Well, with all that working out I need protien and potassium and all the required vitamins and minerals, but it’s too hot to cook something in the oven and stove so I came up with a protien drink that is very refreshing, fruity and fills you up at the same time!

 If you work out you probably already have a lot of these ingredients or even if you don’t, you probably will too!

1/2 cup of your favourite flavor of low fat yogurt

1 cup of 2% milk

1 whole slightley green banana (more nutrients!)

1 large handful of your favorite frozen or fresh berries

Slice the banana! Throw it all together in a large plastic bowl, get a hand help mixer or you can use a blender and mix it all together, put it in a large glass and enjoy!  

I hope you enjoy!!!

We have some strange neighbors.

I have lived in the same house for 17 years and we have seen 3 different families live in the house next to us in that time. No one else has moved since I’ve been here…its been all of us in the same cul-de-sac for as long as I know.

There are strange things happening in that house too.  

I used to babysit for the current residence, the 3rd family, of that house. I never felt like I was alone or comfortable in that house and I remember telling my mom I hated going over there, constantly. I remember going to the rest room and hearing wierd hissing noises from the vents and I thought it was just the water heater or something to do with the heating system and then remembered, I was down in the basement earlier and I heard nothing coming from the electrical/heating room. It creeped me out. There were (I don’t know if there still are) a lot of religious symbols in the house, crosses, crusifixes all over the house on the walls. The main thing was that, I never felt like I was the only one in any room in the house and I kept expecting something or someone to jump out at me and I was short of breathe. Just talking about it now, I am feeling very scared, like someone is watching me.

There is a closed off room in thier house that I was told when babysitting for them, not to open ever and I have never seen it open and thier was a lock on it. I know for a fact that the last family that lived there had it as a theatre and it was built to be an in home theatre, because I saw it and the first family used it as a play room and there was never a lock on it. They told me to never open it and I never thought anything of it really…until… I wasn’t the only one who experienced wierd things.  

So has my brother and my mom. My brother was asked to water the plants and take care of thier pets while they went camping. Well, they have a pet rabbit and he was asked to clean the cage everyday and it was tucked away in a little cubby hole in the basement. There was a pair of regular yellow rubber cleaning gloves there. He put them right in front of the cage and went he went back the next day, each hand had moved…to either side of the cage. He was of course extremley freaked out. He went to get our mom and she tried to explain it to him and couldn’t…she tried and said maybe it was one of the cats they had, but then thought…no because they were kept in the bathroom and they told my brother to keep them in there the whole time. She said that he isn’t going over there alone for the rest of the week. She said the house had something wierd in it. My brother was so freaked out and upset that he left a note for the family asking if anyone was allowed in the house at the time or they had another pet in the house while he was taking care of it and they never got back to him at all.  

Here’s the thing…that cubby hole is right by that unopened locked door. I said yesterday ‘maybe they are hiding something?’ and my mom said “maybe someone.” The thought gave me shivers… My mom isn’t the type to believe in ghosts, spirits or demons, but even she thinks something wierd is going on that house.

This house is very strange and my mom and I were discussing that with my grandma yesterday. I noticed a pattern as my mom  was telling my mom about the family’s that have lived there.

1) It is always a family of 3 kids

2) The father is always named Graham

3) The familys have all split up and gotten divorces

4) Their pets always go missing and/or die

5) The mothers don’t work

6) The families all came in normal

Maybe its just a coincidence…but I don’t know. I was too young to remember or really care about any of that stuff when the first two family’s were there, but apparently, each family has just gotten wierder each time someone moved in.

There could could be a million logical reasons why that house is the way it is.

Even just talking about it, I feel short of breathe and like someone knows I am talking about them and it is uncomforable. It wierds me out because thier house is right beside ours… 10 feet apart and whatever/whoever is in there I don’t want near my house, me or my family.

 Well, I was always skeptical and never really got my hopes up too too high… I didn’t know what exactly I was skeptical about, but then today on the ever so evil facebook a lot of wall posts from girls saying that he should come visit them and do everything he said they should with the little wink face . It hit me… he would never just be mine and it made me think, he is a huge player. I mean, I know we haven’t really hung out, or dated or anything really so I am not expecting for him to be totally committed , but I expected something other then some girl writing on his wall (which should have been put in a messege if anything),

“You should come to Edmonton and do everything that you said in my status with me. Maybe not the bath part, but everything else sounds bad ass. We can replace bath with bitchin’ hot tub.”

