On this day: 23 December
Today is the 118th anniversary of WRIGLEY'S CHEWING GUM.... and here's some interesting statistics on chutty.... We eat 90,000 tons of the stuff each year. The "jaw power" it takes to chew that amount, would light a city of 10 million for a whole year. There are 40 different synthetic compounds in gum, including the same latexes that are found in golf balls.
Today is the start of the Astrological cycle of Capricorn…
Symbolized by the Goat, Capricorn’s strive to be independent, like to be well organized, and don't like to meddle in other peoples affairs.
- they make good leaders.
- they're some times a little unsympathetic.
- don't handle rejection well.
- and are generally sensible and clever.....
Celeb birthdays
Australian Martin Plaza is 53. He was the founding member of Mental as Anything!
Graham Bonnett is 62.
Singer Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) is 45.
TV TONIGHT
23rd of December 2009
Tonight on ONE, there’s “Jamie Cooks Christmas” at 7.30 tonight
followed by “Clash of the Santas”.
TWO has “Forest Gump”.
TV3 has ”The Best of Mr Bean” at 7.30 and then “The Dai
Henwood Christmas Special”.
SKY MOVIES has “How to Loose Friends and Alienate People”
at 8.30.
Random Rex
My mate Mattey last year for her Christmas gift his wife said 'Surprise me'. So
he bought her a Playboy subscription and a box of cigars.
A Christmas Cracker
A nice little old lady rang as well this morning and her advice was:
Put some scratchies on your xmas tree as decorations and the when
the family come for xmas dinner they can each pick one off.
When I was a kid I lost all respect for Santa. Everywhere I went I
kept seeing him in a different store. How can you respect a guy
who can't hold a steady job?
HOW TO SAVE $200 A YEAR ON PETROL:
- Avoid using the air-conditioning. This helps chew through the
petrol.
COW PAT by Ramond of Puriri
This bloke goes to a fancy-dress party with a naked chick on his back. The host of the party wants to know what he is. He says, "Can't you tell? I'm a snail." The host says, "You don't look like a snail. All I can see is that naked chick on your back." And he says, "Nah, that's not a naked chick that's Michelle."
A Christmas Cracker
A British cell phone company has a new service for stressed out people.
It's called "Dial a Beach". You dial the beach number -- you listen to
the calming sound of water… trying to relax… -while your cell phone
bill gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
NZ Hearald
The mad last-minute rush for Christmas presents shows no signs of slowing down as New Zealanders continue to flock to retail stores to spend up large. Paymark, which processes three- quarters of all electronic transactions in New Zealand, said it processed 350,000 transactions between 12 and 1pm yesterday - 10,000 more than the same period on Saturday. At one stage yesterday it recorded 108 transactions a second. But Paymark chief executive Simon Tong is expecting even higher volumes of spending around midday tomorrow when the Christmas spending surge reaches its peak before falling away on Boxing Day.
A central North Island farmer and his farm manager have been found guilty of ill-treating a cow, which was shot and then impaled while still alive on a tractor's forklift. But they were cleared of the more serious charge of wilfully ill-treating the Hereford cross cow. Judge Gerard Lynch fined Ronald Frew and Geoffrey Donald, both 43, $750 each plus costs in Taihape District Court yesterday. The pair were charged after a police officer drove past the Ohakune farm and saw the cow impaled on the tines of a moving tractor's forklift.
An appeal asking New Zealanders to donate their old mobile phones has raised $500,000 for Starship since it was launched in February. Andrew Young, CEO of Starship Foundation, is thrilled and thanked the thousands of people who sent phones. Starship Foundation's Mobile Phone Appeal is being run in partnership with Irish recycling company Folamh. The money will go towards many of the hospital's needs including lifesaving equipment and vital paediatric research. And the unwanted phones won't end up in landfill or pollute the environment.
A Christmas Cracker
There's actually quite a good reason New Years eve is so close to
Christmas. It's 'cause if you don't make a fool of yourself at the
Xmas Party, New Years Eve gives you a second chance.
Christmas Blues
Statistics show that more people find themselves getting the blues around Christmas than any other time of year. I was reading this list on what you can do if you find yourself depressed during the holidays......
1. Do something special for yourself at least once a week.
2. Talk about your feelings instead of keeping them inside.
3. Be open to making new friends. New friends can be met at single support groups, church, clubs,and the best source, through other friends.
4. Make a list of at least 10 things you like about yourself and focus on them each day.
5. Don't be too hard on yourself. There is no criticism as destructive as self criticism.
6. Reduce the expectations of yourself. Don't expect yourself to act, think or feel a certain way.
7. Avoid comparing your life to anyone else's.
8. Remember, you don't have to turn out like anyone. We choose the direction our lives take.
9. IMPORTANT! Seek professional counseling if depression has been causing problems for an extended time.
THOUGHT
There are no barriers in life, only challenges.