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How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off!

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Trying out Technorati, and pretending I know what I'm doing. I've done this a lot, with food, writing, child rearing. The worse thing that will happen is it won't sork and you'll be dead. If you're dead, you'll never have another problem! Wouldn't that be good?
Well no, that would not be good. If you're dead, I don't think you get to do anything at all, ever again.
I could be wrong of course. That Heaven and Hell stuff could be correct, in which case I'm probably in big trouble, as a non-believer. Anyway, always be prepared to ry new things. You can have some fantastic things happen if you remain open to experiences.

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What a crazy time!

October 27th 2008 22:31

It's times like these that make me especially glad Im an australian, living in a small country Australian town. I can sit back and watch it on the TV screen and laugh at what those crazy Americans have done this time.
Of course, it does impact on me personally too, and it's a pain having to pay more, and more, and more again, for almost everything. But the price of petrol is going down, interest rates are going down. Call me Pollyanna, but I can see good things in some of this.
One thing that really gets me though is the lack of contrition from the stockbrokers who caused this mess - back in the Great Depression, they were leaping from tall buildings! What are they doing now? Probably thinking about how they can stiff the common folk and keep raking in the money.

Anyway, I think we should look on this time as a chance to learn new ways of scrimping and saving, and feeling really proud of ourselves later when we can say - 'Oh, yeah they were hard times, but I grew my own vegetables, and we got on just fine.'
Anyway, Obama is going to be President and the world will be a better place!

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How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off!

October 5th 2008 01:08

I've published my first Ebook. It was fun, it was easy and I heartily recommend Lulu.com for anyone else who wants to slide easily into publishing. Of course, I'm not sure if this will ever make me any money, but what the hay, it was fun to try it out. Really Long Link

Check out the link and see what you think. I have credibility for this subject. I've dropped several sizes and will never go up to the higher sizes again. I know how to do, because I'm living it right now and will live it forever. I know lots of people drop a few kilograms and they're thrilled. Then life intervenes and the diet gets dropped as fast as the kilos were, and the weight heads up again. I know that life, I lived it for most of my adult life.

Then I learnt the secret, and I've never dieted again. I've reached my ideal weight though, and stayed there for a year or more. I can't imagine I will ever be fat again!

Recently I thought I would like to share my success with others, so they too can got off the diet treadmill, and live a more normal life, with no need to obsessively weigh food, or count calories.

If I feel like chocolate, I have it. I don't madly jog and wreck my joints. I live the life I really want to live, and my clothes fit better than they ever have before! My book will give anybody who is serious about reaching their ideal weight clues and tips to help them achieve their goal.

I like to cook, I hate to do strenuous exercise, and I like to help people. For a small amount of money, you too could be on your way to a happier, slimmer life!

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The Royal Show got in the way again!

September 30th 2008 04:29

For me, early September is all about the Adelaide Royal Show. I show and breed dogs, Schnauzers and Pharaoh Hounds, so if I'm not showing them, I'm looking at them and doing some personal judging of the stock myself.

This year we didn't have any Schnauzers to show, but we did show two of our Pharaohs. We also had our first ever adult house guest - Helen come over from NSW to show four of her Pharaohs and her Lakeland Terrier. I was a little concerned before she arrived, because I'd never actually met her before, and also because my housewife skills are almost nonexistent. But it turned out great

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Dog Names for show dogs

September 10th 2008 01:54

I breed pure bred dogs, and so Dog names are very important to me. My breeds are Standard Schnauzers and Pharaoh Hounds. The kennel name my husband and I chose back in 1989 was Holkschter.

We bred our first Standard Schnauzer litter that year, and needed a kennel prefix, so we had to think hard about the name we wanted our kennel to be known by. My husband is a Professional Wrestling fan, so obviously we knew the name Hulk Hogan very well - he was at his top around that era, and he had lots of fans he called Hulksters

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The Evil Side of Creativity

August 26th 2008 01:27

We're all creative people here, aren't we? And we're proud of our creativity and nurture it too, but do you ever think about the Dark Side of Creativity?

Because, of course, there is always a Dark side to everything. Confused? Well, what I'm talking about are the uses of creativity that don't bring light or goodness or understanding to the world

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To post or not to post, that is the question (LINK)

August 18th 2008 22:59

I went word-mad yesterday and wrote or worked on five or six new poems. If you're not a writer who spends too much time doing things that are not writing, you can't know how good it feels to finally get some writing, as in words on the page, happening. Or maybe you can know.

Maybe it's like people who teach others to do stuff - tennis, painting, whatever, but never get the time to play a game of tennis, or paint a picture because they're too busy teaching others. Anyway, I've now got these new poems, and one of them relates directly to my other blog here at Orble - Food Leaf

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Creativity has many faces (LINK)

August 13th 2008 23:14

I've been writing about creativity and read comments from others on the subject. As a poet and writer, obviously I value creativity. But creativity can be there in many aspects of our life. Those who claim not to be creative, in my opinion, just haven't taken the time to find their 'thing'.

If you watch a young child playing, that's when you see creativity at it's most basic level. Toddlers have to work at discovering and labelling and learning, and they have a deep inner drive to do this. They are creative because they don't know things like us adults do. They have to find something out for themselves or from those around them

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Autumn Serenity

August 11th 2008 02:00

The picture of the rug I posted earlier today proves how important good lighting is in the creation of good photography.

The rug is so much better in daylight than it looks on the screen. On the screen you can't snuggle under it with family either, and you can't feel the softness and the interesting textural differences in the yarns

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