Pat and Diane joined us between Christmas and New Years and we celebrated and went to a show. We all stayed home New YEars Eve and then we all cooked Mexican food for New Years day along with the Linds. Michele joined us for a tour of the floats on the 2nd of January. It was a nice celebration.
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Sue enjoys the New Years celebrations with family and friends.
The girls dig into the Christmas stockings (OK, paper bags!)
Sue in the kitchen... Everything is normal
Capsaicin-
noids irritate the trige- minal nerve cells (the pain receptors
in the mouth, nose and stomach), releasing the chemical messenger
Substance P.
This causes the brain to produce endorphins, the morphine-like natural painkillers that give the body a sense of well-being.
The
"runners' high" is caused by these same endorphins.
Sue and Michele taking in the parade the day afterwords