My Journey Toward A Healthy Lifestyle!

Blog Post (via DiabloLOCO760) My first video blog update post!...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:59:31 -0800

Blog Post (via DiabloLOCO760) My first video blog update post! Off to the gym!

Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:13:06 -0800

Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food (via TEDtalksDirector) We need to stop being FAT and UNHEALTHY! You must watch this and make a change!

Kale chips! Surprisingly addictive! Added seasoning salt and...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:07:29 -0800

Kale chips! Surprisingly addictive! Added seasoning salt and Parmesan cheese.

Homemade Strawberry Sorbet with Homemade shortbread cookies!

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:08:11 -0800

Homemade Strawberry Sorbet with Homemade shortbread cookies!

Final product. Tortilla Soup.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:44:22 -0800

Final product. Tortilla Soup.

For the first time, I am making my own chicken stock for...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:59:44 -0800

For the first time, I am making my own chicken stock for tortilla soup.

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:42:03 -0800

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix:

Great little app for bookmarklets!

How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on the sidewalk Boing Boing

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:31:30 -0800

How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on the sidewalk Boing Boing

My first time making cupcakes from scratch. These are coconut,...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:33:48 -0800

My first time making cupcakes from scratch. These are coconut, chocolate chip cupcakes for my suegros 50th bday. No, not healthy at all. Still learning how to make frosting look more decorative. No box needed!

Just made Ellie Krieger’s Devilish Eggs for Chargers game!...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:22:27 -0800

Just made Ellie Krieger’s Devilish Eggs for Chargers game! Made with half the yolks and tofu as subbstitute. Horseradish, Dijon, hot sauce, paprika, and chives.

Hemet Farmers Market

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:18:36 -0800

Just got back from the Hemet Farmers Market. This is the first time that I went, and it was pretty cool. I came back with a loaf of freshly baked whole wheat bread and a loaf of squaw bread. I also found some local honey made with avocado blossoms!

When I got home, I cut a couple of slices of the whole wheat bread and toasted it. Added some almond butter and the avocado blossom honey, wow, what a sandwich. Amazing what some fresh bread can do to a sandwich!

Later today, I will be making a turkey sandwich using the squaw bread.

Slider burgers!

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:16:11 -0800

Slider burgers!

Chips made with sweet potato, yams, beets, and parsnip.

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:14:54 -0800

Chips made with sweet potato, yams, beets, and parsnip.

The Perfect Refrigerator | Eat This, Not That

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:17:41 -0800

The Perfect Refrigerator | Eat This, Not That:

This is a great list of healthy foods for your fridge!

Hacksaw: Titans tension, respect lead list of Chargers questions

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:42:05 -0800

Hacksaw: Titans tension, respect lead list of Chargers questions:

I used to love listening to Hacksaw do play by play for the Chargers! Go Chargers!!!

Is Santa Setting A Bad Example? | NutritionData.com Blog by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:47:05 -0800

Is Santa Setting A Bad Example? | NutritionData.com Blog by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.:

This is great! I say yes, Santa is setting a horrible example to all of us!

pirata-stories: loonachic: Just talked to a guy...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:08:00 -0800

pirata-stories:

loonachic:

Just talked to a guy on the train who was nearly in tears when our eyes met. I asked him if he was ok and he looked back at me and said no.

I told him I would listen to him for the duration of our ride, and that sometimes talking to a stranger helps put things in to perspective.

He is an ex marine who served time in Iraq and came back to the states with PTSD and suicidal tendencies. He kept repeating…”I fucked up my entire life for nothing.” Nightmares invade is sleep, and his mind often repeats a scene from the time his battle buddy got his head blown off sitting right next to him.

“God wont forgive me for carrying out missions to kill.” he said.

His face was worn out. I could see pain slip through the silence between his sentences. He looked at me, and asked If he was a bad guy for doing what he did. I said “of course not.”

All I could do was listen.

Right before he got off the bus, he thanked me for listening, and said his name was Billy. I shook his hand before he got off the bus, but I really wanted to hug him. The bus took off, and as I looked out the window, Billy waved goodbye with a blank look on his face. I watched until he faded into the sidewalk.

There are so many damaged people in the world. I met another one today.

holy crap. sometimes, loons, you post things that make me laugh or make me go “oh hey thats a fucking great photo” and sometimes, just sometimes, you post something likethis and its so fucked up and true and shitty but beautiful somehow too. you are a good person for listening to that guy. you probably did more for him than at least 5 psychologists.

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The All-American Hero is s Crock of Shit: a study of PTSD, the suicide of Ajax, and mortality in warfare

about 2 weeks ago i went to a few lectures at my old stompy grounds - ancient studies at nyu - and one of the lectures was a look at PTSD in days of antiquity, mostly athens. peter meineck gave the talk. he’s amazing for so many reasons, but he brought up a few interestings points:

in ancient athens, those showing signs of PTSD were flogged and marked as weak, BUT many of their dramas of tragedy would incorporate the soldier and his grief and inner turmoil from warfare.

a good example being the suicide of Ajax, which we have from the works of Sophocles. Ajax was a comrade to the famous Achilles - trained by the same centaur, and kicked some serious ass in the Trojan War WITHOUT help from any god. He survived the war and when he gets home he slaughters a whole herd of sheep in a PTSD rage, hallucinating that they are more enemy soldiers, and then wakes up covered in sheep bits and blood, totally ashamed and kills himself.

oddly enough my friend who fought in Iraq was found in the attic not too long ago with a shotgun in his mouth. luckily, my buddy who found him up there was able to get it away from him before he did anything with it.

in many greek tragedies, the soldier who comes home is often internally conflicted and generally NOT portrayed as what we see today in our media as ”the all american hero”type of horse shit. the audience would be stirred by his trauma, feeling the horror that it carries. this was key i think to the SOCIETY understanding warfare and knowing what its repercussions were. our media does not extend this tragedy quite so well to the civilian population and as a result, many of our troops feel more like outcasts, leading perhaps to worsening PTSD.

so, the greeks reprimanded their men for showing any sign of PTSD but often used the theater as an outlet for them.

BUT back then if you were wounded in any remarkable way, you had a good chance of dying and therefore not coming home all fucked up. today, roughly 10% of the wounded in our armed forces actually die.

42% of the battle wounded of the Revolutionary War died
30% from WWII
25% from the Korean War
10% from the Iraq & Afghanistan wars

(read this short post for more on that).

did the ancient greeks treat their soldiers better than we do?

we may keep them alive longer, but what sort of life do we really give them?

ajax:

(originally written 10 October 2009)

NFL Receiver Henry Dies Day After Dispute - WSJ.com

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:30:17 -0800

NFL Receiver Henry Dies Day After Dispute - WSJ.com:

Wow! This is insane! What a great player he was!

Tumblr's Seasonal Offerings: Backup App, Foreign Flavor & Tweetie Tie-in

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:52:54 -0800

Tumblr's Seasonal Offerings: Backup App, Foreign Flavor & Tweetie Tie-in:

This is really cool! A great way to backup your site!

Picture of the Year « Photofocus

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:58:44 -0800

Picture of the Year « Photofocus: