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Okay...  Here's a little multi-topic entry...  I was cooking dinner tonight.  Had a little taste--and vavavoom!  This is really yummy!

1.  Brings me to my first topic.  We've been eating really poopie the last week, and I do notice the difference.  I feel crappy when we eat more processed and restaurant food.  As good as they are,  I want to avoid all the preservatives, sugar, sugar, and more sugar--oh, and sodium, too.  My toesies and fingers don't appreciate it, and neither do my morning runs!  Well, I could account that to the stinkin' hot weather, but let's not.  Tonight, I tried one of the recipes that I found and forwarded to a friend.  Okay, so mine doesn't look like hers.  I doubt that I also followed her recipe to the T.  Regardless, I tasted it and it is deevine!  I added chicken for the BooBoo, because he will die without meat!

2.  For those of you dabbling in photography, like me.  The best advice I got is to get your picture as best as you can straight out of the camera (SOOC).  You cannot, whatever you do, cannot make a BAD picture BETTER in Photoshop!  Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  This one, to me, was FANTASTIC!  Could've been "whiter", but then I'd lose the color of the quinoa.  I actually put white paper on my granite countertop to get a better "whiter" look.  All I had to do for this picture was a little lightening and a little sharpening--and VOILA!  My tip for today, learn the ISO, Aperature, and Shutter Speed triangle today!!!  I'm still learning it...  Don't you love my Okinawa pottery bowl, though???  It's one of my favorites!

3.  Upon some encouragement from some friends, finally, I'm in the process of opening up an Etsy Shop for my handmade cards (and whatever else I feel like making).  Please stay tune...

4.  Note to self:  Next time...  Little less Pinot Grigio while cooking dinner...

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About a year ago...  I layed in bed, humbled, and counted the blessings I have in the friendships that developed in Okinawa (sniff, sniff) - - A Humbling Experience...