tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62400228563935971382024-02-07T22:00:40.891-08:00yes & yaya collection of words pictures quotes dreams stories sighs pies and poo. (no, not really poo. i hope.)ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-12077122005622259102013-11-16T21:33:00.000-08:002013-11-16T21:33:45.075-08:00Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive<br />
Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away<br />
Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make<br />
Climb limits past the limits<br />
Jump in front of trains all day<br />
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And stay alive<br />
Just stay alive<br />
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Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches<br />
Seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot and bright<br />
Find where the heat's unbearable and stay there if you have to<br />
Don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light<br />
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And stay alive<br />
Just stay alive<br />
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People might laugh at your tattoos<br />
When they do get new ones in completely garish hues<br />
I hide down in my corner because I like my corner<br />
I am happy where the vermin play<br />
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Make up magic spells <br />
We wear them like protective shells<br />
Land-mines on the battlefield<br />
Find the one safe way<br />
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And stay alive<br />
Just stay alive
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ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-1769056404147540002013-05-01T21:02:00.003-07:002013-05-01T21:02:58.429-07:00Prunella vulgaris; The "All-Heal" medicinal plant. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"It does not matter how much you use. It will not harm you. It is one of the few plants where “If a little bit is GOOD, then More is BETTER” is not dangerous thinking. Prunella is: Antiestrogenic–prevents estrogen-induced cancers; protects cells’ Mitochondria; protects red blood cells against hemolysis. It is antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory. It is an immune stimulant, increases production and mobilization of NK (natural killer) cells. Inhibits histamine release, preventing anaphylactic shock and immediate allergic reactions; protects the kidneys and brain against lipid peroxidation. Prunella controls Herpes in all forms, including Shingles and Herpetic Keratosis. PLUS, Prunella inhibits Shigella, Pseudomonas, Bacillus typhi, E coli, Mycobacterium tuberculi (Tb), and Staphylococcus aureas, including MRSA. The whole plant will help prevent food poisoning. Prunella can be used dried or tinctured. One can collect seeds from plants in the wild, in late Summer, and sow them in a prepared bed before Winter, and will have a lifetime supply of the plants."<br />
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ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-69342189123483226702012-06-21T19:35:00.000-07:002012-06-21T19:37:44.790-07:001 step forward, 18 and 1/2 steps back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-63789783997882998142011-05-11T11:59:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:48:14.560-07:00Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<b>Kindness</b><br />
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Before you know what kindness really is <br />
you must lose things, <br />
feel the future dissolve in a moment <br />
like salt in a weakened broth. <br />
What you held in your hand, <br />
what you counted and carefully saved, <br />
all this must go so you know <br />
how desolate the landscape can be <br />
between the regions of kindness. <br />
How you ride and ride <br />
thinking the bus will never stop, <br />
the passengers eating maize and chicken <br />
will stare out the window forever.<br />
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Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, <br />
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho <br />
lies dead by the side of the road. <br />
You must see how this could be you, <br />
how he too was someone <br />
who journeyed through the night with plans <br />
and the simple breath that kept him alive. <br />
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, <br />
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. <br />
You must wake up with sorrow. <br />
You must speak to it till your voice <br />
catches the thread of all sorrows <br />
and you see the size of the cloth.<br />
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Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, <br />
only kindness that ties your shoes <br />
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, <br />
only kindness that raises its head <br />
from the crowd of the world to say <br />
It is I you have been looking for, <br />
and then goes with you everywhere <br />
like a shadow or a friend. </div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-59889914019492397932011-05-04T10:38:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:46:50.443-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But do not ask the price I pay</span></i></span><br />
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</div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-27693424826664390742011-04-15T04:41:00.000-07:002011-04-15T04:41:35.534-07:00hahahaha i just love this interview. charlene is the best.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://teamcoco.com/content/charlyne-yi-shows-her-heartbreaking-range">Charlene Yi Show Her Heartbreaking Range on Conan</a></div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-84984679069108429362011-04-10T12:29:00.000-07:002011-04-10T12:34:23.455-07:00California Redwoods... they are calling me.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hnatt.com/photos/Redwood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://www.hnatt.com/photos/Redwood.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pulsarwallpapers.com/data/media/916/Coastal%20Redwoods,%20Northern%20California.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="http://pulsarwallpapers.com/data/media/916/Coastal%20Redwoods,%20Northern%20California.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/10/us/JP-TREES-1/JP-TREES-1-articleLarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/10/us/JP-TREES-1/JP-TREES-1-articleLarge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.museumsoftware.com/Redwood_Loggers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="http://www.museumsoftware.com/Redwood_Loggers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
