Posted on June 30, 2009 by denisegabbard
20 Keys To A Happy Life
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Shared from my Facebook friend SMILES Today at 10:22am
1) Compliment 3 people everyday!
2) Watch a sunrise
3) Be the first to say “hello”
4) Treat everyone as you want to be treated
5) Live beneath your means
6) Forget the Joneses
7) Never give up on anybody ~ miracles happen! 
Remember someone’s name
9) Be kinder than you have to be
10) Wish not for things, but for wisdom and courage
11) Be tough-minded, but tender hearted
12) Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated
13) Keep your promises
14) Leave everything better than you found it
15) Show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it
16) Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do
17) Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years
18) When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day
19) Don’t rain on other people’s parades
20) Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them!
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I’m trying to lose some weight and I am again following a lower carb eating plan, consisting of lean proteins, no white flower, no sugar, and unprocessed foods. This plan works quite well for me, and I find I can stick with it much longer than trying to count calories, etc. It is easier for me to maintain, since I just stay away from the “bad” (highly processed) foods.
I have been a fan of Splenda since it came out, much preferring it to other artificial sweeteners since I’d heard of health risks inherent with Aspartame and Saccharin.
Today I read information on several different websites about Splenda that has changed my mind about eating so much of it.
Check out this site by Shane Ellison – he asserts that Splenda is poison and we are delivering it to every cell in our bodies by eating it– EEKKK! http://www.thepeopleschemist.com/view_learning.php?learning_id=14
Well, after reading this, I did a quick search on “Splenda origins” and came up with more info, both pro and con, about the safety of Splenda. After reading up on it, including the information on Splenda’s own site, I have chosen to cut it out of my family’s diet altogether. Splenda is made through a chemical process that may or may not be totally safe.
I was a Diet Pepsi junkie in high school, even though the can talked about the cancer risk in Saccharin, then moved on the Nutrasweet stuff, and then to thinking Splenda was “safer.” The best judge of safety, unfortunately is time. Many people were sickened by Saccharin, aspartame seems to be almost as bad, so I choose to stay away from this chemically-altered “Franken-food” since we have no idea yet what it’s doing to our bodies!
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Posted on May 16, 2009 by denisegabbard
I put the following pet peeve on my Twitter account after earlier receiving an email so laced with Ebonics I did not know what they were talking about:
@DeniseGabbard “Pet peeve is people writing in Ebonics- bad enough they talk that way.”
Let me state that I don’t have a racist bone in my body, and to me each person is unique, and special.
My vent was simply that the English language is being butchered. People in the South talk differently than those out west, than those in New York, but they still use correct English when writing.
The reason I am asking is that I received this reply to my post: “That is SUCH A RACIST comment… omg… ” from a Brazilian girl, @NakaAlves.
So I was wondering how people around
the country feel about it, and if it offended anyone. Is it racist, and should I apologize?
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