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Moon Day / Woden's day
BLUEBERRY AVOCADO DRESSING
By Frederic Patenaude
½ cup water
1 and ½ cup blueberries
½ avocado
2-3 green onions
1 lime, juice of
1 Tbs. apple cider vinegar
1 Tbs. dulse powder
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Add more water if necessary. Serve
this dressing with your favorite salad greens!
I want to try that dressing, if I ever want it with tomatoes or squash
Marinated (overnight in lemon juice/ olive oil/ salt) eggplant recipe I got
from the French raw food cookbook Alimenta Vivante, or something like
that, when I was in Paris. I can read all the recipes barely.
Look at this photo slideshow, at bottom of page, of
FRENCH RAW FOODISTS
Click here
They call it Crudivorisme, l'Alimentation crue or Alimentation Vivante and it's
en vogue!
But the French are weird, they include raw meat in this, more often than we
do over here.
Some pics on french raw food sites
From french raw food blog:
yayablog.over-blog.net/
Betterave and carrots:
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LONG LINK
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I prefer Mamey/date smoothies, or raw fruit. I was just hungry and
wanted to be creative.
Flowers I got
and someone got me a subscription to New York Magazine.
Scary article
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1314185,00.html
And Miley Cyrus posed nude
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/04/61009/index.html
good for her! They should lower the age of consent, all these young ones are doing
it and doing it too. Did you know lots of times when underaged kids are caught having
sex they either go to jail or are set free as long as they register as a sex offender which
ruins their lives? Forever! Miley's alright. Let her pose topless, it's not her that
should be ashamed but those who think its bad to show some shoulder.
I love Chantelle, she is this British model, kind of like Katie Price or Paris, very entertaining
to read up on everyday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hWAEaQ-rI
Katie Price interview, I loved her wedding dress, I watched the wedding on E!
I am sure she is lyng about her bra size because there is no way I am bigger
than her, unless Birtish bra sizes are different. If I were to wear a DD ( E)
I would be hanging out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyJJ5KLFI4
Here she is making a spinach type juice every day for breakfast, this is
part of her workout dvd, I have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPMIrloCMfg
Lying in bed I have a lot to think about. I do not feel like seeing anybody.
Truth is, three people showed up at my door without permission.
I am upset. I like my privacy, I like advanced notice. I am like,
" How dare they!" Its not a party house, my place. In the olden
days before tv and radio people had set aside days when visitors
came for dinner, cards and drink.
I guess I am a hermit. I lie in bed at night and I watch tv and curl
up and just am alone with myself and I feel at such peace. I do
not mind visitors, but I need time to get ready and dressed.
I like being naked and without makeup. I went out tonight. I went
to Barnes and Nobles and I read a Marilyn Monroe book, some guy
wrote and he hinted that sex with her was the most special thing
in the world. Maybe I am a lesbian. I love beautiful men, but
everytime I am with them, I find their habits and selves repellant.
Then I become repellant. Maybe I am a lesbian, but a closet one,
a lipstick one, no butch at all. I love beauty and I know I am in love
with several female celebrities. I could never date a girl. That is a
deathwish. But I know I gravitate towards them. Maybe its me
I gravitate to. I am looking for myself out there in the world.
I feel men can't give me what I need, whether it be love or acceptance.
I think that is it. I feel bored with evey new date, no matter how .
Speaking of which, I saw tonight, why is Michelle Trachtenburg on the show,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtJlUXdmpc
she makes a really friend for Serena, totally not hot at all, my god,
Serena would never talk to a girl like that and let herself be drugged by
a nitwit like that. I wonder what the big secret is , the second big secret,
about Serena is, Next Monday we will find out, probably something really tame.
Wednesday
all I ate today was OJ, lots of it,
and two apple/romaine juices at Whole Foods, Juice day. Nice.
Men's minds are like vortexes, just a big mess.
I just want to be inside my mind. I want to
nurture me.
Why can't I just be happy by myself? I can be. I feel
I have something people want. They want it like air
or food. I give it, but am left drained. I want to love
myself. I don't want to act anymore.
