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I saw a lot of 10 this or thats on popurls.com tonight and decided to do a list of 10 random 10 lists.

1) Top 10 songs of the week- found out here about this week’s set including Soulja Boy, Alicia Keys, and guess who- Fergie- twice!

2) 10 Creepiest Old Ads- what a mix of creepy, foreshadowy, perverse, and just wrong old ads. Cute! Advertising has gotten even more sick and clever these days, right?!

3) 10 Best Quotes in 2007- “Don’t Tase Me Bro!” takes the cake, followed closely by Miss South Carolina’s infamous speech, and other fun times in political abomination.

4) (ode to my mother!) Top 10 birding memories of 2007- cute birdwatcher blogger recounts some exciting happenings in birdland.

5) 10 foods to eat and 10 foods not to eat: I really like this because it has colored pictures, a clear and to-the-point layout, and I agree with most of them. Juicing kale (and other veggies) is probably the best healthy feeling I can get when I feel gross-fooded-out.

6) I kind of wanted something about cars or sports to show that I have an interest in these sorts of things, and I found a random guy’s blog who has to do with sports car testing: Arthur St. Antoine’s Top 10 Personal Memories of 2007. He talks about some important new car stuff. I love a nice car, but am sad right now that mine broke a little and cost me the rest of my money I barely had.

7) While looking for more “10 lists” I stumbled on Time’s 50 top 10’s of 2007 categorized by News, Arts & Entertainment, Science, Business Tech & Sports, and Pop Culture. Check out the ones you will, or won’t admit to, but want to anyway.

8 ) Top 10 News Stories of 2007- I did this one from the many Time’s lists because they do a pretty decent job of representing some important, and global stories, not just one-sided sensationalized booshoo. (I also really liked the Top 10 oddball stories as well!)

9) And Time’s Top 10 Campaign Gaffes was a good list too. There’s a quote about lying taking much more time and energy than telling the truth, you have to remember your stories. If these politicians were like Ron Paul, they’d know how to stick to their values and wouldn’t end up in awkward lies.

10) Top 10 CDs of 2007 by Bob Boilen- don’t know the guy, but a few of the ones he says I would agree with, and usually if it isn’t quality underground hip-hop, I’m not too interested. But of course, Radiohead is genius as always, and I unexpectedly became a big enough fan of Of Montreal to go to their concert. This inspires me to come up with an Amandoo’s top 10 cds of 2007 (whether they came out in 2007 or not). keep your fingers crossed that i’ll do it soon!

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That was fun, inspired mostly by popurls’ lists, but also by the fact that 2007 recently ended and 10 is a common number and so are end-of-year compilation lists. I must make my own- mostly about music.

1st in a series of How-To Instructional Videos brought to you by your beloved Amandoo.

How To Make a Ghetto Blizzard

Watch that video, or, follow along with first Guest Blogger Entry by m8v

1) Buy yourself a Frosty or ice cream milkshake (I recommend Frosty because I dislike McDo and Wendy’s is the only one open late in my nook of the kingdom)

2) Compile a stockpile of moderate to maximumly delicious candy products (reese and his pb-cups / butterfingers were harmed in the making of this film)

3) Crinkle, mashy, and snap-trickle 1’s and 0’s (bits) of step 2 into step 1.

4) Get that corn syrup mating with your GI system in your favorite fashion.

5) BOOM!

Would you like to do something to help humankind this Thanksgiving while spreading freedom and good cheer?

Check out the Ron Paul Thanksgiving site and join in on the fun. Here is an excerpt and below is the full site text:

Please join in this grassroots movement and spend the days before Thanksgiving collecting canned goods on Ron Paul’s behalf.This will send a message to Americans and the world that personal responsibility and initiative can never be replaced by tax-funded redistribution programs, which are always plagued by severe bureaucratic waste. Help tell the country about Ron Paul’s hopeful message: that freedom REALLY WORKS!

Check out ronpaulthanksgiving.com!

The November 5th “money bomb” was AMAZING and helped Dr. Paul get a lot of well deserved media attention. This Thanksgiving, let’s help Ron Paul get TWICE as much attention while giving hungry people a warm Thanksgiving meal!

Every year millions of Americans spend the Thanksgiving holiday hungry. Despite the countless billions of taxdollars being spent on various federal welfare programs, our nation’s poor remain hungry.

