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    9 home remedies for age spots

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    All women of a certain age start to notice these unattractive stains appearing with time. The stains develop on the most exposed areas such as the face,  neck and hands, and often give away a person’s age. The main cause of course is sun exposure, which is enemy number one for the skin, which we don’t want to see ageing!

    Importantly, these spots are benign. But it’s true, they’re not the most attractive. So here are 9 simple and 100% natural remedies to reduce their appearance.

    1) Fresh lemon juice

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    Citric acid is an natural whitening agent which exfoliates the skin and reduces stains. You simply need to apply it twice a day, every day, and leave it to work for at least 30 minutes (although be aware that it could give an unpleasant tight feeling to the skin). You will see improvements within a few weeks.

    Be careful, as lemon makes the skin more sensitive to the sun’s rays, so wait until the juice is well dried before going outside.

    2) Apple cider vinegar

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    Apple cider vinegar naturally contains AHA which reduces spots on the skin due to sun exposure and age. Mix it with olive oil to render your skin smooth and soft after 20 minutes. You may notice some tightness or redness, but this is normal if you have sensitive skin. You can dilute the mixture if necessary with a little water.

    3) Onion juice

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    The sulphur in onions is an excellent antiseptic and their acid facilitates exfoliation. If your skin cannot tolerate lemon, onion is an excellent replacement. You simply need to rub a slice of onion to the area two or three times a day.

    You can also mix a dessertspoon of onion juice and two dessertspoons of honey and apply this to the affected area. Leave it to work for 15 minutes before rinsing it well to remove the odour. Repeat once or twice a day.

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    6 remedies to relieve and treat ingrown toenails

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    The scientific term for this problem is “onychocryptosis”, or in simpler terms “ow, ow, the pain!” When the nail becomes embedded in the soft tissue around it, no good can come of it. Inflammation starts in the soft tissue around the nail, which results in fairly intense pain and localised redness. Without treatment, the problem can become worse, and pus can start to form.

    If we often know what caused the problem (ill-fitting shoes, cuts, a genetic predisposition, poorly cut nails, etc.), we don’t always know how to treat the problem when it starts, and these 6 remedies should give you some great leads. For more information, read our article on how to naturally heal an ingrown toenail.

    1) Garlic: a natural antibiotic for infection and inflammation

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    Crush a clove of garlic with a pestle and mortar and apply the paste to your nail. Wrap it in a bandage and leave it to work overnight. Repeat until you start to get relief.

    2) Onion juice: an antifungal, a calming antibacterial and an anti-inflammatory

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    Mix a half an onion with 5 drops of fresh lemon juice. Try to get the maximum amount of juice from the onion during preparation. Strain the mixture with a cloth and apply the liquid you obtain to your nail with some cotton wool. Do this twice a day every day.

    3) Take an Epsom salts foot bath to relax your legs and prevent the nails from embedding themselves in the skin

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    Heat two litres of water, but make sure it doesn’t get too hot. Next add 60g of Epsom salts. Bathe your feet in this for a quarter of an hour. After the foot bath, dry your feet with care and cover them with socks.

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    5 clever new ways to use toothpaste

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    Everyone already knows how useful toothpaste can be every day in ways other than cleaning your teeth and preventing bad breath. People who have spots have probably already tried it out to dry out pimples, and people with weak nails have surely tried applying it with a toothbrush to get them into a healthier state. Here are some of our other articles on the subject, here and here

    Here are 5 other techniques to complement them, for turning this seemingly ordinary paste into something truly extraordinary!

    1) Rapidly reduce bruising

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    Bruises can quickly become nothing but a bad memory with this weird but effective technique. The colour, inflammation and swelling will be quickly reduced: in the evening, mix some toothpaste with cream and apply the mixture to the affected area. Cover it with a gauze or a bandage to avoid staining your sheets and rinse it the following morning. Surprising!

    2) Remove small to medium stains from a rug

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    Simply apply toothpaste to the area and scrub it with an old toothbrush. Rinse and repeat if necessary. It works wonders!

    3) Say goodbye to dye stains

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    This is a hairdresser’s tip that seems strange but that is very effective. In fact, the toothpaste is abrasive enough to remove the stains, without damaging the skin. You simply need to rub it in and rinse it off.

    4) Toothpaste works well for drawings on the walls

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    Start by applying a little toothpaste to the drawings, rub it in and remove it with a damp cloth.

    Test it out on a small part of the wall beforehand, in case the ingredients in the toothpaste remove the paint.

    5) No more smelly tupperware or containers

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    For containers that have retained food odours, using toothpaste instead of washing up liquid will be a big help. This will eliminate smells from your tupperware, thermos flasks, babies’ bottles, or containers with food that is rotten or gone off.

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    12 ingenius ways to use a lint roller

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    If you have furry pets, there is a good chance that a lint roller plays a vital role in your daily life, for de-fuzzing your clothes. For other people, the lint roller is a useful tool from time to time for fluff or pilling on clothes, but the rest of the time it stays hidden in the laundry room.

    However, this adhesive roll can serve many different functions, and can help you out with housework and arts and crafts. We have assembled the 12 best and most unique ways of using a lint roller, other than for removing hairs and dust.

    1) Easily remove insects that gather around a ceiling light or a lampshade.

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    2) Gather glitter that has gone everywhere after doing arts and crafts, without being tormented by its sticking power.

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    3) Gently remove dust from a lampshade, blinds or curtains.

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    4) Clean the bottom of a bag by giving a rub of a lint roller (to gather dirt and crumbs).

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    5)  Remove dirt from awkward spaces like drawers or the nooks and crannies in your car.

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    6) Give a quick clean to armchairs and cushions to remove dust, crumbs and any other dirt.

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    7) Remove tiny shards of glass without cutting yourself.

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    4 good reasons to use coconut oil as a mouthwash

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    When someone has bad breath, we often think that it is due to poor hygiene. However, sometimes such problems can be caused by illness, diet or as a result of bacteria multiplying in less accessible parts of the mouth. Mouthwash is a big help in combating these problems and to help create better breath.

    There is a gentle technique, inspired by ancient ayurvedic remedies, that consists of making a mouthwash with vegetable oil. We are going to give you 4 good reasons to try using coconut oil as a mouthwash, and explain how to use it to fight tartar, bad breath and other dental problems (gingivitis, etc.)

    1) Less pain when chewing

    Thanks to its components, coconut oil can prevent infections, inflammation and occasional aches and pains in the mouth.

    2) It can prevent toothaches and gum infections

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    Its fatty acids and antibacterial properties fight against the presence of micro-organisms. It is also known for fighting off the main bacteria (Streptococcus mutants) responsible for tooth decay as well as many other dental problems. Its anti-inflammatory properties mean it is effective for prevention and treatment of gingivitis. Thanks to the oil, the bacteria don’t have an environment in which to multiply and this reduces build-up. This also helps with cavities and bleeding gums.

    3) It reduces bad breath

    In the harder-to-reach areas of the mouth, bacteria can release gasses and residues that cause bad breath. To counter the problem, the solutions are simple: good dental hygiene, mouthwash and flossing. Rather than irritating your mouth with products containing alcohol, try out a coconut oil mouthwash that can reduce bacteria and thus improve bad breath.

    4) It whitens the teeth

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    It helps with eliminating stains that form on the teeth, especially those caused by tartar and food residue. You will have progressively whiter teeth thanks to this oil, that makes your teeth cleaner and easily removes whitish deposits on the tongue.

    How to use it?

    1) Take a spoon of coconut oil and use it as a mouthwash for 3 to 5 minutes. It is recommended to do this first thing in the morning, but you can do it whenever suits you throughout the day.

    2) Spit the oil into a bowl or into the bin afterwards, and not into the sink, because it solidifies when it cools and could block your pipes.

    3) Rinse your mouth with lukewarm water if you have an unpleasant oily sensation afterwards.

    Some people even mix it with bicarbonate of soda and use it as a toothpaste from time to time, which is also a possibility! Be aware that it is edible so there is no need to worry about getting sick if you swallow it by accident! As a final advantage, it tastes nice!

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    25 things you have been cleaning wrong! And how to do it right….

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    Are you suddenly motivated to clean everything that lies in your wake? Then you absolutely need to follow this guide, to learn how to effectively clean every item in your home! These tips were compiled by list25 and will show you what you have been doing wrong all these years, and how to more effectively clean your home from top to bottom!

    25. Pots

    To properly clean a burnt pot, you simply need cover the surface in a fine layer of water with white vinegar. Put the pot on the heat and add 2 dessertspoons of bicarbonate of soda once you have taken it off the heat. You can now easily scrub the burn away.

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    24. A rug or carpet

    Pour a little vinegar onto the stain and sprinkle it with bicarbonate of soda. Leave it to work until the mixture starts to bubble and is absorbed. Next, you simply need to scrub it with a cloth.