And him posting comments on other girls pictures saying “You are sexy… you should be at my party Friday and we should meet up. ” and other things like that.

What I am getting at is, he made it sound to me like, I was all his and he was going to teach me this, take me there; when we do hang out again we should start dating and I would be all his and he had all this stuff. He made himself sound like he was a top notch kind of guy and yet, I know now he isn’t and it bothers me.  I fell for it and believed him. Like I said, I am not expecting him to be all me, all the time, but I expect some respect and not being BSed too and now I feel like just a sheep following the heard. I don’t know how all the other girls feel, because they must have seen the messeges too…I don’t care about them really to be honest, but I am not going to be some “play thing” or some floosy.  

He can take his other girls and tell them everything they want to hear because I don’t want to hear it.

I know it probably shouldn’t bother me, but it does! 

I have a friend who is a musician and thats all. You’re probably thinking, he could possibly a well paid locally famous musicain…but really he isn’t. He keeps telling me how broke he is and how he is the most “broke dude in the universe,” and how if he doesn’t get another paycheck from a gig, he will be living under a bridge. He’s been telling me this all summer and also complains how he has nothing to do during the week. I have suggested for him to get a job, even if it is just part time. He could work at a radio station, music store, music venue… anywhere! He says to me (exact words) “Job?! Ha! Never! I hate jobs. I’ve had millions of great jobs. They’re all awful. Real work is evil.”It also kind of says he is irresponsible and immature. He is a 26 year old in a dance/techno/pop band that isn’t going to last forever. I feel as though, if he shouldn’t complain about not having any money, when he isn’t even really trying to earn any real money.

I also have another friend who, has no real goals to go to college or get a job. My friend and I saw her the other day and we asked what she had been up to, what she was doing in the fall and what she had plans on doing…etc. Her response was “I don’t know, haven’t thought about it.” We asked if she was even going to college at all and she said, she didn’t want to, she had no reason to and didn’t know how she was going to get in because her marks weren’t that good in high school and she didn’t care. The thing is, is that this girl doesn’t come from a wealthy family where she can afford to live off her parents wealth all her life and really, she has no job experience because she had only ever had one job that was at a golf course as a ball picker upper. She complains she has no money either! How she is always bored and has no life…next thing you know 10 years later she will be complaining about the same thing.  

Anyways, where do I come in you ask? Well, I came home for the summer with one job- but it was only 2 days a week and I knew that from the start and I knew I couldn’t make a good wage of 13-17 hours a week. So the first Monday I had been home, I went out and handed out my resume to a few businesses in town to get a second job for at least 4/5 days a week. A couple weeks later after not hearing from anyone or being told “sorry we aren’t hiring,” I went out again with 3 more resumes and tried again… did call backs and everything and no one was hiring, so I went out 2 more times after that and also a few places here and there after that to find a job. After 2 and a half months, 18 resumes and applications, I had 3 interviews, but couldn’t take 2 of the jobs because they were in the city and it would have taken me longer to commuting to work then the hours I had at that job, or it was on call/casual and I live to far away to be called 1-2 hours ahead of time and told to come into work.  The last interview offer I got, was 3 days ago and I didn’t get hired because I am leaving back to school in 6 weeks and they want someone who’s going to stay longer.  Understandable. Anyways… I called all these places back, have kept in touch with them to see if they have any spots open yet or had any, you know? I never gave up…even for extra hours at my 1 weekend job, I pretty much have been begging for extra hours if they needed anyone at any time of day any day of the week I wasn’t already working. I got extra hours and I am getting many more coming up in the next couple weeks.  But due to this economic situation, my little town got hit really hard and everyone is struggling and more people are getting laid off then hired. It wasn’t just me who this has happend to, my other co-workers have been in the same situation and so have other friends who came back from college. They are communting to work in the city or to other towns nearby…  family jobs most of them and they barley got those jobs.  We tried though, we know we have to make money somehow. That is why it bothered me when *Teddy said he hates real jobs and he never wants one and yet complains about being broke all the time… he hasn’t even tried to make real money. He was a student once too… but apparently jobs are evil. 

When my other friend said she pretty much said she has no life goals and stuff like that, that bothered me too, because I struggled all through high school and my first couple years there I really didn’t give a crap to be honest, but in gr. 11 it hit me, I have to step up my game. I wanted to go to college straight after high school and move on with my life and achieve many many things. I got a math tutor, started to study really really hard and got more involved in school activities and performed at all of the school talent shows. I stepped it up. I got into college and I was even one of the first to recieve thier acceptance letters… I got it 2 weeks after my interview. I love it, like I knew I would. She makes the rest of us look good in a way to be honest… it looks bad on her and to be honest, it is hard to hang out with her because she isn’t on the same page and I feel distant from her. It’s sad.

