When you look at your pinterest and find out that you also pinned other people's quotes below the pin... Nope not my words!
Edit that.
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Evil Coffee
Though I do love coffee icecream, I'm not a big coffee drinker. I cannot stand that harsh bitter taste that most seem to have. I have been searching for that smooth coffee with deep flavor and no bite. Just like in Costa Rica. Recently went to a coffee resource place in Oakville and learned that I have been ordering it all wrong. Light coffee is actually more bitter than dark roasted.
Anyhoots, I am glad I am not addicted.
During a 10 day sleep info event on FMTv online I learned that coffee, the stimulant that it is, actually disrupts sleep even if you drink it in the morning and it affects your normal cortisol cycles throughout the day.....(just nerded out there).
So lately I have been avoiding it, as minimal as I used to have it.
Today I went against what I have learned and for a quick fix/ pick me up, something to fill my hungry breakfast-less stomach I just decided to get a no-foam latte.
BIG mistake.
The morning gong-show ensued:
Drip onto my desk.
I thought, oh maybe just some excess coffee that was on the outside of the cup before I put the lid on.
Drip on to my fingers. Strange.
Inspection of the lid does not result in finding any other openings.
As I drank my coffee through the sipping hole of the disposable coffee cup lid, I realized there was a leak somewhere.
Drip drip.....
Well after the 4th random drip, I make a mental note:.... I am wearing one of my fav white blouses.
So Joss, Do not get any on your.......... Gah ! dammit!
Two coffee stains on my white top.
One drop stain that seemed to be even dry already!
Quick, take it off, nearly pulling out my bobby pin, producing crazy hair lady.
Put on scrub top to prevent half naked lady from scrambling around the clinic.
Rush to the sink and rinse with water and soap.
Scrub scrub scrub.
More soap and scrubbing until it appears to be cleared.
Ok now I am left with my front blouse see through and soaking wet.
I need to dry it.
I wring it and patt it down with loads of paper towel.
This is not drying it fast enough.
And this is stretching and deforming my rayon blouse.
Hey, the ortho room has a heat gun!
I have been burned by this before so another mental note: I know to be super duper careful. Right, right?
Setting on low, the heat gun only blows out cold air.
So setting on high and keep it a good distance away from my blouse and keep it moving...
Almost dry, it is working!
Hey... whats that over there??....
My eyes get distracted for a millisecond and when I look at my blouse it has a burn mark on it!
UGH!
It looks like a brown smear mark.... (no other explanation there).
Rush back to the water in hopes that soap and water will clear things up.
Surprisingly it lightens the burn mark.
I need something more, this burn stain mark is worse than the coffee...
Hey hydrogen peroxide clears stains - bleaches them white.
So my morning is spent searching the clinical floor for hydrogen peroxide.
And as I sit here soaking my one of my favorite, now ruined, white blouses in peroxide, I cannot help but think....
That my mental notes this morning were pretty darn useless, and
how this ordeal is more proof of how evil evil evil coffee is, in soooo many ways.....
Stay away kids. Just say no to coffee.
Anyhoots, I am glad I am not addicted.
During a 10 day sleep info event on FMTv online I learned that coffee, the stimulant that it is, actually disrupts sleep even if you drink it in the morning and it affects your normal cortisol cycles throughout the day.....(just nerded out there).
So lately I have been avoiding it, as minimal as I used to have it.
Today I went against what I have learned and for a quick fix/ pick me up, something to fill my hungry breakfast-less stomach I just decided to get a no-foam latte.
BIG mistake.
The morning gong-show ensued:
Drip onto my desk.
I thought, oh maybe just some excess coffee that was on the outside of the cup before I put the lid on.
Drip on to my fingers. Strange.
Inspection of the lid does not result in finding any other openings.
As I drank my coffee through the sipping hole of the disposable coffee cup lid, I realized there was a leak somewhere.
Drip drip.....
Well after the 4th random drip, I make a mental note:.... I am wearing one of my fav white blouses.
So Joss, Do not get any on your.......... Gah ! dammit!
Two coffee stains on my white top.
One drop stain that seemed to be even dry already!
Quick, take it off, nearly pulling out my bobby pin, producing crazy hair lady.
Put on scrub top to prevent half naked lady from scrambling around the clinic.
Rush to the sink and rinse with water and soap.
Scrub scrub scrub.
More soap and scrubbing until it appears to be cleared.
Ok now I am left with my front blouse see through and soaking wet.
I need to dry it.
I wring it and patt it down with loads of paper towel.
This is not drying it fast enough.
