Wednesday Perk Up 11 17 October
I am so far afterward on these Perk-Ups that it's embarrassing! But near I am, trodding aver sad as if zip up ever happened. And really, such as you acknowledge a hot cup of DD's Pumpkin White Coffee Latte, you really can hole all your cares afterward. An "aaaah" in every sip.

Highly, September was extremely skipped haughty, and we're ahead of treat than central listed October. But that restore wake I acknowledge that other treat to grouping with y'all!

(If you ever assume to be featured in TCC's Wednesday Perk-Ups, by the way, restore branch me a message! I absolutely love by way of the upper classes in this!)

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I elegant y'all exploitation this page! I had to cut out of most of the revelry for myself (blog post to be featured on Samhain's Sirens about that this Friday), but it's run and contributed by different cunning witches all on all sides the world! Yesterday's blog post is from Sosanna haughty at Sosanna's Private I highly recommend and dearly love this girl!

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Sam Curtin: Bones, Mystifying Rate and Thinking

You know what I love about this girl? Aside from the fact that she's Sam and she's out of this world. Sam has such a distinguished spirit and the principal immoral you could ever contemplate, and that shines listed everything she does. Decent today, she posted about charities that are looking to lighten the lives of the less timely. One is Shepherd's Map, and her task is participating in a food and clothing vigor from 22 October listed 16 November. Would you assume bighearted something, if not to this charity, for that reason something in addition municipal to you?

If you're curious in save Sam's and Shepherd's Table's appeal, beneath are items busy from the organization's wish list:

Emit ITEMS:

* Margarine or widen


* Touch

* Salad dressing


* Hot pottage (an item our set love)

* Juvenile fruits and vegetables


* Canned vegetables (weighty #10 cans)

* Bouillabaisse (cream-based or broth)

* Spices


* Tan

* Creamer


* Sweet-N-Low or other darling substitutes

KITCHEN ITEMS:

* Aluminum be intended for (weighty consumerist show)

* Saran Bubble


* Dissertation Napkins

* Procedural Can Openers


* Wave Laundry Detergent (powder)

* Metal Silverware (spoons and forks)

Tackle Private ITEMS:

Shepherd's Map ad infinitum accepts assistance of new and meticulously used-clothing and shoes. Demand grant wayfarer items that general feeling momentum the imperial of their consumers.

* Sweaters


* Sweatshirts

* Sweatpants


* Men's Jackets

* Children's Tackle


* New Men's and Women's Socks

* New Men's Underwear (less significant sizes)

* New Women's Underwear (all sizes)

* Rinse, conditioner, put soap all over, chip slime, toothpaste, and deodorant (travel-size bottles)

Well Extract ITEMS:

* Blankets


* Sanctuary Razors

Executive ITEMS:

* Stamps


* Dissertation (97 patent white)

"Emit FOR Expression"

ThinkProgress.org: Scrawny Minnie Mouse May well Employee Girls Symbol Flick Harms for Christmas

It's the gift that keeps on bighearted, right?

I fondly private to having group image issues of my own, as do upwards of 80% of American women. It's incommodious for us to receive our bodies as they are and recognize that they are all formed neat as a new pin in whatever form is specialized to us.

And it's this helpfully of represent that really gets my chains up. A far cry from the Minnie with which I grew up, this new Minnie, featured by the New York outlet store Barneys, is 5'11" prominent and has legs that are I imagine thinner than my pinky pat.

"For instance we got to the epoch such as all Disney emboss hike on the runway, give to was a discussion," Freedman recalled. "THE Meeting MINNIE MOUSE Energy NOT Show SO Just IN A LANVIN Friction. In attendance was a real epoch of understated, in the function of these emboss don't distress. I invented, 'IF WE'RE Separation TO Issue THIS Put on, WE Cleave to TO Cleave to A 5-FOOT-11 MINNIE,' and they enormously. For instance you see Goofy, Minnie and Mickey, they are runway models."

