Advents Corner

OK I saw this laundry hamper and I just thought it was the coolest thing. First off I know I would not use it for a laundry hamper because there are so many more things I could do with this. Besides my house is not that big that I need to worry about wheeling my laundry from one end to the other. I could however see this to be useful for laundry if you had to go to a laundry mat or something.

I thought about all of the times me and Lani come home in the evenings and she has her paperwork for the day, lunchbox, jacket, my purse, work folders and of course the items that we picked up from the grocery store on the way home. We could just throw everything in there and make only one trip instead of two or three. Then I run into the issue of having to chase Lani down because she left out of the house on one of my trips to the car. I really think I am going to get one of these. Maybe I will ask for it for Christmas. I really like this thing the possibilities are endless.

What about the picnics or trip to the park or just trips to the store. You could just put you bags in it as you come out of the store and when you get home everything is already in it and all you have to do is wheel it into the house….perfect.

I got my brother the funniest shirt for Christmas.  He was famous for sometimes wearing inappropriate funny t shirts if you know what I mean.  This year for Christmas I thought I would get him a funny shirt like he used to wear but a little more on the tame side than he wore before.  It is:

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

Yankee Oscar Uniform

It took him a second but once he got I thought he was going to die laughing.  He however was a little disappointed when he put it on the next day and went out and about and he did not get one second look.  I told him he needed to shop with more intelligent people and they would get it.

Matt and I were in town the other day and the mini cooper in front of us had the most appropriate plate on it.  I do not remember the exact spelling they used but it read: IM L8 2  I’m late too.  I thought that was so funny because you know every time you are in a hurry you get behind someone that is going so slow.  I have always wanted to get one of those Private Number Plates but I can never come up with anything cleaver.  I really like the sites that point you in the right direction so you can have a very cleaver plate without putting too much of your own brain power into it.

I really like to cook and one of the things I wish I had done was gone to one of those culinary arts schools. I would love to be able to go to school and learn all of the neat things you can do with food. Matt tells me I should just do it but I don’t know. I have been looking around at them and found that no matter where you leave you can find a school close to you.

Maybe when we move out to California and I am looking for a career change I can try my hand at culinary arts school. I really like to cook and I love to try new recipes so think I would be great to broaden my knowledge. I don’t know if I would want to work in a restaurant or not but I think I would be awesome to be able to have the chance to. I always tell Matt that if we get rich one day and I do not have to worry about money I would like to work in a soup kitchen or something just volunteering. I guess I should just do what I want with what I have and not wait for the perfect conditions to come along because we all know if you wait for the perfect moment you will be waiting forever. Sometimes you just have to jump in and do it.

We took Lani to Great Explorations this weekend, which is a children’s hands on museum in St. Pete.  I would not call it is museum, I would say it was more like a hands on activity place.  She loved it and so did we.  Her favorite thing to do was slide down the fireman’s pole.  It was really neat.  They had different rooms with different “jobs”.  You could be a fireman, a tv personality, a musician, a vet and many other things.  She loved the fact that she could just run around without Mom and Dad telling her to come here.  It is really set up as kid friendly and they are able to just be a kid.  Also, great tree house for them to climb in.

I am thinking about getting a magnetic bracelet. I have bursitis in my right hip and it is really giving me a lot of trouble lately. I was in a car accident about 3 years ago and they told me that is what brought it on. The doctor’s told me that I would have probably gotten it when I was older but the accident made it happen faster. My foot was on the brake pedal when I was hit from behind. I have a memory mattress on my bed and that helped when I was pregnant but I am not getting much relief from it now so I guess it is time to try something else. I know a couple of people that wear them and swear by them so I guess they can’t all be wrong.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

The new Matthew McConaughey movie is called Surfer Dude filmed in Kauai. What a beautiful place to film a movie and catch a few waves. This is an interview he with one of the local stations via satelite from Los Angeles. Make sure you watch it to the end and find out how he decided to use his famous phrase, Alright, alright, alright.

