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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Dream Big
Wouldn’t it be amazing to own your very own private island anywhere in the world? For many this may be wishful thinking but there’s no harm in taking a look at this website and imagining the possibilities. There are hundreds of beautiful islands that differ drastically in price. Check some out by clicking on the link below.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/
Monday, April 30, 2012
Spring Time, Sangria Time
Yield: 1 Punch Bowl
Ingredients:
- 1 bottle dry white wine
- 1/3 cup Apple Vodka
- 1/3 cup orange liqueur
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1 cup fresh apple slices
- 1 cups fresh pear slices
- 1 cup fresh star fruit slices
- 1/2 cup lemon slices
- 2 Table spoons superfine sugar
Preparation:
- Combine Apple Vodka, orange liqueur, white wine and pineapple juice in a large pitcher.
- Mix in sugar thoroughly until dissolved.
- Add in all fresh fruit.
- Store in refrigerator until ready to pour.
- Serve over ice.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Zodiac Signs
CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUR ZODIAC SIGN: Do they match your personality?
AQUARIUS Jan 20- Feb 19
POSITIVES:
Friendly and humanitarian
Honest and loyal
Original and inventive
Independent and intellectual
Intractable and contrary
Perverse and unpredictable
Unemotional and detached
PISCES: Feb 19- March 20
POSITIVES:
Imaginative and sensitive
Compassionate and kind
Selfless and unworldly
Intuitive and sympathetic
Escapist and idealistic
Secretive and vague
Weak-willed and easily led
ARIES: March 21 - April 20
POSITIVES:
Adventurous and energetic
Pioneering and courageous
Enthusiastic and confident
Dynamic and quick-witted
Selfish and quick-tempered
Impulsive and impatient
Foolhardy and daredevil
TAURUS: April 21 - May 20
POSITIVES:
Patient and reliable
Warmhearted and loving
Persistent and determined
Placid and security loving
Jealous and possessive
Resentful and inflexible
Self-indulgent and greedy
GEMINI: May 21 - June 20
POSITIVES:
Adaptable and versatile
Communicative and witty
Intellectual and eloquent
Youthful and lively
Nervous and tense
Superficial and inconsistent
Cunning and inquisitive
CANCER: June 21 - July 21
POSITIVES:
Emotional and loving
Intuitive and imaginative
Shrewd and cautious
Protective and sympathetic
Changeable and moody
Overemotional and touchy
Clinging and unable to let go
LEO: July 22 - August 22
POSITIVES:
Generous and warmhearted
Creative and enthusiastic
Broad-minded and expansive
Faithful and loving
Pompous and patronizing
Bossy and interfering
Dogmatic and intolerant
VIRGO: August 23- September 22
POSITIVES:
Modest and shy
Meticulous and reliable
Practical and diligent
Intelligent and analytical
Fussy and a worrier
Overcritical and harsh
Perfectionist and conservative LIBRA : September 23- October 23
POSITIVE:
Diplomatic and urbane
Romantic and charming
Easygoing and sociable
Idealistic and peaceable NEGATIVE:
Indecisive and changeable
Gullible and easily influenced
Flirtatious and self-indulgent.
SCORPIO: October 23 -November 21
POSITIVES:
Determined and forceful
Emotional and intuitive
Powerful and passionate
Exciting and magnetic
Jealous and resentful
Compulsive and obsessive
Secretive and obstinate
SAGITTARIUS: November 22 -December 21
POSITIVES:
Optimistic and freedom-loving
Jovial and good-humored
Honest and straightforward
Intellectual and philosophical
Blindly optimistic and careless
Irresponsible and superficial
Tactless and restless
CAPRICORN: December 22 -January 19
POSITIVES:
Practical and prudent
Ambitious and disciplined
Patient and careful
Humorous and reserved
Pessimistic and fatalistic
Miserly and grudging
Over conventional and rigid
Monday, April 9, 2012
How to Decorate Easter Eggs
Happy Easter!
Here is a short video with beautiful and unique ideas to decorate your eggs and make a beautiful piece of art. These eggs will make a perfect edible centerpiece for your turkey dinner with friends and family.
Enjoy and have fun!
