Bah-Humbug

One of my gifts for someone is not going to get here by christmas. Even though I ordered it back on the 4th of December. And talking to the people on the phone is just as frustrating. I say "Is there any way you can check on the status of the order because it should've shipped out 2 days ago (so your website says) and it still has not left your warehouse. I ordered this way early so that it would get here in time for Christmas and paid for faster shipping but I guess that doesn't help if it never leaves the warehouse right?"
Then she says " Ma'am I'm sorry but i don't think it will get there by christmas. I mean 5-10 business days is more like a guess. Maybe you should tell whoever you're giving it to that it's not going to get there and that you will givie it to them after christmas."
What?! ARE YOU SERIOUS? What kind of answer is that. If you promise 5-10 business days then it's your job as a company to get it done. ( And then she says "Well it's the holidays". Excuse me but I ordered this ON DEC 4th! I mean maybe they should work on more than just Mon-fri. Especially if you have more orders because of the holidays.
And of course i can't cancel the order at this point (of course), the only thing they could do was refund my money for the shipping. Also, this makes me angry because it's not some mom and pop website, this is NFLshop.com, the official store of the NFL.
Annoying and ridiculous.

Annoyed

Annoyed. That's all I have to say about that.

At least the Clash of the Choirs brought a smile to my face.

Me on my wedding day.

My favorite song at the moment.

You only stay with me in the morning
You only hold me when I sleep
I was meant to tread the water
But now I've gotten in too deep

For every piece of me that wants you
Another piece backs away

You give me something
That makes me scared alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
Because someday I might know my heart

You only waited up for hours
Just to spend a little time alone with me
And I can say I've never bought you flowers
I can't work out what they mean

I never thought that I'd love someone
That was someone else's dream

You give me something
That makes me scared alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
Because someday I might call you from my heart

But it might be a second too late
And the words that I could never say
Are gonna come out anyway

You give me something
That makes me scared alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something

You give me something
That makes me scared alright
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try
Please give me something
Because someday I might know my heart

Know my heart, know my heart, know my heart

You Give Me Something by James Morrison

I think my ipod hates me

So today was a little bit of a hectic and crazy day. Well maybe hectic is the wrong word because it wasn't the kids who were streesing me out but the adults. I know this sounds bad but it's really hard to work for someone who doesn't know what they are doing and has significantly less experience. Very frustrating to say the least. I won't go much into this because it only makes me upset and gets me worked up so we will leave this alone for now.
But then to add to this no good very bad day - my ipod. I was listening to my ipod in the car this morning on the way to work and I always put it on shuffle because it makes me feel like my own personal radio station. Imm crazy I know - but there's something really great about listening to a song by thrice and then hannah montana. Makes me feel good. Anyways - here I am listening to my ipod minding my own business, singing along and then BAM. Just the song you didn't want to hear because it reminds of someone whom you'd probably like to forget altogether. SO you hit next. BAM BAM BAM. It was like one after the other. I was angry at first and frankly I wanted to throw my ipod out of my car window. But then I had a though. Maybe my ipod was trying to tell me something. Stop shaking your head. I know it sounds crazy but I think these kinds of little signs are all around us - saying call that person you haven't talked to in awhile or today is gonna be a great day. And it's not always a song - it could be anything. Funny how life works huh? God is always giving us little nudges like that.

bye bye for now.

The Tiddy Bear and the Vajapocalypse

yes that''s a real commercial


and now for the Vajapocalypse...

Yo Gabba Gabba

3 Topics never to discuss in public: Religion, Politics and THE GREAT PUMPKIN

Happy Halloween!

