Sparks and Butterflies...

But aside from that, she's still completely normal

The good things that happen

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I have now stopped smoking for 3 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes, 45 seconds. That translates into 70 cigarettes NOT smoked, for a savings of $16.97! I have increased my life expectancy by 5 hours, 50 minutes, 48 seconds.

At 20 minutes after quitting:
blood pressure decreases
pulse rate drops
body temperature of hands and feet increases.

At 8 hours:
carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
oxygen level in blood increases to normal

At 24 hours:
chance of a heart attack decreases

At 48 hours:
nerve endings start regrowing
ability to smell and taste improve

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Game 4 & A Special Request

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Game 4: My favorite animal… In general is a horse. In specific, is my cat Sassy.

Horses in general are just such intelligent magestic animals, and each individual horse has such a unique personality!

Sassy is named for her personality. She’s funloving and affectionate. And she sleeps with me every night. And I didn’t want to get so attached.

Special Request: Dirty Butter asked me to post this link to a post on her site… It’s important to her to help this girl. Go check it out and see if you have ny ideas where she can find this special item.

Windfall

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Have you seen the new show Windfall? I haven’t seen it yet, but the concept got me thinking. If I won the lottery my biggest dream of being debt free would become a reality. After that is anyone’s guess. A home of my own! A car that’s not borrowed! My kids would have a college education without going into debt! It’s nice to dream.

http://www.nbc.com/Windfall/money_tracker/

Game 3

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What’s your favorite place in the whole world?

This is a hard question.

I guess my first favorite place – that’s not necessarilly one place is in water. I love to swim. So I love to be immersed be it in a lake, ocean, or pool.

But an actual place that exists? That would be here at home. Iknow where everything is. I know where everything is supposed to be. I can do whatever I want without being judged. This is where I’m most comfortable in my skin.

Breast is Best?

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Many Outraged by Breast-Feeding Magazine Cover

By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP

APBabytalk editor Susan Kane says the mixed response to the cover clearly echoes the larger debate over breast-feeding in public.

NEW YORK (July 27) – “I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.

Full article here

This article makes me want to scream. Really? A breast? We’re not talking Janet Jackson – we’re not even seeing nipple! It’s a baby nursing. In fact, if you didn’t know what it was, you’d think it was the side view of a round elbow or something. What I’m trying to say is, it’s not indecent in the least!

Not only that, it’s on the cover of a free magazine geared toward mothers of babies. Gee. I wonder how many of them are nursing?

With the government doing this big push about how great nursing is (comparing formula a bucking bronco no less – but I can’t find the link) – and then mother’s are actually sending in mail to the editor complaining about this photo?

One mother who didn’t like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.

“I shredded it,” said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. “A breast is a breast – it’s a sexual thing. He didn’t need to see that.”

Oh please. I don’t think seeing a baby nursing is going to spawn a great pubescent rush of hormones. I mean dude. A breast first and foremost is the means for which our human spawn to receive nurishment. It’s our society and culture that has sexualized the breast. To be shamed, or called indecent, or anything else when showing the breast in it’s original intent is asinine and ignorant. I shouldn’t have to grapple with blankets etc to try and breastfeed my child in public because I might offend someone *gasp*.

And neither should this magazine – which caters to mothers of babies trying to find the best way to nurture them – censor themselves from showing a breast as nature intended it.

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