As most of you know my Matty works with a lot of computers. One of the things he just did was write a widget for Vista that shows you all of the funny t-shirts that are currently on the market. It is too cool because if you know Vista and the widget they just sit on your sidebar as you work away. Well image, as you are working all of these shirts come up and you don’t have to scroll through all of them to find one you like. Just work away and when one strikes your funny bone just click on it.

We had thought about laptop rentals for our trip because we were worried about taking our laptops with us. With rentals you can get insurance and all kinds of good stuff in case something happens to them. I know Matt was looking into it a couple of weeks ago I just don’t think he has made a decision yet. Time is a ticking we better come up with something fast.

Ok I have been thrown into the world of buying and selling property. Sometimes I just can not believe the things that come out of these Realtors mouths. You can send them an email answering questions for them and they respond and you would think they did not even read the email you sent. One of the girls that sits next to me has a great button in her cube that I think would make very good funny t-shirts for the girls on the team. SORRY, I DON’T SPEAK STUPID!!!!! I just cracked up when she showed it to me.

This video is courtesy of two boys from the Big Island.  They are the number one subscribed comedians  on You Tube.  They have about 40 videos uploaded.  Everything from How to be a Ninja to How to be Emo.  Ryan Higa age 17 and Sean Fujiyoshi age 16 are students at Waiakea High School and according to them they produce the videos because the Big Island is one of the most boring places ever.  LOL 

I love being a Mom.  I think I am better at it now that I am older but I have always loved it.  Lani gets the benefits of more patience that I wish I had when the older girls were little.  My oldest is 17 years old and last week she asked me to get the tangles out of her hair.  It is little things like that that make me happy.  Just knowing that she would ask me to brush her hair means the world to me.  Here are 21 things you can do to help you enjoy being a Mom.  One of my favorites is number 3.  I loved taking a bath with Lani.  Now that she is older and can stand we take showers together.  It is nice to just bring her in there with with me after a long day of work and she thinks it is so much fun to be in there with Mommy.

1. When you’re tired, hand your kids a brush, point to your head, and tell them to play beauty parlor. When you’re really tired, pretend that you’re Sleeping Beauty.
2. Take your mother to a spa. While you’re both getting seaweed wraps, tell her all your favorite memories of growing up.
3. Take a bath with your infant. Make sure your husband is around for the handoff, so you can relax until the last minute. (Don’t forget to smell your baby right afterward. Heaven!)
4. At the end of every summer, take a family photo for the holiday card (you’ll be happy to have this accomplished once December comes). Every year, add a framed 11-by-14-inch print to your front hall. Your kids will be proud now and laugh later at the funny styles.
5. On St. Patrick’s Day, dye the milk and eggs green and turn the furniture upside down so your home looks like total chaos. When your little ones wake up, tell them that the leprechauns came.
6. The next time you have to go to a boring kiddie activity, invite another mom-friend along. Hide wine in sippy cups for the two of you to nurse undercover.
7. Play Freaky Friday with your husband and switch roles for a day. Enjoy his renewed appreciation for his Super Mom wife.
8. . In the dead of winter, fix some snacks, get under warm quilts, and watch Happy Feet on DVD. Tell your kids you love them even more than the penguins love their chicks.
9. Go to the beach in the off-season. Throw rocks in the water and collect shells. Put them in a vase and use it as shelf decor in your living room.
10. Skip the Raffi and Barney. Turn your kids on to Bob Marley, They Might Be Giants, and Gwen Stefani.
11. Take your baby out to the movies at night. (Infants love the dark, and loud trailers make them snooze immediately.) Then you can sip your soda and munch your popcorn in peace.
12. Buy yourself that fancy watch, strand of pearls, or whatever piece of expensive jewelry you’ve been lusting after. Justify your purchase by rationalizing that you’ll pass it down to your daughter (or son’s wife) eventually.
13. Take your kids to live music performances from very early ages. Cheap ones outdoors are great to start with in case you need to make a hasty exit (like when a diaper explodes).
14. Use your kids as an excuse to do the things you want to do, like going to silly feel-good movies, eating mac and cheese for dinner, and jumping in the moonbounce. Use your kids as an excuse to get out of things you don’t want to do, like going to a wedding or office party.
15. Every Mother’s Day, have a picture taken with your kids. Keep the photos all together – along with special cards, ticket stubs, mementos, and anything else that makes you feel good about being a mom – in a shoe box. (Of course, you must get those new shoes you love in order to do this correctly.) Every year, look through your Goddess Mom box and see how much your kids have grown.
16. Give your kids quiet time every day. Let them learn to be by themselves with books, crayons, or blocks.
17. Let your whole family take a day off and hang out in pj’s all day long.
18. Rent Sex and the City on DVD, and reminisce about the days when you were single and the biggest problem you had was whether the “He” of the moment was going to call. Let the romance of your youth seduce you. Then remember that, despite your freedom, all you really wanted was to fall in love and have beautiful babies.
19. Pitch a tent in the backyard. Use it as your outdoor reading room. Or when there’s a full moon, plan a family campout with sleeping bags, a transistor radio, and s’mores, of course.
20. Invent a house fairy. Give her a name, and tell your kids that she is always watching them and counting up their good deeds.
21. Listen for the deep, happy sighs that come after your kids play or laugh really hard. Tuck them away in your heart.

