Conversation – 26
Hello Peeps time for a new Conversation Thread. This is number 26 out of the
series. I created and started this thread 10 years ago.😎🎈
I will change it often from now on. This is just a knock around
thread about things in life. My life and others. I am an avid Heidi
Daus Collector, former singer, model and so on. I do this thread because
I enjoy what I do. I love fashion and music and HSN is a little of both.
I cover a lot of music and fashion on this thread. ✨😎
I am going to wish Happy Holidays to all the Peeps out there and please
stay safe. 🌹✨😎
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NATIONAL JUNK FOOD DAY
July 21 dedicates a giant menu of items to National Junk Food Day. This day permits us to chow down on the foods we usually don’t include in our daily diet.
Junk foods, by definition, typically contain high fats, sugars, salt, and calories and very little nutritional value. With the advent of packaged foods during the late 1800s, junk food made its way into American life. Still, home-cooked meals remained the standard for several more decades. Eventually, after World War II, the artery-clogging industry took off. Since the population ate out more, traveled more, the industry was primed to produce products at an increased rate.
From the frozen food aisle to fast food chains, a myriad of choices for consumers flooded the market. Potato chips, baked goods and so much more filled supermarket shelves, prepackaged and ready to go.
By the 1970s, junk foods earned a name and a bad one, too. Michael Jacobson, a microbiologist, is credited with coining the phrase. He also set out to curb our appetite for the high sugar, high salt, high preservative foods Americans consumed at an alarming rate.
While deep-fried, fat-laced foods increase our waistlines, cholesterol, and blood sugar numbers, an occasional indulgence shouldn’t impact a healthy, diverse diet and lifestyle. Also, producers make healthy versions of our favorite junk foods to entice us to enjoy a little.
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NATIONAL ICE CREAM DAY
Dish or cone? That’s all we need to know. National Ice Cream Day on the 3rd Sunday in July offers up every flavor on the menu to honor the day! The holiday also lands in the middle of National Ice Cream Month.
Thousands of years ago, people in the Persian Empire put snow in a bowl, poured concentrated grape juice over it, and ate it as a treat. Even when the weather was hot, they would savor this sweet treat. Their trick? They placed snow in underground chambers known as yakchal where the temperatures kept the snow from melting. The Persians also hiked to the mountain tops by their summer capital to gather snowfall.
The Chinese, under the Tang Dynasty around 697 AD, took to freezing dairy with salt and ice. However, the results aren’t exactly the ice cream we enjoy today. Frozen treats and beverages later, culinary folks point to Naples, Italy as the birthplace of the first ice cream. They give credit to Antonio Latini. He was born in 1642 and created a milk-based sorbet.
In the United States, the Quaker colonists earn the nod for bringing their ice recipes over with them. They opened the first ice cream shops, including shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era.
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NATIONAL BE SOMEONE DAY
On July 21, National Be Someone Day challenges each of us to take ten seconds to make a difference in a child’s life.
What can you do in ten seconds? We can shift gears or water a plant. We can hear or tell a bad joke. In ten seconds, we can change our minds, and after doing so, say a prayer of thanks. When we walk into a room, in that time, we can register the pain in someone’s eyes and begin to provide comfort. We can praise and honor someone who deserves it.
We can also commit to reporting child abuse. On July 21st, take the pledge to be the person to make a difference in a child’s life. Most importantly, be someone prepared to report when a child trusts you enough and tells you they are experiencing abuse. Ten seconds can change a child’s life.
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Hello Sheba, Glad the relative hit by a car is doing better. Talk about scary and crazy. I hope the police are looking for cameras in the area or anything to find the criminal.
It’s been on the hotter side here but not too bad. The gym is open and airy and appears clean so yes, good so far. Lots of people in the area go there. I don’t have to wait for it to cool down which is convenient. Nice you have your walks and bike riding. I’m not a summer person so will look forward to autumn.
The Rarities earrings had a price drop. 🙂
My son gets fed well at work. We never had real food or good food brought into work like where he works. Happy for him though.
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Peace Out Peeps enjoy your evening. 😎🎈
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Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
Song by Diana RossDo you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?
Do you get what you’re hoping for?
When you look behind you, there’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?
Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds
You knew how I loved you, but my spirit was free
Laughing at the questions that you once asked of me
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?
Now looking back at all we planned
We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long before we see
How sad the answers to those questions can be?
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?
Do you get what you’re hoping for?
When you look behind you, there’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know? -
Say You’ll Be There
Song by Spice Girls… Oh, say you’ll be there
I’m giving you everything
All that joy can bring
This I swear, ow
… Last time that we had this conversation
I decided we should be friends, yeah
But now, we’re going ’round in circles
Tell me will this déjà vu never end? No
And now you tell me that you’re falling in love
Well, I never ever thought that would be, hey
This time, you gotta take it easy
Throwing far too much emotions at me
… But any fool can see they’re falling
I gotta make you understand
… I’m giving you everything
All that joy can bring
This I swear (I’ll give you everything)
And all that I want from you
Is a promise you will be there
Say you will be there, ow
Say you will be there
Ah, won’t you sing it with me?
… If you put two and two together
You will see what our friendship is for, oh
If you can’t work this equation
Then I guess I’ll have to show you the door
There is no need to say you love me
It would be better left unsaid
… I’m (I’m) giving you everything (I’ll give you everything)
All that joy can bring
This I swear (yes, I swear)
And (and) all that I want from you (all I want from you)
Is a promise you’ll be there (is a promise you)
Yeah, I want you
… Any fool can see they’re falling
I gotta make you understand
I’ll give you everything, on this I swear
Just promise you’ll always be there
… I’m giving you everything (I’m giving you everything)
All that joy can bring (all that joy can bring)
This I swear (yes, I swear)
And all that I want from you (all that I want from you)
Is a promise you
Will be there (yeah) (I want you)
… I’m giving you everything
All that joy can bring
This I swear
And all that I want from you
Is a promise you
Will be there
… I’m giving you everything
All that joy can bring
This I swear
And all that I want from you
Is a promise you
Will be there
… I’m giving you everything
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