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According to an email that went around the interwebs a while ago - the best thing a man could ever say to his wife after a hard day was ‘here have some wine’. Apparently a great way to relax - and at some level yes that’s an okay thing, but sometimes you need something more. Something fulfilling and different. Not just the haze of an alcohol induced coma.

Here’s the way you said you would relax…

• If the day is draining,
  just quit all your complaining,
  take your brain off training,
  your drugs are waiting.
• Could I sleep in a box?
  Could I sleep with a fox?
  Could I sleep here or there?
  Sleep is relaxing anywhere!
• When my mind is waxing,
  and all that thought is taxing,
  I turn on that box thing.
  And forget.
• I could listen to a cello.
  I could spend time with my fellow.
  But I’d rather get mellow
  with my cat named yellow.
• Coming home, after a hard day of school work and sitting on the couch eating dark chocolate and whatching movies while it is raining outside…
• Grab a good book and go sit somewhere, letting your mind sail away to worlds unkown…
• Lie back, take it easy. Not worth getting breathless and wheezy.
  Relax the mind and you will find everything today is light and breezy!
• I relax by imbibing two hard ciders (6.5% alcohol by volume) in the company of my good friend Russell. 3 of them is *very* relaxed =)
• By soaking in a hot bath full of bubbles, a glass of your favourite plonk beside you and soft music in the background.

Now I think that last one is good fun even if you’re not drinking plonk. I’ve tried relaxing by watching the box too - but it just seems I get more stressed. I’m not sure that that’s the best way to relax. I did a 30 day challenge a while ago - not to watch the box - it was some of the most relaxing times I’ve had in recent memory.

Some of the most relaxing times I’ve had have been while reading - fantasy novels are great stuff to read and hanging out just not doing much. I was reading the local newspaper two days ago (they had an article on one of my favourite bands) - now that was great. Lara - my wife was knitting and nothing much was going on. Totally sweet.

So because of the delivery of the message - Rose wins today. Hanging out with her cat Yellow seemed to me the best way to actually relax. If only I had a cat. Thanks for the tip Rose!

Ever had a real argument about what kind of pet is the best? A good friend of mine gets into actual arguments over the benefits of a cat compared to a dog. He really does care - it is kinda sad.

We’ve got four contestants for the best animal today - first up is Kerrie with a great animal that shoots electricity out his nose to find food.

A platypus, a animal you rarely see,
is the cutest animal there ever can be.

I hear there are only 300 species of platypus around the world today - they certainly aren’t seen a lot here in Australia.

‘R’ suggests something more in the feline category as the best animal in the world…

Big or small
A house, a jungle, a building tall.
A cat is queen
a king
all things!
To me I think
anyway.

But no Jen isn’t so happy with cats - she’s more of a duck person than anything else. I’m beginning to think that men don’t have any opinions about animals. There are so many cool animals in the world - like hippos who fart out their mouths. I mean how much more ‘man’ can you get?!

DUCKS! It’s just in the way they waddle and quack - they obviously heard an oboe and thought - “let’s sound like that!’

Rebecca knows what’s going on when she suggests the dung beetle.

Making the most of a bad situation, the dung beetle takes dung, builds homes from it, eats it, also stopping us from eating the beetle.

Or what about the giraffe? The giraffe doesn’t have a voice box and thus makes no noise. Plus they have an amazing circulation to just get the blood from their body up to their head without too much or too little force. A little too much and they would have exploding heads! Now that would be an animal.

But today’s winner? ‘R’ is our winner today - I’d love to give you more details but that’s all I have! Maybe R is a pirate.

My gift to you today is to complete the last competition and start the new competition. I’ll begin today’s lesson by showing you what turned up in my inbox over the last billion days I was not around…

• My best present ever is a U2 painting that my friend made for me. It’s got lyrics and a caricature of U2. The best ever!
• A Hello Kitty gumball dispenser!
• Worst was nothing for three years
• My daughter should have been born on my birthday, came four weeks early, still good as new when my birthday finally came around…
• A nightgown, polyester
  Black fleece, floral plaid striped sleeve
  A scary looking cat with white fur
  On the front, the sight makes one heave.
• A $20 dollar note someone gave me which i had to split it with my friend whose birthday was also that day
• Peanuts were not.
  If you want to know it,
  Just read again this
  Awry message. but you
  Must read it vertically
  As chineses do.
  !
• Giving birth to my daughter, I only lost my uterus, when they said I could lose my life. That was my gift of Grace.

I think you already know the winner - the sight that makes one heave would give it away. It seems a horrible sight - I’m quite glad I will never have to see it. Unless it somehow ends up on my doorstep - at that point I think I would call the police and have it removed by some sort of bomb squad or something. Gross… but good entry Rebecca your dollar is well deserved, I am sure you could buy something far superior in taste with the dollar you’re getting.

A nightgown, polyester
Black fleece, floral plaid striped sleeve
A scary looking cat with white fur
On the front, the sight makes one heave.

What’s your favourite?