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HAPPY 200TH POST CHRONICLES OF A CURLY HEAD!

How are you doing on this fine day?

I'm doing just splendid thank you! Seeing as this is my 200th blog post and all - I'm in an especially great mood! A little over one year and 200 posts later and I'm still here! Still going strong :) So thank you for those of you who have read all 200 posts, and been there since the very beginning. I work very very hard to keep this little thing I like to call 'Chronicles of a Curly Head' going, and thanks to you I have reason to show up every day! So it's your victory as much as it is mine!

If this were a perfect day - I would've had an all day beach celebration!! I'm sure the celebration would've looked very similar to the beautiful picture I drew above. With a few exceptions: I would have feet, hands, and my arms wouldn't be coming out of my chest lol. Besides that - i'd say the photo is more than accurate :)

Perhaps I will celebrate at the beach tomorrow with some much needed sun and a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Because you CAN'T and I repeat CAN'T go to the beach without a good ol fashioned peanut butter and jelly sandwich...trust me. It's not the same.

But seeing as I couldn't make it to the beach I celebrated this monumental occasion with a brick of dark chocolate.... a delicious grilled peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwich for breakfast....and with my moms Applesauce cake for lunch!! You should celebrate as well! Perhaps with the aforementioned food items :D

I’ve been thinking a lot about CCH lately.....

::Brace yourself people - once I start talking it's hard to stop::

and I've come to a conclusion that I’ve reached many times before, but sort of forgot about it. What’s the conclusion? The conclusion being: I’m going to post something on CCH every single day no matter what. If I ever want to make “a job” out of this here blog (however the hell that’s going to happen lol) I have to post something, anything, at least once a day. No excuses.

For example: lets say I only have: a food clip, a curly head, and a kitchen gadget on hand that I want to share – instead of waiting a week until I find a restaurant, a song, and something random like I usually do – I’ll just go ahead and post the three categories I do have. So instead of each post being a mile long once a week – you’ll have shorter (errrr…maybe shorter lol) posts every day.

I’m sure this is no big deal to anyone else but me, and you’re all probably like “No duh Jenna. Why didn’t you do that in the first place? ” Let me just go ahead and inform you in case you don’t know: I am a very stubborn, picky, and prideful person. I don’t like to publish a post without having every single “Todays ____” accounted for. I feel like if one of them isn’t found within every single post then what’s the point of updating my blog at all. In my mind it seemed better worth the wait for my readers if I updated once a week as long as it meant all of the parts would be there. Everyone enjoys different categories within my blog – so I don’t want anything to be missing – I want everyone to be happy. And that’s my problem. I can’t please everyone and keep my sanity at the same time.

I go INSANE sitting behind my blog from 3-10 hours working on a post (yes I did say ten hours) I just can’t do that anymore lol. I have a job and other endeavors I have to put my time into. If blogging were my full time job I would be MORE than happy to sit here and talk all the live long day and just drive you guys nuts lol, but I can’t afford to do that right now.

Soooooo like I said – perhaps this isn’t noteworthy to any of you, and all of this explaining just sounds like ramblings but I just don’t want a bunch of people to e-mail me and say “what happened to the restaurants? The kitchen gadgets? The music?? Etc.” I will still have everything, but not every day, or every other day. This is me coming out of my comfort zone people – EMBRACE IT. Because it doesn’t happen very often I can assure you lol.

::PHEW::

Time for me to bid you all farewell - I get tired of hearing myself talk all of the time……..ok who am I fooling…..it doesn’t bother me in the least bit ;)

HAPPY 200^TH POST EVERYONE!!!!

Let us begin....

[[Today's music]]

WE HAVE SIGNAL: ST. VINCENT

I can’t get enough.

[[Today's random]]

(1) LIVE FISH AND REPTILES SOLD AS KEYCHAINS IN CHINA

This is wrong. Just wrong….

"According to a news report on Chinese media, the hottest new fad in China involves selling a live fish, or a Brazilian turtle or a young giant salamander sealed up in airtight plastic bags as key rings. Each packet is about 7 centimeters in length and filled with colored water along with the imprisoned animal. The street vendors claim the water is nutrient rich, but they are not. Without oxygen and food the animals get to live for only a few days, if they are lucky. The most depressing part is that the whole thing is legal.

Animal cruelty laws are almost non-existent in China. It was only just recently that the country banned animal in circuses where they are made to perform unimaginable tricks. Animal meat are also exotic entrees at zoo restaurants.

The country has a Wild Animal Protection Law which applies only to wild animals. Fishes and reptiles do not fall under this category and hence the law cannot protect them. Animal rights activists are voicing protests against the sale of these keyrings but without a law to back them there is little that can be done.

Two gold fish sealed in plastic pouches and sold as keychains are displayed at a roadside stall in Beijing, China on April 12. Each keychain is sold for 10 yuan (USD $1.50)."

Live Fish and Reptiles Sold as Keychains in China | Amusing Planet

(2) INSPIRED BY ICELAND

This is how to properly promote a country.....

I'm sold - lets go to Iceland asap.

(3) EVERY DAY OBJECTS COME ALIVE - TERRY BORDER

(4) TEMPEST FRERUNNING ACADEMY

“This is a promo video for Tempest Freerunning Academy in California. It is dedicated to the growth and spread of freerunning and parkour and has a special Super Mario Bros area so gym-goers can feel like they are in the game.
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http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1930/tempest-freerunning-academy

(5) CAROLINE CASEY: LOOKING PAST LIMITS

This is such a powerful story.

When Caroline describes the moment when everything just clicked, and that she knew what she wanted, and that she had to do it no matter what….well…..I am all too familiar with that feeling. I’ve had that feeling many of times. And it feels freaking fantastic.

What an inspiration.....

(6) LUXURY PRIVATE ISLAND IN THE SEYCHELLES

(7) PILOBOLUS PERFORM “SYMBIOSIS”

This. Is. Amazing.

I’m not going to lie –at first this performance kind of weirded me out lol, but about five minutes in I really started appreciating the strength, and flexibility of these two performing artists. The human body can do so many amazing things – it just baffles me.

[[Today's food clip(s)]]

(1) CADE ( PART 2 ) THE GOOD SLAUGHTER: A PROUD MEAT CUTTER SHARES HIS PROCESSING FLOOR

WARNING: You will see animals be killed, drained, and cut down into pieces in the following video. If you have a weak stomach, or do not wish to see animals being killed, split in half, etc, then I suggest you pass this video up.

BUT I do strongly strongly suggest you watch it. If you’d like to see the proper way to butcher and process animals., then this is it. Larry Althiser is doing a job that not many people would do themselves, but a job that must be done. And I think it takes a very special person like Larry to slaughter animals in such a humane way...one of the most humane ways I've seen it done at least.

During culinary school my butchery class went to a slaughterhouse and witnessed this particular process first hand. It changed my life. I really think everyone should know where their meat comes from and how it gets from the farm to table.

Please watch. I believe it is imperative:

(2) HILAH COOKING: PASTA PRIMAVERA

(3) LATE SHOW: SHOE LOAF

THIS. IS. AWESOME.

(4) BIG EGG

(5) MCDONALD’S DIP DIP NUGETS

Lol.

(6) FARM TO SCHOOL? HOW ABOUT FARM TO TABLE SUMMER CAMP

This is beyond wonderful.

Watching the kids use knives without cut gloves made me really really nervous lol. I am aware that they are old enough to handle knives and that they are more than capable of using one.....but it still made me cringe while watching lol.

What an amazing experience this must've been for the kids. Not many young folk these days can say that they have these types of skills/this type of knowledge under their belt. More programs like this should exist.