I spent my Christmas Eve at Mel’s house.  She had a party attended to by a bunch of personal trainers, health conscious people.  We had a great time and I met a bunch of great new people.  Christmas time is not always my favorite time of year.  My birthday falls close to christmas and it kind of depresses me.  Not sure why anymore and I’ve let go of it.  Maybe it’s because of the Christmas gifts.  I’ve always said that a homemade christmas gift idea was better than buying one. My idea of a perfect christmas is living in the backwoods, in a log house and then creating my own christmas presents for the people I love.  I guess it’s from my early years growing up watching The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie.  Those were good times.  I think the world would be a better place if we lost a bunch of technology.

Some of my best memories of Christmas involve all the goings on around the homestead of Charles Ingles and the family get togethers on The Waltons.  I really think I’m having “earlier life” flashbacks because those are my best Christmas memories.  Weird eh?

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Getting really interested in The Science of Sleep and how we’re affected by sleep.  Tom Venuto has a great
arcticle on my website about how much sleep do we need. Sleep can also be affected through sound.  Found a great product called Holosync Audio Technology that creates states of deep meditation and gives you the benefits of long-term, deep meditation, but much more quickly.  Very cool stuff.  I’m listening to the free CD they send out right now.  Go get it… they really do send out a free cd letting you sample their audio technology.  Did I say “very cool” yet?

Oh, and after 14 years without seeing my top lip, I shaved my moustache off.  Comments ladies?

I was at a Halloween party at my skydive club here in Edmonton, when someone mentioned that I should get rid of it.  Another girl quickly agreed, so I began to take some polls.  The result was my decision to just shave it off with the fallback position that “it will always grow back”.  I really like having it shaved now and would never go back.

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We finally got snow here in Edmonton.  It’s only a few days away until Dec 21 when we start rotating back towards the sun and the days begin to get longer again.  I really hate the winter.  Lack of sun and all that.  I’ve been doing some tanning the past couple of years over the winter months just to deal with SAD.

I find that I sleep a lot more in the winter months.  I saw a news article a few days ago about the effects of sleeping and weight gain.  I started looking into it, sleep that is, doing more than my normal “sleep research” as it were.  I found a lot of very interesting information about sleep and it’s effects.  Turns out too much sleep might be a bad thing.  Have a look over at Power Sleep System.  I also posted a few articles on my website about Sleep, The Recommended Hours of Sleep by Tom Venuto, Sleep Myths, Why Poor Sleep Lowers Your Immune System  from my blog and Can sleeping 8 hours kill you faster?

I’m tanning in a tanning bed from about Nov until February every year now too.  I find that I feel better from having a tan and I just seem to feel better in general as well.  Managing my sleep and getting some rays seem to be the right thing to do.

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