</div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-22663393265064812002011-04-09T11:06:00.000-07:002011-04-09T11:06:35.358-07:00so hard to "take the other to lunch" when "the other" thinks this way<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46-percent-of-mississippi-republicans-want-interracial-marriage/">46% of Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned</a><br />
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A new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal.<br />
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Results were <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_MS_0407915.pdf" target="_blank">announced Thursday by Public Policy Polling</a>, a polling firm based in North Carolina. The company asked 400 Republican primary voters about their preferences for candidates for state and national offices, as well as their views on interracial marriage.<br />
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A whopping 46 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they think interracial marriage should be illegal, while only 40 percent said they think it should be allowed. Another 14 percent said they were unsure.<br />
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It was only 45 years ago that Mississippi legalized interracial marriage, and this poll indicates it continues to be a controversial subject.<br />
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</div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-57430322150640611802011-04-05T09:56:00.000-07:002011-04-05T09:56:46.882-07:00What a challenging idea, but one I'd like to attempt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ElizabethLesser_2010W-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/TedTalks-1609.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1052&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=elizabeth_lesser_take_the_other_to_lunch;year=2010;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDWomen;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ElizabethLesser_2010W-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/TedTalks-1609.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1052&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=elizabeth_lesser_take_the_other_to_lunch;year=2010;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDWomen;"></embed></object></div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-31839852970439066992011-04-02T15:46:00.000-07:002011-04-02T15:46:43.765-07:00Some exercises in feeling good<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">"You never have to tell yourself how maahvelous you are again. These three exercises from Six Seconds, a California-based international nonprofit organization that offers training in emotional and social intelligence, are designed to develop a core of competence—and an earned sense of confidence.<br />
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<b>Paper Quilt:</b>One of the keys to making good decisions is developing emotional literacy—that is, tuning in to your own reactions and noticing that you may have many feelings at once. Take a small piece of paper, fold it twice (you'll make four squares), and unfold it. Think of a big moment that happened yesterday. In one of the squares, enter a symbol or design showing how you felt. What else did you feel? Write it in another square. Repeat for the last two squares. Now that you can see the range of emotions you had, which one got the most attention? Was it the most useful one to focus on? Did you ignore some of them?<br />
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<b>Integrity Pennies:</b>Learning to manage your reactions more carefully is crucial to self-mastery. First thing in the morning, put 10 pennies in your left pocket. Each time you say or do something other than what you genuinely intended (maybe you softened a response too much or were harsher than you meant to be), transfer one penny to your right pocket. Keep practicing to reduce the number of right-pocket pennies.<br />
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<b>The Silent-Movie Game:</b>This exercise helps you use the power of your feelings for the greater good. With a friend at lunch, on the bus, or in an airport, pick a few people and guess what's going on inside their minds. Then compare notes on what you glean the subjects are thinking, feeling, and doing, and what each most needs now from a supportive ally or friend."</div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-79436837563917463552011-04-01T07:04:00.000-07:002011-04-01T07:04:38.122-07:00i want to live in maui and learn to play the ukulele<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">but the only song i would learn is The Bare Necessities from The Jungle Book :) <br />
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this version is my favorite, the words are a tad different but i like it: <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>(painting by sarah joncas. http://www.teapartylove.digitalinkz.com/) </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And just for kicks here's two more of my favs from her:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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"Perhaps the final banishment of the idea comes from Carol Dweck, PhD, a well-respected professor of psychology at Stanford University, whose latest book is <i>Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.</i> <b>'People think that self-esteem is the most important thing in the world, that you can give it to children, almost on a silver platter, by shielding them from criticism and praising their skills and talents,' </b>says Dweck, who has been studying how kids succeed and fail for nearly 40 years. 'It's a very common and harmful belief. In the old days, the parents would be driving kids home from Little League saying, 'When you struck out, you didn't keep your eye on the ball.' Now they say, 'The ref robbed you.' The parents think they're helping them, protecting them from injury. In fact, they're making them so vulnerable that they're not resilient.'<br />
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"'What's really effective is praising the process that the child is engaging in,' Dweck explains. "Effort, strategy, perseverance, improvement—these things tell them what to do next time." In one recent experiment, junior high students took a workshop in study skills, but only one group got two 25-minute lessons about how intelligence can be developed, learning that the brain grows new neurons when challenged. <b>In a single semester, that group improved their grades, motivation, and study habits compared with the other. </b><br />
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"The shift in thinking by researchers like Dweck and Baumeister dovetails with a revolutionary educational philosophy called social and emotional learning, or SEL, which takes the eminently sensible position that if students are going to be intellectual risk takers, they need to feel safe, and teaches a wide range of skills to help them navigate the world. Psychologist and science writer Daniel Goleman's best-selling 1995 book, <i>Emotional Intelligence,</i> made popular the idea that children, not to mention adults, can and should be instructed about empathy, self-awareness, self-discipline, establishing positive relationships, making responsible decisions, and handling challenging situations constructively.<br />
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'Self-esteem or self-efficacy has to do with a realistic assessment of your strengths and weaknesses,' he says, 'but SEL includes other things: how you manage stress and mobilize paralyzing emotions. Self-esteem is much better reframed as self-mastery.'"<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">src: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Groundbreaking-Research-on-Self-Esteem/1 </span></i><br />
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<h3 style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h3><h3 style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In your next letter I wish you'd say </span></span></span></h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where you are going and what you are doing;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how are the plays, and after the plays</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what other pleasures you're pursuing:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taking cabs in the middle of the night,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">driving as if to save your soul</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where the road goes round and round the park</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the meter glares like a moral owl,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the trees look so queer and green</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">standing alone in big black caves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and suddenly you're in a different place</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where everything seems to happen in waves,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and most of the jokes you just can't catch,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like dirty words rubbed off a slate,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the songs are loud but somehow dim</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and it gets so terribly late,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and coming out of the brownstone house</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to the gray sidewalk, the watered street,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one side of the buildings rises with the sun</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a glistening field of wheat.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Wheat, not oats, dear. I'm afraid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if it's wheat it's none of your sowing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nevertheless I'd like to know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what you are doing and where you are going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>source: goooogle</i></span></div>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864495414615711873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240022856393597138.post-66618530965409829952011-02-13T08:21:00.000-08:002011-02-13T08:21:52.271-08:00My Bootleg Horchata Recipe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Ingredients:<br />
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(I made ONE single mug. Obviously double, triple, quadruple recipe depending on how much you want to make.)<br />
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-Left over rice water (the stuff you strain out when you have too much water in the pot after the rice is cooked)<br />
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-Soy milk (Sweetened, plain, or vanilla)<br />
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-Cinnamon<br />
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-Sugar<br />
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Mix ratio 1:1 of rice water and soy milk (I used semi-sweetened, I think vanilla would be best) in a mug.<br />
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Zap in microwave until it boils (or over stove..but in that case put it in a pot..).<br />
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Add one to two teaspoons of sugar depending on the sweetness of your soy milk.<br />
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Shake as much cinnamon as you'd like there. I did 5 shakes.<br />
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Let cool and taste. Adjust sugar and cinnamon if something is lacking. Cool in fridge, then add ice and enjoy! Use a straw. It makes it last longer.<br />
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PS: I drank it warm, but only because it's cold here... and I couldn't wait.<br />
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