1.Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark
day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile
2. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back!
Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it
doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on
someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a
lifetime to forget someone
3. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so
that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for
that gift
4. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never
say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've
ever had.
5. When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so
long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for
us.
6. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true
that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives
ChineseValentine's Day List
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Chinese Valentine's Day
Double Seventh Festival
The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of
romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar
This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their
luxurious greens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can see the Milky Way
spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which see each other
from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love
story passed down from generation to generation.
Long, long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand).
His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law.
So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu
(Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him.
The cowhand farmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a happy
life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, the God of Heaven soon found out the
fact and ordered the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.
With the help of celestial cattle, the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son and daughter.
At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife, the Queen Mother took off one
of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One billowy river appeared in front of the Cowhand.
The Cowhand and Weaver Maid were separated on the two banks forever and could only
feel their tears. Their loyalty to love touched magpies, so tens of thousands of magpies came
to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet each other. The Queen Mother
was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month.
Hence their meeting date has been called "Qi Xi" (Double Seventh).
Scholars have shown the Double Seventh Festival originated from the Han Dynasty
(206 BC-AD220). Historical documents from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD371-420)
mention the festival, while records from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) depict the grand
evening banquet of Emperor Taizong and his concubines. By the Song (960-1279)
and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties, special articles for the "Qi Xi" were seen being sold
on markets in the capital. The bustling markets demonstrated the significance of the festival.
Today some traditional customs are still observed in rural areas of China, but have
been weakened or diluted in urban cities. However, the legend of the Cowhand and
Weaver Maid has taken root in the hearts of the people. In recent years, in particular,
urban youths have celebrated it as Valentine's Day in China. As a result, owners of flower
shops, bars and stores are full of joy as they sell more commodities for love.
More Valentine's Day Gift for your lover
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Pink Weddings- Pink Dressed For Brides
Fashionable single product: Pink layered skirt with a gray
Aspect: Side Gray gives the wisdom of its texture and elegant, especially uniform gray color, excessive natural mix of different materials is full of brains. The design of the full sense of peach pink skirt, it is so greatly enhance the overall sense of color, more cordial fashion, full of deep feminine.
Fashionable single product: Pink layered skirt with brown
Aspect: dark brown fur vest warm and comfortable, great feeling of winter, but also gives the impression of the winter too, with this ultra-fire Pink skirt, immediately put on the fashion sense, intellectual turned gorgeous bride!
Fashionable single product: Pink shirt with khaki
Aspect: Khaki has a casual and comfortable feeling, very giving intimacy, with a pink shirt on, so dull color with an elegant look. Very worth trying Khaki pink combination.
Fashionable single product: pink sweater with black trousers
Aspect: black is the main color winter color, believe that every bride's winter wardrobe, there are a large number of black single product, the black wear well, indeed many brides winter with homework, when love, black and white, with black and red, try the next winter popular pink color, two off, so black is more elegant mystery, so more gorgeous pink overhangs.
More Pink item for pink Weddings
Aspect: Side Gray gives the wisdom of its texture and elegant, especially uniform gray color, excessive natural mix of different materials is full of brains. The design of the full sense of peach pink skirt, it is so greatly enhance the overall sense of color, more cordial fashion, full of deep feminine.
Fashionable single product: Pink layered skirt with brown
Aspect: dark brown fur vest warm and comfortable, great feeling of winter, but also gives the impression of the winter too, with this ultra-fire Pink skirt, immediately put on the fashion sense, intellectual turned gorgeous bride!
Fashionable single product: Pink shirt with khaki
Aspect: Khaki has a casual and comfortable feeling, very giving intimacy, with a pink shirt on, so dull color with an elegant look. Very worth trying Khaki pink combination.
Fashionable single product: pink sweater with black trousers
Aspect: black is the main color winter color, believe that every bride's winter wardrobe, there are a large number of black single product, the black wear well, indeed many brides winter with homework, when love, black and white, with black and red, try the next winter popular pink color, two off, so black is more elegant mystery, so more gorgeous pink overhangs.
More Pink item for pink Weddings
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
How to Match Cotton Linen Clothing in Late Summer and early Fall?
