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Well-paid ESL Positions in Shenzhen, China

About Us
Web International English is one of China's most recognized and respected brands. Since its inception in 1998, Web has gone on to establish over 150 training centers throughout China and now stands at the forefront of the language training industry. It has 4 divisions including Web International English, Web HWJ, Happy Goal Kids English and C&S International Academy. We believe in making a difference. Web International English stands for quality and innovation in education. Because of this, we draw talented people to work at Web and we continually invest in the use of technology to stay ahead of the curve. We deliver high-quality service by empowering students to achieve communicative excellence in English, helping them function effectively in a globalized world.
Our Teaching Philosophy
Language is a skill, similar to learning to drive or play a sport. Therefore, it must be acquired through practice. It cannot be learned by passively sitting through grammar lectures given by a teacher. Small class sizes, which allow students to receive maximum attention from the teachers. CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) attempts to mirror the first language learning experience as closely as possible with an emphasis on listening and speaking. Flexible class schedules for students. Students can mould their studying around their work or school lives.
Our Teaching
Most Web students start at Web with some English ability, with their reading and writing skills better than their listening and speaking. They are often especially lacking confidence and fluency, so it is our job to create a learning environment which is as positive and supportive as possible. We also want to create the closest thing we can to an English immersion environment, so we don’t allow Chinese to be spoken in the classroom.
Job Description:
1. Teaching ESL--- English as a Second Language
2. Lesson planning and preparation as well as curriculum development
3. Supervising test and exams and giving level tests
4. Assisting with administration including intake and placement of students and recording attendance
5. Counseling students
6. Participating in the school’s social program including Extra Curricular Activities (ECA’s)
7. participating in Employee training programs and workshops organized by the school
8. Participating in promotional and marketing activities organized by the school
9. Student’s age: Adults
10. Students per class: 1-20
11. Classes’ main type: Private Classes, Salon Classes, for which we have ready-to-use lesson plans, and Social Clubs

1. Bachelor degree or above (Welcome fresh graduates to apply)
2. Native English speaker
3. Teaching experiences or TEFL/TESOL/CELTA

Teaching condition:
1) Remuneration Package:
i) For 25 weekly teaching hours: Highly competitive Base Salary+ Housing Allowance: RMB15400-17400/month(A two-month probation period: RMB14400-16400/month)
ii) Highly overtime pay and corporate training class fee
iii) Year-end bonus
iv) RMB 6000 year airfare
v) Quarterly performance bonus
2) Employee Benefits:
i) 16 paid holidays (including public holidays, goes up next year)
ii) Medical Insurance
iii) Mandarin Classes
iv) Fully paid and sponsored Z visa
3) Career Development:
i) 1 week induction training(including a 2-day intensive session)
ii) On job training(including on-line and live sessions)
iii) Possible Head/Senior teacher advancement
4) Arrival Assistance:
i) Free first week hotel accommodation
ii) Assistance on housing, bank account opening and health check etc.

Work place/Location: Shenzhen
1. Hai dian ju, Nanhai Main road, Nanshan district (opposite from Hai Ya Department Store )
2. 5F, Gang’ao City Building, Huaqiangbei, Futian District
3.,4F, Injoy Mall, Zhongkang Rd, Shangmeilin, Futian District
4. Jin an Commercial Plaza 2/F ,Tao yuan Road , Nan shan District ( near SU NING Corporation
5. 3 F,Shengtang Building, East Block, Tairan 9th Road, No.1, Futian District.
6. 3F/Building A, Dushi Mingyuan, NO.1 Shucheng Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen.
7. L5-038,5F/Haiya Colorful City (shopping mall),Jian An 1st Street,Baoan District, Shenzhen.

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Please send your resume, a recent photo, a photocopy of your passport and visa (if you are in China) BA degree certificate , and TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certificate to Carol: Email:, Tel: 0755-82702705

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The Nail Diaries..

or so a new blog should be titled, haha.

My dear friend, Michelle, who dabbles in nail art..I say dabbles VERY lightly, has been offering to do my nails for quite awhile now. I finally took her up on it tonight.

We spent 3 hours laughing, talking, and watching Jenna Marbles  (she's hilarious, watch if you haven't seen her already) on YouTube, while she worked on my nails. It was great and I'm SO happy with the way they turned out. Take a look for yourself.

Just a small amount of her massive collection

Love them!! =)

Aren't they great?!
The best part, I could understand her the whole time I got my nailes done, haha!

Signing off,
Ida Jade

Rachael Farris said...

WOW! They look amazing!! She is very talented! You should link up here:

She has a "nail files" link up party that start every Friday. These nails deserve to be spread out into the blog-world! They are awesome!

Michelle said...

I did find the site and posted a link to one of my nail art pics. Thanks!

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Chapter 1

Well, my plane is supposed to arrive in a little over an hour, and I might be not at Pole for the first time since last 28 October shortly thereafter. That seems like quite a long time ago. A lot can happen, and has, since I left home. There has been a lot of work, a lot of good times, as well a lot of not-so-good times during this contract. That is just how life goes, regardless of where one is. When I left last time I ended up with wrenching sobs and tears, not knowing whether I would ever be back. This time, like many things that have changed, I find I'm sailing much more of a middle passage through the Emotional Archipelago. I don't know if/when I'll return, but I'm not ruling it out. I have no clue where I will end up. So, with today begins the abrupt unplugging of a year of life on Earth, and the beginning of a new chapter, though there really is just one chapter, which is one's life.

So, as the fedora moves north, its first major destination (country-wise) is the site of what was probably the largest excavation of earth in the calendar year 1991. Chew on that, and I'll update you from the road when I get there. First comes McMurdo Station, followed by New Zealand, and I'm not sure how much time I will have to do any reporting/touring in either place. Frankly, some serious sleeping is in order, as well as some eating of different foods and getting reacquainted with things like trees, animals, rivers, etc. Leaving, as I say, is probably about as interesting as staying here at Pole for a winter.
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
~Matsuo Basho

Dan said...

