That's not a smile. That's me, gritting my teeth....

This is what happened to my moment of Zen: I juiced up three organic apples and part of a beet. It was going to be awesome.

Note the hole in the side of the glass I am holding. Stirred a little too hard with my clunky tablespoon and busted out the side of the glass -- red juice spurting everywhere. You can't see what's all over the floor and the cupboards all around me.

Steve is cracking up and runs downstairs after he hears all the commotion to…help me? Naw. To take a picture. He was laughing so hard. It took me a few days to laugh at this because not only did I not get to taste this awesome juice mixture, I broke one of four cool hurricane glasses from the French Quarter, and more important, forever stained my FAVORITE T-shirt. I love love love this shirt. On the back it reads, "You can check out, but you can never leave." Steve hates that shirt. He calls it my trailer-trash shirt. I'm wearing it any way.

Prolly not in public. I don't love it THAT much.

Check out my Food News link under Cool Beans

In amongst all the valuable information on pesticide contamination for us humans, I found this:

"Dogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 industrial chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at levels higher than those typically found in people, according to our study of plastics and food packaging chemicals, heavy metals, fire retardants, and stain-proofing chemicals in pooled samples of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary clinic."

There is extensive information on this comprehensive site. People need to react to a world that has changed due to the chemicals we've alowed into it since WWII, and since the uprising of our industrialized communities since 1950.

The most annoying thing to me is that most of the people I pass along a small bit of information about understanding how our selection of foods needs to be more careful, don't care, and don't want to know. Their eyes glaze over. When you briefly mention how some of our diet today effects our children, it makes no difference to them. I hear comments like, "Oh, well, you're gonna die of something." They actually get angry.

This is even more frustrating to me because I have no patience for people who resist change simply due to the fact that it is change. I'm a quick-silver, fluid person who has always embraced change, and expected it for that matter. I think, generally speaking, not having an open mind is a bull-headed, ignorant way to live.

Have ever noticed this in movies?

1. You will never see an actor using a mouse while on a computer. Everything is done by the keyboard.

2. Parking lots and sidewalks are always, always wet.

3. Whenever the actor calls someone on the phone the person being called is usually always there to anwer the call, and does it on the first ring.

4. No one every says, "Goodbye" when they hang up on a call. It's just "click," end of conversation.

5. CSI-type shows/movies use flashlights excessively.

6. There's never any trouble finding a parking spot especially if it's right in front of the main entrance to the building.

7. Do any of the charactors ever live in a realistic, middle class home?

8. Does anybody hold down a job in some of these movies?

9. [I'll add more as I think of them...]

Came across this qualifier while searching for filtered water bottles.

"PLEASE NOTE: If you live in the state of Iowa, we are unable to sell you any water purification system due to Iowa Department of Public Health Restrictions. We apologize for any inconvenience."

EXACTLY!

I found it! I found it! [Refer to post on 7-18]

Here's that quote I liked, and thought I had lost, from one of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series books. There's so many of these dang WOT books that I NEVER would have found it. So....here....it is!!!

"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your face."

That's just cool beans to me. :>

Dance

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Steven Wright:

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' "

Portal - The Orange Box

Check this out. Does this not look crazy?

Vent

Okay. It's called a turn signal or an indicator. Why? It's meant to indicate that you are about to turn. You indicate this before you make the turn. Once you are in the turn lane, why bother? Once you are right at the corner of the curb, a half second before you are going to turn, why bother? The idea of the turn signal or indicator is to alert the traffic around you of your intention before you are about to turn, not when you are in the turn. If a rode a motorcycle that way I'd get run over.

Oh, and for those who are really brain dead; no, you do not stop in the middle of the road - for any reason. [Except for wandering puppies.]

Idiots.