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    23. Dust

    To prevent dust from gathering again quickly on your furniture, just use an anti-static cloth to avoid attracting dust with static electricity.

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    22. Paintings

    You can clean a painting with none other than a plain bagel! Rub the bagel gently over the painting to clean it perfectly.

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    21. A mirror

    Newspaper works better than kitchen paper, which can sometimes leave marks.

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    20. Fans

    Ceiling fans can be easily cleaned by placing a pillowcase over each blade and rubbing it along the blade. The dust will be trapped inside the pillow case, rather than all over the floor.

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    19. The bath

    Bath taps can be cleaned with a mixture of salt and lemon or white vinegar.

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    7 tips to get optimal cleaning from your dishwasher

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    Many of the newer and more expensive dishwashers are very effective and don’t leave any traces. But for those of us without brand new models or with less expensive models, the results aren’t always fantastic. However, if you have a dishwasher, it becomes impossible to do without it, and this is why you need to know the best methods for filling it up. A machine that is correctly filled will work better! Also remember to check the manual to ensure you are using the right dishwasher products (as certain products don’t work well in certain machines and can block them).

    These techniques have been discovered after several frustrating experiences, finding mediocre results on certain types on dishes, or on certain stains. Easy to do, these tips will make a notable difference to your dishes. We advise you to start straight away, if you haven’t already done so!

    1) Clean your machine from time to time

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    You can’t clean things with dirty tools! To clean the machine, remove the basket in the bottom and the filter (which you should also clean). See that everything is in order in the filter and in the parts (to make sure there is nothing blocking them or no food stuck in there) and clean them with white vinegar if necessary. Put everything back in place and put white vinegar into the machine (into the bottom of the machine and/or the place you normally put your products) and set it running. The white vinegar will remove odours and traces of hard water.

    2) Don’t overload the dishwasher

    You may think you are doing the right thing to avoid wasting water, or to get the most out of a wash, but in reality, too many dishes stacked too close together will prevent your machine from cleaning them properly, especially between dishes that are too tightly packed.

    3) Leave a space of 2 to 3 centimeters between each item

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    On the same note as the previous point… instead of sticking the plates together, you need to leave a little space between them to allow the hot water and the active ingredients in your dishwasher tablets to reach the grease and residue on your dishes.

    4) The glasses go between the prongs, and not on top of them

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    The prongs promote optimal organisation of the dishwasher trays and accommodate normal glasses as well as larger containers. This system allows you to arrange everything perfectly.

    5) In the centre, the plates should face each other

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    Many dishwashers have a spray in the middle which sprays the water outwards. Therefore if your plates are facing this spray, the water can get at their surfaces better to remove dirt.

    6) Mix your cutlery and place the handle facing up

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    Putting spoons in one compartment, forks in another and knives in another may seem logical, as everything fits well and it facilitates stowing them away afterwards, but the cutlery often comes out still dirty, because it tends to assemble too close together, especially with the water pressure in the machine. Mix it all together to prevent the items from sticking together, and to allow the water to better get between all the cutlery.

    7) Separate your large dishes/bowls/pots (that are dishwasher compatible) from your usual dishes

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    Do separate washes for these items because your dishes are less dirty than these and will be cleaned better. By cleaning large dishes and pots separately, you will have a better chance that they will also be cleaned properly, because the water can circulate better around them in the machine. Additionally, you can clean things more effectively by doing fewer washes than if you mixed everything together, and ended up having to re-do it because the pots were not fully cleaned. What’s more, you can remove the cutlery holder to create more space and fit in a large pot or bowl.

    Find another article here to ensure your cutlery doesn’t go rusty in the dishwasher, as well as an unusual cooking technique using this machine!

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    4 tips for using up old sunscreen

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    Summer is long over, and don’t we know it! The bad weather is setting in, and the days are getting shorter. However, you may notice that you still have a few of summer’s remnants hanging around..

    You may find a half empty bottle of sunscreen in your bathroom cupboards, and this is a product that doesn’t keep indefinitely. Therefore, we propose a few techniques for using up the end of your summer sunscreen, and for making everyday life easier at the same time. And sometimes it’s nice to just get the smell of summer, to remind us of our holidays by the sea….

    1) Get rid of stains from permanent marker (or paint) on the skin

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    Take the sunscreen and rub it into your hands until the stains start to lift. When this is done, you can wipe your hands or rinse them with hot water to remove the residue of the sunscreen.

    2) Remove glue traces left from a sticker or label

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    Apply sunscreen to the area and leave it to work for a little while. Scrub it with a towel to easily remove all traces.

    3) Clean oxidised jewelry or metal

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    Pour some sunscreen onto a cloth (ideally a cloth like you would use to clean your glasses) and gently rub it into the metal. This should give it a boost of shine. If the object in question has detailed decorations or fragile material such as leather or gemstones attached, this technique is best avoided!

    4) Look after your scissor blades

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    If the blades of your scissors have become sticky or if they are no longer shiny, put a little sunscreen on the blades and open and close the scissors several times, without cutting anything. Wipe the blades off with a tissue to remove the cream. The scissors will look as good as new!

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    Keep your skirting boards cleaner for longer

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    Cleaning your skirting boards is nobody’s favourite task, especially because there are so many of them, and it quickly gets tiring. What’s more, dust gathers very quickly on them, and even when they are cleaned, it soon reappears. So when we spend hours on ours hands and knees with our back bent awkwardly and painfully, we want the job to be efficient and long lasting!

    Here is an incredible technique to make sure you’re getting value out of your efforts.

    What you need:

    • Dryer sheets

    What to do:

    1) Use dryer sheets as a dusters, and wipe them along the skirting boards.

    2) Do the same thing again when the static effect has disappeared. It is in fact the anti-static effect of this technique that repels dirt and prevents dust from lodging on the skirting boards again too quickly.

    Are you finding it impossible to find dryer sheets in the supermarket? In that case, use a little fabric softener on a clean cloth to clean your skirting boards.

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    Simple technique for reshaping clothes that have shrunk in the wash

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    There are stories in which things go badly, but which have a happy ending. This could be the case for anyone who has ever found their dream item of clothing in the shops, but made the mistake of putting it in the tumble dryer. Wham! It has shrunk by a few sizes and seems to be beyond repair.  (Although granted, this does tend to happen more often after a number of washes…)

    This nightmare happened to blogger Jill Nystul, who went looking for a solution, and found a way to save the day! Here is her easy solution, which has already proved itself effective! Her technique has gained so many followers that it has done several tours of the web. To try out at the next available opportunity!

    What you need:

    • Lukewarm water
    • Baby shampoo
    • Two large towels

    1) Fill your sink with lukewarm water and add around a capful of baby shampoo.

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    2) Soak your garment for a few moments, stirring it around to relax the material. This step allows the shrunken fibres to relax. After having allowed the material to soak a little, take it out of the water and gently squeeze it out.

    It is important not to rinse the garment.

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    3) Place the garment on the towel, laid out on a flat surface.

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    4) Roll the garment in the towel to absorb some of the water, but to leave it damp.

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    5) Next lay the garment out flat on a dry towel and tug on it to stretch it out during the drying period until it is back to its original size.

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    The results:

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    7 easy beauty techniques using charcoal

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    There are ingredients that gradually start to take their place in the limelight in the field of cosmetics. This seems to be the case with charcoal, which we are hearing more and more about, especially on the internet. This product seems not only to relieve digestive problems (such as flatulence), but is increasingly becoming a beauty favourite, starting with beauty masks. And it’s no wonder, as this ingredient is great for your skin. This has inspired these 7 beauty techniques using charcoal, which are very easy to do at home. You can buy activated vegetable charcoal in powder or capsules, which can be bought for next to nothing in health shops, certain large supermarkets and of course, on the internet.

    Before getting into the nitty gritty, remember that charcoal is a dark coloured product and you will notice a black or greyish colour while you are using it. This is important to remember if you want to avoid mess and stains (even if they are very easy to remove).

    1) Whiten your teeth with this black treatment!

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    We already had the pleasure of sharing this surprising tip with you in a previous article. Here is a little reminder for a whitening treatment without any risks, because it is edible and non-abrasive. Combat plaque and stains by applying a little charcoal powder to a moist toothbrush, and brushing your teeth with it normally two or three times a week.

    Mix it with water for a mouthwash that will neutralise bad breath and cleanse your mouth.

    2) Treat skin irritations (insect bites, rashes, etc.)

    Make a mixture of powdered charcoal and aloe vera and apply it to the affected area, to say goodbye to pain and itching. You can even apply the mixture to spots. Leave it to dry and rinse it off with hot water.

    Bonus tip: If there is significant redness, you can also add a drop of lavender essential oil to the mix.

    3) A cleansing face mask

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    As we said earlier, charcoal is an ingredient becoming more and more common in face masks, and it is a great way to rid the skin of impurities. Apply a mixture of carbon powder and aloe vera to the face and allow it to dry, before rinsing. With the aloe vera, the skin will not dry out.

