Danger Days

Since I “came out” to myself as having a mental illness, societal stigmas be damned, I realized that I would have to take responsibility for, among other things of course, monitoring my state of mind and then taking appropriate action when necessary. I believe that I am currently experiencing an “alert status: red” day, in which I could potentially say or do things that would have destructive results for me. For instance, I am having recurring ideations and impulses to post statements on this blog that could literally get me hauled off with a bag over my head. And that’s just not okay. If it should arise that I am ever prosecuted for intemperate comments - and mind you, I can guarantee that they will never devolve into intemperate acts - then you should perhaps mention on my behalf that I am not at all times possessing my full faculties. So, I’m going to practice some self-care regimen items - I’m going to get up and drink some water and take a 3 minute walk. See you later :)

Vintage Avon Beauty

Are you on for seeing make up from 1975 or 1976? Fasten your seatbelt, I'm taking you on a time travel. I'm always late on new collections (don't blame me, I live beyond the pond and polishes must swim to come to me) but that time, I'm literally going beyond myself: 35 years late no more no less. When I found 3 old Avon catalogues belonging to my mother in a cardboard box also belonging to my mother (from the time she was a Avon ambassador), I was super excited. Like a little girl who found a penny. Like a flea. I'm not a nostalgic person, quite the contrary, but for some reason I love to see how things were long ago, the kind of colors that were being released at that time, the packaging. Oldies, especially in beauty, amuse me. No big deal if I like stuff I can't get, it's fun! I couldn't not share this and did some scan for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoyed the time travel! On a side note, I've been amazed to find a glitter emerald nail polish in this catalogue. I expected to find only pinks, corals and red (and reality didn't contradicted me in some ways). But those catalogues are clearly telling me that green was in trend even before blue. I would have though that it was the opposite, that blue, and even purple appeared before green. Not you?

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

When I read it, I feel as if there is a new element in the world. What I mean is, it puts that childlike hope back into everyday life. Rowling captures magic in her tale. Somehow she manages to tap into that place when elves were real, and quests were possible, and that’s why this story works. Because Rowling is a story-teller. She digs past reason and touches hope and ignites the imagination so that Harry Potter is not a character, he is real. My favorite scenes are always the ones in the Great Hall: The Great Hall looked magnificent. Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling. Dumbledore led them in a few of his favorite carols, Hagrid booming more and more loudly with every goblet of eggnog he consumed. I want to be in that Great Hall. I was getting ready for work earlier this week, and just thinking about the idea that Harry Potter is pretend. That he doesn’t really exist. That there is no Hogwarts. That none of it ever happened. Don’t you just want to laugh when you imagine that? Just two books in, and of course it happened! If we can imagine Harry Potter, then he is real. Because even though we cannot actually see Hogwarts because we are Muggles, it is there. That’s why I should reread this one day in 20 when I’m remembering it and wondering if I should bother. Somehow, with nothing but a twenty-six letter alphabet and her imagination, Rowling makes me laugh when I imagine a world without Harry Potter.

Next is The Prisoner of Azkaban! I’ve heard a few of you say recently that The Chamber of Secrets is your least favorite in the series. So I’m pretty excited that it’s all uphill from here! I love that the series apparently gets better and better, finishing with an explosive Book 7, according to many of you! I asked a girl at work the other day what her favorite book is. I work at a bookstore, so I assume we are all readers there and find “What is your favorite book?” a good ice-breaker. She looked embarrassed and squirmed a bit and finally listed a lot of high-brow literature as among her favorites before finally conceding that Book #7 in the Harry Potter coloring pages series is her favorite book of all time. “I know it’s not great literature, but it’s my favorite,” she said, blushing. “Why would you be embarrassed by that?” I asked. “Who cares about high-brow literature? Literature gets into us and comes to life. That’s what literature should do. Sometimes that’s through an intellectual awakening, and sometimes it’s because it sweeps us away. It doesn’t matter how it gets to us, just that it does.” Then I told her that one of my favorite books is the children’s book Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. And that I am currently reading Harry Potter for the first time, which inspired an eye-firing conversation which included her expressing complete jealousy that I am experiencing it for the first time. She can’t wait for me to get to Book #7. This is a magical book. I felt transported to a world under London that I believe “could” exist, while reading. I seriously smiled for the whole second half of this book.

Harrison Bergeron as The Feminist Ideal

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away. It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about. On the television screen were ballerinas. The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, “Ladies and Gentlemen”. He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read. And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. “Excuse me-” she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive. Harrison Bergeron is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut.

The Perfect Love

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love", Tom Robbins once said. I couldn't agree more. Somewhere on the road, we've all stopped looking for the perfect bond and chose instead to look for this ideal "other one", our better half, the part missing, etc. When only concentrating on this other person, we take ourselves out of the equation, and, most importantly, we forget to think about the bond that ties two human beings almost without explanation. Some call it chemistry. I for one consider it to be more than a feeling, although totally depending on the awkward tingling. Well, as pretty and smart as she can be, no woman can help you create a perfect love without being entirely connected to you. Don't get me wrong. I’m a man, and like all men I get easily attracted to beautiful women. Still, that has nothing to do with the vibe you get from that one woman who can share everything with you: your joys, your disappointments, your beliefs and your fears. I had the chance of meeting the person for whom I try every day to create the perfect love.

