Kindness! Could it hurt you?
Have you noticed lately that being kind to someone is like pulling teeth? I don’t really mean from myself to someone else but visa-versa. I don’t know about you, and perhaps it is just me noticing things, but people are either just ignoring others, snapping peoples heads off, or just down right being nasty to one another. I know that on a daily basis I am not innocent of being short with others but I do at least try to do things with a smile, a cheerful voice and a bit of a spring in my step. Being a teacher, and always under the watchful eye of kids, I try to lead by example. However, a select few others seem to do this. My teaching prep and upbringing have taught me that children follow the old motto of “monkey see, monkey do” so in turn if they see a teacher, who is a place of respect and is seen as a leader, being rude, disrespectful and unkind to others they are coming in contact with, then why should they be kind and nice as they know they should be? Some people just seem to have that kind of personality, I guess. I just don’t see how being always rude to others makes you a happy person. If you are always looking for and acting out in unkind and rude ways isn’t that most likely how mostly everyone you come in contact with see you? Aren’t first impressions supposed to be the impression that stays with people. So I say to all of you out there in blogland, try to do a random act of kindness, smile at someone and actually mean it, say things a little less harshly, and I can almost guarantee you that you will feel all the better for it and, who knows, you may have just made someones day.
Smiles and happy salutations. 
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Hi, My name is Alison and I am a Food Network addict
So whenever there is nothing on TV (or in most cases even when there is) I inevidably end up on the Food Network. I will watch just about any show they have to offer. (NOTICE: I said just about any) I have my favorites… Anything involving Alton Brown, Unwrapped, Food Network Challenge, Next Food Network Star, Paula Deen (mmmmmm….butter), Rachel Ray (only if I have any interest in what she is making AND she is refraining from saying “YumO” 65 bazillion times), ok so you see why I have a problem. On any given day if I even get the remote for a fraction of a second, from my husband, I will turn to FN, and if he even makes a move to take the remote and attempt to change the channel he will get the evil eye (oh come on you all know the look). I will gently remind him that if I have to sit and watch his addiction ( WWII movies and ANY John Wayne movie ever made) then he can sit and watch FN with me and Cole. I will say that I have learned quite a bit from watching FN. I have made some new things that will get made again and I have also made some that I think in my subconcious taste memory I can unfortunatly still taste. But there is really no point to this, I just wanted to come clean, they say admitting you have a problem is the first step in recovery, but do I want to recover from this addiction? Well ask me that the next time I make a new “family favorite” and end up silently thinking ” so this maybe wasn’t the best thing to make” and then suggest we have ice cream for dinner. Ok off to get my next FN fix….ohhohooooohhhooooooo “Iron Chef America”
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