This one belongs to you

And the words they take their meaning (It's all you said)
and the flame, it loses colour (It's all you said)
Take take take a while, take a while (It's all you said)

Knowing that it's far from over
This one belongs to you

Time shows us that all that ever mattered
all that ever mattered leaves us in the cold
If you ever believe this what you need
it will spin around and shatter
throw you to the floor
as it leaves us in the cold

And the dream you think I'm making
while the house I built is breaking
Take take take a while, take a while (It's all you said)

Knowing that it's far from over
this one belongs to you

Time shows us that all that ever mattered
all that ever mattered leaves us in the cold
If you ever believe this what you need
it will spin around and shatter
throw you to the floor
as it leaves us in the cold

I remember the train you came in on
Everything I want kept calling
I remember the chill that came over
Everything I love went falling

Time shows us that all that ever mattered
all that ever mattered leaves us in the cold
If you ever believe this what you need
it will spin around and shatter
throw you to the floor
as it leaves us in the cold

No R2D2

Today was a really great day for a few reasons.
1. I got to hang out with an old friend who I haven't hung out with in awhile and it went really great. i thought it might be awkward - and sometimes it's just really funny because you talk like no time has passed and start to tell a story about something like the other person was there, until you realize... Snap... they weren't there. But anyways it was really fun. We went shopping, had lunch and just hung out.

2. Leftoever cheesecake from the cheesecake factory. That's all i have to say about that.

3. Trying on Halloween costumes in the stock room of the costume shop since there was a huge line for the dressing rooms.

4. Watching a really good movie called Zodiac. You should rent it. I liked it - Lauren kinda fell asleep but it's ok because she woke up and i filled her in.

5. And this clip -


So overall - it was a spectacular Saturday.
goodnight.
you wanna piece?






Didn't think so. Didn't F-in think so.

Nail Salon

I must say this is really funny. I laughed out loud.

Black and White

Life is not always black and white. There are always gray areas. I was watching something tonight and I realized that it's not always clear who is right and who is wrong. Through my eyes I see one thing, but it's possible my vision is tainted simply because they are my eyes. A sort of tunnel vision if you will. I have my own ideas of right and wrong and I think, or I would like to think, that most people share my same moral compass. Deep down I like to think that most people are inherently good. But does that make me weak? Does that make me an easy target? Inevitably, does this quality set me up for heartache? Who is to say. There is too much gray area. And as much as one would like to think that every situation has a right and wrong answer - eventually the truth will shine through and que será, será.



Goodnight.And.Good Luck

Be Careful

All the girls in the Paris night
All the girls in the pale moonlight
All the girls with the shopping bags
All the girls with the washing rags

All the girls on the telephone
All the girls standing all alone
All the girls sitting on the wire
One by one fly into the fire

Be careful how you bend me
Be careful where you send me
Careful how you end me
Be careful with me

All the girls standing by your beds
All the girls standing on their heads
All the girls with the broken arms
All the girls with the deadly charms

All the girls in the restaurant
Pretending to be nonchalant
Funny girls on the TV shows
Close your eyes and they turn to snow

Be careful how you bend me
Be careful where you send me
Careful how you end me
Be careful with me

All the girls working overtime
Telling you everything is fine
All the girls in the beauty shops
Girls' tongues catching the raindrops

All the girls that you'll never see
Forever a mystery
All the girls with their secret ways
All the girls who have gone astray

Be careful how you bend me
Be careful where you send me
Careful how you end me
Be careful with me

Be careful how you bend me
Be careful with me

-Patty Griffin-

Dude. Nah.

If you want to laugh... watch this.

Lo siento

Love the artist. Love the video. LOVE the song. Love the performance.
Just thought I'd share.



off to bed early.
this girl is sleepy.

October sickness

I am getting the feeling. It always comes around my birthday. The sickness. I can feel it in my nose. I'm feeling extra tired today even though I got plenty of sleep. So these are all signs that it's on its way. UGH. I have been taking my vitamins to avoid this.

Blast.

With a banjo and a Bible and a fine tooth comb

A beautiful song by a wonderful artist. Ray LaMontagne - one of my favorites. Enjoy. (Sorry it's only a clip of the song but I think it's worth a download)



