5 (More) Ways to Make Cut Flowers Last

If you’ve been reading Apartment Therapy for a while, you know we’re big advocates of keeping fresh flowers in your home. Here are few more tips for making them last, whether they’re freshly picked or a favorite flower that you buy all the time.
4.  If you have a favorite flower you use often, look online for a flower-specific tips. For example, hydrangeas last longer if you gently smash the end of each stem and immerse them in ice water before arranging. Hollow-stemmed flowers like delphiniums do well if you turn the flowers upside down, fill the stems with water, and seal them with a wet cotton ball before arranging. Poppies, and other flowers that ooze sap, last longer if you first immerse the bottom 2 inches of their stems in boiling water for 10 seconds.  

wow. that is way more effort than I will EVER make, but it’s kinda interesting.

To see a horse in your dream symbolizes strength, power, endurance, virility and sexual prowess. It also represents a strong, physical energy. You need to tame the wild forces within. The dream may also be a pun that you are “horsing around”. Alternatively, to see a horse in your dream indicates that you need to be less arrogant and “get off your high horse”. If the horse has two heads (one on each end), then it implies that you are being pulled into two different directions. Perhaps your strength or power is being divided. Or you are confused about some sexual matter.

To see a black or dark horse in your dream signifies mystery, wildness, and the unknown. You are taking a chance or a gamble at some unknown situation. It may even refer to occult forces. If the horse is white, then it signifies purity, prosperity and good fortunes. To dream that you are being chased by a white horse, may be a pun on chaste. Perhaps you are having difficulties dealing with issues of intimacy and sexuality.

To see a dead horse in your dream indicates that something in your life that initially offered you strength is now gone. This may refer to a relationship or situation. Consider the phrase “beating a dead horse” to indicate that you may have maximized the usefulness of a certain circumstance.

To see a herd of wild horses in your dream signifies a sense of freedom and lack of responsibilities and duties. Perhaps it may also indicate your uncontrolled emotions. If you are riding a wild horse, then it represents unrestrained sexual desires.

To dream that you are riding a horse suggests that you are in a high position or position of power. Alternatively, it indicates that you will achieve success through underhanded means. You lack integrity. If you are riding a horse that is out of control, then it means that you are being carried away by your passions.

To see an armored or medieval horse in your dream, refers to your fierceness, aggression, power and/or rigidity. You may too confrontational. Alternatively, you may be trying to protect yourself from unconscious material or sexual desires that is emerging.

To dream that you are bathing a horse represents a renewal of strength and vigor. You are experiencing a burst of energy in some aspect of your life.

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamthemes/animals.htm

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Pizza Physics!!

Sure, folding (New York-style) pizza in half along its middle helps keep it from bending and dripping, but why? There’s some cool math and physics behind why bending thin sheets makes it harder for your delicious pizza to end up on your shirt or dripping down your arm.

Basically, stretching folded pizza is hard, and gravity just doesn’t have the force to do it! Pizza and physics, together at last!

By Colm Kelleher for TEDEducation

Scientific and Mathematical evidence that the way I (and all real New Yorkers) eat pizza is right and the way everyone else does it is WRONG!!!

Nice things!

Nice things about my new office:

~it’s MINE, all MINE!

~I can dance in my chair all I want and no one will know. or care. ok, fine, i never had a problem doing this in front of my officemates, but it’s nice to not worry about the CEO walking in with investors. or new colleagues thinking i’m weird.

~I can lock the door and change for my weekly Pilates class and not the bathroom.

~It has an AC that actually cools off the space. And it the AC has a remote!*

~Everyone I work with has walked by and smiled and said something nice about me having my own space. Feels nice. And a client who I mentioned moving offices to inferred that I meant my “own” office and congratulated me too.

~I’m looking forward to getting some new furniture and my own coat hooks!

~I have some fun/pretty/nerdy things planned for the walls once the new furniture is in place

~I’ve managed to nab both my favorite poster and my favorite chair in the office for the space. Granted I’m probably the only person who works here who has a favorite poster and a favorite chair, but all the more reason I should have them in here.

*currently the remote does not have batteries, but I will remedy this