Sunday, December 19, 2010
I Just Need a Holiday!
emailed me and brought up the idea of a family and friends holiday, and its gonna be aEuropean holidays. According to her, she can do a reservation quickly and we just can join her. Oh! my! that would really be a treat, but with what we are doing right now, it's really an impossibility.I am keeping my fingers cross to have it the next year. She told me they will be leaving on December 22, on time for Christmas. Tsk....tsk...tsk... am gonna miss the bonding time with them but I have to wish them the best for the holiday break. I am just looking forward to the postcards and pictures uploaded to my email. Best of luck to my friend and family....and happy holidays to me and my family, we just arrived home from a fifty-five hours land trip from the city to my home. It was the longest journey back home but it feels so good to be home.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
WFW
Monday, December 13, 2010
Tasty Tuesday
Ingredients
- 1 (5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups cold milk
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 (16 ounce) package vanilla wafers
- 14 bananas, sliced
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat pudding mix and milk 2 minutes.
- Blend in condensed milk until smooth. Stir in vanilla and fold in
- whipped topping. Layer wafers, bananas and pudding mixture in
- a glass serving bowl. Chill until serving.
Ingredients
- 1 (5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups cold milk
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 (16 ounce) package vanilla wafers
- 14 bananas, sliced
Directions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat pudding mix and milk 2 minutes.
- Blend in condensed milk until smooth. Stir in vanilla and fold in
- whipped topping. Layer wafers, bananas and pudding mixture in
- a glass serving bowl. Chill until serving.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
MYM
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thankful Thursday
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
WFW
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Two Souls Still One This Christmas!
I learned a lot from Marriage Monday blog and today am joining in the challenge!
Am Losing It?
A Season to Get Away!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Sunday Stealing
1. The latest book or movie that made you cry? The Boy Called "It" and "Letters to Juliet"
2. The fictional character most like you? "Wonder Woman, Lol!"
3. The greatest album, ever? "The Beatles"
4. Star Trek or Star Wars? Why? Both..I love their costumes and hairdos..LOL again..!
5. Your ideal brain food? Chocolate..forever!
6. Everyone is proud of a certain accomplishment, which one for you?? Written and Anthology Book of Music
7. You want to be remembered for ...? The Lady with the loudest Laugh...LOLLing now!
8. Let's talk about recording artists. Who do you find the most inspirational? "Lady Gaga?
9. The creative masterpiece you wish bore your signature? A Very Big..huge..gigantic Wedding Cake!
10. Your hidden talents . . .? Cooking and singing simultaneously...LOL!
11. The best piece of advice you actually followed? " Be the Best You can Be!
12. The best thing you ever bought, stole, or borrowed? A Book.....I would steal again..LOL!
13. What is the most comfortable clothes that you wear? T-shirts and jeans..eh!
14. Your dinner guest at the Ritz would be?.......................Oprah!
15. Time travel: where, when and why? King Arthur's Round Table and I could challenge each knight a duel..LOL!
16. Stress management: hit man, spa vacation or Prozac? Spa Vacay....!
17. Essential to life: coffee, vodka, cigarettes, chocolate, or . . .? "Chocolate" am destined!
18. Environment of choice: city or country, and where on the map? C-O-U-N-T-R-Y! what is see is what i own!
19. What do you want to say to the leader of your country? hmmmm...better luck next time!
20. Last but certainly not least, what are you working on, now? A book on.............! got to finish it yet! and write the title later....LOL!
Yummy Sunday: Health Yummyness!
Ingredients
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease or line 10 muffin cups.
- In a medium bowl, combine eggs and bananas. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, sugar and baking soda. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture. Fold in walnuts if desired. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
What!:Finger Lengths Clue!
Scientists at Liverpool University have established a link between the length of baby boys' fingers and their chances of going on to have a heart attack at an unusually young age.They believe the link could provide doctors with a simple way to to spot potential heart disease victims at a very early age.
The longer your ring finger, the more protected you are against heart attack |
Dr John Manning |
The genes that are indirectly responsible for the production of testosterone and the female hormone oestrogen also control the development of the fingers.
Relatively long
Finger measurement |
Divide the length of your index finger by the length of your ring finger to give the ratio For the average male in Britain, this figure is about 0.97 Below 0.9 an individual is unlikely to have a heart attack early in life. Above 1.00 the risk climbs |
"This is a very early trait and it is under the influence of sex hormones.
"For a man, the ring finger tends to be about 2% longer than the index finger. The longer your ring finger, the more protected you are against heart attack, because the more testosterone you have.
"There is a relationship between the ratio between these two finger lengths and the age at heart attack of people who do have heart attacks."
The ratio between the two fingers remains the same throughout life.
Short ring fingers did not necessarily mean that boys would go on to have heart attacks, but should alert their parents to do what they can to lessen the risk.
Dr Manning said: "This is an indicator of risk independent of things like smoking and diet, so you can adjust your diet and stop smoking and so on, if you are in a high-risk group."Dr Manning and Dr Peter Bundred examined 151 male heart attack victims in Merseyside.
They found the age range for heart attacks in men where the index finger was relatively long was 35 to 80 years of age, but in those with relatively long ring fingers it was 58 to 80.Dr Manning has previously uncovered links between finger-length and vulnerability to depression and sporting ability.The research is to be published in the British Journal of Cardiology.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Thankful Thursday
Monday, November 29, 2010
TTBH and ST
Next week will be the debut of Stumble Tumble Tuesday- the new Stumble Upon hop hosted by Simply Stacie, Still Blonde After All These Years, Kelly’s Lucky You, Acting Balanced, Shopper Gal andLuxury Reading! In anticipation, we have prepared a tutorial on Stumble Upon to get you ready for next week.
What is Stumble Upon?
Stumble Upon is a service that helps you find websites that fit your interests. It uses information you provide to suggest sites that you will find interesting. Also, Stumble Upon will give you links to sites that your friends have recommended. It’s easy to use, you just give sites a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to rate them. Stumble Upon uses that information and then when you click on the Stumble Upon icon, it will suggest potentially interesting sites for you. With 10.6 million users, it is a hugely popular community- based surfing tool.
“A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky”
“A Web service called StumbleUpon has spent the last six years trying to satisfy such a need, perfecting a formula to help you discover content you are likely to find interesting. You tell the service about your professional interests or your hobbies, and it serves up sites to match them. As you “stumble” from site to site, you will feel as if you are channel-surfing the Internet, or rather, a corner of the Internet that is most relevant to you.”
- New York Times, October 7, 2007
“The Most Addictive Website Ever”
“StumbleUpon is the greatest thing ever invented. The site makes the Internet infinite in its possibilities yet totally accessible. Warning: never has a website hijacked my brain, my attention span, and time itself quite like StumbleUpon.”
- The Oprah Magazine, January 30, 2009
Why use StumbleUpon?
For a general user:
- It’s fun and random. Great way to find new material in your area of interest
- Very easy to interact. Toolbar can be placed on your brower. No separate webpage.
- You can also Stumble Videos
For the blogger: (Reason are many, here’s the top 9 reasons)
- Generate rapid exposure for a specific website, brand or concept
- Establish a reader base for your blog very quickly.
- Gain numerous backlinks from StumbleUpon visitors with websites
- Potentially more powerful than Twitter or Facebook
- Better privacy rules and restrictions than Facebook
- You can share your website reviews
- Stumbleupon makes tagging easy, so your content is easy to find. You do not need any super technical keyword research. Broad keywords work best.
- Easy to see what your competition is up to…subscribe to their Stumbles
- Stumbleupon works best when other Stumble you post so posting your articles that you want Stumbled on our Stumble Tumble Tuesday Linky is a great way of achieving your Traffic goals!
Downloading the Stumble Upon Toolbar:
Downloading and integrating StumbleUpon is easy! All you need to do is open your browser, choose the download you want, and presto! you’re in business. Go here to choose your browser.
Drag this Stumble! button to your Bookmarks toolbar to launch StumbleUpon directly from your browser. No installation required.
Once you’ve downloaded the StumbleUpon toolbar, you’ll have stumbling available at the click of a mouse, so easy!
Types of Posts to Stumble:
You can stumble just about any type of post! It can be a post that captured your interest, one that made you laugh or a post where you learned something. I tend to stumble posts that I find interesting and that I think will appeal to other bloggers like myself. I have heard through the grapevine that you aren’t allowed to stumble giveaways.
Should you stumble your own posts?
Yes, you can stumble your own posts as long as you are stumbling more of other peoples and not just your own posts. I rarely stumble my own posts.
If you are the first person to stumble a post, please make sure to do a quick review of the post. You need to list the post title, category and a few sentences on what it’s about. It’s a one time only sort of thing so make sure you do it if you are the first one to stumble!
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Yummy Sunday: Strawberry Refrigerator Cake
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package strawberry cake mix
- 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen strawberries
- 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 pint fresh strawberries
Directions
- Prepare cake mix as directed on package. Allow to cool. Poke holes on top of cake. Puree thawed strawberries with juice in a blender or food processor and spoon over top of baked cake.
- To Make Topping: Prepare pudding mix as directed on package using one cup of milk. Fold whipped topping into pudding mixture and spread over cake. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Arrange fresh strawberries decoratively on top of cake and serve.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Blind Painters...Oh my, they are really gifted..HOW?