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    10 ways to use basil to improve your health

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    In keeping with our recent article on the health benefits of various herbs, today we have an article especially dedicated to basil. As well as smelling incredibly good and working fantastically in dishes (coupling especially well with tomato), basil is good for our health in many ways.

    It is a herb that we know makes an excellent natural sedative and which reduces anxiety. What’s more, it has antibacterial properties which can help us recover from many ailments. Here are some of the best.

    1) To combat stomach cramps, colic and to reduce flatulence

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    To ease these symptoms, drink an infusion made from 5 g of fresh basil leaves, which you boil in a cupful of water. To fight against more persistent cramps or colic, infuse 5 leaves of basil and a few drops of lemon.

    Find a great remedy for flatulence by clicking here.

    2) Put an end to mouth infections, little cuts in the mouth and bad breath

    Mix 100 g of dried basil leaves in 1 litre of water and gargle with this mixture.

    3) Fight stress and soothe your nervous system

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    Make a mixture comprised of a spoon of thyme and a spoon of basil, and add it all to 500 mls of boiling water. Leave it to cool for fifteen minutes, allowing it to infuse. Strain it before drinking and add honey for a sweeter, more pleasant taste.

    4) Effectively treat sore throats and coughs

    We advise that you gargle with an infusion made from 15 g of basil leaves and flowers in a litre of water.

    If you have a cough, we advise that you mix 20 g of basil in 1 litre of water and leave it to infuse for 10 minutes. Drink this mixture 3 times a day with meals.

    5) A relaxing bath after a long, grueling day

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    Infuse around 50 basil leaves in 1 litre of water. Add this to your bath water to increase its relaxation properties. After the bath, you will feel calmer.

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Do you find it impossible to get rid of the dry, cracked skin on your heels? With this simple tip, you can easily render your feet lovely and soft, and help them stay that way!

What you need:

  • A pumice stone
  • Lemon
  • Moisturiser
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1) Soak your feet in hot water for 15 minutes.

2) Dry your feet and rub your heels with the pumice stone, to remove the dead skin cells.

3) Cut a lemon in two, and rub it on your heels.

4) Wipe your feet, apply the moisturiser and the job is done!

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Building & Office Issues

Maintenance and Operations is a centralized service at the Chabot-Las Positas College Community District. As such, requests for office or building-related issues, such as those categories listed above, should be submitted to the Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Department.

Emergency requests should be directed to Betty Castano, Administrative Assistant at Las Positas College at or x. 1761.

Routine requests for those categories listed above must be submitted through the M&O Work Order System (SPMMS). In order to submit a work order, you must have GO-Global software on your computer (contact I.T. Department to request) and you must have a Login to SPMMS (contact Betty Castano to request). Click here for instructions on Accessing the SPMMS Work Order System. Faculty should contact their Dean's administrative assistant to submit a work order.

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Life is too short to spend time being unhappy. If you’re stuck in a rut, take a look at the story you’re telling yourself. No matter what it is, you’re free to tell a different one at any point in time. Focus on how you want to feel and imagine it’s already so. This is how you tune yourself to the vibration of your ideal life experience.

Gotta move the dial before the music will change.


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The last sinewy fingers of sunset
stretch over the hilltops,
begging me,
“I’ll stay two more minutes if you stay too”
And so we stay,
and as I begin to leave
suns golden fingers plead
just two more minutes—
stay and twirl your skirt
in the white foam of the breakers!
Two more minutes I stay,
each time I turn to go,
one last sunny ray reaches,
stretching for me to stay and play.
As the path I’m walking
lights with the brightness of sunset,
I turn to say goodbye,
and watch the last finger of dark
slip over the sand

I Miss You

I miss you—
oh how I miss you.
Listening to songs
that used to make me cry—
because they reminded me of you.
Your photos in my house,
those blue eyes
tell a thousand stories
from a dozen picture frames.
Maybe we’re strangers again,
maybe we’ll start over,
but I can already feel
that you’re moving on again.
I never thought it would be like this,
so short,
I wanted forever,
but you knew it would never come.
I hate that you knew it.
I hate that I miss you.
Oh how I miss you.

Tied To You

In my dreams
I’m tied to you
‘cause I look to you
to make me beautiful.
I wait
to find someone
who will look at me
the way you used to.
It’s been months
but still I remember
how you feel.
It’s just too bad
we weren’t real;
there was no us
when the bed was gone.
I think of you now
and wonder
what I liked about you.

Just One More Time

Just smile for me,
just one more time
look at me like you love me,
like there’s no one else here.
I could wander this life,
alone and small,
and contented so,
just as long as you smile,
just one more time.
I’m not meant for you,
but I never asked more,
all I ever wanted
was that darling smile.

Betty Crocker

Little Miss Betty Crocker
cooked my dinner, and fed me spinach.
She moved around my kitchen,
like she knew where she was going.
I love to watch her move;
when she dances to Janis Joplin,
it’s just like Love.
Betty Crocker closes her eyes,
and sings along as she makes cookies,
and licks the dough from her fingers.
Little Miss Betty Crocker—
my favorite cook and mistress.

Each new face passing by
looks mysterious and scared,
wary of me, the stranger,
spouting ideas never heard.

My blinking eyes stare,
searching for a human connection
where all I see are lies
and scared restrain.

I feel alien here
in my own home,
where I recognize every face
but I’m even more alone.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Missing Marbles

Tuesday night--
Happy Hour.
One hot pink,
patent leather
vintage, rhinestoned clutch.
Left on the bar
at Bartini on twenty-first
next door to the  fondue place.
Contents include:
twenty-seven dollars,
one obviously fake i.d.,
a Yellow Cab business card,
and one Tri-Met bus pass.
one "Blushing Bride" pink lipstick,
a Swiss Army knife,
and two apparently invaluable,
but priceless marbles.
If found:
you can spend the cash,
use the i.d.,
keep the bus pass,
throw away the lipstick,
and sell the knife.
But the marbles...
send my marbles back to me.

I Outside

I small featured
I stark naked
I cold shaking
I empty handed
I wide-eyed
I knock-kneed
I lurk out
I gaze in
I long gone.

The Origin of Blues

In the deep, dark, dank
of a sweaty, swanky swamp
where the bodies roil and toil
day in and day out
the melancholy alto
of the creole saxophone
moves the bowels of a  party
to a good ol' foot stomp.
The wooden porch shakes and quakes
while the music rocks and rolls.

high heels tip tap tap
click clack clack
in chartreuse ankle straps
with one strap come undone

click clack clack
she dances and prances
with one strap come undone
teet'ring on tip toes

she dances and prances
in chartreuse ankle straps
teet'ring on tip toes
high heels tip tap tap.

Safe Space

I press my face into the tightened flesh
(of) her pregnant belly where I find my safe-
ty from the world of violence, wars, and hate.
I am protected here, within the space
of padded tissue where her baby grows.
I wish I was her infant swaddled by
the feeling of invincibility.

She sends her mother's care through veins of blood;
embraces the life she carries in her womb.
This new-found mother's love gives her the glow
of inner peace and health that I will nev-
er have. Instead I wrap my arms around
her pregnant belly and press my face into
the safety of the space where her baby grows.

Solitary Streetlamp

Turn me on in daylight hours,
just once I’d like to light a lighted path
and sleep in darkness.

I’d like to stand on a desk
and cast a dimmer light–
to feel dwarfed by my giant sidewalk size.

I dream of strolling the cement paths,
hand in hand with lovers and friends,
uprooted from my cement block jail.

Always wondering what the rest of the world looks like,
wondering from my solitary street corner–
I am forever unmoving.

Dreaming of Love

I met an ex-lover last night;
we made love once again.
He told me I broke his heart
when I walked out on him.

I said I remember things differently,
that he pushed me away
when I lost my mind,
he lost interest when I went insane.

Then he got excited again,
told me about his new wife,
all the children she wants,
and their whole new life.

He could have had that with me!
But he told me Not one child more,
‘cause two was too many,
and he never wanted marriage before.

I felt so out of place in his new life,
so I faded away silently,
wishing—despite all his flaws—
that he had chosen me.

Only A Dream

i pretended his face was
that your rough hands touching
            were his.
i woke at sunrise today,
and forgot why i’d dreamt
                        in the first place.

The Ensenada Groom

So hot—too hot—
to be wearing his captains uniform,
but of course he wouldn’t be married without it.
He took my breath away,
so handsome.
He wore those medals
like badges of honor,
so perfectly shiny I believed
the metal could protect his heart,
and maybe even mine.

Haiku Series: After My Uncle's Death

Fingers on the tree
grasp at the passing wind
while my sun sets west.

            Life will never be the same—
            my uncle is dead
            the past is now a dream.

Finally I’m free
to roam this world on two feet
with my eyes open.