Friday, April 6, 2012
7 Simple Steps to a Healthy Lifestyle
1. Eat a balanced nutritious diet - Variety is the key to a healthy diet. Including lots of different whole grains, fruits and vegetables in your meals and snacks will go a long way toward better health. If you're a meat and potatoes lover, make sure you choose leaner cuts of meat or even fish or chicken. Cook with less oil and add smaller amounts of butter or margarine as you prepare your meals. Lastly, cut back on sugary foods that make no real nutritional contribution to your diet.
2. Exercise regularly - You don't have to go for an all-out training program to begin to get more exercise. Just get moving. Examine your day and walk whenever you can. Take to the stairs. Add a brisk walk at lunch or after work. Get the bike out, dust it off and go have some fun. If a regimented program is more to your liking, go for it.
3. Get plenty of rest - It is generally recommended that at least seven and a half hours of sound sleep are needed each night. In the 2003 paper, "Proposal for a National Australia Sleep Health Agenda," The Boston Consulting Group notes, "Almost 90 per cent of Australians suffer from a sleep disorder at some time or times in their lives, with 30 per cent suffering a severe sleep disorder." Some factors that may affect healthy sleep habits are irregular bedtimes, lack of daily exercise and eating or drinking just before going to bed.
4. Eliminate unhealthy habits - Smoking, excess alcohol and recreational drug use—all have significant negative impacts on your health and well-being. Getting rid of these unhealthy lifestyle choices will be a big step in your quest for a healthier you.
5. Take time for yourself - Outside of your new exercise regime and taking better care of yourself through a healthy diet and getting more sleep, you have to set aside time just for yourself. This doesn’t mean for you and the kids or for you and your husband, this is strictly alone time. This will help relieve stress and take care of your emotional well-being. Just relax and watch a movie, keep a journal, draw or paint. Anything you can think of that you will enjoy and is relaxing, means you’ve got the right idea. Even small changes to diet, exercise and sleep habits and the elimination of unhealthy bad habits can return big benefits to your health, how you feel when you wake up each morning to face the world, and when you go to fill out your life insurance application.
6. Don't Yo-yo diet! - Do not yo-yo diet. Yo-yo dieting is bad for you and even if they sound healthy, once you stop that diet you can pile on the weight in just a couple of days! Stay away from slimfast, soup diets and diets which you have to eat or drink contents from a packet.
7. Drink Water!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
What Makes a Good Neighbour?
You may have to live next to them for quite a while, so why not build a friendship with your neighbors? Here are 10 simple things you can do to be a good neighbor:
1. Care for their property. This makes the neighborhood a pleasant place to come home to, while helping maintain or improve property values. The house next door does not have to be a palace, but it sure is nice when it’s reasonably neat and clean. Good neighbors don’t allow their yard to grow into an eyesore or safety hazard, with junk lying about or garbage that attracts rats.
2. Are Friendly. They smile and wave when they see you. They welcome new neighbors, maybe with a plate of cookies or a recommendation on a good place to grocery shop. They offer kids candy on Halloween. Maybe they host a block party.
3. Respect the privacy of others and don’t trespass. They extend friendship, while recognizing that some may accept it, and some may not. The fact is that some folks like to keep to themselves, and that is their right. Unless there is mutual agreement, they don’t go over on their neighbor’s property without an invitation. They don’t engage in “light trespass” either, by leaving a bright light on all night outside your bedroom window.
4. Are Helpful. If someone has a new baby or a death in the family, or a vehicle is stuck in the mud, they lend a helping hand. They are also willing to lend a cup of sugar or a tool you need for a special project. (Of course it’s also important for the recipient to promptly return all loaned items in good repair.)
5. Watch out for each other. They are aware, without spying. If they notice suspicious activity or something amiss, they call or check it out.
6. Keep the peace. Noise can be incredibly irritating. Common complaints include loud music, blaring TVs, revving up a chainsaw or motorcycle early on a Sunday morning, driving an ATV in circles for hours on end, and dogs that bark incessantly.
7. Give you a heads up if they are going to make an unavoidable racket (e.g. during construction), and try to limit the impact. If they are planning to make a change that could affect you (like planting trees that could obscure your view) they talk with you about it first, offering the possibility of agreeing to a compromise.
8. Don’t drive too fast, endangering the lives of children and pets.
9. Manage themselves, and their own children and pets. They don’t engage in wild parties that extend into the wee hours, or screaming fights. Their children are well behaved. Their animals stay in their own yard.
10. Volunteer when they can. This can range from periodically picking up litter to getting involved in local organizations that help improve the quality of life in the community.
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