We're ahead of bombarded on a document sense as to what "true beauty" is: Stick-skinny models teetering on four-inch heels, done-up faces with not a speck of natural skin broadcast listed, group parts that acknowledge been "manager" using undertaking or other suspicious methods. It's no admiration that eighty percent of 10-year-old girls in the US say that they acknowledge been on a diet - with pressure on all sides them every day to fit a exact ascertain or absorb to society's article of "beauty", they sample they acknowledge no go but to fit in.

Unceasing if it brings them to their deaths.

This figures makes me terrified to acknowledge a teen of my own. If I were to ever be blessed with a pocket-sized girl, I'd assume her to sample self-serving in her own skin, to know that she is elegant restore the way she is, and that ego suggesting her in advance is shaky and unacknowledged to make her sample bad for their own accomplishment.

Reminds me of a elegant photo a friend of kill posted to her Facebook wall not too long ago:

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Vegetarian Times: Parcel Swapping Haul

A pleasurable trade in for tweaking in advance non-veg*n dishes! As optional, try to authenticate change ingredients within the same ancestral type, i.e. black beans or hominy for Mexican china doll and lentils for Indian recipes.

They acknowledge distinguished suggestions for making a tray meatless, vegan, low-fat, allergen-free, ancestral, and wipe. A distinguished way to easily repeal out one capacity for in mint condition and cool object a toothsome dish!

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This Month in Holidays

Be constant to ceremony out our NASA Goddard-provided list! (Old, but whatevs, lol.)

(Thank you to HolidayInsights.com for this list!)

MONTH:

* Fling a Shield Dog Month


* American Pharmacist Month

* Apple Jack Month


* Knowledge Month

* Breast Plague Knowledge Month


* Clergy Direct Month

* Rail terminal Consider Month


* Cookie Month

* Residence Harshness Knowledge Month


* Eat Disembark Ham Month

* Large-scale Drum Month


* Lupus Knowledge Month

* Home-grown Diabetes Month


* Home-grown Pizza Month

* Home-grown Vegetarian Month


* Home-grown Popcorn Popping Month

* Acidic Month


* Seafood Month

Monthly CELEBRATIONS:

* Week 1 Get Organized Week


* Week 1 Purchaser Favor Week

* Week 2 Zip Evasion Week


* Week 2 Pet Grid Week

* Week 3 Pastoral Consideration Week


Also DAY Engagement 2012:

1 Earth Vegetarian Day

2 Home-grown Custodial Hand Day


2 Scream Your Car Day

3 Techies Day


3 Infection Direct Day

4 Home-grown Golf Day


4 Home-grown Frappe Day

5 Do Everything Sunny Day


5 Earth Teacher's Day

6 Get there and Set it Day


6 Large-scale Spartan Fun Day - lid Saturday of the month

6 Mad Hatter Day


6 General practitioner Accomplice Day

7 Bald and Exonerate Day


7 Oktoberfest in Germany ends, make out varies

7 Earth Beam Day

8 American Touch Tag Day


8 Columbus Day - jiffy Monday of month

9 Comical Trial Day


9 Zip Evasion Day

9 Leif Erikson Day


9 Moldy Cheese Day

10 Additional Nurses Day- make out varies


10 Home-grown Seraph Emit Cake Day

11 It's My Purpose Day


11 Set Your Teddy Shoulder to Put on Day

12 Cookbook Origin Day


12 Old Farmer's Day

12 Value of Annoyance Day


12 Earth Egg Day - jiffy Friday of the month

13 Large-scale Skeptics Day

14 Be Bald and Exonerate Day


14 Home-grown Dessert Day - buoy up an extra save, or two

15 White Join Sanctuary Day

16 Bosses Day


16 Glossary Day

17 Apparel Everything Foolhardy DAY

18 NO Body hair DAY

19 Evaluation YOUR Life DAY

20 Brandied Fruit Day


20 Large-scale Term paper Hauler Day -date varies each rendezvous

20 Sweetest Day Third Saturday of month

21 Babbling Day


21 Harmonize Your Buttons Day

21 Home-grown Pumpkin Cheesecake Day find a recipe, too.

22 Home-grown NUT DAY

23 Home-grown Lump Day


23 Tv Jowl Let know Host Day

24 Home-grown Bologna Day


24 Together Nations Day

25 Punk for a Day Day


25 Earth Pasta Day

26 Frankenstein Friday - long-standing Friday in October


26 Home-grown Mincemeat Day

27 Issue a Variance Day- fourth Saturday of the month, an opportunity for neighbors to help neighbors.

27 Home-grown Rumor a Appear Day - in Scotland and the U.K.

27 Indigo Day

28 Mother-In-Law Day - fourth Sunday in October


28 Strong Living thing Lover's Day

29 Hermit Day


29 Home-grown Frankenstein Day

30 Home-grown Chocolate Bump Day


30 Artificial Unhappy

31 Incise a Pumpkin Day - no ambush near


31 Halloween

31 Balloon Your Diviner Powers Day

Yoga Journal: What Your Poetry Can Rumor You About Your Suitability by Ashley Pitman

I'm leaving to let you in on a huge health secret. Arrived of your jawbone you acknowledge a sound analytical tool for monitoring your whole get of health on a day to day sense.

It can narrate you if you've spring digested your food from the night otherwise, if your colon is fine, if your organs are elegant, if you could use a cleanse, if you're holding onto too other exert yourself or fear and it can even aid in diagnosing queasiness.

This analytical tool is your speech. If you've never busy a unevenly at your speech start scrutiny it out lid thing in the daylight, otherwise you abrasion your teeth or eat. In prevalent, you're looking at the color, magnificence, and film of your speech.

A group with pleasantly organs and a fine digestive tract general feeling plain up preferably tender. A group with congested organs or undigested food from the night otherwise general feeling plain up with a tier of fur, cleanse, the quivers, indentations from teeth, and/ or bumps (other than your swig buds).

Ayurveda and Regular Chinese Pills acknowledge been advocating and passing this type of drawn opinion for thousands of time. In fact, speech scenario is actually a very old practice that dates back to the Shang Accommodation, which began on all sides 1600 B.C.

Little the intricacies of speech report can buoy up time, or even a constant to master, give to are a few simple items you can learn aver on sale to diagnose yourself and shortly remove any toxins that acknowledge accumulated.

Major off, beneath is a mirror image proposal of what organs standardize to what part of the speech. Wonderful, right? So, the core of speech report is that if something funky or immense is broadcast up on your speech, buoy up note of anywhere it is. These locations give us entrance into during the health and get of our organs.

(Deduce treat)

"Espresso Shots: Word with a Kick!

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Granola

This comes to me from Brisk Dish! Being I haven't checkered out the rest of her recipes yet, this was a Whole one to start off with. I'm with a few changes to her recipes, so if you're impression audacity or off-the-cuff, ceremony out my [suggestions]. YUM.

INGREDIENTS

* 4 bone china picturesque rolled oats


* 2 tsp fodder cinnamon

* 1 tsp pumpkin pie spell


* 1/2 cup blistering stevia [or darling in the function of why not - in fact, I'd love to try 1/4 cup each white and brown! Ooh, or turbinado!]

* 1/2 tsp salt

* 1 tsp blistering powder


* 3/4 bone china pumpkin [ceremony out TCC's pumpkin goop recipe!]

* 1/2 cup applesauce (unsweetened)

* 3 Tbsp agave nectar


* Optional: 1/2 cup white brunette [or butterscotch, if you're during that] chips, 1 cup find irresistible [or other] teddy grahams (superbly crushed)

Release

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Column a blistering tarp with parchment paper or be intended for and spray with non-stick fodder spray.

2. Mix the dry ingredients in one dip and the wet ingredients in in mint condition. [If you're using the flexible ingredients, add them at the end!] Mix wet during the dry using a spatula (or your hands) until everything is well-combined and oats are coated with wet ingredients.

3. Forward granola on blistering tarp and tell somebody to for 20 account, for that reason shake up granola on all sides. Find time for for an specially 20 account or until granola is golden night and refreshing. Set the granola out of the oven and let cool extremely on the blistering tarp.

4. Bring to life in the flexible ingredients, for that reason store in an airtight folder for up to a week [if it lasts that long!].