Dear Laura

To think of you as an action instead of an emotion. Impossible! Or maybe...

There would be Ani DiFranco, there would Camel flavored smoke and an abundance of chocolate. There would be no meat, there would be no boys, and yet...there would be no sex. There might be a sex book, or an independent film about the stereotypical homosexuals, and later that night, there might be a sex oil massage. But our giggles are only light tickles. I’ve seen you nude, but modestly looked away.

In the end, every action with you is an emotion, every moment with you–a nostalgic cue. Because every action comes down to it–I miss you.

We gather in Denny’s
demanding nights darkness
denying dawns presence
until we’re ready for today.
Dancing our words
between the plates
giggling girlishly at history, and
speaking through the silences.
We are discovering, secretly,
our endearing future,
by driving out the doubts
of a dying past, while
the madness of morning
drowns in a basket
of delicious cheese sticks.

Untold Love

The meat of our romance
is an untold love affair.
My broken heart
—speared and deflated—
is the relevant storyline.
And the fallen fruit of my confidence?
a testament to when relationships grow…

Pretend Daydream

I play pretend,
make-believe a lover.
Usually that lover is you.
Sleepy Sunday mornings
and breakfast in bed,
the way my hand fits so well in yours.
The last words of the day
whispered over our pillows,
our secret gazes
met with smiles
across a crowded room.
I fill my daydreams
with only a version of you–
a version that’s not you at all.

Morning Love

While we lie in bed
your hand brings me the slow dawn.
The reflection of morning in your eyes
glows above the hum of sunrise.

Between our sheets
the dimpled texture
of your nude skin
becomes my personal canvas.

You shiver like gasps
to watch my hands
pull at the air
that floats over your body.

Your cold touch
heals my warm isolation.
The sigh that escapes your lips
keeps me staring and still.

Drinks With Dad

with Dad
at a loud
blues bar.
He paints
himself a smile
with his
cutely crooked mouth.
We flirt—
he with the men,
I with them all.
He drinks
a blood-red merlot,
I like Mike’s
Hard Lemonade.
My envious friends
love my dad—
“he’s so cool.”
They want dads
to take them out
to buy
not their love
but their drinks
at a loud
blues bar.

Hot Day, Ice Water

It was a summer day,
that’s why she did
what she did; because
the heat was too much, and
the air was too thick.
She ordered ice water,
no ice, only water,
from the poolside waiter
dressed in button-up shirt
and thick black trousers.
Sweat pooled on his brow
in the midday sun
while she spritzed herself cool
and jumped in
to swim a few laps
in the turquoise pool.
The glass he brought back
was crystal clear clean,
ice water, no ice, liquid
filled to the brim.
Her lips touched the rim,
sipped the cool liquid, nice,
but her tongue tasted metal,
tap water, she knew
and detested the taste.
Spat it out at once,
at the waiter’s sweaty face,
his surprised sweaty face,
now covered with distaste.
Humbly he apologized,
asked her forgiveness, she
smirked and admitted,
free drinks would be nice.

The Right Words

You said all the right things
 at all the right times,
and I’m charmed with your words,
until those words lose meaning.
I’ve forgotten how it sounds
when you say something real.
I study your hand instead;
pudgy knuckles nervously flick your cigarette.
You keep talking,
but your blue eyes refuse to meet mine.
You talk until I forget what you’ve said.
I nod my head,
provoke more words,
so I wait for them to make sense;
I wait for you
to finally say something worth hearing.

Orange Juice

An unattractive garbage bin
stands at attention before me.
I punch ineffective fingernails
into the tough rind of an orange.
I expose the pulpy meat:
juicy, sticky–sensual.
Sweet pungent orange soaks my skin,
my hips grow aware of their shape.
I bite, I nibble, I suck,
this bin itself is not my prop;
I abuse its shape, its height,
maneuver the air between us
while I lick the juice of my arousal
from my fingertips.

Young Fruit

Love, captured when young
--like fruit—
is apt to bruise
and turn to meal
for lack of cultivation.
The young starfruit,
kept in warm humidity
and rotated weekly
can produce delicious results
but the high school crush
grows bitter on the tongue
poisoning the heart from within.
Guard your heart
behind protective walls—
wrap it up in temperate climes
to avoid spoiling you love
with the heat of passion
or the early freeze of disappointment.

Three Cranes

I drove mother home the back way that day.
Connected roads that wind their way
past pastures and country, large
open fields that students call watershed.
Winter began to dwindle that day,
and start losing it’s heavy, cold weight,
made way for the springtime twilight.
As I made the last left turn onto Bell road
we continued our discussion.
I subconsciously slow down the car.
A sheep farm sits there on Bell road
where the smell of onion
permeates the hot summer air every year,
when the sheep are left outside to graze
on the piles of the rotten vegetable.
We both look to the yard
where the sheep graze, even now,
and their tan wool is camouflage
as my eyes jump into the next block
of green green spring grass.
Three white bodies
stand equally apart from each other,
white like bright teeth,
in an otherwise toothless mouth,
each on one leg apiece.
Three egrets–
though there are more likely to have been cranes,
with long thin necks
holding up impossibly heavy beaks,
stretched higher to watch us
slowly passing to watch them.
Nearly stopped on the curvy road
in front of the sheep farm,
I took the photo in my mind,
knowing the creatures would be gone
upon my next return, surely
they’ll have continued their flight,
and perhaps grace another farmers yard
with their awful beauty.

There Was War

First there was peace.
There was a garden,
and there was quiet.
There was woman and man
but there was no child.
Then came the sin
and from sin there came anger.
There was hate
so there had to be war.
There was war.
There was blood.
There was fear.
There was war
and hate.
There was war
and anger.
There was war
and violence.
There was war.
There was a bomb,
and then there was no time.
There was a pause,
there was a peaceful, silent moment,
there was silent peace.
There was peace in all that silent death.
There was a forgiveness,
there was an abandonment of anger.
There was heaven, then.

The Shortest Kiss

It was the shortest kiss in history
but my toes curled and spine tingled
and it opened up your mystery.
Now it’s been two weeks,
plus twenty-six hours
seventeen minutes since we brushed lips
and I miss you like you were mine.
I’ve been drawing your eyes for days
my margins curve into your smiles,
because I miss the way it felt
when I told them you were with me.
Now it just hurts too much
to talk to you like it never happened,
because that was the happiest I’ve been
since I don’t know when,
and I can’t see you the same,
like any other girl I’ve kissed,
‘cause your kiss meant something more to me,
and I can never let you know.

Softly, Softly

Softly, softly,
step softly on my grave,
don’t let me go,
show me you’re brave.
Speak softly to me,
softly, softly,
tell me secrets,
tell me lies,
so long as you don’t
say goodbye.
Carry my heart softly,
softly, softly,
don’t let me fall,
I’m in love again,
and feel so small.
Love me softly,
softly, softly.

Porcelain Anger

A cold china dish breaks
against black pavement
into sharp white shards;
            like fragile raindrops
            splinters suspended in midair,
            in a frozen moment.
Porcelain chips cut
through a motionless breath
while the action loses its anger;
            a beautiful symphony of sound
            crashes in on me,
            quiets all other noise.
Like a sigh of relief,
the shatter leaves behind
one fulfilling silence;
            awe at the crunching underfoot
            pieces of my anger,
            swept into the dustbin.

Oil On Canvas

Gray horizon meets golden morning light.
I watch days dawning,
and feel a part of the painting;
I’ve become a piece of foreground.
In two sparse dimensions
I long to smell the salty morning air,
to feel a cool shiver rush on my veins
to meet my shaky bones.
Every sense smothered,
I feel the absence of reality.
Nothing is real.
I’m just oil on canvas;
the edge of a silvery seascape.
Lost inside two dimensions.

Like Sex

The white girl
with blond hair
who wears a dozen
cornrow braids
presses like sex
her hips
against the pool table
in the student union
where she smiles
with blue eyes,
bites on her lips
nibbling like sex,
shyly staring down
the young black man
with an afro
whose only interest
is the 8 ball
and the corner pocket.

The jazz that sounds like
neon lights:     blue     red     and orange
sweeps me out onto the sidewalk
where the city
and moves
and all the music lovers
are out be-boppin’ on the corners
where color and faith and sex
are just more reasons to perform.

Frozen Fingers of Heartbreak

My icicle fingers
break over the rough land
of my lover’s heart
which I hold in my hand.

I hold in my hand
a foreign coin from Canada
which someone gave me
for being Amanda.

From the day I was born
I was weary to sight
for my face was all mangled
and shied from the light.

Ping pong ping
the other kids were so mean,
they teased me and beat me
ping pong ping.

Now that I have a lover
I have nothing to fear.
No more taunting,
not one more jeer.

Comfortably Awkward

The promise of your presence
arouses my anger.
I’m tingling with nervous excitement.
I’m rehearsing what I’ll say.
I’m deciding on a demeanor.

before too long
we’ve fallen comfortably
back into our old patterns.

