What's with these TV cooks and their love of the taste of licorice. They're forever putting tarragon and fennel in everything. Pretty soon, they'll be trying to shove star anise down my throat. Yuck, if they like licorice so much why don't they just go buy themselves a bag of Twizzlers.
If you asked me a month ago where Dubai was or if there was some huge Trump development going on there, I'd give you the same answer I have right now. "Duhhh, what?" - Yeah, I don't know anything about either, but I just received a "FW:FW:FW:FW:" email showing how tall a building was there and I looked it up to see if it was a joke.
Here is the site:
http://www.thepalm.ae/jumeirah/
Here are some photos:
The Palm Jumeirah is an artificial island created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government. It is one of three islands called The Palm Islands which will increase Dubai’s shoreline by a total of 520 km. The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and the original of three Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira) under development by Nakheel. It is located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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The complexities of the construction have been blamed, in part, for the extended delays to the completion of the project, the date of which has been pushed back multiple times and is now nearly two years late. Further controversy was engendered when it was revealed that after launching the project, Nakheel increased the number of residential units on the island (with a concomitant reduction in the amount of physical space between individual properties) from the originally-announced 4500 (comprising 2000 villas and 2500 apartments) to an estimated 8000 without recompense to those investors who had purchased early in the expectation of greater separation between properties.[7] This increase was attributed to Nakheel miscalculating the actual cost of construction and requiring the raising of additional capital, although, as with any issue related to the Palm that is not wholly positive in tone, Nakheel has never commented publicly on the matter.[citation needed]
Doubts have also been expressed about the quality of the construction and finishing of the properties on the island and the real ability of the infrastructure on both the Palm and the mainland to cope with the stresses of the sheer number of people leaving from and returning to the development every day once complete.[7]
Furthermore, there are numerous concerns about the environmental impact of the Palm. As originally constructed, the breakwater was a continuous barrier, but it was realised that by preventing natural tidal movement, the seawater within the Palm was becoming stagnant. The problem was corrected by adding an additional gap in the barrier. [8] As explained in the National Geographic Channel's documentary Impossible Islands, part of its MegaStructures series, the breakwater was subsequently modified to create gaps on either side, allowing tidal movement to oxygenate the water within and prevent it stagnating, albeit less efficiently than would be the case if the breakwater did not exist.[8][9] This same episode addressed the issue of marine life as well, but stated that the breakwater has actually encouraged marine life and that new marine species are moving into the area.
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You can pick your friends, but you shouldn't pick your friends nose.
I must be really juvenile. I saw this when I went to prune the grape vine today and it struck me funny...
I guess I should trim the grape vine more often.
Do you ever find yourself reading a spam email and just being mesmerized by the content?
Here is my latest one:
The subject was just :
>:-(
And the body (along with a link to make my girlfriend happy) is:
Called in and informed of this resolution, offered yours!
and her agitated hand waved to them from you, with excellent
reasons, what would you do some ties at a haberdasher's.
i was bored but angrily who made your millions for you?
me and another convention which was sitting at pittsburgh,
to make peace. And that he might have peace, pryderi for
opinion's sake, had been murdered at alton. Not care for
anyone. If you should be contemplating great force on them
both, almost knocking them beg pardon for only looking solemn
laughter was dangerous man. No, no, not dangerous say, a
man me ri', i treats zem ri'! Shee! Sure! Cried the alert
little man, adjusting his glasses with nervous him. He seems
a likeable chap—american, i believe..
I thought it was a joke, I really did. Then I looked it up myself and couldn't believe my eyes..the pain. Yes, for only $16.99 you too can have your very own plastic Rachael Ray GB..Garbage Bowl.
I use the garbage bowl method because I compost everything that the rabbit won't eat..
What's next..are we gonna be treated to Rachael Ray tooth paste for giant teeth, a steal at only $18 a tube?
is Targets plus size woman's department so small that some of the women it's meant for can't even fit inside?
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and crabbing.
You call it calamari, I call it bait...
Hope you have a great day!
really..well, half a day off. When was the last time that happened? I would have blogged about it and I don't remember blogging about anything like that so it's been at least over a year and a half. I've had alone time but not time I've taken for myself. I usually use that time to catch up on stuff that needs to be done around here..not today though, I got the opportunity and jumped on it faster than a greased pig being pursued by a pervert farmer.
Like I said earlier today, DeWitte's radiator hose broke at work so he had to fix it after. Nathan wanted to help so DeWitte kept him at the office for the afternoon so that they could do it together after work..he's such a good Dad.
The first thing I did was come home, grab my 20% off coupon for Bed Bath and Beyond and shaved my legs. After the bleeding stopped, I went off and got a pedicure. It's been a while. The place I used to go to isn't even owned by the same people anymore. There was a sign by the cash register that said "Please sing-ins" but I didn't see anybody singing anywhere, ins or outs.
After that it was off to BB&B. I got a new mandolin. Not the kind with the strings, I can't play one of those but the slicer kind which I do ok with. I haven't sliced a finger off yet, anyway. My old one had gotten really dull. After that I went to Target but as I was walking over, I noticed that everybody around me was on the phone. I called DeWitte to see how he was doing with Nathan so that I wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. I got a new bra and new underpants. DeWitte asked if they matched, I told him only if them both being comfortable counts.
After that it was off to the fancy grocery store. So fancy I don't usually feel like I belong but I did just have a pedicure and I had new underpants, even if I wasn't wearing them just then. The people there are so fancy you hear words like "commodities" and "brokers" dropped so often you trip over them. You also hear them talk about the nerve of the proletarian's like me invading their incredibly high quality produce department. It's a place so fancy, you can accidentally buy baby leeks instead of green onions and the 16 year old cashier knows the difference. I didn't even know the difference. That's ok, though, the baby leeks went into the dill and baby potato salad even if they did cost $2.99 instead of the 79 cent green onions. I should look at my receipts more often.
By contrast, my grocery store, which I had to stop at because I forgot to buy dill and you can't make dill and baby potato salad with baby leeks without dill, I followed a guy with a sleeveless camofloge shirt around because he was going at a snails pace. A place so un-posh, I didn't feel weird paying for my $20 plus order all in one dollar bills because I was trying to get rid of them. I had so many in my purse, I was starting to feel like a stripper.
I need to do this more often. Maybe I'll have a look at DeWitte's alternator belt.
