Sunday, March 22, 2009

Sunday.......a day of thanks......


I am thankful for the beautiful day and fresh springy air I smell blowing in my window....

I am thankful I have a job and house to live in ......and can support myself and my son.....

I am thankful for all our blessings and health.......our salvation from God.....

I am thankful for those who love me...........

I am thankful I can homeschool my son and work from home......

I am thankful I have the choice whether or not to be around phony, negative people...

I am thankful I can choose to be the best I can be......after all it is a choice...

Faith...the 2-legged dog........

go here to check out this incredible story......

Faith Two Legged Dog

Saturday, March 21, 2009

61 things on my cat.......

Found this on You Tube.......



This is a song that I wrote for my cats called "Kitty Song," along with video of 61 things being stacked on top of my cat Toby while he slept.

Karen did the stacking. She's very talented.

No Tobies were harmed in the making of this video. Please don't yell at me, and please don't be mean to your cats.

** sweet! this video was posted on one of my favorite cat blogs:

Modern Cat

lyrics:
Little kitten feeling lonely
come and sit upon my lap
and I'll pet you run my fingers
through your fur as you cat nap

I'll feed you bits of tuna
and we'll stare at my tv.
I'll sing for you this song about
how much you mean to me.
It goes

[chorus]
Kitty come kitty play
Kitty love kitty stay
Kitty jump to me
Kitty land on your feet

When I get a little angry
or I'm feeling like a jerk
I can scratch you on the chin
and feel the rhythm of your purr

There's nothing that can phase me
when we're playing with a string
so I wrote for you this melody
though you hate it when I sing
it goes

[chorus]



p.s. Toby totally deserved it.

you can check it out further here:

BLINK TWICE FOR YES

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

changes.......

the weather has been very much like spring already. We have been able to open our windows and smell people grilling on their grills outside. So very nice to smell that!

I cannot believe ABC ended yet another really good show, Kyle XY.



Kyle XY was a really good even wholesome FAMILY sci-fi show.....and it has been taken off the air. The last episode was Monday......and that did not really end in the way we all probably wanted. It left many things hanging open so I am hoping another network picks it up or something. BUT I bet that is doubtful. I like a lot of the quirkier TV shows and they have now removed them all.....well....Ugly Betty is still on and I do enjoy that show. BUT for example, Joan of Arcadia, Wonderfalls, Everwood, Northern Exposure, now all gone. I don't understand the logic on this one. As far as I have read the ratings were still very very good....and there were followers.....and instead of continuing on with a sure bet and one that is DESIRED by an existing audience already.....they decide to cancel it and instead start up 3 new pilot shows....comedy crap......and renew more angst teenage drama. Did anyone ask us what we might like to see out here? NO...they just toss out crap and see what happens...then for some idiotic reason when we really LIKE a show.......they end up canceling it..to bring in more crap to push to try to make a success. ABC family is all being geared to teenage drama now in case you wanted to know. They are trying to appeal to the teenage girl masses.

sigh......

And Natasha Richardson.....who is married to Liam Neeson....fell during a skiing lesson....and later reported a bad headache. Now she is in critical condition in a hospital suffering from a brain injury. It does not sound very good...but I will say a prayer for her and her family. I always liked both her and her husband in different characters they have portrayed in acting. I especially liked Natasha in the remake of Parent Trap and Liam in his role in Schindler's List. One rumor has it she is brain dead...another says critical condition with brain swelling. Regardless...the 45-year-old actress could use some prayers. She was taking beginner's skiing lessons and fell, at first saying she was fine but later reporting a bad headache. Just another reminder how things can change at the snap of your fingers and we all need to appreciate those we love and enjoy our life to the fullest now!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dancing With the Stars stars can also sing! AND VERY WELL!!

I knew Julianne Hough had a singing career she was starting and she sings so well. I really like her...she is gorgeous....can dance AND sing....all very well. This is one my favorites of her songs:



BUT apparently her brother Derek Hough and Mark Ballas also from Dancing With the Stars can both sing as well and have their own band.....their new CD came out March 10 and it is really really good.



GO HERE to listen to the entire album for free:

BALLAS HOUGH BAND

I like to color.......


nothing used to make me happier than getting a brand new coloring book and crayons....and then after smelling the pages in the new coloring book...and smelling the box of crayons.....spending time coloring. I love to color. Even today as an adult. I find it very soothing. There is just something about it.

When was the last time you colored?

And I am the oddball I guess....because while I am looking forward to spring...I actually am hoping it will stay colder a little longer and snow some more or we get some nice thunderstorms and rain!