I remember the gorgeous sunsets in Arizona in '91 due to Pinatubo's eruption... enjoy the Philippines!

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nice post gan!
Khasiat Walatra G Sea


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South Sudan Rebels Seize Oil-Rich State’s Capital Amid Talks

By William Davison, January 14, 2014

South Sudanese rebels said they captured Malakal, the capital of oil-rich Upper Nile state, as talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the nation’s four-week-old conflict continued for a second day.

Opposition forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar seized Malakal today after 72 hours of “heavy fighting,” rebel spokesman Brigadier-General Lul Ruai Koang said in a phone interview. The fighters now plan to recapture Bentiu, capital of neighboring Unity state, “within days,” he said. The rebels lost control of Bentiu on Jan. 10 when government forces advanced on the town.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir’s spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said fighting was continuing in Malakal after the rebels “pushed our forces” back to the airport. “It’s not yet clear who’s in control,” he said.

Government and rebel negotiators held another round of talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, aimed at ending hostilities that broke out on Dec. 15, when Kiir accused Machar of trying to stage a coup. Machar denies the charge. The dispute escalated into clashes between members of Kiir’s ethnic Dinka community and Machar’s Nuer group.

Almost 80,000 people have fled the country since fighting began, crossing the border to countries including Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The death toll from the conflict is approaching 10,000, according to theInternational Crisis Group, while 413,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, according to the UN.

Cease-Fire Talks

The two sides may sign a cease-fire tomorrow and then start talks on the fate of 11 politicians detained without charge by the government, South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei told reporters today.

“We are progressing well and probably tomorrow we will agree on the cessation of hostilities,” he said.

At least 200 people died on Jan. 12 when a boat ferrying civilians fleeing the conflict in Malakal sank. The town is situated on the eastern shore of the White Nile River.

South Sudan has sub-Saharan Africa’s largest oil reserves after Nigeria andAngola, according to BP Plc data. Since gaining independence in July 2011, it’s been exporting its crude through pipelines across Sudan. The fighting has cut output to about 200,000 barrels daily from 245,000 barrels a day, according to the government. Oil exports provide more than 95 percent of state revenue.

Oil Halt

The violence has halted most of South Sudan’s oil production, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.

Negotiators in Ethiopia are focusing on three areas of disagreement — the issue of the detained politicians, emergency laws in the states of Jonglei and Unity, and the presence of foreign troops in South Sudan, according to rebel spokesman Mabior Garang.

The rebels last week dropped their demand that the politicians be freed as a prerequisite for talks to start. The U.S., the UN and the European Union have called for the release of the prisoners.

Ugandan lawmakers today backed the deployment of the country’s army into South Sudan. The troops were sent last month to prevent the conflict from escalating into “genocide,” the state-run New Vision reported on Jan. 8, quoting army chief General Katumba Wamala.

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EU at the UN

The EU's commitment to effective multilateralism, with the UN at its core, is a central element of its external action. As a UN observer with enhanced status, the EU delegation coordinates with its 28 Member States to speak with one voice. The EU also works closely with the UN secretariat and its agencies, funds & programmes, partnering on a range of global issues and challenges.

20 December 2016, Brussels – High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini is in Cairo for the 4th European Union-League of Arab States meeting

“Today we share a feeling of sadness and mutual condolences, as we see innocent victims falling in Berlin, in Jordan, in Cairo, in Ankara with the assassination of the Russian Ambassador [Andrei Karlov].” With these words the High Representative Federica Mogherini introduced the 4th European Union-League of Arab States meeting, this morning in Cairo. “We all face a wave of inconceivable violence,” she went on, referring to the recent terrorist attacks. Only “a common response to the terrorist violence can bring results, for the sake of civilians across our region,” Mogherini stressed. More than ever Europe and the Arab world “have to show determination to jointly prevent and fight terrorism in our territories and globally.”

The High Representative described the EU-LAS meeting as something more than a “bi-regional summit,” because – she said – “we share the same region. What happens in Syria, in Libya or even in Yemen has a direct impact on Europe. And the European Union is an essential partner for growth, peace and stability in the Arab world.”

Regional cooperation is essential to many crises, from Yemen to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. “In Syria a battle might end but the war still rages on,” Mogherini added. “Peace requires justice for all Syrians and a genuine, inclusive political transition.” All regional players have to be involved “to turn a proxy war into a proxy peace.”

“It is time to move beyond old and new dividing lines,” she insisted, and work on “a positive agenda, to invest together on our youth, to create jobs, to achieve participation in our societies.”

In the margins of the meeting, Mogherini agreed upon new instruments for cooperation with Egypt and Jordan. Together with the Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr, Mogherini signed two EU assistance programmes. “This is time for concrete cooperation. With these programmes – said the High Representative – we will work together to create jobs for young people, support children attending school, including the most vulnerable. The priority for the European Union is working for the citizens of our region.”

Mogherini also finalised with the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, the EU-Jordan Partnership priorities and compact. “Through the agreed partnership priorities and compact, we mark our common objective to work together in addressing the needs of our peoples, by strengthening our already excellent cooperation.” The new agreement will help tackle the impact of the Syria conflict and improve EU-Jordan our bilateral relationship.

Mogherini’s agenda in Cairo also included bilateral meetings with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, the Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, the Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.