Baby blue sleeve tops match a skirt pants ,it is very perfect .
Ivory cotton linen short sleeve tops match a skirt pants,it is a special style
Linen Embroidery Sleeveless Tshirt match a Green Skirt pants
More Fall Cotton Linen Clothing Match.
Monday, August 5, 2013
How to maintenance cotton linen clothing ?
1. Hand Washing , Dry shade,Should avoid exposure
2.Cotton Linen garment washed, dried, after ironing, to stacked flat, let cool, dark, light-colored clothing separately. Hygroscopic cotton linen apparel, collectibles to avoid when wet, hot, no ventilation and wardrobe cabinet dirty easily cause mildew
3.Due to Metropolitan shrunk cotton linen clothes, or a small fade,If you just bought the clothes,you will wear it after the best washing by cold water
2.Cotton Linen garment washed, dried, after ironing, to stacked flat, let cool, dark, light-colored clothing separately. Hygroscopic cotton linen apparel, collectibles to avoid when wet, hot, no ventilation and wardrobe cabinet dirty easily cause mildew
3.Due to Metropolitan shrunk cotton linen clothes, or a small fade,If you just bought the clothes,you will wear it after the best washing by cold water
Friday, August 2, 2013
The Easy Way to Lose Weight
The list of challenging weight loss strategies is endless, but there are a few
relatively painless
The list of challenging weight loss strategies is endless, but there are a few relatively painless lifestyle changes you can make that have a big impact on shaping up, too. While eating at home instead of dining out is certainly an effective strategy to drop pounds, many people don’t realize it’s actually an unwise move to purchase the necessary ingredients for their home-cooked meals where they’d reasonably go to get groceries: the grocery store.
To lose weight effortlessly, never set foot inside a grocery store again. Let’s examine why, as well as a better alternative.
Three Reasons to Abandon Grocery Stores
1. Option Overload
Supermarkets have the ability to import goods from anywhere, and they have a goal of meeting the needs—and desires—of a wide range of shoppers and their diets. As such, there are endless options. Coming prepared with a list helps, but the abundance and variety of products inevitably leads you to feel like you “need” more than you came for, and to adding unplanned items to your cart. Those of us with even the best of intentions will see a favorite food, and convince ourselves we “forgot” to add it to our list, or otherwise rationalize buying it.
On a related note, let’s not forget that our willpower is a finite resource. With so many options—and, therefore, so many decisions to be made—in a typical grocery store trip, we are bound to start slipping up and giving in when our willpower begins to dwindle.
2. Your Senses Betray You
The list of challenging weight loss strategies is endless, but there are a few relatively painless lifestyle changes you can make that have a big impact on shaping up, too. While eating at home instead of dining out is certainly an effective strategy to drop pounds, many people don’t realize it’s actually an unwise move to purchase the necessary ingredients for their home-cooked meals where they’d reasonably go to get groceries: the grocery store.
To lose weight effortlessly, never set foot inside a grocery store again. Let’s examine why, as well as a better alternative.
Three Reasons to Abandon Grocery Stores
1. Option Overload
Supermarkets have the ability to import goods from anywhere, and they have a goal of meeting the needs—and desires—of a wide range of shoppers and their diets. As such, there are endless options. Coming prepared with a list helps, but the abundance and variety of products inevitably leads you to feel like you “need” more than you came for, and to adding unplanned items to your cart. Those of us with even the best of intentions will see a favorite food, and convince ourselves we “forgot” to add it to our list, or otherwise rationalize buying it.
On a related note, let’s not forget that our willpower is a finite resource. With so many options—and, therefore, so many decisions to be made—in a typical grocery store trip, we are bound to start slipping up and giving in when our willpower begins to dwindle.
2. Your Senses Betray You
There is a lot of psychology
behind the way supermarkets are
organized and the way their products
are presented. Ultimately, a grocery
store is a business, and businesses
aim for revenue—in other words,
they need you to buy stuff. A
lot of stuff. To achieve this,
certain items are displayed in a
visually appealing fashion (for example,
at eye level, as opposed to the
very top or bottom shelf). Also,
delightful smells are purposefully placed
around specific products. Free samples
of great-tasting foods are offered
right next to their location on
the shelf. Your senses are manipulated
in a supermarket to influence your
buying decisions.