I lost all of my vanity
when I peered into the pool
I lost all of my innocence
When I fell in love with you
I never knew a man could fall so far until I landed here
Where all of my wounds they turn into gold when I kissed your hair
Come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you to come on to me
and I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
Ask her why she cries so loud
She Will not say a word
Eyes like ice and hands that shake
She takes what she deserves
To celebrate her emptiness
In a cold and lonely room
Sweep the floors with your long flowered dress
If you cannot find a broom
Come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come on to me
I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'll just be kind to me
She's got hair that flows right down
Right down to the backs of her knees
Papa he was a preaching man
And the lord is hard to please
So she comes down from the ozark hills to these very streets to roam
With a banjo and a bible and a fine tooth comb
Come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come on to me
and I'll lay down this bottle of wine if you just be kind to me
Now I'd walk one mile on this broken glass
to fall down at your feet
Hannah you're the queen of the street
I climb the tree withy my Hannahlee
My intentions they were pure
Oh the breeze did whip and I lost my grip
I tumbled towards the earth
Where You never would guess who it was that stood below
And his name I will never tell
But His eyes were clear
And His arms were strong
And caught me as I fell
Now come to me Hannah
Hannah won't you come on to me
and I'll lay down this bottle of wine
If you'd just be kind to me
I'd walk just one mile on broken glass
to fall down at your feet
Hannah you're the queen of the street
the queen of the street

goodnight.

If you want it, you can find it on TV

One Semester of Spanish Love Song

This video made me laugh really hard - My Spanish Professor sent it to us and I thought I should share.




Feliz Fin de Semana!

Gimme Less

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Ok I am pretty done with hearing about Britney. Yes we all know she has issues. It's obvious. Maybe if you gave her less publicity it would help.
And to those stupid people out there who decided to focus on the fact that she is "fat" should really just grow up.
A. She's had 2 kids and looks great considering (even without the kids)
B. That is just rude and
C. That is what is wrong with our society today.

Fo sho.

Get help Britney. Prove everybody wrong.

Waiting on the World to Change...

I was watching a marathon on MTV of So You Think You Can Dance and I was struck by one particular episode. I believe it was the top 8 show where all the dancers performed a solo. This time everyone did the same routine, choreographed by Wade Robson (brilliant). It was deemed "ANTI-WAR" and apparently there was this outrage about it. People complained. Figures. All I have to say to those people who complained is that you need to get off your right-winged soap box and open your eyes. I am tired of people attacking those who are against the war or those who SUPPORT PEACE- claiming that they don't support the troops. It's not about that. It's about bringing our men and women home. It's about the men and the women and the innocent bystanders who have died and for what? To Win? (As our president says. Winning is the most important thing) The message they are sending - or that I am sending - is not that of anti-war.
It's a message of Hope.
A message of Peace.
We want our troops home safe.

And then with that said. The next night they had to "apologize" for the dances. I was almost outraged that they apologized. For one, if you don't like what's on the tv change the channel. Simple as that. If I see something on tv that I don't agree with or that I don't like I change the channel. This is why I don't watch Fox news. Because I don't agree with them. You don't see me sending them complaints about their opinions. Which leads to the second reason why i think the apology was apalling. Let's say I don't agree with you - that doesn't mean you are not allowed to express yourself. No apologies needed. It made me sad that they did that. It took away from the effect it had. Everything they stood for in that episode was wiped away. Sad. I thought it was powerful, moving and it brought tears to my eyes when some of them danced it.

Ok that is all.
peace.humility.love

I'm not the Lord. I can't do that.

One of the funniest things I have ever heard.

What am I supposed to say when an atheist sneezes? Uh when you die nothing happens?

And another one...


so true.



Peace be with you.

The Ballad of the Salad

You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom

You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
How will I break the news to you?



On of my favorite bands ever... Motion City Soundtrack. I have liked them for awhile. I think it is a combination of the lyrics and a lot of their songs have catchy beats too. But mostly I think it's the lyrics. They are so honest and straightforward, innovative, interesting. I think a lot of bands these days try to be so vague and try to sound intelligent and thoughtful. But in a stupid way. If that makes sense. Sometimes I just get really sick of these bands that have a metaphor for everything -- just gets on my nerves. Enough, Just tell me what you are talking about. Sometimes I don't want to think that much. Kay? Just say what you really want to say.

Anyway - Oprah is on. And Justin Timberlake is on so you know I want to watch this. Cute.
G'Night.