Also....I am very comfortable in my winter coat and not quite ready to give it up and put it back in the closet till later this year. Okay....I would not mind wearing it year round. See.....I told you I was odd. I feel absolutely naked without my coat on. BY the time I adjust....it is time to start wearing it again!

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Don't forget......DAYLIGHT savings time begins Sunday......so set your clocks FORWARD 1 HOUR!

I read all the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels in probably like a week to 10 days!


They are really good.....or at least I think so. Once I started the first book...I could not put it down. A very short time later.....I finished it and moved to book 2. Yesterday I finished book 7 and moved to book 8.....which I also finished. Wow.....I now have to wait until MAY when book 9 comes out!!!!!

I am going to have withdrawal.......

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Hallmark's Easter Bunny.......

Radiation warning...2-3 CT scans bombards body with same level of radiation as surviving an atomic bomb blast....

A new report released by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement reveals that Americans' exposure to radiation has increased more than 600 percent over the last three decades. Most of that increase has come from patients' exposure to radiation through medical imaging procedures such as CT scans and mammograms.

Alarmingly, radiation levels caused by CT scans are so high that receiving just two or three CT scans bombards your body with as much radiation as surviving an atomic bomb blast (no kidding).

Read this shocking story to learn the truth about the incredible harm being caused by CT scans, mammograms and cancer radiation "therapy" (if you can call it that):
RADIATION WARNING

Live Avian flu virus mixed with vaccines sent to 18 countries........

(NaturalNews) There's a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is intentionally set off by an evil plot designed to reduce the human population. In the book, a nefarious drug company inserts live avian flu viruses into vaccine materials that are distributed to countries around the world to be injected into patients as "flu shots." Those patients then become carriers for these highly-virulent strains of avian flu which go on to infect the world population and cause widespread death.

There's only one problem with this story: It's not fiction. Or, at least, the part about live avian flu viruses being inserted into vaccine materials isn't fiction. It's happening right now.

Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries. The "mistake" (if you can call it that, see below...) was discovered by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada. The World Health Organization was alerted and panic spread throughout the vaccine community as health experts asked the obvious question: How could this have happened?

As published on LifeGen.de (http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/showne...), serious questions like this are being raised:

"Baxter International Inc. in Austria 'unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighbouring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease'. Austria, Germany, Slowenia and the Czech Republic - these are the countries in which labs were hit with dangerous viruses. Not by bioterrorist commandos, but by Baxter. In other words: One of the major global pharmaceutical players seems to have lost control over a virus which is considered by many virologists to be one of the components leading some day to a new pandemic."

Or, put another way, Baxter is acting a whole lot like a biological terrorism organization these days, sending deadly viral samples around the world. If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter -- which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world -- getting away with saying, essentially, "Oops?"

But there's a bigger question in all this: How could this company have accidentally mixed LIVE avian flu viruses (both H5N1 and H3N2, the human form) in this vaccine material?

Was the viral contamination intentional?
The shocking answer is that this couldn't have been an accident. Why? Because Baxter International adheres to something called BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) - a set of laboratory safety protocols that prevent the cross-contamination of materials.

As explained on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosaf...):

"Laboratory personnel have specific training in handling pathogenic and potentially lethal agents, and are supervised by competent scientists who are experienced in working with these agents. This is considered a neutral or warm zone. All procedures involving the manipulation of infectious materials are conducted within biological safety cabinets or other physical containment devices, or by personnel wearing appropriate personal protective clothing and equipment. The laboratory has special engineering and design features."

Under the BSL3 code of conduct, it is impossible for live avian flu viruses to contaminate production vaccine materials that are shipped out to vendors around the world.

This leaves only two possibilities that explain these events:

Possibility #1: Baxter isn't following BSL3 safety guidelines or is so sloppy in following them that it can make monumental mistakes that threaten the safety of the entire human race. And if that's the case, then why are we injecting our children with vaccines made from Baxter's materials?

Possibility #2: A rogue employee (or an evil plot from the top management) is present at Baxter, whereby live avian flu viruses were intentionally placed into the vaccine materials in the hope that such materials might be injected into humans and set off a global bird flu pandemic.

It just so happens that a global bird flu pandemic would sell a LOT of bird flu vaccines. Although some naive people have a hard time believing that corporations would endanger human beings to make money, this is precisely the way corporations now behave in America's ethically-challenged free-market environment. (Remember Enron? Exxon? Merck? DuPont? Monsanto? Need I go on?)

