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In Berlin it's the norm to move into a naked apartment. Meaning if you want to avoid sleeping and eating on the floor, you'd be best to sort some furniture out for yourself ASAP! I found myself confronted with this small dilemma when my one month sublet for Henricks room was up. Luckily, Matthius (another flatmate) was moving out of his room on the same day, so needless to say I decided to take his room, a bigger, more spacious room which comes with a balcony over looking Karl-Marx Strasse. The move was planned for Monday morning.
Rewind to Saturday evening when I was frantically scouting the net for some furniture over a chilled beer and a box of smokes that were quickly disappearing. A friend had suggested to check out 'Craigs List', a well known American website where you could do some wheeling and dealing which was exactly what I was looking for.
I saw an advert saying, 'contents of bedroom must go'. I immediately grabbed the phone and called them up. 20mins later I was around in the English couples apartment claiming my stake on the contents of their bedroom. I took everything except the shabby 1980's wall paper that by the looks of it had been gradually peeling from the day it was slapped on! There was a massive wardrobe which they offered for free saying it was payment enough just to get it out of there. I knew that Matthias had been on the prowl for such an item but hadn't had much luck. I also knew he had organized a rental van to move his gear to his new apartment on Monday morning.
The cogs began to turn in my head. If I could convince Matthias to take the wardrobe he could pick it up on Monday morning, along with my newly purchased furniture before heading back to our apartment and dropping it off, then I could help him load his stuff. He gets a wardrobe and I get my stuff delivered free of charge, everyones happy!! I mentioned the wardrobe to him when I get home that night. He liked the idea but wanted to see it for himself, so I arranged a visit back to the English couple the following day with Matthias in hope he'd dig it.
Sunday afternoon we roll on over and he sizes up the wardrobe like a magpie who has just spotted shiny tinfoil. After some close inspection by the tall narrow German the deal is done!! 'We'll be here at 10:30 in the morning with a van to load it all' he said. Delighted with our find we thought it appropriate to go for a celebratory drink…
Rise and shine Monday morning with a thumping hangover after our one celebratory drink which lasted the entire evening, anyway the less said the better! As arranged Matthias went to pick up the wagon at the rental depot. I decided a combination of The National's 'Boxer' (great album) in my head phones and a slight breeze on my face would be the trick to get my head out of my arse, so I took the bike. The soothing sounds and breeze was working a treat, that was until some Turkish guy decides to walk out from between two big vans without looking up or down the street… BANG… MY HEAD HIS NOSE!!! I'm hurdled across the handle bars landing a good 3 or 4 meters away, while he's in a heap on the road holding his nose as the blood is flowing down his face. I quickly get to my feet and go to pick him up but he gestures not to touch him. A passerby picks up my bike and brings it to the side of the road. There was a state of confusion in the air as I checked my body parts were all still attached. I was more concerned about the Turkish man as he was the one loosing blood, but I quickly realised that he was a hypercondriac of the biggest degree.
He immediately demands my name and address, which I refused to give. Like some lil spoiled child in the play ground, he then threatens to call the cops, as though he was going to get me arrested for his lack of awareness. Tension at this stage is beginning to grow as onlookers gather on the street each with an inquisitive look on their face. In the distance I heard an elderly woman ask the woman next to her what had happened? To which she replies 'I saw the guy on the bike punch that poor man, he must have broken his nose'. Bloody hell I thought this is a conspiracy!! 'Go ahead and call the cops, you're the one who walked out in front of me', I said. I then thought Christ if the cops are called they're either going to have a right laugh at the situation, or else going to be pissed off at the fact their time is being wasted, the latter being the most probable outcome .
The shock is beginning to hit me and I feel myself getting a bit shaky, he notices this and decides to exploit it, by asking me for ID. I half heartily reach for my wallet and then say, "No… I have none on me"!! He then walks to the shop window in an attempt to see his nose which I could tell wasn't a picture of beauty in the first place. It wasn't broken, I knew that much, as I've seen a few broken noses in my time after the local junior 'hopp bopps' as a youth, with my dear friend Grealzer being at the receiving end of most impact punches. He got his nose splatted across his face more times than I care to remember. In fact, he's sporting a broken nose and two black eyes in his debz(grad ball) picture, which is proudly hanging on the wall of his parents house greeting you as you walk in the front door.
He walks back to me having checked his swollen nose and says, 'give me ten euro and I won't call the cops'. This was like red to a bull, 'You cheeky bastard', I said 'if anything you should be giving me ten euro, go ahead call the cops'. The crowd growing in size now, I suddenly remember that Matthias is waiting at the apartment with the van as I reach into my pocket and see his name come up on the screen of my phone. Im also thinking, if he calls the cops it's going to take a good 30mins/hour to sort out this mess, which could easily be avoided by swallowing my pride and giving him the 10 euro. I just want to point out at this stage, it wasn't the 10 euro that annoyed me, it was the principle of it! I reached into my pocket and took out a 10euro note in an attempt to avoid the delay and hassle. With gritted teeth I hand over the tenner, telling him that he was a fraud and if I ever saw him again I'd run him over on my bike and I certainly wouldn't be stopping.
Of course I didn't mean it, but man was I pissed off. He had just put a saddle on my back and rode me like a Grand National prize winner at the odds of 10/1. But what could I do….? If I had the time I would have stayed and fought my corner for sure!!
I got back on my bike and went on my way like a grumpy Homer Simpson, uttering absentees to myself.
I eventually got over my frustration and got the entire contents of my room for 70euro, yep you heard right 70euro. A kingsize bed, desk, 3 chairs, 2 bedside lockers and 2 lamps among another few bits and pieces. So the way I look at it now is, the tenner I got rode for, I gained back on the deal I did for the furniture, so all is well that ends well I suppose!!!
You'll find many a bike in Berlin, like most major European Cities, you quickly realise that the two wheel method of transport is so much more effective than that of the four wheel. The Bicycle, mans best friend, after the dog (but you cant ride him) and of course, there's the old reliable for so many moons out on the prairie, the horse. But you gotta feed and water him, so you might as well have a needy wife at home screaming for the gas money you worked so hard for!
The bicycle of Berlin comes in many different forms, some small, some big, some that'll blow your mind with speed… Hmmm!