I guess we will always need the waitresses, housekeepers, clerks and cashiers though…they do have a place in this world as well. I have been all of those things at one point or another.  

There are so many of us that are like this… we work so hard and try so hard at everything we do and I feel as though, as a person who tries as hard as I do, and attempts everything at least once, that it is hard to sympethize with them. I’ve tried so hard to be patient with them and I really don’t think I want to be their “wake up call” to life and it really isn’t my place. So, all of us hard workers will keep on keeping on, hopefully go places we want to, be who we want to be and get everything we want or even just have to chance to have it… because I think we deserve it.    

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrorator:  Cristina, on the other hand, expected something very different out of love. She had reluctantly accepted suffering as an inevitable component of deep passion, and was resigned to putting her feelings at risk. If you asked her what it was she was gambling her emotions on to win, she would not have been able to say. She knew what she didn’t want, however, and that was exactly what Vicky valued above all else.

I knew green tea has a lot of health benefits so I started drinking it more. I used to think it was so bitter and not very appealing to drink, but I added honey and lemon and I love it! I drink green tea everything now! The best thing is a Green Tea Latte from Starbucks… it is perfect on a chilly day or even a hot summer day because it has a light flavor with the right amount of sweetness!

Anyways, with all that said here are the benefits of ”the vert”

1. It is used to treat multiple sclerosis.
2. It is used for treatment and prevention of cancer.
3. It is used to stop Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
4. It is used to raise the metabolism and increase fat oxidation.
5. It reduces the risk of heart diseases and heart attacks by reducing the risk of trombosis.
6. It reduces the risk of esophageal cancer.
7. Drinking green tea inhibits the growth of certain cancer cells, reduces the level of cholesterol in blood, improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol.
8. It is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular diseases
9. It is used to treat impaired immune function. .
10. Some researches show that, drinking green tea regularly may help prevent tooth decay by killing the bacteria which causes the dental plaque.

Read more: http://healthmad.com/alternative/10-great-benefits-of-drinking-green-tea/#ixzz0n7ge9aSW

Enjoy!

1. Boulevard by Friends of Otis
2. Bulletproof by La Roux
3. In For The Kill by La Roux 
4. Fans by Kings of Leon
5. Take It Off by Ke$ha
6. Kick Back by Friends of Otis
7. Edge of Desire, Dreaming With a Broken Heart, Slow Dancing In A Burning Room all by John Mayer  
8. Midnight Lines by Constant Season
9. The Star and the Lover by Constant Season
10. Starstrukk by 3OH!3 F. Katy Perry
11. The Pieces Don’t Fit Anymore by James Morrison
12. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonley by the Backstreet Boys
13. Everybody by the Backstreet Boys
14. Hot Mess by Cobra Starship
15. Speechless by Lady Gaga 

Take a Listen!

The end.

After not hearing from him until that Saturday, after I did the thank you text on the Thursday, I said “Hey, how’s it going?” he said “Good, you?”

I hate it when a guy leaves you hanging, it is a douche move. If you are not interested in the girl, be direct! (and not over text. If you’re worried about hurting her feelings, do it over the phone.)

Anyways…in the end I don’t think he didn’t like me, he was just plain… I don’t know the appropriate, but it isn’t nice!

I can’t remember exactly what he said, but after a conversation (which ended up being fairly long, but I tried to keep it has simple and short as possible),  it pretty much came down to him saying the… “I was in the same situation before and I don’t want it to happen again” kind of deal.

I didn’t get what he meant… there was no situation. He likes me, he said he did and I just didn’t want to dig myself into a hole or complicate anything so, I give up.

If it is the situation where you like a girl and you think she is going to break you heart after one date and you haven’t been in a relationship in over 4 months, you have problem!

I don’t want a relationship right away when I go on a first date…I still barley know the  guy! ( NOTE: First impressions are a BIG deal though!)

Neither did he, so I thought we were on the same page, because he says he does like me which makes this whole situation weird because at the same time he says he doesn’t know what to do… He is waaaay too confusing.

Anyways.

I just think you should move on from a broken heart. Yes, it may seem hard at the time, (trust me, I have had a few, this being one of them), but from what my friends have said many times to me “If he doesn’t see the amazing girl infront of him, it’s his loss, move on…there is a waaay better guy out there for you.”

