Happy St. Patrick's Day

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What Is Saint Patricks Day?

Saint Patrick is a patron saint of Ireland. He is considered responsible for converting the Irish to Christianity. Saint Patricks Day (or St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day or, Americanized, Patty's Day) is a feast day celebrating Saint Patrick, and takes place on 17th of March (the anniversary of his death in the fifth century).

Go GREEN!

How did it begin?
Irish immigrants coming to America brought their love of Saint Patrick with them. On March 17, 1762, Irish soldiers who served in the English miliary marched through New York City. The parade and music stirred their emotions and brought back memories of Ireland, and fellow soldiers they had lost. Irish Americans began observing the holiday publicly in Boston and held the first St. Patrick's Day Parade (organized by the Charitable Irish Society) in New York City in 1766.
Even today, the St. Patrick Day parade is a mixture of religous beliefs, and many people go to Ireland for the festivities, fireworks and the parade. Parades take place in other places too: London, Paris, Rome, Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as throughout the Americas.

What is the meaning Of Saint Patricks Day?
The modern holiday is based on the original Christian saint's feast day, which is also considered to be the date of the saint's death in 1737.
Saint Patrick was born in Wales during the late fourth century (AD 385) to wealthy Roman parents (his given name is speculated as Maewyn Succat or Magonus Sucatus). He was the grandson of a priest and the son of a tax collector. As a teen in the early 400's Patrick was captured and brought over from Scotland to be a slave in pagan Ireland. For six years he slaved as a shepherd, herding pigs and sheep, and began to have religious visions. While spending time in prayer, Patrick found himself retreating back to the God he had learned about when he was younger. Inspired by a dream, he successfully escaped his bondage and went back to England, traveling throughout the region.

Do the Irish celebrate Saint Patrick's Day?
Saint Patricks Day is a holiday for the Irish people. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland, and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the rest of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not officially a holiday.
The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for thousands of years. Ireland's cities all hold their own parades and festivals. In recent years the celebrations in Dublin have been extended to a week-long event called St Patrick's Festival!


Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish people and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in Australia, North America, and Ireland) as well. Americans have adopted this holiday like fanatics: wearing green, drinking (green) beer, and eating corned beef and cabbage (sometimes green too). In Chicago, the Chicago River is dyed green for the holiday!

Did you Wear Green Today? Did you Go Green Today? Did you Do Something Kind Today?
What Fun to Learn about the History behind the Holiday of St. Patrick's Day.
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One of the most apparent advantages of any ebook is that it doesn't take up any shelf space - in the kitchen or anywhere else. So you can have virtually (pun intended) thousands of the things and never have to worry about any extra dusting. Which is a relief for someone that hates dusting as much as I do.
The best thing, though, with recipe ebooks, is that you can print off recipe sheets containing all of your favourite recipes, and keep them handy, in the kitchen. Even better, is the fact that, if you are an incredibly messy cook, like me, then you can print off a new one every time you get recipe all over your recipe sheet, or just when it starts to look a little tatty. Yes, whether it is looking tatty or covered in po-tatty, it is easy to replace. Of course, if you want, you could always laminate your recipe sheets to make a more durable, and easily cleanable, recipe card.
Another advantage to recipe ebooks is the fact that you can choose the print size that you want, before you print out your recipe. A lot of us find that, as we get older, our eyesight needs a little help and it can be a very frustrating thing to have to keep taking reading glasses on and off when your hands are covered in cake mix, or gravy etc. It is even more frustrating when you have to try and clean the aforementioned greasy stains from the lenses of a pair of glasses. The people who produce a lot of recipe cards and books never seem to think of this, but with an ebook you are the boss and you can have your print any size that you want.
One other notable advantage with recipe ebooks is how easy they make it for a cook to share recipes with friends and family. Whether it is a case printing of a hot-pot, stuffing it in an envelope, and posting it to Aunt Betty, or emailing a flan to cousin Fran, it is easy, and anything that makes life easy is good in my ebook.
Ebooks are cheaper to buy than their paper counterparts are, and you need never lose your appetite through feelings of guilt about dead trees and wasted resources. So I'll say it. Why not? Ebooks are green. So boot-up that hard-drive and grease up some tins. Set the oven to hot and flick through an ebook today.
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The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

When your daily shcedule becomes large and you need a pick me up, take time to refer to
The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

When things in your lives seem
almost too much to handle, when 24
hours in a day are not enough,
remember the mayonnaise jar and
the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his
philosophy class and had some items
in front of him. When the class
began, he wordlessly picked up a
very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and proceeded fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar
was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of
pebbles and poured them into the
jar. He shook the jar lightly. The
pebbles rolled into the open areas
between the golf balls. He then
asked the students again if the jar
was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of
sand and poured it into the jar. Of
course, the sand filled up everything
else. He asked once more if the jar
was full. The students responded
with an unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two
cups of coffee from under the table
and poured the entire contents into
the jar effectively filling the empty
space between the sand. The
students laughed.

