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flirty
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calm - Music:fear: "i love livin in the city"
- Mood: content
- Music:dan le sac vs scroobius pip: "look for the woman"
if you're seeing this and you'd like to still be on the f-list, then let your voice be heard! since that's probably why i cut ya in the first place.
i think i'll put a disclaimer up too.
oh yeah and on a totally unrelated note, i've gotten some really nice positive feedback from two wonderful guys on my photography:
"Hey Manda,
I'm really impressed with your visual nutrition album. Every picture seems like the alternative perspective to the natural/industrial/social sight. It's very intriguing. Keep up the great artwork."
"I am serious! You got amazing talent and very creative ideas."
this made my week. =D
oh yeah, and i also discovered crystal castles lastnight. very interesting music style. i dig it.
- Mood: content
- Music:stp: "big bang baby"
i've only had it a few times, but it's the same kind of situation. i know i've probably written about it here before. and i forgot to mention it in my last post, but i have no idea what it means.
i'm always in some strange place like a hotel room, someone's house or apartment or something, a place i don't recognize or have ever been. there's always someone with me, i'm never alone. i'm standing at the doorway watching waves in the ocean that is close by. the waves gradually get bigger and bigger and then i see a huge wave forming. i get excited and scared and shut the door before the wave crashes and water comes in from under the door, soaking the carpet.
and than that's it!
wtf does it mean?!
the next time i have it, i hope i will leave the door open and see what happens.
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curious - Music:pantera: "5 minutes alone"
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thoughtful - Music:muse: "the small print"
blah- Mood: calm
- Music:social distortion: "pleasure seeker"
"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to."
lastnight i spent hours creating a playlist. it has a little over 80 songs on it, i'll be adding more to reach the limit of 100. =) but it's an example of the music i'm listening to, i hope you enjoy it as much as i do!
i'm tagging my lovelies:
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babyeraserhead, badmoods, thrashgrrrl, popscene_horror, smell_the_witch, krustyskeej, spiral_meter.- Mood: calm
- Music:mastodon: "iron tusk"
- Mood: optimistic
Looking for small ways to make a big difference for the environment? Why not start by making yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
As members of the PB&J Campaign (no, I’m not kidding) like to say, “You don’t have to change your whole diet to change the world. Just start with lunch.”
Eating a plant-based lunch (such as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a bean burrito, vegetarian chili, or a hearty salad) instead of an animal-based lunch (such as a hamburger, a tuna or grilled cheese sandwich, fish and chips, or chicken nuggets) will save water, preserve land and slow global warming.
How Eating a PB&J Sandwich Slows Global Warming
Every time you eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or other plant-based meal instead of one that features red meat, such as a hamburger, you save the equivalent of almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
Eating a strictly plant-based meal compared to the average American lunch still saves 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. That’s about 40 percent of the carbon you would save by driving a hybrid vehicle for the day instead of a standard sedan.
How Eating a PB&J Sandwich Saves Water
Growing plants for food takes a lot less water than raising animals. As a result, every time you substitute a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or some other plant-based meal for an animal-based meal such as a hamburger, you save about 280 gallons of water. Eat three PB&J sandwiches a month instead of animal-based meals and you can save as much water as you would by switching to a low-flow showerhead.
How Eating a PB&J Sandwich Saves Land
Raising animals for food takes a lot of space. For example, animal products require 6 to 17 times as much land as soy to produce the same amount of protein. Eating a plant-based lunch like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a hamburger, ham sandwich, or another animal-based meal saves anywhere from 12 to 50 square feet of land from deforestation, overgrazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution.
How Eating One PB&J Sandwich Helps the Environment
By eating lower on the food chain—plants instead of animals—you also consume fewer resources. Why? Because, basically, everything you eat comes from plants. You either eat plants directly—in the form of fruits, vegetables and plant products such as peanut butter—or indirectly after animals have converted plants into meat, milk, eggs, butter and cheese.
The problem is that animals are not very efficient as living food factories that convert plants into food for humans. Animals use most of the plants they eat to produce the energy they need to walk around and keep breathing. To stay alive long enough to become part of your lunch or dinner menu, every cow, pig and chicken has to eat much more protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients than it will yield once the ax finally falls. As a result, it takes several pounds of plants to produce one pound of beef, pork, chicken, eggs or milk.
Inevitably, that means it also takes a lot more land, water and fuel to produce one pound of meat, milk or eggs than it does to produce one pound of edible plants. Not only do the animals need food, water and room to roam, but growing the plants to feed the animals that will, in turn, become food for you requires even more land and water as well as fuel for farm machinery and irrigation pumps.
To help provide some context, the PB&J Campaign says the water required to produce the beef in one hamburger could grow enough peanuts for 17 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And the land required to put that same beef patty on your bun could produce enough peanuts for 19 PB&J lunches.
How You and Your Diet Can Make a Difference
Basically, this all comes down to your power as a consumer. Every time you choose a hamburger, omelet or grilled cheese sandwich over a plant-based meal, you’re telling your local restaurants and supermarkets to buy more meat, eggs and dairy products. By choosing more plant-based meals, you’re asking for less meat and a more efficient use of resources. Either way, your unspoken but unmistakable messages are received by your local merchants and conveyed to wholesalers and farmers.
Want to do more? Share this information with your friends, coworkers and family members and urge them to take action. Urge your school or office cafeteria, or the local restaurants you frequent, to offer more plant-based dishes. Organize a weekly PB&J lunch (or other plant-based meals) at work, home or school and calculate the positive environmental contribution you’ve made.
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lonely - Music:crass: "mother earth"
My Personality
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| You are generally calm, although some situations can make you feel anxious or tense, however you are not generally self conscious about yourself. People generally perceive you as distant and reserved, and you do not usually reach out to others. You prefer facts over fantasy and are more interested in what is happening in the real word. You do not like to claim that you are better than other people, and generally shy from talking yourself up, however you believe that a certain amount of deception in social relationships is necessary. You are guarded in new relationships and less willing to openly reveal the whole truth about yourself. You are a reasonably organized person and like to have a certain amount of routine in your life. |
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- Mood: calm
- Music:mouthwash: "fools gold"
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amused
Your Thinking is Abstract and Sequential |
 You like to do research and collect lots of information. The more facts you have, the easier it is for you to learn. You need to figure things out for yourself and consider all possibilities. You tend to become an expert in the subjects that you study. It's difficult for you to work with people who know less than you do. You aren't a very patient teacher, and you don't like convincing people that you're right. |
- Music:tori amos: "crucify"
You Are Cilantro |
 The bad news is that there are some people who can't stand you. The good news is that most people love you more than anything else in the world. You are distinct, unusual, fresh, and very controversial. And you wouldn't have it any other way. |
yell at me sometime.
- Mood: calm
- Music:flux of pink indians: "i am mentle [live]"
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