Painting is ever recognized as among the highest-appreciated arts requiring great talents from artists. There are lots of paintings in the world considered as state-of-the-arts created by famous professional artists. It\'s so amazing that there are masterpieces taken by well-known blind artists around the world including Lisa Fittipaldi, John Bramblitt, Esref Armagan, Le Duy Ung, Dmitri. Such blind artists\' paintings are often amazingly realistic, colorful, perspective, and detailed. Let\'s have a look at the most excellent and typical paintings of the five most famous blind paintersever in the world.
I AM BLOWN AWAY.....This is a special entry for my blog! I am humbled and felt blessed.
Lisa Fittipaldi is best-known as the blind Watercolor artist for her Florence Art Gallery with an exhibit of latest works.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
MYM
Yummy Sunday
- Ingredients
- brown sugar
- 1 cup squash, peeled boiled and mashed
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1cup evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 pieces eggs, beatenshopping list
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
How to make it
- 1.Caramelize brown sugar in a pot. Make sure there is equal distribution of sugar. Set aside.
- 2. Blend squash, cornstarch, evaporated milk, and sugar.
- 3. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
- 4. Pour in baking container and steam for 15-20 minutes or until fork inserted comes out clean.
- 5. Refrigerate.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Colors in our Life
Hello Friends & Bloggers try this out for our enjoyment
Meanings of color
Here is a table of colors and many of the meanings they tend to evoke. Notice how colors can mean very different things - it is not that the colors themselves have meaning, it is that we have culturally assigned meanings to them. For example, red means warmth because of the color of fire. Likewise, it means anger because of the increased redness of the face when it flushes with blood. Purple symbolizes royalty only because the only purple dye that was available for many centuries was very expensive.
Color | Meaning |
RED: | warmth, love, anger, danger, boldness, excitement, speed, strength, determination, desire, courage |
ORANGE: | cheerfulness, low cost, affordability, enthusiasm, stimulation, creativity |
YELLOW: | attention-grabbing, comfort, liveliness, cowardliness, hunger, optimism, overwhelm, Summer, comfort, liveliness, intellect, happiness, energy |
GREEN: | durability, reliability, environmental, luxurious, optimism, well-being, nature, calm, relaxation, Spring, safety, honesty, optimism, harmony, freshness |
BLUE: | peace, professionalism, loyalty, reliability, honor, melancholia, boredom, coldness, Winter, depth, stability, professionalism, honor, trust |
PURPLE: | power, royalty, nobility, elegance, sophistication, artificial, luxury, mystery, royalty, elegance, magic |
GRAY: | conservatism, traditionalism, intelligence, serious, dull, uninteresting |
BROWN: | relaxing, confident, casual, reassuring, nature, earthy, solid, reliable, genuine, Autumn, endurance |
BLACK: | Elegance, sophistication, formality, power, strength, illegality, depression, morbidity, night |
WHITE: | Cleanliness, purity, newness, virginity, peace, innocence, simplicity, sterility, snow |
Cultural effects
Remember that color can be culturally dependent - for example, although Black is the color of death in many countries, in China the color associated with death is White.Use the color in situations where you are trying to persuade. Use shades of brown and green to relax people and say you are environmentally friendly. Use red to kick people into action. And so on.
McDonald's, apparently, use red and yellow because red=fast and yellow=hunger (hence fast food!).
Remember also that meaning is what we create. It does not exist in the color itself and individual meanings may or may not exist in different cultures and individuals.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
What a day to be Thankful!
When Bad things Happen to Good Home Owners!
Homeowners are concerned over the potential for property damage and health problems resulting from drywall from China that reportedly leaks corrosive chemicals. Reports include copper tubing turning black, the failure of air conditioning coils exposed to the drywall, smells of sulfur and illness (possibly from breathing airborne sulfuric compounds), including respiratory problems, nosebleeds and headaches. We have to do something about it, and this agency can help
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Mellow Yellow Monday
Blinking, blinking, blinking Winter Lights
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Yummy Sunday...Try this too!
Manny Pacquiao, Our HERO!
Your Style, My Style!
8 notes on the half hour
12 notes on the three quarter hour
16 note Westminster melody on the hour and then strike the hour.
Shoot Me!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Friday Fill-Ins
1. When pigs fly I don't know where they go..hahhahah!.
2. I'm losing weight? hahhahaha...... seriously?!
3. Call me La Singah!! ( singer, singing, in my bathroom).
4. LOL! if you know what I mean.
5. The most entertaining persons in my life are my kids because they share to me innocent comments with reality in it.
6. Honey, sweetheart... who's next?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to resting with a cup of my favorite tea, tomorrow my plans include attending a potluck for my friends birthday, Happy Birthday Ann Jordan! and Sunday, I want to attend classes and if I have time in the afternoon visit a beauty spa....yeheey!