This goes to show you that you can make musubi with anything.  L & L Hawaiian Barbecue needs contestants for its Musubi Eating Contest.  Let me just say if you have a chance to get some food from L & L do it.  They catered Lani’s luau and the food was amazing.  Can’t get there for the contest, make your own.  Check out this quick recipe you can make at home.  If you don’t like spam you can put just about any meat or veggie on it you want.  Have fun with it.

It is beyond me the things people will come up with and the things people will buy.  Here is a clip of Ellen Degeneres using the Hawaii Chair.  You are suppose to be able to use it at work and stay fit while you sit.  I don’t know about that.  People are always trying to find the easy way to stay in shape but this takes the cake.

Being a foster guardian I am always on the look out for pet sites to pass on to my friend that is president of a rescue program. We have four pets, two dogs and two cats all of whom have been rescues. I have come across a site that gives really good Pet Information I want to share with you. Thoughts Fur Paws (very cute title) has information on the health, safety, puppy mills and dealing with the loss of your closest friend. One of my favorites on the site it the Rescue Dog’s Poem, I think it touches my heart because we have adopted all of our animals. While you are there take the quiz to see if you are more cat or dog. I am 80% dog, but I could have told you that.

I just had to post this because it is really funny

RETARDED GRANDPARENTS – (this was actually reported by a teacher)  After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school.  One child wrote the following: We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.  They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to

Florida.  Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass.  They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don’t know who they are anymore.  They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now, they do exercises there, but they don’t do them very well.  There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with hats on.  At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it.  He watches all day so nobody can escape.  Sometimes they sneak out, and go cruising in their golf carts.  Nobody there cooks, they just eat out.  And, they eat the same thing every night — early birds.  Some of the people can’t get out past the man in the doll house.  The ones, who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck.  My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too.  When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house.  Then I will let people out, so they can visit their grandchildren.  ….  PRICELESS…… 

Again,

Florida is in the news because of an idiot.  This is why we have such a bad rep here because the state is full of idiots.  This mother of the year buckled in her case of beer but failed to buckle in her infant daughter she had in the backseat.  Thank goodness police noticed her erratic driving and puller her over only to find her baby was not fastened in. 

Because of this mom I have added a new categories entitled “Idiots”

This was too awesome I had to share it.  Pepsico had a commercial during the Superbowl last night that was the best Superbowl commercial of the night and possibly the best one I have seen.  There is a joke in the deaf community that it, if you don’t know which house you are going to honk the horn and the one that does not turn on the lights is the one you are going too.  I hope the deaf community does appreciate this commercial and no one was offended.  I have posted the commercial and below it is some information on why it was produced.  Please watch both of them and gain a little knowledge.

These are  interviews with the director and some of the actors from the commercial.