Good morning & happy Monday! I hope everyone is doing well today & I hope we all have a great week! :) My Avon Lady left me new catalogs Saturday afternoon so I looked through them & found a nice pair of summer espadrilles & restocked on my foot lotion. The FD got toned out to a mutual aid structure fire but I was still way too ill to participate. I still have the cold now, but it's better than it was. I had a Carnation Instant Breakfast & then went to work on the housecleaning. I ended up rearranging all the books in my bookshelves & am happy with how it all turned out. I finally finished rearranging my office after 4 days. The FD got toned out to a 2nd mutual aid structure fire while Pete & I were out at Sicily's. He was stir crazy & hungry & took me out to dinner. We stopped at Home Depot & picked up lumber for another bookcase he built for his office yesterday. We stopped at RaceTrac on the way home & filled the tank & when we got home I went to work on eBay until it was time for our nighttime routine. He got distracted which I expected he would, so I spent a little time on facebook getting caught up with family, friends, & other stuff. Yesterday morning I took the dogs out, went through the Sunday paper & put the Dollar Tree ad next to the front door & hope to stop there the next time I go out. I made biscuits & gravy for all of us for breakfast & then it was housecleaning time. I dusted the bathroom accents & bedroom wall decor, straightened the dining chairs (come on people, push the chair back in when you leave the table!), processed another book from my inbox (my new Inkle Loom pattern book), changed the afghan on the sofa, mopped the hallway, neatened the drawer in my desk that has all my home plans which prompted me to complete the master bath of Breckenridge, fed the pets, & swept my office. I went to work on eBay & then checked facebook & took my game turns (it had been 4 days), talked with Andrew & Erin on the phone & was happy to hear that everyone was OK. The wildfire was directly between Andrew & Eve & both are safe. The fire was out when he called me. Of course I had to send him a facebook message & IM before he texted me to let me know they were all OK. After a couple text messages he called from Friendy's. After we hung up I FINALLY got to work on my latch hook rug for a little bit (had been a couple months), then Pete was stir crazy & hungry so we went out to iHop for dinner, came home, did our nighttime routine & went to bed. This morning I got up much earlier than I had planned & am very tired, but it was worth it. I ended up resetting my Sim-Self game one last (I hope) time this morning. The previous experiments failed but I think I have a working plan for them now. The game parallels my real life as closely as a Sims game can. Pete, myself, & the pets are all duplicated very closely. My dream home has had a couple modifications ... the latest ones being I added a fireplace to my office (I can't believe I forgot a fireplace!) & deleted some items that weren't useful such as musical instruments. My Sims reached their lifetime wishes at the start of the game which was pre-planned as they needed to turn in their lifetime wish points as soon as possible for some useful things. I'm trying to keep the game as realistic as possible, so I skipped many of the higher end things you can get such as a teleportation pad (not very realistic since we don't have one in real life). Because of the fireplace I had Pete's Sim-Self turn in his points for the "Fireproof Homestead" which will keep the fireplace or other items from setting the house on fire. Hard to have a realistic mirror game when your Sim house burns down on you (the fireplaces tend to have that problem in the game). My Sim-self turned in her points for the Writer's boost. Since our Sims make their retirement living off of things they can do from home to generate income, it was useful for my Sim-self to have the increased income from writing books since that's one of the things she does to make money. With the new game in place this morning, I took them through Sunday so it would be Monday in the game as it is here in real life. My Sim-self started today with working out on the treadmill for a while (something I'd be doing on Monday mornings if I HAD a treadmill ... I love walking outside but am always afraid of getting chased by dogs since it already happened once & I got bit). On Wednesday I'll probably try it again though since it'll officially be spring again (my 2nd favorite day of the year!) & the weather will be perfect for it again. Walking is great exercise & I could use it. Then my Sim-self & I will be truly mirrored on that activity. In fact I'll go ahead & add it to my schedule now for Wednesday mornings (even though my Sim-self does it on Monday mornings). Close enough. After the treadmill my Sim-self cleaned the house. Back in real life, I have my 1st Meetup.com meetup with the In Stitches group. We're going to go on a yarn shopping trip at the Fiber Circle in Farmersville at 1. There's a brunch before the shopping trip at 11:45a & we'll see if I'm awake early enough to join them for that one too. I hope so! I'm REALLY going to try to not spend every dime I have on yarn, but if I know me ... especially since this is a YARN STORE & not WalMart or Michael's. That means instead of buying the plain acrylic Red Heart, I'm going to be in a place that only sells exotic & expensive mohair, wool, etc. No afghan yarn here ... but my next hand knit sweater will be amazing! I made a list of the 12 crafts I do & what types of yarn I use for each one & what I make so I'll know how much yarn I need when I choose it & what I'm going to use it for. At least I'll