My mate Mike traded a hefty sum of 35 euro the other day, for his first bike in the Northern Hemisphere. He's an Ozzy, who's been living here six months, currently working on an extension of his Visa. Hope he gets it. The cat's got great licks on the six-string banjo. So anyway, he's playing with this band. After the jam, he's asked if he wants a bike. To which he responds in typical Ozzy fashion, "Fuckin' right I want a bike, been haulin my ass all round town on the U-bahns, dodging fares like a fox dodging the fucking hunt"… "OK, here you go"!!
Mike arrived up to me this afternoon on a Communist Western Berlin two-wheeler with those big handle bars, that even a red neck from the deep south of Carolina would find it hard to pull on. Only thing missing was the usual farting noise that comes out the back. A kind of Brmm Brmm Brmm, with a purposefully appointed breathing space between each Brmm in order for it to catch its breath for the next few meters of flat ground. Guitar on his back, he didn't give a shite! He had his bike.
An independent man of 27 yrs of age, 3 gears, fast, slow and stop, and of course the old back pedal brake. Designed for those nasty moments of induced courage when you do occasionally feel the trust of down hill force while encountering a gradual decline. Unlike those, one may find in Glasgow. Getting caught on the street of Glasgow during a down pour, you'll be lucky if your new converse are still on your feet by the time you hit the front door.
A distinct colour of purple with a little bell that tinker would be proud of. Like most German inventions strategically placed between the brake and the middle of the handle bars, meaning, if you do have to 'TING' some one out the way, you have to quickly decide. Do I warn them with my 'TINKER' bell, or do I slow down. Movement of hands are restricted at high speed remember. Doesn't sound much of a big deal, but in a split second decision, the usual out come is a TINK… "GET OUT OF THE FUCKIN WAY"… BANG… "IM SO SORRY… WAS THERE A CHILD IN THAT PRAM". See what I mean? Not good, not good at all!
But of course, we have the back pedal brake. Bless the back pedal brake. The savior of all infants, traveling the streets of Berlin, in their mobile bedroom of everlasting comfort of continental under sheets. Bless the back Pedal!
His guitar on his back, hair loosely blowing in the wind I saw a new, and less spooked Ozzy approach me, conscious of the fact that he had no need to pay the required fare of 2 euro 30 cent for his journey above ground on his new wagon, contrary to that of his travels under ground. Who could blame him? He proudly chained her up, with the chain he had bought for more than the purchased amount of the bike. He stood back and said, "Well, what you think?" To which I rhetorically replied, "Is it in tune?"
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You know what I love? When someone posts art they didn't do without mentioning it isn't theirs, without bothering to source it (or hit it on some reverse image search to find the source) and on top of that not even bothering to look at the signature that's sitting right there on his shoulder and run it through bloody Google.
Nice job being a bag of reproductive organs.
and then what bothers me most is that reposts get more notes than the original posts
seriously, this is stealing
Thanks for supporting the person that basically told me I shouldn't reproduce
This is a fucking image on the internet that I can't read the signature of and don't know the source of
lmao its a fucking picture i didnt know it was ILLEGAL ppl do that all the time
he didnt fucking mean to take it without permission or w/e sigh
Oh you! Just so you know, it actually IS illegal! There exists a multitude of treaties on intellectual property and even an organization concentrating on that, called World Intellectual Property Organization XD And I'm pretty sure, wherever you're from, that you country did sign at least one of those treaties:))
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If you have a dog and take that dog anywhere outside your own home, you may ask yourself why do I need dog waste bags? It's inevitable that anywhere we take our dogs, there will be a chance we'll need to clean up after them. No one wants to pollute the environment or get fined. That's where dog waste bags come into play.
Dog waste bags are very easy to carry and don't take up a lot room, so there's no excuse to not take them along for the walk. You can stuff the bags into your pockets, purse, tie them around your leash or put them in one of those little plastic bag dispensers that attach by a clip.
Today, most dog waste bags are degradable, so they won't hurt the environment, unlike dog waste that is improperly disposed of. Dog waste left unchecked can make its way into our lakes, rivers, streams and cause fishing and swimming to be suspended because of the fecal coliform bacteria dog waste contains. Simply picking up your dogs waste with a dog waste bag will help prevent the fecal coliform bacteria from washing into these bodies of water. Not to mention that since many bags are now oxo-biodegradable, you won't have to worry about disposing of them in the trash because the dog waste bag will degrade over 12 months, not hundreds of years.
Also, if you're like me and you like to keep your money in your pocket, you'll be sure to carry dog waste bags with you at all times. Why you ask? In many parks and towns, not picking up your dog's waste can lead to fines of $50 or more. For less than $50, you can purchase hundreds if not thousands of bags at your local pet store or over the internet: Bow Wow Waste.
Finally, dog waste bags will not only keep the environment clean and money in your pocket, but they will also help you be a good neighbor and dog owner. Using a bag when your dog poops in your neighbor's yard, the park or anywhere else, will help keep the next person from stepping in your dog's waste.
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I think the real problem was the lack of questions offered in the Latin American forums in the first place. I have no idea what the number is for the player base in Latin American areas, but what I DO know is that not all Latin Americans speak Spanish. That may have been one reason why the LA forums were so poorly represented, as you're essentially leaving out any Portuguese-speaking players from the Q and A (as well as the many different dialect-speaking players).
Or maybe not very many players in Latin America peruse the Blizz forums. Yet another possibility is that these same players were not aware that they were even given the chance to "Ask the Developers," (although to be fair, I don't frequent Blizz's forums much either).
Whatever the case may have been, the fact remains: on THIS question, the problem was the question itself. Not necessarily Blizzard's fault.
For the record, I know they very much did mess up on the rest of the Q and A as well. I'm not trying to be a fanboy, just explaining this issue was just one of poor circumstance.


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Great light supper, quick & easy. Subbed fresh oregano and garlic in the marinade & cooked the chicken on the bbq. Also subbed large clove of minced garlic for the garlic powder in the salad dressing. Served with quartered pita bread, warmed on the grill. Very good.
Chicken Souvlaki Salad
carolfitz Posted: 06/06/10
2BPaulaB Posted: 06/14/10
I was disappointed considering all the excellent reviews. This is a quick meal, good for a casual family lunch or dinner. But I do not think it is special enough to serve to guests. The consistency of the dressing turned watery quickly which would made it visually unappealing.
annveronica Posted: 07/26/09
Delicious recipe. My husband and I LOVE it. I would caution that it should be served immediately after tossing so that it doesn't get soupy. It's very tasty and absolutely delicious.
cmecucci Posted: 10/12/10
I love this recipe. I follow everything exact, except I put the chicken Souvlaki in a pita or grilled tortilla. The chicken is moist and the flavors are fantastic!