And still the awkwardness finds itself
edging in between our words.
All the things we left unsaid
appear in the sidelong glances;
those knowing asides
that everyone sees
but no one understands.

An August day turns into night
without the breath of a cool breeze.
The warm air,
humid against their skin
chases two sweethearts indoors.
The reddened bodies sit
with flesh that aches
the way sun faded leather is taut.
The girl hisses short breaths of pain
each time she moves.
Her pink skin exposed
he skims an aloe covered hand
across her shoulders and tender back.
Beneath his fingers
her skin feels like
the hot hand of passion
reaching for his groin.
Barely breathing beneath a sunburn
an ecstatic smile scorches
across her peeling lips
the delight in her eyes
meets the hunger reflected in his.
Her image of intimacy fades
like the white imprint
of his touch on her skin.

A Living City

With my eyes open
I am looking upon a living city of

... the bare purple nipples of women
feeding hungry babies,
sky-clad children
playing in the cold air.

... men in their official meetings
pretending to take a casual break,
keeping their trained ears open,
to any business opportunity.

...women walking off their mochas
in their clashing skirts and sneakers,
never missing a window shop sale
or another chance for coffee.

... a quarreling couple
oblivious to everything else,
about to find the end to their unhappiness,
in a humiliating public fight.

...the noisy din of cars
that are speeding past us all.

I dreamt I went to my funeral naked
and roll upon roll upon roll
of my fat was bare
for everyone to see.
Every inch of my soft, elastic hide
lay open to public inspection,
and I could not escape.
You so-called friends
and loving family members
whispered and pointed,
poked the pale pudding flesh
of my well endowed breast,
and tried not to see
the stretched expanse of my belly.
You were all so inclined,
to compare your physique to mine,
that in later evening hours,
I reveled to see you all,
naked and blemished,
standing before your mirrors
brushing a hand over the flaws
that upon your funeral,
will be the signs of life you miss the most.

Breast Envy

The sight of her breasts was impeccable
through the thin white material of her blouse
and jealousy filled my own large chest
for want of fleshy perkiness like that.

My own pendulous breasts hang low on my chest
wearing downward pointing rose nipples
that no one ever gets to see but me
and only when I lift them upwards
one at a time by hand in the mirror.

I was a naïve 12 years old
when last I had small B cup boobs like hers—
what I wouldn’t give of myself now
to be that small chested again.


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Identifying your GOALS

Goals are like magnets

Identifying Your Goals

I have spoken about goals often in my blogs, I hope they are as important to you s they are to me..  They are a part of our lives FOR EVER!

Many people have stalled goals, so I am sure this was very helpful to many people.  But also many people don’t really have "proper" goals at all.

How about you?  What are your main goals?  Not goals for your business (whether it belongs to you or you are simply an employee).  Not goals you have for others (your partner or your children for example).  Yes, you need business and family goals, but you also need real personal goals.  So what are your personal goals?

At this point I know I will have lost some of my readers, as when they look at their stated goals they realize they don’t have any personal goals, just goals for others.  If you are in that group, bear with me.

Now let’s have a look at those personal goals and see how real they are.

Determination Desire Goals etcFirstly, hands up those who gave a monetary goal.  Perhaps an amount of money in the bank (maybe £1Mllion?).  Or a regular amount you want to receive every month or every year?  If your hand is up, let me be a bit controversial.  What you have isn’t a real goal at all!  It may be a way you can achieve the goal, but it isn’t a goal in itself.  Unfortunately, though, many people try to turn this means to an end into the end itself.  Wanting to gain a certain amount of money in order to achieve an end goal is not a bad thing.  But wanting to gain that money with no other aim other than simply to have the money is not a good thing.  Not a good thing at all!

If you felt your goal was a certain amount of money, I would like you to start digging deeper.  Why do you want that money?  What will you use it for?  What will it change in your life?  Whatever answers you get to those questions, as long as those answers inspire you, then those are your real goals, not the money.  Some people will probably feel I am splitting hairs here, and that it doesn’t matter what you want the money for, that first you want to get the money and then you can decide how to use it.  You could not get further from the truth!  Your goal has to inspire you.  It has to be a real goal.  Money is NOT a real goal.  It doesn’t hurt to include it as one of your goals, but only as a minor goal and not your main target.

This is a fine world for the person who knows precisely what he or she expects from life and is busy getting it.
We are happiest when we are striving to achieve a goal. When we achieve one goal, it’s a natural human tendency to set another, usually bigger, one. W. Clement Stone calls it inspirational dissatisfaction — the let own one experiences after a goal has been achieved and before the next step toward a new one has been taken. When you begin to experience that nagging feeling, it’s time to get into action! Make sure you have a long-range plan in place so that when one short-term goal has been achieved, there is a natural progression toward the next. Napoleon Hill

The reality is that although money can be used to get whatever it is you want to have, it is not usually the only possible way to get it.  Maybe it is the most likely way – it probably is.  But it is not the ONLY way.  And on the basis of that well-known quote "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" (1 Timothy 6:10) I urge you not to put your main emphasis on simply acquiring wealth without knowing why you want to acquire it and exactly how you plan to use it.

Many people, when they first realize the mistake they have made in confusing wealth and their real goals, suddenly find they have true goals that they didn’t really recognize before.  Goals that really excite them.  And even in some cases goals that don’t need any greater wealth for them to be achievable.

Through the harmony and ultimately the balance of the feminine energy, of that goddess energy, you will unlock the Vortex of Power that lies within. – Lazaris

Secondly, hands up those who gave what, frankly, they would consider an unrealistic goal.  Often this mistake is compounded by being a monetary goal too.  Back to our £ Million in the bank account when, perhaps, you have a minimum wage job and no more money in your account than is needed for this month’s expenses.  Whether the unrealistic goal is a monetary goal or not, if you see it as unrealistic you should modify it.

Notice I have said "if you see it as unrealistic".  Not "if it is unrealistic".  The key factor here is what you truly believe is possible, not what IS possible.  I happen to believe that everything is possible.  But that doesn’t mean I will try working towards goals that I know make me flinch when I state them, with an inner belief that this is not achievable for me yet.  Everything is possible, but many of those possibilities are an end goal that seems too far away to excite us into trying to achieve it now.

Your thoughts ceate your futureIdentify your personal goals, examine them, ensure they excite you, and ensure they don’t elicit from you an immediate reaction that they are not possible.  As a result of this examination, don’t be afraid to change those goals.  Your goals should always be evolving anyway.  The goals you have today are most unlikely to be the same goals you had five years ago, and are just as unlikely to be the same goals you will have in five years’ time.  If you didn’t immediately come up with any goals, then now is the time to try finding some.  Identify real personal goals and, trust me, you will find your life is more meaningful – and the meaning will make you happier.

Work towards real, personal goals, and as you move closer to them and achieve some of them, replace them with other, perhaps more ambitious goals.

The power is from within, the choice is yours

Gray Lawrence

The yellow brick road “IS” paved with gold, all you have to do is open the right door in your mind and take the first step; Gray Lawrence

How To Create A Qualified Prospect In Just 2 Minutes or Less

It is amazing really, some people are capable of creating a prospect in 2 minutes (or less), but still others struggle to create that perfect prospect with a frustrating MLM presentation that takes 3 hours. In my opinion, tomlydTom Big Al Schreiter is the king of the one minute presentation.  Today no one has time to listen to a 3 hour presentation, heck most will not give you 20 minutes.  Hopefully this article will explain “How To Create A Qualified Prospect In Just 2 Minutes or Less.”

First you need to be skilled in the necessary skills to “Make It” in this business.  Coming from “Wall Street”, being a traditional business owner, a doctor or a sanitary engineer  will NOT make you a success in MLM. Education and learning MLM skills however will make all the difference.

Does this sound familiar? You have chosen your opportunity,  now what?  Ah…a presentation to your prospect about your product or your MLM business opportunity. You gave the presentation and failed miserably.  Don’t beat yourself just yet.  Most fail in this area…simply because we do not know what to say…We can not just wing it though. Again the importance of education and learning MLM skills.

Would it be ok if you could learn to give a whole opportunity presentation/product presentation in less than 2 minutes?  How about in one minute? Just imagine giving a presentation while you are on an elevator or on break at work with a co-worker. Would this sound good to you?

Opportunities to give a presentation do present themselves and we have to know what to say and when to say it.  Just imagine someone leaning forward wanting to know more…

Well here are 3 simple steps you can use to create your amazing 1 or 2 minute presentation that will have prospects begging you for much more information.

  • Present YOU as the solution to your prospects problem…become the solution

Tom tells us that your very first sentence is the most important part of your whole presentation. So make it good. Tom also tells us that you have to get past your prospects “salesman” alarms…the prospect will decide in less than 10 seconds if they will continue to listen to you.

