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For all the beauty junkies out there
Honey Cleansing Scrub
# 1 Tablespoon honey
# 2 Tablespoon finely ground almonds
# 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Mix together and rub gently onto your face. The honey helps to moisturize, the almonds help exfoliate, and the lemon helps
to diminish redness and blotches. How sweet is that?
Strawberries & Cream Toner
# 2 ounces ripe strawberries
# 1/2 pint low fat milk
Mix ingredients in a blender and strain through a paper towel. With a cotton ball, smooth the liquid onto your face, and
wipe clean with a dry towel. The acids in both the milk and the strawberries brighten dull-looking skin. (It leaves you smelling
berry good, too!)
Avocado Glow Mask
# 1 whole soft avocado, peeled and chopped
# A squeeze of lemon
Mash the avocado in a bowl with a fork until smooth, and mix in lemon juice. Apply the paste to your face and let sit
for 20 minutes. (Avocado has natural moisturizing properties to make skin supersoft.) Rinse with warm water and watch your
friends get green with envy.
Salty Body Glow
# 1 cup fine sea salt
# 1/2 cup grape-seed, olive, or almond oil
Stir ingredients thoroughly in a small bowl. Spread the mixture onto damp skin and massage in -- the grainy salt whisks
away dead skin cells while the oil seals in moisture. Concentrate on the rough spots like elbows and heels. Rinse well, and
check out that smooth bod!
Sweet Vanilla Soak
# 1 cup sweet almond oil (light olive oil may be substituted)
# 1/2 cup honey
# 1/2 cup liquid soap (plain or flower-scented)
# 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
Measure the oil into a medium bowl, and then carefully stir in remaining ingredients until mixture is fully blended. Pour
into a squeeze bottle and add about a quarter of the mix to a warm bathtub (this recipe will make enough for four baths).
Steep -- and soak your cares away.
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Dog Plunges Down 100-Foot Cliffs
Mesa Needs $10,000 Surgery
POSTED: 2:30 pm PST March 20, 2006
UPDATED: 6:32 pm PST March 20, 2006
DEL MAR, Calif. -- Three weeks ago a couple's dog plunged from 100-foot cliffs above Del Mar Dog Beach.
Mesa, a 3-year-old Australian Kelpie who was adopted from Helen Woodward Animal Center, wanted to chase a seagull and
escaped from the leash on which he was held.
In a moment's notice, Nicole Moore and Rich Newman say their dog was gone, tumbling and somersaulting down the rocky cliffs
to the beach.
While Newman and his son raced down the sandy trail to find Mesa, bystanders came to the dog's assistance and later helped
transport the severely injured and bleeding dog to the vet.
Danna Mechelke, a friend of the family, said Mesa somehow survived the drop, but his two front legs are horribly broken.
Mesa needs a $10,000 orthopedic surgery to fuse his bones together, insert pins and remove the damaged ligaments.
He will also need six to eight months of recovery and after care.
Without the surgery, Mechelke said Mesa does not have a chance, and his family faces a painful decision.
Mesa has the chance to be 80 to 90 percent normal with the surgery. He will be able to run, play and catch his frisbee
again.
Mesa's family said it's willing to spend the time and energy it takes to rehabilitate him, if they can find a way to finance
the surgery.
Mechelke said Mesa is a miracle dog.
Mesa was transferred to San Diego from Tucson at 7-months-old.
When the Newmans adopted him, he had Valley Fever -- a fungal lung infection he brought with him from Arizona.
After a complicated and expensive diagnosis, Mesa fully recovered and just came off his medicine two months ago.
In addition, Mesa was bitten by a rattlesnake two and half years ago and survived that as well.
Mechelke said Mesa's family is incredibly devoted to Mesa. She said their son loves to play with him, walk him and pretend
he is a dinosaur.
Mesa is a regular at Del Mar Dog Beach. He loves to run and chase the birds, bound across the rocks and sidle up to anyone
willing to scratch his ears.
With the help of San Diego County Credit Union, Mechelke has set up a "Help Mesa Walk Again" fund to which people
can donate.
Donations may be made to:
Nicole Moore/Help Mesa Walk - 30
c/o San Diego County Credit Union
501 N. El Camino Real
Encinitas, CA 92024-1319
If the donations exceed Mesa's surgery and recovery costs, all monies will go directly to the Helen Woodard Animal Center.
Mechelke said this process would be overseen by an accounting firm.
I saw the new movie Annapolis. In case anyone is wondering, its about boxing.
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1,500 seal pups die in tidal surge
Mothers had given birth on island instead of ice floes due to warm weather
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:34 p.m. ET Feb. 3, 2006
OTTAWA - Around 1,500 seal pups were swept out
to sea and drowned by a tidal surge off Canada’s east coast this week after a lack of ice cover meant their mothers
were forced to give birth on a small island, environment officials said Friday.
A resident on the island described how the mother
seals had frantically tried to push their tiny pups back on to land as they floundered in the storm-tossed water.
Gray seals in the Northumberland Strait —
which lies between the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island — usually give birth on the pack ice which
forms in winter.
