I want Gingerale! That is all I want! I am sick, sick, sick...Problem is I don't know what I have. I think if it were the flu I would've been sick to my stomach by now. I've been like this for about 36 hours. I'm tired but not sleepy and I feel slightly nauseated...Hmm...wonder what it could be!
Oh, yay! I am getting Gingerale my wonderful landlady, Liz, just brought me a nice large glass of COLD Gingerale! So nice! Well, American Idol is on tv so I'm off to watch it!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Proper Shaving Technique straight from the Canadian Army to you!
Proper Shaving Technique
Shaving is an art; it is not instinctive knowledge. By refining your technique and using good quality products you can make shaving a pleasurable experience. Remember, how you shave affects the way you look and how you feel about yourself. Hot water is the first essential to a perfect shave. When the hair absorbs hot water it becomes softer and easier to cut. Warmth allows the skin and facial muscles to relax making shaving much easier – thus the best time to shave is after a bath or shower. Soaking a folded flannel or small towel in hot water and wrapping it around the face for thirty seconds or more can also achieve this effect. Those who desire a particularly smooth shave might wish to apply a glycerin-based skin food. This protects the skin and helps the razor to glide smoothly across the face. Massaging the skin food against the growth of the beard also helps to lift the beard in readiness for the lather.
Shaving cream may be rubbed into the beard with the fingers, but the best results are obtained when using a good quality shaving brush. When using cream, place a modest amount in the palm of one hand; dip the brush into hot water and rub in a circular motion in the palm of the hand. This is done to build up a rich lather on the brush.
Wet the face, then, using a circular motion again, apply the lather to the beard, allowing the brush to lift the beard, making the hairs stand proud. The brush may be dipped lightly into hot water if more moisture is required in the lather.
If using a shaving soap, dip the brush into hot water and use a similar circular motion on the soap to create a rich lather.
Using a good blade that has been warmed in the sink or under hot running water, shave the face in the direction of the beard growth, rinsing the blade in hot water frequently. NEVER shave against the grain of the beard. In awkward areas such as the chin and under the nose, the blade can be moved sideways across the growth, but never against as this pulls the skin in the wrong direction causing small cuts and grazing to the skin, which is the most common cause of razor burn, ingrown hairs, and shaving rash.
Rinse the face thoroughly with cool water and pat dry with a soft towel. A good wet shave exfoliates and cleanses the skin, leaving smooth new skin and a healthy clean appearance.
Newly exfoliated skin needs to be protected from the elements, so for healthy skin it is important that men use an aftershave moisturizer or skin food. Products containing alcohol should not be applied to the skin directly after shaving as this may inflame the skin and cause dryness.
For best results cologne and other fragrances should be applied to the hot spots on the face, behind the earlobes and on the side of the neck.
Shaving is an art; it is not instinctive knowledge. By refining your technique and using good quality products you can make shaving a pleasurable experience. Remember, how you shave affects the way you look and how you feel about yourself. Hot water is the first essential to a perfect shave. When the hair absorbs hot water it becomes softer and easier to cut. Warmth allows the skin and facial muscles to relax making shaving much easier – thus the best time to shave is after a bath or shower. Soaking a folded flannel or small towel in hot water and wrapping it around the face for thirty seconds or more can also achieve this effect. Those who desire a particularly smooth shave might wish to apply a glycerin-based skin food. This protects the skin and helps the razor to glide smoothly across the face. Massaging the skin food against the growth of the beard also helps to lift the beard in readiness for the lather.
Shaving cream may be rubbed into the beard with the fingers, but the best results are obtained when using a good quality shaving brush. When using cream, place a modest amount in the palm of one hand; dip the brush into hot water and rub in a circular motion in the palm of the hand. This is done to build up a rich lather on the brush.
Wet the face, then, using a circular motion again, apply the lather to the beard, allowing the brush to lift the beard, making the hairs stand proud. The brush may be dipped lightly into hot water if more moisture is required in the lather.
If using a shaving soap, dip the brush into hot water and use a similar circular motion on the soap to create a rich lather.
Using a good blade that has been warmed in the sink or under hot running water, shave the face in the direction of the beard growth, rinsing the blade in hot water frequently. NEVER shave against the grain of the beard. In awkward areas such as the chin and under the nose, the blade can be moved sideways across the growth, but never against as this pulls the skin in the wrong direction causing small cuts and grazing to the skin, which is the most common cause of razor burn, ingrown hairs, and shaving rash.