"Now," said the professor as the
laughter subsided, "I want you to
recognize that this jar represents
your life. The golf balls are the
important things--your family, your
children, your health, your friends
and your favorite passions---and if
everything else was lost and only
they remained, your life would still be
full.

The pebbles are the other things that
matter like your job, your house and
your car.

The sand is everything else---the
small stuff. "If you put the sand into
the jar first," he continued, "there is
no room for the pebbles or the golf
balls. The same goes for life. If you
spend all your time and energy on
the small stuff you will never have
room for the things that are
important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are
critical to your happiness. Play with
your children. Take time to get
medical checkups. Take your spouse
out to dinner. Play another 18.
There will always be time to clean
the house and fix the disposal. Take
care of the golf balls first---the things
that really matter. Set your
priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand
and inquired what the coffee
represented. The professor smiled.
"I'm glad you asked."

"It just goes to show you that no
matter how full your life may seem,
there's always room for a couple of
cups of coffee with a friend."
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any encouragement that uplifts our daily lives! Have a great
and blessed week! Take the time to make positive new
changes for 2009!!! Tammy

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What will you do different for the year 2009? Each new year that we are blessed to have is a year to make new and great changes for ourselves and for others. Will you be searching for ways to lose weight? Will you be searching for ways to stop smoking? Will you be searching for ways to earn extra financial income? There are so many things that all of us can do to make each day better for our own self and for others around us. That is what DRAK-ME is all about!

DRAK -ME is _Daily_Random_Acts_of_Kindness_My_Experience. Do you ever think about doing an act of kindness when you are at work, the store, the movies, traveling, at the swimming pool, anywhere? How about the next time you are thinking about it, put the act into motion. If standing in line to pay for a meal or drink, pay for the person behind you. When someone is having trouble unloading a basket help them or a stranded motorist in need of gas or has a flat tire stop and assist. Everyone has the potential to perform an act of kindness each day and make a difference in someone's life. Once you experience an act of kindness, it becomes a daily domino effect. When one person does this, then the next, and the next, and the next......You never know whose life will be enriched and blessed by a random act. They may think twice about giving up on life and create a new hope and belief from within themselves to pay it forward.

The most common New Year Resolution is to LOSE WEIGHT. The best way to Lose is naturally. If you want to lose weight and maintain, it is about changing habits, exercising on a regular basis, and drinking plenty of water. However, it is also knowing the aging process of the human body and what happens to our metabolism as we get older. As we age, our natural metabolism slows down and our body doesn't need as many calories to get us through the day, but that doesn't mean we stop craving all of our favorite foods and sweets. To learn more about weight loss and fitness visit:http://mootam.bezoogle.com/pp/weight-loss

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Ever wonder how to save for Holiday shopping or give to someone in need? Deciding to exercise more could mean anything you choose. Walking, jogging, aerobics, pilates, etc.... How about each day that you exercise you pay yourself! Decide how much you would pay yourself for each mile that you walk, jog, or an exercise of your choice. Let's talk about walking: Think about paying yourself a $1.00 per mile for walking. Let's say you walk 2 miles/day @ 5 days/wk. That calculates out to $10.00/wk, $40.00/mo. At the end of the year you would have $480.00 to use as a DRAK-ME, Holiday Shopping, Donation to any Local Organization, or whatever you would feel lead to do! Wow! We don't think $2.00/day adds up to much but it does!

What will you do to start off your New Year? Challenge yourself ! We want to wish everyone:

A

H-ealthy
A-nd prosperous new year that will
P-rovide opportunities for you to
P-ursue
Y-our dreams and goals

N-urturing relationships and
E-xtending a lending hand in the time of need
W-ithout hesitation

Y-ou all can make a difference in the lives of someone
needing to be reassured or their self
E-steem boosted to
A-chieve some of the basic fundamental daily living
routines that we often take for granted and for them
to
R-ealize that your FRIENDSHIP is the most important
thing that they can treasure throughout 2009.

Have a Great Year! Tammy

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