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Beneath the Stars

Everett Collection

Ava Gardner and Barbara Stanwyck in East Side, West Side, 1949

In 1949, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that boasted “more stars than there are in the heavens,” released one of its typical productions. Based on a soap-opera-ish novel by Marcia Davenport, East Side, West Side put MGM’s assets on show: Cyd Charisse (in a non-dancing role), Nancy Davis (soon to be Mrs. Ronald Reagan), James Mason (at his most suave), and Gale Sondergaard and Van Heflin (both Oscar winners). The headliners were Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner, appearing together for the first and only time. They portrayed the two women in Mason’s life, wife (Stanwyck) and lover (Gardner), and they were given a single scene to confront the situation. Stanwyck, the elder of the two, has the larger role of a wealthy Park Avenue woman: chic, well-mannered, cultured. Gardner gets the showier part as a trashy babe (a role Stanwyck might have played in her younger years).

Gardner, dressed in stark white with suitable cleavage, roams around the room like a restless tiger. She does most of the talking, warning Stanwyck that Mason will be available “only when I don’t want him…. I’ll call him and he’ll come running.” She tells Stanwyck to watch out because she knows men. Stanwyck stays calm. She doesn’t move a muscle, standing ramrod straight in a prim suit, matching hat and gloves, and double strand of pearls. When they are done deciding Mason’s fate (the female prerogative), Stanwyck sweeps confidently out the door, and then, alone and rattled, she starts to cry. This was Stanwyck’s famous trump card, her ability to make a rapid shift from tough to vulnerable. This was what you once got for your money from Hollywood: glorious junk enlivened by two fabulous and unique stars who knew what an audience wanted from them and who earned every cent they were paid.

Moviegoers had little trouble believing that Ava Gardner and Barbara Stanwyck might fight over a husband. Gardner’s next movie in 1949 was The Bribe, and it costarred her with Stanwyck’s real-life second husband, Robert Taylor. Very quickly, Gardner and Taylor, two of the most beautiful people in movies, were having a hot romance. “Our love affair lasted three, maybe four, months,” Gardner wrote in her autobiography, Ava: My Story, adding that it was “a magical little interlude.” (What Stanwyck thought about it went unrecorded.) East Side, West Side’s conflict between wife and lover mirrored the conflict between the same two women off-screen. Here lies a challenge for the movie-star biographer: Where does East Side, West Side end and real life begin? It’s difficult for anyone to know, sometimes including the stars themselves.

Gardner and Stanwyck are the subjects of two recent books: Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner, and A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907–1940, by Victoria Wilson. Evans’s book is not a complete story of Gardner’s life and career, although it was originally meant to be. In 1988, Gardner, who had suffered a stroke and needed money while living in London, invited Evans to work with her as ghostwriter on her autobiography. (“I’m broke, honey. I either write the book or sell the jewels….And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.”) After consuming numerous bottles of white wine, the two sat down to work. About one third of the way into the project, Gardner abruptly fired Evans. He had failed to tell her that her ex-husband (and lifelong friend), Frank Sinatra, had once sued him for libel.

Gardner went on to write her book with new ghosts (Alan Burgess and Kenneth Turan). It was published in 1990, shortly after her death that same year. Evans (who himself died in 2012 before the publication of this second book) reconstructed these “conversations” out of his notes from their meetings, his research (such as it was), and his recordings of their late-night telephone calls (taped without Gardner’s knowledge). His book is shameless but highly entertaining. He’s selling everybody’s idea of who Ava Gardner was—boozy and bawdy and beautiful—with a book cover that shows her in black underwear and fishnet stockings.

Evans claims to be giving us the “real” Ava Gardner because of his “secret” conversations. As proof he wasn’t bought, he includes negative comments from people who knew Gardner. Dirk Bogarde warns, “She will eat you alive.” Writer Peter Viertel says, “You’ll have to fight her all the way.” Gardner herself gave him fair warning: “It’s my fucking life. I’ll remember it the way I want to remember it…. I’m not asking for a literary masterpiece.” However, the Evans portrait is still the Gardner image we know, a cross between her roles as the playful “Honey Bear” in 1953’s Mogambo and the earthy Maxine in Night of the Iguana (1964). She’s sassy, capricious, seductive, unpredictable, and funny. She recalls, for example, her life touring with Artie Shaw’s band before she became his fifth wife:

I was still as happy as Larry traveling with the band, hanging out with Artie and his literary pals. Guys like Sid Perelman, Bill Saroyan, John O’Hara. They were all bright, funny, interesting guys.

Artie said all I had to do was keep my mouth shut, sit at their feet, and absorb their wit and wisdom. I was happy to do that. I was comfortable with all those guys. But if I kicked off my shoes and curled my feet up on the couch, he’d go bananas. “You’re not in the fucking tobacco fields now,” he’d scream. He had a real phobia about me and tobacco fields.

In Evans’s book she’s her own version of Norma Desmond, more wacky than demented, but not at all confused about what Evans wants from her and why.

By contrast, Victoria Wilson (vice-president and senior editor at Knopf) tries to find the real person. In 1,044 pages, the first of two volumes, she takes Barbara Stanwyck’s life and career only as far as 1940. Wilson spent fifteen years doing in-depth research, interviewing people who knew and worked with Stanwyck, and watching every film she made. She wants to tell the complete story of Stanwyck in the historical setting of her times.

Instead of illuminating Stanwyck, the historical commentaries tend to distance her, even diminish her. She almost becomes a supporting player in her own story, sandwiched among details about the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1934 failed campaign for governor of California by Upton Sinclair, Hollywood’s labor troubles, the rise of Hitler to power in Europe, etc., etc. In trying to lift Stanwyck out of a typical “star image” bio, Wilson nearly goes aground, but ultimately her book succeeds in several different respects: her fresh material on Stanwyck’s early years; a thorough understanding of the studio system; a deep appreciation for Stanwyck on film; and her awareness of Stanwyck’s independence, which allowed her to avoid typecasting.

In her first decade, by the time of Union Pacific in 1939, Stanwyck had played “midwestern farm women, New England factory girls, Park Avenue society women, business owners, prisoners, con artists, missionaries, mistresses, generals’ daughters, gamblers, wives, mothers, and sluts.” Wilson traces Stanwyck’s career, crediting the directorial skills of Frank Capra for first discovering her cinematic talent, as well as William Wellman, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, and Preston Sturges, whose script for 1940’s Remember the Night “released her” into comedy, which “lightens her” because she could “play the nuance.” Wilson describes movie plots in detail and eloquently defines Stanwyck’s acting strengths: “She was able to use her shoals of loss and regret, her feelings of being…the outsider…to create women on the screen whom audiences admired and knew to be true.” (Andre de Toth, who directed Stanwyck in 1947’s The Other Love, called her “the softest diamond in the world.”)

Ava Gardner and Barbara Stanwyck were separated by fifteen years in age, and arrived in Hollywood more than a decade apart. Although both were famous stars, neither ever won a competitive Academy Award. (Gardner was nominated once for Mogambo and Stanwyck four times, for Stella Dallas, Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity, and Sorry, Wrong Number. She received an honorary Oscar in 1982 for her “unique contribution to the art of screen acting.”) Both were at the top during the golden age of the Hollywood studio system, but one difference between them is fundamental: Ava Gardner was a product of the “star machine” and Barbara Stanwyck was not.

Gardner, from a not very well off but stable North Carolina family, arrived in town with a minimum of security and no acting experience, but was fed into a system that might be expected to take care of her if she behaved. Stanwyck, coming from a hardscrabble background in New York, arrived from Broadway with the security of a contract and solid experience, but took up her career independently and never let anyone own her.

Gardner’s security came with a price. Unable to pick and choose, she was assigned pedestrian films she had to carry (The Great Sinner in 1949, My Forbidden Past in 1951). She wasn’t given many opportunities to grow as an actress. The studio didn’t need that from her, and because of her spectacular looks, she presented something of a casting problem. Who would believe Ava Gardner as a nun, or a rocket scientist, or a neglected working girl in a tuna cannery? She was born to grab the spotlight, and having shaped her image as “a magnificent animal” (her billing for The Barefoot Contessa, 1954), Hollywood was content to present her that way.

Gardner became resentful and restless, and began to carouse, have affairs, and create problems. She didn’t care if she caused a scandal, particularly when she took up with the married Frank Sinatra and became the most famous “other woman” of her time. Ironically, it was easy for her studio to fuse this off-screen behavior to her on-screen persona, and the role of “Ava Gardner,” bad-girl-good-time-gal-sex-symbol, became an unbreakable image.

Stanwyck’s independence meant that she could negotiate her films and salaries, but she had to accept that she had no priority in any studio’s plans for casting. She lost significant roles as a result, such as the lead in Dark Victory (1939), which went to Bette Davis. Wilson points out that a studio “would have steadily built her up picture after picture,” as MGM did with Gardner, but Stanwyck didn’t want that: “She found it a constraint.” Stanwyck had to fight to get good films, but she had her own supporters, including her first husband, Frank Fay (an established born-in-a-trunk performer), a shrewd agent, Zeppo Marx (the fifth Marx brother), and particularly director Frank Capra, who saw what she was capable of and who guided her in four of her earliest films. As curator of the Frank Capra Archives, I spent many hours talking to Capra about his career, and Stanwyck was a subject he loved. A great admirer of her talent, discipline, and professionalism, he always stressed that since Stanwyck was never owned by a single studio for any length of time, no specific image was created for her. She had to create her own.

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New Youth Minister Orientation

Each year, the Office for Evangelization hosts an orientation program for all new coordinators of youth ministry who have joined the parish within the last three yeras. This program will offer time for fellowship, prayer, and training to help youth ministers adjust to this new role in the parish.

Training will include ministry related topics as well as logistic information. Topics like relational ministry, Christian formation opportunities, human resources and safe environment, confirmation guidelines, and more will be covered.

There is no cost to attend and overnight lodging will be provided as needed.

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Sunday, July 08, 2012

Higgs Boson... Who Freakin Cares

I just read the most self-serving article from a scientist that has her panties in a wad because we're all not out dancing in the streets, getting drunk and puking in a stranger's car and celebrating the discovery of something nobody can see.

Apparently scientists have indeed discovered the "Higgs Boson", also known as the "God Particle"... right, sure.

In her own words, sorta... if they hadn't found it, then years of scientific work, 50 years of "hard work" and $10 BILLION dollars building the Large Hadron Collider would have been wasted.

Well, isn't that convenient... you found it, can't show it to anyone, we just have to take your word for it, right?

Like we took your word for it in the 70's that we're heading for an ice age.

90's it's Global Warming (or climate chaos)

Dinosaurs are cold blooded... oh wait, now they're saying warm blooded

Some dinosaurs had horns... oh wait, that's a toe, never mind

Bacon is good for you, bad for you, good for you, bad for you, good for you, ... shut up.

Back to the TEN BILLION spent on that collider.  You make it sound like you mowed yards to generate all of that money, then built it yourself.  You didn't.  We all ponied up that money.  We didn't want to.  We'd rather not waste money on smashing atoms together and for all we knew you would botch it, create a huge black hole and destroy the earth... at least you didn't do that, but still, I don't think I could find ONE person that wanted their tax dollars going on that piece of crap.  I think they would much rather, oh... eat, than allow scientists to waste all that money to find something you can't even see, and take your word for it that it's the ULTIMATE discovery of all discoveries and shows us (if we could actually see it) where "we came from".

Of course, the author of this article thinks that the reason we aren't all exciting and whooping with joy is because they didn't explain it all very well... you know... to us stupid people.  They have pop up books and suggests hiring a PR person (um... not on my taxpayer money), and maybe even a video game... because we're just that stupid!

Will Higgs Boson make my car run for free?  Will it feed hungry people?  Stop wars?  Allow us to transport from place to place like on tv?  Can I sit on my butt and watch tv and play video games and still have money to eat tasty foods?

No?  Then shut up and figure out a way to do all of those things first.

