Todays Quote

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
-Anne Sullivan

Great Quote

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience."
--Anne Sullivan

The Next Adventure Begins

We are starting our voyage on another Litrenta adventure. On May 18th (wow, that is closer then I thought) we will be the proud parents of 8 little chicks...yes, baby chickens...live ones. We will have 4 Australorps: (adult)

Here are what the babies will look like...aaawww.....

We are also getting 4 Barred Plymouth Rocks, white ones....

And again....as babies....

We are all so excited. Andy has been working hard on a chicken coop and has done an AMAZING job on it. They will live, at first, in a dog crate with a heating lamp. Then when they are old enough they will move into the coop outside.

Why do we want chickens? We are raising them for eggs (but i know they will become pets also). We already get eggs from a friend who has a farm. They are the best eggs ever. So, we decided to give chicken raising a try. Of course this means they will all be females...no roosters. Roosters are very loud. Roosters don't just cockadoodledo in the morning!!

I will soon be posting pictures of the coop that is being built. Actually it is almost done, just needs some coats of paint and then the roof!

Exciting!!!

A Killing

I just wanted to post an interesting video i found on the psychotropic drug companies. It is a different twist on the drug companies. Some may get offended by it but it is real...

follow this link and have a look!

Blast From My Past

So Angie and i are totally into watching videos of The Muppet Show. I had forgotten how amusing they are!! The skit below from youtube is one of our all time favorites.

ENJOY!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlkFmtr9fyE

Goodbye Charle

Even the smallest of God's creatures can make a great impact on our lives. That was Charlie. Charlie was a Hooded Rat and he was awesome. He was calm and loving. He loved to just sit in a lap and wait patiently for his humans to scratch his ears or sides. He never bit anyone and loved everyone. Yes, this is a rat i am talking about. He was just Great. He was so great in fact that I named this blog after him. He died last night of old age. He was 3 years old and in rat years that is old. He will be missed.

Here I Go Again

I started dieting when I was 11 or 12 years old and it started with a fruit diet. And just as it sounds, I ate mostly fruit. In a way that was the worst thing I could have ever done because it started my life of yoyo dieting. I have spent so much money on diets, thousands....seriously. I have done weight watchers at least 4 times. I did nutra system. I went on a diet called the "physicians" diet. I even did something called Optifast. If you are not familiar with this one well....I pretty much starved myself for 5 months. I had nothing but shakes for that whole time period and only drank 800 calories a day. They said it was safe but if it was so safe why did i have to have blood drawn every 2 weeks and see a doctor every 2 weeks? But honestly it was one of the easiest diets I had ever been on because there were no choices and my body went into starvation mode and I stopped feeling hungry after 3-4 days. I actually got to the point where I would forget to "eat" my shakes and would have to write it down to remind myself. Oh yeah, I lost weight but a couple months later after eating again I had to have my gallbladder out and gained the 96 pounds i had loss plus many more. I don't care what anyone says, you do not learn 'how' to eat right if you are drinking liquid shakes for 5 months.

I know how I want to lose weight . I know what I should be eating. I know what is healthy. I know that eating the way I know to eat will make me feel so good, if that makes any since at all.

So, here I am at square one again. The thing is is that I don't want to focus on my weight. I want weight loss to be a benefit. I want feeling good, having energy, getting active and having great health to be the reason I change my eating. Of course I am not going to lie and say I don't care about the weight because I do.

So Here I Go Again. Planning, preparing and praying.

More later......

Now read the quote below and enjoy!!

I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. ~Jennifer Greene Duncan