Aingel4ever Posted: 05/18/09
The only things I changed were that I used reduced fat tomato basil feta cheese and I didnt have white white vinegar so i just used some cooking wine. Still tasted great. Will make again with the exception of smaller onions.
SelkieinAZ Posted: 08/06/09
I love this salad! It's easy to make, has lots of flavor and uses my garden's overflowing cukes and tomatoes! I left out the red pepper and added a bit more garlic, and added dried dill to the dressing.
StaceyS4 Posted: 09/26/09
We loved this recipe! Wonderful for when the tomatoes & cucumbers are in abundant supply! We added extra olives b/c we like them, otherwise, stuck to the recipe....delicious & very fresh & flavorful! Will definitely make this again.
loissimon Posted: 08/29/09
This recipe has been a staple in our house for several years, it is delicious. I did reduce the red pepper, but you need just a little to give the dish a little "bite". I also add some Greek Seasoning as I'm putting the ingredients together. It adds a lot of flavor and and authentic Greek taste.
G123456 Posted: 01/23/11
I love this recipe! If I'm in a time crunch, I susbtitute store bought tzatziki sauce. I also like to put the salad mix in a middle eastern pita for those hearty eating nights. Delicious!
maglover12 Posted: 03/08/10
We've made this salad multiple times, and it is absolutely delicious. The yogurt dressing has a nice kick to it, and the flavors meld together perfectly. Serve with toasted pita bread or pita chips for some crunch!
foxegurl266 Posted: 08/11/10
My husband and I were skeptical about this recipe...until we tried it. It was so good! The chicken turned out great!
urbanyogini Posted: 09/26/10
My husband and I thought this dish was great! It would be great for a summer get together, nothing formal, just friends gathering for good eats. To decrease the "runny" quality to the dressing, use greek style yogurt. It's thicker and tangier... yum! Also, only add dressing on individual plates, instead of all at once. I do this for all salads in general, so the whole dish stays fresh and not soggy.
Candy789 Posted: 03/16/11
This salad was superb! The flavors were not bland at all (one of my fears). It transported me to Greece, I swear! I am watching my calories intakes so I ate it without any companion (pita or any type of bread) and for my surprise it was veeeery filling by itself, so no complaints there either, since the salad per se is very low calorie so it is the perfect lunch/dinner. I will be making this again for sure! :)
cookieamity Posted: 07/29/11
I absolutely love Greek salad and this recipe did not disappoint! I was thinking of adding a little dill/and or mint to the sauce, but it is perfect the way it is too. Yum!
rstarrlemaitre Posted: 06/29/11
Divine! I would make this again and again. Loved the Greek flavor - feta, kalamata, yogurt, cucumbers, and the great taste of the grilled chicken. A touch too much ground red pepper for my taste, but was balanced by scooping the salad up with pita. Surprised that no one else has noticed the error in this recipe - the "divided" bottled minced garlic. Has anyone figured out where the second teaspoon is supposed to go?
dmloss Posted: 12/30/11
I thought this recipe was good, but I didn't love it. I think it is a good healthy recipe, but it was lacking flavor. I think the chicken was good, but the yogurt sauce was kind of bland. Also, it seemed like a lot of work for the end result. Not sure if I will make this again.
ReganDeHaven Posted: 05/01/12
Good, easy recipe. Next time I will add dill to the sauce and more olives.
gotbidnezz Posted: 07/05/12
After grating the cucumber for this recipe, I saw another recipe where you puree all the ingredients for the tzaziki together, that would have been easier. I would also recommend adding mint to it, or something, it was definitely lacking. And I actually used ground lamb patties instead of chicken, but still used the "marinade." I would definitely try it again with chicken. This isn't the best Greek i've ever had, but I'd definitely try it again.
maverick6 Posted: 10/01/13
Love this salad. Serve with lightly grilled pita bread.


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I think in our society today, even with the advancement of technology and people becoming more openminded about certain societal issues, there is still a single mom stigma going around. I read Delamar's (of RX 93.1 FM) interview in Smartparenting.com.ph and was immediately struck by a statement she made. His father took his pregnancy hard. Old school, you can say. But there were also other people who questioned her decision not to marry the father of her child. Like as if marrying the guy will make everything better. I may come from a somewhat conservative family but I don't believe in marriage just because a child is conceived. It is a good reason to hasten the marriage but if only from the start the parents wanted to really tie the knot.
Rumor has it that this is the baby's father, Tyler Ashby who works for a call center company in the country and a part-time music artist.
Well, if that's the baby daddy, then I must say great choice, Delamar! He is a hottie!
Anyway, society ties this image of a single mom with a kid who will grow up to be spoiled rotten and seeking attention, or worse, a really bad seed. Truth is there are a lot of kids from single-parent homes who grew up to be well-adjusted and well-balanced individuals.
I think it is best for a kid to grow up with a single mom than with both parents who fight every single minute and who will ultimately separate that will leave the child traumatized and scarred for life.


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White Bread #1
"Everyone loves homemade white bread. If I had a nickel for every loaf of this bread I have made, I'd be rich." Carol Stevens
This recipe makes 2 loaves
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Traditional Baking Method
In large mixer bowl, combine 3 cups flour, yeast, sugar, and salt; mix well. Combine water, milk, and oil; heat to 120° to 130°F. Add to flour mixture. Blend at low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, gradually stir in enough remaining flour to make a firm dough. Knead on floured surface until smooth and elastic, 5 to 8 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise until dough tests ripe.
Punch down dough. Divide into 2 parts. On lightly floured surface, roll or pat each half to a 14 x 7-inch rectangle. Starting with shorter side, roll up tightly, pressing dough into roll with each turn. Pinch edges and ends to seal. Place in greased 9 x 5- or 8 x 4-inch bread pans. Cover; let rise in warm place until indentation remains after lightly touching the side of the loaf. Bake at 400°F for 35 to 40 minutes until golden brown. Remove from pans; cool.
