Saturday, January 07, 2006

my sis is getting married

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My sister is getting married at the end of April this year.

I just finished updating their engagement site. 

Jan 7, 2006 3:30:33 PM | family, what's up

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the blessings of using a timer Heather from Mom 2 Mom Connection wrote for the Carnival of Beauty this week about seeing "the boundaries of time as a blessing in order to keep [her] balanced." I too have learned to love a timer recently. I use them both at home and at school. My students got used to me using them in the classroom, but they think it is funny that I also use them at home. I have three in my house--one on my fridge, one by my computer, and one in a central location in my home--and thanks to flylady.net they are all set to 15 minutes. But, using a timer has been such a blessing for me. Here is why: --a timer lets me feel successful. It tells me "yea! you did it! you can stop now." otherwise, as a perfectionist, I can't stop till it is perfect. --it lets me focus completely on my task. I don't have to keep looking at the clock to see how much time has passed. (In class this means, I can say 20 min to finish this and then spend all my energy helping students without worrying about really using 30 or 40 min on the task--allowing me to follow my lesson plans for successfully.) --it lets me do things I never would do otherwise. I often think things take longer than they really do. But doing it for 15 min is do-able--I am always surprised just how much really can be done in 15 min. --helps me manage my day. There are times--like today--when I have "15 min days." I have a list of things that need to be done and take 15 min to spend on each task; after 15 min, I switch and do something else. When I first found flylady, I ignored her advice about a timer. Now, I wish I had not--it is the best thing I have found for manging my time and being productive. Like Heather, my timer and setting time boundaries have truly been a blessing. The one I use at school is really cool--it is like a stoplight (the pic for this blog). It lets us visually see how much more time we have left. I got it from a company called Learning Resources.
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17 facts about taiwan 1. Taiwan is a small tropical/subtropical island located off the east coast of China between Japan and the Phillipines. 2. Taiwan is less than 400 km long and about 150 km wide. 3. Taiwan is slightly smaller than Maryland and Delaware combined (13,869 sq mi). 4. Taiwan is home to almost 23 million people. 5. Two-thirds of Taiwan is rugged mountains, meaning most of the people live in the ever-expanding crowded cities. 6. Taiwan, with 625 people per square km, is the second most densely populated nation on earth (Bangladesh is 1st.). 7. Jade Mountain, at almost 13,000 feet is the highest peak in East Asia. 8. Right now it is the year 95 in Taiwan (dated from the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911). 9. Mandarin Chinese is the official langage; Taiwanese, Hakka, and Abrigional languages are also spoken. 10. Taiwan is an interesting mix of the old and the new, the East & the West, technology and tradition. 11. Taiwan is the world's largest producer of computer goods. 12. The two major cash crops in Taiwan are rice and betel nut (also called 'green gold'). 13. There are 10 million motorbikes in Taiwan (1 for every 2 people). 14. Taiwan has more cell phones per head of population than any other country (111 cell phones per 100 people in 2005). 15. Taiwan has more temples per head of population than any other country (over between 16,000 and 18,000 registered temples). 16. A mixture of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and folk beliefs are practiced by most Taiwanese. 17. Less than 2% of Taiwan's population is Christian.

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