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January 4, 2006
Happy New Year, my friends! I’m on a roll. My sweet husband insisted that I read
“Younger Next Year* turn back your biological clock” by
Chris Crowley
and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
and it has changed my life. There is also a
“Younger Next Year for Women” as well. I’m reading that now just to see what’s different. Knowing that exercise is good for us is not a new concept, but these authors have managed to click the “on” button in my brain that gets me to the YMCA at some time every day except Sunday. It’s a miracle.
This is what did it for me: Our ancient brains receive codes from what our body does. When we exercise, our body understands that we are in a time of growth and renewal, as remembered through ancient knowledge from eons ago when our ancestors had to chase wildebeests on the African savannahs for food. When our bodies are sedentary, our body receives the message that there is no game and we are in a famine time, so it duly locks in those fat cells. Of course, sedentary does not mean “famine” in this age and time! Exercising our bodies on a regular basis helps us to age well instead of just decay, which is our body’s default mode after a certain age.
I cannot say that I have lost any weight doing my daily hour of hard exercise nor can I say that I look any better, but I sure feel better. My lab results, however, in the tests that count, will likely be gorgeous!
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There is a new seafood restaurant in Peachtree Corners that has been open for about a month. The Big Fish Seafood Grill, located in the old Buffaloes space on Holcomb Bridge Road at Spalding, is a wonderful addition to our many fine restaurants over here in western Gwinnett. The food is so good that three days after we discovered this place, which our son told us about, my husband and I went back for more. Proprietor
Nick Caliendo
formerly owned five retail fish markets in downtown Atlanta for 22 years; Big Fish is his first sit-down restaurant. Nick knows fish, my friends. It’s a casual dining place and there is a menu for kids. My husband went into ecstasies over the steamed oysters on the half shell, which he dearly loves. I’m happy to leave him to enjoy what has always looked like ox snot to me as long as I can savor a bowl of Nick’s Boston clam chowder, which is the best recipe I’ve ever tasted. If you enjoy seafood (and its health benefits), you will love this place. We are trying to go often because there will come a time when it will be hard to get a seat in there.
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No handbills! Gwinnett County’s Litter Control Ordinance, Section 90-33, thankfully contains a provision for the distribution of handbills on private property. It says: “(a) Private Property: It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, deposit, leave, place or cause or permit the throwing, deposition, leaving or placing of any handbill, unless excepted by this Ordinance, upon any private property if the mailbox is specially marked with the identifying insignia (Gwinnett County green sticker) which signifies that the occupant does not wish to receive handbills. The identifying insignia is to be posted on the bottom right corner of the mailbox door. The insignia will be green, state “HANDBILLS,” with the universal insignia for “NO” superimposed over “HANDBILLS,” and identify the enforcing ordinance.”
It should be noted that handbills for political, charitable and other nonprofit purposes are exempt from this Ordinance.
So, my friends, if you are sick of the handbills stuck to your mailbox or tossed in a baggie of pebbles onto your driveway for you to bend over and pick up, get yourself one of these small green No Handbill stickers to post on your mailbox. We posted ours last October, but of course, we still got stuff stuck to our mailbox and pitched in our driveway. Now that we are in the New Year, the Shook grace period is over and if somebody puts a handbill on my premises, I will send it to Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, 750 S. Perry Street, Suite 310, Lawrenceville, GA 30045 and GC&B will follow up by contacting the violator. The Gwinnett Code states that any person who violates this Litter Control Ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 and not more than $1200. For more information, you may call Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful at (770) 822-5187.
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Folks, I think all of us who wear glasses and need crowns on our teeth are being taken for a gigantic ride by the labs that prepare these items. I have yet to have anybody give me a detailed rundown of just why these items are sooooo expensive and would welcome an explanation so I could adjust my poor attitude. I purchased a new pair of eyeglasses yesterday and nearly fell over when I was told the cost: $557.50. And that is without the non-glare oil slick film or a designer frame. (I wanted large tortoise shell plastic frames with no disfiguring nosepieces—I am so DONE with those-- and found some, too, after searching the usual sources, at
Dr. David Dudowitz’s
in Duluth. He had about a dozen big horn-rimmed frames in a box that he unearthed from somewhere, probably holdovers from years ago and the cost on them sunk. Nobody is selling them these days—all the eyeglass frames basically look alike and I did not want any more of those!) When I complained to a friend today about this price gouging, I was told I was lucky--his glasses cost him $800! Where will all this end, my friends? This industry needs to be examined, and so does the dental lab industry, I think. I compared the price of a dental crown here in Atlanta to one in Indianapolis, and the Indiana crown was cheaper by more than $200. Would someone please tell me who is in charge of these gold mines? Are they regulated in any way? It seems that we, as consumers, are quietly putting up with an awful lot!
Hope all is well, and thanks for reading.
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