Rinse the face thoroughly with cool water and pat dry with a soft towel. A good wet shave exfoliates and cleanses the skin, leaving smooth new skin and a healthy clean appearance.
Newly exfoliated skin needs to be protected from the elements, so for healthy skin it is important that men use an aftershave moisturizer or skin food. Products containing alcohol should not be applied to the skin directly after shaving as this may inflame the skin and cause dryness.
For best results cologne and other fragrances should be applied to the hot spots on the face, behind the earlobes and on the side of the neck.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Drivers Test
I booked my drivers test today! So exciting!!! I am booked for the 18th of April at 3:20! Yay! Ok, now I have to go do useful things;) I just thought I'd share my joy with ya'll!
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Monday, February 13, 2006
Crux Love Rally
I just got this movie clip from Mark . It was shown at the Crux rally on Saturday! It was a great rally! Tons of fun! Enjoy the clip!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Valentines Day
Valentines day is coming...and here I am sitting alone very much like I will be on Valentines day...I wanted to throw a pity party (a party at which I sit and watch sappy movies and eat a lot of chocolate!) but Michelle thinks we should throw a single girls party..I think it'll be fun but I still want my pity party...it's a tradition, and it's fun because I get to eat LOTS of chocolate! So I shall either have to do both on Valentines day or I could just throw my party early! Although I have no time for that...Maybe I'll have a mini party this weekend and another one on Valentines day (that way I get even more chocolate!) Just so you know, I don't actually sit around and pity myself...it's really just an excuse to eat chocolate;) So anyways, this Valentines day I will probably be sitting around with a few other single girls watching "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" although I am trying to get that to change to "Just Like Heaven"
Thursday, February 02, 2006
When in doubt, say "hooah." Just don't try to define it. And definitely don't try to figure out where it comes from.
I found this on CNN and thought it was just great!
In the U.S. Army -- which has so many acronyms, expressions and opaque phrases that it seems to deserve its own language -- there is one word that is quite possibly uttered more than any other.
That word is "hooah." Pronounced HOO-ah. Alternatively spelled hua and huah.
Attend a company command meeting, and you'll hear "hooah" uttered as often as a 15-year-old says "like" or "you know." Head to the post exchange and buy a Hooah Energy Bar or Hoo-Ahhs wet wipes or HOOAH2O water.
It's not just in Iraq. At U.S. bases around the world, hooah seems an inseparable element of Army life.
Just don't try to define it. And definitely don't try to figure out where it comes from.
"I believe it came from hurrah. It basically means everything from 'yes' and 'yes, sir,' to 'that's great,"' said Capt. James Lowe, public affairs officer for the 506th Regimental Combat Team. "You could use it as a generalized cheer. It's one of those multipurpose phrases -- when in doubt, say hooah."
That doesn't even begin to cover it.
They shout hooah to get motivated, and they whisper it when they concur with something someone just said. Hooah means you understood something, or is the proper reply when someone says "thank you." On the other hand, it may also be used to say "thank you."
Hooah is a catchall phrase that will get you out of any situation, particularly when receiving a scolding from a higher-ranking officer.
"You use it when you've got a flame on your butt and you're just trying to extinguish it," said Capt. Brian Buckner, 30, of Sumter, South Carolina.
Take this conversation, overheard recently outside the mess hall at Camp Rustamiyah, on Baghdad's eastern outskirts:
Soldier 1: How you doing?
Soldier 2: Fine. How you doing?
Soldier 1: Hooah.
'Air power!' doesn't have same punch
For the different branches of the military, each vastly competitive with and jealous of its distinctions from one another, hooah has become something of a sore point. Marines and sailors have their own saying, more of a "hoo-RAH" or a "hoo-yah," which they claim is entirely separate in origin.
The Air Force brass once reportedly got so irked about sharing "hooah" with the Army that it tried to get airmen to shout "Air power!" instead. But "Air power!" did not have the same potency as "hooah" and has been largely abandoned.
Sgt. Joe Carter, a 23-year-old from Kennett, Missouri, recalls how, after arriving at basic training, he and other young Army recruits attended a motivational talk from their commander.
"When we first got there, the commander gave a speech, and at the end he told us, 'I want to hear a loud and thunderous hooah!"' Carter said. "We were real pumped and amped up."
