I don’t know why this is so hard, but having a lesson or two would have made certain parties that I have attended a whole lot easier to get through. Why is it that certain people leave you tongue tied, when there are other times when you simply can’t shut up??
Talk to Me: Conversation Tips for the Small-Talk Challenged
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
Do you believe that your dreams mean something? Could it be that your dreams are trying to tell you something?? There has to be some reason we dream don’t you think??
“There is no universally agreed-upon biological definition of dreaming. The dogma states that dreams are associated with REM sleep but the evidence for this is not strong. Subjects awakened during REM sleep usually report having been dreaming but since REM sleep is not as deep as non-REM sleep, it …read more
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Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.
Aristotle
So when was the last time you flew off the handle? I have a tendency to keep things bottled up and then I blow! Not a good habit.
*Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You
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“It’s dark out, and you’re home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you’re watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.
Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.
A split second later, you know it’s the wind. No one is trying to get into your home.
For a split second, you were so afraid that you reacted as if your life were in danger, your body initiating the fight-or-flight response that is critical to any animal’s …read more
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An inmate who used laxatives to shed 31 pounds so he could squeeze through a hole in a prison wall had been frustrated by the indefinite sentence he was serving, a judge said Friday.
Robert Cole, 37, spent three days on the run from police in January after slipping his 123-pound frame through a 15-centimetre wide hole he had chiseled with a butter knife in the widow frame of a hospital wing at Sydney’s Long Bay Jail.
Do you have any idea how small a 15 cm wide hole is?? That man really does need treatment and you have to wonder …read more
Doesn anyone remember Catherine Zeta-Jone’s character from the British series “The Darling Buds of May?” Well, at the moment she is nothing like Mariette. She is big time pissed off at her husband. Here’s what I found this morning.
“Catherine Zeta-Jones is furious with her husband Michael Douglas, after he gushed about his sexy co-stars.
The 62-year-old actor revealed he had a “crush on Kim Basinger” and complimented Eva Longoria on her “fantastic butt” during a recent interview to promote his film ‘The Sentinel’. Michael also proclaimed that “sex is like a wave that sweeps over me”.
However, his 37-year-old Welsh actress …read more
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“The former Spice Girl has been offered the chance to host a US TV show, but since being dropped from the England team David’s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has got worse and his wife fears he is too vulnerable to be left alone.
A source told Britain’s Closer magazine: “This is a hard one for Victoria. Career breaks like this don’t come along often, but David and her boys mean the world to her. The fashion world respects Victoria so this show could be huge.”
Someone tell me why this is so hard? Because you are a celebrity, family no longer comes first? …read more
“Singer-actress Hilary Duff and her boyfriend, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden, are seeking restraining orders against two men they claim are stalking them.
Duff, 19, and Madden, 27, filed requests in Superior Court on Thursday for protection from David Joseph Klein, 50, and a man identified by first name as Max, according to court papers.
The documents claim that Max “Doe” is a 19-year-old Russian immigrant who came to Los Angeles for “the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved” with Duff, a multi-platinum recording artist and former star of TV’s “Lizzie McGuire.”
Can you imagine how creepy it would be …read more
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