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 Amazing how the generosity of a kind soul can shift or change one’s mood in an instant. Especially if that compassionate spirit is your partner! SlaDE brought home a lovely three-pronged stem of stargazer Lily’s. He calls it his sKYgazer  .
So sweet, so sentimental, just because. He’s wonderful and I feel that I am truly blessed.
I have a girlfriend in Arizona who has been diagnosed with papillary carcinoma cancer (throat and thyroid) and I am feeling very very sad for her … she has two boys, who I believe, live at home with her ex. The tumour in her throat is really large and the prognosis is looking rather scary.
Please keep her her your thoughts and prayers. I wish that I could be there for her right now.
I think that slaDE~ and I made a very very smart decision today. We took the plunge … and invested in Apple! To be honest, even before buying shares in the Company, I’ve felt that since 2005, I’ve had Apple stock with all my goodies and gadgets … a G4 Powerbook, an iPod, all the accessories one could ever want. And hopefully, someday soon, I can add an Apple iPhone and a new MACBookPro to this list .
Being Pro-Apple and anti-Microsoft, I thought it apropos to include this funny google video, poking a bit of fun at Microsoft’s tendency to micro-manage .
Enjoy!
On the theme of bashing Microsoft and PCs … if you haven’t yet seen the hilarious new ads by Apple, you simply must:
New Mac Ads at Apple.com
On career and success:
* A bad day of fishing beats a good day of working.
* A bad day of golf beats a good day of working.
* A boss is like a diaper. Always on your ass and constantly full of crap.
* A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
* A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
* A sense of humour is the difference between ambition and achievement.
* Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty.
* All I need is some peace and quiet. If I got a piece I’d be quiet!
* All stressed out and no one to choke.
* Always put the important before the merely urgent.
* Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.
* Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
* An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
* An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
* Another Deadline, Another Miracle!
* Behind every successful woman is herself.
* Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it.
* Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.
* Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
* Even Jesus lived with his mother until he was 30.
* Everyone is entitled to my opinion
* Everyone makes mistakes, that why pencil have erasers
* Everything I know, I learnt by killing smart people and eating their brains.
* Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
* Hire teenagers while they still know everything!
* Honesty pays, but not enough
* Housework is evil, it must be stopped.
* I’ll do anything for money, except work.
* I fight poverty, I work
* I have a drink problem – I can’t afford it.
* I have yet to hear a MAN ask for advice on how to combine marriage and career.
* I love my boss, I love my job, I’m self employed
* I owe it all to my boss – Ulcers, nausea, paranoia…
* I respect your opinion. Just don’t want to hear it!
* I won’t rise to the occasion, but I’ll slide over to it.
* If all else fails .. lower your standards
* If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.
* If at first you don’t succeed, aim lower.
* If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
* If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving is not for you
* If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, then what do freedom fighters fight?
* If first you don’t succeed, suck and suck until you do succeed.
* If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
* It’s an Honor to teach my Student at home
* It’s hard to stumble when you’re on your knees.
* It’s not hard to meet expenses…they’re everywhere!
* It never fails! You start having fun, and they send in the lawyers.
* Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honour, make him pay cash.
* Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch!
* Money isn’t everything. It simply isn’t enough!
* MONEY TALKS! But all mine ever says is GOODBYE!
* Money wouldn’t be so important if everybody didn’t want some
* My daughter turned down your honour student!
* My job drives me to drink. If it wasn’t for that, I’D QUIT!
* My job is secure. No one else wants it.
* My Job is to Comfort the Disturbed & Disturb the Comfortable
* My parents think I’m in college
* Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
* Plunder globally. Manage media locally.
* Professionals are predictable. Amateurs are Dangerous!
* Question Authority before it Questions You!
* Rest assured that all your hard work and effort will go unnoticed.
* Sado-masochism means not having to say you’re sorry.
* Some days it’s just not worth gnawing through the straps
* Summa cum laude graduate, Darth Vader School of Personnel Management
* Support a lawyer. Become a doctor.
* Support bacteria! It’s the only culture some people have.
* The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in college was my blood alcohol content.
* The urge to scream tells me I must be at work
* Well behaved women rarely make history.
* When all else fails, manipulate the data!
* Where there’s a whip, there’s a way.
* Work is for people who don’t know how to fish.
* Work is for people who don’t know how to golf.
* Work is for people who don’t surf the net!
* Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
* You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
On Government & Politics:
* A politician should do two terms – one in office and one in jail
* A Woman’s Place is in the House… and Senate!
* An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
* Annoy a liberal. Work hard and smile.
* Annoy a politician today. THINK!
* Balance the budget. Declare politicians as game and sell hunting stamps.
* Bomb Texas. They have oil!
* Born free. Taxed to death!
* Bush & Cheney – Kiss My Ashcroft !
