Interviewer asking Grace Jones “What do you think of  Lady Gaga?”

“I wouldn’t go to see her. I’d just prefer to work with someone who is more original and someone who is not copying me, actually.”

Grace, I love you!

Come back and be the shark.

I don’t think the Goldfish understand the new plan.

You’re a slave to the bell. So I can’t talk to you in the fall.

I know your about to leave and I know you have to breathe above water.

Get up off the floor, stop crying.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

WHile writing this I am seriously medicated from many ill’s I am having, and the doctors love to give me pills and who am I to complain since it works.I don’t drink alcohol or do street drugs I simply do not see the point of it. Do it if you want to just don’t expect everyone else to want to join in. Since I am a rather old fashion gal I smoke cigarettes usually now with an extender. BUt since I keep losing my extenders maybe some of you kind readers will send me some. I prefer these theladysmokes.com  They are also called cigarette holders. I may have been born in the wrong era but I am here now so let me tell you a few life lessons I have learned. First of all it does not get easier with age so people who say that are just trying to make you feel better. As I write this I am 33 I am still pretty young granted but life better? Well maybe if you find bills, buying houses and taking care of everyone easier. To each his own.

I am  this week moving into a new house it was just finished being built. I am leaving the country for the suburbs. It will be strange to me at first and to my Dog Mouse he is use to quiet. I’m currently writing a book and the only thing anyone is allowed to know is us that I am writing a book. You will find out about it when it’s on the book shelves. Some secrets are better kept.

Back to life lessons being punctual is very important if you can’t be on time for things you need to reevaluate your life. Be on time always. Your life may depend on it one day.

Do not under any circumstances assume you know best. You usually wont. But you will assume it anyone because your self involved that is natural but work on it.

First impression are not as important as you think. Sometimes as with Job interviews they are but in general be who you are and if people do not like it tough shit.  Just be punctual many people find that the key to finding someone agreeable.

Dont hire a life coach ever unless its me because only a moron does that. You can figure out your own life it is pathetic to make someone else decide your life and plan it for you that is a cult like mentality and insane. You can hire me I will yell at you to read more and eat better and that’s just another mother not a life coach.

STOP taking Facebook so seriously. Yes people may delete you but do not assume it means they hate you. I delete people and I don’t hate them or dislike them I just don’t see the point of the being on my list. One crazy Dame actually burned down a womans house that deleted her off Facebook. Google it..its true. What is wrong with you people anyway? Is it that hard to leave your house and make real friends?  I delete people all the time it means nothing. Facebook is nothing. It is just a social network like any other. The telephone was invented (Thank You)Alexander Graham Bell ) use that. I find it disturbing that I could be seriously hurt and all my friends Facebook me instead of calling me up. That is not a friendship. That is demented. We all want quick and easy but to be in my life  you WILL take the hard road or just leave.

Alexander Graham Bell

When you’re an adult you mistakenly think you know.

When your old you just remember.

This world makes my blood boil

I love to much

I think too much

I  break you too much

If I was a tree you could never rip up my roots,

until I let you.

I am inspired by your storm.

The madness seems to lose its effect.

I gain control over the insanity and flick

my hand and the buildings fall down.

I never liked that house.

I never appreciated it like you did.

You think you can take my place,

you’re welcome to its

all hell and confusion.

I can’t be everyone’s warrior.

Strip off your fear or something in the dark will get you.

Strip off your sadness or madness will kiss you.

I do not live on your plane.

“Can we just remove this label?!”

I am strong enough but not enough to take on a new storm or three.

I wish I could grasp you.

I wish you shed or more importantly bled.

We are only human here.

We are only what they see and decide and then we have ourselves

inside

in pain

and in love.

]]> http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/the-manner-of-learning/feed/ 0 amandainmaine 388129_168497239915336_100002651849229_260747_269334342_n http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/food-we-eat-might-control-our-genes-scientists-find-rice-microrna-inside-human-cells/ http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/food-we-eat-might-control-our-genes-scientists-find-rice-microrna-inside-human-cells/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:35:08 +0000 amandainmaine http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/?p=2419 ]]> “You are what you eat.” The old adage has for decades weighed on the minds of consumers who fret over responsible food choices. Yet what if it was literally true? What if material from our food actually made its way into the innermost control centers of our cells, taking charge of fundamental gene expression?

That is in fact what happens, according to a recent study of plant-animal micro­RNA transfer led by Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanjing University in China. MicroRNAs are short sequences of nucleotides—the building blocks of genetic material. Although microRNAs do not code for proteins, they prevent specific genes from giving rise to the proteins they encode. Blood samples from 21 volunteers were tested for the presence of microRNAs from crop plants, such as rice, wheat, potatoes and cabbage.

The results, published in the journal Cell Research, showed that the subjects’ bloodstream contained approximately 30 different microRNAs from commonly eaten plants. It appears that they can also alter cell function: a specific rice microRNA was shown to bind to and inhibit the activity of receptors controlling the removal of LDL—“bad” cholesterol—from the bloodstream. Like vitamins and minerals, microRNA may represent a previously unrecognized type of functional molecule obtained from food.

The revelation that plant microRNAs play a role in controlling human physiology highlights the fact that our bodies are highly integrated ecosystems. Zhang says the findings may also illuminate our understanding of co-evolution, a process in which genetic changes in one species trigger changes in another. For example, our ability to digest the lactose in milk after infancy arose after we domesticated cattle. Could the plants we cultivated have altered us as well? Zhang’s study is another reminder that nothing in nature exists in isolation.

By Anne-Marie C. Hodge

I watched my Mother die of cancer when I was a Teenager. It was horrible and cancer is not kind.

Hitchens gave us so much to remember and think about.

Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in April of 1949. He was born in Portsmouth, England. He died December 15th 2011 in Houston, Texas, USA.

Useful Links

http://www.dailyhitchens.com/

http://buildupthatwall.com/index.html

http://www.slate.com/authors.christopher_hitchens.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/archive/christopher-hitchens

I forgot what I have what I can do and how much power happiness can bring. I lost myself in a sea of weirdness and although I do enjoy the weird and want it forever in my life I also forgot about the structure that can be. You can have both. I spend too much time hating myself for things that actually had nothing to do with me I can’t save the world and even if I could I have my own life to lead. When I move to my new house soon I want everything to shape itself into what I can create and discover. I want to make paper gardens on my wall like I use to as a teenager. I want to know not just hope that when I do die someday I did what I wanted for me and I learned from all experiences.

I don’t have any children so in that way I am not limited. I have my time and my animals.

I do not fear people they are just another interesting part of all this madness.

 What shall I do?

Why do we limit ourselves?

What is the limit?

Can I brake limits?

Can I brake?

How?

]]> http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/when-i-was-off-in-the-4578-dimension/feed/ 0 amandainmaine 253468_10150219816937252_507807251_7565785_917377_n http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/well-blogoversary/ http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/well-blogoversary/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:57:30 +0000 amandainmaine http://amandainmaine.wordpress.com/?p=2388 ]]> I have been blogging for years not always on WordPress but I am staying with WordPress.

Here is my gift for you all.