3. Availability of Junk
3. Availability of Junk
Food manufactures are constantly
introducing new food products to the
market, and the vast majority of
them are processed and loaded with
unnatural ingredients. This category of
groceries is ever-expanding, and it
can be difficult to avoid every
bit of it to stick to a
list of fresh foods instead—it
feels depriving. This problem is
intensified by the fact that the
store itself is set up in a
way that encourages you to walk
down these aisles of junk food,
increasing the temptation to pick up
these tasty-but-nutritionally-void treats.
Where to Grocery Shop Instead: Farmers Markets
The selection of processed foods at a farmers market is significantly less than at a supermarket, and even those items that aren’t entirely fresh are likely made with wholesome, natural ingredients; perhaps even sourced locally. Most products that you’ll find here are straight-from-the-farm items such as vegetables, fruits, meats, and eggs. There are far fewer options here than at a grocery store, and while there may be some level of an attempt to influence you with a beautiful display or delicious smells and tastes, it’s unlikely that any unplanned purchase you make here will be total junk.
For those living in areas without farmers markets, two other options are befriending a farmer or two and “shopping” directly at the farm, or at least making it a goal to stay within the perimeter of the grocery store—where the fresh stuff is—and avoid the middle aisles completely if at all possible.
Implementing these suggestions will help you reduce the amount of food, including junk food, you bring home, as well as focus on whole, fresh, good quality ingredients, which is the best way to lose weight.
Your turn: Do you shop at grocery stores? What about farmers markets? What other hacks can we employ to ensure healthy purchases?
Where to Grocery Shop Instead: Farmers Markets
The selection of processed foods at a farmers market is significantly less than at a supermarket, and even those items that aren’t entirely fresh are likely made with wholesome, natural ingredients; perhaps even sourced locally. Most products that you’ll find here are straight-from-the-farm items such as vegetables, fruits, meats, and eggs. There are far fewer options here than at a grocery store, and while there may be some level of an attempt to influence you with a beautiful display or delicious smells and tastes, it’s unlikely that any unplanned purchase you make here will be total junk.
For those living in areas without farmers markets, two other options are befriending a farmer or two and “shopping” directly at the farm, or at least making it a goal to stay within the perimeter of the grocery store—where the fresh stuff is—and avoid the middle aisles completely if at all possible.
Implementing these suggestions will help you reduce the amount of food, including junk food, you bring home, as well as focus on whole, fresh, good quality ingredients, which is the best way to lose weight.
Your turn: Do you shop at grocery stores? What about farmers markets? What other hacks can we employ to ensure healthy purchases?
Thursday, August 1, 2013
How To Improve Sleep Quality
Sleep is essential if you want to live a healthy and happy life. But what happens if you live a hectic life which prevents you from getting your 8 hours? That’s when sleep quality over quantity comes into play.
To make up for lost hours of sleep you must improve your sleep quality in the following ways:
1. Do Some Light Reading Instead Of Watching TV
Over 50% of America switch on the TV before they go to bed. TV disturbs your natural sleep habits by making you stay up longer than you usually would, especially if you are watching something of a violent or exciting nature.
TV also disrupts the natural release of melatonin in the body, melatonin is responsible for regulating sleep cycles and helping you fall asleep at night. The human body is naturally accustomed to feel drowsy when the sun goes down and when it starts to get dark. By switching on the TV you fool your body into thinking it’s still daytime, this is caused by the huge backlight in the TV.
Instead of switching on the TV read a book, but make sure it’s a hard copy not an ebook, as most e-readers have strong backlights. Light reading before bed can help you fall into a deep sleep quickly.
2. Avoid Caffeine 6 Hours Before You Sleep
Having a cup of coffee within a few hours of bed time can have you tossing and turning for hours when your trying to sleep. Coffee isn’t the only caffeine containing product, avoid chocolate, tea, pre-workout supplements and soda.
3. Create A Sleep Inducing Environment
Turn your bedroom into a sleep inducing chamber, turn the temperature down, install proper curtains which block out the light, and if noise is a problem use earplugs. Don’t keep pets in the bedroom if they tend to wake you up during the night.