Autism

I was watching Oprah last night (when it repeats late at night since I can't catch it during the day) and I must say I am really glad that I did. It was a show about Autism in children and how to move towards recovery. It was a moving show for me not only because we got to see a whole new part of Jenny McCarthy but because there are ways you can treat and live with it. The three words for the show where FAITH HOPE and RECOVERY. Here is what OPRAH.com said about the show...

If your child stopped speaking, wouldn't look you in the eye and completely ignored the world around them, what would you do? In her new book, Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism, actress Jenny McCarthy shares her emotional story of diagnosis, hope, faith and recovery—a journey many thousands of parents now face.
In 2002, Jenny gave birth to a beautiful baby boy she named Evan. As an infant, Evan was full of life, making eye contact and smiling, but soon things started to change. "God was giving me many hints about my son, and I didn't quite see them," she says. "So I know that he had to wake me up with two really big ones."
Jenny says the first of those "big hints" came on a typical morning when Evan was 2 1/2 years old. When Evan, who usually got up at 7 a.m., wasn't stirring by 7:45 a.m. Jenny knew something was wrong. She ran to the nursery. "I open the door and run to his crib and I find him in his crib, convulsing, struggling to breathe, his eyeballs rolled to the back of his head," she says. "I picked him up and I started screaming at the top of my lungs … the paramedics came, and it took about 20 minutes for the seizure to stop."
When they arrived at the hospital, Jenny says doctors told her that her son had a febrile seizure, caused by a fever. "I said to the doctor, 'Well, you know, he doesn't really have a fever, so how does that play in this scenario?'" Jenny says. "[The doctor said], 'Well, he could have been getting one.' That was the response I got. … I went home with my baby going, 'You know what? Something's wrong and I don't know what it is, but I feel it."
About three weeks after the initial seizure, Evan had a second episode. Jenny says she had driven him three hours to see his grandparents when she noticed a "kind of stoned look on his face" as she handed him to his grandmother. "I walk into the bedroom to give Evan his bottle, and he's lying flat on the bed with his eyes rolled in the back of his head," Jenny says. "I called 911 because I knew it was happening again."
Her instinct was to put cold rags on him—a common treatment for febrile seizures. But Jenny says this one was different. "He wasn't convulsing, nor was he trying to get any breath—[there was] just foam coming out of his mouth," she says. "I put my hand on him, and I kept saying, 'Just stay with me,' because I felt like he was going. And after a few moments, I felt his heart stop."
When paramedics arrived they began CPR on Evan. "At that very moment that I watched my baby trying to get his heart started, I remember thinking, 'Why?'" Jenny says. "And then I heard this voice [inside me] that said, 'Everything is going to be okay.' I don't know how in the midst of hell that I was in that this voice [said], 'Everything's going to be okay,' and it's like … peace came over my body."
The paramedics revived Evan, but with no available helicopter, he had to be driven three hours back to Los Angeles for treatment. "In that time, he had another seizure. By the time we got to the Los Angeles hospital, he had seven more seizures within a seven-hour period," she says. Two days later, a doctor diagnosed Evan with epilepsy. "[The doctor said], 'There's got to be someone with seizures on your side of the family.' I said, 'No, actually I know every branch. I know what's going on. There's nothing. No one [with] epilepsy," she says. "And they discharged us."

