In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
– Konrad Adenauer
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There was this guy on Route 115 today. All decked out in snow gear including those snow pole things…on roller blades.
Maine is really suffering for snow this year.
Tags: Maine, snow, roller blades, camera
So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.
I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go Tags: Thursday Thirteen, knitting, reading, books, housecleaning
I’ve seen this meme here and there this month. I can’t recall where now. The idea is to re-print the first sentence of the first post from each month in 2006. With the New Year approaching, this seems like a good time to do so…and I’m curious.
(If the “first post” fell on a “Quote of the Day” or similar, I skipped it to one of my own posts.)
So, four years ago, the hospital I was at went through lay-offs and an
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“Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
– Anonymous
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week. 
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, meme, New Years Resolutions, gardening, knitting, debt, weight, health, writing, Green Living, housekeeping, dysfunctional family
When I was a vegetarian in the early to mid-1990’s, it was never about animal rights or some ideal cause. In fact, I had great fun on mailing lists and newsgroups, stirring up the vegan and vegetarians who were all about “not eating anything with a face” or “animals are our friends, we don’t eat our friends!” Basically, I was a vegetarian because I was just plain tired of eating meat — even the smell of it made me feel a bit ill.
This is not to say that I don’t respect people who do actually become vegetarians because
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Tags: vegetarianism, vegetarian, pescetarian, cloned animals, Peter Clement, FDA
I like today’s Fibromyalgia Tip of the Day : Making Lists:
Make a list of things that you enjoy doing. Days when you are out of sorts and bored, this list can come in handy. It sounds silly to think that you might forget what you enjoy, but bad days can be heavy with “fibrofog” and so reminder lists are always helpful.
I think everyone, not just fibro sufferers could stand to put this tip into use. When you’re out of sorts and having a bad day, even
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“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
– Gandhi
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I’ve always had a little issue using my iPod mini with my home theater. Despite the fact that my home theater has a usb slot just for playing MP3 players, when I plugged in my iPod mini, the display on the t.v. would show bizarre file names like “F03N” rather than song names and the directories wouldn’t match the playlists. I couldn’t control what I was playing from the iPod mini so I would have to basically plan ahead and remove everything from the iPod mini except what I wanted to listen to on my stereo.
Except since the last iTunes
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
– Agatha Christie
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“How am I going to get the tree down into the basement without taking the lights off or taking it apart?”
Or is that just me?
Seriously, it’s been on my mind since I pulled the tree out of the box and strung those lights this year. This is the first year I’ve had a basement to store it in rather than a niche hidden by a hanging sheet in my bedroom corner. If I could figure out how to get it back down in the basement without damaging the paint on my walls or killing myself on the basement
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So, the nutritionists say the poultry is a bad thing for me because it’s pro-inflammatory. They told me to eat more soy and seafood. Seafood didn’t seem right for Christmas dinner, but there’s something in the health food stores called “Tofurky.” It’s kind of fun to say but I was a little wary of trying it. Feaux vegetarian meats have been a kind of scary thing, though they’ve been getting better the last 15 years as “vegetarianism” has hit the modern grocery store instead of just in hidden health food stores.
Anyway, so this Christmas, I decided to go for the whole Tofurky affair. I found a whole dinner at Wild Oats. According to the box:
A Delicious Vegetarian Feast
Feast Includes a Tender, Juicy Stuffed Tofu Roast, 8 Delicious Cranberry-Apple, Potato Dumplings, Rich Tofurky “Giblet” & Mushroom Gravy, and Our Signature Tofurky Jurky Wishstix
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
– Mary Ellen Chase
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Does anyone make them anymore? I’ve been to three stores looking for them but all I’ve found is fruity-flavored ones — Lifesavers, Jelly Bellys, Starburst, Jolly Ranchers; Cherry is the flavor of “The Original Candy Cane” apparently.
This is just wrong.
Tags: Christmas, peppermint candy canes
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
– Clement Clarke Moore
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“Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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It’s enough that the world is filling up with Princesses, Divas, and self-involved Assholes, but why even bother having a blog and inviting people to comment if you’re going to delete all of the comments that disagree with you? If you’re going to do that, could you at least put some sort of warning or disclaimer that only worshipers at your altar should spend time and risk carpal tunnel responding to your every thought, whine, or tribulation?
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