I do love acting though. Its nice to
be the real me sometimes, is what I am saying.
I spoke with MBH. Like liquid. Like liquid our thoughts.
I am real with him. I am me. the beautiful real me who is herself.
MBH, My Beautiful Horse.
Oh wanna hear something?
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Money Can buy happiness article:
Money Can Buy Happiness
The old saying "money can't buy happiness" has
been proved wrong by researchers at The University
of Nottingham. A study into lottery jackpot winners
- those who have won more than 1 million - found that
a resounding 97 per cent of interviewees were just as
happy, if not happier, following their big win.
And it seems that money can even buy you love.
Although 15 per cent of winners classed themselves
as single in their previous lives, this dropped to
12 per cent post-win. Marriage is also on the cards
for many winners - 68 per cent of respondents
were married pre-win, jumping to 74 per cent
afterwards.
Winners and non-winners completed a questionnaire
designed as the ultimate happiness test, and their
answers were compared. A Satisfaction with Life
scale was used to determine subjective well-being;
with respondents asked to rate how much they
agreed or disagreed with statements such as "In most
ways my life is close to ideal." Marital status, health,
type of house and typical holiday destination were
also noted, measuring how lifestyles
following a big win.
The study found that though the money brought
with it financial stability and security, it was not
necessarily material possessions that enhanced
winners' lives. 44 per cent of winners said that
being able to spend more time with their family
contributed to their happiness, compared to 26
per cent who said it was the ability to buy or do
what they liked.
When presented with the statement "I am satisfied
with my life," 59 per cent of the winners agreed,
compared to 40 per cent. Reassuringly for the
non-winners though, the same number responded
positively to the statement "In most ways my life
is close to ideal" as the winners - 48 per cent said
they agreed in both groups.
Just three per cent of the winners polled said they
were less happy than before they hit the jackpot,
citing new pressures in their lives. None missed
working, found that the money caused arguments
in their households or that it led to separation from
their partners.
But the huge life changes that are expected to
materialise following a big win are more myth
than reality. Though many winners seem to move
into bigger properties - 68 per cent of winners lived
in detached houses compared to just 32 per cent
pre-win - they stay in the same geographical area.
And though winners do take more holidays - three
a year compared to non-winners 1.5 - they're not
noticeably more adventurous in their destination
choice than non-winners. Holidays in the UK
and Europe remained popular - 100 per cent of
winners had taken a holiday in Britain since their win.
Dr Richard Tunney, Psychology Lecturer at The
University of Nottingham, said: "The old saying
'money can't buy you happiness' may not be true,
but traditional family values, a comfortable home
and financial security are clearly key elements to a
happy life. Winners may shell out on a new home
and more holidays, but the majority aren't snapping
up penthouses in the capital and cruising in the
Bahamas. Instead they're sticking to their roots,
investing in property close to their original home
and even keeping their holidays low-key. One pair
who had hit the jackpot still took regular trips to
their caravan in Ironbridge."
The research was commissioned by National
Lottery operator Camelot. It is the first academic
study into jackpot winners since the National
Lottery began 12 years ago.
NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY
University Park
Nottingham
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Happiness
Philadelphia, PA — Financially richer people tend
to be happier than poorer people, according to
sociological researcher Glenn Firebaugh,
Pennsylvania State University, and graduate
student Laura Tach, Harvard University.
Their research is focused on whether the
income effect on happiness results largely
from the things money can buy (absolute
income effect) or from comparing one’s income
to the income of others (relative income effect).
They present their research in a session paper,
titled “Relative Income and Happiness: Are
Americans on a Hedonic Treadmill?,” at the
American Sociological Association Centennial
Annual Meeting on August 14.
Firebaugh argues that, in evaluating their own
incomes, individuals compare themselves to their
peers of the same age. Therefore a person's reported
level of happiness depends on how his or her income
compares to others in the same age group. Using
comparison groups on the basis of age, the
researchers find evidence of both relative and
absolute effects, but relative income is more
important than absolute income in determining
the happiness of individuals in the United States.