Dear scientists:  Nobody cares but you, now stop spending our money on your stupid experiments.  By the way, now that you "found" it, what are you going to do with that big piece of crap collider?  Can we at least turn it into a skateboard park or something useful?  OOOH a demolition derby where we crash cars into each other at supersonic only faster speeds!

Sunday, July 01, 2012

A Sign Of Things To Come?

So, Lobsterman and I have been invited over to This Olde Foreclosed House for a 4th of July cookout.  Please note, the nice couple that moved there are really nice, and the house actually looks like a house.

I'll be making my world famous potato salad (from the Hellmann's recipe), and Lobsterman will be making the grilled vidalia onion with butter and beef bouillon nom nom things.

This meant going to the store.

We had the monster storm of 2012 that knocked out power to over 3 million people in three states or more.

We have power, only lost it for about 5 seconds during the storm... others are still waiting.  Yes, there is a small amount of guilt involved, but hey... it's not like I'm going to shut off my power to be one with those without power.

Did I mention that it's about 2000 degrees out?

My first observation upon going outside is "why did I even bother taking a shower?"  Seriously, I was marinating before I got the front door locked and sprinted to the truck.

We drove to the store, which is located across the street from a mega mall and casino... traffic was crazy insane.

We wanted to get a little something to eat before we went to the store, and had opted for a wedge salad at TGI Fridays, but as we drove by, we saw people going into and out of the new Joe's Crabs... we made a U-turn and parked, walked in... only to find that they weren't open, they were only training.

Seriously?  No big sign that says "OPENING ON 3 JULY", you had to walk inside only to be denied tasty steamed crab by the bucketful.  BASTARDS!!!!

We didn't bother to tell other hopeful people walking up the sidewalk that their dreams of butter dunked crab would be dashed at the door... screw you, walk through the heat and find out like we did.

We dodged through mall traffic and decided to just get something light at Starbucks, then get the cookout ingredients, which we did.

Then the store... OH.... MY.... GAWD!!!!

It was packed with frantic people as if they had just been told a blizzard may or may not hit within the next 3-6 months.  Shelves were bare, people were rude and had that panicked glazed look of self preservation.

Unlike snow storms (milk, bread, and toilet paper), heat waves and power outages create a need for bagels, milk, cases of soda.  There were no bagels to be seen.  Completely empty, I can only imagine

Luckily for us there were plenty of potato salad and grilled onion recipe things, so we grabbed and ran for the checkout... which was crammed full down lanes.  We went to self checkout, which wasn't that bad... but I kept thinking...

I can see people coming to the store to replace items that may have gone bad had they lost power, but as they are still fixing power, there's really no guarantee you won't lose power again while they fix things.  Frankly we expect to lose power at some point during all of the work, it's a ticking time bomb on power.

I can see people having not shopped for 4th of July fixings trying to get it now... except it's just ONE day of cooking out... and why bagels and not hot dog buns?

Were people just full tilt bozo nuts and thinking that they had to go stock up on items that easily spoil in case another storm knocked the rest of the state out of commission?  Were people coming to the store from miles away because there was nothing open where they lived?  Do people really only keep a few day's worth of food in their house?

Are we, as National Geographic calls it: "American Outliers" for having more than a week's worth of food in our house, and the ability to survive on what we had for much longer than that without resorting to a panicked run to the supermarket for bagels, soda, and milk?

I've heard others tell of angry lines at gas stations, getting "free" ice, and other grocery stores, and wonder... this is a weekend and some people are nearly insane with panic over gas and soda... heaven help us all if something really catastrophic happened.

By the way, if any nice business out in the Midwest and West is looking for two hard working outliers... let me know... soon... seriously.


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I started in Internet Marketing almost a decade ago (wow that makes me feel old). I quickly realized that this career path offered me a lot more opportunities than the history degree I was pursuing and ended up dropping out. I started out in-house with smaller companies, moved over to Network Solutions where I was the SEO manager and then formed my own boutique agency Direct Match Media. After 3 years of running that, Derek talked me into joining the team.

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Watching the Cardinals or Blues, BBQing, and generally spending time with my wife.

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Marketing as a whole is kind of like mind-control which seems cool. Internet marketing, specifically SEO, is an ever changing puzzle which really appeals to me. I also like that the web gives anyone and everyone a platform.

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Definitely Mac.

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Past: My Grandpa Cook
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– Really been a big fan of Imagine Dragons lately
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Agri-Culture: Romanian Haystacks

I came up on this post today and rather than attempt to regurgitate its contents, I'm going to go ahead and link it here. The only comment I want to add is that, as a Romanian, I couldn't imagine this country without haystacks peppering the countryside. They are a testament to Romania's rich agricultural traditions. Somehow, whenever I see them I can't help but think that no matter how crazy the world gets, it can't be all that bad as long as we still got people making haystacks.

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Why Is Toronto Such A Poor Tourist Destination?

Last night I came up on a marketing blog post. The author argues, correctly, that Toronto is badly in need of a consistent and powerful marketing message that can put the city on the travel map and attract more tourists. Since moving to Europe I've gotten a better feel for this Toronto-as-a-tourist-attraction conundrum, which is why I think that even if the city had that message out tomorrow, there would be little substance to back it up.

1. History - Toronto is badly lacking in anything of historical significance. Black Creek Pioneer village, the old firehouse on Lombard, and the first post office on Adelaide are pretty much laughable as historical artifacts to any European tourist. They're not particularly special by North American standards either. Unless the tourism board wants to rewrite it, that's about it for history.

2. Culture - A bright spot here as Toronto is coming along in many respects. But it doesn't stand above the citywide cultural events that take pla…

Rosia Montana - An Informed Reply

It's always a pleasure to see a new email message from somebody who's been reading this blog. In this case, the message came in from a reader who first contacted me last year. He moved to Canada quite a while ago and settled in the Northwest Territories. He wanted to respond to the previous post on Rosia Montana, but given the length of the reply, I've asked him to allow me to publish it as its own post. He asked me not to share his name, but outside of that, I'm copying it verbatim.

