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A foamy letter ranting Christmas

AOL 3rd Annual Christmas Lay-Off Shirts. Sad, but really freaking funny.

♦ Waikiki Sunset ♦

I once was a smoker with an indoor cat. She had raspy breathing for a few years until I finally started smoking outside and ultimately quit. Weeks after keeping the smoke away from her all together her breathing started to clear up, a few months later it was gone, and I never heard raspy breathing from her again. It would not take a scientist or doctor to figure out that it was the smoking in the house that was harming my little fur-baby.

From the Page:

"They found that, adjusting for age and other factors, cats exposed to secondhand smoke had more than double the risk of acquiring the disease," reported the Associated Press. "In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four."

In some cases, cats were at higher risk for cancer than humans living in the same home.

"Exposure levels in cats continuously kept indoors may actually be higher than those of human household members, who often spend extended periods of time outside their homes," reported Science Daily. "Cats become exposed by inhaling the smoke or by digesting it when they groom themselves and lick particulate matter off their fur."

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Deep Dish Quiche Pizza

Low Carb diet or not... I freaking LOVE this recipe! It's easy to whip together and it's an interesting way to make a pizza. I've made this myself several times.

♦ Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii produces some of the strangest and prettiest cloudscapes on earth. Here the clouds are below, in front of, and above you at over 13,000 feet above sea level. Getting to the summit requires a 4x4 vehicle and will void almost any car rental contract as there are steep loose gravel hills with NO guard rails. That would be a very horrifying experience/death to fall over. ♦

♦ Google Earth ... on earth. ♦