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Hope everyone is enjoying this SUUUUUMMMMER HEAT!!!!!!

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I LOVE IT!

Stage 9 of Christmas - The Travelling!

We all know how bad the weather and traffic are in December (weather being horrible and freezing for most of the US anyway) not to mention the holiday impatience...
I am so thankful that I did not have any major weather, traffic, or road rage incidents this year! lol highways were not overly crowded, policeman must have been actually out monitoring real criminals and there was no hail, snow, freezing rain, or black ice!
I hope that everyone else was as blessed on the roads and made it safely to and from where they were headed!

Stage 3 of Christmas - The Decorations!

My apt. is done lol well almost, I'm waiting for some snowflake lights to arrive! I'm pretty basic anyway and since I live in an apt. it's easy to stay that way! I think decorations should be up the weekend after Thanksgiving, but some people in my neighborhood have had them up for weeks!

I DID notice that my immediate neighbors on the left put up their lights on the same day as me!... suspicious... haha coincidence I think not! =D

p.s. here in NE Ohio...there's still no snow!!!

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Happy 2010!

Hey there! Happy 2010 everyone!! Minus the freak ice storms, freezing rain, snow, sleet and hail...it's going well here in Ohio! ;D Hope everyone had a fantastic, fun, and safe New Year's! Pics from the holidays to come soon!

Simple Ways to Prevent H1N1

These are from Dr. Vinay Goyal a MBBS, DRM, DNB (Intensivist & Thyroid Specialist) with clinical experience of over 20 years. For those who did not get these via email, please read! Some are no-brainers (vitamin C and hand washing) but I didn't think of cleaning out my nose! ;D

1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

4. Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

5. Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

6. Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

With the weather changing here in Ohio it is esp. important that we do these! Wishing everyone a happy and HEALTHY fall!! :)