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Here we go again: Rosia Montana. I got involved in this project about four years ago. I had had phone interviews with radio stations in Bucharest; I published several articles in two or three magazines in Bucharest. I hosted, guided and loaded up with data and portable computer equipment one “Romanian explorer” as the Romanian media called her: Uca Marinescu. Perhaps the name rings a bell. Anyhow she never got back to me; there was no feedback, no follo…

Rosia Montana: The Disparities

I recently found an essay of mine on U.S foreign policy entitled "The Disparities on Vietnam". The 'disparities' referred to events leading up to intervention and the eventual withdrawal from Vietnam as presented by the US State Department on one hand, and the authors of Rise to Globalism on the other. As part of his comments, the professor wrote this at the end:

"There may be only One Truth out there somewhere, but humans being partial, having limited sensory arrays and all that, I suspect that the closest we'll get to sneaking up on said truth consists in comparing versions with a will to cancelling out the nonsense and synthesizing what remains, rather than a Best Version Takes All sort-of basis. But then, you do the cancellation thing, you do it with logic and do it beautifully...If it's a tad grim, so is the reality it depicts."

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Brooklyn judge 'shocked' by 'cowboy culture' of narcotics cops
The New York Daily News by Oren Yaniv - November 1, 2011
Officer Jason Arbeeny planted drugs on innocent people he arrested, judge finds

Police officer Jason Arbeeny at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn where he was found guilty of 8 counts of official misconduct and filing false records by a judge following a bench trial. He faces up to 4 years in prison. A Brooklyn judge declared himself shocked by the "cowboy culture" of narcotics cops Tuesday when he convicted a detective of planting crack on an innocent couple. "Having been a judge for 20 years, I thought I was not naïve regarding the reality of narcotics enforcement," said Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach. "But even the Court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of the misconduct, but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed." He found Detective Jason Arbeeny guilty of eight counts of falsifying records and official misconduct in an explosive bench trial that revealed the police practice of "flaking" - nabbing blameless people to pad arrest quotas and earn overtime. The judge noted that several witnesses said narcotics officers were expected to make 60% of their arrests for felonies and that cops would spread collars around so they could all meet the quotas. The judge even said that paled in comparison to the "mindset in Narcotics that seemingly embraces a cowboy culture where anything goes in the never-ending war on drugs." Arbeeny, one of eight cops to be charged in the scandal, was found guilty of planting a twist of crack under a car seat during a Coney Island bust in January 2007 and for doctoring paperwork to make the arrest stick. He was cleared of 43 other counts, mostly related to two separate incidents that same year. The 14-year veteran faces up to four years in prison when he's sentenced early next year. He left court without comment. "It's a sad day when a police officer abuses his authority to plant drugs," prosecutor Charles Guria said after the verdict. "It's a very disturbing charge." Most troubling, Judge Reichbach said, was the "casualness" of arresting innocents, which emerged at trial. The attitude was made worse by officers' rationalizing that charges would likely be dismissed anyway - "a rationale that is transparently pharisaical," the judge said. Alluding to movies about police corruption, he said some of the testimony painted the Brooklyn South Narcotics squad "as a cross between 'Training Day' and 'Prince of the City.'"

Anonymous said...

It's a good thing anytime a public servant speaks out against the wrongdoings of other public servants. We need more judges like this one.

Anonymous said...

We need a lot more judges to be shocked and then to start going public with what they see

Anonymous said...

Is there justice in NY courts? Just corruption and lies.

Anonymous said...

this is just one dirty cop, how many others are there out there, many are operating on the greed factor

Anonymous said...

Have been subjected to similar acts by the Suffolk County Police Dept.Numerous times various family members.

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After reading some beautifully written stories on this site, I felt like writing my own story. What a trip down memory lane...  It took me back to those days, the fun and the pain.

This is not a Cinderella story, nor is it a “guy meets a girl, they hate each other’s guts then jump each other’s bones” kind of a story.  It’s a story of choices made, some not so simple. But (and here comes a spoiler) like in the Cinderella story, they do live happily ever after.

So here goes. Just another love story.

My husband and I come from a very similar background. So similar, that if it was any more so we would have been siblings...  We both grew up in Haifa, a beautiful city in Israel, in apartment buildings which stood right next to each other. Out fathers, both professors, taught at the same university.  They knew and respected each other. Our mothers, both stay at home moms, met daily at the local grocery store or while walking down the street pushing baby strollers. Our same-aged brothers knew each other well.  You get the picture.

There is a two year age difference between me and my husband, which may explain the fact that we never met in those days.  That, and the fact that each of our families spent a few years in the US.

So here we were, two neighbors who never met. A mutual friend even tried to set us up on a blind date once, but my husband, who just ended a long relationship, wasn’t interested. Little did he know, that what destiny has in store is not that simple to change... And so, as I already told you in my “19 years ago...” blog, we met on the stairs on my first day as a graduate student.

A few days following that meeting, I received a call from the friend who tried to set us up, telling me that there is this guy who is interested in me and would like to know if I’m currently dating anyone.  At the time I was in a relationship, but I already knew he wasn’t the one for me. I went on seeing him just because I enjoyed being part of a couple and there was no one better around.  Pretty selfish, I know.  My friend mentioned the interested guy’s name, but it didn’t ring a bell since I have completely forgotten the stairs incident by now.  I told her I wasn’t available.

The next day, stairs guy came into my office, introduced himself again, and told me he is the interested guy my friend was talking about. For the rest of the day, I was walking around with a goofy grin on my face, knowing what I had to do next.  I broke up with the guy I was dating, waited a respectable grieving period of about a week, and called my friend reporting a change of status.