But abnormally warm conditions this year mean there
is no ice in the strait, so some seals had to give birth on the beaches of Pictou Island. Unusually high tides hit the island
this week after a major storm.
“The majority of those seals born above the
high water mark have been lost. We’re estimating ... that of about 2,000 pups that were born prior to the storm, we
lost about 1,500,” said Jerry Conway, a marine mammal adviser for the federal Fisheries and Oceans Department.
Television pictures showed dead seal pups littered
on one of Pictou Island’s beaches.
Resident describes frantic mothers
Jane
MacDonald, one of the island’s few permanent residents, said the mother seals had tried hard to save their offspring.
“The mothers just push them and push them with their nose, and they dive back under and push them back up, and they
get back into the tide wash, and then a big wave will hit and just sweep them back out to sea,” she told CBC television.
Conway said it was not uncommon for seals in the
Northumberland Strait to give birth on land.
“I’ve been with the department 27 years
and I can remember at least half a dozen instances when there hasn’t been ice of sufficient strength (for seals to give
birth there),” he told Reuters from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
When seal pups are born they weigh only about 20
pounds and have no blubber, which means they find it hard to float.
Conway blamed the unusually high tide for the deaths,
adding: “Normally, these pups would have survived.”
The gray seal population in the Northumberland
Strait and the Gulf of St Lawrence is around 400,000 animals.
Conway said the lack of ice cover off Eastern Canada
could also cause problems for the large harp seal population, which usually gives birth in late March near the Magdalen Islands
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
“I’m suggesting that unless we have
a tremendous decrease in temperature and the forming of ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, we may have a repeat of this with
harp seals,” he said. This could mean seals being forced to give birth on beaches on the Magdalen Islands and Prince
Edward Island.
Mothers usually birth on ice floes
The
mother seals, which can grow as heavy as 800 pounds, normally have their pups on the ice floes that clog the gulf.
Fisheries officials say they haven't seen so many
seals onshore since the early 1980s, when mild weather also hindered the formation of the floes.
Female seals normally abandon their pups about
three weeks after birth, but the young remain out of the water for some time while they shed their downy white coats.
Dave Phillips, a senior climatologist at Environment
Canada, said there have been weather anomalies across the country, with ice roads not forming in northern Saskatchewan, Winnipeg
getting unseasonable rain in January and barren ski slopes in Vancouver.
Phillips said that while winters have been getting
warmer over the last several years, it isn't clear if this points to global warming.
And while most Canadians are enjoying the mild
winter, there could be a steep price to be paid in the months ahead, he said. Crops, for example, could be hurt by a shock
of warm and then cold weather. Businesses that rely on winter activity are hurting, and several remote northern communities
have been cut off by a lack of ice.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
© 2006 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11127975/?GT1=7832
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4 January 2006
Remember to check the blog.
Happy New Year!!
1 December 2005
We had a nice Thanksgiving. On top of being pregnant I caught some sort of stomach
bug and I couldn't force myself to eat if I tried for a week. I am finally gettting better. I could distinctly
feel my uterus today when I pushed on my stomach. That was different. It doesn't show at all yet, but with a little
poking and prodding you can tell that it is getting bigger and hard, kinda freaky in a good way.
I have really been awful about writing in any of my blogs since Tim came home. Between
work, school, and relaxing there just never seems to be time. I hate my job. Used to love it. The late hours
are killing me. My boss really has no skills for his duties so I end up doing a lot of his work. Have I mentioned
that he is an old school ex marine? Oh, I'm sorry, there is no such thing as an ex marine. He is a former marine,
a lifer. Some days are not so bad, but others I just want to tell him to get out of my building. Same with my
other coworker. I used to put in 180% but for the past few months the job and the management style has just been wearing
me down. Now I give about 75%. I'm working on convincing myself to perk up and do my best.
Tim and I had decided on names for our little penguin...but now he is being a pain in the
butt. We still agree on the girl name, Arika Kathryn Tichawa. I didn't pick Kathryn as a middle name, it seems
a little....pushy to use your own name when naming your child...but Arielle and Tim both liked it and nothing else seemed
to go well with Tichawa. Its a hard name to pull off. For a boy we had decided on Noah Timothy Tichawa.
I really like the name Noah, and he did save the animals after all !-) BUt now Tim has decided that he isn't so fond
of Noah after all. Well Bah-Hombug. We have another name we are tossing around. Maybe we'll keep it a secret
and keep you all guessing. And no, it is not Aiden, or any variation on that. Aiden is irish for Fire. I
just like the name. Of course, Tim thinks it is not masculine enough.
What is everyone doing for christmas?
I hear someone is graduating this month! Congratulations, I'm just sad that I can't
be there!!
with love,
K
10 Nov 2005
Whats new? I'm pregnant.
31 August 05
If you want to know whats going on, go read the blog :-)
31 July 05
Its pretty late at night and my eyes are tired. Glad you are here reading this.
