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I feel a bit disappointed that I didn’t get to be a ‘junkie’. Alas.
Month: October 2007
riddle
Here’s a question for you: what do little girl’s tongues, a hot glue gun and an ice pack have in common?
The answer is that they are all tools I have been using this morning in preparing the invitations for Kristian’s naming ceremony. The little girl’s tongues were used to lick the envelopes before sealing them; the ice pack was used for sitting the wax stamps on before making impressions; and the glue gun is used for melting the wax onto the envelopes.
We ordered some of this wax a month or two ago but this is the first experimentation I’ve done with it. Previously I used the old fashioned kind of wicked wax sticks. I think it will take practise still to get the technique perfected, but I’m quite pleased with how the seals came out. I wasn’t using the ice to start with but I think it makes a definite difference to the quality of the impression.
I want more sealing stamps. I’ve been lusting over the tetragrammaton one for ages but it’s so expensive. :(
self-medicating
Study finds chocolate has anti-depressant qualities
A study of 3,000 people by the Black Dog Institute found 45 per cent of people with depression craved chocolate.
“Of those 45 per cent, 60 per cent found that the chocolate improved their mood when they were depressed,” Joanne Crawford, study co-author said.
This is hardly new news though, I have read of studies like that before. And I’ve been conducting a long term, small sample study of the phenomenon myself for, oh, my whole life. :)
They believe it is the endorphins and opoids in chocolate which make people feel more relaxed.
“The opoids are morphine-like and lower pain and that also flows through into mental wellbeing,” Professor Gordon Parker from the Black Dog Institute said.
One does love those opium-like substances.