Monday, February 2, 2009
best feeling in the whole world
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Groundhog Day!
It's important to know how completely backwards this whole seeing of the shadow thing is.
-----If he see's the shadow because it's sunny- means there's more winter.
-----If he does not see his shadow - means that spring is on it's way.
one would think that because he saw his shadow (sun= warmer weather) it would be an early spring.
{correct me if i am wrong but isn't it six of one half dozen of another?}
Famous groundhogs
- Punxsutawney Phil found in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA
- Jimmy the Groundhog of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
- Wiarton Willie found in Wiarton, Ontario, Canada
- Staten Island Chuck found in New York City, New York, USA
- General Beauregard Lee, PhD found in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Dunkirk Dave in Dunkirk, New York, USA
- Malverne Mel and Malverne Melissa found in Malverne, New York, USA
- Brandon Bob of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
- Balzac Billy of Balzac, Alberta, Canada
- Shubenacadie Sam of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Gary the Groundhog of Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
- Spanish Joe of Spanish, Ontario, Canada
- Sir Walter Wally of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Pardon Me Pete of Tampa, Florida, USA
- Octoraro Orphie of Quarryville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Holtsville Hal of Holtsville, New York, USA
- Buckeye Chuck of Marion, Ohio, USA
here is a list from the past 10 years as to what they saw.
Friday, January 30, 2009
one a day
This morning I learned that no matter how hard you try and get a kid to eat a vitamin, if they don't want to- they won't eat it! (even the little chewy ones that resemble candy.)I never thought I would be cutting gummy vitamins into pieces, cutting open raisins and sticking them in the raisin and squishing it closed again. and then reverting to step one when the gummy vitamin has been found and flung into a mirror.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too to you
Today I learned that I could never get a tattoo. Today at work, my clients older sister told me that because I am so cool, I should have a temporary tattoo. After showing me the 6 she had randomly placed throughout her body and all over her little sister, she told me to pick from her pile of little tattoo pictures. I picked the green star. My other options were lips, the Disney logo, or some vile insect. now she's all excited getting her little wet towel ready and setting up tattoo parlor, I can't help but reminisce about my youth with Kayla and all our tattoos that we had plastered on ourselves. I felt cool again. (as I type, Chris is playing video games- so far from cool... such a dweeb) Anyway, It was only later as I looked down in the shower as I washed and enjoyed that little burst of startle "oh yea, my little tattoo" Then I thought.. I don't think I could ever get one. I think I would get sick of it like an old sweater.
So, I guess I will only be cool until my little star fades away.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Snowledge
The largest snowflakes ever recorded fell in the state of Montana in the United States of America. The snowflakes were 15 inches in diameter. ( keep you're eyes open, Kelley's)
The average snowflake falls at a speed of 3.1 miles per hour
People buy more cakes, cookies and candies than any other food when a blizzard is in the forecast. So much for the good ole' milk and bread!
"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely, in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates," says physicist Kenneth Libbrecht
- but seriously, who sits on their front lawn and sifts through the little bugga's ??!
LAST but not LEAST.......
You can make your own cloud by breathing in cold weather. We already know this but I just wanted to share with you this little story. When I was little I purposefully would not breath a lot in the winter when I was outside because I thought that the more people would breath, the more clouds we would have in the sky. I did not want clouds.. I wanted sunny days. Specifically sunny summer days- still do, always will!
- so everyone, listen up! STOP BREATHING!! summer will get here faster!!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Profound thoughts by Dr. B - week I
"When people loose touch with reality- people get hurt"
"We have Velcro, we have Penicillin.....(pause) a lot of good things come from brains."
"you're going to get there whether you worry or not."
"popes aren't young and handsome, last I checked"
Monday, January 26, 2009
be happy today
London school teaches art of positive thinking: Class helps students shrug off life's everyday disappointments and depressions
- January 23, 2009Jan. 23--LONDON -- The third Monday in January is officially the most depressing day of the year. That's according to a Cardiff University psychologist's formula that takes into account wintry weather, unpaid Christmas debt, failed New Year's resolutions and the ratio of motivational levels to the amount of work that needs to be done.
But 100 or so adult students at London's storefront School of Life were laughing off the bad news Monday, champagne glasses in hand, at a lecture on How to Be Optimistic.
With Britain heading into what may be its deepest recession in 60 years and many people struggling with everything from stock market losses to layoffs, "it's quite natural to feel pessimistic," said Jo Matthews, 26, a charity marketer attending the lecture. "But there are quite a lot of things to appreciate in life."
The unusual school -- which tries to get across just that message -- opened in October near London's Russell Square, in a long-shuttered storefront crammed between an Internet cafe and a hair salon. It aims to give paying clients a place "to think about the big questions," which include: what constitutes a meaningful job, how to live an ethical life, how to cope with and enjoy family, love relationships, politics and play.
"Sometimes we feel we had a lot of education but we weren't taught anything about relationships" or other important life concerns, said Sophie Howarth, a former curator of modern art who now directs the school. The drop-in classes, which start at about $15 each, aim to give "the education we didn't get anywhere else."
The school's inviting front window is piled with books, teapots and plates of cookies; inside are works by authors from Henry David Thoreau to Studs Terkel offering advice on everything from turning over a new leaf to simply being good.
Downstairs, in a basement painted to resemble a cozy living room, students sit cross-legged on the floor to take in lectures or "sermons" on curiosity, humor, play, poetry or seduction, among other topics.
The school also offers regular "conversation meals" and eclectic weekend courses and outings aimed at helping people discover what they love about their job or whether they're in the right relationship.
The idea is "to raid the wealth of cultural experience from philosophy, arts and science, and treat that knowledge as a way of living today," Howarth said. "It's kind of all incredibly obvious, but that's what people find refreshing."
On Blue Monday, as the bleakest day of the year is known in London, students at the optimism lecture were urged to "unleash their inner pessimist" and moan about that day's setbacks to a neighbor as headbanger music pounded. Then they tried to think of three things that had gone well during the day, big or small.
Taking a few moments every day to appreciate the good things in life is a clinically proven way to fight depression, said Laurence Shorter, the course instructor and a former businessman. Shorter has just released a book titled "The Optimist," drawn from his conversations with optimistic people around the world and his own search for "the brighter side of life" after a relationship breakdown and a sense that the world's bad news was becoming overwhelming.
"Optimism is a style of interpreting reality," and bad news in particular, Shorter told the crowd. Bad things happen; the choice is how people feel about them.
In his experience, he said, the most optimistic people also are the most realistic ones, and religious faith has little to do with genuine optimism. Maintaining hope for a better future is key.
The evening ended as many of the School of Life courses do, with the crowd engrossed in conversation and only reluctantly leaving.
"There should be more stuff like this," said student Immanuel Bryson-Haynes, 25, a semiprofessional race car driver. "There's too much serious stuff in the world."
lgoering@tribune.com
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