To my girls, I miss you guys every day. I wish you were here with me, we would be having so much fun. My dog would
drive you batty, but its all good. Half the time I want to push him off the balcony. It seems like it has been
a pretty laid back weekend, and nothing much seems to be going on really. I need more disk space, I've used almost all
of mine. I think I might have to actually start paying for this website soon. Aaaarg. But now that I've
bummed around all day, talked to a couple people on the phone, and had a great conversation with my absent husband I
think it is time for bed. Leave me a message and come back again soon.
Love Always,
K
Hey, I don't get out much so if you've seen a really good or really bad movie lately post
a review of it for me.
28 July 05
Its hot as hell here and still no A/C in sight. My new boss and I are already butting
heads, albeit in a polite and curtious manner. Aaarg.
23 July 05
I have been diligently working on the site. It might actually be close to being updated.
To all of you who haven't seen me in a while, I miss you...every single last "can't learn how to make an international call"
one of you! Emily and Will, I love you guys and can't wait til the next time I am home to see you again! Arielle
and Fatma, get your butts out here. You can't leave a girl to travel Europe all by herself. Be sure to check out
the latest post, and leave a reply.
Without Wax
K
I Love Trouble
In appreciation of the summer weather
here are some Top Ten Lists from Citysearch.com
Top 10 Island Getaways:US
• Catalina Island, Calif.• Fire Island, N.Y.• Galveston, Texas• Hilton Head, S.C.• Honolulu, Hawaii• Key West, Fla.• Martha's Vineyard, Mass.• Maui, Hawaii• San Juan Islands, Wash.• South Padre Island, Texas
Top 10 Beaches: US
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Eastham, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore
Kauai, Hawaii - Ke'e Beach
East Hampton, N.Y. - Main Beach
Malibu, Calif. - Malibu Lagoon State Beach
Maui, Hawaii - Kaanapali Beach
Miami, Fla. - South Beach
Block Island, R.I. - Mohegan Bluffs
Outer Banks, N.C. - Outer Banks
South Padre Island, Texas - South Padre Island Beaches
Laguna Beach, Calif. - Crystal Cove State Park
7th July
So I have 8 weeks left to go on my calendar, but I can almost count on it being more. Time has
gone by fast though, that is something I have to be glad for. I am able to talk to Tim almost daily, while some spouses
are lucky to get a call once a month. He claims that he is addicted to me, which I think is a perfectly acceptable thing
to be. Who wouldn't get caught up in my stunning wit and charm? LOL, more like who wouldn't get caught up in a
heated debate with me? Thats more like it! Our puppy is doing good, still eating everything in sight exept for
his food.
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4 June 05
It has been over a month since Tim left.
One fourth of the way through. I've been staying busy with work and the dog, and writing to Tim. The mail system
that we use to send mail from and APO address to another APO address is backlogged so it has been taking a long time to send
and receive mail. He called and told me that he was sending me a present, but he'll probably be back by the time it
gets here! Seriously though it can be very frustrating to check the mail daily and find it empty.
We had a really close call with our dog Axe, he decided to eat some
OTC medication and was pretty close to not seeing another sunrise. He made it through the night and the meds worked
their way out of his system. He's getting back to his old self, and wreaking havoc.
I broke down and bought a new camera the other day. It wasn't
the one I wanted but I figured that if I held out for the "perfect" one I'd end up old and cameraless. It was a nice
buy though, and on sale which makes it even better. I'm in love with the new digital slr's but it just wasn't
to be so i got myself the Olympus C7070. I am planning on buying the remote control so I can actually be in the pictures
now, instead of the one taking them. Oh, and I have to get a tripod to hold the camera up. Every time you solve
one problem a half dozen more crop up to take its place. This whole mess started when Tim took my camera with him, and
left me empty handed. I just can't live without a camera in my hand, not sure why. They offered me a job
at the photo studio on base but I'll be getting more hours at the Teen center over the summer so I couldn't take the job.
It would have been fun though.
The summer is going to be awfully long waiting for Tim to get back
to me.
Let's never let go of our Friendship
I don't ever want us to
let go of eachother.
Maybe our paths will go
in separate directions,
but that won't change
the bond we share
and what's in our hearts...
My friend,
no matter where I am
or what I am doing,
when you come to mind
a smile comes to my face
and a warmth settles
in my heart.
The day you and I met
will always be cherished.
We've grown together,
done a lot together,
and no matter what,
we always let each other know
that we do love and care
about each other.
You are more than just
a friend to me.
I often struggle to say
how I feel,
but I hope we never let go
of what we share,
because whether it's across
the miles
or just a short distance,
you are and will always be
a part of my life and me.
~Betsy Gurganus
So much has happened since I last updated
the website. I owe you an apology. Work and school takes up a great deal of time, as well as the injury to my
back that was sustained in a vehicle v. pedestrian (me) accident. Don't worry, I'm alright. I'm just glad to be
here and writing to you.
I have so many wonderful pictures of Axe to share with everyone...but
with no internet at home I have fallen behind. I promise those will be up soon!
Check back with me later for more updates.
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