This may result in a self-indulgent treadmill,
because incomes in the United States rise over
most of the adult lifespan.
“If income effects are entirely relative, then
continued income growth in rich countries today
is irrelevant to how happy people are on the whole,”
says Firebaugh. “Rather than promoting overall
happiness, continued income growth could promote
an ongoing consumption race where individuals
consume more and more just to maintain a
constant level of happiness.”
Firebaugh tested what he refers to as the hedonic
treadmill hypothesis, which uses a comparison of
age-based cohorts. The hedonic treadmill requires
a specific type of relative income effect—one where
“keeping up with the Joneses” means continually
increasing one’s own income, because we can be
sure that the Joneses are increasing theirs.
The researchers’ measured the age, total family
income, and general happiness of 20- to 64-year
-olds using analysis from the 1972-2002 General
Social Survey. They controlled for health, education,
effects of getting older, race, and marital status.
Happiness was measured using a self-report
response of “very happy,” “pretty happy,” or
“not too happy.”
While income is important in determining happiness,
Firebaugh’s data found that physical health was the
best single predictor of happiness, followed by income,
education, and marital status. The researchers found a
relative income effect—the richer you are relative to
your age peers, the happier you will tend to be.
“We find with and without controls for age, physical
health, education, and other correlates of happiness,”
\said Firebaugh, “that the higher the income of others
in one’s age group, the lower one’s happiness. Families
whose income earners are in jobs with flat income
trajectories are likely to become less happy over time.
Thus the relative income effect observed here implies
adverse effects for some individuals over the working
years of their life cycles.”
To obtain a copy of Firebaugh and Tach’s paper
, contact Johanna Olexy or Lee Herring at the ASA
Press Office at (202) 247
-9871, pubinfo@asanet.org
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Money can buy happiness
buy happiness?
It's sometimes said that scientists
have found no relationship
between money and happiness,
but that's a myth, says
University of Illinois psychologist
Ed Diener.
The connection is complex, he says.
But in fact, very rich people rate
substantially higher in satisfaction
with life than very poor people do,
even within wealthy nations, he says.
RESEARCH: Hunt for happiness picks up
"There is overwhelming evidence
that money buys happiness," said
economist Andrew Oswald of the
University of Warwick in England.
The main debate, he said, is how
strong the effect is.
Oswald recently reported a study of
Britons who won between $2,000
and $250,000 in a lottery. As a
group, they showed a boost in
happiness averaging a bit more
than 1 point on a 36-point scale
when surveyed two years after
their win, compared to their
levels two years before they won.
Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-Prize
winner and Princeton economist,
and colleagues recently declared
that the notion that making a lot
of money will produce good
overall mood is "mostly illusory."
They noted that in one study,
people with household incomes
of $90,000 or more were only
slightly more likely to call
themselves "very happy"
overall than were people from
households making $50,000 to
$89,999. The rates were 43%
versus 42%, respectively. (Members
of the high-income group were
almost twice as likely to call
themselves "very happy" as
people from households with
incomes below $20,000.)
But other studies, rather than
asking for a summary estimate
of happiness, follow people
through the day and repeatedly
record their feelings. These studies
show less effect of income on
happiness, Kahneman and
colleagues said.
There is still another twist to
the money-happiness story.
Even though people who make
$150,000 are considerably happier
than those who make $40,000,
it's not clear why, says psychologist
Richard E. Lucas of Michigan State
University.
Does money make you happier?
Or does being happier in the first
place allow you to earn more
money later, maybe by way of
greater creativity or energy? Or
does some other factor produce
both money and happiness?
There's evidence for all three
interpretations, Lucas says.
In any case, researchers say any
effect of money on happiness is
smaller than most daydreamers
assume.
"People exaggerate how much
happiness is bought by an extra
few thousand," Oswald said.
"The quality of relationships
has a far bigger effect than quite
large rises in salary.... It's much
better advice, if you're looking
for happiness in life, to try to find
the right husband or wife rather
than trying to double your salary."