You can substitute Instant (fast-rising) yeast for Active Dry Yeast. Traditional methods- replace 1:1. Expect your dough to rise faster; always let your dough rise until 'ripe'. Bread Machines- use 1/2 tsp Instant yeast (or 3/4 tsp Active Dry yeast) per cup of flour in your recipe. Visit our Lessons in Yeast & Baking for more information.
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When the princess kissed the frog in the fabled story it turned into a handsome price.
And at BETT 2011 we've done just that (figuratively, of course).
Frog is by no means a 'frog' in the sense of the old fairy tale. It is one of the leading learning platform providers for schools in the UK and is used in 38 international schools, across six countries.
Frog's recently launched Widget Store provides an online gateway for teachers and students to access learning materials and resources provided by third-party applications. Now teachers and students can search across an extensive collection of high quality images, videos, interactive activities, animations and documents provided by GGfL.
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I would like to hear from the useful leftist idiots that get sucked into community organizing communism and don't realize that the promise of a better community never happens. What is the attraction of this fiction? Something for nothing? You're being scammed and don't even realize it. You are giving power to people who don't care about your well being or the well being of your children. They don't serve you. They only care about their power and how to keep it by demonizing all opposition to their madness.


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Korean Chilled Buckwheat Noodles with Chile Sauce (Bibim Naengmyun)
This dish is most popular in the summer but delicious year-round. Korean naengmyun noodles are made from wheat and buckwheat and are wonderfully chewy; Japanese soba is an adequate substitute but lacks the chewy texture. Because of the noodles' firm texture, the dish comes to the table with scissors, and you are to snip a few times and then mix everything together after enjoying the initial presentation.
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Total: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 403
- Fat: 6.3g
- Saturated fat: 1.2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.7g
- Protein: 18.1g
- Carbohydrate: 74.8g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Cholesterol: 93mg
- Iron: 2.3mg
- Sodium: 656mg
- Calcium: 43mg
- Sauce:
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1/4 cup gochujang (Korean chile paste, such as Annie Chun's)
- 2 tablespoons ground Korean chile (gochugaru) or ancho chile powder
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lower-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon dark sesame oil
- Pickles:
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Korean radish or daikon radish, cut into thin 1 1/2 x 1/2-inch slices
- Remaining ingredients:
- 10 ounce uncooked Korean naengmyun noodles or soba noodles
- 24 thin slices Asian pear
- 1 cup julienne-cut English cucumber
- 2 hard-cooked large eggs, chilled and cut in half lengthwise
- 1. To prepare sauce, place onions and garlic in a mini food processor; process until minced. Add gochujang and next 6 ingredients (through sesame oil); process until smooth. Cover and chill at least 2 hours.
- 2. To prepare pickles, combine 1/2 cup vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a 2-cup glass measuring cup. Microwave at HIGH for 2 minutes or until boiling. Place radish in a medium bowl; top with hot vinegar mixture. Cover and chill 2 hours; drain.
- 3. To prepare remaining ingredients, cook noodles according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water; drain. Arrange about 1 cup noodles in each of 4 bowls; top each serving with about 2 tablespoons sauce. In each bowl, arrange 1/4 cup radish on one side of noodles and 6 pear slices on the other; arrange 1/4 cup cucumber in middle. Top each with 1 egg half.
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He had the best clothes.. and the best drugs. He used to do lines in front of me wearing Calvin Klein briefs as I would wait patiently for what I came for. He was easy on the eyes and his mouth would curl when he thought he was being sexy, like learned swagger from old Clint Eastwood movies. I…
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What To Do When Your Boyfriend's Asshole Best Friend Says, "Hey, Never Trust Anything That Bleeds For Seven Days And Doesn't Die,
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Don't excuse him because he's had
at least three lite beers
and is sweating through his black button down
that his mom or exgirlfriend
probably bought him.
Don't excuse him because he's been turned down
by the last six girls he went on dates with
after meeting them on tindr
with a picture that's seven years old
Don't excuse him because
he's usually such a nice guy
because you don't want to be a bitch
because you don't want to cause a scene
because when you were seventeen
your sister told you
no one likes an angry feminist
Tell him,
Hey, Asshole:
Let me explain something to you.
Every goddamn motherfucking month since I was eleven,
a part of me
tore itself to shreds
ripped itself apart inside me
and then remade itself.
So yes, I bleed for seven days
and I don't die
You know what else can do that?
Immortal beings.
Things of legend.
Fuck, I can even
create life.
So I say, never trust anything that can't
bleed for seven days and not die.
You know what that makes it?
So let's see, hon,
What you're made of.
If you can bleed for seven days
and not die.
Rip out his jugular with your teeth.
And when he bleeds for seven seconds
and dies,
spit on his corpse and say,
I thought not.
You learn to love
the parts
that used to disgust you.
Those you cannot bear
to adore,
you learn to accept.
Hating yourself is
It is time for you
to rest.
My feelings never get hurt when I am by myself. I honestly wish I didn't care about anyone. Ever. Life is so much easier without friends.
Things I am proud of:
- Appearing in a magazine with my 1st boyfriend, Slash. Hello!
- Being an internationally published artist.
- Publishing a photography book that Taschen would probably publish.
- Being a well known, respected writer in a culty little clique. (I'm gonna be that weird bitch that dies and leaves a vault of amazing shit, okay.)
- Quitting my high profile celeb assistant job last year after saving all my $ for 6 months and investing it in a company I founded with some serious long term potential.
- Staying hungry / chasing dreams / making my dreams a reality.
- Being a hot boss bitch earning my own money.
- Recovering and learning to only need my ego when it counts. (like this. this counts.)
- Being a natural blonde 24/7.
- Sustaining a healthy positive relationship with my sister.
- Managing to both annoy and delight J. Chavez every day.
- Trusting strangers with my feelings.
- Breaking all the rules, all the time, and never getting caught/no jail time.
- Being alive.
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You were crazy in the worst way, alcoholic bruises covering up the guilt you felt for the miscarriages and the abortions and all the weed you smoked, the way you'd fuck around and fucked the town, getting the fear, too scared to test for AIDS, fucking yr way to the top of the chain of the beautiful men with no brains you made you cry on the sidewalks of Sunset and in the backseat of the car, too drunk to hold a cigarette, too fat to fit into my clothes and I cried and cried and I tried to hold onto you as tight as I could but you are as light as feather on the inside and you flipped and flopped like a dying fish, you had a lot of dreams you wanted to come true and you'd scream a the shooting stars for a wish but at the end of the bottle you were always blue, always blue in the face and swollen and bloated and broken, baby angel broken doll, you floated out of my hands and there was nothing and no one to catch you fall.
