My letter to Disney, in regards to the "Free Gift" for Earth Day, which was a very cute water bottle.


I think it's fantastic that you are promoting Earth Day awareness with your free gift giveaway but I wanted to know more info about the plastic the water bottles are made from.  The plastic is quite thin which leads me to believe that it can be potentially unsafe in room/warm temperatures.  Will these bottles emit any toxins? According to some research, #7 plastics (which is what these bottles are labeled) has been linked to chromosome damage and hormone disruption. Not to mention they are "Made in China"...who knows what other kinds of toxins can be present, with China's less than stellar track record with products. I do realize that there are some products that are safe but as a concerned parent and consumer, I want to make sure this is one of those products that are safe to use with peace of mind. Please advise.

Thank you,
Teresa Kwon

Here's my two cents regarding, The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacob.

AJ Jacob’s recount of his year long journey of living biblically was interesting and humorous but sadly, he seems to have completely missed Jesus.  I have to say, I’m a little disappointed that he didn't give the bible full representation.  He said he was living out the bible but it seemed to be limited to the Old Testament, although I have not read the book.  What about the New Testament?  If he’s going to live biblically, shouldn’t both parts be included?  Did he not realize that that the terms Old and New Testament didn’t imply two separate books but rather a part 1 and a part 2 of the same bible.  It’s like only reading the first chapter of a book and claiming to know what the whole book is about.

Christian faith extracts most of its ideas of “living” from the New Testament. AJ equates his biblical living to Christianity or Fundamental Christianity, but what he really lived out was Judaism.  Had AJ given as much effort into reading and learning the New Testament as he did to “living out” the Old Testament, he could have enjoyed the good news about Jesus’ extraordinary birth and life.  He may not necessarily believe Jesus is the actual son of God, which is okay, but he would have learned that to some degree the New Testament was a revision of the Old Testament because those laws the he so poignantly points out as absurd are unattainable by Man, as he discovered.  That is why Jesus came; to abolish the laws; leaving only one law to obey…Love; love God and love others.  In essence, this is the whole conclusion of the Bible.

Basically, AJ lived as a Pharisee.  He lived the letter of the law, obviously to his best efforts, without understanding the heart of the law.  What a tragedy.

- Strange and uhmmmm, strange...Me.


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I woke up Saturday morning  with alot of tension and pain at the base of my neck, unable to move my neck,  I knew right away it wasn't from "sleeping wrong" because the location of the pain was very different, which is mostly pain along the side of the neck you slept wrong on. Nevertheless, the day had to go on, so I hoped it would pass as the day warmed up. Was I wrong. It did not go away.

So this morning, I made myself an appointment to see my favorite Chiropractor, especially because I need to have full range of motion this coming weekend when Ed and I go up to Sonoma for Barrel Tasting.  There's nothing like a stiff neck to spoil the wine.

Guess what the diagnosis for my problem was? You'll never guess.

I told him I didn't know what happened. Still confused and dazed I continued to tell him that this time I wasn't snowboarding when I got injured instead I was @ Disneyland, spending a harmless night with my family.  Maybe I'm just getting old?

Much to my relief, it wasn't signs of old age. It actually was the cold night at Disneyland that did the damage.  It was the wind. (Who would have thunk it?)  He went on to explain that in Chinese Medicine, they would call my condition "Wind" because the wind had cause my body to go out of balance.  Western Medicine would call it a "Stiff Neck" but the Chinese would go further to explain that the stiff neck was caused by the wind blowing down the back on my neck causing me to tense up, throwing the naturally curvature of my neck out of balance.  Who knew a person can suffer from wind damage? Thank goodness of Chinese Medicine.

Well, I'm feeling much better now.  He stuck on the "Bruce Lee" electrodes and electrocuted my neck/back, which I secretly love, and gave me a few neck exercises to do to help realign the curvature of my neck.  I felt so much better I even went to my first Cardio Kick-boxing class and didn't notice any pain.Yipee! I'm going back tomorrow for one my electrocution and after that, Time should do the rest.

So...a WARNING to all, BEWARE of sneaky WIND for he can cause serious Wind damage.

So, we have officially started Lent.  We as a family have decided to give up sweets/desserts.

As I was reminding the kids this morning of Lent, with some "hopeful" concern, Shelby mentioned that there were still many Madeleines left and that they wouldn't last the 40 days, already trying to find a way around the fasting, so I had to remind her and the kids that as we sacrifice so too will the Madeleines. They will have to take up their cross of mold and sacrifice their lives for Jesus. It will be an honorable death.  Much to my amusement they were tickled by my personification, which made the start of day 1 of 40 proceed with optimism and joy.

The next question is....What do I do with those Madeleines? Shall I give them to a neighbor/friend or just throw them out? Hmmm.