Jenny says every instinct she had was telling her that her son was not epileptic—so she went for a second opinion.
After spending 20 minutes with Evan, a neurologist gave Jenny what she describes as a devastating diagnosis—Evan had autism. "And boy, my mommy instinct said, 'This man is right,'" she says.
Jenny says hearing the words made her feel "like death." "[The doctor] said, 'Hey, don't forget. This is the same little boy you came in this room with. He's not any different. He's the same boy,'" she says. "And, true, he was correct. He was the same boy. But I did happen to say, 'Well, I believe my son is trapped inside. I'm not settling for this.'"
In hindsight, Jenny realizes she missed signs of Evan's autism—such as his obsession with moving objects. Others had noticed something different about Evan, too. "My mother-in-law said, 'He doesn't really show affection,' and I threw her out of the house," Jenny says. "I went to a play gym, and the woman [there] said, 'Does your son have a brain problem?' … [I said], 'How dare you say something about my child? I love him. He's perfect. You can't say that about a child.' I just had no idea."
As with most autistic children, Jenny says she noticed that Evan's personality seemed to be locked inside him—and she was determined to get him out. She began scouring the Internet, where she read recovery stories and discovered treatment options.
One treatment Jenny decided to try was a change in eating habits. She immediately started eliminating gluten and casein, found in wheat and dairy products, from Evan's diet. "In two weeks to three weeks—and this isn't for everyone, to get a reaction like this—Evan doubled his language," she says. "[There was] eye contact, smiling, more affection."
To help Evan learn to play with toys as other children do, Jenny tried another approach—video modeling and play therapy. Because Evan didn't know how to play catch, Jenny showed him a video of her catching a ball. From that day on, Jenny says he was into the game. She used play therapy to help him learn in other ways. "A lot of kids on the [autism] spectrum, including Evan, would take [a toy] car and just line them up or turn them upside down and just [spin the wheels]," she says. "So play therapy literally is teaching him that the car can go on an adventure."
With the help of these treatments, Jenny says 5-year-old Evan is making great strides. "I consider him in recovery. There's still things we need to work on—seizures, stuff with abstract understanding, but for the most part he's a typical child in normal school," she says. While these therapies worked for Evan, Jenny emphasizes that it might not work for every child with autism. "I'm just a mom telling a story of other moms. We want to share it and say our kids do get better," she says. "[It's like] chemotherapy. It doesn't work for every cancer victim, but you know what? You're going to give it a try."
In recent years, the number of children diagnosed with autism has risen from 1 in every 500 children to 1 in 150—and science has not discovered a reason why. Jenny says she believes that childhood vaccinations may play a part. "What number will it take for people just to start listening to what the mothers of children who have seen autism have been saying for years, which is, 'We vaccinated our baby and something happened."
Jenny says even before Evan received his vaccines, she tried to talk to her pediatrician about it. "Right before his MMR shot, I said to the doctor, 'I have a very bad feeling about this shot. This is the autism shot, isn't it?' And he said, 'No, that is ridiculous. It is a mother's desperate attempt to blame something,' and he swore at me, and then the nurse gave [Evan] the shot," she says. "And I remember going, 'Oh, God, I hope he's right.' And soon thereafter—boom—the soul's gone from his eyes."
Despite her belief, Jenny says she is not against vaccines. "I am all for them, but there needs to be a safer vaccine schedule. There needs to be something done. The fact that the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] acts as if these vaccines are one size fits all is just crazy to me," she says. "People need to start listening to what the moms have been saying."

Oprah.com
There was more... but I thought that was the important part.
To learn more about what Autism is you can
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SUCCESS

To laugh often and much,
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest
critics
To endure the betrayal of false
friends,
To appreciate beauty, to find the
best in others,
To leave the world a bit better,
Whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch, or a
redeemed social
condition.
To know even one life
has breathed easier
because you lived,
This is to have
succeeded.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Soup

Día de Enero (January Day)

Te conocí un día de enero,
con la luna en mi nariz
Y como ví que eras sincero
En tus ojos me perdí

Que torpe distracción
Y que dulce sensación

Y ahora que andamos por el mundo
Como Eneas y Benitin
Ya te encontré varios rasguños
Que te hicieron por ahí

Pero mi loco amor
Es tu mejor doctor

Voy a curarte el alma en duelo
Voy a dejarte como nuevo
Y todo va a pasar
Pronto verás el sol brillar

Tú más que nadie mereces ser feliz

Ya vas a ver como van sanando
Poco a poco tus heridas
Ya vas a ver como va
La misma vida decantar la sal que sobra en mar

Y aunque hayas sido un extranjero
hasta en tu propio país
Si yo te digo ¿cómo dices tú?
Aún dices ¿qué decís?
Y lloras de emoción oyendo un bandoneón

Y aunque parezcas despistado con ese caminar pausado
Conozco la razón que hace doler tu corazón
Por eso quise hacerte esta canción

Ya vas a ver como van sanando
Poco a poco tus heridas
Ya vas a ver como va
La misma vida decantar la sal que sobra en mar

