☆ January 29, 2013 ☆

Well THAT didn't work as planned. I went to bed early & after not being able to sleep the night before last, thought it should be no problem this time. Nope, couldn't sleep again. I was up until all hours of the night playing solitaire because it's quiet & won't wake anyone else up. No lights, no noise. When my alarm went off Pete was still asleep so for the same reason, I stayed in bed. Didn't want to wake him up before he was ready. Then he gets up & didn't wake ME up, so I overslept by over an hour. Guess what? Now I'm not getting much done today AND I'm not going to be able to go to sleep on time again tonight. It's in the 70s already, but it's also raining. My 100-pk of wooden dowels came in the mail yesterday which means that I now have everything I need to start beading. Yay! I had Rice Krispies for breakfast & then picked Josh up from work. I did my eBay thing & the next time someone begs me to re-list something because they missed the auction, it's not gonna happen. Someone begged me to re-list something & I kept trying to tell them that if I do, the re-listing will cost me money & I'll either lose money on the whole thing or I'll have to raise the price to cover the re-listing fees. They wanted it SO bad that they said they'd pay the raised price. Well the auction ended yesterday & I lost money on this damn item TWICE. They never bid on it. What a waste of my time & money. If you miss the auction the 1st time around, don't expect to EVER see me list it again. I won't. Period! Pay attention next time. When I finished with eBay I checked facebook, crawled into my massage chair for some 5 Card Slingo, & then worked on my latch hook rug until Pete got home. Then it was leftovers for dinner & time for the Dallas 2-hour season premier! Regular nighttime routine after that & here I am. LCFD get-together at Sean's tonight @ 7. Bring your umbrella. :)

Cigarettes are bad for you, right? I only smoke 1 or 2 cigarettes a year. After Sex

-Johnny Carson 1976

Deng Xiaoping & Jimmy Carter sign accords (1979):

On January 29, 1979, Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, meets President Jimmy Carter, and together they sign historic new accords that reverse decades of U.S. opposition to the People's Republic of China.

Deng Xiaoping lived out a full and complete transformation of China. The son of a landowner, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1920 and participated in Mao Zedong's Long March in 1934. In 1945, he was appointed to the Party Central Committee and, with the 1949 victory of the communists in the Chinese Civil War, became the regional party leader of southwestern China. Called to Beijing as deputy premier in 1952, he rose rapidly, became general secretary of the CCP in 1954, and a member of the ruling Political Bureau in 1955.

A major policy maker, he advocated individualism and material incentives in China's attempt to modernize its economy, which often brought him into conflict with Mao and his orthodox communist beliefs. With the launch of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Deng was attacked as a capitalist and removed from high party and government posts. He disappeared from public view and worked in a tractor factory, but in 1973 was reinstated by Premier Zhou Enlai, who again made him deputy premier. When Zhou fell ill in 1975, Deng became the effective leader of China.

In January 1976, Zhou died, and in the subsequent power struggle Deng was purged by the "Gang of Four"--strict Maoists who had come to power in the Cultural Revolution. In September, however, Mao Zedong died, and Deng was rehabilitated after the Gang of Four fell from power. He resumed his post as deputy premier, often overshadowing Premier Hua Guofeng.

Deng sought to open China to foreign investment and create closer ties with the West. In January 1979, he signed accords with President Jimmy Carter, and later that year the United States granted full diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China.

In 1981, Deng strengthened his position by replacing Hua Guofeng with his protege, Hu Yaobang, and together the men instituted widespread economic reforms in China. The reforms were based on capitalist models, such as the decentralization of various industries, material incentives as the reward for economic success, and the creation of a skilled and well-educated financial elite. As chief adviser to a series of successors, he continued to be the main policy maker in China during the 1980s.

Under Deng, China's economy rapidly grew, and citizens enjoyed expanded personal, economic, and cultural freedoms. Political freedoms were still greatly restricted, however, and China continued as an authoritative one-party state. In 1989, Deng hesitantly supported the government crackdown on the democratic demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Later that year, he resigned his last party post but continued to be an influential adviser to the Chinese government until his death in 1997.

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Grab the bag. 5-lb bags of onions, potatoes, & oranges are often ½ the price of the same items sold loose.

Mythical animals in the world top 10:

1. Phoenix
2. Centaur
3. Mermaid
4. Leviation
5. Dragon
6. Pegasus
7. Siren
8. Hydra
9. Sphinx
10. Unicorn

Our ancient ancestors didn't have cars so they customized their animals!

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Prize for the very 1st Miss America contest, held in 1921 in Atlantic City, was a 3' trophy shaped like a Golden Mermaid.

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