Every Wednesday Ivy TEch's culinary program sells food, and this is what is on the list for this week!  I haven't had onion rings forever! 

Roast Beef on Swiss    $3.50
Thin slices of tender roast beef smothered with portabella mushrooms, creamy Swiss
cheese sauce served with a side of horseradish sauce and your choice of beer
battered onion rings or crispy golden French fries.
Add a side of baked beans or creamy coleslaw to make it a meal.

Breaded Pork Tenderloin $3.50
A Hoosier favorite, breaded and deep fried, served with slices of red onion, ripe
red tomato, leaf lettuce and pickle slices, mayo and mustard served on the side  and
your choice of beer battered onion rings or crispy golden French fries.
Add a side of baked beans or creamy coleslaw to make it a meal.

Whole Wheat Veggie Wraps $2.50
Spring mix, red onion, grilled portabella mushrooms, ripe red tomatoes, and red and
yellow roasted bell pepper, provolone cheese and a pesto flavored mayonnaise, served
with a side of Apple Waldorf Salad.

Loaded Baked Potato Soup $1.75
A rich, creamy bowl of comfort made with hearty potatoes, onion, celery, and
garnished with cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, and fresh chives.

Ala Carte Items Available
Blue Moon House Salad with choice of dressing $2.25
Baked Beans $.50
Creamy Coleslaw $.50
Apple Waldorf salad $.75
Crispy Golden French Fries $1.25
Beer Battered Onion Rings $1.50

Bakery Items Available
M&M cookies $.25
Chocolate Chip Cookies $.25
Sugar Cookies $.25
Snickerdoodles $.25
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing $1.00
Layered Mocha Cheesecake $1.50
Pumpkin Pie $1.00
Sugar Cream Pie $1.00
Cr?me Filled Chocolate Cupcakes $.50
Assorted Fresh Baked Breads 

I'm resting in a nook formed by the tree roots; friends and acquaintances are all around.  There's a gathering but I don't know why.  Its night out.

I see an astroid fall into the bed of shadows about 3-4 miles distance.   I forgot that I was out here to watch the stars fall.  This was huge!  I sit up from nook and look off in the distance, waiting...

The 'asteroid' shoots up into the air, darting at an angle, as if it richechetetd off the ground.   

Someone was following this asteroid.  I can't understand why/how they are/got on it so fast.   I don't even know how I saw them get on it. 

Then the marshmellow monster from Ghost Busters shoots out of the ground, following the 'asteroid' which turned into a spaceship in mid-air.

I jumped up from my spot and started shouting to everyone around me to take notice.  I remember wanting to laugh and scream out of terror simeltaneously....and then I woke up  *sigh* 

This could have been the coolest dream!  but it got smacked down by the stupid/irrelevant-in-so-many- different-perspectives- ghost buster reference.     

 

'...if one is full of fear and worry he becomes tense and unable to relax.  The circulation becomes partially choked in certain areas, the tiny capillaries in the feet become choked with crystalline deposit formation, interfering with the circulation and the normal transference of the blood from the arteries to the veins which must take place at those terminals (i.e blood to the heart or kidneys).  The result of this is the tenderness we encounter when we contact those special reflexes in the feet.'
-Eunice D. Ingham

I finished with my last class in Reflexology last Thursday. 

What I like most about this type of treatment is that I can finally get some work done on myself, even though I have to do all the work myself  :(   Yes, I am flexible enough to reach my own feet.  :)

By doing work on myself I am actually learning to better treat the feet in general, on others. 

I had a headache everyday for the past week in the mornings.  I worked on my feet and, of course, about 20 minutes later I want to nap...but my headache had gone. 

I freaking love the idea of being able to feel relaxed and anew.  I'm tired most of the time now, but I'm wondering if thats because my body is trying to heal itself.  I am hoping that God will allow me this time to rejuve before the start of the next semester, when I am going to be craming a lot in.  I am hoping that by working my feet everyday before then that I can get a lot of the congestion out and start to feel better and more able all around.   I guess we'll see!

Anger comes in many different forms:
bitterness
wrath
envy
resentment
intolerance
revenge
hatred
jealousy
... 
Stripped of all the facade and fancy excuses for condoning anger...we are confronted with an ugly word---selfishness.  Although we love to excuse our weaknesses and justify them to ourselves as we nurse our grudges and indulge in angry, vengeful, bitter feelings, they are all motivated by selfishness.  When I am angry, it is because someone has violated my rights and I am interested in myself.  When I am bitter against someone, it is because they have done something against me, and again I come back to selfishness.  Vengeance is always inspired by selfishness.

...I confronted [a christian lady] with the fact of her ang[er].  ...she blurted out in..defense, "well you'd be angry too if you lived with a man who constantly ran roughshod over you and treated you like dirt!'  Admittedly, he was not treating her the way a Christian man should, but her reaction could not possibly be caused by generosity; instead it was...selfishness.  The more she indulged in her selfishness and let her anger predominate, the worse her husband treated her.

I confronted her with the fact that she had 2 problems. ...Your husband is one problem, but your attitude toward your husband is another.  Until you as a christian recognize your own sin of selfishness and look to God for a proper attitude, even in the face of these circumstances, you will continue to grieve the Holy Spirity of God. 

The change...was almost unbelievable...instead of using her husband as an excuse to indulge in anger, she began to treat her relationship to Jesus Christ more than the indulgence of her own selfishness. 

Instead of waiting for a change in her husband's behavior, she literally changed her husband's behavior by hers. 

Since love begets love and we reap what we so, it was not long before the husband began to respond with kindness. 

-Tim LaHaye

But Mr. Kawasaki said the economic slump was a good opportunity to overhaul Japan’s immigration policy as a whole.

“We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese,” he said. “I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society.”

He said the United States had been “a failure on the immigration front,” and cited extreme income inequalities between rich Americans and poor immigrants.

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106964/Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home

Isn't there a way of getting around this?  I mean America only really ran into this problem with immigrants when we began to make it so hard for people to become citizens..at least, thats one reason...
(more citizens=more taxes=no more free health care; they are on our records therefore they are are held accountable for their actions; and better yet we get a variety of people/ideas/beliefs)

We should put stipulations on becoming a citizen:  they haev to know the english lingo, they have to know the history, etc..and then provided they haven't broken the law they are welcome here.


I think what struck this all to be so wrong to me was when Dr. Kawasaki says that he doesn't think Japan should become a 'multiethnic society.' 

I'm all for traditions but I don't think pure ethnicity really means anything at all.   that people are who they are because of who they make themselves to be.  They are capable because God allows them to be.  Traditions are nice because they remind people that they believe in something..pure bloodism is for physcho Voldemort-like people.  

We are the melting pot.  We are founded on other traditions.  We are a country of choices.  We only make the wrong choice when we stray from what God has intended for us.