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A friend of mine sent me a link a few days ago that I absolutely must share with you.

It is a video about a 12 year old little girl…but not just Any 12 year old little girl, (I realize that all 12 year old little girls and boys are very special), no, this little girl is one of the most talented artists that I have ever seen. Actually she is now 15 as the video is a few years old but the artwork you will see is from when she was 12 and before.

She is a self taught artist that claims her inspiration comes from Above, which is a strange statement considering that her mother was an atheist, and while much of her art is on the spiritual side there is much that is not.

If you are an art lover…and even if you are not, this video is well worth the time it will take to watch it I promise you!

Spiritual Young Artist

And if her amazing art weren’t enough, a few months ago she decided that she was going to learn the piano and now she is beginning to compose her own music!

Well, that’s it for me today and in fact this week, I hope you enjoy the video and your week-end of course and see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

In case you can’t read Chinese the title says Happy New Year in just one of the many dialects of China.

If you haven’t already heard, today is Chinese New Year which is celebrated every year on the First Day of the First Moon of the Lunar Calendar and this is happens to be the year of the Ox.

If you would like to know more about Chinese New Year and it’s traditions there are some very interesting facts located here:

Chinese New Year and it’s traditions

And if you happen to have been born in the year of the Ox, past or present you can find the attributes of people born during this year here:

Attributes of people born in the year of the Ox

If you don’t know which zodiac sign you were born under but would like to read your horoscope for this year you can do that here:

Chinese Horoscope Year of the Ox Predictions

I hope each and every one of you have a wonderful Chinese New Year and wishing you much luck in the coming year!

That’s all for me today but hope to see you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

From Tim Russert to “Sunny” von Bulow, a look at the stories, newsmakers and top sports figures who died in 2008:

Farewell 2008

That’s all for me today and this year in fact so I hope that each and every one of you and your families have a wonderful, healthy and prosperous 2009 & I’ll see all of you back next year for some more good old fashioned…

As you can tell Uni & I have not been around much the last couple of weeks but we’ve been going slightly crazy running around and trying to get everything ready for Christmas!

It’s been especially hard this year because as many of you know we moved not too long ago and a lot of our stuff is still packed and stored in the attic so something as simple as trying to get the Christmas tree ornaments proved to be a real challenge to say the least!

And Uni is leaving today to  spend the  Christmas holidays with his family and friends so a lot of shopping was called for too, after all, he couldn’t show up empty handed and if you thought finding the Christmas ornaments was a challenge…just wait until you have to go out and buy gifts for a bunch of Unicorns! Let me tell you, they’re not easy to buy for, especially the little ones and of course they want all of the latest Christmas gadgets that Unicorns love, so it has been a difficult last few weeks!

But when Uni leaves today he’ll be gone for the holidays and I’ll be home alone so maybe I’ll have a bit of time to rest and get my second wind!

Anyway! As you probably know, or maybe you don’t, Unicorns love Christmas and all of the fun it has to offer, and Uni, going home to be with family and friends, didn’t want to appear too dumb when it comes to the facts about Christmas so a while back he enrolled in the University of Christmas and became a full fledged Christmasologist! Diploma and all!

In fact I went to the graduation ceremony last night and I couldn’t have been more proud of Uni. He was standing so proud when the Master of Ceremonies shook his horn and presented him with his diploma! He’s is not only proud of the fact that he graduated and received a diploma but that he is also the first Unicorn to go to University in his family! I guess you could say that Uni graduated Uni!!

So as soon as we got home last night he made sure that his diploma was safely packed away in his luggage for his trip!

If you would like to receive a diploma as a Christmasologist then you too can go to the University of Christmas and take the exams, and if you pass, you too will be rewarded with a degree in Christmasology!

Interested? If so go to:

Are You The Brightest Bulb On The Tree? University of Christmas

Well, that’s all for me today, I’m off to get Uni ready for his trip, and if you happen to attend the University of Christmas I wish you very good luck in your studies and see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

I recently downloaded and installed the new improved WordPress 2.7 and in 3 little words:

I Love It!

The Dashboard is to die for, everything is handy where it is easily accessible with a choice of grey or blue skin.

I like the fact that now you can make a quick post if you’re running short on time and don’t want to go all the way to the normal editor and that you have the freedom to customize the dashboard any way that suits your needs.

All of the modules have the drag and drop option so you can move the modules around any way that suits you and some also have an open and close option so that you can see everything on offer or collapse them up for a cleaner more minimal look.

You can change the settings from the main dashboard and display what is important to you or hide them if they’re not important to you at the time.

You can adjust the size of your editor, there are also keyboard shortcuts for comments moderation and if you double click on a comment in the Comments view it opens up in the editor.

From the dashboard you can see if you have any drafts that you’ve made and maybe forgotten, any incoming links, all of your posts from this week, last week and a while ago and what’s hot on WordPress.

Having said all of this with all of it’s great new features I do have One Tiny complaint. (Well, not so tiny to me)!!

If you have a blog that is hosted by WordPress.com then on your dashboard already included in the 2.7 is all of your stats from all of your blogs but not if you are hosting your own blog, and this was so important to me…in fact it was one of the main reasons that I upgraded from 2.6. To be able to see my stats when I logged in and see who was reading what.

For those of you that know me know I am definitely no computer genius and I have a way of always messing things up on my computer so I only upgrade when it is really something that I want terribly!

I knew about the stats because I have another blog hosted by WordPress and of course the day the upgrade came out I was using it on that blog but it seems that no matter how hard I tried I can not get the stats plugin here on JabberWocky! to work.

So to WordPress 2.7, I give it an 8…would have definitely been a 10 if I had been able to get the stats plugin to work!

By the way…if anyone out there knows possibly what I’m doing wrong or does know how to get the stats plugin to work then please leave me a comment and tell me…I would truly appreciate it!

Well, that’s it for me today and this week, I hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more…

Isn’t he just the Cutest Thing?

People never cease to amaze me with the really dumb things that they can find to occupy themselves…I often find myself saying, “they are easily amused aren’t they”?

And one thing for sure, no matter how different we all are, there is one tradition common to all cultures, the gathering in large groups to participate in utterly pointless and often mind-bogglingly dangerous sports. and 9 times out of 10 all it takes is a lot of bored people and, more often than not, alcohol!

I was checking out this years 8 most baffling “sports” and couldn’t believe some of them…although I hate to admit it, I have heard of some of them which leads me to believe that I must be “easily amused” also!

And the 8 Lucky Winners that they came up with this year are:

• #8: Shin Kicking; Invented in England hundreds of years ago!!! And is pretty self explanatory; a contest between two fighters as to who can knock the other down by the simple, honest method of kicking the heck out of each others shins!
• #7: Bossaball (AKA Trampoline Volleyball); Invented in Belgium. It’s played on an inflatable volleyball court, and in front of the net on each side is a round trampoline so players can get some serious height when spiking!
• #6: Free Style Walking (aka Skateboarding Without a Skateboard); played anywhere jaw-dropping stupidity can be found. They go jumping off rails and fences using only their feet and get this, you can even buy special shoes for this sport!
• #5: Ferret Legging (aka Stuffing a Ferret Down Your Pants); Unfortunately I have heard of this goodie for many years! “Played” in Yorkshire England. Pretty simple, tie the bottom of your pant legs so the ferrets can’t escape then drop a couple down your pants and tighten your belt then stand there like a complete idiot for as long as you can while the upset ferrets try to get out! When you can’t take it anymore then drop your pants and release the ferrets! (The world record is held by a Yorkshireman called Reg Mellor, who kept two ferrets down his trousers for five hours and twenty six minutes back in 1981)!
• #4: Dwile Flonking (aka Beer Rag Tossing); Unfortunately I have heard of this one too!!!! Sussex, Kent. Two teams play the game. One member of a team, the flonker, stands with a beer-soaked rag on a stick whilst the other team links arms and dances around him, the flonker in the middle spins around in the opposite direction to the others and has to fling the rag at them. The girters have to dodge the rag. Points are scored if the rag hits someone, but if the rag misses, the flonker has to drink a chamber-pot’s worth of beer. The game is over when four rounds are finished, or when everyone is so drunk that any movement might cause them to vomit noisily or urinate uncontrollably. Points are deducted if anyone is sober enough to remember their gender at the end of the game!
• #3: Hornussen (aka Spastic Placard Flailing); Switzerland. Played by teams of up to eighteen on a very long, straight field. A launcher, a curved metal ramp, is at one end, by which a player stands. He smacks a small rubber projectile, the hornuss, from the launcher with a long, bendy stick that looked like a fishing rod. The members of the other team, are standing on the field waving placards and wearing helmets, the point is to “biff” the hornuss out the air by hitting it with a placard. But because of the hornuss’ small size and quick velocity, it’s very hard to spot so needless to say many members get hit by this “hornuss”!
• #2: Skibobbing (aka Suicide Ski Biking); Basically played in the Alps but has spread to the U.S.. Competitors go down very steep snowy hills on a bike on skis. So it’s like skiing, but oddly enough the bike doesn’t appear to have any way of stopping! Obviously it’s a simple sport for simple minds!
• And the winner is…#1: Camel Wrestling from Turkey. Camels are specially bred for the competition, and decked out with bells and colorful ornamentation. They’re then sent into the ring with another camel to do battle over a hot camel-babe in heat. Camels can win by either making their opponent fall, scream or gallop away in a leg-flapping manner!