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Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction
AbstractThis paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than native-only and foreign-only couples.
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Related researchKeywords: International migration; assortative mating; partner satisfaction;
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- Mathias Sinning & Shane Worner, 2010. "Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction," ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics 2010-533, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics.
- Sinning, Mathias & Worner, Shane, 2010. "Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction," IZA Discussion Papers 5308, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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- DiTella, Rafael & MacCulloch, Robert & Oswald, Andrew J., 2001.
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- Robert J. MacCulloch & Rafael Di Tella & Andrew J. Oswald, 2001. "Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(1), pages 335-341, March.
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"The Macroeconomics of Happiness,"
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I'm looking forward to Sunday morning. Breakfast in bed, flowers and chocolate — plus sweet, handmade cards from kids who often don't take the time to say thanks. What's not to like?
But I also like the fact that Mother's Day was actually founded to celebrate moms taking action to protect their children and communities. And it's in that spirit that I'd like to honor all the moms working to keep kids safe from harmful pesticides — from my colleagues here in the PAN office to the thousands of supporters and partners taking action in the U.S. and around the world. You are amazing.
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One in five boys are now diagnosed with ADHD by the time they reach high school. And one in 50 kids are on the autism spectrum, up from 1 in 88 just last spring. Interestingly, some of the news stories on these latest trends are — finally — noting the science linking pesticides and other chemicals with derailed brain development. This is exactly where the conversation needs to go.
Good news for public health and water quality from Minnesota this week. By June of this year, state agencies and institutions will no longer be buying soaps and cleaning products containing the pesticide triclosan.
Governor Mark Dayton made the shift with an executive order signed Monday. The new policy — the first of its kind in the country — comes in response to a combination of strong science and public concern about the chemical's prevalence and harms.
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|Redskins want to win for slain teammate Taylor: 'He's the 12th man on the field for us'
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With heavy, distracted hearts, the Washington Redskins host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. Unsure how they'll feel and how they'll focus, the Redskins only know they owe it to the memory of their slain former teammate to do all they can to win.
``He's always going to be there,'' defensive end Andre Carter said. ``For the defense, he's the 12th man on the field for us - in spirit. We're going to definitely go out there and win hard, and especially win for him.''
The atmosphere will be just as unsettling for the Bills. They had to study the Redskins all week, and reality hit every time No. 21 showed up on the screen. Taylor's death in Miami early Tuesday morning of a gunshot wound affected the entire NFL, and the Bills are first to say it's not the same as teammate Kevin Everett's scary spinal cord injury in September, when he was hurt making a tackle and had doctors concerned he would never walk again.
``Kevin's situation is a whole lot different than this,'' Buffalo coach Dick Jauron said. ``It was a terrible accident, but he just got better and better and continues that way. This is an awful tragedy, and it's not going to get any better.''
Basic football facts that seemed so vitally important a week ago appear mundane. A big story this week was supposed to be Redskins linebacker London Fletcher's first game against his old team, and likewise for Bills guard Derrick Dockery.
Another anticipated reunion will not occur. Taylor received much criticism for leveling Bills punter Brian Moorman in the Pro Bowl in February, a hit that looked out of place in a friendly exhibition game. Moorman, however, never took offense.
``I was looking forward to patting him on the back,'' Moorman said. ``I haven't had a chance to talk to him since then. It was a good, clean football hit, albeit in the Pro Bowl. It doesn't really matter. Somebody's got to make the tackle. That's definitely a memory I'll always hold on to.''
Seven days ago, the Redskins (5-6) were stewing over a three-game losing streak. Another close loss, 19-13 at Tampa Bay, put playoff hopes in jeopardy. The buzz in Washington concerned coach Joe Gibbs' decision not to kick a field goal on fourth-and-1 in the third quarter, and the two fourth-quarter interceptions thrown by Jason Campbell that ruined the young quarterback's second straight 300-yard game.
The Redskins were already experiencing football without Taylor, who had missed the last two games and part of a third with a sprained knee. The big plays made by opponents down the middle of the field, where Taylor would be roaming as an intimidating free safety, showed just how irreplaceable he was.
Now they know he won't be back.
``This is uncharted territory for us as a team, me as a professional football player,'' Fletcher said. ``It's a difficult process that we're going through, but we're working to get through it as a team and as a football family.''
The Bills (5-6), like the Redskins, have stumbled toward the bottom fringe of the playoff chase. Back-to-back blowout losses to New England and Jacksonville led to the third quarterback change of the season, with rookie Trent Edwards replacing J.P Losman. The offense has struggled nearly all year, and the defense keeps losing players to injuries.
But such matters look small in the shadow of the sorrow over Taylor's death.
``I thought I would come back, and it would be about the Buffalo Bills against the Redskins, and now there's something greater,'' said Dockery, who played three seasons with Taylor in Washington. ``Sean's passing puts everything in perspective. There is a game, but Sean's not going to be able to play. We're just going to try to focus on the game and play a good game on Sunday. It's going to be a very emotional game. It will be a tough one.''


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Money to clean up toxic chemicals from soil and water at a bomb test site near Tracy is slated to be cut from $16.2 million in the 2006 fiscal year to $8.7 million in 2008.
Department of Energy spokesman John Belluardo said funding would decrease at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Site 300 once groundwater treatment plants and other facilities have been built.
"By 2008, (the Site 300 cleanup) would be moving toward operations and maintenance mode," Belluardo said Monday. "Essentially, the construction phase would be finished."
A public meeting in Tracy on Wednesday evening will outline Lawrence Livermore's planned environmental cleanup activities at Site 300, which in 1990 was added to the Environmental Protection Agency's list of the nation's most polluted sites.
The site's contaminants include uranium, tritium, volatile organic compounds, percholates and nitrates.
Much of the contamination was caused when waste was dumped in four unlined landfills in the northwest corner of the 7,000-acre site between 1958 and 1988.
Belluardo said it would take decades to clean the site because much of the contamination is locked in clay that is buried in the rocks and soil.
"We're continually searching for new technologies that can speed up the cleanup," Belluardo said.
