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I was talking to a friend the other day, and she knows I have some relatives in a small town at the southern end of the state. So she made a visit to the area, and I guess in that time she happened to pick up a newspaper. In it, she read about a child recently being named “Havoc”, yes “Havoc.” So she came running up to me to tell me that someone from “my town”(I’ve never actually lived there)had named their child Havoc. It’s such a small town that everybody not only knows everybody. Everybody is related to everybody. This particular child belongs to my second cousin. So I just had to shake my head and say yes I know exactly who that is unfortunately. I guess she was trying to imitate celebrities who give their children odd names. But it just came out odd. At least she didn’t name him Hitler or something. I just hope she has enough good sense not to do that.

Sometimes I think I could live in harmony with a religious person.  But then I realize that it would really depend.  I mean people are pushy, people want you to see things their way, and who can blame them.  They obviously think they’re right or else they wouldn’t continue to act and function in that fashion, or of course they would be extremely stupid.  But in most cases, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I couldn’t, not because I would be opposed to what they believed by any means or want them to switch over, but rather the opposite effect.
I’ve  always taken a laissez faire approach with people I like, in general things.  It’s one of those things of you know what, I have my opinions.  But what you choose is your choice and I will support you because I love you or because i at least care about you.  Most people don’t take that approach.  We look for people who believe as we do so we feel peace to some degree.  I do it for my own peace.  I  mean if they’re willing to see it as I do of, everybody is naturally going to have their own opinions and I care about you and love you because of who you are, not because you are exactly like me, exactly who I want you to be, then great.  Then we’ll have a great time, different opinions, we may banter sometimes.  But we could retain ourselves in that whole mix.  The problem that often seems to occur is one side being unable to maintain who they are, because the other person will not allow them to be.  I am all about being with the one you’re with.  But in terms of certain things, do you really want someone to be there only because they’re with you? 

If you have tried to shop for clothes in any Asian country, you’ve found that even if you are amazingly small here, you are not so small there. It’s rather depressing actually. And if you see the average girl walking around there, you understand why. They cater to the average consumer, which is I would estimate an 80 pound girl usually over 5 feet tall now. So before my most recent trip I took the top diet pills, dieted, exercised, all that. And I still felt fat in comparison. I was a large there, how bad is that! Or at least bad on the ego. And I swear, I get every inch of fat I have pinched somewhere in there, even worse. So I stay away from the idea of shopping for clothes there. There are some stores that don’t even make clothes “big enough” for me. I swear I could give myself an eating disorder just by spending too much time there, especially if I had to try to look for clothes. I think I would cry. I didn’t cry last time, but that’s because I didn’t bother looking for clothes! And my ego is strong enough to handle 2 weeks, though I sometimes think barely. Plus, I’ve figured out that you really shouldn’t compare yourself to other people, especially other people who have freakishly small bone structures that you just don’t have. I mean I like to think my bone structure is at least average. But let’s be realistic, the girls I saw there did not have that big of bone structures at all. I don’t know how they even find rings small enough for their fingers in any country besides an Asian country. With the whole all the bras are too small for me or they don’t make them that big, I think I’m okay with that. I like having some remnant of them, even if they aren’t much. I like not being shaped like a little boy, or at least not completely. My next step if I ever get into that funk, try the top diet pills and go on a diet purely made up of fruits and vegetables, nutrient dense and negative calorie foods, and nothing else! Extreme yes, but worth it to protect my ego for a couple weeks, I think so right now.

So many women are obsessed with perfumes and finding the perfect fragrance. After all, if you smell good, a guy may not consciously notice, but….. This was the concept behind pheromone based lotions and so on. It’s much harder to find eye creams. The difference is that the same perfume smells slightly different on every person. eye creams aren’t that tempermental. Yes, results vary, but not like perfumes. So check out the following guidelines. 1. Visit a large department store and play around Spray testers on tester papers or tissues, not on your body. The smell can get a bit overwhelming and you can confuse perfumes if you do that. It’s not like lipstick where you mix colors to get the perfect color. If you have a particular scent type, then talk to an associate and get a few of that kind specifically. They work there after all, they probably have better ideas than you on that. 2. Walk around for a day with a spray of one or two fragrances on your body You do this and see if you can stand the smell let alone actually like the smell. If at the end of that day, you still like the smell and fragrance, you probably have a winner. If not, start over again. 3. Go back and ask for a sample This will give you more time to make sure you like it, because you may just barely like it after the first day is over and hate it after the second. Sephora tends to give free perfume samples, and if you still really like it after a while, the bet is good that you will love it, after wearing it multiple times, and then you should buy a whole bottle. The bottles are pretty expensive. So it’s not so bad to find the best fragrance for you. It just takes a little bit more work than some would think of.