We started dating in January. For the first few weeks we met almost every night.  Some nights we went out, but most nights we just sat, talked and laughed for hours. It took us two weeks to get physically acquainted (I was on the verge of raping him. Going slowly is fine, but two weeks! Can you imagine the frustration?). We were very compatible in that aspect too happy (I remember calling my best friend the morning after, saying one word. “Bingo!“).  However, after a few intensive weeks, something changed. He started holding back.  I soon learned that the reason for this was that he was accepted to a PhD program in USC, and was moving to California.  Resigned to the fact that our relationship was temporary, we settled into a routine of spending one or two nights a week together.

Then came our last night. I don’t remember anything from the night itself, I just remember saying goodbye at the door as he was leaving.  I smiled at him, wishing him good luck and a safe trip. The minute the door closed behind him I fell to the floor, sobbing my heart out, trying to stifle my sobs so he wouldn’t hear them behind the closed door. You see, at that moment I realized how madly in love I was with him, and how I hoped until the last monent that he will ask me to join him.  I was 27, I was sure I found my soul mate, and now I lost him.

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      Darla5 wrote Nov 7, 2008
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      Run back upstairs and get on that computer and finish the story. Put a movie in for the kids...haha

      still waiting...

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      I LOVE you ladies!!! Thanks for this huge smile I have on my face. (Darla, can you see I’m out of breath?)

      Since we want to keep the happy end, I have some cooking to do, but I promise to continue my story as soon as possible.

      Down the stairs I go.

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      I WANT MORE like RIGHT NOW....I have zero patience

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      Feathermaye wrote Nov 7, 2008
    • First, I love your new pic. Lovely!

      Second, I love this story! I don’t care that you started with a spoiler (like me and most of the gals knowing my son is alive and well!), because the journey is not always about the destination, but in the details along the way.

      I’m glad you found inspiration to share this with us. I’m looking forward to part 2!

      Third, hurry the heck up, would ya? ;)

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      Michelle Rowe wrote Nov 7, 2008
    • I can just imagine you there waiting with baited breath for him to ask you to come with him. Oh, the heartbreak.

      Now get a crackin’ on the next part of your story!

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      Merlot63 wrote Nov 7, 2008
    • Yana,  Heather, Vigirl, amk924,

      LOL... I just came back from dinner at my in-laws to find your comments.  You ladies are so overwhelmingly supportive, I’m so touched!.

      Yana, amk924 - it’s almost midnight here, but I’m going to continue the story a little bit since you asked so nicely...

      Heather - thanks!  I’m still looking for myself in the avatar dept... and thanks for complimenting my story - I learn from the best!

      vigirl - it was heartbreaking, but after all that heartbreak and after working so hard to get him, I appreciate him much more...

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Wow!  It’s been a while since my last update!  I haven’t forgotten you guys!  Promise!  Just been busy with all that back-to-school business with both my college and high school kid.  A routine for living is coming back slowly.

The past week or so I have been submitting to more agencies.  I tell ya, everybody wants something different.  I have it all:  queries, proposal, summary, synopsis....It’s just gonna be a matter of finding the right agent for me and my book.

I still think, gut feeling, that one of our local publishing houses is going to be the lucky winner though.  They are smaller here, but also will have the time to give me the attention I need and will be very accessible for meetings and phone calls.  Working it with local business supports my community as well.  Well, ya can’t win the lotto unless you buy the tickets, so I am querying all over and going to do my dangdest to get this baby agent-repped and published. I even found one agent in my writing field who went to my undergrad college!  (Florida State)  Having something in common like that can go a long way sometimes.

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Someone who has lived with schizophrenia for many years told me recently that mobile phones are the best-ever technology for people living with mental illness.

These days, he can walk down the middle of the street anywhere having a full-pelt argument with his ‘voices,’ and as long as he’s got a mobile phone next to his ear, everyone thinks he’s as normal as the next guy.

Well, life for my schizophrenic friend is getting better all the time; wearable bluetooth headsets have meant more and more people are pacing the streets, ranting into thin air, without a visible phone anywhere near them.

And now, in a great new development – the ORB (Orbital Ring Bluetooth Headset) is about to bring Bluetooth headset technology to the design-conscious masses.

The ORB is, indeed, one ring to rule them all. You wear it as a ring, you know, on your finger – and some ring models include an LED screen displaying caller-ID and calendar reminders.

When you want to make or take a call, you simply take the ring off your finger, give it a cunning twist and – voila! You have a Bluetooth earpiece.

The wonders of ‘bone conducting technology’ mean you put the ring around the outside of your ear, avoiding any gross-out earwax issues.

(Though I do admit to mild concerns about attaching a mini-microwave to my bones because of a little earwax squeamishness.)

Whether you’re genuinely mad, permanently hooked up to your cellphone, or you just think gadgets like these are ‘mad’ (as my teens would say) – this is one nifty little ring that will have loads of appeal for young, old and in-between. (Are you listening, Santa?)

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They call it the Ultimate Handwriting Capture device – I call it a nifty little number that will fit in my smallest handbag and save me a truckload of typing.

The Mobile NoteTaker is basically an electronic pen that wirelessly communicates with a tiny base station about the size of my hand.

The base station works well when clipped to a notebook or clipboard, where it will capture handwritten drawings, sketches, notes, memos and even customized forms.

It has a small LCD panel that displays the notes as you go – and stores about 50 A4 pages in flash memory.

The device hooks up to your computer via USB and images and text are transferred across.

The software that comes with the NoteTaker allows for optical character recognition (OCR) which means that hand-written notes can be transferred into text – with the device hooked up, you can even write directly into Word or Outlook.

Here’s the catch, though – the OCR software is dependant on the quality of the handwriting.

