Inspirational Place’s Neighborhood

A good rainy day to be in front of the PC and planning a trip to Japan next year... for my bdae! ;)

After a whole morning of intense heat, it's finally gonna rain. So here's my tube of vegemite doing double duty.

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Friday, November 27, 2009

21 and paris...

So the 28th.. I turn 21... I'm really down at the fact that I wont be spending it home with my parents, but I've been blessed with great friends here in the city. A group of us will be getting together for Ice skating and dinner to ring in the day ( I wish I was a club person.. but it aint gona happen).  Since I've never been to Paris.. and don't see myself visiting anytime soon, I thought why not bring Paris here. I found out about this amazing spot through my neighbor who works for the hotel chain.. I also did some previous work photographing their doggies .. ladies and gentlemen .. The Grand Cafe:

I also came home to find a lovely bottle of 1997 wine on the table.. I wove my roomies

I'm excited.. lets be merry

Posted by Wdwalshphoto at 11:40 PM  

Tiger Woods does not owe us an answer as to why he was awake at 2 am.  He doesn't have to tell us why he was in his car at 2 am.  News people keep doing this OMFG has anyone found out why he was out in his car at such an hour?  Um, who cares?  Cops already said it wasn't an alcohol related crash, which is what you'd be implying by saying such things, right?  Sooooo, wtf?  People can be awake whenever the fuck they want to be.  They can drive whenever the fuck they want to drive.  They don't owe you jack shit. 

I have all kinds of sleep issues.  So?  Last I checked there are no laws about when we have to sleep.  If there were I'd sure as hell be in a world of hurt.  The media is acting like he's killed someone because he was awake at 2 am.  He killed a fire hydrant perhaps.   Beyond that, the hospital and the cops both feel he's safe enough to be on the streets, so clearly it was just a minor accident. 

Way to turn a minor story into a big all day, OMG WTF DID THE MAN DO?  dramafest.

At least you're sort of covering the drama whores who snuck into the White House dinner... except even that you're covering that wrong.  You're focusing on what drama whores they are, instead of what crap security the president has.

Almond blossoms

I've been reading  about how the eco-friendly ideas have become stagnant, and how we can change it. There's these long, overwhelming lists of how to save the planet. Not only are they depressing and time consuming, they are also unfocused.

Yesterday we simply focused on a Green Thanksgiving. We bought some food for our backyard critters. Root vegetables, cranberry sauce and turkey (shared with the cats). Simple. Not perfect, but better than last year.

I think we need a plan for each biome and local species. Laundry laundry lists are not productive.  Find one local issue or species. Make a plan, make it fun.

Proactive ideas are better than depressing stories. Although the information does need to reach us somehow. For example, I was surprised by the pie chart below - look at how much our eating habits affect the rainforests!

What do you guys think is the best approach for getting the message out?

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Winter

We had a lovely Thanksgiving, and We discovered a new cranberry chutney from Epicurious. We altered the ingredients a bit to make it less bitter.

Spiced Cranberry Sauce with Honey:

Cranberries are a standard Thanksgiving ingredient that most people think came from the New England area. But the Ojibwa and Sioux of the northern plains taught early settlers how to harvest cranberries. Today, Wisconsin is an important cranberry-producing state.

1 3/4 cups cranberry juice

3/4 cup honey

1 teaspoon minced peeled fresh ginger

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 12-ounce bag fresh or frozen cranberries

1 pear

1 apple

1 ¾ cups apple cider

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144212/27_reasons_to_give_thanks_

We’re thankful President Obama is thinking long and hard about committing more troops and money to Afghanistan.

We’re thankful President Bush feels liberated now.

We’re (not) thankful Dick Cheney has elected to move from his undisclosed location to the media spotlight.

We’re thankful Al Franken has gone from playing self-help guru Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live to helping rape victims receive justice from their employers.

We’re thankful for the healing power of beer.

We’re thankful there are some on the right who think Glenn Beck is “incoherent,” “mindless,” “erratic,” “bizarre,” and “harmful to the conservative movement.”

We’re thankful for long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.

We’re thankful Michael Steele understands that he can’t “do policy” and that no one has any reason to trust his “words or actions.”

We’re (not) thankful for “birthers,” “deathers,” “tenthers,” or “tea baggers.”

We’re (not) thankful conservatives believe they love America so much that they can root for our President to fail and for our nation to lose out on hosting the Olympics.

We’re thankful NFL players refused to “bend over and grab the ankles” for Rush Limbaugh.

We’re thankful six companies have resigned from the Chamber of Commerce due to its denial of climate change science.

Quick update to let you know I'm not dead... just seriously not into blogging at the moment. Second article has been published over at Flaimahmy... 

Can-smell

Yes - if Kindle just doesn't do it for you, spray a little of  Smell of Books in a can! You can choose between that new book smell, "eau you have cats" or my personal favourite, the classic musty book smell. Ah the smell of a library in a can - surely life is complete now!