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- Weight loss secret: A 2007 study (no doubt sponsored by the peppermint industry) found that inhaling peppermint scent decreases appetite and caloric intake. And reduces nicotine cravings and improves your Guitar Hero score. I don't know about you, but I'm stocking up.
- Will leave you just a little teary-eyed (even if your heart happens to be cold, black and two sizes too small) Cara has posted an incredibly moving video (you'll have to scroll down the page a bit) of last month's Walk for Hope and Remembrance. The long, sad list of the names of our lost babies starts at about 17:07.
- Is your blog boring? Help is on the way. If it's the content that needs a little work, take a look at Aunt Becky's blogging tips. Aunty B writes one of the most entertaining blogs around, so when she gives advice: read and heed. If it's the visual aspects of your blog that could use sprucing up (are you still using that pre-packaged template?), get in touch with Calliope, who (as she's already done for so many other bloggers) will take your ideas and favorite images and colors and turn them into a gorgeous custom header.
- In the mail: Today, I got a beautiful postcard from Ruby, sent during her recent road trip. Take a look at her blog to see the unwelcome souvenir she picked up in the Beehive State.
- The photo above? Just part of our haul from week two of the CSA. Lots of lettuce-like items, red-stemmed kale and more tasty, tasty bok choy.
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And if you combine it with the results from the spearmint study, you will not only be an awesomely thin rocker, you will also be a totally relaxed one.
Relaxed and spearminty I'm all for. Alas, thin and rockery I shall never be - peppermint makes me think of being sick, because this one time I ate a chocolate peppermint pie from Bakers Square and came down with the flu the next day. Bleh.
Do you know that you take the most phenomenal photos?
Mcpolish: And here I thought that spearmint and peppermint were the same thing. Or at least kissing cousins. Live and learn.
Another tip from the peppermint industry--eating peppermint while studying and then eating peppermint during the exam will increase the amount of information you retain and can access.
red and white striped candies = peppermint. green and white striped candies = spearmint.
I've always preferred spearmint. A little milder than peppermint, IMHO.
CSA *sigh*
Somehow, every year, I want to sign up until mid-March -- and then? Shares are sold out. I should be happy this is a quasi-progressive, produce supporting metro... but I can't help my kale and kohlrabi envy...
Off to the farmer's market for me I guess..oh, but wait, it's Minnesota -- nothing's really much growing yet...swiss chard anyone?
We just got our first CSA shipment today (we missed the first week and got the second-to-last share).
Lettuce and cabbage, mostly, with some interesting "Hakurai Turnips." I didn't even know what a turnip looked like until today.
you really are quite the renaissance woman
Awww, Kristin (and Flutter) you are too kind.
awww. thanks for the shoutout!
I somehow think that all of my peppermint ice cream eating ways won't count towards becoming svelte.
Dude. Niobe. You're still my girl-crush.
And I can't handle peppermint. It's a shame that it's not SPEARMINT which I do like. Peppermint reminds me of being barfy. Nice, eh?
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