  • Prospects want to know 3 basic things:

  1. What kind of business are you in?

  2. How much money can I make?

  3. What do I have to do to earn that money?

  • Prospects do  not really care what your business is…

If you build a good relationship with them they would sell bubble gum or garbage can covers even moon rocks if they see what you have as a solution to their problem. Your prospect wants to know “what is in it for them” and “how you are going to be able to assist them”.

Be listening for opportunities to present themselves…remember the timing may not be right for your prospect so get a date and time that would be good for them to listen to a short presentation.

Here is a prime example of a good opportunity to give a presentation….

When people tell me that they are tired or feel trapped in their job and need some extra cash, we ask…

“Would you like to do something about it?”

Most people say they would love to know how they could have more energy or have an extra income.

I would be happy to tell you…when could you set aside a whole one minute for me to tell you what I do.

Most people respond “right now”, so I say:

I am in the health and wellness business which means I show people how to feel 18 again but with better judgement by drinking a healthy energy drink, by eating great tasting diet cookies and by drinking diet shakes to help people lose weight so they can have lots of energy to take care of their family and start enjoying life again. I show people how they can earn extra money and have more time freedom and live healthier lives, doing something they already do but are not getting paid to do.”

Would it be ok if you could do the same thing…  all you have to do is find 4 people who feel the same way you do and want to feel younger, have more energy and want to earn an extra pay check a month.

That is what I do, what do you think?

There you have it, you have created by listening for a good opportunity a qualified prospect in less than 2 minutes.  Less than 1 minute really….you have shown that you just may be a solution to their problem with your opening sentence in your presentation. Give the presentation…the rest IS up to them.

Commit To Success Today
Dave and Darlene Mills
Leadership With A Vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. by Joel A. Barker

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki

Gray Lawrence

“Seek opportunities and experiences that invigorate you, those that are challenging, and that demand you show up as your very best self.” – David Howitt

Five Top Tips to Starting a Successful Business

The fastest way to receive is to give, because giving starts the reciprocal action of receiving. We all receive according to how much we give. Give the best of you everywhere you go. Give a smile. Give thanks. Give kindness. Give love. Your giving should be a giving without expectation of return – a giving for the sheer joy of it. May the joy be with you, Rhonda Byrne The Secret… bringing joy to billions

This message is from one of the greats in the world of successful business people Sir Richard Branson

As LinkedIn is a business that started in a living room, much like Virgin began in a basement, I thought my first blog on the site should be about how to simply start a successful business. Here are five top tips I’ve picked up over the years.

1. Listen more than you talk

Busy more than one phoneWe have two ears and one mouth, using them in proportion is not a bad idea! To be a good leader you have to be a great listener. Brilliant ideas can spring from the most unlikely places, so you should always keep your ears open for some shrewd advice. This can mean following online comments as closely as board meeting notes, or asking the frontline staff for their opinions as often as the CEOs. Get out there, listen to people, draw people out and learn from them.

2. Keep it simple

You have to do something radically different to stand out in business. But nobody ever said different has to be complex. There are thousands of simple business solutions to problems out there, just waiting to be solved by the next big thing in business. Maintain a focus upon innovation, but don’t try to reinvent the wheel. A simple change for the better is far more effective than five complicated changes for the worse.

3. Take pride in your work

Last week I enjoyed my favourite night of the year, the Virgin Stars of the YearBelieve with all of your heart that you will do all that you were made to do Awards, where we celebrated some of those people who have gone the extra mile for us around the Virgin world. With so many different companies, nationalities and personalities represented under one roof, it was interesting to see what qualities they all have in common. One was pride in their work, and in the company they represent. Remember your staff are your biggest brand advocates, and focusing on helping them take pride will shine through in how they treat your customers.

4. Have fun, success will follow

If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it’s time to try something else. If you are having a good time, there is a far greater chance a positive, innovative atmosphere will be nurtured and your business will flourish. A smile and a joke can go a long way, so be quick to see the lighter side of life.

5. Rip it up and start again

If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture isn’t a success, welcome to the club! Every successful businessperson has experienced a few failures along the way – the important thing is how you learn from them. Don’t allow yourself to get disheartened by a setback or two, instead dust yourself off and work out what went wrong. Then you can find the positives, analyse where you can improve, rip it up and start again.

Be a successful Business person it is what you deserve, Networking or another type of business, all is available to those who work at their ideas..

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.
Many years ago, the commencement speaker at a prestigious university asked all members of the graduating class who had a definite plan for their lives to hold up their hands. As he looked around the room, only three hands were raised. Twenty-five years later, when the class held a reunion, the combined net worth of those three individuals exceeded that of the remainder of the class. People who know where they are going, always achieve far greater levels of success than those who merely drift through life, expecting circumstances to create opportunities for them. Successful people create their own opportunities by focusing on goals with an intensity that borders on obsession. In this way, every action moves them toward their goal. Napoleon Hill

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"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. -Will Durant

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From The Secret Daily Teachings

If you make time to list all the things you are grateful for, and you feel the feelings of gratitude, you will feel amazing every day. Your frequency will be high and you will move through your days in love with being alive, bringing joy wherever you go, positively affecting one person after another. When you live a life like this, everything you want will come before you even ask. May the joy be with you, Rhonda Byrne
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I’m an entrepreneur who is passionate about harnessing the power of personal development and using it to add value to all who seek personal development which leads to an incredible lifestyle.
It has always been my nature to share value and connect people whose talents provide a mutual benefit and then watching the magic unfold. Gray

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Life is the sum of all your choices" Albert Camus

Successful Networker The different & the Advantage

“What I find amazing is that when you go out of your way to give to another person, you will also receive great things in your life. This is what is called the Law of Giving and Receiving. You may not receive from the people you are helping, but  you will receive good things from other people and in other ways.” Sonia Ricotti

jokes pulling each others legsLike all children involved in something as a team or group or even watching TV we look fro the difference, do we not?  The one supposed to be doing his or her own thing. Pretty easy right?
We’ve been trained to spot different. Our attention is attracted to different. We are trained to see it in a blink.

Now the system trains you to spot “different” so that it can be separated out. Remember what happened back in school with the “different” kids? Whether they were “gifted” or “challenged,” the result was the same: they got separated.
Different doesn’t work in the system. “Different” kids come in a lot of flavours and require many unique programs to ensure their compliance. But the system doesn’t have multiple programs, they only have one designed for the average drone.

Part of that program shows the drone how to spot the different. The average brainwashed school kid has no problem spotting the kid who is different. From there, social training kicks in and the different are pushed to the side.
Now if it hasn’t become clear, school isn’t training for life, it is training for compliance. So when you get out in the real world, up is down and down is up.
In the system, different is bad, in the real world, different is an enormous asset.
On a genetic level, our attention is attracted to variation. We find the “different” interesting. I don’t know the scientific reason for that, but variation in a gene pool helps insure survival, so it makes sense.

Owel teacherThis is where you can actually use the system’s training to your advantage.
Because everyone all around you is trained to pay attention to what’s different.
As a service provider, if you act, talk and work in a unique way, you have an enormous advantage. You can’t get clients without first getting the attention of prospects.
Are you showing up in a unique way?
Are you even clear about the unique value you bring to your clients?
Most people are blind to it. They’ve had that ability to see their greatest gifts suppressed. And for good reason. Because once you unlock that ability for yourself, you’ll understand just how valuable you truly are.
It’s far easier to control people if they’re worried about being “arrogant,” or “cocky” or “proud” of who they are. You can actually get people to walk around in a state of constant “guilt.” And people say hell is someplace you go when you die. For many, it’s right here among the living.   Don’t fall for it. Life is too short. And you aren’t here to be a fearful drone.    Helping people to recover this ability and

to see their unique value, is what is expected by you should you be the leader of choice.
This ability will change your business, no matter what type of business!  From a company to a single ownership you still deal with people, customers are like staff really and should be treated with respect.  This I do with members and customers in both my MLM’s   (1)   (2)  as an Independent Distributor and it will transform your life.
You are here to shine as brightly as possible, for as long as possible.
Your clients and the rest of the world need you to show up. When would you like to start?
You Can Choose a Different Path… You Can Become a One of a Kind Service Professional

You Have Something Unique and Valuable That Sets You Apart From Everyone… Now You Can Find Out What That Thing Is and Use It to Build Your Business  The right training is paramount and be that little bit better than the rest!! for my MLM’s I use this Guide  it may not be a tradition business but like nearly all  MLM’s they produce more millionaires worldwide!!

Difference between school and lifeHow to Make Yourself Stand Out Like a Diamond at a Coal Convention?  be better!  The fact is, you already have everything you need right now to set yourself apart from your competition in ways that would drastically improve the quality of your clients and business.    What you probably haven’t done, though, is created the package that communicates that to your prospective clients.

What makes you unique? What makes you a better value than anyone else?