Tracy City Council voted 4-0 last year to ask Lawrence Livermore to spend $74 million to excavate and remove the waste from the contaminated landfills.
Activist Bob Sarvey, who suggested the council send the letter, on Monday criticized cleanup activities at Site 300.
"They're not willing to spend the $74 million to take out the depleted uranium and the tritium," Sarvey said. "They should be increasing the funding — not lowering it."
Public works director Pat Weimiller told the council in an April 2006 report that contaminants at Site 300, which in the hills southwest of Tracy has been used for explosives testing since 1955, are not expected to affect Tracy's groundwater or soil.
Lawrence Livermore's annual budget will decrease from $1.25 billion in 2006 to $1.15 billion in fiscal year 2008, according to a congressional budget request published Monday. The 109th Congress never approved the Department of Energy's 2007 budget request.
Weapons research funding will decrease from $1.07 billion in 2006 to $1 billion in 2008.
The science budget will decrease from $53 million to $43 million over the same period, while spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy will decrease from $4.8 million to $3.8 million.
No money will be spent on environmental cleanup at the lab's site in Livermore in 2008, down from $13.1 million in 2006.
Site 300 public meetings this week:
WHAT: Tracy City Council will consider its position on a proposed biological laboratory at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Site 300, and on a planned increase in outdoor explosives tests
WHEN: 7 tonight
WHERE: Tracy Community Center, 300 E. 10th St.
WHAT: Appeal hearing against a San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District decision to allow Site 300 to increase the size and amount of outdoor test explosions
WHEN: 10 a.m. Wednesday
WHERE: District northern region office, 4800 Enterprise Way, in Modesto
WHAT: Public workshop to provide information and answer questions on environmental cleanup activities planned at Site 300
WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday
WHERE: Tracy Community Center, 300 E. 10th St.
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I read two articles today, aimed at young CPA's in particular, but most likely valid to many young workers my age.
The first article is aimed at CPA firms, listing steps that firms can take to make sure that millennials (those born between 1978 to 1994) are engaged at work, in order to entice them to continue working for your CPA firm, instead of looking for greener pastures. The article mentions that this age group is expected to make up over 75% of the workforce in about 10 years time.
The second article was directed at young CPA's, and was a short article on how to be a "can-do" person at work (do your work well, volunteer to help with other tasks, have a positive attitude.) The writer of the article hopes that young professionals who follow this advice will find themselves with better opportunities at the office, and the respect of those in power.
For the last 3 years, I have been that young CPA, doing my best to complete everything assigned to me, and find time for a few extra opportunities I can volunteer for. And when it comes time for our annual reviews, management expresses to me that they appreciate this.
But this year, it has become an ever more difficult juggling act. My assigned responsibilities are greater, it's harder to get everything done to various partners' satisfaction, my ability to volunteer to help out with other tasks has diminished as I feel constantly behind on my assigned responsibilities. And in the face of what feels like constant disappointment from not meeting expected timelines, my attitude is beginning to suffer too.
On one hand, I don't think that I'm really disappointing the partners by taking 2 weeks to finalize a job that they hoped would take 4 days. In the end, the job was done by the deadline, and last year it took us 3 weeks to finalize! However, I don't feel like I'm doing a great job either. And I find the lack of an internal feeling of accomplishment to result in a significant decrease in motivation.
I believe this is the disengagement that the first article is warning firms about, but frankly, management at my firm doesn't seem to be concerned about how employees are feeling. If you stay, you stay, if you go, you go, and they don't seem to think they have much influence on that.
Change management – offering employees options
We are going through some changes in our office at the moment, due to a construction project. This involves moving offices multiple times for some of us, and apparently the scheduling is not good enough to be able to give us more than 12 hours advance notice of the need to pack up and move offices.
Of course, no one really likes change, especially not mandated at the last second. In all of this, I've noticed that a really easy way to make employees feel a little better about the changes is to give them options. Instead of "you'll have to clear out your office tomorrow and sit here instead," telling them "you'll have to clear out your office tomorrow, would you like to move to [place 1] or [place 2]?"
Of course, having a real timeline and plans ahead of time, instead of just deciding things at the last minute would be even better, but even in this situation, I think I'd like some choice in where I move to...
My job is eating my life
And it tastes delicious!
Ermm . . . at least I hope so?
So I thought that May would be my "slow" month. The time between audit busy season and tax busy season. Well, I kicked off May with a client project that I had to work on over the weekend - i.e. the client wanted it ready and reviewed Monday morning, but I didn't have the data to begin until Friday afternoon.
Then, this past Friday, for once I had Friday night plans. My friend was singing in a choir, and I wanted to have time to bike home (since I was celebrating Ride Your Bike to Work Day), shower, eat, and then get there in time to get good seats. I would have plenty of time if I left work at 5:30. Shouldn't be a problem on a Friday in May, right? Especially since I arrived at work at 7:45 in order to miss traffic on my bike, right?
WRONG. Had to stay until 6:15 to make some changes to a report that needed to be sent to a client that day. I made it to the concert on time, but only due to skipping the shower and only finding seats in the back row. I come in today only to find that the report was never reviewed or sent to the client on Friday, and I'm told at 5:30 that I should do a more thorough edit and then send it. So tonight I was at work until almost 9 working on that.
And I'm pretty sure it's all my fault, since this doesn't happen to everyone who works at our company, only to some of us . . .
Location location location – at work
About six months ago I moved offices, placing me about 75 feet closer to one partner and further from another partner. This resulted in many more assignments coming my way from the partner I moved closer to, and fewer assignments from the partner I moved further away from.
I started wondering - if the effect of my location is so dramatic within a single floor of an office building, then how does this affect people who work remotely?
I speculate, based on my observations of my workplace, that while physical proximity does play a part in getting extra assignments from partners, this effect can be mitigated by assigning certain staff to certain partners. Once partners have worked with staff successfully on a few projects, they are likely to seek that staff member out when they have a new project.
In terms of working with other people, as a team, sitting close together certainly helps productivity. One study I found determined that once employees are more than 30 meters apart, Fromthey will have much less daily contact and fewer informal interactions. From a little searching on Google Scholar, collaboration across distance is certainly a bigger problem than getting work assignments across distance. However, sharing an office (our desks located in the same room) with a team member seems like it might actually hurt productivity, due to how easy it is to distract one another.
