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Celebrate Cuddle Up Day
The warm history of Cuddle Up Day
Cuddling releases oxytocin. This hormone alone has huge health benefits. Besides giving us warm and fuzzy feelings, oxytocin reduces pain. So when the cold has made those muscles and joints ache, cuddling can help reduce those aches and pains. Oxytocin also helps reduce heart disease, reduces blood pressure, stress, and anxiety. If it weren’t free, cuddling would probably be covered by health insurance because it’s such a huge health benefit! Communication is more than just e-mails, texts, or conversations. Physical touch can communicate trust, commitment, safety, and reassurance. This goes for human to human contact as well has human to pet contact. Cuddling communicates all these things which are vital to a strong relationship. Cuddling can also boost sexual desire. Dopamine is released stimulating the brain to seek pleasure.
But dopamine also can improve memory and focus as well. Cuddling also helps a mother better bond with her infant or toddler children. As cuddling releases Oxytocin, it relaxes the mother so breastfeeding may come more easily. It also enables sleep, even when the mother might have difficulty sleeping with a newborn in the house. Cuddling can actually help with social anxiety which helps you have a positive outlook on the world. Cuddling doesn’t even have to be between you and your romantic partner. Don’t have someone to cuddle up with? Make an appointment for a massage. Studies show massage provides similar benefits. You can also go and hug your friends or play with your pets. If you don’t want to be so social or don’t have a furry friends, never fear friend! You can rub your own shoulders, take a warm bath or of course, get a massage.
Joke of the Day
Cashiers are always checking me out.
Word of the Day
exigency
MEANING:noun: An urgent need or requirement.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin exigere (to demand, to drive out), from ex- + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, exiguous, incogitant, intransigent, cogent, axiomatic, ambage, agonistes, and actuate. Earliest documented use: 1588.
USAGE:“How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.”
Emily Dickinson; Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series; Roberts Brothers; 1891.
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.”
Emily Dickinson; Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series; Roberts Brothers; 1891.
Idiom of the Day
What does 'And all that jazz' mean?
This idiom means that everything related or similar is included.
'The future' as envisioned from the past
This Day in History
1838 - Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th U.S. state.
1942 - The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat.
1957 - Elvis Presley made his last appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York City.
thanks, Frances
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, January 6:
Exceptionally hard working, your work means the world to you, and if you don’t choose a career path that truly reflects your goals, you are unlikely to be very happy! You are a list maker, an organizer, and a person who loves order, even if you don’t always feel you are orderly enough. You are at your best when you have a goal in mind. You are loyal and somewhat of a perfectionist. As peace-loving and security-minded as you are, there is a decidedly stubborn and argumentative side to your personality. Famous people born today:
In 1953, Presley went to Sun Records and created a demo. In 1954, Sam Phillips of Sun Records had Presley come in for a recording session with guitarist Winfield Moore and bass player Bill Black. During the session, Elvis recorded That's All Right. Presley's recording was played on a Memphis radio station, and he began touring with his music. In 1955, RCA acquired Presley's Sun contract for $40,000. Presley's career really took off in 1956. He recorded some of his well-known hits including Heartbreak Hotel and Blue Suede Shoes. Heartbreak Hotel would become his first No.1 hit. Elvis made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Sept. 9, 1956, which was seen by approximately 60 million people. Presley's appearance on the show made him a national celebrity. He made a second appearance on the show on Oct. 28, 1956. Presley's first movie, Love Me Tender, was also released that year. On March 24, 1958, Presley was drafted into the army as a private. RCA continued to release Presley's songs while he served in the military, and he was honorably discharged from the military in 1960. Presley continued to act in movies and record music after leaving the military. Presley passed away on Aug. 16, 1977. In his lifetime, Presley won three Grammy awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and after his death, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
Pictures of the Day
knit
thanks, Helen
Crochet Patterns of the Day:
crochet
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crochet
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Quarantine Cooking Recipes
CROCKPOT RECIPE
VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
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ADULT COLORING
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SUDOKU .. very hard
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What’s The Worst Haircut You Ever Had?
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CLEVER
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