Please join in this grassroots movement and spend the days before Thanksgiving collecting canned goods on Ron Paul’s behalf. On November 21, the day before Thanksgiving, thousands of Ron Paul Meetup Groups across the country will deliver the food they’ve collected to a local foodbank (affiliated with America’s Second Harvest) in Ron Paul’s name.

This will send a message to Americans and the world that personal responsibility and initiative can never be replaced by tax-funded redistribution programs, which are always plagued by severe bureaucratic waste. Help tell the country about Ron Paul’s hopeful message: that freedom REALLY WORKS!

This Thanksgiving, let’s give many hungry people something to feel thankful for!

i am in the middle of a tricky and dangerous little experiment, because i currently lack healthcare, i’m going out into the realm of the unknown and seeing if i come back fully recuperated. a real blog about this to follow, once the experiment is all said and done. a hint- it involves some pain, and lots of water.

one important view on eating is alkalizing your body through switching up your food intake, as the human body is naturally alkaline. get back to that state by consuming fewer acidic foods. this site recommends a 70-80% alkaline vs 20-30% acidic food intake.

here is a short list of alkaline vs acidic (better one here):

alkaline- most vegetables especially leafy and green ones, spinach, carrots fruits such as lemon, lime, and grapefruit, almond, sunflower, lentil, sprouted seeds, hummus, flax seed

acidic- almost all dairy products, meat, condiments, honey, pasta, coffee, soda, booze, fast foods, sweets, peanuts, any fruit not listed in alkalines, saturated and hydrogenated oils.

so basically it’s like common sense about eating healthy, but if you scrutinize this list, you may be surprised to see how few alkalizing foods you’re consuming. and the list that follows includes just a sampling of the problems an overly acidic diet can cause:

cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, heartburn, migraines, gastrointestinal and bowel system diseases, and more…
“Acidosis, or over-acidity in the body tissues, is one of the basic causes of diseases, especially the arthritic and rheumatic diseases.” (source)

of interesting note- exercise creates acidity in the body, baking soda has a pH of 12 (body should be around 7.5 so ingesting baking soda (only 1-2 teaspoon/day) is an extreme but effective way to help alkalize the body)

another note- i am nowhere near a doctor or alternative healthcare guru, i’m trying to alkalize my body right now to help it heal, but all this stuff mostly makes sense. all my thoughts are my personal opinions and i am only qualified as an educator, mostly in French, but i also do have a pretty high health standard and a decent bod. i just like to share more of the interesting stuff out there.

i made more food last night. looks like i’m cooking up some tastes like taste.

this is a picture of my creation.

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this is how i made it:

i never use various vegetables i buy because i only make one meal, get tired of all that work, and then waste the stuff in the fridge because i never think anything’s in there.

but i used the mushrooms, zucchini, and some carrots from last night’s meal to add into this beaut. i call it an ofosho vegetable grillz.

just cook up some organic chicken pieces, sautee them in garlic and olive oil, fry up some onions, mushrooms, and whatever other vegetables you please in a separate pan, then add artichoke hearts eventually to the chicken pan and the saucy fried vegetables from the other. and throw rosemary all over it (even inside the chicken)

eventually when it’s all cooked up use that one pan to cook up a sauce- i made parmesan, butter, hot sauce, and more garlic and rosemary. then you take some cheesy foccocaicaiciciaaa bread and open it up and cook the sauce onto that so it heats up. (i got all my stuff from trader joes).

good times!

yeah! i cooked some dinner last night. it was some dinner!

i got a recipe from whole foods for the salad (see below for recipe)

bladow:

and the main course we had eaten the bare pasta the night before and it was so good, but i spiced it up. a lot!

kitchnow:

the salad was all lime and cayenne-y, and the noodles had an olive garlic tapenade. it was tres delicieux!

fast fabulous five cup salad
1 c. green grapes, 1 c. romaine lettuce shredded
1 c. red grapes, 1 c. iceberg lettuce shredded (i used greens here- go fiber and vitamins go!)
1 c. shredded carrot, honey lime dressing

honey lime dressing- spicy! delicious!- whisk together 1/3 c. lime juice, 1/4 c. honey, 1 teaspoon grated lime peel, 1 teaspoon salt and cayenne pepper to taste. mix well until all blended together. toss salad ingredients with dressing.

notes to self: i don’t like adding salt to anything so i didn’t. i used more lime juice and less honey. lime peel is hard to grate without proper tools. i used only green greens for lettuce (baby greens, spinach, etc) and it was mmmmm