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Cool fieldtrip

One thing I love about homeschooling is the opportunity to go on these cool fieldtrips that are not exactly part of the unit we are working on, but definitely worth the time--like to the engineering department at UMaine. The people there are doing really neat stuff--some of which they won't even let you take pictures of because it is so cool (and top secret!). Anyway, we went with our homeschool group, and the kids were asked to make a structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows that would hold at least 10 little blocks of wood (mine held 14, the champion's held way more than that! The champion (Nick) is 7, by the way!).

Note the hanging safety goggles!

What safety goggles?

Erin built quite the elaborate design that she didn't want to test the weight on because she didn't want it broken. Go figure.

Of course, everyone had to wear a hardhat!

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With over 12 years experience in the lawn care business, we pride ourselves as the best lawn care service in Sebastian. We realize that lawn care companies are not hard to come by and that is why we set our standards above our competitors. In a competitive market, the details are what set Upscale apart from the rest.

Key elements that are important to a superior lawn:

  • Straight vertical edges along sidewalks, driveways, patios, and mulch beds
  • String trimming around entire property and hard to reach mowing areas
  • Precise multi-directional paths of cut to ensure full lush mowing
  • Extensive cleanup of all grass clippings along sidewalks, driveways, and patios
  • Bagging of lawns with excessive growth to avoid clumping of dead grass
  • Regular sharpening of mower blades to ensure even pristine cut
  • Fertilization and weed treatments to enhance turf appearance
  • Seeding of new grass in areas of sparse growth

We service all types of lawns, whether a large commercial property or a small residential, we are here to meet your needs. We will work for you to make your lawn the BEST LOOKING LAWN in the neighborhood!

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Stylish Tummy Tuck Jeans

Style may be a big part of life but life does not always accommodate style. This can be especially true for women who love to keep their look current and fresh but have bodies that reflect a maturity beyond the average teenager. Jeans are a staple of any fashion lover’s diet. With the trend having long since shifted to expand the role of the formally casual look and feel of jeans, you cannot have too many pairs, colors and fits. The problem is most designers and makers are so focused on youth appeal they have forgotten that moms love to look and feel great in jeans, too.

They are also seemingly unaware that caring for the teens who wear their clothing does not leave a lot of time for electric treadmill training and strict dieting. Sometimes shopping for a cool pair of jeans can turn into a miserable experience due to a lack of well fitting, good looking and fun options. The truth is a woman with just a little extra belly is going to have a hard time feeling comfortable in many of today’s most popular styles.

Some designers are aware that you cannot fit additional exercise and dieting into your schedule. As such, there are a lot of products that help women fit into current fashion trends. Unfortunately these are mostly so uncomfortable you would not want to wear them very long. A girdle or elastic band waist controllers may help you fit into your daughter’s jeans but they are too impractical, and sometimes painful, for every day wardrobes.

Women’s tummy tuck jeans are the answer. Made with a special stitching pattern that supports and firms your “softer” areas, they help you look fantastic and feel great wearing them too! Tummy tuck jeans were originated by NYDJ and are now available through a variety of labels and designers. Most can be found at any major retailer. Every cut and style is represented from long legged boot cut to hip huggers. And with the great way your body will be represented in them, you may just find yourself trying out a look you did not think you could previously feel good about wearing.

Confidence in appearance and comfort in wear is what tummy tuck jeans are all about! Whether practical and casual or sexy and daring, you are going to look fashionable and assured in these jeans. And with no complicated straps, bands or panels, you can slip these right into your daily wardrobe. With tummy tuck jeans you no longer have to struggle to fit into a stylish pair of jeans but instead may just find your daughter wanting to borrow them.

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Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Hair and Beauty: New hair...

Just a quick post today - I have new hair!

I was getting tired of the old blonde streak and thought I'd go for something different. The constant roots maintenance was a pain and the damage it was doing to my hair was not great either so I decided to go back to a more brunette shade.

With regards to colour, I didn't have a lot of choice. I needed to go with something reddish to counteract the blonde. I am probably going to go back to the plummby tones of my past in a little while though but for now I have a red tinge.

My new do is partially inspired by 1960s comic icon Gwen Stacy - she had a fringe and sleek sides. But it is also partially inspired by Zooey Deschanel in the movie 500 Days of Summer (a film that deeply influenced some aspects of my life but that is a tale for another time). Now I could have a whole post about her as I think her style is awesome but ill hush on that matter for now.

I am, however, dreading the day when I attempt to curl it. I've not had a fringe in such a long time I'm not sure how to make it work. On the plus side it is much closer to the one-length type pf style you need for doing rolls so maybe it will be easier than I think. We'll see.

Oh yes, and if you like the plaid dress it was from last seasons Monsoon sale, I teamed it with a long sleeved t-shirt from Gap (that I've had over 10 years) to keep me warm and a pair of fleece lined Doc Marten's for walking in the snow.

The only problem Is that now I am going to have to update my blog logo, although it is probably about time to be honest.

Anyone out there changed your look lately?

  1. I love that hair colour. I want to stop permanently dying my hair, and move to a veg-rinse. Unfortunately this change of brand coincides with buying a load of clip in extensions, so I foresee a lot of experimentation to get the colour a decent match (I like to swap between long and short daily, never mind occasionally!).

    1. I have thought about clip in extensions, are they any good?

  2. Awh, it looks lovely! You look abit like Christina Hendricks! Which is never a bad thing. And outfit's awesome too. :)

    Good Morning Angel.

    1. Really?! That is a compliment I can definitely take! Not sure I can see it, but thanks so much.

  3. Very pretty! :)

    The Fictionista

  4. Your new hair looks lovely, especially the fringe! I got my hair cut to almost the same length (possibly on the same day as you - spooooky!)
    Oh, and I totally forgot to give you your Christmas presents, woops - looks like it's going to be a mega-haul for your birthday!

    1. Oh really? What made you decide to go for the chop? And yes, I'll have to give you a mega-haul too. Although there's nothing wring with that!

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