At this point in the post, I would like to apologize for how this post has been published, half finished, multiple times. I am learning how to use the WordPress app on my new Kindle Fire, but I am still a little unclear about how to save a post as a draft.
Okay, back to the point. The reason for all this thinking about office location is because we are drastically rearranging our offices soon, and I will get some choice about where I sit. Do I choose to be closer to a certain partner, or to the other staff members that I work with frequently?
Of course, the team I would like to work with more will be moving to a whole different floor, so I will have to make a point of sticking my nose onto their floor every so often . . .
How do you think that your office arrangements affect you?
Young Professionals
In public accounting, there's an expectation that young employees need to "put in their time" as we call it. And they need to put in this time because, well, that's what everyone else did when they're a young employee.
I think every generation thinks that the generation that comes after them is lazy and disrespectful. Go and read Musings of an Abstract Aucklander's post on why this is probably not actually that true (see the quote from Socrates near the end.)
The truth is though, times have changed DRAMATICALLY from when our partners (who are in their 40's) were working in their first and second years in accounting, to now.
First of all, we have vastly improved technology. I can get a lot more auditing done in an hour than we could 18 years ago when the partners were new hires. Of course, to some extent we just do more thorough audits these days, but overall, we are getting more work done per person.
In addition, my mother pointed out to me the other day that while my father would work long hours when he was younger, he also came home to a cooked dinner, bathed children, cleaned house and cleaned clothes. He really didn't have to worry about anything except work. Most young people that I know today do not have this luxury. Even if we have a partner waiting at home, typically that partner works full time too. But most of the partners at our firm are male, and most of them come home to my dad's situation each night.
Of course, some of the older folks at our firm are women, or were single at my age, so in the end, everyone still expects everyone younger than them to "serve their time." And it seems reasonable to expect people to work hard to prove themselves, right? But part of me just feels like, with all of our technology, we could be living differently, and working smarter, rather than just continuing the cycle.
Do you think people should work less now than in the past due to higher productivity per hour? Or do you think people will always be pushed to their limits, due to competition? What track did you take when you were just starting out - working long hours, or trying to get a work-life balance right away?
Work blahs
My (extended) tax season has really ramped up the last couple of weeks. Most of our tax returns are due by September 17th, which is still 4 weeks away, but a) we like to have returns to clients at least a week ahead of time where possible, and b) all MY work has to go through a reviewer, come back to me for changes, go through review again, before it can go to a client, so I need to have all of MY stuff done ASAP.
Unfortunately, I can feel myself losing my motivational steam. I really need to do some work this weekend, and I have yet to start. (But I also want to have time to make pizza and bake some scones tonight.)
So, I'm turning to my blog to help motivate me. By the end of the day, I need to have finished the following tasks:
1) Fill out an IRS certificate application form for a client, along with all required POA forms (I think about 10). Create a word document of a statement for a client to attach to the application.
2) Read the instructions for all of the states a new client of ours will be filing in, and mark down anything that "seems complicated." (I'm not really sure what will count for this, especially since I'm doing it for a partner that I don't usually do tax returns for.)
3) Start tax return for a Corp and Foreign Corp (partners in a Partnership return that I have sort-of finished.)
Work has started getting difficult to complete for me. I have a to-do list, but every day someone adds something to it - some notice we need to respond to, or client audit that we need to pull prior year information for. I spent all day Friday going through review notes on one return, which I can't cross off my list yet, since I still need to discuss some of the notes with the reviewer. So I feel like I haven't been able to cross anything off the list in days, which is very stressful for me. It makes me feel like I'm not making any progress, while the deadline is getting closer.
Any advice on how to stay motivated at work (at least until September 17th!)?
Blogging and work
I am been very quiet on the blog over the past few months - a lot of that is due to business, but most of it is because everytime I want to share things about my life - getting a new dog, talking about where I went on vacation, I get worried that somehow, someone from work will stumble across it, and it will be such a unique piece of information (combined with that fact that I'm clearly an accountant) that they'll immediately think "Wait I have a co-worker who just spent two weeks in Spain!"
This seems like a silly thought - the internet is a big place - but it's just scary to imagine someone at work finding my blog. And they would email it around to everyone else in a heartbeat!
Do people in your "real" life read your blog? Do you feel comfortable with that idea? What do you think your employer would think about you blogging?
Take 5
There is way too much going on inside this candy bar. Caramel, peanut butter, pretzels... I have no idea. Does anyone like these??
The home buying process is going well - the sales price is $136,500, and the appraisal came in at $154,000 - thank goodness! I am rolling some seller-paid closing costs into the purchase price, so if the appraisal had come in too low, the seller probably would have just reduced the amount of closing costs they were willing to pay. So we're fine there, and the bank is happy!
Just got back from being out of town for 2 weeks. My roommates found 2 stray dogs in the meantime, so I couldn't bring my dog home with me from my parents house (then we would have had 4 large dogs and an un-housetrained puppy in the house at once!)
Came back to the office on Saturday to hear that the girl I share an office with has been fired or resigned - either way, it wasn't on the best terms, and she won't be coming back. She is the first person to be let go since I started working here, and it's a little unsettling, especially since she was right at my level and I thought she was doing very well.
Were you disturbed the first time someone you worked with was fired?
A year in the life of an auditor
Don't miss the Accountant By Day one-year anniversary give away! Your first chance to win $25 is on Monday! Entries for this week close at midnight EST on Friday, so check out the contest rules and enter!
This month not only marks the one-year anniversary of Accountant by Day (join in the giveaway fun - win prizes all month!), but it has also been one year since I started working in public accounting. Actually this is also the sixth anniversary of my US citizenship too. (Which reminds me, I need to change my voting address...)
Thank you everyone for reading, and I hope to continue to provide more and better content for you this year!
This year was the first year I hadn't attended school as a full-time student since I was five. I learned as much, and probably retained more, than in college, but it felt like the hardest lessons were not about how to do the work. Rather, the tough lessons were about how to get the work done when you have 3 managers wanting you to get their project finished first. They were about knowing when to ask questions, and how to really try to figure it out on your own first.
There are starving children in Africa: Keeping things in perspective
I always found the cliché "There are starving children in Africa" response to be a pretty useless tool to use against more well-off children refusing to eat the food offered to them. In reality, the "keeping up with the Jonses" cliché holds true, because we compare ourselves to our peers around us, not to distant people in poverty-stricken countries that we have never been to.