Is there a controversy surrounding Disney’s first black princess? Well, I was happy when they had their first non white princess period, because hello. Well maybe Pocohontas and Mulan were not technically princesses. Okay, let’s revise that, Pocohontas was Disney’s first real “interracial relationship” and there were previous non white stars of the show. But there has never really been a “princess” that was not heroic and so on and so forth in Disney, but rather the damsel in distress or whatever. In a way, I appreciate that. But in a way, why not a whole thing of fairness. I mean they had an ogre that was technically a princess. They’ve never had a princess using acne treatments, but I don’t really care with that. But apparently, people are upset by the new princess movie with a black princess with a white prince. Um…..why is there a problem with that? Technically, they did a people version of Cinderella using Brandy and an Asian guy I think it was. To be fair, they aren’t outraged that the princess is black, but that the man is white…..would we care if it were a black prince and a white princess? That’s certainly more common in the society to see black men white women. It’s apparently the princess and the frog story. Apparently many of the main characters are black, but the prince is white. I mean technically other non white characters before have met up with princes of their own race or whatever. But why? I mean is it so horrible to have an interracial couple of any mixture? Shouldn’t we be more outraged that certain races are still so interchangeable in Hollywood? That they used white actors to portray all other races, because they didn’t want to use actors of other races? I’m not black, I’m not white. But I am a minority, and really, I think it’s innovative, new, a move forward. But the fact that people are so pissed off is a move back. My biggest thing that I’m saying, grow up. I mean are we all still using acne treatments? Are we all still in diapers? Seriously, grow up!

You know how they have those specialty stores in the mall? They have one for men’s ties in my area, and they also have one for men’s socks. The tie shop is fun, because technically women shop there too. But they have a tie for everything, just as they do at the sock shop. At the sock shop, I think they have elmo shops, sponge bob socks, all the major league teams socks, transformers socks. They also have socks for kids so that they can look just like their dads or something. But who really sees socks, unless your pants ride up of course? Or if you’re wearing socks with sandals, that would happen. But there aren’t that many people, except older individuals, who wear socks with sandals. Either way, I love those specialty shops. I’m always in there, in fact I actually applied for a job once years ago, did it for a while over the holidays mostly, had some fun with it. The only problem was there was only ever one person working at a time. So it got a little bit boring when you were the only one in there and there were no customers or when you were closing up shop. Actually, they usually had a manager check in while you were closing up just to ensure no theft or something. But really, why steal socks. I guess for the same reason you would steal anything else, ultimately because you feel like it. But I did enjoy working at the men’s socks shop, even though I quit after the holidays. It paid barely minimum wage at that time, and it was only fun for so long. I also worked at a suit store, which paid about $8, which was above minimum wage for the times, again boring but interesting. I spent half the time taking a nap in the back, because realistically we hardly got any customers…ever. They eventually shut that one down, because the customer intake was that bad. I mean people go for suits when they have a special event like a wedding or a school dance, and that’s really about it. So it’s an up and down business, mostly dependent on the season.

The other day I had to go into another hair dresser, because mine has been on seemingly permanent vacation. No, he’s coming back in a month, but I’m impatient. Anyway, I have chosen traditionally other Asian hairdressers and male hairdressers, because in general terms, they tend to find this need to measure up in a way, and they really don’t give me the excuse of complaining about my “Asian hair.” Frankly, it’s a load of crap. Plenty of white people have rougher hair types, and plenty of Asians have smoother hair types. It has nothing to do with race. I mean what are they going to do, make heart meds, diet pills, lotions, types of insulin, etc. for Asians and specialized kinds for the different origins of white people? It’s completely ludacris. It’s basically an excuse of unskilled hairdressers. This I’ve also been told by my regular hairdresser, who I love. He’s one of the most beautiful men, because he obsessively takes care of his body, that I’ve ever seen. He’s also obsessed with being good at his job, because like I said, he feels this pressure to measure up and be better, because he’s not the typical hairdresser for being a man or something. He’s never complained about my hair being Asian, only about it being so ridiculously thick. So he takes a while to cut every different layer in the usual amounts he would have to on anybody else. And he always does me the favor of significantly thinning it out and layering it so it’s a little bit more bearable for me. But I usually give him a sizeable tip, so he doesn’t care quite as much. I choose him for many reasons. I know he takes diet pills and works out just like the rest of us to maintain his body, he’s beautiful, he only complains about my hair being thick, and even then not much, and he always does what I tell him to do because it’s my hair instead of playing like some others and doing essentially whatever he feels like doing.

