At the sixth form college (high school) I attended, you could not go in the gym without removing your outdoor shoes. However, this rule was always ignored at exam time, when the floors were loaded with tables and chairs.
I suppose it is understandable that students were not asked to remove their shoes before the exams; it might have made them feel uneasy. After all, they were used to attending classes with their shoes on (unless they opted to study dance or perfoming arts).
This would certainly not have been an issue in a Japanese school or college, where all the students change in to slippers on arrival. The wisdom of the East.
Life's A Beach--And a Shoe!
Carnival of the Recipes
This recipe is one of my favorite for summer time eating. Low cal and very light. It is also very easy to store in a picnic basket for that day at the beach. It makes 8 servings and only has 12----yes--- 12 little calories! If you use real sugar then it is 30 calories per serving.
Cucumber and Onion Salad
1 and1/2 cups cucumbers, sliced paper thin
1/2 cup onions, sliced paper thin
1/3 cup vinegar
5 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
Sweetener equal to 15 teaspoons sugar
Layer onions and cucumber in a jar or bowl. Combine remaining ingredients and pour over vegetables. Refrigerate overnight, stirring or inverting jar several times.
Check out all the other summer fun recipes at Blabber Heads, titled life's a Beach!
Cucumber and Onion Salad
1 and1/2 cups cucumbers, sliced paper thin
1/2 cup onions, sliced paper thin
1/3 cup vinegar
5 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
Sweetener equal to 15 teaspoons sugar
Layer onions and cucumber in a jar or bowl. Combine remaining ingredients and pour over vegetables. Refrigerate overnight, stirring or inverting jar several times.
Check out all the other summer fun recipes at Blabber Heads, titled life's a Beach!
While you are eating healthy at the beach to maintain that bikini figure and to avoid Dunlap Disease--you know where your belly dunlap over your belt--you must protect your feet or at least have fashionable beach shoes to wear. I remember going o the beach as a youngster and having to hip and hop over the sand. Man it can get hot. I think it really is hotter now-or so it seems. We did not have shoes with us when I went to the beach as a child.
We would leave our tennis in the car and walk barefoot. It seems that when I was little noone really worried about having "beach shoes" for going to the beach. I remember my father going to the beach in his black dress shoes. Wingtips. He would never get in the water. He would be in dress shorts and a short sleeve shirt and socks and dress shoes. His feet never touched the sand. We could never get him to take off his shoes when he was there or untuck his shirt or look like he wanted to be there in any way. He was just the driver and tolerated the beach for our sakes I guess.
Wingtips--My fathers' beach shoes
When I got to middle school and high school I do remember having flip flops to wear to the beach. Back then flip flops were not the decorative ones of today. They were the original plastic flip flops. Nothing special. It was even hard for me to find a picture of a plain pair. This is the closest I could find to the original. The originals after a while would break. The front thong piece would get loose and come out leaving you with sliding out of them from the front. Then it was time to get another pair.
The beach shoes of my youth
And you know what? Flip flops at the beach was the only place you would see them. We used to also call them shower shoes. They were just not worn any place else. They were not appropriate. Flip flops are getting ahead of themselves. Who in there right mind would wear flip flops to see the president? Tacky! These do not even look like the nice fashionable ones...these look like the cheap 99 cent flip flops.
Flip Flop--FLOP!
Flip Flop--FLOP!
Today, of course there are many choices and I have had all sorts of beach shoes-whatever was popular at the time. Today beach shoes range from very casual to nice. This next pair is my pair of flip flops that I have now. They were my salvation in my shoe emergency! I have yet to get them near any sort of water for fear of messing up the beads. I can wear these with summer dresses and be called "dressy." Not for the beach.
I want a pair of the original Beach Crocs. I think I am going to get these for my birthday. Will I wear them to the beach? I am not sure. Maybe. I will make sure that I do not spill any juices from salad on them. I seem to be famous for messing up shoes that way!
What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~
This Week's NATIONAL ETIQUETTE AWARD goes to.... North Korea!
North Korea- Wikipedia
World Factbook- North Korea
Democratic Republic of North Korea- government site
Infoplease- North Korea
I hereby grant North Korea the National Etiquett Award, as it is customary in that country to remove shoes in homes. Or at least, I am guessing that is the case, with it being a Korean custom. North Korea is one very secretive place and most people outside the country know little of what life is like for North Koreans. If I was to visit North Korea, I would probably not be able to visit the homes of any North Koreans to find out if they removed their shoes. And I would probably be given a government minder to make sure I did not go talking to any North Koreans about forbidden subjects.