Make no mistake: Spreading bird flu is a clever way to create demand for bird flu vaccines, and we've all seen very clearly how drug companies first market the problem and then "leap to the rescue" by selling the solution. (Disease mongering of ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc.)

Why it all suddenly makes sense
Until today, I would not have personally believed such a story. I personally thought talk of bird flu vaccines being "weaponized" was just alarmist hype. But now, in light of the fact that LIVE bird flu viruses are being openly found in vaccine materials that are distributed around the world, I must admit the evidence is increasingly compelling that something extremely dangerous is afoot.

Baxter, through either its mistakes or its evil intentions, just put the safety of the entire human race at risk. Given all the laboratory protocols put in place to prevent this kind of thing, it is difficult to believe this was just a mistake.

There is some speculation, in fact, that the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed up to 50 million people worldwide (http://images.google.com/images?hl=...), was intentionally started by injecting servicemen with "experimental" flu vaccines that actually contained live, "weaponized" flu material just like the material being distributed by Baxter today.

Examine the historical record. You'll find that the 1918 flu originated with servicemen. Even more interestingly, it began in multiple cities, simultaneously! There is no single point of origin with the 1918 flu. It appears to have "spontaneously" sprung up across multiple cities all at once, including a military base in Kansas. (Kansas? Yep. So how did it get to Kansas in an era when air traffic was virtually non-existent? Vaccines, of course!)

All those cities and servicemen have one thing in common: Flu shot vaccinations given to them by the military.

If you put the pieces together on this, it's not too difficult to suspect that influenza could potentially be used as a tool of control by governments or drug companies to catalyze outrageous profit-taking or power grabbing agendas. A desperate, infected population will gladly give up anything or pay anything for the promise of being cured.

Or was it just an innocent mistake? Oops!
But for the skeptics who dismiss any such talk of conspiracy theories, let's examine the other possibility: That a global avian flu pandemic was nearly unleashed unintentionally due to the outrageous incompetence of the companies handling these viral strains.

As we just saw, this is a very real possibility. Had this live bird flu virus not been detected, it could have very easily found its way into vaccines that were injected into human beings. And this, in turn, could have unleashed a global avian flu pandemic.

If the drug companies making and handling these materials are so careless, then it seems like it's only a matter of time before something slips through the safety precautions again and gets unleashed into the wild. And that leads to essentially the same scenario: A global pandemic, widespread death, health care failures and a desperate population begging for vaccines.

So either way -- whether it's intentional or not -- you essentially get the same result.

Why a global pandemic is only a matter of time
I am on the record stating that a global pandemic is only a matter of time. The living conditions under which humans have placed themselves (crowded cities, suppressed immune systems, etc.) are ideal for the spread of infectious disease. But I never dreamed drug companies could actually be accelerating the pandemic timeline by contaminating vaccine materials with live avian flu viruses known to be highly infectious to humans. This, it seems, is a whole new cause for concern.

You can believe what you will. Maybe you agree with the nefarious plot theory and you agree that corporations are capable of great evils in their quest for profits. Or perhaps you can't accept that, so you go with the "accidental contamination" theory, in which your beliefs describe a very dangerous world where biohazard safety protocols are insufficient to protect us from all the crazy viral strains being toyed with at drug companies and government labs all across the world.

In either case, the world is not a very safe place when deadly viral strains are placed in the hands of the inept.

We are like children playing God with Mother Nature, rolling the dice in a global game of Viral Roulette where the odds are not in our favor. With companies like Baxter engaged in behaviors that are just begging to see the human race devastated by a global pandemic wipeout, it might be a good time to question the sanity of using viral strains in vaccines in the first place.

Vaccine-pushing scientists are so proud of their vaccines. They think they've conquered Mother Nature. Imagine their surprise when one day they learn they have actually killed 100 million human beings by unleashing a global pandemic.

We came close to it this week. A global pandemic may have just been averted by the thinnest of margins. Yet people go on with their lives, oblivious to what nearly happened.

What's inescapable at this point is the fact that the threat of a pandemic that looms for all of human civilization, and that drug companies may, themselves, be the source of that threat.

Important Resources
Read my book How to Beat the Bird Flu here: http://www.truthpublishing.com/bird...

See a remarkable collection of quotes and accounts from authors writing about the 1918 influenza pandemic here: www.NaturalNews.com/025759.html

Stories about Baxter International, Inc. and its avian influenza "oops" moment

The Canadian Press: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ca...

Bloomberg.com: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?...

LifeGen.de: http://www.lifegen.de/newsip/showne...

