We need to start a movement to bring this to Chatham-Kent! Nearly 1,000 stressed young office workers and students joined a mass pillow fight in China.

They were handed pillows at the door and wrote on them the names of their bosses, teachers, exam subjects or whatever was stressing them out.

It was the fifth time the annual event has been held in Shanghai and it now so popular that there are plans to stage it in other cities.

Interesting read on how the side of the bed you sleep on can reveal certain characteristics about you.  I sleep on the left, how about you?  http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/does-happiness-depend-where-sleep-170000400.html

One 3 year old girl…one angry lion.  The winner:  The girl!  She doesn’t even flinch!  Check out this video:  http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/32338/little+girl+shows+remarkable+poise+in+stare-down+with+african+lion/

So I don’t think I’ll make too many friends with this post, but I wish it would snow here in Chatham-Kent!  Much of Southern Ontario got a good dose of winter today, and here in Chatham-Kent, we have none.  Now, do I want 43 centimetres?  No.  But 5-10 would be nice.

Winter in Chatham-Kent is boring.  Sure there are places to go, but it would be nice to be able to go outside with my daughter and play in some snow, instead of being couped up in the house.  It’s nice to not have to shovel, but it would be even nicer for my daughter to be able to use her toboggan once in a while!  Plus, it’s good exercise for us.

Yes, I said Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings! (okay, enough about that).  I hope you have a great time with family and friends and look forward to talking with all of you in the New Year!

Stuck for Christmas shopping ideas?  Have no fear, Oprah’s Favorite Things for 2011 is here!  http://www.oprah.com/gift-list/Oprahs-Favorite-Things-2011

Courtesy of msn.com.  Got any to add to the list?

1. Soup Skimmer

To skim excess fat from soup without refrigerating it, fill a metal ladle with ice cubes and glide it along the surface a few times, wiping the ladle as needed. Excess fat will cling to the ladle’s bottom (and not yours).

2. Soil Soaker

Water your plants without leaving them in the sink to drain by covering the surface of the soil with ice cubes. They’ll gradually hydrate your Hedera (that’s ivy) as they melt.

3. Caulk Smoother

As you squeeze a new caulk line around a bathtub, run the corner of a cube behind it. The ice will create a clean edge without sticking.

4. Brow Soother

A few minutes before you tweeze, rub an ice cube over your brows to numb the skin, then dry. Post-plucking, ice again to minimize redness.

5. Disposal Scrubber

Run a handful of ice cubes and a pinch of baking soda through your garbage disposal. You’ll get rid of the built-up grease on the blades and the leftover smell of…leftovers.

6. Handheld A/C

When the summer heat is stifling, hold a piece of ice on the underside of your wrist. As blood flows through that chilly pulse point, your body temperature will slowly drop.

I always like finding ways to use everyday stuff in different ways…here’s 15 different things you can do with a hairdryer, courtesy of Yahoo:

Handheld hair dryers were introduced for the domestic market in 1920, and since then countless hairdos have relied on that combination of heat and air to achieve their coiffed perfection.

But the humble blow dryer has plenty of other services to offer around the house — here are a handful of them:

1. If you need to quickly set the icing on a cake, the air and heat of a hair dryer can quicken up the process.
2. If your cake won’t unstick from the cake pan, use your hair dryer on the bottom of the pan then invert it, it should drop right out.
3. Running an ice cream scoop under hot water helps, but you can also try using a hair dryer on the carton to soften ice cream for easy scooping.
4. Some people use pots of boiling water to quicken freezer defrosting, but a hot hair dryer works even more quickly. (Be careful of puddles of water and the dryer, though.)
5. Automatic ice-makers can get jammed with frozen ice; relieve that with a long blast of hot air to melt unwanted icebergs.
6. Remove contact paper from shelves by heating it with the hair dryer and gently working the edges up. Also works for bumper stickers and other rogue sticky things.
7. Use a hair dryer to dust hard-to-dust items; the air will blow the dust somewhere else, but hopefully somewhere else that is easier to dust.
8. Personally, I like my kids’ crayon marks on my walls, but for the rest of you: Heat the crayon marks until softened, then scrub with hot water and detergent.
9. Old photo albums with magnetic pages can get stuck — unstick them with a blast from the hair dryer.
10. Spot-iron wrinkles by lightly dampening the area and then heating the wrinkles with your dryer.
11. Wet boots, shoes, and sneakers can take on a terrible odor if left to dry slowly — alleviate that by drying them with your hair dryer.
12. Winter can bring frozen windows and locks — thaw them with a hair dryer.
13. Window screens collecting dust and pollen? Blow it back to whence it came.
14. Removing bandages can hurt more than the wound, so soften the adhesive with a hair dryer first to ease the rip.
15. If you have trouble keeping a hot compress hot, keep your hair dryer by you and reheat as necessary.

Bonus: For wrinkled ribbons and fabric belts, employ a curling iron to straighten them out.

With the recent results of our news question saying over 60% of people don’t have an emergency kit or plan for things like tornados, here’s a checklist of what you should have just in case.

http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/knw/kt/bas-eng.aspx

Check out Inventionland!

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