blood type diet

I decided to look up the 'blood type diet'. Here's some guy's official website: Eat Right For Your Type. I'm type O+ and here is the chart I found (on the trusty ol' internet) related to the O+ blood type diet. Have I read much into this? Nope! Do I doubt that there are different chemicals and nutrients and proteins and foods and (insert other terms here) that react well together, and differently for different people? No I do not doubt this fact, this actually makes sense, even with my limited knowledge of the body and science and health. Here's the main page for the charts: click click.

Random point I'm going to make: weight loss is eating and exercising. That's all there is to it, isn't it? I'm overweight, I complain sometimes, but because I can, not because I think that any of my complaining will make a difference, ha! It's eating right and eating junk in moderation, and getting exercise, which is good for you anyway, never mind losing weight. I just googled the terms "weight loss products" and got 103 million sites/search results. We are crazy for quick fixes. I wish there were one!! Or should I say one that is healthy and normal. Because I suppose I can do crack and hope to shed some lbs, but that's just stupid. Wait!? Should I be encouraging about talking to your medical doctor before starting any sort of exercise and diet regime?

Back to the chart. Type O's do well with high protein, and "do not tolerate whole wheat products at all". Wicked, I can continue munching white bread! It also advises me to avoid bacon, potatoes, cabbage, and a number of other things. I think this is pretty interesting and if you were actually concerned about what mixes with your blood, then perhaps you should check it out. I checked a few charts, it doesn't appear to have anything too crazy. Although if anyone thinks I'm eating kelp, you're sadly mistaken.

I'll keep hoping for the magical Doritos diet! *Sigh* Maybe some day... :)

Nomnomnom.

-AMB

two pet peeves

I should look up the definition of pet peeve...

Anyway. Here are two, thank you Twitter and TV for the ideas.

1. When you see places in Canada being mentioned on the news or on American TV, etc. and the place is listed as "City, Country". Edmonton, Canada. Halifax, Canada. Corner Brook, Canada (joke joke, like American TV would ever have a reason to mention Newfoundland and Labrador. But they SHOULD, this province is beautiful!). Back to my point. Use the province/territory!! They don't ever say "Houston, USA". We should be smart enough to list a province or territory and the general North American or Western population should have enough common sense to know, hey, that's in Canada. I know every state. I don't see Canadian news going on about crime or other news in "New York City, United States". But I guess it goes back to how 'they' say Americans don't know shit about Canada, and 'they' say we know more about American stuff (like i.e. the government) than we do our own. I'll admit, I'm like that too... but the majority of my knowledge is because I loved 'West Wing'. I love you, Josh Lyman. Anyway... "City, Province/Territory/State". Says me.

2. When people make a big deal out of music genres. Holyyyyyy crapppp that's stupid. Wow Avril Lavigne is so punk rock. Is she? Maybe not? Ok so I know Skater Boi is sooooo 2002 :) but it fits my point. Which is: who cares! What does genre or people's description of what type of music something have anything to do with if you like that music or not. It doesn't, not really. People enjoy music for all different reasons, they like the music or lyrics or respect different things about the artist or maybe its a good song to dance to on a Friday night at some club. Just enjoy it! Support your favourites and have a good time, and leave people alone who enjoy other music you hate. Part (B) of this rant is I hate when other people hate music - not by itself, but when people don't shut up about it and/or people make judgments about the person based on music they like. I'm not perfect, I make good and bad judgments sometimes too, but I really do try to have clean slates on the general population. And I'm a social worker, that's really hard some days! Change the station, don't buy that music, listen to whatever you want to listen to. Some people enjoy music that you don't, and there isn't anything wrong with that. I don't love all pop music, but some people do. I hate the sound of some 80's music. Some people don't. I love Sarah Harmer and the Beatles and Sherman and Andrew and Van Morrison; I also like some Missy Elliott and Miley Cyrus or Garth Brooks in my mix sometimes! Judge me if you must! I'm just having a good time :)

Check out Sherman Downey and Andrew James O'Brien!!

-AMB

cracked.com

I read cracked.com quite a bit; I like the random articles and it's totally suited for me and my ongoing quest for useless information :P I will likely share things from that website, because I find at least five random things to mention randomly to JB or the lunch room from there every day. It would be easy to bombard, but I'll try not to! Here just three of my favourites:

1. Crows are ka-razyyyyy. Honestly, I think they'll eventually eff us up.
2. Awesome advice from Cosmo magazine... no wait, Cosmo sucks.

Ok so I'm out at my parents' for Easter, and the computer is a piece of crap so pages and stuff are not loading. Plus I'm poking around on Facebook showing mudder some pictures. O geeze! So I'll end this now! Enjoy!

-AMB

post-easter dinner post

On May 2, 2011 there is a Federal election here in Canada. I was playing with this Vote Compass a few days ago. Turns out I'm in kahoots with the Green Party. Check it out, and don't forget to vote. Ok, so I promise this isn't a pushy blog, you know with the environmental hoopla below, and now encouraging you to vote. Although you should vote, just sayin'.

So I'm going to tackle one or two things from my list in my cell phone... I have something noted in there recently that just reads "rocks in desert". I should be more specific when I'm writing notes, because I can only remember that I think I was watching something a few weeks ago about mysteries and stuff, and these round rocks were listed. I don't remember the place or what the solution was to the round rocks and how they got there. But weird huh? I wish I remembered more, I think it was in the US. All I can find are pictures that look like what I saw on TV, but I can't be sure if there is just one example of these rocks or more. The world's huge, I wouldn't be suprised. This person's vacation blog shows a picture of what I'm talking about somewhere in South America. Random!

I should point out that some of my interest in the Earth topics may stem from the fact that I did Chemistry in high school and not geography or geology or anything like that. I did first year geography in university, and it sucked. I don't know why it rains, or about currents, or highs and lows. My main squeeze, hereby known as JB (loves ya!), taped a show about how the earth was formed. I was blown away. No wonder we're getting hit with volcanos under the ocean, can't be suprised it's been happening literally forever. Anyway. Did you know that oil we use now are dead fish from ages ago? And coal are trees and plants? Ok so maybe you've known since grade 9, and I'm the dork who only just realized this in the last 2 months. It was DELETED before I could finish the end of it. What exactly humans evolved from, now I will never know! ;)

I saw the Star Wars movies, but don't quiz me on anything. I heard a while ago that Mark Hamill had an accident (or something) and needed surgery on his face and that he looked different from one movie to another. I made a note to look up before and after photo... here it is!

Check out my friend AMES who's getting back into the interwebz: AMY O!

Whiskey VS Scotch. I don't drink either of those, strickly a rum cooler kind of gal (or vodka or gin or basically anything that isn't a dark liqour or beer. Ew, hops). I don't believe I ever inquired about what scotch is exactly. Scotch is whiskey but made in Scotland. Simple enough, I suppose. With some differences in how much of what is in it, or something. I'm taking this off the list now.

Sometimes I put in videos that I want to look up, clips from shows or news or sports. JB can testify that my favourite things about sports are the highlights and random facts and tidbits from the announcers! I'm always asking about "funny" things that happen in sports, i.e. "Hey... Are there any funny face-offs in hockey?" :) Anyway, here is a video of Charles Barkley's terrible golf swing. It's worse than I could have imagined!!! Seriously? I only play golf half-assed and even I can recognize this is not good. Although perhaps I should give him credit, maybe the swing sends his golf ball to all the right places. Let me know, I will think differently of his skillz, but right now, thumbs down!

Toodles!
-AMB

there's garbage in the pacific ocean

So I'm not sure where I saw this last week, but it's messed up. I read about this thing called the Pacific Gyre, and basically there is a huge area of garbage there in the Pacific Ocean. Yup, a huge ocean garbage dump. I think somebody found it returning home from a sailing race in the late 1990's.

Here's a Wikipedia link: Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I know Wikipedia isn't gospel, but hey, it's there, it's full of articles, and this isn't brain surgery, it's a blog about my internet searches. Someone said this garbage patch is as big as or twice the size of Texas. I haven't been to Texas, but I've seen a map. Anyway, apparently all the plastic is breaking down and fish and animals think the plastic is plankton. Even if fish weren't eating the plastic, I mean come on, twice the size of Texas? That's just clutter and unnecessary. From what I can tell, I'm pretty sure someone is concerned and there could be some clean up happening. I also think there are patches in other parts of other oceans, but frankly I didn't put hours of research into this.

I find things about the environment and our impact on it to be interesting, like global warming and whatnot. You should be concerned about Earth, we live here. How is it possible that people aren't doing more about global warming? It's possible some people are TOO worried, but I bet there's more who are not worried enough. Things are melting. I don't know how that isn't scientific and important to every single person running a country and world organizations. Anyway I'm not a psycho preacher environment girl, all I do is recycle. And like 30% of my reasoning for this is the 5 bucks I get for a bag of cans. Hey wait, I can preach a little, I OWN THIS! You guys should recycle too. Take care of the planet, and whatnot. Ok, preaching is over.

Happy trails!
-AMB

welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog!

First entry, woo! I'm Amanda. I'm curious. Basically I started this, perhaps foolishly, thinking that information I check out on the internet would be interesting to others. Maybe it isn't. But two of my friends said they'd check it out, and that's good enough for me!

I don't know why I like to look everything up, but I do. It's not that I don't believe what I might be hearing, but I just think to myself 'Hrmm, I'd like to read more about that'. Random people and topics, websites, videos, things in the news, TV shows, trivia, history, science, and who knows what else I need to get more information on. I have a list in my Blackberry notepad that is called 'Google' and it's filled with tidbits of things I thought I might like to look up. Sample? Well sure: what does the 57 mean in Heinz 57; cap-nip; types of English accents; blood-type diet; ingredients in chowder; photographic memory; and I was also wondering if small pox still excited, which stemmed from some question on Jeopardy. The list is about 50+ items long. It's okay, I know I'm a nerd.

So there's a lame introduction to what this is about. I'll try to update a few times a week with information, links, etc. of information that floats my boat. I also commit to doing my best in using good grammar and to type with capital letters in the beginning of my sentences.

See you soon!
-AMB