How do you know it is a kick, punch, or head-butt, and not just a cramp?

According to Miriam Stoppard, it is like bubbles bursting against your insides.

I felt a couple of bubbles yesterday but this morning when I woke, it was more pronounced. When I turned to my left, the bubbles were on my left side (head-butt). When I turned to my right, the bubbles burst on my right side (kick or knee-butt). Then there was the random bubbling at the top (punches). :D

Later, I told the hub about it and he came by to loiter some. I lay on my right side and he placed his hands under to hopefully feel a random kick. Turns out it was his own hand shaking under my weight. Suddenly BB kicked. I asked him, did you feel that? And he said yes! That's a kick! And he beamed proudly.

On a quiet day at home, I spied Kaku sitting on her cat tree and pulled out my cam, set it on a few books, zoomed almost 12x to capture my baby girl on film (digital, actually).

Eat in 15 minutes. 2 minute prep time. Yum and healthy.

Ingredients:
1 cod fillet
1 teaspoon garlic
1 teaspoon olive oil butter
1 piece of aluminium foil
1 mini grill or toaster

Directions:
1. Wash cod.
2. Put cod on foil.
3. Put garlic and butter on cod.
4. Wrap foil around cod like gift wrapper.
5. Put in grill or toaster for 15 min.
6. Check after 15 min if cooked.
7. If not, add another 5-10 min.
8. Take out and eat.

Lovely post-Xmas news! :D

Sold Resurrection Dreams to Tales of the Talisman.

It will appear in the December 2006 issue.

... at Just Jared. Check out the Official X3 website.

At last, a night of almost uninterrupted sleep, with only one wake-up.

The secrets:

* Play Heroes of Might and Magic 3 till 1am and win heroically!
* Read positive and happy material before dozing off.
* Spray nose with nasal spray (non-steroid) before sleeping.
* Sleep on back and resist turning.
* Cover entire self with blanket (save for head).

Sweet dreams!

Mind numb like cotton wool.
Sentiments, rather agonised.
Awake since 4am.

- Completed my campaign introduction and plan.
- Finished miscellaneous work tasks for the day.
- Visited my doc and scanned for human child. Has grown since last scan. Filled up more than one screen. Saw beating heart and prominent nose. Fretted mildly if nose was mine or hub's.
- Made a smoothie and drank it (healthy food of the day).
- Spent some time watching cats.
- Fed Boy a prawn from dinner (first time in years) without Tux noticing.
- Noticed I have Blogshares and am doing fairly well! :D

Haymaker



You are one of life’s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on Earth. Probably what first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy.

You can’t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn’t lay down your life for a concept though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful, irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way.

Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You’d probably open another bottle and say there’s no contest.

What kind of humanist are you? Click here to find out.

(From: Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog)