A Consumer's How To #43: Buying & Selling Online

Online shopping makes shopping much easier ever. I have used some online store to buy stuff especially books from amazon. I buy one of my calling card for about 10 years. I always concerned about credit card information. By reading some of the pay pal information I am kind of understand how it works and it sounds a better way to play for online shopping. I will look into it for better understand and if I like to use the pay pal to pay.

Wellness #42: Staying Well

I tried the "Symptom Checker" . It didn't have me the answer I expect.

I used the National Library of Medicine website . I found the doctors I was looking for. It is convenient.

I made a personal health report using My Family Health Portrait . It is interesting.

Wellness #41 - Going Green - Part 2

I start to

recycle news papers and other papers.
combine trips to save gasoline
drive the road that has less traffic lights and try to use brake as less as I can.
drive the car more smoothly.

I am going to buy a digital thermometer to program our AC and heating system.

Wellness #41: Going Green - Part 1

I used the green calculator from national wildlife fedration website. The average carbon dioxide produced by my family is lower than the national average. I am so proud of my family.

I have never been a local famer's market. I will go to the one at Rice University Campus because it's closer for me and I can go there after work. I am excited to go there.

Wellness #40: Fitness

A lot of interesting information. I like the exercise at your desk the most and start doing some of them at my desk sometimes if I remember it.

I checked my BMI and calorie requirements. My health age is only 17 and life expectancy is 80. I am happy with the results.

Wellness #39: Nutrition

I have opened an account for nutritiondata.com. I use the tool compare the nutrition between walnuts and pecan. I read some information from the website. It's convenient to have those useful tools on web.

Recipe: Pork Tenderloin over Greens with peanut-orange Sauce

1 pound pork tenderloin
1/2 cup orange juice
1/3 cup orange marmalade
2 tablespoons chunky peanut butter
1 tablespoon dijon mustard
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
8 cups baby spanich leaves, rinsed and spun dry

1. Using a sharp knife, trim any visible fat from the tenderloin. Next, slice off the silver skin.

2. Combine the orange juice, marmalade, peanut butter, mustard, curry powder, salt and cayenne in a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process the mixture until smooth and transfer to a zip-top plastic bag. Add the pork and gently squeeze the bag to coat the pork. Seal the bag and place it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

3. Oil the grill grates and preheat the grill to medium.(Alternatively, place and oven rack on the top level of the oven and preheat the broiler.) Remove the tenderloin from the plastic bag-saving the marinade-and place the pork on the grill9or on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray). Cook the pork for 10 minutes on each side. ( The meat will be rosy but cooked through.) Transfer the pork to cutting board and tent with aluminum foil for 5 minutes to rest.

4. Bring the peanut-orange marinade to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer the mixture for 1 minute.

5. Lay out four dinner plates and place an even portion of spinach leaves on each one. Cut the pork into thin slices and arrange over the greens, drizzling with any accumulated meat juices. Spoon the warm marinade over the pork and greens.

Swerves 4. Each serving is 2 cups greens, 4 ounces pork and 3 tablespoons sauce.


Nutrition Facts

4 Servings

Amount Per Serving

Calories 354.2
Total Fat 11.0 g
Saturated Fat 3.1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.8 g
Monounsaturated Fat 4.8 g
Cholesterol 89.5 mg
Sodium 584.0 mg
Potassium 629.3 mg
Total Carbohydrate 26.7 g
Dietary Fiber 3.8 g
Sugars 16.5 g
Protein 36.5 g
Vitamin A 148.7 %
Vitamin B-12 10.4 %
Vitamin B-6 26.6 %
Vitamin C 73.5 %
Vitamin D 0.0 %
Vitamin E 1.8 %
Calcium 13.3 %
Copper 7.1 %
Folate 5.8 %
Iron 31.4 %
Magnesium 12.2 %
Manganese 11.2 %
Niacin 32.5 %
Pantothenic Acid 9.2 %
Phosphorus 32.3 %
Riboflavin 27.0 %
Selenium 78.1 %
Thiamin 73.1 %
Zinc 21.4 %
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Maps # 31 Have Map, Will Travel

I have watched Google Create a Map Tutorial for a few times. They are putting out new functions constantly. I use driving directions all the time, but I have learned a lot of useful new things from the exercise, to drag the direction line to change to the way I want to go, to look at the street view of the destination surrounding before going there, etc. I tried to put a place mark on the map. All the places I wanted have marks already. I put a correction request on a wrong mark that I fund instead.

Sound #26 Making ( or listening to) music together

I looked "MySpace, Mog and Imeem". There are a lot of stuff going on there. It seems a good place to kill time and have fun for music lovers.

I used JamStudio to make a piece of music by piano and guitar.

My daughter and her friends use a program to remix several pieces of songs they like to make a bigger song. They use the remixed song to perform a talent show for their graduation ceremony of the middle school.

Spring Cleaning #28, #29, #30

It is important to get things done efficiently, so it will make people's life easier. It is interesting to read GTD and learn something new.

I have used Yahoo Calendar and email to remember and remind me for doctor's appointments and other important events for a few years. Google Calendar has more interesting looking. It seems more fun to use. I might try it later. I also want to share my calendar with my family, so everybody can put and check family events on it.

I deleted all my old emails and kept only a few useful one in my sub folders.

I have never saved any files on P drive, S drive and Z drive.

#24 #25: The sound of music!

I have read the instructions of #24, #25. I downloaded a piece of classic music "Katrine_Gislinge-Beethoven_piano_concerto_no._2,_1.movement" from "music. download.com" and transfered it on to a MP3 player. I also made a CD of my download. I downloaded(check out) a disc of music from our e-library too. It is pretty cool.