How do you communicate that to prospects so they “get it” like a smack right to the face?  Go that extra mile.

If you don’t have those answers, then it’s high time to do something about it.

INVEST in yourself it is worth it. Become the LEADER you are capable of!

“Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone around you, and it won’t matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won’t matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you’ll be competing with yourself.” Rick Pitino Basketball Coach, Author and Speaker

Most Service Providers are Great at What They Do–But Very Few Are Good At Communicating the Unique Value of What They Do.  You are the decision of your life and future.

If you want to attract a better job or anything better than what you currently have, it is important to understand how the law of attraction works.  You know that to bring in something better you must imagine what that better thing looks like in your mind, and then live in that picture as though it is here now. But you should also know that if you complain about your current job, for example, and continue to focus on all the negative things, you will never bring the better job to you. You must look for the things to be grateful for in your current job. Each thing you find to be grateful for is helping to bring that better job to you. That is really working the law!  May the joy be with you

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Titanium Bound - an experimental blog

I'm going to launch another blog. I do question the wisdom of authoring yet another blog. But this one's more a repository of ideas than a blog. It's about developments in the ad industry that challenge my own expectations of what an ad agency should do and be. Three examples:

1. Fallon recently launched Skimmer. What business does an ad agency have developing web applications?

2. Big Agency Defector's 20:20:20 method of billing new clients. This is a brilliant idea. What aren't more agencies doing it?

3. Coca-Cola's pushing their pay-for-performance model of agency compensation. Great news for agencies? Or should we break out the picket signs?

It's not going to be "Hey, check out the new campaign from Wieden." It can't be. The web groans under the weight of all those blogs.

This is basically a blog to help me understand one thing: When I'm asked to help lead an agency, what kind of agency are we going to be? Ten years ago, I would have said, "We'll do print, TV and radio." I don't think anyone can say that anymore.

I'm calling the new blog Titanium Bound. I'm already regretting the name (borrowed from the Cannes Lion category). But I'm not looking to win a Pulitzer or anything, so whatever. Anyone interested in contributing? I'd love to have some smart co-authors.


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

(Non-)Cookie Cutter Cutting

Yesterday at practice we had a guest lecture from Kathy on Brute Squad about the basics of cutting! How exciting and pertinent to my frisbee goal this spring! :) In any level of ultimate, college or club, fundamentals are key and will do wonders for your game. Plus, the demos and drills she had us do were really helpful so I will share her wisdom with you:

1. Change in direction and change in speed

Cutting is all about putting space between you and your defender so that you can get the disc. How do you do that? Two ways: (1) change in direction, and (2) change in speed.

Change in direction is pretty obvious because part of cutting is tricking your defender into thinking you're going in one direction when you really want to go the other. The drill for this is a simple in-cut in the shape of a V towards a thrower. The key to this kind of cutting is to make a hard plant at the "vertex" of the V (no curved cuts or banana-shaped cuts!). Practice running the first "leg" of the V at different speeds, like 85% or 100% of your top speed. Running at 85% of your speed tricks your defender into a "comfortable" speed and then you can take off and they'll never know what hit her ;) Then the second "leg" of the V should be 100% accelerating towards the disc.

Another tactic on getting open is changing your speed. This has many variations like, starting off at a jogging pace and then suddenly sprinting towards or away from the disc, or the stutter step - where you start sprinting, stop suddenly and throw in a quick shoulder/hip fake, and then sprint off again. I personally love the stutter step - low effort and high success rate. :) The drill for this is to set up two cones in front of a thrower (similar to the Grr Drill but with another cone between the line and the thrower. Have players practice different changes in speed at the second cone, like start 85%, end at 100% or start off jogging and then suddenly sprint when you get to the cone.

2. Cutting at your defender

The goal of cutting at your defender is to get your defender on their heels so that they're off-balance. People who are off-balance need some time to get back in their athletic stance to chase after you. (And by that time, you've already gotten the disc!) The drill is a one-on-one offense/defense drill, which is pretty self-explanatory... one person on O, one person on D and the person on O tries to get open, either on an "in-cut" or "away-cut." The defender can chose to force the offense "in" or "out." Have the offense take the more challenging cut (i.e. if the defense is forcing you out, try to cut in, and vice versa). Make sure people practice cuts for both forehands and backhands. Also, the other goal of cutting at your defender is to get the defense to turn their hips. As Shakira says, "hips don't lie" and so it's much easier to get open on a defender whose hips are already turned in one direction. When I first started on sMITe, someone told me to try running straight at your defender and plant your foot right in between her feet (or as close as you can get), before making your cut.

3. Use your body (that's what she said)

Basketball players do this a lot, but basically, you want your defender behind you because she can't go through you to get the disc. If she wants to get the disc, she's going to have to go around you (which takes a lot of time/speed) or through you (which is a foul). The key to this is to turn your hips toward the disc so that your defender is on your back/butt. This applies to both "in-cuts" and "away-cuts." For in-cuts Kathy talked about shifting your body slightly to the "outside" (where your defender is) so you can catch the disc on the "inside" of your body.

For away-cuts and floaty discs, keep your defender on your back and then you can reach up and grab the disc at the last second. This is particularly helpful when your defender is taller than you. I get really excited when I can actually do this correctly. I did it once in yesterday's scrimmage for Meri's huck and Anna(?) was defending me but I didn't catch the disc. :(

One last point about cutting away: make sure you make space for you and your thrower by making your cuts curve away towards the break-side. Kathy said it was an e^x curve... ... Anyway, making room on your away cuts is essential in (1) being able to see the disc and (2) giving the thrower ample space to throw the huck. Everyone has had the experience of running directly under the disc before... it hurts your neck and you can't see the angle of the disc and thus which way it's going to fall. Curving away on your away cuts allows you to see the disc from an angle and thus know where it's going to tilt. And secondly, make it easier for your thrower to huck something pretty to you. If you cut right along the sideline, there is no wriggle room for the thrower to huck and the hucks have to be pretty much spot-on. Curving away gives you space to run the disc down and meet the disc wherever it ends up. Drill for this is cuts from the front of the stack towards the breakside, a.k.a. "the Jesus cut" as Smeri likes to call it (because it's shaped like a J).

Ok everyone, happy cutting :) And thanks Kathy for coming out to teach us!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Engagement Story

Ok, I've been putting off this post for a while (no reason... just putting it off... maybe it's because I knew I couldn't write this post without being cheesy) so here goes, cheese and all:

Bryan and I have been talking about getting engaged and married sometime in 2010/2011 and I knew that he had asked my parents for their permission/blessing when he came to California with me in July 2009. But as it neared the end of 2009 I was getting kinda anxious because I wanted to be engaged before Christmas so I could share it with my family when I saw them in winter break. I wasn't very subtle about it so I sent him links with rings that I thought were pretty and I bugged him to go ring shopping. Most of the time he just ignored me or started talking about puppies and then I'd get distracted, but finally one day out of the blue, he said we could go. (!!)

I woke up on Saturday morning (Nov. 14) and it was POURING outside. You know, it had rained during the fall, and Boston falls are always rainy, but this particular day was pouring like none other.

B: So do you still want to go ring shopping?
K: Yes... ... no... ...maybe not... it's raining...
B: Yes, I know it's raining, do you want to go still?
K: Ok... it's raining really hard though.

After a couple minutes of debating I finally decided that I did want to go, even if it was just to leave the house for a little bit, since it was supposed to rain all day, so we headed out.

K: So where are we going?
B: Let's go to the Cambridgeside Galleria
K: Ok
B: We can walk to Mass Ave and take the #1 bus to MIT and then walk to Kendall and take the Galleria shuttle
K: What? That's dumb, why don't we just take the T from Central to Kendall and then take the shuttle?
B: Oh yeah, okay. That makes much more sense.
K: gives Bryan a "stop-being-dumb" look

We start walking towards the T stop and just when we're going down the stairs to the station, Bryan says:

B: I change my mind. Let's go to the Pru. There's a better selection there.
K: Ok...

So we hop on the #1 bus (actually, we sprinted for the bus so we were both soaking when we got on) and rode a few minutes in silence, trying to catch our breath. Just when we get to MIT, Bryan says:

B: I change my mind again! Let's go to the Galleria.
K: ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! OMG. **death stare**

We get off the #1 bus and cross the street. I told him at least we could take a trip down memory lane since neither Bryan nor I are around MIT that much anymore. I spend most of my time at the VA Medical Center at the Heath Street stop on the Green "E" line. And Bryan slaves away 15 hours a day at his consulting job. Anyway, I digress... So as you know, Bryan and I met at MIT. More specifically we met in the Course 3 (Materials Science) Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory (more affectionately called UGTL) where we were TAs our first semester. For those of you who are familiar with MIT, Bryan and I TAed in the "fishbowl lab" at the end of the Infinite Corridor. Japanese tourists used to come by, point and take pictures of us. =P

So we're walking down the Infinite and we stop in front of UGTL to look in and then suddenly I look over and see that Bryan is down on one knee in the middle of the Infinite. O.M.G.

