this just in -- powersauce is amazing!

[bossymarmalade]

I'm drinking something called "X 24/7 Time-Zone Fusion" right now. It's the "Sunrise Start-Up" variety and is apparently orange-carrot-mango flavour. It tastes pretty good, but on the back it says, "A New Attitude Beverage with X-Appeal. X 24/7 is blended and designed for your Personal Time Zone. Here's our #1 Best Liquid this year! We won't mind if you drink this during any other time zone moment. Add it to your Hit List."

Um...wtf? Also, all that filibuster and it's only 10% juice. Whatever, Chinese Pencil Case drink.

In non-mango-related news, today is United Nations Human Rights Day. In order to support this, Amnesty International is organizing a letter-writing campaign over the next twenty-four hours. It's not hard to do and only takes a little bit of time, some reading about the issues and causes that require urgent action, and a stamp. If you do write a letter or two, be sure to let them know for their tallying purposes.

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[xoverau.livejournal.com]

...#1 Best Liquid?

For some reason, that's just. Ew.

Thanks for the Amnesty link. Been looking for something worthwhile to do with the fam for Christmas.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing the juice tastes nice, or I'd be...disturbed.

You're welcome for the link -- I find that writing a letter never takes very long, but it feels fabulous when you mail them. They've also got a greeting card action where you write cards to actual prisoners of conscience, which sounds like a fantastic and meaningful thing to do.

I'm very glad your dad's results came back benign, man. I remember how nerve-wracking it was when my mom had a tumor removed from her spinal column, and that's the kind of anxiety nobody needs -- especially around this time of year. My best wishes to you and yours.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm really interested to go to the site and have a look around now. We were talking about being lucky today, and how we'd like to share that with people who didn't have so much.

Thanks for the good wishes. *hugs* My father already has one type of cancer, though it's been asymptomatic...that's part of why we were so worried. I'm glad your mother was all right...?

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

The surgery was the best thing that could have happened to her, actually -- she'd been steadily becoming more and more debilitated and was practically bedridden, and the doctors had no idea what was wrong. Then she went into the hospital for a checkup one Friday morning, they found a fatty tumor the size of a cigar lying along the bottom section of her spinal cord, and bam, they operated on it right away. It was quite the shock for my sister and me to come home and dad telling us our mother was in surgery! But now she's a-okay and back to her usual busybody self. Heh.

And that's probably really more than you wanted to know. *g* Hope things stay in the green zone for your dad.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Oh, so she was almost immobilized and got much better after the surgery? How wonderful! I love stories like that, they're semi-miraculous. Put me in a hopeful mood.

Not that I need much of a boost today. Heh.