About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-efficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help prevent global warming. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology currently powers the NaturalNews email newsletters. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Kyle Lograsso, inspirational story of a little boy and his love for playing golf.......

Tired Tuesday........

I did not get enough sleep last night. I am currently sitting her waiting on more work so I may just go lie back down for a bit.

I lost my train of thought too.......so.....yeah......maybe later

Thursday, February 26, 2009

my altar ego over at the Hero Factory.......


Yeah baby.....BRING IT ON!

this was a link to a site from my sister's blog where you could make your own superhero.

I have to say it was fun...but they sure don't give the woman's body any justice now do they? The sagging boobs...the pose....nasty legs......YUCK on that...and they are all the same! Bodies that is. Not too many choices either....but anyway.......I think it is funny that we all have seemed to pick characters that sort of resemble us to a degree anyway.....haha

you can go have your own fun here:

THE HERO FACTORY

Pringles Select.........have you tried them??


I am not a big potato chip person.....unless maybe I have chip dip to go with them and even then I can resist them. THANK goodness as I have enough other foods I cannot resist very easily at all.




BUT I was at BIG LOTs the other day and noticed they had an entire selection of PRINGLES SELECT potato chips...all different flavors......Bold Crunch Jalapeno, Southwestern BBQ, Sundried Tomato, Parmesan something......Sweet Potato...on and on. I decided to try the Southwestern BBQ.






OH MY....they are SOOOOOOOO good.....and small.....crisp.....very flavorful. You can have 22 chips for 150 calories........70 of those calories would still be from fat. BUT almost no sugar content.....and they are baked not fried.



VERY yummy. They only cost me 1.25 a bag at Big Lots.......I would give these a BIG THUMBS UP and I bet they are out of this world with dip!


Sunday, February 22, 2009

PITIMENL......

was a word verification I had to use today when I made a comment on a blog.

My mind of course tries to decipher that to MEAN something personal to me. Hidden messages in word verification codes you might ask?

Well what JUMPED out at me was this:

PITIMENL meant PITY ME...NO LOVER



hum.........

how accurate are your word verification codes in relationship to your life?

Friday, February 20, 2009

EXPLODE - Uh Huh Her

It's FRIDAY and the sun is shining.....but it is still cold outside...


I am WAY behind on my 12 Secrets and Creative Everyday posting. Probably will lag behind for awhile as right now I don't have the extra time to devote to it.

Otherwise....not much new news....I am off to the library for a bit while I wait on more work to come in

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I may have found another source for help with the JOE situation....


I have been doing research online about city ordinances and such trying to find other means of tackling the Joe the dog situation via the dog feces issue. SURELY that is a way I can get him help.

BUT meanwhile during my search I came across this wonderful site......Dogs Deserve Better (CHECK MY SIDE BAR FOR A LINK)......and they may be able to help. They are a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing chained up and penned up dogs. They do amazing things for these animals...get them help and in many cases new owners and living situations. They can help build a nice fenced in area for the dog that is appropriate for them....etc. They can place the dogs in foster homes until they are adopted out into new loving homes. The information on their site is tremendous and they have many helpful links to help out dogs such as Joe.

SO I have forwarded them all my information on Joe and am hopeful they will be able to step in and help him in another way entirely since I have not been successful in getting him any help via the Humane Society.

PLEASE check out their site...link on the right.....

I will keep you updated as I find out anything.

This is a place I would like to get involved with as I really believe in what they stand for.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Migraine Monday....oh wait it's TUESDAY!

What ever happened to the Nelson Twins????


they always reminded me a bit of girls.....
now they have shorter hair I guess...


but still sort of remind me of girls........(sorry guys)

I have lost track of time. I have a really bad migraine headache which is now spacing me out somewhat.

And speaking of heads.......I don't get the Muslim man who beheaded his wife.....one thing that he said bothered both he and his wife was the "NEGATIVE PERCEPTION" people had about Muslims.......and then he goes and beheads his wife????.....like that will help anyone's perception?

I have been watching a lot of boxing and wrestling and MMA/cagefighting recently. There's just something about it that makes it hard for me to "not" watch it....even though some of it is very difficult to watch and I do have to flip it off sometimes...(though I usually turn it back on again)....My favorite to watch in wrestling right now is Rey Mysterio...





...and cagefighting/MMA/UFC....is Brock Lesnar......




check out his extreme work outs here.....this is only a brief snippet....you would not believe what he does during his work out routines....







okay.....that is probably all my head can handle for now.

OH the cupcakes for Valentine's day....no...I did not make those. I found the pic online.....and thought they looked yummy. They were from a bakery in New York.