A night with Nicholas Sparks

Just a night at home with the ladies of the house. Watching the notebook, with some pizza and wine. :)

A christmas show

So growing up, our parents taped a bunch of ctrismas shows on one tape for us. We called it " the christmas tape ." It even had the old 1980's commericals on it as well. CLASSIC!
Anyways...
The of the shows that was taped on there was called The Christmas Toy.
Imagine being the light of someone's life, the favorite plaything of a child, only to feel rejected when a new plaything gets in the way?
"The Christmas Toy" is a 1986 made-for-TV Christmas special that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV) in December 1986, and centers around a playroom full of toys, including Rugby, a self-centered tiger, Apple, a sweet-natured curly-haired doll, Balthazar, an aged teddy-bear, and Mew, a catnip toy mouse, among others. The toys come alive when no one is around. On Christmas Eve, Rugby learns that he will be "replaced" by a new favorite toy, and is determined to get inside the box of the new toy. Rugby and Mew go on an adventure to the living room, where Rugby opens the box of Meteora, a She-Ra-esque doll that causes havock. When Rugby and Mew go back to the playroom, Mew lags behind, and becomes frozen, just like the cute little clown doll, Ding-a-Ling. Can Rugby still compete for his owner's heart?

This was a great program that, according to my mom, never aired again. It took forever to be released on video, but those of us who saw it in 1986, and even have it on tape, remember it fondly. I have mine on a tape my parents made in 1986, and it has the old "Kraft" recipe commercials, and my best friend and I thought the recipes were disgusting looking. I love how Kermit hosts the program, and the characters are the same voices as the great Muppets we all know and love.My favorite parts are when Rubgy opens the box to find Meteora, the introduction with Kermit the frog, and the ending, which I won't give away!
This was well-done and beautiful to watch, and a great Christmas story that teaches viewers not to be conceited, and that you're never forgotten.
Definitely watch this at Christmas time this year, and remember an undying classic for all ages.
( I got the plot off of IMB, I didn't know how else to word it )

Bunker

Just another Friday getting ready  for Das Bunker. Lacing up, putting the boots on, and getting ready for some dancing!!!

A beer and Southwest Tacos is the way to go!

It is the end of the first week of November and I already have the whole month booked. :(
I'm completely hooked on The Nanny ( with Fran ) and Ghost Adventures.
I lost all my weight, and looked amazing is my sexy Halloween costume. I now pull off size 36 corset. I'm happy!
Next month is wedding and family month. One of MY best friends since
13 is getting married on the 27 of December. The bridesmaids and I are heading to Arizona next weekend for her bachelorette party. :D It's going to be freakin sweet!!!!!!!!!!
I am back at the Zoo with the wild and crazy animals and kids. I will be moving from giving tours to giving presentations. Which is a hugh step!
That's it for now!
Hurrah for the coming of the end of the year!

115th Anniversary of the Discovery of Xrays

The Beginning of Radiology was Born!

X-ray technology was invented completely by accident. In 1895, a German physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen made the discovery while experimenting with electron beams in a gas discharge tube. Roentgen noticed that a fluorescent screen in his lab started to glow when the electron beam was turned on. This response in itself wasn't so surprising -- fluorescent material normally glows in reaction to electromagnetic radiation -- but Roentgen's tube was surrounded by heavy black cardboard. Roentgen assumed this would have blocked most of the radiation.

( if you are completely lost in what you are reading so far, STOP reading!! I'll explain it to you later in easier terms :) ) LOL!!!
I understanding this because I work in radiology :P

Roentgen placed various objects between the tube and the screen, and the screen still glowed. Finally, he put his hand in front of the tube, and saw the silhouette of his bones projected onto the fluorescent screen. Immediately after discovering X-rays themselves, he had discovered their most beneficial application.

Roentgen's remarkable discovery precipitated one of the most important medical advancements in human history. X-ray technology lets doctors see straight through human tissue to examine broken bones, cavities and swallowed objects with extraordinary ease

X-rays are basically the same thing as visible light rays. Both are wavelike forms of electromagnetic energy carried by particles called photons . The difference between X-rays and visible light rays is the energy level of the individual photons. This is also expressed as the wavelength of the rays.

Our eyes are sensitive to the particular wavelength of visible light, but not to the shorter wavelength of higher energy X-ray waves or the longer wavelength of the lower energy radio waves.

Visible light photons and X-ray photons are both produced by the movement of electrons in atoms. Electrons occupy different energy levels, or orbitals, around an atom's nucleus. When an electron drops to a lower orbital, it needs to release some energy -- it releases the extra energy in the form of a photon. The energy level of the photon depends on how far the electron dropped between orbitals.

When a photon collides with another atom, the atom may absorb the photon's energy by boosting an electron to a higher level. For this to happen, the energy level of the photon has to match the energy difference between the two electron positions. If not, the photon can't shift electrons between orbitals.

The atoms that make up your body tissue absorb visible light photons very well. The energy level of the photon fits with various energy differences between electron positions. Radio waves don't have enough energy to move electrons between orbitals in larger atoms, so they pass through most stuff. X-ray photons also pass through most things, but for the opposite reason:
They have too much energy.

They can, however, knock an electron away from an atom altogether. Some of the energy from the X-ray photon works to separate the electron from the atom, and the rest sends the electron flying through space. A larger atom is more likely to absorb an X-ray photon in this way, because larger atoms have greater energy differences between orbitals -- the energy level more closely matches the energy of the photon. Smaller atoms, where the electron orbitals are separated by relatively low jumps in energy, are less likely to absorb X-ray photons.

The soft tissue in your body is composed of smaller atoms, and so does not absorb X-ray photons particularly well. The calcium atoms that make up your bones are much larger, so they are better at absorbing X-ray photons.

health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/tests-treatment/x-ray.htm

I could danced all night!

Julie Andrews is still my favorite one who sings this song!

Eliza Bed! Bed! I couldn't go to bed!
My head's too light to try to set it down! Sleep! Sleep!
I couldn't sleep tonight. Not for all the jewels in the crown!
I could have danced all night! I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting;
Why all at once My heart took flight.
I only know when he Began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night!
Servant 1 It's after three now.
Servant 2 Don't you agree now, She ought to be in bed.
Eliza I could have danced all night! I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me.
I could have danced, danced danced all night!
Mrs. Pearce I understand, dear.
It's all been grand, dear. But now it's time to sleep.
Eliza I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night.
And still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings,
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he Began to dance with me I could have danced, danced, danced All night!
~My Fair Lady~

Tea Time

There is nothing better than having tea time with your best friends. :)