You can help your brain associate your bedroom with sleep by using your bedroom solely for sleep and sex. Doing work and watching TV in your bedroom can lead to a non-sleep association with your bedroom and you may find it difficult to fall asleep.
4. Meditate
Clear your mind by meditating 15-20 minutes before you hit the sack. Mediation helps reduce stress and may even reduce cortisol levels. The main cause of long sleepless nights is stress, so get 15-20 minutes of meditation before your head hits the pillow.
5. Train Hard & Train Early
The easiest way to feel tired at night is to physically exhaust your body, hence training hard. A 45-90 minute workout consisting of resistance and cardio should be enough to exhaust your system.
Training at night has its drawbacks, elevating your heart rate prior to sleeping can cause restlessness in most people. It’s common to feel too awake and alert after a good workout, so it would not be wise to workout at night if you already have trouble sleeping. Avoid training 4 hours prior to sleeping.
6. Eat Light At Night
It’s common tradition to have the biggest meal of the day at night in the form of dinner. But for athletes, bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts it should be the complete opposite. The first meal and the post-workout meal should be the largest, with dinner being the smallest. As the day progresses you should taper down carbohydrates and increase protein.
Eating late at night is a surefire way to cause insomnia. Consuming a large meal prior to sleeping may cause indigestion and stomach aches during sleep. If your feeling hungry late at night have a casein protein shake or a bowl of cottage cheese.
7. Don’t Drink Too Much Water/Fluids
Drinking too much water/fluids late at night negatively impacts sleep quality. Excess fluids at night can cause you to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, disturbing your sleep cycle. Taper down your fluids as the day progresses.
8. Avoid Alcohol
Even though alcohol is very effective at making you feel drowsy and tired, it’s horrible for sleep quality. Alcohol is a natural diuretic, which means it causes your body to excrete excess water, so you may find yourself waking up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom.
Alcohol induced sleep is not a restful sleep by any means, alcohol disrupts your body’s natural sleep cycles, leading to an unrefreshed feeling upon waking.
9. Go To Sleep When You Are Really Tired
We have all had days where we tried to go to sleep early thinking we will get a nice 9 or 10 hours sleep. 4 hours of tossing and turning later, combined with constant staring at the clock we realize it’s not going to happen. Go to sleep only when you start to feel sleepy instead of wasting your time staring at the clock.
10. Don’t Stare At The Clock
Being a clock-watcher can actually increase stress an make it harder to fall asleep. Make sure the clock is not visible while your sleeping, if it’s a digital one, cover it with a cloth or towel.
11. Have A Consistent Sleep Routine
Studies show that people who sleep and wake up at the same time everyday are more rested than those who have erratic irregular sleep patterns. Set your alarm to the same time everyday including weekends.
Studies also show that binge sleeping on the weekend to make up for lost sleep is counterproductive, you should aim to get the same amount of sleep everyday, whether that’s 8 or 6 hours.
12. Limit Napping
Napping during the day might seem like the right thing to do when you feel tired, but if you plan on sleeping well at night think again. Napping during the day will interfere with your natural sleep patterns, if you do choose to nap, limit it to 30 minutes per day.
13. Supplement Wisely
There are many supplements on the market which help improve sleep quality. The most popular one is ZMA, which is composed of zinc monomethionine and aspartate, magnesium aspartate and vitamin b6. The magnesium contained in ZMA helps you achieve a deeper more restful sleep, the zinc helps boost testosterone levels.
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To make up for lost hours of sleep you must improve your sleep quality in the following ways:
1. Do Some Light Reading Instead Of Watching TV
Over 50% of America switch on the TV before they go to bed. TV disturbs your natural sleep habits by making you stay up longer than you usually would, especially if you are watching something of a violent or exciting nature.
TV also disrupts the natural release of melatonin in the body, melatonin is responsible for regulating sleep cycles and helping you fall asleep at night. The human body is naturally accustomed to feel drowsy when the sun goes down and when it starts to get dark. By switching on the TV you fool your body into thinking it’s still daytime, this is caused by the huge backlight in the TV.