And this is stretching and deforming my rayon blouse.
Hey, the ortho room has a heat gun!
I have been burned by this before so another mental note: I know to be super duper careful. Right, right?
Setting on low, the heat gun only blows out cold air.
So setting on high and keep it a good distance away from my blouse and keep it moving...
Almost dry, it is working!
Hey... whats that over there??....
My eyes get distracted for a millisecond and when I look at my blouse it has a burn mark on it!
UGH!
It looks like a brown smear mark.... (no other explanation there).
Rush back to the water in hopes that soap and water will clear things up.
Surprisingly it lightens the burn mark.
I need something more, this burn stain mark is worse than the coffee...
Hey hydrogen peroxide clears stains - bleaches them white.
So my morning is spent searching the clinical floor for hydrogen peroxide.
And as I sit here soaking my one of my favorite, now ruined, white blouses in peroxide, I cannot help but think....
That my mental notes this morning were pretty darn useless, and
how this ordeal is more proof of how evil evil evil coffee is, in soooo many ways.....
Stay away kids. Just say no to coffee.
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Ruin
Life aint always peachy.
But it definitely does have some beautiful extraordinary moments.
I've come across a few people in my life who've seemed to have it hard.
But over the years for certain particular peeps, enough time has past to make me see the whole picture.
The people that seem to constantly attract terrible things or terrible people in their lives and it seems to be the world is against them .... there appears to be one constant. Themselves.
You can exit their life, then years and years pass, and when you see them again, nothing has changed, the same misery, the same woe-is-me, the same blame of others around them, the same victim role and it is never.... ever their own fault.
It is pretty sad really, but amazingly it is quite freeing to not put up with it anymore.
Friendship is a connection you have, the quality, not a tolerance, and definitely not defined by the quantity of time you have known them. You may have connected with them for an instant in time, but that does not mean you connect now or for all the years. Simply put, it ran it's course.
2010 was the most loneliest year for me, but out of that, I was pushed out of my shy comfort zone and out came amazing things and wonderful people, and has made me cherish and appreciate those that I have even more.
I've never liked the cheese-ball movie and book : Eat, Pray Love.
But this quote stands true to me:
"Ruin is a gift, Ruin is the way to transformation." - Elizabeth Gilbert.
Monday, 21 August 2017
Today there is a Solar Eclipse...
Apparently it happens every 99 yrs....
In light of the Solar eclipse and a band I never heard of until this weekend and one of my fav. oldie mushy songs....
I give you this:
In light of the Solar eclipse and a band I never heard of until this weekend and one of my fav. oldie mushy songs....
I give you this:
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
quote of a quote of a quote....
This morning in my super short commute I heard the radio station talking about Obama's most liked Tweet, it is a beautiful quote:
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin or his background or religion...People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - Nelson Mandela
And the station followed this up with this:
Man in the Mirror - MJ
(aaaand that just almost made me cry .... :) )
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin or his background or religion...People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - Nelson Mandela
And the station followed this up with this:
Man in the Mirror - MJ
(aaaand that just almost made me cry .... :) )
health
A reminder of the definition:
I am banging my head trying to understand certain concepts to health, health promotion, prevention, treatment etc. I think that this basic concept of what health means has been skewed to benefit others but fails to address the health of the individual themselves.
There are so many underlying aspects to health and causes of unhealthiness, that the quick fix seems to be a better more convenient route than to delve deep into the complexity of the root causes.
Anyhow, for me, it has come down to the question "Are you helping a person become more healthy, or are you enabling them the remain in a state of unhealthiness?" Band aid solutions do not address the cause, they just prolong the inevitable, or even make things worse in the long run.
Seems pretty basic to me.
health
helTH/
noun
- the state of being free from illness or injury."he was restored to health"
synonyms: well-being, healthiness, fitness, good condition, good shape, fine fettle; - a person's mental or physical condition."bad health forced him to retire"
synonyms: physical state, physical shape, condition, constitution "bad health forced him to retire"
I am banging my head trying to understand certain concepts to health, health promotion, prevention, treatment etc. I think that this basic concept of what health means has been skewed to benefit others but fails to address the health of the individual themselves.
There are so many underlying aspects to health and causes of unhealthiness, that the quick fix seems to be a better more convenient route than to delve deep into the complexity of the root causes.
Anyhow, for me, it has come down to the question "Are you helping a person become more healthy, or are you enabling them the remain in a state of unhealthiness?" Band aid solutions do not address the cause, they just prolong the inevitable, or even make things worse in the long run.
Seems pretty basic to me.
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