Attracting birds!

By Feng Shui, it's good luck to attract birds to your home, so I just purchased a feeder, that looks kind of like a chinese house, you know, with the red twisted rooftop. The problem is, no bird had visited it yet.,, even know I've tried bird cake, various seeds, and bread. I've tried both white and wheat breads, and what's funny, I decided to test these breads on park inhabitants, i.e. ducks. The ducks looked quite disturbed by my sudden interest in them, since we've ignored each other pretty much forever, there was a spark of reasonable doubt in their little duck eyes. I've started with the white bread, which they took for stones and quickly moved towards the lake. I followed with the wheat bread,(fresh also), just to find a mild interest from seagulls, and then 3 little ducklings who devoured the wheat bread, which I tore into tiny crumps, ignoring the white bread like the plague. What is happenning?! Have the birds been watching Dr. Phil? Am I the only person enjoying white bread lately? Anyways, maybe I should have baked the bread for the birds, I dunno. For now, I am leaving the feeder with sunflower seeds alone. Maybe, just maybe, a bird or two will find it by accident and will spread the word. My chinese house is always open for them, 24/7.

Do NOT use Aloe Vera aftersun lotion on burns

After vacation in a hot Greece, where temperatures were near 120's, I can tell this for sure: do not, I repeat, do not use Aloe Vera aftersun lotion on sunburns! You know, the green goo in a bottle. It does seem quite cooling, but if you are sunburnt, like some of us "vacationeers", it only is going to burn, burn, burn! The ring of fire! My husband and I burned equally, I put on a wet towel on my red back, and he squeezed Aloe Vera like your Mrs Butterworths. I recovered overnight and the next day was ready for more sun, while he has developed a 'secondary burn' with all sort of blisters and had to sit "under my umbrella, ella" all summer through. I have once ordered a pure Aloe juice, so I know for sure that it is in nature quite acidic. While it may seem counterintuitive to hold off something so naturally cooling, you are actually sparing your burn acidic environment, and as a result, a secondary burn! I know, I know. There are many "home remedies" out there, the yogurt, the ice, the coconut oil, yes, even urine. My answer: old fashioned cool wet towel does the trick!

Homemade Cell Tech

I've got the recipe for homemade Cell Tech on bodybuildingforyou.com . One thing that was confusing, is that it writes as a Note: no need to load if you are using it. I checked Cell Tech's instructions, and it indeed does recommend to load/cycle every 8 weeks. Creatine cycling is nothing new, but when you combine with Dextrose, you get your muscle "force-fed", thus, a more increased muscle growth. Alas, I have started on friday, and the weekend was my "no excercise, finally!" news for my body. I wonder if it's OK to skip two days of workout, rather than one, while on Celltech, which I am taking in two servings of 20/70 total daily creatine/dextrose value. I could split it in 4 recommended servings by Jim on bodybuildingforyou.com, but you have to NOT EAT anything for about an hour after and since I started working out, I found myself in a constant state of unhuman hunger, and no protein shake is a match for it! Sorry Jim! ;-)

Flatron LG monitor - laptop compatibility

I have had a little accident recently. I was drinking something, and then I got startled(no, it wasn't an earthquake), and spilled this liquid into the guts of my laptop, burning it's screen. You can now only see horizontal lines going all over it, but at least it doesn't flicker like mad, which it used to do the first two days after the accident. I took this with a little humor, after all, it's already in the past and I can focus on quick resolution of this problem. While I was looking for an external monitor, I actually got a break from the computer which has been great for my eyes! The monitor I got was LG flatron 17" screen. I couldn't connect it at first because on the boot, the screen all of a sudden would go black and display: "Analogue going to power saving mode" message, which would puzzle me. I didn't know the screen can be this smart and actually decide on it's own when to go to "sleep" just to save me a little power. Since I wasn't greatful for such thoughtfullness, I wanted to disable this function as soon as possible. So, if you've got the same problem, here's the solution. In order to switch to an external monitor, all you have to do is type the following: "Function-F4" and poof! You'll enable the external monitor like magic.

My life is a chain of success

I haven't always thought that. In fact, I was a little self critical and abusive to myself. (As an excuse, I really thought it was "self-discipline"). Being also religious, the first half hour of my Morning Prayer goes through all the sins you can imagine...some of them implied...And I'm not saying that that is it for the morning prayer...after all, it can be modified...But to emphasize on something I haven't noticed before, there is this culture of guilt, a guilt that cannot be very healthy to one's self esteem! Feng shui brought me to this realization, and meditation that I have been practicing for the past month has helped. (recommended reading: Luise Hey) Why should we feel guilty just for wanting to be happy? A happy individual, one that truly loves him/or herself, will not abuse others. It is the weak and those who cannot accept themselves for who they are, are people prone to tyranny and degrading of others. Holy Bible says: " Love others as you love yourself". Think about it, how can you love others if you don't love yourself? Shouldn't there be seminars on how to love yourself first? How to accept your every action, put a stop to self critisizm(it is not "healthy"), and change it to understanding and loving attitude towards your best friend -- you! Giving yourself "motherly support", if you will --or, for those, whose mothers were also critical and not as supportive as you wished, a support of a loving partner.

I have met some exciting people and was introduced to Feng Shui. I loved it. And I dont just mean a house makeover. Of course, there's a science in that also, but to me the change always begins in my "life house" - inside of me. Many will argue, what "me" means and where is it located. I honestly don't know. Maybe, it's on Mars right now navigating this body with the remote control. Or maybe it is an eternal soul, which is fine with me because I'm a christian. I had missed a week of HS and after restarting today, I've got severe headdache just like before in the beginning. I found that at nighttime I am too exhausted to meditate. I am virtually already a turned off device, the moment I hit the pillow. In the morning I just like to lay down and think pleasant thoughts. Today after HS I was terribly groggy, disoriented almost, despite all the affirmations I have repeated to myself. Now I am looking for an hour during the day where I can relax and be groggy for awhile...

Well, I finaly cleaned out my fridge today - I found things from the year 2000 there. I forgot not to use bleach, so I will have to go over with vinegar. I hope its warm were you are. In here after Greece its been hard to tell what time of day it is - the city was covered with grayish fog like a blanket. Its funny, because when I was scrubbing, my face got all tense, even know I was trying as hard as I could to keep it relaxed. What is it, when you do something strenuous, that the face has to "help". These muscles are not connected in any way. You would think it was trying for Oscars. I understand that during the exercise there's a "group of muscles" you actually use in a situation that contract. The face is in connection with the brain, so maybe it's reflecting the look of it on the inside? That would be scary.
Talking about strain, don't you wish they had "good news" and "bad news" on TV...Seriously, the news these days puts people in depression. That's why, when I came back from vacation, that's 2 weeks of almost no news at all - and they showed "recent memories", a grisly episode of pizzaman blowing up, I wanted to switch to "On demand TV" - which I did.