Like birds, let us, leave behind what we don’t need to carry…GRUDGES, SADNESS, PAIN, FEAR, and REGRETS. May The Year 2010 Bring You Healthy Life,Happiness,Success and be filled with Peace,Hope & Togetherness of your Family & Friends….Wishing You a ***HAPPY NEW YEAR***
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, With all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. — John Wesley
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New Year’s Eve celebration happens to be the biggest common party across the globe when all nations and religions forget all the differences and come together to welcome the New Year. New Year’s Eve is one such occasion when everyone in everyplace around the world manages to recognize the New Year with some sort of celebration. As we are slowly approaching to the end of 2009, once again there is a restlessness in preparing the planner for the occasion.Here is a compilation of my top few popular destinations where you can celebrate the momentus occasion in the best possible way.Happy New Year to each and everyone of you.
Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration held in the United States honoring universal African heritage and culture, marked by participants lighting a kinara (candle holder) It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year, primarily in the United States. Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that means “first”.
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Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
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FROM —NORAD Tracks Santa and DOT
I am pleased to report that, just moments ago, FAA chief Randy Babbitt cleared Santa Claus for his traditional round-the-world holiday mission.The public is invited to follow Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve at www.noradsanta.org via NORAD’s famous SantaCams.
During the North Pole International Airport (NPIA) 90-minute check flight, Santa demonstrated precision execution of the pinpoint rooftop landing and takeoff maneuvers his extensive delivery manifest and single-night constraint require.
Babbitt also pronounced the sleigh’s onboard equipment to be in tip-top operating condition, including the following systems:
* Deicing
* Reindeer propulsion
* Navigation
* Grinch/Heat-Miser avoidance system
Critically, Babbitt also verified Santa’s crew manifest to ensure enough elves would be available to relieve Santa for proper pilot rest periods.
New this year, Santa and the North Pole elves have instituted several energy-saving measures.….READ MORE HERE>>>>>>>
So do you or does anyone you know go crazy with Christmas lights?When it comes to holiday lights,Iam a wimp!I’m obsessed with holiday lights.This weekend, we (my husband,me and our puppy Coco) went for a Christmas lights display in one of the homes in Woodinville Town, right outside Seattle.
“Woodinville Wonderland” is the Christmas lights displays worth going out of your way to see. The house belongs to Mark Zembruski.There are 74,678 Christmas lights on and around his house and still ponders whether his dolphin display “could use another string of lights.Woodnville Wonderland has become one of the area’s top Christmas attractions. A tradition like taking your kids to sit on Santa’s lap at the mall. Or watching the burning Yule Log on public television.
The number of displays with flashing lights coordinated to local radio broadcasts(101.9 FM) have drew a lot of crowd in this neighborhood, particularly in this house.For the last six years, lines of SUVs, minivans and sedans have pulled up along the side of the street.From dogs,kids to adults this place was busy and looked like people were pulling up each second to enjoy the show.Couples with hot chocolate in hand and eyes glued to a Disney-like world the owner(Zembruski) has created: two 20-minute choreographed light shows featuring all those lights, dancing on cue to Christmas classics and the Coke commercial song. About eight miles of extension cords and light strings.
What do you get to see?
• Santa atop the chimney on a Harley made out of wire frame wrapped with lights.
• Giant cedar trunks tied in candy-cane red and white lights.
• A 7,270-light Christmas tree, glowing in red, white, blue and green.
• A 7 ½-foot Bethlehem-style star on top of the two-story house.
• Snowflake-shaped lights that fade to look like it’s snowing down on the house.
• A candy-cane lane.
• A lit peacock.
• A front yard filled with Frosty, angels, reindeers and trains.
• A yard blanketed with fading blue lights to mimic water moving downstream
-My most favorite display: is an interior projector beaming Santa onto a white screen covering a window of the house. From the outside, it appears as if Santa is working in front of the window and saying “ho, ho, ho” to the crowd.Toddlers believe Santa is waving at them. They gawk until their parents pull them away
The House is located at :
23620 NE 183rd St – Woodinville, WA 98077
Show Hours: Sun-Thurs 5-10:30pm / Fri-Sat 5-11:30pm
Video Below-Credits To The Seattle Times
Woodinville Wonderland
New York(WPIX)-Forget the candy cane carousels; a new kind of window display has jaws dropping down Fifth Avenue.
