Saturday, February 24, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Weeds and Games...
Monday was a slow day at work. So I requested to leave early, and I decided I would get an Xbox 360 if I did get off early. While I waited on a response for my request I was pricing out the system at different retailers and reading news about it. I did get off early, but I did not get the system.
When the original Xbox came out I got it a couple of months before they cut the price for it, so I couldn't get price adjustment. I had gotten that system for one game that I wanted to play only and then of course discovered a whole lot of other games that are awesome. My favorite game of the original Xbox is Fable.
Fable 2 is slated for the Xbox 360 and it is the game that will make me buy the Xbox 360. There are some other games I want to get, but none make me go out and buy the system. By the time Fable 2 comes out, sometime in 2008 I think, the price of the 360 might be less and it is rumored that an updated version of it might be available. Even if it isn't I won't be getting the Xbox 360 until Fable 2.In the meantime I will continue replaying my Xbox games.
My cousin got the Nintendo Wii a couple of weeks ago and I have been hooke onthe Wii Sports game it comes with. I also downloaded Donkey Kong Jr and Golden Axe to have some retro game action. The everybody votes channel is also addicting.
So what to do was the final question on Monday when I got off early. No new game system but I need a fix for new games. That's when I decided the DS Lite would be what I would get.
So on Tuesday, I did a quick search online for DS Lite. I went to Target and got the Black DS Lite, and got Brainage and New Super Mario Bros. games for it. It is an awesome system. It is also my first portable gaming system, I never had Gameboy. Plus I can have it at work on the days that are slow.
Tuesday was also weeds day. I pulled out weeds from the front yard. Those things never go away. It seems to be a never ending job. You pull them out, they grow back out, even with weed killer.
Hope everyone has a good day!!!
When the original Xbox came out I got it a couple of months before they cut the price for it, so I couldn't get price adjustment. I had gotten that system for one game that I wanted to play only and then of course discovered a whole lot of other games that are awesome. My favorite game of the original Xbox is Fable.
Fable 2 is slated for the Xbox 360 and it is the game that will make me buy the Xbox 360. There are some other games I want to get, but none make me go out and buy the system. By the time Fable 2 comes out, sometime in 2008 I think, the price of the 360 might be less and it is rumored that an updated version of it might be available. Even if it isn't I won't be getting the Xbox 360 until Fable 2.In the meantime I will continue replaying my Xbox games.
My cousin got the Nintendo Wii a couple of weeks ago and I have been hooke onthe Wii Sports game it comes with. I also downloaded Donkey Kong Jr and Golden Axe to have some retro game action. The everybody votes channel is also addicting.
So what to do was the final question on Monday when I got off early. No new game system but I need a fix for new games. That's when I decided the DS Lite would be what I would get.
So on Tuesday, I did a quick search online for DS Lite. I went to Target and got the Black DS Lite, and got Brainage and New Super Mario Bros. games for it. It is an awesome system. It is also my first portable gaming system, I never had Gameboy. Plus I can have it at work on the days that are slow.
Tuesday was also weeds day. I pulled out weeds from the front yard. Those things never go away. It seems to be a never ending job. You pull them out, they grow back out, even with weed killer.
Hope everyone has a good day!!!
Monday, February 19, 2007
National Chocolate Mint Day!
At work I am in a committee called Fast, Fun, and Friendly Committee or FFF. All the members get to be in it for one year, after which different members are selected. The selected members are from different parts of the company, collections, guest service, card services, hr, chargebacks, etc. We create at least one fun event each month. Past events have included, pumpkin decorating contest, holiday dinner, summer pic-nic, cookie decorating, jersey day, etc. So the last project for the year was for today, National Chocolate Mint Day! We put together goodie bags of an assortment of, you guessed it chocolate mints. There's Andes, Hershey's and York. A desk drop was done last night to distribute them. Hopefully at work everyone will have a good day and minty fresh breath. So, everyone have yourself a piece of chocolate or mint or chocolate mint and have an awesome day!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Wii bit Hooked...
My cousin/roommate got a the Nintendo Wii this past weekend and I am hooked playing the Wii sports game and some of the retro games you can download. Oh yeah I am also enjoying the new voting channel. If you have a Wii and would like our Miis to be friends message me your console number... Have an awesome weekend!!!
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Cows, pigs, and chickens oh my!
So I did not make any New Year's Resolution as most people do. The one thing I have been wanting to do for long time though is go vegetarian. Yeah, that's not going to happen, at least not instantly.
When I was about 5 or 6 years old there was a street vendor selling baby chickens, chicks. They had been sprayed with coloring. I only remember one was red. The color of the others escapes me. So to a little kid, like I was then, they looked awesome right, so my mother bought them for me. I took them home. It was summer so we were staying at my grandmothers house in Mexico. I took care of them and had them in one of the kitchen counters in a box. The chicks grew, so they were then kept outside where they used to keep chickens years before. One day one of my uncles decided that they were grown enough, so he killed them to make them for dinner that night. I could not eat them, they had been my pets. I was sad that day.
