Friday 5 for July 8: Food Pyramid

Friday 5 for July 8: Food Pyramid

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I premise answering this by stating that I have had to cut back on a lot of different types of food since I had heart bypass surgery. And since this blog entry is about health, I am also cross posting it to my Bypass Avenue blog. I had to change my lifestyle as to not eat out very often, especially at plate lunch places and other fast food restaurants. For most of my life I was a junk food junkie until it almost cancelled out my entire existence.

1. What constituted your most recent six to eleven servings of bread, cereal, rice, or pasta?

Recently Cheerios cereal but also Corn Chex, Rice Chex and Quaker Oats oatmeal. Multigrain bread, English Muffins, Minimal scoop per meal (not always since I had to cut back) of brown rice.

2. What constituted your most recent three to five servings of
vegetables?

Eat a lot of veggies every day. Most recently - Onions, Zucchini,
Broccoli, Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, Carrots, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Manoa Lettuce - Eat most just raw/fresh, other times cook with protein food such as fish or chicken, or just boil / steam them - like broccoli and carrots.

3. What constituted your most recent two to four servings of fruit?

Strawberries, Kiwi Fruit, Orange, Banana

4. What constituted your most recent two to three servings of yogurt, milk, or cheese?

2% Low Fat Milk or Skim Milk. Avoid cheese.

5. What constituted your most recent two to three servings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, or nuts?

Salmon, Saba Fish, Ahi so far this week. Salmon is my favorite.

I like nuts but can't eat them all the time.

By the way - Pepper is the new salt!

Friday 5 for July 1: Ten Years!

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog. Happy 10th Birthday!

1. How long would it take you, via the quickest means available, to get to the place of your birth from where you are right now?

Driving from my place to Honolulu International Airport - About 15 minutes in light traffic.

Arrive at airport one hour before flight time, check-in and all that - 90 minutes.

Flight to Hilo International Airport on Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 717 - 50 minutes approx. gate to gate.

Drive to my sister's place in Honokaa - 50 minutes.

So let's add this up: About 3.5 hours travel time to get to my hometown and childhood home.

2. If a traveling food show were to visit your neighborhood, what are some unique, regional foods it would spotlight, and where would it go to get them?

While not exactly a traveling food show, our neighborhood has about 4 or 5 lunchwagons parked on several of the side streets in the area. They are "traveling food shows" in the fact that they have plate lunches, bentos and drinks for sale. Most of them sell popular ethnic foods which is quite common in Hawaii.

3. When were you last in ocean waters?

Got my feet wet last month walking along Waikiki Beach. I live about a mile away at the closest point.

4. What disposable item do you almost never use because you greatly prefer the non-disposable version?

In the 1990s and early 2000s I would have to say cameras since I always preferred a regular camera over the cardboard disposable ones. Today you can hardly find a disposable camera around.

5. What's the schwag that's physically closest to you right now?

I don't go to enough events to get any promotional items. I guess the annual car show is the one I have gone to in recent years where I have picked up brochures, free bags and other small items. The best schwag I get from them is a free yearly Motor Trend magazine subscription just to fill out the annual survey online.

Photo: Mamane Street in Honokaa, Hawaii.

Friday 5 for June 24: Scattergories Part 6

What random letter was generated by the online random-letter generator (this doesn’t really count as one of your five questions)? R

1. What brand or model of car, whose name begins with the letter, would you like to get?

R is for Rolls Royce. Nothing but the finest for this letter!

2. What summer activity, whose name begins with the letter, are you looking forward to?

Rest and relaxation though I do that year round.

My 4 radios + Rolls Royce: iPod Touch, Insignia, Alcatel, Sony.

3. What’s an item in your desk whose name begins with the letter?

Radio!

4. What’s something, whose name begins with the letter, that you find frightening?

ROACHES! The Big B-52 ones that walk upside down on the ceiling and fly toward you when you try to kill them. Yuck!

5. If you had to get a tattoo on your upper arm, what’s something whose name begins with the letter that you could live with?