be armed with that list when I get there. :) What do I "need"? Nothing. I HAVE yarn. I have LOTS of yarn. I used to have a yarn store & when the store closed I kept all the yarn. I'm stocked! But you can never have too much yarn & I'm SURE there's something at that store that I DON'T have. :) On a personal note ... Phone calls: I've said it repeatedly for YEARS. I don't have time & there's too much background noise. Please use another form of communication such as e-mail, IM, or text. I only take phone calls from cash customers, family, & very close friends. Everyone else, PLEASE don't call. It's NOT an insult to you personally if I don't answer, but unfortunately that's how most people end up taking it. Even though I don't work outside the home like a "normal" person, I DO work non-stop IN the home. I have a family to care for, pets to care for, a home to keep clean & repaired, my eBay business, my husband's & my computer consulting business, etc. What little spare time I do have I spend destressing by working on a craft that produces something useful such as clothing or other needed items, so even though it's a de-stressing craft, it's still a productive time. facebook & the facebook games are considered non-productive & just screwing around, but if you think about it ... that's where I keep in touch with family & friends that don't live in my home. If it weren't for facebook & the facebook games, I'd have NO interaction with family & friends (that would be very bad). The ONLY thing I do that produces nothing useful whatsoever except enjoyment is playing Sims ... which I don't do very often. My Sim-self Dream Home game is only 15 minutes per day & actual long-term game play is rare. I don't need to explain myself or justify my life to anyone, yet I do because I care. I don't want people who call me thinking I don't like them because I don't answer. I also don't want people thinking that just because I don't drive to work & back every day & punch a time clock that I do nothing but watch daytime talk shows & eat bonbons. I don't want people disliking me because they don't understand me or my life. If you understand my life & me & STILL dislike me, then that's honest & I can live with that.
On this day in 2008, the Oscar-winning director
Anthony Minghella dies at the age of 54 in a London hospital, one week
after undergoing surgery to treat tonsil cancer.
Minghella grew
up on the Isle of Wight, off the English coast; his parents were Italian
immigrants who ran an ice cream factory. He wrote and directed his
first film, Truly, Madly, Deeply, for television; it was released
cinematically in 1990. The story of a woman (Juliet Stevenson) who
wills her dead lover (Alan Rickman) to return to her as a ghost, the
film earned Minghella worldwide attention. On the basis of its success,
he signed on to direct his first Hollywood feature, the romantic comedy Mr. Wonderful
(1993), starring Annabella Sciorra and Matt Dillon. It was the only
directorial effort of Minghella’s career for which he did not write or
co-write the screenplay.
After critics panned Mr. Wonderful, Minghella took 18 months to write the screenplay for his next film, an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s acclaimed novel The English Patient. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas, the sweeping World War II-era
romantic drama won nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best
Director for Minghella, who was also nominated for his screenplay.
Suddenly among Hollywood’s elite directors, Minghella worked with
another talented cast of actors (including Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth
Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman) on The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999),
based on Patricia Highsmith’s chilling mystery novel. The film was
extremely well-received, and Minghella scored another Oscar nomination
for Best Adapted Screenplay.
His next feature, Cold Mountain (2003),
received mixed reviews despite Oscar-nominated performances by Jude Law
and Renee Zellweger (who won for Best Supporting Actress). Cold Mountain’s
$83 million budget was far more than that of any of Minghella’s
previous movies. Celebrated for their extraordinary beauty and cinematic
scope, Minghella’s films earned him increasing leverage in Hollywood,
yet he continued to struggle with studio brass that got cold feet during
his ambitious projects. As he told the Times of London in one of his last interviews, Miramax Films stepped in on all three of his biggest films--The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain--after other studios--20th Century Fox, Paramount and MGM, respectively--backed out. “Without [Miramax],” Minghella told the Times, “I would have no career.”
Miramax also co-produced Minghella’s next film, Breaking and Entering (2006), for which he wrote his first original screenplay since Truly, Madly, Deeply.
Starring Jude Law and Robin Wright Penn, the haunting film received
mostly positive reviews but faltered at the box office. Also in 2006,
Minghella helmed a production of the opera Madama Butterfly. The
Metropolitan Opera later commissioned him to direct and write the
libretto for a new work by the composer Osvaldo Golijov, which had been
scheduled for the 2011-12 season.
Early in 2008, Minghella’s
production company, Mirage (which he formed with fellow director Sydney
Pollack, who also passed away in 2008), signed a three-year first-look
deal with the Weinstein Company. At the time of his death, Minghella had
recently completed work on The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, an adaptation of an Alexander McCall Smith novel that was broadcast on HBO and the BBC.