* Can you think on your own, or do you need the media to think for you?
* Don’t be stupid. We have politicians for that!
* Don’t Re-Elect a Son of A Bush!
* Don’t steal. The government hates competition!
* Empty the prisons – Make room for Congress.
* Fight organised crime. Abolish the IRS.
* Fighting for Peace is like f*cking for virginity
* Grow your own dope! Plant a politician!
* I’m Too Poor to Vote Republican
* I love my country, but I fear my government
* If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
* If Democrats and Republicans could read they would be Libertarians.
* If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention
* Inside every small problem is a big one trying to get government funding.
* Is it too late to get the Russians to nuke Washington?
* The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected.
* Support Capitol Punishment, Flog a Politician Today!
* Satan for President – Why pick the lesser of two Evils?
* Re-elect Bush: I’m tired of waiting for the Apocalypse.
* Put politicians in their place =AD Landfills!
* Nothing political is correct.
* Ignore your rights and they’ll go away!
Thanks to: www.digitaldigressions.net for their humour and input.
Interesting how this cycle that we call life is a wheel which we are slowly wearing thin. Is it truly endless? One wonders with global warming.
Just my ranting thoughts ….
This is for you Sandy! 
I’m finding that after indulging over the holidays, I’m craving sweet sinful deserts. But with a bit of self-discipline and mindfulness towards my health, I found this rich pudding fills both my chocolate craving and my healthy needs.
INGREDIENTS
10 dates, pitted and cut into quarters
10 dried figs, cut into quarters (stems removed)
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons raw nut butter, such as almond, cashew, or peanut
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 to 2 cups water
1. In a blender or food processor, place the dates, figs, cocoa, nut butter, vanilla, and 1 cup of water and pulse until just beginning to blend.
2. Slowly add water as you continue to pulse, until the mixture is creamy, smooth, and the desired consistency.
Serves 5 to 6.
Inspired by The Great American Detox Diet, by Alex Jamieson (Rodale Press, 2005)
Brrrr, it’s cold out there today! -25 degrees Celsius (-12 degrees Fahrenheit for my friends south of the border). With the wind chill, it’s down to –38 at the moment.
I’m very grateful that slaDE~ is able to stay home today … The men placing Rebar don’t work in temperatures lower than –20 here in Alberta, as the chance of frostbite is too severe and the Union’s Workman’s Comp will not cover frostbite. Well, that left us with the day to play … And in the morning we headed to the Talisman Centre with Bill Atkey to attend a Deep Water Fit class. Bill is a dear wonderful soul whom we’ve had the honour of meeting through Jean (our sublet-tee, sort of, on our apartment). Bill is a wandering spirit, agile and young in mind and heart, who travels down to Mexico, without a schedule or agenda, every year. I hope to be like him when I’m his age … he’s older than my grandfather!!
The Water Fit class was SO much fun. I think that it was a novelty to have a man in the class, let alone two. It was hilarious trying to fit slaDE~ with a floatation device that kept his head above water. In the end the instructor had to put two on him, as his muscle mass is so dense, and he sinks like a bullet otherwise. Many laughs were had in the hour class. Seeing Bill giggle with delight is a true pleasure to behold.
After a long soothing soak in the hot-tub, with a scorching steam room session to follow, we made our way for Vietnamese food, which Bill happily treated us to. I’ll be sure to reciprocate with a few more gym passes before he heads south to visit his friends in Mexico.
A luxurious afternoon was spent browsing through 2nd hand stores for winter work clothes and to end the evening, we watched our favourite television programs, so missed during the Christmas break.
 Have you ever found yourself wanting or in need of something for you or your household, and VOILA, it’s offered to you? Such is the nature of freecycle ….
Freecycle™ Mission Statement:
“Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.”
Last week I joined this wonderful community, and within a few days, we found a futon, a double bed & boxspring, plenty of linen to furnish our beds (now we can house a few guests now!) and some computer bits & clothes to boot.
Wicked!
PS I highly recommend joining this community if you want to get rid of some clutter or are in need of more clutter .
 Men can be such jerks, especially when they decide to flaunt their power.
Take a look at what’s going on today in the Government ‘s typical standing on Iraq and Afghanistan … and, yes, stretching to war / conflict in general. Bush … what is your purpose for sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq??!
No one wins in the long term, and truly, everyone loses (life, dignity, humanity, genuine integrity and real-ness). The person with the ‘bigger guns’ may hold the power, for a little bit anyway. But being ‘at the top’ is only temporary. We all fall down. A vicious cycle / circle indeed.
Why can’t we all get along? Why is there the need to take the upper hand? Where is the love and compassion that we humans are capable of?
Take the first step [ to peace & resolution ], and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid.
But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
- Robert Collier
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce. [ war ]
- Cervantes the great Spanish novelist
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