The Sarah Project: Day 2

Three Small Things to Do Today to Change Your Life

Eat Blueberries – They have a super high amount of anti-oxidants which absorb free radicals (which are mostly rogue oxygen) swimming around in your body causing havoc on your cells with their polar characteristics, disrupting your DNA and aging you. And they’re tasty.

Dance by Yourself– Enjoy yourself and take a break from homework to get up to dance and sing, all alone in your room. It's exhilarating.

         * I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Take More than 20 Minutes to Make Yourself Dinner – whether this means baking yourself enchiladas, or pulling out the rice cooker, I promise you’ll feel better eating it, if you took the time to prepare it. Hmm..a blueberry pie would be perfect...

Alcohol Continued:
 
I have had three experiences in my life, which I can distinctly relate to alcohol. I'm not going to talk about them. I'm simply going to say that each has had some impact on my life, and changed who I am. But I could say that about anything really. What I can simply reflect is that had these experiences not occurred, I'd probably be better off. I can't say this for everyone. I can however ask you all to share a story in which someone intoxicated affected you in some way. Were they a friend? A family member? I'm also fairly sure that most of you have had positive experiences or at least humorous ones, interacting with the inebriated. So I’d linger on to ask, which out ways the other? – the positive experiences or negative ones?


Some research just for the curious - . Alcohol is a depressant. It is chemically formed when something ferments, instead of using oxygen to respirate. Thus to make alcohol beverages you bottle the organic compound without the presence of oxygen, i.e. the hops, barley, wheat, corn, cactus, etc. depending on the type of alcohol. The alcohol that we drink is Ethanol, which is C2H6O, a polar molecule. In large doses, it is a poison. Its LD50 in rats is 10,300 mg/kg. Beer is the third most popular drink, after water and tea, worldwide. The consumption of alcohol is found in every civilization and culture, from hunter-gathers to technological powerhouses. Alcohol increases insulin production and can result in low blood sugar. In small doses it is found to lower the risk of coronary heart disease, however up to 24% of Dementia is also found to be caused by long-term moderate drinking, or short-term binge drinking as long as this drinking took place before the dementia began. Alcohol damages the dendrites in the brain, which is perhaps the scariest fact in my opinion. The dendrites are the nerve powerhouses, if you will, that receive and transmit signals along giant pathways in the body. Thus, alcohol can inhibit your body’s internal communication permanently.


If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. ~Unknown - as seen on a bumper sticker

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside. ~Author Unknown
 So what do you have to say?


Depression:

Why, for some reason, am I pairing depression with alcohol and drinking? Because it’s a clear fact that depressed people drink and drinking causes depressed people. Maybe more people would drink responsibly if there were less depressed people? Let’s hear what you have to say about depression. Is it a clinical mental illness? Is it a mood? Is it an emotion? I have to say I’m strongly opinionated about this topic. So what’s it to you?

Sincerely,
Sarah

The Sarah Project: Day 1

Joey: Get a Mac

I don't care much about Macs. I don't have enough money for one, I think that a computer is a computer, and I don't like the black and white styles - or that you have to have little fingers to use them. I'm not opposed, but I much rather love my orange Dell Studio 17. Big screen for movies and shows, big keys so I can type fast, and well it suits my personality much better. I'm not into being serious about videos or photos or art - not that I don't love those things. But let's just say I'm more technical, and I'm more into things that are adaptable enough to except my computer illiteracy and my need for technical software, like Matlab. So I think I'm happy with what I have. Thanks.

Gossiping:

So I recently walked into my kitchen when a bunch of girls were over watching Buffy with my roommate Casey. Now if you have the common stereotype of girls, you think that when they get together, they gossip. I'd argue with that, but in this case the stereotype rings true. They happen to stumble upon the topic of a friend of mine and began to proclaim their hate for her. Well, this comment goes out to those girls. Please don't talk about someone that you barely know. It's not very nice or fair. And I'm going to defend my friend, honestly. Also, btw, I told her. Not your names, but some of the things you said. You never know the consequences of what you say. For the record - she's never said one untrue judgmental thing about any of you, or anyone for that matter. She has done some not-so-great things, but people can change. I stand behind her. That's more than I can say for the actions of any of you at that moment. I don't care if you agree with me, but that's how I feel.

Alcohol:

Since I don't just want to rant and complain with this project, I need some help. How do you all feel about alcohol. Drinking it, not drinking it, underage people drinking it, unresponsible people drinking it? You can post anonymously. I want to know. I need to know. I'm trying to figure it out. I grew up with a mother staunchly against alcohol and a father with the opposite view.  So what do you think?

Sincerely,
Sarah

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.”
George MacDonald, What’s Mine’s Mine, 1886

The Sarah Project

Okay, here's the deal.
I'm going to blog everyday about the things I see and do, about how I feel, what ever I want to write.
I'm going to be who I am and say what I've never had the courage to say before.
I want to figure out what I believe in, what I want to do in life, and what my passions are.

And I want your imput. Challenge who I am, challenge what I'm saying. Please.

This is the Sarah Project.