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Money can buy happiness
It does not make you as content as getting married
or finding a job, but money matters more to making
people happy than previously believed, according
to new research.
Two studies released yesterday
shed new light on the importance
of economic circumstances, and
undermine earlier findings that
poor people are just as happy as
the rich.
Money doesn't buy Happiness -
or Does It? by the Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic
and Social Research, at Melbourne
University, shows that when
- not just income - is measured, the
rich are indeed happier than the poor.
Earlier research that focused only on
income found very little difference in
the reported happiness of high-
income and low-income people.
Asked the same questions about life
satisfaction, rich and poor responded
in remarkably similar ways.
Mark Wooden, the study's co-author,
said: "This has led some people to
say money is not that important,
relative to other things." However,
when people's assets were taken
into account - the value of their
houses, cars, art works, even stamp
collection - a different picture emerged.
"Assets were far more important
than income in determining
happiness," said Professor
Wooden. "And when you
combine income and assets,
money seems to matter more
than people thought before."
The study was based on a survey
of almost 8000 people aged 25-59.
Professor Wooden said income on
its own was not a good measure
because it could fluctuate, while
assets were stable and could tide
people over periods of low income.
At the same time, research by
Professor Siobhan Austen, of the
Women's Economic Policy
Analysis Unit at Curtin University,
showed poor women might say they
were "happy" but they were not
necessarily doing well.
When asked the standard questions
about life satisfaction, 76 women -
divided between a rich and poor
Perth suburb - appeared to be
equally content with life. But in
focus groups with the women, it
was clear the experiences of the
two groups were very different,
she said.
"The poor women coped, struggled
and adjusted to their economic
circumstances," she said. "They
are resilient. But this doesn't mean
they are doing well. And their
'happiness' shouldn't be used by
governments as an excuse to do
nothing."
Both studies agreed that friends,
partners, jobs and a sense of
belonging to the community were
very important to people's feeling
of satisfaction.
This is really funny Paula Abdul
screwed up big time
PAULA TALKING DRUGGED UP
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Lydia Hearst, a real heiress is gonna
be on Gossip Girl
click here
Let's make that money!!!
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Hey I'm interested in fruitarians and I've been reading you blog (great site! I love all your pictures of fruit and other raw foods
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Suvine. If you don't love Shel, let him go. I feel sorry for him. Also, if you want to be with a guy you love, you need to create a vacuum for yourself. Would you say that Shel feels the same way about you as you do with MBH?
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Hi Suvine,
I have a maybe too personal question for you. so answer if you feel comofrotable or even email me personally at colleen.e.gleason@gmail.com. Ok, so I am also raw-have been a few years, I have been on hormonal birth control but want to get off. i used the vaginal ring and i think it gives me yeast infections, weight gain, anxiety and depression. I am curious if you use any form of a more natural birth control i don't know about or take a low dose pill or whatever? I have read about wild yam and wild carrot seeds that women used for thousand s of years-but they are of course not fda approved and i don't really want to experiment with maybe getting pregnant. anyhow if you feel like sharing i would be very interested,. i read on raw food chocoholic Shazzie's site that she recommends the fertility monitor called persona...thank you, colleen
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Why are you going all through this trouble of birth control, have your boyfriend use a condom or pull out. Really-! If any guy wants to have sex with the beautfiul you, have him show you some manners
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I have been reading your blog off and on for a while. So maybe this has been mentioned and I missed it, because I haven't read every entry. I am wondering why you & MBH are not together? It seems as if you should be! Don't you feel you are meant for him, and maybe that's why you can't get into the idea of being with anyone else, such as this guy Shel? I guess it's really none of my business, it just seems you are happiest when writing about MBH.
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I love my readers I do they are so smart about me
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For natural birth control I have heard neem oil words. Rub it on your partners penis the tip of it..an also put some inside of yourself. I have read that this works.
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omg that stuff will burn you, its like tea tree oil
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