(I met you one January day, With the moon on my nose. And seeing you were sincere, in your eyes, i lost myself. What a clusmy distraction and what a sweet sensation. And now that we're walking around the world like Eneas and Benitin. I've already noticed the many cuts that they inflicted on you along the way. But my crazy love is your best doctor. I'm going to cure your mourning soul. I'm going to leave you like new and everything's going to pass. Soon, you will see the sun shine. You, more than anyone, deserve to be happy. Soon you will see your wounds healing little by little. Soon you will see how life itself will decant the excess salt from the sea. And although you've been a foreigner even in your own country. If i ask 'how do you say' (Colombian Accent) You still say 'what did you say' (Argentinean Accent). And you cry with emotion listening to a bandoneón. And though you seem absent minded with that lazy walk, i know what causes your heart to ache. That's why i wanted to make you this song. You're going to see how little by little your wounds are going to heal. You're going to see how life itself will decant the excess salt from the sea.)

SCREAMING

Do I need to scream and yell and cry to be heard?
Maybe so.
Or maybe silence is the answer.



good song.

OMG

Heidi Montag 'Upset' Over Leaked Song

THURSDAY AUGUST 16, 2007
By Aaron Parsley

Heidi Montag talks about making music almost as much as she talks about the feud with her Hills costar Lauren Conrad. But unlike her very public fights, Montag did not want a song she recorded to be played on the air.

Touted as the "world premiere" of Montag's single, Ryan Seacrest played a song called "Body Language" on his KISS-FM radio show on Thursday. But the track, which takes a beat from Yaz's "Situation" and features Montag's fiancé and manager Spencer Pratt as a rapper, wasn't supposed to be released, according to Pratt. (Listen to the song here.)


"We did it as a joke," Pratt tells PEOPLE. "It's not her single at all. It was never meant to be heard by anyone but us. Over my dead body would I rap on Heidi's first single. Heidi is so upset because this was not the first sound she wanted people to hear from her."

What is Montag's sound? "It's very dance, urban, rhythmical," she told Seacrest during a recent radio appearance. "But I really love a lot of rap and urban music at the same time so I'm kind of bringing a little bit of those elements in."

When it comes to the couple's engagement, Montag's music career takes precedent. "I am shopping [for a dress]," she told PEOPLE at the season three premiere of The Hills. "But we haven't done anything [else], we're just so busy in the studio and with my music we don't really have time to plan a wedding."


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It doesn't sound like her... I don't know why people would give her credit for this. Her producer is great, but that's about it. And Spencer rapping? C'mon now.

Jacks and Uno Cards

The smell of your skin lingers on me now
You're probably on your flight back to your home town
I need some shelter of my own protection baby
To be with myself and center, clarity
Peace, Serenity

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It's personal, myself and I
We've got some straightenin' out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I've got to get a move on with my life
It's time to be a big girl now
And big girls don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry

The path that I'm walking
I must go alone
I must take the baby steps 'til I'm full grown, full grown
Fairytales don't always have a happy ending, do they?
And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay

Like the little school mate in the school yard
We'll play jacks and uno cards
I'll be your best friend and you'll be my Valentine
Yes you can hold my hand if you want to
'Cause I want to hold yours too
We'll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds
But it's time for me to go home
It's getting late, dark outside
I need to be with myself and center, clarity
Peace, Serenity

It could be a crackhead. That got hold to the wrong stuff

Just watch. You won't be disappointed.

A Green Truth

For the past 20 years, former Vice President Al Gore has been traveling the world speaking about global warming, a passion of his since college. In 2006, his lecture was made into the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award® for Best Documentary. Now available on DVD, this is the third highest grossing documentary of all time. In his lectures, book and documentary, Gore explains that if we continue to ignore what we are doing to our planet, we risk destroying the very future of our civilization. And the former vice president says that we must act before it's too late. "Some of the leading scientists are now saying we may have as little as 10 years before we cross a kind of point-of-no-return, beyond which it's much more difficult to save the habitability of the planet in the future," Gore says. "I believe that everybody should see [An Inconvenient Truth]," Oprah says.

What causes global warming?