Ok, she doesn't share my fear of aliens, and she might not be perfect (please God, don't let her read this blog) but our relationship is perfect, with ups and downs, but still perfect. Most of my friends are either single and disappointed or looking for very beautiful women with whom they often have nothing in common. If you are in neither of these situations, you already found yourself a keeper and you just want to know how perfect love feels like, this is my advice: don't let a day go by without showing her how much you care about her. I'm talking presents on pay day, flowers when you are running out of money and, most of all, words. Yes gentlemen, if you can feel it, you can spell it. Desperate times call for desperate measures so when trying to win her back after a fight, click here for some beautiful love poems for her. We were not all born Shakespeare but your best weapon when fighting not to lose her are love poems for her. While at it, throw some chocolates or flowers, it can't hurt.

Pepsi Special the Fat Absorption Soda

Big news from Pepsi. On Tuesday, the giant Pepsi launched their trade mark cola beverage in Japan, claiming that this soda is able to block the absorption of fat. And because it is a special drink with some special qualities it is simply called Pepsi Special. The magical ingredient it is said to be dextrin, a dietary fiber derived from potatoes. The company says that dextrin slows the absorption of fat in the body and based on that Pepsi has developed a great marketing campaign in Japan. Pepsi supports this idea based on a Japanese study that was published back in 2006. The study was made on rats, and the study showed that rats fed dextrin absorbed less fat than those that were not. But the story it’s not that simple, and even is what is written above it's a fact, a closer look at Dextrin shows up others studies by the American researchers, who have examined the benefits of dextrin and the reviews are mixed. While it is true that reduces the levels of fat in the body, the effect is considered to be modest. Will it be successful? We'll see about that, but thinking that we can lose weight fast by drinking a special soda, it’s indeed a little awkward. In the meantime, stick to your fitness hours and healthy diet!

Average Car Insure Rates

We won't fail to draw your attention from the beginning to the end of the piece of writing here before you dealing with the subject of car insurence rates. It will be worth it, given that it includes a considerable number of beneficial suggestions connected to the matter of car insurence rates. There is a very good chance that you might be, at the very moment, paying a large amount of money on your online auto insure. You have every likelihood that you could obtain a better rate, from other insurance firm, than you could from your existing coverage firms. The internet has generated a rivalry between internet car ins companies. It is easier than ever for consumers to shop for low car insurence costs, to study coverage and compare premiums. Still researches have shown that people do not shop around for coverage in the similar manner they prefer to look for a new automobile. Furthermore, consumers are most likely to stay with the same online car insure firm for a long time. So why not prove that the findings are incorrect? Set the power of the internet to help you and also save money in the way. Coverage is a game of numbers. Adjustors find out information on who get involved in accidents. Over the years, they see a pattern. Drivers who are engineers get into fewer accidents, why? This seems entertaining to speculate concerning the reasons however, the coverage companies don't really care about that. They are more concerned about the fact that, engineers present lower risk.

As it is unlikely that they would get into a collision with a tree, motor vehicle ins rates are low for engineers. What if you are a teacher and not an engineer? You might still be in luck. Teachers too might be in for a discount. You don't know unless you ask and unless you shop around. internet automobile insurance companies are not the same. Did you ever come across a situation where you were about to pay $100 for a room in a hotel, just to find that an AAA rebate will save you 15 percent? Now you're paying $85 and swelling with pride. It is same in car insurence industry. Involvement with AAA and certain other professional associations can lower your insurance rates. You must ask your employer and know if in case there are any group insurance charges. Simultaneously, check directly from the insurance provider when you inquire about the policy costs. A big source of investments is to cover your autos with the same insurer which provides insurance to your home. If group insurance is available, it may lower your insurance rates and make your homeowner's policy cheaper too. It's also important to make sure you are receiving a renewal discount which lots of online auto assurance providers present. This is a discount offered to individuals that are with the same insurer for a long time. If in case you have been insured with a firm for several years and not had an accident, your coverage firm choose you. A renewal discount is a good reason to urge you to return. Furthermore, it's a good reason for you to stay on with the same company. Motor car safety devices may also lessen your payments. Some states encourage drivers for purchasing motor-cars implanted with antilock brakes by requiring insurance firms to present concessions.

Automatic seatbelts and inflatable airbags are often rewarded with online automobiles coverage concessions e.g. Rent a Car Bucuresti. Two others means which might lower your coverage premium is to assume a higher risk. This could be done in two ways. Your premiums can also be brought down in a large scale in case you drop the accident coverage against an older automobile. If the value of the motor-vehicle stands at less than $2.000, you will probably spend more covering it than it is worth. The other way you can redesign your insurance and save money is to pay a higher deductible. A deductible is the money you would be paying out before your insurance provider begins paying your claims. To put it in a different way, you will be paying for the little dings and bumps while your insurer pay for the heavy hits. Suppose, a common deductible amount is $500. This means in case a collision you're in results in damages for about 1.500 dollars, you pay five hundred dollars and your insurance provider pays one thousand dollars. However, you can even set your deductible to 1.000$. This will still cover you against heavy losses but this can decrease your monthly insurance premium by as much as 30 percent. Ultimately, if you are being strangled by high carinsurance costs, bear this in mind when you shop for buying a car. The costlier and higher performing the vehicle is the higher will be the premium rate. It particularly holds true of motor-vehicles that are expensive to repair, or stand high chances of getting stolen. The insurance company takes this into consideration when setting its coverage premiums for this motor car. Buy a cheap automobile and get your kicks in other ways. You will love the amount you save on your online automobiles insurance.