Cheap ways to relax top 10:
- Laugh
- Exercise
- Inhale
- Think happy thoughts
- Dance
- Munch of a favorite food
- Take a warm bath
- Nap
- Read a book
- Take a walk
On this day in 2011, 26-year-old Raymond Clark III, a former animal research assistant at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,
pleads guilty to the murder and attempted sexual assault of 24-year-old
Yale graduate student Annie Le. On September 13, 2009, Le’s partially
decomposed body was found stuffed behind a wall in the university
research building where she was last seen five days earlier.
Le, a doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, California, was found dead on the day she was scheduled to be married, prompting initial speculation after her September 8, 2009, disappearance that could be a runaway bride. However, that theory soon appeared to be largely ruled out by investigators. Surveillance video showed Le entering the Yale lab building, which was accessible only by electronic keycard, but never leaving it. Her money, cell phone and ID were found in her office, located in a separate building.
Le’s disappearance set off a massive investigation that included more than 100 officers from university, state and local police and the FBI. The case also garnered national media attention. A break came on September 12, when investigators found bloody clothing above ceiling tiles in the lab building. The following day, Le’s body was discovered behind a wall in the building’s basement. It was determined the 4-foot-11-inch, 90-pound Le had been strangled.
Middletown, Connecticut, resident Raymond Clark, who cared for the animals in the lab where Le worked, soon sparked the suspicions of police after he was observed scrubbing the seemingly clean floor in the room where Le was last seen. On September 17, police arrested Clark, after finding DNA and other evidence they said linked him to the crime. Among the evidence was a bloody sock with both Clark’s and Le’s DNA on it, as well as a pen found under Le’s body with Clark’s DNA. Additionally, investigators discovered scratches on Clark’s body (which he claimed were from a cat), and found keycard records placing him and Le in the same room in the lab building on the day she was reported missing.
In January 2010, Clark pleaded not guilty to murder. However, on March 17 of the following year, after negotiations between the prosecutor in the case and Clark’s lawyers, the former lab technician pleaded guilty to charges of murder and attempt to commit sexual assault, in order to avoid a trial. He did not specify a motive, and the reason for his actions remains unclear. On June 3, 2011, Clark was sentenced to 44 years in prison without the possibility of early release.
Le, a doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, California, was found dead on the day she was scheduled to be married, prompting initial speculation after her September 8, 2009, disappearance that could be a runaway bride. However, that theory soon appeared to be largely ruled out by investigators. Surveillance video showed Le entering the Yale lab building, which was accessible only by electronic keycard, but never leaving it. Her money, cell phone and ID were found in her office, located in a separate building.
Le’s disappearance set off a massive investigation that included more than 100 officers from university, state and local police and the FBI. The case also garnered national media attention. A break came on September 12, when investigators found bloody clothing above ceiling tiles in the lab building. The following day, Le’s body was discovered behind a wall in the building’s basement. It was determined the 4-foot-11-inch, 90-pound Le had been strangled.
Middletown, Connecticut, resident Raymond Clark, who cared for the animals in the lab where Le worked, soon sparked the suspicions of police after he was observed scrubbing the seemingly clean floor in the room where Le was last seen. On September 17, police arrested Clark, after finding DNA and other evidence they said linked him to the crime. Among the evidence was a bloody sock with both Clark’s and Le’s DNA on it, as well as a pen found under Le’s body with Clark’s DNA. Additionally, investigators discovered scratches on Clark’s body (which he claimed were from a cat), and found keycard records placing him and Le in the same room in the lab building on the day she was reported missing.
In January 2010, Clark pleaded not guilty to murder. However, on March 17 of the following year, after negotiations between the prosecutor in the case and Clark’s lawyers, the former lab technician pleaded guilty to charges of murder and attempt to commit sexual assault, in order to avoid a trial. He did not specify a motive, and the reason for his actions remains unclear. On June 3, 2011, Clark was sentenced to 44 years in prison without the possibility of early release.
Etsy:
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Group like items together. Small appliances, pots & pans, bakewear, glasses, & so on should each occupy their own cabinet space.
Hello Vino:
Rated best app for wine shoppers by NY Times, NPR, Mashable - Hello Vino
will help you in the wine aisle - the free app gives you wine
recommendations for meals, occasions, holidays, and by taste preference.
NO SNOBS ALLOWED!
"This app is incredible. Even the newest wine drinkers should feel at ease..." - Mashable
"Hello Vino can help almost anyone navigate a wine list." - NY Times
"If you want to impress your date, pull up Hello Vino to make it look like you know whether to order a Zinfandel or a Malbec." - NPR Morning Edition
★ RECOMMENDATIONS ★ You don't need to know anything about wine to use Hello Vino. All you have to do is tell the app what you're eating, or provide your taste preferences, and Hello Vino will help you pick the perfect bottle off the shelf.