Personally I don’t see why Camel Wrestling was voted #1…it seems pretty “normal” to me after reading the other choices but who am I to argue with the judges??

I don’t know why or how these sports were invented except for the fact that “people can be easily amused” but they were and I think it’s great that people can be such total morons risking life and limb for a little amusement!

I really shouldn’t talk though…I have participated in a few games of Naailen, (a very old Dutch game), in my lifetime, much to my chagrin. I won’t bore you with the details now…maybe one day, but suffice to say it did not involve risking life and limb…just a few hundred year old tree trunk!

Oh! By the way, if you want more details about these most “interesting” sports it can be found at:

This Years Most Baffling Sports!

And I do have a special message to all of my Dutch friends that has nothing to do with today’s subject…I hope you all have a wonderful 1st Christmas, Feast of Sinterklaas, today and get lots of presents!

Well! That’s all for me today, hope you have a great week-end and hope to see you back here again soon for some more good old fashioned…

Well I’m still so full from yesterday that I can hardly move this morning and after looking in the refrigerator I see that I have done it yet again this year!

I DO NOT know how I manage it, but Every Year when I cook Thanksgiving dinner and serve everyone that I can possibly find to get rid of the food, (I even gave some rolls to the ducks this year), I STILL end up with more food…especially turkey, than what I originally started with!

I swear Tommy Turkey Grows with every bite I take!

So now I’ve got the dreaded job of creating new creations for the next month with all of the leftovers! I needed some new ideas, (ones that weren’t mine because last year when I started serving turkey milk shakes I knew I was loosing it!), for what to do.

I found this site quite by accident but with all of the leftover turkey recipes it has I figure I’ll be safe for at least a month without having to sink to having leftover leftovers!!!

So if you didn’t take Tommy Turkey’s advice yesterday and “EAT BEEF”, and you need a little help with this problem too, maybe you’ll be able to find something new for your table also!

Leftover Turkey Recipes

Well, that’s all for me today…I’m going to go out and try to jog or Something!… if I can move at all, but hope to see you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

Uni & Sage have ask me to tell you that they have;

They don’t know when they will be back but they hope you all have a great week-end and see you later at…

Now I do not EVER want it to be said that I don’t love my pets! In fact I love all animals, but I suppose after reading this story, that maybe I don’t love my pets enough because there is something that I find very bizarre about this story!

If nothing else I would not keep the hair that I had combed from the carpets for years and years…I not only don’t understand why anyone would do that but where on earth would I put it?? And I also could not wear the same thing over and over again for 12 years either…and that’s only the beginning!

But I suppose that is what makes the world go round…everyone on Earth seems to march to a different drummer!

Making Rover Over!

That’s really it for me this week! Have a great Easter week-end and see you back again on Monday for more…

I am always out there looking for goodies for everyone and especially FREE goodies. Well this time I have found a great one!

My computer screen is always dirty…or it seems like it is anyway! I was on the Net the other day and came across a free computer screen cleaner that works from Inside of your computer! I have never heard of such a thing so of course I had to give it a try!

Boy was I ever surprised! I have to admit that my screen has never looked the way it does now. It really does the job!

The great part about it is that this computer screen cleaner is done online so it needs no download to worry about spreading all kinds of nasty viruses through your computer.

If you have just a couple of extra minutes why don’t you run over there now and clean yours before you forget!

FREE! Computer Screen Cleaner

Oh that’s ok, you don’t have to thank me, I was happy to do it!

That’s all for me today! Hope you all have a great week-end and see you back again on Monday for some more…