That is for all girls out there and for guys, there is an amazing girl for you  too!

I drink a lot of coffee and I eat healthy, (whole grains, regular fruit and vegetables, juice and water before pop, proper portions and all that stuff…) but I have started to feel a little sluggish latley. When I first read about the Lemon detox, it sounded scary! No food at all! That means no protien,  no nutrien really, I can’t do that! So that cleanse is not happening and none of the other ones are either. 

There were benfits from it, like health benefits to lemons and cayenne paper!

About Lemon

The lemon is a loosening and cleansing agent with many important building factors. The ability of the elements in the lemon and the maple syrup working together creates these desired results.

Its 4911/o potassium strengthens and energizes the heart, stimulates and builds the kidneys and adrenal glands.

Its oxygen builds vitality.

Its carbon acts as a motor stimulant.

Its hydrogen activates the sensory nervous system. Its calcium strengthens and builds the lungs.

Its phosphorus knits the bones, stimulates and builds the brain for clearer thinking.

Its sodium encourages tissue building.

Its magnesium acts as a blood alkalizer.

Its iron builds the red corpuscles to rapidly correct the most common forms of anemia.

Its chlorine cleanses the blood plasmas

Its silicon aids the thyroid for deeper breathing.

The natural iron, copper, calcium, carbon, and hydrogen found in the sweetening supplies more building and cleansing material.

It truly is a perfect combination for cleansing, eliminating, healing, and building.

About Cayenne Pepper

 This herb is a great food for the circulatory system in that it feeds the necessary elements into the cell structure of the arteries, veins and capillaries so that these regain the elasticity of youth again, and the blood pressure adjusts itself to normal.

• It rebuilds the tissue in the stomach and heals the stomach and intestinal ulcers; in equalizing the blood circulation, Cayenne produces natural warmth in your body; and in stimulating the peristaltic motion of the intestines, it aids in assimilation and elimination.

• Cayenne regulates the flow of blood from the head to the feet so that the pressure is equalized; it influences the heart immediately, then gradually extends its effects to the arteries, capillaries, and nerves (the frequency of the pulse is not increased, but is given more vigor).

• Human circulation; it is warming; dilating; specific for varicose veins; equalizes the blood pressure in the arterial and venous system; equalizes blood pressure instantly actually.

• Cayenne is useful in alleviating allergies, muscle cramp, improving digestion, gives more pep and energy, and helps wound healing with minimal scar tissue.

• Cayenne is a counter-irritant; it brings blood to the surface and allows the toxins to be taken away.

Capsicum supports the natural beat (rhythm) of the viscera and interior actions of the glandular, circulatory, lymphatic, and digestive systems. It has been used with great success as a cure for spotted fever (?); the most active stimulant to support and re-animate feeble or exhausted powers.

• This is a medicine of great value in the practice, and may be safely used in all cases of disease, to raise and retain the internal vital heat of the system, cause a free perspiration, and keep the determining powers to the surface. The only preparation is to have it reduced to a fine powder. For a dose, take from half to a teaspoonful in hot water or tea sweetened with honey.

• Dr. Coffin includes cayenne pepper in his composition powder to restore the normal function of the body in the various stages of pregnancy and childbirth. For morning sickness he recommends a combination of ‘White poplar bark, agrimony, centaury, raspberry leaves, yarrow and rhubarb, each a quarter of an ounce, steep in two quarts of water, strain, and add while hot two teaspoons of powdered cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of Cayenne pepper, and let the patient take one tablespoonful every three hours until the symptoms are removed if this should not relieve, give an emetic and repeat if necessary.

• Great for heartburn.

• Capsicum is a powerful rubefacient.

• Capsicum is a general nervous stimulant; a specific for delirium tremens.

• For atonic gout, in paralysis, in dropsy, in tympanitis, and in the debilitated stages of fever.

• For scrofulous; dyspepsia; flatulence; it’s an excellent carminative.

• For sore throats—gargle (prepare the gargle with honey); for spasmodic and irritating coughs; heartburn and diarrhea;

• Enables feeble stomachs to digest food; for atonic dyspepsia; specific for hemorrhoids; cures intermittent fever; Capsicum has the power to control menorrhagia; relieves sea-sickness;

• In delirium tremens it is beneficial by enabling the patient to retain and digest food.

• Capsicum is particularly efficient in tonsillitis, and the sore throat of scarlet fever and in diphtheria no application is so efficient as a strong gargle or wash make with Capsicum.

• Promote digestion; relieves pains of the womb; removes obstructed menstruation; for quinsy; for all diseases of the throat; use as a plaster with honey for rheumatic pains, pains of the joints, gout, swellings, etc.; Use outwardly as a liniment, apply it warm or hot for arthritis and rheumatism; gargle for scarlet fever; use an infusion for ulcers in the mouth, strep throat or tonsillitis.

• Cayenne is an excellent remedy for a cold; mix infusion with slippery elm and molasses or honey, and take in doses throughout the day; also excellent for sore throat and coughs.

• Cayenne mixed with pennyroyal (an herb) taken for three days will expel the dead birth material from a miscarriage.

• Eases toothache; preserves the teeth from rotting, and when rubbed on the gums, stimulates them enough to prevent pyorrhea.

• Excellent for any type of internal hemorrhage, (create an infusion with bethroot or star root);

• Capsicum is an important remedy in cholera; Capsicum stops vomiting; combine with equal parts of Capsicum and common table salt, one half ounce of each, one pint of good vinegar, give in tablespoon doses for cholera, vomiting “cholera morbus” — the gross material associated with cholera from the system

• In chronic lumbago a plaster of Capsicum with garlic, pepper and liquid amber (silarasa) or storax is an efficient stimulant and rubefacient application. (p105)

• When made into a lozenge with sugar and tragacanth it is a remedy for hoarseness.

• For a carminative make pills of equal parts of Capsicum, rhubarb and ginger or aloes.

• Combine Capsicum with cinchona for intermittent and lethargic affections and for atonic gout and in advanced stages of rheumatism.

• Combine with asafoetida and sweet flag root or camphor in the form of pills in cases of cholera.

• Capsicum has a powerful action on the mucous membrane, and in hoarseness and sore throat, and in putrid throat a gargle made of Capsicum is particularly beneficial.

• By pouring hot vinegar upon the fruits of Capsicum all the essential qualities are preserved. This vinegar is an excellent stomachic.

• The whole plant steeped in milk is successfully applied to reduce swellings and hardened tumors.

• An infusion with cinnamon and sugar is a valuable drink for patients suffering from delirium tremens as it satisfies the craving in dipsomaniacs. A dose of ten grains of finely powdered capsicum seed, given with an ounce of hot water, two or three times a day, sometimes shows wonderful effects in cases of delirium tremens.

• Capsicum can be used in the treatment of a snake bite.

• As well as the fruit being used as a spice, the leaves were applied to ulcers and headaches. (p.111)

• Capsicum is given internally in atonic dyspepsia and flatulence. It is used externally as a counter-irritant in the form of ointment, plaster, medicated wool, etc. for the relief of rheumatism and lumbago.

• Oral administration of Capsicum may stimulate the gall bladder reflex.

• Capsicum either contains a cholagogue, or acts as a powerful stimulus upon the mucous membrane of the duodenum.

• Cayenne pepper is forgotten therapeutic agent against anorexia, liver congestion, and vascular troubles. Capsicum is highly effective in causing hemorrhoids to regress; and these fruits have the same action on varicose veins. The results are attributed to alkaloids or glucosides in the peppers.

• Excessive amounts of Capsicum (above 20 grams, thus, nearly an ounce) may induce frequent bowel movements

• Cayenne stimulates the appetite, more especially as a hot climate tends to produce anorexia. We have always held the saliva is the key that unlocks the door to digestion. Capsicum, a sialogogue, will stimulate the flow of saliva and will be very helpful to people who have become accustomed to ‘inhaling’ their food and thus robbing themselves of the benefits of saliva in the digestive process. Capsicum would stimulate their flow of saliva as they return to a healthier attitude toward eating.

• Capsicum may be valuable in the prevention and treatment of blood clots.

• Cayenne pepper is very soothing; it is effective as a poultice for rheumatism, inflammation, pleurisy, and helpful also if taken internally for these. For sores and wounds it makes a good poultice. It is a stimulant when taken internally as well as being antispasmodic. Good for kidneys, spleen and pancreas; wonderful for lockjaw; will heal a sore ulcerated stomach; Capsicum is a specific and very effective remedy for yellow fever, as well as other fevers and may be taken in capsules followed by a glass of water.

SO it isn’t all bad, so I will take it just for those benefits, but with food! I will cut back on the coffee- even though there are health benefits from coffee too! Hope that was informing!