Yet the use of hooah by the uninitiated is generally frowned on. Carter recounted that a drill sergeant barred him and his fellow recruits from saying hooah until they had finished the basic course and earned the right.
And civilians uttering hooah are generally looked upon with either disdain or the astonishment of a person who has just heard a koala bear recite lines from e.e. cummings.
Where from, this 'hooah'?
As with any good word, the origins of hooah are highly disputed.
Some claim it derives from the military acronym HUA -- Heard, Understood, Acknowledged.
Another tale: When Army Rangers landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944, a sergeant ordered them to scale the cliffs looming above them and neutralize the German pillboxes perched on top. One soldier, aghast at the idea, responded, "Who, us?" Soldiers ended up following the order, in what became one of the most celebrated acts of World War II.
Then there's the theory that hooah comes from hurrah and hooray, themselves believed to be bastardizations of the sailor's cry "huzzah," which dates back to the 16th century.
With the Internet widening the forum for debate, blog entries suggesting definitions of hooah have been met with dozens upon dozens of comments from those who think they know better.
With all the derivations that exist, a few souls have tried to come up with an official meaning. One such half-serious, half-humorous definition, listed by the Urban Dictionary, reads in part: "U.S. Army slang. Referring to or meaning anything and everything except 'no.' Generally used when at a loss for words."
Lt. Col. Brian Winski, commander of the Army's 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, who sometimes says "hooah" so often it seems to have entered into his subconscious, isn't entirely satisfied with that definition, but says it will have to suffice.
"That's about right if you have to really box it in," he said. "I guess that's about as close as you could get."
In the U.S. Army -- which has so many acronyms, expressions and opaque phrases that it seems to deserve its own language -- there is one word that is quite possibly uttered more than any other.
That word is "hooah." Pronounced HOO-ah. Alternatively spelled hua and huah.
Attend a company command meeting, and you'll hear "hooah" uttered as often as a 15-year-old says "like" or "you know." Head to the post exchange and buy a Hooah Energy Bar or Hoo-Ahhs wet wipes or HOOAH2O water.
It's not just in Iraq. At U.S. bases around the world, hooah seems an inseparable element of Army life.
Just don't try to define it. And definitely don't try to figure out where it comes from.
"I believe it came from hurrah. It basically means everything from 'yes' and 'yes, sir,' to 'that's great,"' said Capt. James Lowe, public affairs officer for the 506th Regimental Combat Team. "You could use it as a generalized cheer. It's one of those multipurpose phrases -- when in doubt, say hooah."
That doesn't even begin to cover it.
They shout hooah to get motivated, and they whisper it when they concur with something someone just said. Hooah means you understood something, or is the proper reply when someone says "thank you." On the other hand, it may also be used to say "thank you."
Hooah is a catchall phrase that will get you out of any situation, particularly when receiving a scolding from a higher-ranking officer.
"You use it when you've got a flame on your butt and you're just trying to extinguish it," said Capt. Brian Buckner, 30, of Sumter, South Carolina.
Take this conversation, overheard recently outside the mess hall at Camp Rustamiyah, on Baghdad's eastern outskirts:
Soldier 1: How you doing?
Soldier 2: Fine. How you doing?
Soldier 1: Hooah.
'Air power!' doesn't have same punch
For the different branches of the military, each vastly competitive with and jealous of its distinctions from one another, hooah has become something of a sore point. Marines and sailors have their own saying, more of a "hoo-RAH" or a "hoo-yah," which they claim is entirely separate in origin.
The Air Force brass once reportedly got so irked about sharing "hooah" with the Army that it tried to get airmen to shout "Air power!" instead. But "Air power!" did not have the same potency as "hooah" and has been largely abandoned.
Sgt. Joe Carter, a 23-year-old from Kennett, Missouri, recalls how, after arriving at basic training, he and other young Army recruits attended a motivational talk from their commander.
"When we first got there, the commander gave a speech, and at the end he told us, 'I want to hear a loud and thunderous hooah!"' Carter said. "We were real pumped and amped up."
Yet the use of hooah by the uninitiated is generally frowned on. Carter recounted that a drill sergeant barred him and his fellow recruits from saying hooah until they had finished the basic course and earned the right.
And civilians uttering hooah are generally looked upon with either disdain or the astonishment of a person who has just heard a koala bear recite lines from e.e. cummings.
Where from, this 'hooah'?
