In the Year of the Bull

Main Character: Rick Talender

The mood: From happy to drunk most of the time

Book setting : Chicago

year: 1995-1996

description: the book in the year of the Bulls is about the 1995 bulls and it has writer/ author Rick Talender following the bulls after future haller Michael Jordan leaves the NBA to play baseball for the Chicago white socks. The book goes into telling about the starting 5 of the 1996 Chicago bulls from Michael Jordan, Luc Longly, Dennis Rodman, Ron Harper, and Scottie Pippen.  Rick follows the whole team from drafts to trades and goes on the road with them and writes about everything they do in the game. He writes about the troubles that Micheal and Dennis went through up to playing  for the Bulls. Dennis Rodman went from Detroit Pistons to the 76ers. Then had a nerviase brake down when his wife left him, he shaved his head and died it blonde, then got piercing and tattos all over his body.the 76ers traded him to the bulls because he was skipping out of pratices and did not call the coachs. Then the book talks about micheals father being murderd and him leave basketball to play baseball because he thought he had accomplished everything in basketball.  Then after not being good at baseball he went back to the bulls after a bad season they made the playoffs but did not do so well.

Hello again!  No, our internet is still down.  I’m writing this from my parent’s computer with no furniture in the room.  They’re packing up the moving truck today and they’re leaving tomorrow for Prince Edward Island.

I’m supposed to be helping them pack right now.

But Sadie is stirring so I might have to look after her instead.  Oh darn.

We should be getting our new Macbooks today.  My dad bought one for each of us so we can keep in touch with webcams.  The first thing I’ll be doing is cracking open the manual.  These things are complicated when you’re used to PC’s.  I think I’ll miss having a right click button.  So easy to find stuff that way.  I always spend ten minutes trying to figure out how to unplug my camera when I download photos on a mac.  Still haven’t figured out how to compress pictures for the internet.

Sigh.

We got a good frost last night and the snow line has dropped to a couple hundred meters above us.  I’m so glad we decided not to raise a third batch of chickens.  It was cold enough last weekend when we processed the second batch.  We had some friends come up to help us so it only took 5 hours instead of 10.

We got our second horse last week.  My aunt gave him to us!  I will be posting pictures when I can, and when the mud covering his white coat has dried off enough for me to scrape it off.

We haven’t seen the cat since he hid under the porch couch the first day we put him outside.  We gave away the rest of the cat food.

Well, I suppose I should get back to work.  I’ll update you again soon, I hope.

This squirrel has found a place it can always get some food from. It seems that it’s become a good buddy with the owner of the property. The only thing it should be aware of is the cat!

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Oh I don’t feel all that well, so much for being a ‘healthy’ fat girl… huh? I have come down with strep, a realization that hit me when I was standing outside in the cold and the rain at school. I am going to the ER or Urgent Care today to get this fixed. Don’t feel so good.

Anyhow, why did I start this blog? To ’stick it to the man’ really. After all, how many of us girlie girl types have spent hours preparing for a date with a really cute guy only to be turned away because we aren’t ‘healthy’ I won’t lie, I L-O-V-E my burgers, but what are burgers? Food. And more lasting that a friggin salad I would wager. It never ceases to amaze me to see my little sister slip into her size 00 jeans after downing a big mac and chugging some beer with that. I would be so drooling over the fact that she can do that. Except I’m coming to understand what true health is. It’s actually kind of funny to me that men find her ‘healthy’ . But, I suppose it just goes to show that we live in a world focused on what you present to it visually.

This is not a man bashing site, sorry, didn’t mean to get off on a foot that makes it look like it is. I mean, I recently went out with a guy that sounded just like ‘moto/moto’ from the 2nd instalment of magagascar. Seriously when I asked him what made him decide to ask me out, the response was ‘Your big, I find big girls so hot!’ SHALLOW! Am I impossible to please? No, I suppose it’s better to have a man that loves you for who you are… even if he’s singing ‘I like em shunky!’ when he goes out with you. I suppose if you are skinny you should enjoy that many men thrive on this look. And if you aren’t enjoy the ones that like you for who you are.

But this isn’t about the people around us. This is about us. Because your man could say ‘I like you big dear’ and if you don’t like yourself that way, then who cares? Really who cares?