When I was around 10 years old one of my uncles, not the same one that killed the chickens, bought a lamb. I knew why he had bought it. They were going to kill it and eat it. I did not know this however until the lamb was on my grandmothers backyard. My grandmother's back yard is huge... So they kept it there a few days, my guess was getting it ready to kill it. I kept asking when they were going to do that so that I would not be there. The day came when they were to kill it, and I happened to be there, so I went into hiding in one of the rooms. That did not help, as soon as they slit the throat I heard a loud squeal from the animal. So sad. In Mexico they make a dish out of lamb in which they cook it in its own blood. So when they cut the throat they had a bucket or bin of some sort to catch all the blood and then they cooked the meat of the animal with it. Still sad thinking of it.
So these 2 encounters with animal cruelty would have turned me vegetarian if it was not that our meals always included some sort of animal flesh. So you kind of get used to it and and end up liking it.
The one thing I started doing this past year is switching to incorporate humanely treated animals. That would be organic and/or natural raised animals. My goal is to eventually stop eating meat altogether. This may take several years for me.
Cows: I don't like beef, and only rarely eat it, and I have never liked milk. Even a quart of milk goes bad on me when I do get it as I don't use it or drink it. I am happy to say that I have completely stopped drinking cow milk, I never really did. Soymilk is so much more tasty and much more healthy than cow milk. That was an easy switch.
Fish: I don't like most seafood, except for salmon, catfish, tuna, canned mackarel and shrimp. I don't buy it too often but when I do it's mostly cans or pouches of tuna.
Lamb and goat: I don't like. I don't buy.I don't eat it.
Pigs: Only occasionally do I buy pork loin or chops, but I do buy bacon. I'll need to find an alternative to bacon. Any suggestions?
Chicken: You would think that after my traumatic childhood encounter it would be the one I least like, however it is the one I like the most including eggs. This is the one that will be the most difficult to eliminate. I have however switched to eggs from chickens raised cage free and fed organically. If you eat eggs you should definitely switch to these, they are so much better than the eggs that come from inhumanely treated factory farms.
Turkey: Love turkey sandwiches and cook a whole one once a year during the holiday season. So this one too will be difficult to eliminate.
Good thing is I like most vegetables. :)
When I was about 5 or 6 years old there was a street vendor selling baby chickens, chicks. They had been sprayed with coloring. I only remember one was red. The color of the others escapes me. So to a little kid, like I was then, they looked awesome right, so my mother bought them for me. I took them home. It was summer so we were staying at my grandmothers house in Mexico. I took care of them and had them in one of the kitchen counters in a box. The chicks grew, so they were then kept outside where they used to keep chickens years before. One day one of my uncles decided that they were grown enough, so he killed them to make them for dinner that night. I could not eat them, they had been my pets. I was sad that day.
When I was around 10 years old one of my uncles, not the same one that killed the chickens, bought a lamb. I knew why he had bought it. They were going to kill it and eat it. I did not know this however until the lamb was on my grandmothers backyard. My grandmother's back yard is huge... So they kept it there a few days, my guess was getting it ready to kill it. I kept asking when they were going to do that so that I would not be there. The day came when they were to kill it, and I happened to be there, so I went into hiding in one of the rooms. That did not help, as soon as they slit the throat I heard a loud squeal from the animal. So sad. In Mexico they make a dish out of lamb in which they cook it in its own blood. So when they cut the throat they had a bucket or bin of some sort to catch all the blood and then they cooked the meat of the animal with it. Still sad thinking of it.
So these 2 encounters with animal cruelty would have turned me vegetarian if it was not that our meals always included some sort of animal flesh. So you kind of get used to it and and end up liking it.
The one thing I started doing this past year is switching to incorporate humanely treated animals. That would be organic and/or natural raised animals. My goal is to eventually stop eating meat altogether. This may take several years for me.
Cows: I don't like beef, and only rarely eat it, and I have never liked milk. Even a quart of milk goes bad on me when I do get it as I don't use it or drink it. I am happy to say that I have completely stopped drinking cow milk, I never really did. Soymilk is so much more tasty and much more healthy than cow milk. That was an easy switch.
Fish: I don't like most seafood, except for salmon, catfish, tuna, canned mackarel and shrimp. I don't buy it too often but when I do it's mostly cans or pouches of tuna.
Lamb and goat: I don't like. I don't buy.I don't eat it.
Pigs: Only occasionally do I buy pork loin or chops, but I do buy bacon. I'll need to find an alternative to bacon. Any suggestions?
Chicken: You would think that after my traumatic childhood encounter it would be the one I least like, however it is the one I like the most including eggs. This is the one that will be the most difficult to eliminate. I have however switched to eggs from chickens raised cage free and fed organically. If you eat eggs you should definitely switch to these, they are so much better than the eggs that come from inhumanely treated factory farms.
Turkey: Love turkey sandwiches and cook a whole one once a year during the holiday season. So this one too will be difficult to eliminate.
Good thing is I like most vegetables. :)
Friday, February 02, 2007
VICTORY: POM Promises to End Deadly Animal Tests!
Full article can be found on the PETA Website or here http://peta.org/feat-pom-victory.asp?c=weekly_enews
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