As with any good word, the origins of hooah are highly disputed.
Some claim it derives from the military acronym HUA -- Heard, Understood, Acknowledged.
Another tale: When Army Rangers landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944, a sergeant ordered them to scale the cliffs looming above them and neutralize the German pillboxes perched on top. One soldier, aghast at the idea, responded, "Who, us?" Soldiers ended up following the order, in what became one of the most celebrated acts of World War II.
Then there's the theory that hooah comes from hurrah and hooray, themselves believed to be bastardizations of the sailor's cry "huzzah," which dates back to the 16th century.
With the Internet widening the forum for debate, blog entries suggesting definitions of hooah have been met with dozens upon dozens of comments from those who think they know better.
With all the derivations that exist, a few souls have tried to come up with an official meaning. One such half-serious, half-humorous definition, listed by the Urban Dictionary, reads in part: "U.S. Army slang. Referring to or meaning anything and everything except 'no.' Generally used when at a loss for words."
Lt. Col. Brian Winski, commander of the Army's 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, who sometimes says "hooah" so often it seems to have entered into his subconscious, isn't entirely satisfied with that definition, but says it will have to suffice.
"That's about right if you have to really box it in," he said. "I guess that's about as close as you could get."
You know you're a 90's kid if...
The ones that actually apply to me are in RED!
*You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
*You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"
*You've worn skorts and felt stylish.
*You've owned New Kids On the Block merchandise and rocked it.
*You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.
*You use to love playing with your My Little Pet Shop, Slinky, Polly Pocket, Quints
*You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that *"How Rude!” comes from Stephanie from "Full House."
*You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
*You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs.
*You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. -I actually played this at home alot, not school
*You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten.
*You remember reading “Goosebumps."
*You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off."
*You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
*You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
*You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets.
*You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence...Not...
*You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
*You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
*You remember going to the skating rink before there were Inline skates
*You ever got injured on a Slip' n' Slide -the seams kill!
*You wore socks over leggings scrunched down.
*"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back,back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANT ELEPHANT ELEPHANT JUMP OVER THE FENCE FENCE FENCE" He jumped so high high high he touched theskysky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stumbed he's toe\ oe oe and that’s the end end end of the elephants show ow ow"
*You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
*You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare."
*You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "My Little Wonder."
*You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool.
*You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell."
*You played and/or collected "Pogs."
*You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle
*You owned a Skip It.
*You had at least one GigaPet or NanoBaby and brought it everywhere.
*You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
*All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
*You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears,but at the corners of your eyes.
*You remember a time before the WB.
*You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
*You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.
*You know the Macarena by heart.
*"Talk to the hand" ... enough said
*You remember when Michael Jackson was not so creepy but really cool!
*The polka-dot door was (and still is) way better than polka-dot shorts!
*You’re from the 90s if you owned a bag of marbles!
*You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
*You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"
*You've worn skorts and felt stylish.
*You've owned New Kids On the Block merchandise and rocked it.
*You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.
*You use to love playing with your My Little Pet Shop, Slinky, Polly Pocket, Quints
*You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that *"How Rude!” comes from Stephanie from "Full House."
*You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
*You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs.
*You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. -I actually played this at home alot, not school
*You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten.
*You remember reading “Goosebumps."
*You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off."
*You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
*You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
*You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets.
*You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence...Not...
*You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
*You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
*You remember going to the skating rink before there were Inline skates
*You ever got injured on a Slip' n' Slide -the seams kill!
*You wore socks over leggings scrunched down.
*"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back,back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANT ELEPHANT ELEPHANT JUMP OVER THE FENCE FENCE FENCE" He jumped so high high high he touched theskysky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stumbed he's toe\ oe oe and that’s the end end end of the elephants show ow ow"
*You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
*You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare."
*You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "My Little Wonder."
*You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool.
*You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell."
*You played and/or collected "Pogs."
*You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle
*You owned a Skip It.
*You had at least one GigaPet or NanoBaby and brought it everywhere.
*You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
*All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
*You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears,but at the corners of your eyes.
*You remember a time before the WB.
*You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
*You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.
*You know the Macarena by heart.
*"Talk to the hand" ... enough said
*You remember when Michael Jackson was not so creepy but really cool!
*The polka-dot door was (and still is) way better than polka-dot shorts!
*You’re from the 90s if you owned a bag of marbles!
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