REALLY In A Chicken Nugget??!?! :p
I will Never touch chicken nuggets again ever ever ever!!! oh wait, I don't even look at fast food, so I don't care what they do to it cause I still won't even breathe on it!!! this is just plain nasty!!!! another reason why I can't stand hardly anything!!! the one ingredient rule is still going strong with me!!!!!! :)
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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