An interesting thing, some people depict the Buddha to be fat, and yet Jesus is always skinny. The Buddha supposedly went through a significant fast of extreme deprivation in his life, and yet he’s supposed to be not just fat, but obese. And a man who later came to believe in moderation again is considered to be obese. Does that really make any sense? Most would consider him as a man in need of some serious weight loss, and yet through most of his life, he was one who participated in healthy eating, healthy exercise plans, not drinking, not smoking, living in moderation. I recognize that Jesus supposedly had some of the same traits and habits. But why is there such a distinct difference? I recently read a blog whose apparent writer decided that Jesus was fat. How does that make sense? Again, those of us who are fat generally speaking tend to have bad eating habits, lack of exercise habits, etc, except of course in the case of some extreme medical conditions. Apparently it all came from Israeli comedian, Lior Schlein, mocked the idea that Mary was a virgin, Jesus walked on water, etc. Apparently he thought that not only was Mary a teenage pregnancy victim, but aside from the fact that walking on water is unlikely for most, apparently he was too “fat” to walk on water. Like I said, all of this seems contradictory to me. These are men that were supposed to be extremely healthy, above other men in some ways, more aware of general things than most men, I would assume more aware of health concerns and how to use and not abuse the body, etc. I would assume they had no trouble achieving necessary weight loss or even needing to do it in the first place. Our ideas about things just seem interesting, but extremely contradictory and uninformed to say the least.

This may sound harsh to some.  But I don’t think that senior drivers should have the same requirements as the rest of us, rather more stringent.  I mean we put more stringent requirements on teenagers, because we know they are a higher risk group, just learning how to drive.  Senior drivers have likewise been proven to be a higher risk group for accidents, health problems, etc.  I’m not saying just take their licenses away or anything.  But why not have them take a check up driving test every few years?  Some are fine until they’re old.  But there are quite a few extra scary ones who realistically should not be on the road. 

This is one of those fabulous things you learn from Guns, Germs, and Steel. Not all of it, but part of this concept. Phaseolus vulgaris is one ingredient you will see in various weight loss pills. It is another name for the common bean, and it has been used to block a certain amounts of carbs from the system. It has been touted as a sort of amazing ingredient that allows you to cheat from time to time without the associated guilt if you are on a low crab diet. It has also been combined with fat blockers and appetite suppressants for natural and stimulant free weight loss pills. But this is not the part that connects in any way to Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. That will be found here. Diamond discusses another bean that wasn’t necessarily fully developed to the benefits of the natives who first discovered it. Many Europeans had an advantage, because plants growing in their area in the beginning were nutrient rich and required less actual development and breeding. In addition, there were more large game animals that were suitable and reliable to become domesticated instead of just tamed. Especially bears can be tamed, but they retain some level of their wild origins. On the other hand, dogs have in large part been easily domesticated and dependent on man to some degree. Cats, it largely depends on the individual cats. You could say that African countries have more large game than any other, but again, they have only been tamed and not domesticated. For example, the zebra may be similar to the horse. The reason why they have not been domesticated and horses have, zebras have a nasty temperament and actually cause more human injuries than lions, cheetas, or hippos. This because they tend to bite at random, and though horses have a nasty bite, it is quick and instantaneous and has warning. Zebras hold on like their life depends on it. So even elements that seem the same in basics are not at all. This is where the connection with phaseolus vulgaris comes in. You might know it as the common lima bean, but its name is actually phaseolus lunatus. So they come from the same basic family, why wouldn’t the lima bean actually have many of the same functions and content as the phaseolus vulgaris bean? Like zebras and horses, though in the same basic family, they are different enough in extremely important elements, that it just doesn’t work the same way. I found this interesting, and informative, thought why not share.