Instead of switching on the TV read a book, but make sure it’s a hard copy not an ebook, as most e-readers have strong backlights. Light reading before bed can help you fall into a deep sleep quickly.
2. Avoid Caffeine 6 Hours Before You Sleep
Having a cup of coffee within a few hours of bed time can have you tossing and turning for hours when your trying to sleep. Coffee isn’t the only caffeine containing product, avoid chocolate, tea, pre-workout supplements and soda.
3. Create A Sleep Inducing Environment
Turn your bedroom into a sleep inducing chamber, turn the temperature down, install proper curtains which block out the light, and if noise is a problem use earplugs. Don’t keep pets in the bedroom if they tend to wake you up during the night.
You can help your brain associate your bedroom with sleep by using your bedroom solely for sleep and sex. Doing work and watching TV in your bedroom can lead to a non-sleep association with your bedroom and you may find it difficult to fall asleep.
4. Meditate
Clear your mind by meditating 15-20 minutes before you hit the sack. Mediation helps reduce stress and may even reduce cortisol levels. The main cause of long sleepless nights is stress, so get 15-20 minutes of meditation before your head hits the pillow.
5. Train Hard & Train Early
The easiest way to feel tired at night is to physically exhaust your body, hence training hard. A 45-90 minute workout consisting of resistance and cardio should be enough to exhaust your system.
Training at night has its drawbacks, elevating your heart rate prior to sleeping can cause restlessness in most people. It’s common to feel too awake and alert after a good workout, so it would not be wise to workout at night if you already have trouble sleeping. Avoid training 4 hours prior to sleeping.
6. Eat Light At Night
It’s common tradition to have the biggest meal of the day at night in the form of dinner. But for athletes, bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts it should be the complete opposite. The first meal and the post-workout meal should be the largest, with dinner being the smallest. As the day progresses you should taper down carbohydrates and increase protein.
Eating late at night is a surefire way to cause insomnia. Consuming a large meal prior to sleeping may cause indigestion and stomach aches during sleep. If your feeling hungry late at night have a casein protein shake or a bowl of cottage cheese.
7. Don’t Drink Too Much Water/Fluids
Drinking too much water/fluids late at night negatively impacts sleep quality. Excess fluids at night can cause you to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, disturbing your sleep cycle. Taper down your fluids as the day progresses.
8. Avoid Alcohol
Even though alcohol is very effective at making you feel drowsy and tired, it’s horrible for sleep quality. Alcohol is a natural diuretic, which means it causes your body to excrete excess water, so you may find yourself waking up multiple times during the night to go to the bathroom.
Alcohol induced sleep is not a restful sleep by any means, alcohol disrupts your body’s natural sleep cycles, leading to an unrefreshed feeling upon waking.
9. Go To Sleep When You Are Really Tired
We have all had days where we tried to go to sleep early thinking we will get a nice 9 or 10 hours sleep. 4 hours of tossing and turning later, combined with constant staring at the clock we realize it’s not going to happen. Go to sleep only when you start to feel sleepy instead of wasting your time staring at the clock.
10. Don’t Stare At The Clock
Being a clock-watcher can actually increase stress an make it harder to fall asleep. Make sure the clock is not visible while your sleeping, if it’s a digital one, cover it with a cloth or towel.
11. Have A Consistent Sleep Routine
Studies show that people who sleep and wake up at the same time everyday are more rested than those who have erratic irregular sleep patterns. Set your alarm to the same time everyday including weekends.
Studies also show that binge sleeping on the weekend to make up for lost sleep is counterproductive, you should aim to get the same amount of sleep everyday, whether that’s 8 or 6 hours.
12. Limit Napping
Napping during the day might seem like the right thing to do when you feel tired, but if you plan on sleeping well at night think again. Napping during the day will interfere with your natural sleep patterns, if you do choose to nap, limit it to 30 minutes per day.
13. Supplement Wisely
There are many supplements on the market which help improve sleep quality. The most popular one is ZMA, which is composed of zinc monomethionine and aspartate, magnesium aspartate and vitamin b6. The magnesium contained in ZMA helps you achieve a deeper more restful sleep, the zinc helps boost testosterone levels.
http://www.rockrollrefresh.etsy.com
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