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The following picture was done by my self-proclaimed SuperExtraHilariousAndAlsoReallyGreat friend Danielle. She is the one who introduced me to the term Lexiconnoisseur.
http://rollingdamage.devniantart.com/art/A-Champion-Slain-50829864
As you can see it’s Wonder Woman getting stabbed to death.
Danielle’s music listening habits involve picking one song or album and putting it on repeat for anywhere from however long it takes to do the dishes to three weeks straight. Literally.
Currently Red Light Special by TLC is on its fifth go ’round.
Her favorite part “If I move too fast, just let me know, ’cause that means, you move too slow.”
Part that caught my attention “I know what I want and I know who I am,” as it makes me think of the age old question everyone must answer, who am I?
Say what you want about her taste in music, you cannot deny her art.
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Mom? Vaughn? Seriously, you better not be reading this blog entry. It’ll just offend you.
Anyway, quick little story.
I was talking to my friend the other day about the amazing surprise I got in the mail recently. This guy I know sent me a freakin’ MacBook!
My friend and I were discussing how just because he sent me a Mac as a surprise gift doesn’t actually mean he’s into me.
I jokingly said “He probably just sent it to me because he feels guilty that he’s not going to fuck me anymore, or even really talk to me.”
She immediately comes back with: “You mean it’s a mercy Mac?”
At which point we both instantly dissolved into laughter.
So yes, it’s my Mercy Mac and I love it.
Kudos to my friend for being brilliantly hilarious and coining the term Mercy Mac. She also is the genius who came up with the term Lexiconnoisseur.
First of all, I only drink organic tea and I make all my tea with alkalized water. The reason I only drink organic tea, although I don’t eat only organic food is this. If I buy a non-organic fruit or vegetable, I can wash it off with special cleaners to remove most pesticides, wax etc. However with tea, whatever I “wash” off, I am drinking.
Non-organic teas can be sprayed up to fifteen times with various pesticides and some studies have shown the run-off from these fields has killed animals. If it kills animals, I don’t think it’s so great for me. As for the alkaline water, besides improving the taste, it helps to neutralize acids, remove toxins and acts as a conductor of electrochemical activity from cell to cell.
Fortunately, I have a portable water alkalizer for home and on the go, which has been approved by the FDA as a medical device, and my favorite place to drink tea, The Path of Tea, only serves certified organic teas brewed with alkalized water. So it’s easy for me to have my tea exactly the way I like it.
My favorite white tea is Moonlight White. It is a Rishi tea that is a combination of two tea leaves and a bud from Yunnan’s Dah Yeh tree.
I brew the tea with 175 degree water and steep it for exactly 3 minutes. Moonlight White has a sweet taste and makes me think of the smooth shadow of an English Breakfast if you removed all harshness, strength, and edge. In other words, as silly as it sounds, if you took a black tea, magically morphed it into a white tea and added a dash of sweet honeysuckle, that’s how Moonlight white tastes to me.
So far, I have no evidence that it tastes like that to anyone else.
Little more about white tea: it is the least processed of all types of tea. It has the smallest amount of caffeine, roughly 5 milligrams per cup. A cup of coffee has 185 milligrams of caffeine. White tea is not fired or rolled like other teas and has very high concentrations of antioxidant polyphenols.
Antioxidant polyphenols are thought to be instrumental in combating a syndrome that causes some neurodegenerative diseases as well as some cardiovascular diseases. More especially, the tea polyphenol has been shown to reduce important markers for inflammatory diseases. Studies in mice, rats and hamsters have shown tea consumption protects against SEVERAL types of cancers and a preventative effect against atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, high blood cholesterol concentrations and high blood pressure.
There is currently a phase 1 clinical trial being conducted right up the street from me at MD Anderson Cancer Center examining the safety and possible efficacy of consuming specific amounts of tea each day.
White teas come from silvery-white sprouts and leaves that are hand harvested only once a year in early spring. The withering process results in lots of silver-white hairs. These are some of the things contributing to it being called white tea.
So…delicious, caffeine content negligible, and super good for me…..can’t beat it as a beverage and a lifestyle.
Yum, Moonlight White.
Standard unit of measure for cool.
Standard unit of measure for happy.
Standard unit of measure for fun.
Standard unit of measure for crazy.
Standard unit of measure for snug.
I must say that I enjoy the title of this, my first post, so much that although it is not my creation and is simply the default title given to all new Word Press users, I must keep it. I find it to be one of those things I love to say, just brings me enjoyment and amuses me.
Like saying “Goodnight moon” every time I arrive home at night, step out of my truck into the darkness and catch a glimpse of my second favorite celestial body. Or saying “Father, the sleeper has awakened!” right after I wake up as I’m laying in bed, still savoring the cozy blankets and pillows, stretching and chuckling to myself. Or even saying “Switch man’s sleeping” when someone in my general vicinity begins choking and spluttering because whatever they were eating or drinking has gone down the wrong track.
After all, saying hello world, implies a large audience, something that thrills me, and is proven to awaken all kinds of physiological, psychological and biological responses in every human. It implies arriving, announcing ones presence and the beginning of an interaction.
Interactions are always interesting and fascinating when enjoyed from the viewpoint of the observer. Isn’t it true that we really only experience ourselves in the mirror of relating to other people and things, the environment around us?
Couldn’t I be defined as the collection of responses to the stimulus around me, namely the universe and everything in it?
Of course, I could. Especially if one’s natural inclination was to categorize, generalize, and then dismiss offhandedly.
So I say, “Hello World!”
Okay people, I ran into the first sign of over-preparedness the other day.
Namely, carrying a Titanium Spork.
That’s right, if you are carrying a Titanium Spork and you are at any distance greater than 10 miles from Mount Everest Base Camp 1, the Amazon Jungle, or McMurdo Station, you are definitely over prepared.
A cross between a spoon and a fork, the spork, has now been made out of titanium, which is of course corrosion resistant and has the highest strength-to-weight ration of any metal.
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- Note The Name – Shown On Handle
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- Material Proof
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- Can You See Yourself In The Spoon Part?
I was first introduced to the Titanium Spork just yesterday when my friend whipped it out and began using it during a meal. He explained how he carried it everywhere so he never had to use plastic utensils, thus lowering his carbon footprint, and helping him do his part to take good care of Mother Earth even as she supported his well-being.
Stop Deleting my sentence.
Not surprisingly, upon further research, I found the item at a website named ThinkGeek.com.
What was surprising however, was the description of the item.
It starts out with the blurb “Perhaps the coolest and most powerful spork ever invented.” This immediately set me to laughing as my brain was tickled by the incongruence of the two adjectives versus the noun in that sentence.
The website then plunges valiantly ahead into a no-holds-barred description beginning with the title “The Spork of The Gods” comparing the item to mythical heroes equally mythical weapons such as Thor’s hammer and Zeus’ lightening bolts. It does not stop there, as it then goes on to imply the instrument is legendary, and climaxes with the epic sentence:
“It is perhaps the greatest gastronomic invention since lickable wallpaper.”
Brilliant copy, brilliant invention, very amusing.
I would give this an Adding To The Richness of Life Factor of 5, outdoing all my expectations for a spork.
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