There are very few movies; especially new movie of today, however James Cameron’s AVATAR is one that I would buy another $15 ticket to see again -and I will.

Avatar is set in the future, the year 2154, and retells an age old story of forcing our military will to acquire profitable natural resources. That is until Jake Sully is recruited to gather intelligence among the indigenous and becomes one of them. He and the Pandora people fight back.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little ’stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples.
Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and … ta da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a mesh material .. I’m sure you know what your dryer’s lint filter looks like. Well … the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn’t go through it at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that’s what burns out the heating unit.
You can’t SEE the film, but it’s there. It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free … that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel waxy when you take them out of the box . well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at l east e very six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I’d share!

Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds Then when I rinsed it … the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn’t any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about!

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE’S HOME,
BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE.

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Compliments of oddchick.com

Only one step from Santiago San Alfonso is located at only 90 kilometers apart from Santiago in Algarrobo’s northern sector, the closer beach spot to the eastern sector of the capital city. Arriving to this “private world” is faster and safer than ever, since the access routes have been substantially enhanced.

It happens to some of us, especially humans.

One day I met a sweet gentleman and fell in love. When it became apparent
that we would marry, I made the supreme sacrifice and gave up beans.

Some months later, on my birthday, my car broke down on the way home from
work. Since I lived in the countryside I called my husband and told him
that I would be late because I had to walk home. On my way, I passed by a
small diner and the odor of baked beans was more than I could stand. With
miles to walk, I figured that I would walk off any ill effects by the time
I reached home, so I stopped at the diner and before I knew it, I had
consumed three large orders of baked beans. All the way home, I made sure
that I released ALL the gas.

Upon my arrival, my husband seemed excited to see me and exclaimed
delightedly: “Darling I have a surprise for dinner tonight!”

He then blindfolded me and led me to my chair at the dinner table. I took
a seat and just as he was about to remove my blindfold, the telephone
rang. He made me promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned and
went to answer the call.

The baked beans I had consumed were still affecting me and the pressure
was becoming most unbearable, so while my husband was out of the room I
seized the opportunity, shifted my weight to one leg and let one go. It
was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a
skunk in front of a pulpwood mill. I took my napkin from my lap and fanned
the air around me vigorously.

Then, shifting to the other cheek, I ripped off three more. The stink was
worse than cooked cabbage!!!

Keeping my ears carefully tuned to the conversation in the other room, I
went on like this for another few minutes.
The pleasure was indescribable. When eventually the telephone farewells
signaled the end of my freedom, I quickly fanned the air a few more times
with my napkin, placed it on my lap and folded my hands back on it feeling
very relieved and pleased with myself.

My face must have been the picture of innocence when my husband returned,
apologizing for taking so long. He asked me if I had peeked through the
blindfold, and I assured him I had not.

At this point, he removed the blindfold, and twelve dinner guests seated
around the table chorused: “Happy Birthday!”

I fainted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is late on a Friday night and I am up beyond midnight. “That’s not so uncommon.” You say. Well, when most younger folks are out on the town enjoying the nightlife, or the family is out to the movies I sit here tapping out mindless sleep-deprived musings to cyberspace.

I classify this condition as Computer Compulsive Disorder that slowly begins to take over our lives as we spend more and more time in front of the computer screen.

There are millions of blogs out there that recount life’s day-to-day events -this is not one of those- but there are others out there that offer valuable insights to an immeasurable amount of information, those I like. In either case they must take an enormous amount of time to do and now that I have one of my own I’m left with a quandary….where do I find the time to add “blogging” to my day? Right-Now I guess…

The date stamp obviously states the time I started this purge, however like all other creatures, sleep is required for good health and I seem to be getting less and less of that these days. due to commitments to the computer-yes the “PC”. It seems to me that the personal computer has become a serious threat to good health similar to that of nicotine and caffeine and possibly as bad opium & worse – it can become an addiction.

My faithful feline Sanorra has been expanding her territory that was once a small spot on the la-z-boy. My territory has shrunk to a small tract of land between the chair in front of the PC and the bathroom. Like the regal creature she is -ruling over the human class as if it was destined that way- she is now perched upon a pillow on the sofa looking down over her expanding feline kingdom, gloating after an defenseless takeover from an absent King.

Beware late-night bloggers! If you seem to spend more of your waking hours typing into cyberspace you may have a case of CCD and a good chance of loosing more than sleep; you’re likely to find less living space.

I am unaccustomed to the furor that surrounds the blogging community. Therefore, it took a day or so to wade through mixed messages of misinformation, defamation and the like. Whether it is rants & raves, or positive sentiments, I am reminded,

“Concern that each human being should enjoy the freedom of thought and action conducive to his or her personal growth does not justify devotion to the cult of individualism that so deeply corrupts many areas of contemporary life.”*

Early this morning I woke to an e-mail that was the genesis for this web log. This is a first of an envisioned sporadic number of posts regarding the remnants of an old world order and the glimmerings of hope for the one to be rolled in its stead. As I was saying, this all started this morning…

I awoke to a note in my in box from a friend of many years who had ventured away from her coastal City to the flatlands of the West. It was by her example I followed the path to “blogdom” as today’s post is being written. She had, just yesterday, signed up to this online journal experience and as I read, I began to acquire a taste for writing my own slant on the world. Thus far, it feels a tad bit liberating, yet a seemingly waste of time. After all who would be interested in my drabble.

It began very much like any letter from a friend to a friend, the only difference being the potential to be read by the masses. As I followed her words down the page her wit and dead-honest point of view began shining through…she hasn’t any inhibitions when it comes to something she believes. I guess some things stay with us for as long as we live.

It was nice to hear her experience of the transition from East Coast to Western Culture and how the Maritimes are everywhere. She tells me, “It is a saying out here that Alberta is friendly because half the Albertans are Maritimers“. Many a Bluenoser has made the journey to find a new career and the possibility of expanding their personal prosperity. If mature student status doesn’t work out I may head out myself…one never knows.

There is something about a maritime community; it balances hustle with moderation with a long look of calm recognition to the world beyond its borders. I have been to many towns and cities; big and small; however, the East Coast has the enviable quality of taking the good and the bad on an equal footing not letting either get the best of it. It combines the thriving competition of the downtown core with the neighbourly camaraderie of the one street hometown. If I weren’t from here I’d want to be.

The Global Village and the internet’s ever-expanding sprawl of worldwide computer networks is only the beginning of a unified system of communication that is delivering the world to the our homes, our families and our minds.

If getting your feet wet in the ocean of web logs and info sharing will open your eyes to the world and “let your vision be world-embracing“, then I’m all for it. Blog On!