November Fourth

Left and right I have been hearing complaints about the campaign adds this year, like every other year, and how getting rid of them is the thing people are looking forward to most. We are sick of these adds, gripe about them every year, and swear we hate them and can see right through them.
Do you seriously think these politicians would spend millions on something that did not work? Using the television as a medium of communication is tried and true. We eat that shit up. It has mesmerized us. If we stopped watching then maybe we would not get so annoyed by all the campaign adds, we would have some time to ferret out information on where the candidates stand on issues that are important to us and strike a chord in our lives.

So you can bitch all you want about the ridiculous campaign adds, how much you hate them and how destructive you think they are, but I have no sympathy for you and if you ask me my opinion, I will tell you to throw your television out the nearest window.

I am excited to have taken part in this very historic election. I hope to be proud of my country once again.

Tolstoy Quotes

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

There is only one time that is important — NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

To seek, always to seek... (Tolstoy's final words).

Ode de Unibroue

I heart beer.

All kinds of beer, I don't discriminate. Oh wait, yes I do....

Bud, Mic, Heini, Corona..... No dice. I would rather drink water.

Unibroue is a company that is doing it right. (thanks for the introduction Epp!)

Out of Quebec (that's in Canada in case you were wondering), I have never had one of their brews that was a disappointment. The Maudite and La Fin Du Monde are two of the tastiest beers to ever pass my lips. That's kind of saying a lot as these past three years have been sort of a beer discovery extravaganza. Unibroue is a staple in my fridge.

I will now leave you with a beer haiku from this guy:

The champagne bubbles
Hints of fruit and cloves spring forth
Warmingly potent

Juice Fasting

So I have decided to learn more about fasting so that I can start to incorporate them into my life. I borrowed Jenny's book:

It has a lot of great information on fasting in general, the different types and what is needed to treat specific ailments. They leave no stone unturned in it's 154 pages (including index); they have even managed a riveting chapter on 'Exotic Enemas'.

With other deeply informative chapters like: Yuck!, Try it, you'll like it!, Priming the pump and Are you crazy?, this book, in my opinion, is the definitive guide and bible of the fasting world. If this book tells you to put a luke warm solution of lightly steeped licorice tea and vinegar up your bum, you had better do it.
DOOOO IT!!!

Great Reads

I have recently discovered Kerouac, which lead me to an obsession of travel books. I would highly recommend all of these books. In The Old Patagonia Express, Paul takes the train from his home in Boston all the way down to the tip of Patagonia. Talk about an epic trip. These stories have filled me with so many ideas and given me a travel fever so fierce it could only be treated with high adventure. Kerouac is a GEM, I was reading it while diggin Denver so it was very appropriate. Vagabonding I devoured in a matter of hours, talk about a book to live your life by, it basically sums up what I have been moving toward accomplishing in my own life.
Check them out!

The Pinky Show!

Since I have no television I find myself surfing YouTube on late nights or rainy days when I have exhausted all other forms of entertainment. I stumbled across this Gem a few weeks back and am totally hooked.
www.pinkyshow.org
I love the "How to spend 1.5 Billion dollars" blurb.

Gizoogle

The following blog has been Textilizered by Gizoogle:

So I found this website through a 40 sum-m sum-m year old male colleague of mine. It takes yo tizzay n translates it into "Jive T-to-tha-izzalk" or "Gangsta Speak".
Lets see W-H-to-tha-izzat happens when I stiznart rapping `bout ballin' mah Lacto-fermentizzles on tonight fo` tha first tizzle , betta check yo self. Kim chi, Kraut n Ginga Carrots is all on tha agenda. It wizzle be mah first foray into fermentizzles (not includ'n tha food that sometizzles rots in tizzy tupperware T-H-to-tha-izzat gots pushed all tha way ta tha bizzle of tha refrigerizzles so I am snoopa excited!
I hope most of mah niggaz like Kraut......
Finished

Oh My God! I will now be textilizing all emails before I send them.
Watch Out Now

The high bridge. No joke.

We have so many really cool places to go hiking in the River Valley area. The day I went out to the high bridge it was really windy and a storm was rolling in.

It is such an awesome thing to be far above the trees. To feel the wind swirling around you and the slight give of the bridge. When the wind really picks up you can't help but hold tight to the banister, thoughts of a blustery day taking you over the edge to feel the wind and only the wind under you for those few seconds before your world in nothing but water. Water that feels like cement.

I love the contrast that you feel from these photo's. Soft, natural green trees sliced through by hard edges of iron and hewn* logs.

*Jeeeesus. I spell checked this bloggy and hewn apparently is not a word. Silly me.....

Quote of the day

Brought to you by our friends at the Minnesota Department of Health

"Capture the spider for later identification (crush the specimen, if necessary, but do so as gently as possible)."

Yes.... Gently crush the spider now.......GENTLY!!!

Bare with me now

So I have finally succumbed to the blogosphere.

I am going to blog like whoever is reading it actually cares!

I have a lot of fun travel coming up. I am going to pop my Texas cherry this summer, will of course be spending a few weekends down in Chicago, some time at my Island and I now have a few friends in Milwacky that I will for sure love to visit. Vancouver to Calgary (Via kick as road trip through the Canadian Rockies) is on the books for August.
This woman does not like to stand still.

Ok, that is my first blog. I am about to push the magic button that will allow all others in the blogosphere to view the garbage I have just written, sorry to have wasted your time.

To redeem myself let me leave you with this quote:

"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyways..."

FIN