I wanna know who pays for this sort of study?
Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger: A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem about six years younger to men. However, grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them.
And could you imagine being the subjects in the study having to have broccoli, banana, spearmint leaves, and lavender smeared on you?
Weird.
I mean, who would want to go around smelling like broccoli?
It's definitely egg laying time for the turtles. This morning I found a female Painted turtle with her tail end buried in mud next to my house this morning. Apparently she decided it looked like a good spot for her to lay her eggs. LOL. I took a couple photos of her, so I'll try to put them up soon. Also, I've been taking photos of all the blooming plants in my gardens.I just gotta get them all downloaded from the camera and then uploaded here.
Today, while driving to work, I saw a turtle in the road on the opposing lane. By the time I pulled over, the woman in the car behind me also had pulled over. Since she was closer, she went and picked the turtle up and put him in the grass. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who would stop to move a turtle, LOL. Hopefully the good sized fellow (or more likely, lady) was smart enough to stay out of traffic. Perhaps its egg laying time?
How ironic? Today when I blog about not feeling grown up, there is a story about how the people of today are aging slower than their parents. Hehehe....
Another reason I don't blog so much....I spend more time reading quality blogs. For example, Riverbend's Blog gives me a real live perspective of what's going on in Baghdad from an Iraqi point of view. I feel a need and desire to read this sort of journal/blog because the crap that passes itself as news (in particular, TV news) certainly doesn't provide that kind of info. Granted there can be misinformation spread over the internet too, but text is much more easier to scrutinze than news spin and images coming over a TV screen. At least with text you can reread it and mull over it as long as you need to.
Entry triple 8. With almost 4 years of blogging, the amount of entries I write has been in decline for awhile. Both time and material have been lacking of late. Early on I spent a good bit of time writing about the crap that Bush & Co. were doing. Back then there weren't a plethora of blogs on the subject. Now I don't feel the need to write about it too often since their are others who do a far superior job of it and the subject has gotten real old for me. I certainly was ready to change presidents in 2004. Alas, it didn't happen.
Instead I have started focussing more on the daily events in my life. Most minutia, things I've seen or did. But things that are of an interest to me. However, I often fear they are not of interest of anyone but me. Whether that's a good or bad thing, I haven't figured out.
June is the month of graduations and ending of the school year. In thinking about that, I just realized it has been 15 years since I graduated high school. My God, time just skitters away. At that age, you are looking to grow up. However at 32 I still don't really feel grown up. I don't feel like a self-conscious teenager, but I don't feel like I'm settled in as an adult either. Perhaps it's because I'm not married and don't have children. However, a woman my age who is married and has two children, mentioned that she often feels the same. So maybe that's not it.
Maybe we never really grow up. Perhaps adulthood is more a perception made by children, LOL.
There--I've rambled and had my profound thought for the day, LOL. ;)
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June appears to be bringing hotter weather, starting this weekend. And lots of blooming flowers. Even my tomato plant are strting to grow now. Meanwhile, I have to really start focussing on getting myhouse in order. I have several areas that I want to reorganize as well as throw out any extraneous crap.
Reading wise, I'm currently reading several things. I've been working on The Dante Club, which is holding my attention much better these days. It's a fictional account of real authors Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. This group of authors meets to interpret/decipher Dante's Inferno. Soon they find there are a series of murders occurring in Boston based on Dante's Inferno....
Also, I'm reading the next installment in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, Hot Six. Those books are a wonderful guilty pleasure.
And I'm reading a book I purchased at a book signing/author speaking event at a bookstore. It's called The Light Possessed. It's written by Alan Cheuse, though he crossed out the namne and signed M Cheuse. Not sure why....
It's a fictional account of real life artist Georgia O'Keefe. It's based on real events in her life, but it still is fiction. So far, I really like this story, beginning from page one. Where the Dante Club has taken me awhile to get into, this story sucked me in from the beginning. The story is told in different POVs, one per chapter. And the timeline shifts back and forth between chapters, painting a picture of events within and connected to her life. These changes aren't jarring or forced. The story flows with ease and is quite unique and enjoyable.
Apparently I need to find some time to blog....and there is stuff to blog about.....Soon, I hope.