That's what makes high school reunions so stressful - they are one of the closest peer groups you can compare yourself to, and let see how you line up 10 years down the road with people who grew up in the same town as you, with the same basic education. (I read this in a book, but I'll need to get back to you with some real citations.) I imagine that, depending on the structure of your work environment, co-workers might be a pretty important comparison group too. If you work in an environment where you have an advanced degree, but most people you work with don't (like manufacturing) this probably isn't much of a problem for you.
Before bed last night, I was reading through the "Work" chapters of bell hooks's book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. The chapter talks about how the feminist movement promoted the idea that women needed to be "allowed" to work, and that work would be liberating. Of course, for poor American women, which included many African American women, this idea didn't mean much because they had been working for decades, and the type of work they did was not at all "liberating." What the white women meant, of course, what that a well-paying career would be liberating, but they did not specify that when they referred to "work." They made the mistake of only comparing their situation to the men at their same class level - and ignoring the plight of the larger population of women.
Hooks also talks about how many middle class women began to work part time to be able to pay for their kids to go to college, or other "luxuries" that were becoming standard for the middle class.
It's now standard for women to go to college and plan on careers, although here in the South I still know several young women who have worked hard in college and at their current jobs, but think that they will drop it all to be a mom and housewife once they meet the right man. I'm sure none of us know what we want until we get there, but the idea of putting so much time, effort and money into a career and then just abandoning it drives me crazy.
For me, it would be nice not to have to work - but only if that was because I earned enough to retire early. Work is empowering, because it gives me the ability to pay my own rent, buy the things I want, have goals that I know I can accomplish. But some days the fact that I have to spend 10 - 12 hours of my day at work (and commuting to and from work) to be counter productive - like power couples who earn enough to hire the best nannies but never see their children themselves. Why have children in the first place? (Of course, they do get to enjoy their children sometimes and that's why they have them, but a lot of these couples seem stretched really thin and constantly stressed out.)
There seem to be two ways to approach work - well two ways that seem "good" to me. The first is to get a 9 to 5 (well, 8:30 to 5:30) job, and show up to work every day, do your thing, and then live your "real life" at home. Or, if your job is going to be your life, your job needs to be a place where you can accomplish things, have goals, and enjoy a good portion of the work.
I'm still deciding if I really like my job enough to commit to it and give up on having much time to do other things. I do enjoy the work, and the constant challenge, but I also find it stressful to feel like I never quite know what I'm doing, and also to have to work with so many different personalities overseeing me. I think it's something that will just take time for me to get comfortable with, and only then can I really see how I feel about this job.
What is your philosophy towards your job? Is it something you do because you need to work to do the stuff you really like, or is your job something you really like to do? What would your ideal job be? Or how would you ideally spend your days if you didn't "need" to work to pay your rent, food, medical bills, etc?
This post is a good example of why I should write posts all at once, instead of in bits and pieces over several days! My original point of this post is that we start wanting different things depending on our sphere of reference - depending on what the people we compare ourselves to have. It seems that the key to getting away from keeping up with the joneses is to really evaluate what you want and what it will take to get there. If all you want is a tiny little house in the middle of nowhere, you maybe could quit your city job and go for it now. If you want to use your freetime better, maybe quit the demanding career and find a 9-5 job. But first you need to really know what YOU want.


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FLAT BELLY FAT BURNER - full 10 min!
I took my best ab exercises and choreographed some awesome HIIT cardio moves into the routine to give you the best Flat belly burner workout you'd ever want. My goal is to make every video I release in 2014 as intense and effective as possible - and bring it to the next level for you. Here's your first video of the new year! If you do it with all your heart and finish strong, it's a sign that the rest of your year will be epic. Let's go. Reblog to commit.
Here's the printable! Do this for your next workout. All you need is a pair of weights.
Good luck!
LAST POP HIIT of the month.
Go get em guys :)
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REBLOG this post to win a pair of your own Nike Free Runs. I will announce the winner on Sunday! Good luck!
These are the POP HIITs I've made so far with video demo and at-home modifications:
I Knew You Were Trouble POP HIIT 8
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I knew you were trouble kettlebell burpee burnout. CRAZIEST HIIT WORKOUT EVERRRRRR!!!!! If you're at home, just do walking lunges instead of swings. Place hands behind your head!
This might just kill you. But you know, the good kind :)
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I'm giving away the 4th pair of NIKE FREE's this week for the #thisisMYJULY celebration!!!
All you have to do is reblog this post to be entered! I'll pick a winner on Sunday.
Do the above routine 3 x through with 30 sec rest in between ea move and 1 min rest between ea set. End with a 10 min cardio blast. If you don't have a treadmill do the FAT MELTING ROUTINE once through.
Good luck!
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Here's POP HIIT 6 - the video demo!
Full 1 hr workout that will burn fat and build lean muscle!
Print the workout printable here to take with you to the gym: bit.ly/feelthismomentwo
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Your POP HIIT workout for today! Save it. I will be uploading the video soon.
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Print above and take with you to the gym! Great HIIT routine!
Watch video demo here: http://www.blogilates.com/printables-2/come-and-get-it-pop-hiit-5
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Try the Come and Get It POP HIIT 5!
Print the workout here: Bit.ly/comeandgetitwo
Good Luck!
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If you're looking for a way to burn fat and tone up quickly, HIIT (high intensity interval training) is hands down the way to go.
I designed these POP HIITs to take just around 1 hour and it will work you entire body including cardio.
This is the 4th POP HIIT in the #thisisMYJULY calendar. To see video demo of how to do at-home versions if you don't have access to weights, please click here: http://www.blogilates.com/printables-2/blurred-lines-pop-hiit-4
If you repin this printable on Pinterest (click here) you will be entered for a chance to win my second pair of neon Nike Free Runs that I'll be giving away this month. (5 total will be given away!) I am announcing the winner on Sunday via Twitter @Blogilates.
Have fun! Reblog if you're gonna do this!
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Take this with you and kill it today!!
Who's ready!!!? Let's do this!
One of my best routines for slimming down and sweating it out QUICK!
For at home modifications without equipment, watch my video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w38UY4E1PkE
Have fun!
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This is your Can't Hold Us POP HIIT 2 routine.
This one made me sweat so bad, it was insane!
To print the workout and take it with you to the gym, click here: bit.ly/cantholduswo
Have fun!
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