★ WINE LABEL IMAGE RECOGNITION ★ Ever purchased a wine based on the design of its label? Now you actually have a good excuse! Snap a pic of the wine label and Hello Vino will give you all the goods (tasting notes, ratings, food pairings and more!).
★ NEVER FORGET ANOTHER WINE ★ Just in case you're having trouble remembering that delicious wine you tasted last night, Hello Vino will help you easily save and track all the wines you love (and hate).
★ FOOD PAIRINGS ★ Whether it's pepperoni pizza, filet mignon, or even mac & cheese, Hello Vino will give you recommendations for the best wines to pair with your meal.
★ GIFT IDEAS ★ Need to bring a killer bottle of wine to your next festivus? Hello Vino has you covered with wine recommendations for every occasion (date night, holidays, dinner with the boss, etc.).
★ LARGEST WINE DATABASE ★ We tied down a dozen sommeliers and plugged their brains into our supermegacomputer in order to bring you the world's most detailed wine database.
★ WINE REVIEWS ★ We get by with a little help from our friends. Your new friend and Certified Sommelier Elizabeth Schneider has provided "quick wine reviews" that break down widely available wines that you can find in your local store. Take a listen to the 2-minute audio reviews that talk about the wine in a "normal" way (not wine "geek speak").
Questions or Issues? Please email: hello@hellovino.com
With thousands of wine recommendations, pairings, and gift choices, Hello Vino is the most comprehensive wine app available. The free app also provides wine brand recommendations with tasting notes, ratings, and label photos!
"This app is incredible. Even the newest wine drinkers should feel at ease..." - Mashable
"Hello Vino can help almost anyone navigate a wine list." - NY Times
"If you want to impress your date, pull up Hello Vino to make it look like you know whether to order a Zinfandel or a Malbec." - NPR Morning Edition
★ RECOMMENDATIONS ★ You don't need to know anything about wine to use Hello Vino. All you have to do is tell the app what you're eating, or provide your taste preferences, and Hello Vino will help you pick the perfect bottle off the shelf.
★ WINE LABEL IMAGE RECOGNITION ★ Ever purchased a wine based on the design of its label? Now you actually have a good excuse! Snap a pic of the wine label and Hello Vino will give you all the goods (tasting notes, ratings, food pairings and more!).
★ NEVER FORGET ANOTHER WINE ★ Just in case you're having trouble remembering that delicious wine you tasted last night, Hello Vino will help you easily save and track all the wines you love (and hate).
★ FOOD PAIRINGS ★ Whether it's pepperoni pizza, filet mignon, or even mac & cheese, Hello Vino will give you recommendations for the best wines to pair with your meal.
★ GIFT IDEAS ★ Need to bring a killer bottle of wine to your next festivus? Hello Vino has you covered with wine recommendations for every occasion (date night, holidays, dinner with the boss, etc.).
★ LARGEST WINE DATABASE ★ We tied down a dozen sommeliers and plugged their brains into our supermegacomputer in order to bring you the world's most detailed wine database.
★ WINE REVIEWS ★ We get by with a little help from our friends. Your new friend and Certified Sommelier Elizabeth Schneider has provided "quick wine reviews" that break down widely available wines that you can find in your local store. Take a listen to the 2-minute audio reviews that talk about the wine in a "normal" way (not wine "geek speak").
Questions or Issues? Please email: hello@hellovino.com
With thousands of wine recommendations, pairings, and gift choices, Hello Vino is the most comprehensive wine app available. The free app also provides wine brand recommendations with tasting notes, ratings, and label photos!
More authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences & even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression & the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression in turn feeds back on the other person's spirit, & genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights & learnings & a sense of excitement & adventure that keeps the process going.
"Relax" is the word people use just before something terrible happens!
Skip in the office.
Tension is who you think you are. Relaxation is who you are.
Top 10 songs from 1913 100 years ago:
- "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" by Chauncey Olcott
- "When I Lost You" by Henry Burr
- "Peg o' My Heart" by Charles Harrison
- "You Made Me Love You" (I Didn't Want to Do It) by Al Jolson
- "Last Night Was the End of the World" by Henry Burr
- "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
- "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" by Al Jolson
- "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" (That's an Irish Lullaby) by Chauncey Olcott
- "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" by Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
- "Row! Row! Row! by Ada Jones
You know who's filing Chapter 11 for bankruptcy in the U.S.? The Colt Gun Company. Says they're going into Chapter 11, otherwise they'll have to file for bankruptcy. you know something? When a gun company can't force their debtors to pay up - you know the economy is in real trouble. -Johnny Carson 1992
You may know her as the author of the children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, but Beatrix Potter was actually an expert mycologist who studied the life cycle of fungi. Despite her original findings, scientific societies of her day refused to publish her papers because she was a woman.
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