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Interesting link

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/food_poisoning/page5_em.htm#what_is_the_treatment_for_food_poisoning

From Wikipedia: The Sarimanok is a legendary bird of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao, a major island in the Philippines. It comes from the words “sari” and “manok.” "Sari" means cloth or garment, which is generally of assorted colors. manok means "chicken".

I am making chili this year for the "beans for luck" for the New Years. We used to have lentils. I hate lentils. But I could not used the habenaro peppers since I would be the only one to eat it then. Plus I got to use my new slow cooker for the first time.

Lentils are great when you need to poop. My introduction to lentils was Outward Bound, where we had to carry three weeks of foods. Dried lentils and peas, light and nutritious. Don't have a great need to see another one.

New Year: In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named.

No crystal balls here. We drop a big walleye.

Happy New Year Legion Worlders.

In Metro Manila, even private individuals set off their own fireworks displays. This is an old video, but the scene is reproduced year on year on year

http://infinitelegroom.com/2015/01/...-year-with-an-incredible-fireworks-show/

Jfposey is Earth-Prime's Oliver Queen

I had a classmate named Oliver who vanished in third grade. Never did find out where he went.

Pretty much the same here but moreso on July 4. After the main fireworks, secondary displays line both sides of the river coming out of the neighborhoods. It's quite a site. One of our bridges is high, so freighter can pass under. From up there, it's pretty much a 360 of fireworks. All illegal of course, lol.

Ah well. The light show is nice while it lasts, even though it is illegal.

I was in LA for the Fourth of July. I badly wanted to see the fireworks. Unfortunately my boss made me work that day... and I missed everything. No fireworks in my area and I couldn't get to any parks in time.

My poor husband is ringing in the new with a bad headcold. Poor guy.

If he hasn't handed it off to me by next week, it'll be a miracle.

Still better than that pre-marriage year where he spent New Year's weekend with the stomach flu, though. Yuck!

Blaze and I have a bottle of beer beside our bed.

I was going to drink that beer

We saw the movie "Jaws" in the theater when we were little. Four boys. The youngest had just became potty trained.

Anyways, when we got home we (the three older brothers) placed our GI Joe shark in the toilet and when the youngest went near we would do the Dunnah Dunnah Dunnah sounds. Mom was wondering why he was back to not using the toilet. Well she went to clean it and saw the shark floating in it and we took off running...

Memories...

I have friends, four brothers. They get into those kinds of shenanigans as well. It's usually the eldest and the youngest who are the victims.

I just got a "pro" designation for SDCC because I teach comic book courses. Hoping this means I can actually get tickets!

Yay Myg!

I still regret not going to SDCC when I had the chance.

I can't decide what to have for lunch.

I have to start working out again. I've been doing a lot of walking lately, but no lifting.

During one of my frequent yard sale visits last summer, I bought a small bottle of after-bath splash/eau de toilette with a leaf on the box. It was in a big bin of junk marked "50 cents" and it smelled nice so I thought why not. Then I forgot about it for months. In summer, there's really not much point to wearing even mild scents. You just sweat it off in ten minutes and make yourself more attractive to mosquitoes and other sting-y things.

So I found the little box with the bottle inside while doing a New Year's cleanup, and started using it. I quickly fell in love, ran through most of the bottle, and went to google the name online. Only to find out this tiny bottle retails for $30 bucks and up, without shipping.

Don't even ask what the big bottle goes for.

If I'd known from the start how much it was worth, I would've ebayed it myself. But of course, if I'd done that, I'd never have found out how great it is. Whadaya' gonna' do?

My feet got wet the other day.

I am having a very quiet winter break

I have some new international crushes

I miss my ex

Me, too. (Not your ex. My own--both of them.)

Six inches of snow here. The most I've seen in about 9 or 10 years. I went out at 1 AM with a broom and smacked as much white stuff as I could off the camelia bushes. The poor things were nearly bent double and I was afraid they would snap in two.

No shoveling 'til after coffee, though.