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Female clothing line XOXO located at Fifth Avenue and 38th Street is drawing crowds this holiday season, thanks to its new, “live” window display.
Creative director and designer Carol Powley, calls her living mannequins “window theater.” Some are questioning who the display is meant to attract, considering XOXO only sells women’s clothes. But, Powley says the display is geared toward gift-buying boyfriends.
The encasement depicts a young woman’s apartment, where two attractive models try on clothes, flip through magazines and paint each other’s nails. After dark, they change into evening wear, and spend hours primping and polishing for a night out on the town. Did we mention this is all in front of gawking crowds?
The display — which plays out more like a peep show — has drawn hundreds of men. It’s no surprise that changing time — when the models strip down to their undies — draws the biggest crowd. Police were called to the scene Friday, thanks to a female pedestrian who drew an unfavorable reaction.
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Britanny Murphy has died today.She was 32 years old.This famous Hollywood actress was loved by a lot and her death brought big sadness to her fans all over the world.
Reports said that a 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack.Report says the actress was rushed to Cedar Sinai Medical Center and was pronounced dead on arrival. The cause of death is said to be a cardiac arrest.You will be missed Britanny ” The world has lost a little piece is sunshine”.
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Today’s Chinese Proverb: Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Today’s Motivational Quote: Straighten up your room first, then the world. — Jeff Jordan
Today’s Wisdom from around the world: Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. — Jewish Proverb
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Today’s Chinese Proverb: When walking through a melon patch, don’t adjust your sandals.
Today’s Motivational Quote: We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. — Menander
Today’s Wisdom from around the world: If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow. — Saudi Proverb
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A senior Obama administration official says the US, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” on climate change. The official characterized the deal as a first step, but said it was not enough to combat the threat of a warming planet.Details of the deal with these emerging economies were not immediately clear.
..Enjoy Kim Kardashian’s sister Kourtney gave birth to her first child Mason Dash Disick a few days ago, and Kim insists the family couldn’t be happier. She said: “The whole family is so thrilled, excited and blessed to have Mason in our lives and we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect gift this Christmas! My mom Kris is a grandma, and as much as she might say she doesn’t like being called one, we know she secretly loves it.”
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick are proud parents (Pacific Coast News)
Kourtney gave birth to Mason on December 14.
The 30-year-old star announced she was pregnant in August after discovering she was expecting after filming a new reality TV show with her other sister Khloe. She said at the time: “We were in the Everglades and I kept feeling nauseous and sick and I just kept thinking, like, something wasn’t feeling right. I’ve never missed a period in my life.”
Have you done all your Christmas shopping?I finished my Christmas shopping a while ago. I’m also done wrapping the presents too.Happy Holidays!!
Coco under the Christmas tree!
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4.“You lie!” Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted the retort to President Obama‘s address before joint session of Congress, Sept. 9, 2009
“Some cravings have nothing to do with willpower – you’re actually addicted”
Tazo Chai Tea Latte from Starbucks
A spicy drink of black tea infused with cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper and star anise added to freshly steamed milk.Iam in heaven
Lemon Meringue Pie-From Metropolitan Market, and It has to come from Metropolitan Market.I have never had a tasty lemon pie until I had one for my birthday last year.My husband had to stop me, because there was no sign of me stopping eating the pie.I LOVE Lemon meringue pie.A big pile of fluffy dry meringue on top of moist lemon curd sends me over the edge.
Carrot Cake from Trader Joe’s..Who wouldn’t want a dense, rich, rustic, walnut-studded, carrot-flecked slathered generously with cream cheese frosting Carrot cake?
“Love me in January,so we can begin this journey together.Love me in February, I’ll be your Valentine.Love me in March,let our love grow stronger.Love me in April and protect me from the rain.Love me in May so we can start our love garden together.Love me in June,and we can provide shades at each other.Love me in July,let our love sparkle like fireworks.Love me in August,8 means infinity.Love me in September because you are my Morning Glory.Love me in October and let these beautiful colors stay in our hearts.Love me in November,trees have lost all their leaves but we still have each other.Love me in December,protect me from the harsh cold weather outside.” Rachel Samanyi
My response—Never would have finished shopping in time