North Korea has been in all the headlines this week with the firing of those missiles. It seems a dumb thing to do, but it is a very volatile region of the world. I do hope there is not going to be an East Asian war in the event of my going to Japan as a missionary.
North Korea is a terrifying place. Angie expressed her horror at the regime in Turkmenistan, but they are amateurs next to the repression and totalitarianism of North Korea. Stalinism never came to an end in this place.
To make matters worse, the county has suffered from famine in recent years.
Christian activity is strictly prohibited with dire consequences for believers.
You hear Christians in the West say some silly things about persecution. You often hear the glib comment that 'persecution makes the church grow.' Well, there seems little evidence of spectacular church growth in North Korea despite the worst persecution on earth. I am sure there are some very brave Christians who share their faith as best they can in that nightmare regime, but let us rejoice in the freedom of the West and rejoice in the huge church growth of its free neigbour, South Korea.
Some Christians say that all believers will show spectacular courage in the face of persecution. Well, if they only lived in North Korea, they might be able to be sure of that. I am not so sure I would show much courage in the face of torture and slave labour camps.
For me information about the suffering church worldwide, please visit:
Barnabas Fund
Open Doors International
World Factbook- North Korea
Democratic Republic of North Korea- government site
Infoplease- North Korea
I hereby grant North Korea the National Etiquett Award, as it is customary in that country to remove shoes in homes. Or at least, I am guessing that is the case, with it being a Korean custom. North Korea is one very secretive place and most people outside the country know little of what life is like for North Koreans. If I was to visit North Korea, I would probably not be able to visit the homes of any North Koreans to find out if they removed their shoes. And I would probably be given a government minder to make sure I did not go talking to any North Koreans about forbidden subjects.
North Korea has been in all the headlines this week with the firing of those missiles. It seems a dumb thing to do, but it is a very volatile region of the world. I do hope there is not going to be an East Asian war in the event of my going to Japan as a missionary.
North Korea is a terrifying place. Angie expressed her horror at the regime in Turkmenistan, but they are amateurs next to the repression and totalitarianism of North Korea. Stalinism never came to an end in this place.
To make matters worse, the county has suffered from famine in recent years.
Christian activity is strictly prohibited with dire consequences for believers.
You hear Christians in the West say some silly things about persecution. You often hear the glib comment that 'persecution makes the church grow.' Well, there seems little evidence of spectacular church growth in North Korea despite the worst persecution on earth. I am sure there are some very brave Christians who share their faith as best they can in that nightmare regime, but let us rejoice in the freedom of the West and rejoice in the huge church growth of its free neigbour, South Korea.
Some Christians say that all believers will show spectacular courage in the face of persecution. Well, if they only lived in North Korea, they might be able to be sure of that. I am not so sure I would show much courage in the face of torture and slave labour camps.
For me information about the suffering church worldwide, please visit:
Barnabas Fund
Open Doors International
Tsubasa Shoes
This artist really has some interesting work. These shoes are almost a little scary. Digital art really takes on a new meaning. Bill Reichardt is the artist. Except from his "about" page. More can be found there. My favorites are Jewel, Spurple and Chocolate Mint. Be sure to check out all the different galleries he has. Seems to me that most tends to be fetish art.
For Tsubasa, diversity is a key element for his life and artistic expression. While he enjoys most aspects of erotic art and the fetish world, Tsubasa chooses to live life that is enriched by his freedom to create and express his visions. His art has moved from being a medium where every work produced is experimental to a media permeating our culture and lives.
His digital art has not simply replaced other media or tools, but has established a new set of media; media that could not be created using any other methods, either technical or conceptual. Its another media in addition to painting, sculpting, photography, film making. The goal for Tsubasa is digital media. In early 2002, Tsubasa released a complete compilation of his digital erotic art on DVD. This digital media is a culmination his ever evolving art form which ultimately establishes the Digital Art Document.
Yard
Spurple--Love this one!
Shoe Tube
shoe
Mech
Jewel--this is my favorite!
GNB
Dragon
Chocolate Mint
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The magnificence of a Tsubasa piece cannot be absorbed with just one glance. His ultramodern erotic portrayals immerse the viewer in the splendor of a compelling journey revealing a world of fantasy, where artistic play and expression is unfettered by any one notion of "reality." Both undecidedly real and fantastic, the art ensnares the viewer¹s unconscious desire to interpret the imagery on their own accord.
What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~
Happy Fourth of July!
What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~
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