So, over the course of time in this blog, I’m going to share my journey to self acceptance… that is the kind of health I’m really focusing on here. I hope that I will inspire others to do accept themselves too. Even if I have to shake and shimee horribly in a video and practice a little Carmen Electra Strip arobics for you as well. “Put your finger in your mouth because that’s sexy!” I took a couple of pictures of that one, didn’t look too sexy to me. I looked like I was going to gag! This is going to be a great journey. I look forward to sharing it with you!

Mwaa, Kimmi!

Today @ 5:11pm Noah turned 6months old! I am so blessed to have the opportunity to be home & watch my son grow.  He’s rolling all over the place.  He can say Mama, Dadee, & Amma! He loves his vegetables (well everything except broccoli)!

Today Noah got his swine flu shot, I have been stressing over this supposed epidemic for months now!  Masi had to work so Me, Noah, Mom, Dad, & Nee stood in line from 11:00am-about 3p! NeeNee was amazing, he got the swine flu shot with Noah!  He wanted to make sure he was healthy so he can play with Noah!  He was such a big boy today!  I am so lucky he’s such an amazing little brother!   Noah did great considering, he was laughing until the poke, then cried for just a few seconds & started laughing again!  I went to Borders & bought him a bunch of books for his 1/2 birthday today! I still can’t believe he is half a year old!

My favorite thing he does is when he’s tired: he lays his head on my shoulders & grabs my fingers! So precious!  When Masi got home today he ate, played with Noah, and cleaned our messy room! I have such an AMAZING Husband! Noah’s taking a nap now, but later I think I’ll make a cake for him! Probably carrot, & who knows maybe I’ll let him even taste it today!

Masi & I thank GOD: for his continued blessings on our family!

This is what you need to be a driver: a license, registration, inspection, insurance. If you are pulled over and you lack one of these, you may be in trouble.

I have at various times not had all of those. I have had my license suspended, have had no insurance, have had improper plates, have not had a valid inspection sticker. I have been ticketed, been to court, been arrested.

Tomorrow morning I am going to bring my car to be inspected. I am not certain that it will pass. This will cost money. I have money saved, but there were so many things I may have wanted to do with it.

It never ends. It never ends.

Japan nsk bearings announced the development of new small and lightweight motorcycle brake system with ball screw. In the motorcycle-wire braking system (Brake By Wire System), using the motor of the rotary motion into linear movement, to promote the use of screw-axis hydraulic piston resulting structure. Improved reliability, with the CVT used in motorcycles than 270g ball screw, weight reduction of about 70% to 70g.
The company has developed a thread can not use slot (Thread Groove) shallowing of the structure to prevent thread groove ball into areas outside the lead ball screw lock. Will allow the ball through the back of the original thread slot cycle parts – inserts into the resin material from metal, improved reliability and durability. In addition to the inserts can be realized small-block ball screws, eliminating the need for inserts fixed blocks, also used directly to promote the use of screw-axis structure of the piston, push the piston without the use of putting in order to achieve a small, light quantified. Moreover, in addition to through the realization of a small lightweight, significantly reducing the inertia, he also made use of low-friction ball screw performance, improved responsiveness.

For the last few years, Lexus has been taking part in the Milan Design Week by creating a unique exhibit in collaboration with an artist. Last year, it was the Elastic Diamond with nendo, and this year Lexus has partnered with Huzimoto Takeshi, one of Japan’s up & coming architects, to create Crystallized Wind, or more simply, a fully transparent LFA.

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Designer hyperrealist Eric Zener draws beautiful oil painting. Its main theme – water, swimmers, air bubbles in the water, at least – beaches and just people. Sometimes Eric uses a mixed technique and then its no less remarkable photos can not be distinguished from the paintings

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Dear all,

Magnificus! is a blog opened by Ryan and Lordy, the creators of popular entertainment websites funtasticus and demonicious. Unfortunately, those websites were sold and are now run by other people. However, here, on Magnificus! we are going to continue posting updates like in the good old times. If you enjoyed visiting funtasticus or demonicious please stay with Magnificus as we will soon begin updating it! (Opening 26 October 09!!).

Always yours,

Ryan and Lordy!