I'm not a tattoo kind of a guy but if I got one showcasing the letter R, I guess it would combine a Rolls Royce with a Rose... then you got a Rose Royce... oh that was a disco group from 1976.

Have a great weekend folks!

Friday 5 for June 17: A Week of Good Behavior

I am blessed to be alive and share God's gifts with you.

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1. What’s the dumbest thing you did this week?

Skipping my daily walk.

2. In what way did you save yourself time or energy this week?

Usually walking to the nearby places that I shop at. Saved energy by not using the car.

3. How were you wasteful of personal and natural resources this week?

Sometimes I flush 2 or 3 times per session.

4. When this week did you take advantage of the opportunity to keep your mouth shut?

When I am with my friend Daniel, I avoid the subject of rail. He is strongly pro-rail, I am anti-rail. Best not to bring it up if we want to preserve our friendship.

5. In what way this week were you blessed or fortunate?

After my heart surgery nearly 6 months ago, I am blessed to be alive each and every day. Plus God gives us daily natural gifts to enjoy -- flowers, sunshine, sunrises, sunsets, the moon, stars and more.

Friday 5 for June 10: Drama

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1. What was the last stage play you saw?

"Camelot" at the Army Community Theater in Fort Shafter 10+ years ago.

2. Which film genres do you like most, and which least?

Top 5 film genres:

1. Science Fiction
2. Fantasy
3. Action / Adventure
4. Drama
5. Comedy

Least: Pornographic

3. Why do some people seem always to have some kind of drama in their lives, while others apparently have very little?

A lot of the drama has to probably do with cost of living issues, drug use, disease, anxiety, unemployment, etc. It depends on how people live their lives.

4. One element of classic tragedy is the hero’s tragic flaw.  What’s yours?

Fear

5. What are some lines of a play’s or film’s dialogue you can recite from memory?

"We aren't in Kansas anymore"

"Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

"I am your father"...

"Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son"....

"There is another ... sky..walk...er"

 OK that's 4 of them. Not very good at line memorization.

Friday 5 for June 3: WordPlay

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1. What’s a five-letter word describing the day you had today?

Sunny

2. What’s a six-letter word, ending with N, describing your plans for the weekend?

nothin

3. What seven words describe the last in-person conversation you had?

Helpful, hopeful apologetic rebuilding a lasting friendship.

4. How would you make an acrostic of the letters in SUMMER to describe your hopes for the summer?

Standing, waiting for the sunrise;
Understanding that clouds may block the sun.
My camera and I, we'll patiently wait;
Momentarily the sun peaks from behind...
Eureka! I press the shutter, take the shot.
Ready for the next image of summer to pop.

-- by Me! :)

5. What three rhyming words describe your most recent vacation?

Distant evident displacement

Friday 5 Extra - 26 Things About Me

Twenty-six things about me...



A- Age: old
B- Biggest fear: B-52 cockroaches, drowning, large earthquakes, severe inflight turbulance
C- Current time: 4:27 a.m.
D- Drink you last had: Water
E- Every day starts with: What time is it?
F- Favorite song: Too many to mention here.
G- Ghosts, are they real?: Skeptical about that but I'd believe if I got a photo of one.
H- Hometown: Honokaa
I- In love with: Cameras, Vinyl Records
J- Jealous of: Ugly guys who got a cute girl
K- Killed someone?: Nope.
L- Last time you cried? When my Mom died.
M- Middle name: "Ah" as mistakenly made by computers all the time.
N- Number of siblings: 3
O- One wish: Get tons of money
P- Person you last called: A friend
Q- Question you're always asked: How do you do this on the computer?
R- Reason to smile: I woke up, I'm still alive.
S- Song last sang: Hi Hi Hi with the Paul McCartney & Wings record
T- Time you woke up: 3:30 a.m.
U- Underwear color: white
V- Vacation destination: Molokai?
W- Worst habit: Swearing
Y- Your favorite food: The good stuff my doctor tells me I should not eat.
X- X-Rays you've had: Chest, teeth, arm
Z- Zodiac sign: Fish.

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