My heart starts beating 10x faster and Bryan starts to say stuff and I don't really hear anything. Then he pulls out a little book he made, titled, "Ten Reasons Why We Should Spend the Rest of our Lives Together." I'm not going to show all of them, but some of the reasons were more serious and important:

(7. We both value our friends and families)

while some of them were more funny and silly:

(1. We like to play ultimate together. You like to huck, I like to cut for you.)

I had to put the frisbee-related one in! And it was reason #1! Haha! And it ended with:

(10. We have so many more memories to make together...)

Originally, we were talking about how awesome it'd be to go to Hawai'i but I don't think we're going to do that anytime soon anymore.

Then he said he loved me* and then gave me a box to open:

And then he asked me to marry him! I said, "Of course!" and then I was shaking so much I had a hard time opening the box, but I eventually dug out this:

And here we are, all nerdy and smiley in front of UGTL (the scar on my pinky knuckle is from indoor layout practice two nights before):

Then I called my family and some friends while Bryan sent emails from his Crackberry (he actually has a Droid now but I still call it a Crackberry because he's still addicted to it) and then walked back to his place to make cake and watch Northwestern football beat the Illini. =D

*This was the first time Bryan said he loved me. We decided a while ago that we wouldn't say it until we got engaged so it'd be more meaningful.

// End cheese.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Junk in the Trunk = Healthy!!

(from Doris)

I started playing competitive tennis when I was 12 years old. Ever since then, I have always felt like my butt was bigger than other girls' in my grade, but I told myself it was my imagination and that I had the normal teenage body insecurities. (Now I know and I should've figured it out a while ago, that tennis is a lot of squatting in the "ready stance," sprinting, stopping suddenly and changing directions and this HAD to build up some quad/hamstring/butt muscles.)

I remember sleeping in on some Sunday mornings in high school and my mom would wake me up by stripping the covers and saying "Rise and shine!" and then added, "Your butt is like rising bread! So poofy!" (or something to that effect, all in Mandarin, of course). Way to make me even more self-conscious about my butt, Mom. =P

In college all of my Asian female friends had no butts. Seriously, I didn't mean to stare or anything, but I was looking at their lack of curves and thinking, "How could nothing be there?! That's just anatomically not possible!" I had female friends of other ethnicities and my butt was more shaped like theirs, so I just thought I was built differently. =P

It wasn't under I started grad school and joined sMITe, and met Doris, Smeri, and Catherine, to name a few, that I learned that having a big butt was actually a good thing! And even when we were recruiting at campus preview weekend or the athletics fair, we joked that we were looking for girls with "a high butt to boob ratio." (i.e. large butt, small boobs). Catherine and Doris would often complain in the early spring season (after we'd done the majority of the track workouts... stupid 400s) that their pants didn't fit anymore. And Darlene would brag that we had become "too fast for our shorts." :)

So it's through sMITe that I've finally come to terms with my body. I learned to embrace and even be proud of my big butt.

When I told my dad about the article relating big butts to healthy hearts, my dad replied, "Big butt also sit more steadily and balanced than small ones. No kidding."

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Ok from left to right:
  1. Eugene with his skinny chicken legs
  2. Keith with his really long legs
  3. Charles showing a lot of leg
  4. NG with his monstrosities that he calls calves
Round of applause goes to Weiyang. Good job Weiyang... clap clap clap clap clap.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Frisbee Goals

We had our first practice of 2010 on Tues night. There was a giant scaffolding thing in the middle of the indoor track so we couldn't really do much, but this IAP we're working on basic frisbee skills: throwing and catching (and other things? I don't know) so the scaffolding didn't really bother us.

Jin and Shuang wanted a quantitative measure of our improvement over the next few months so she had us throw and then run after the disc, pick it up, throw again, run after it... all the way around the inside of the track, 4 times around the track - forehands twice and backhands twice. I kept throwing under the screens so the disc slid onto the track where the runners club was running. They were pretty pissed =P

We worked on forehands: gripping the disc tight, angling the disc for I/O or O/I, and accuracy. I was also working on throwing under pressure. Jin said, "Imagine Nurit marking you, and Kathy Dobson covering Smeri." Jeez. To help out, she and Shuangy held hands and became a giant 2-headed mark. =P

We made some goals for IAP to help focus our skills. I'm typically really bad at goal-setting. I need someone to tell me what to work on because I have a difficult time seeing the overall picture. But with some help, I came up with my goals for IAP and probably extending to the rest of the season:
  • To become an awesome mid. Which means cutting... ugh so tiring. =P I want to be a more versatile player than just a handler and to be a threat everywhere on the field! muahaha
  • To vary my cuts as a cutter. I need to branch out from the Asian stutter.
  • To be a reliable dump - be more aggressive, quicker, louder and more effective in my communication. This has been an ongoing goal for the last 2-3 years and I feel like I've improved a lot, but after playing club for 2 seasons I think I have to step it up even more.

Awesome Vacation Day 4 & 5

We woke up and went to Torrey Pines in San Diego:

to go on a mini-hike!

Along the way we saw dangerous sand dunes (not really)...

...and beautiful views

Happy mini hikers on top of the mini mountain:

We also visited the visitor's center and I played with the finger puppets:

And enjoyed the view again:

And on our way down, Charles was running to get into this picture and completely fell over:

Which way to the beach???

The descent to the beach (yikes) It was high tide but we decided to go anyway:

Trying not to fall on top of each other as we go down:

Almost there!

Walking along the beach and the cliffs:

We get out to this area that has some rocks sticking out of the ocean. But the path to get there is partially covered by waves so it's like playing real life super mario!

Keith was the first to make it:

Some people stayed behind because they didn't want to get wet:

On our way back:

Somehow Hansen managed to stay dry the entire time:

And we found a rock that looked like a face. Man-made or natural? What do you think?:

Then some people decided to climb the lifeguard tower:

Some people had more trouble than others:

Then we all went to Roberto's to have lunch (mmm Mexican food):

Then we went to YogurtWorld for more ice cream:

And then walked around downtown SD and stopped by the Ghirardelli store where their tables were giant Ghirardelli squares :D

A few of us then tried on sunglasses at Oakley:

Charles trying to be a penguin (look, the penguins are so tiny...):

We also stopped by the harbor to look at the sailboats:

Eugene being a monkey:

For dinner we had a bonfire on the beach!

Bryan roasted 6 sausages on the same stick:

Later that night we drove home to LA and wiped out. The next morning Charles left for the airport and we picked up Smeri. Then the boys stayed home and played video games while Clare, Meri and I did jump runs on the beach:

The end :)

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Awesome Vacation Day 3

First, let's play a matching game: Match the calves with their respective owners (please do not guess if you're one of the four guys in the picture)! The guys are, in alphabetical order: Bryan, Charles, Eugene, Keith. First one to guess correctly wins a round of applause from me.

A pic of Keith and the ladies on a porch swing on our deck:

We head over to Hermosa Beach because that's where Keith says all the ladies are. A few people go running on the beach and then we all play some beach volleyball! Our mom took a group picture of us but Charles had wandered off somewhere, so we dubbed him our Grandpa because he kept leaving us.

And then cover Keith in sand:

For lunch we go to Onami which is this Japanese sushi and seafood buffet. We all stuffed our faces... mmm... they also had a disturbingly bright green ice cream that was supposed to be green tea ice cream. I didn't try it because it was so weird looking =P

Btw, we had all bought matching t-shirts in Hollywood to commemorate this awesome vacation. Haha some people were more excited than others to wear them though:

Charles and Bryan playing around while we're filling up on gas on our way to San Diego to visit Sluts!:

On our way down we stop by at the San Juan Capistrano Mission. However the admission price was $9 with no student discounts so we decided to forgo that

And instead go to the llama farm!!! kiss...

...and feed the llamas!

Ok it was really a petting zoo that had llamas in it but it's much more fun to call it a llama farm. Us at the llama farm (right after this picture was taken the llama behind Wuisiew started eating her hair.. haha):

Then we finally made our way to Sluts' house! This is her in her hammock in the backyard - don't you love California in the winter? :)

This is me and Bryan on her tiny couch:

And this is a picture of a picture of Sluts when she was little (isn't she adorable?!):

And this is Keith playing with random things in Sluts' room!

And this is me with her coca cola polar bear! (I don't think Sluts has still recovered from us invading her space.. haha):

And then we decided to take a picture, prom style, on her staircase in all of our matching Hollywood shirts (Eugene is trying to hide behind the light):

Then we settle in for an exciting game of Wii Super Mario (Wuisiew is sad because she lost the rosham to be the first 4 to play):

Then her parents make us yummy burritos for dinner:

Yay San Diego!! :D
(Don't forget to play the calves matching game!)


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