It's been a hot topic lately, but what exactly is global warming? First, it's important to understand that the atmosphere is extremely thin. "The late Carl Sagan used to say if you had a globe with a coat of varnish, the thinness of that varnish relative to the globe is similar to the thinness of the atmosphere to the planet," Gore says. That atmosphere, which is just a few miles above the Earth's surface, traps some amount of the sun's energy, or light radiation, as it hits the Earth. "That's a good thing, the natural trapping of [the sun's radiation], because it keeps the temperatures within comfortable boundaries," Gore says. While other planets are either much too hot or much too cold, Earth is just like Goldilocks—just right for life. As humans add pollution like carbon dioxide (also known as CO2) into the air, the Earth's atmosphere becomes thicker. The thicker atmosphere traps more of the reflected radiation, raising overall temperature. This process is what we call "global warming." Other major factors adding to global warming, Gore says, include the burning of coal, oil, gasoline and forests.

The North Pole

As carbon dioxide levels explode all over the world, the effects are most obvious at the North and South Poles. For the past 50 years, the U.S. Navy has used submarines to patrol underneath the ice at the North Pole. These submarines can only surface where the ice shelf is less than three feet thick, so the Navy must routinely measure the thickness of the Arctic. Gore says their records show that "starting in the early '70s, [the ice shelf] started declining rapidly, both in the extent and the thickness. The North Pole is melting." One consequence of this, as shown in An Inconvenient Truth, is a decline in polar bear populations as they drown. "They live on the ice and now the ice is sometimes 60 miles from the land. And the distance between the ice floes is very large, and so for the first time now in significant numbers they're finding them dying by drowning. … Something similar is happening to the penguins near the South Pole." Additionally, the melting North Pole could lead to even more global warming. "It's also really dangerous for us to have this big expanse of open water at the top of our world," Gore says. "Normally that's like a giant mirror. It's one of the ways the planet cools itself. But as it melts, the open ocean absorbs all that heat."
One place that already feels the effects of the melting North Pole is Shishmaref, a small Alaskan village just south of the Arctic Circle. The Inupiak people have lived here for generations, but in the past 30 years, they've witnessed dramatic changes.

As illustrated in the documentary Everything's Cool, warming temperatures are causing the icy barriers that once protected Shishmaref to form later in the season. This leaves the village vulnerable to fierce waves that pummel and eat away at the coastline. As a result, entire foundations of houses have been destroyed as the ground has receded into the sea. Already 18 houses have been relocated to higher ground and rising water could eventually engulf the entire island. The estimated cost to relocate the village is $100 million.
Shismaref isn't alone. Gore says there are 180 towns in Alaska that face similar threats from rising sea levels.
If Greenland and Antarctica continue to melt, Gore says the maps of the world will need to be redrawn. Low-lying areas near southern Florida, Manhattan and the area surrounding the San Francisco Bay could end up under water, Gore warns. In the low countries of Western Europe—the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg—millions of people would need to relocate. In Beijing, 20 million people live in areas that would be flooded, and in Shanghai, the devastation would be even worse. Forty million Chinese citizens would become climate refugees.

The heat is on

The 10 hottest years ever recorded in the Earth's atmospheric record have all occurred in the past 14 years, Gore says. In the summer of 2003, Europe suffered through a scorching heat wave that was responsible for the deaths of 35,000 people. That same year, temperatures shot up to 122 degrees in India…and that wasn't even the hottest summer on record. According to scientists, 2005 was the hottest year in history. During the summer of 2006, Gore says many American cities out West set records of their own—some for all-time high temperatures and others for the number of consecutive days that reached 100 degrees or more. "It's not supposed to be 120 degrees in South Dakota," Gore says. Temperature increases are taking place all over the world, including in the oceans. Gore warns that when the oceans get warmer, storms get stronger.

Easy things everyone can do


You are not helpless in the fight against global warming. Gore goes inside a Lowe's Home Improvement store outside Nashville, Tennessee, to show you the five things you can buy that will help solve the climate crisis…and save you a few bucks!

-Compact fluorescent light bulbs: These energy-efficient bulbs cost less than $4 and are produced by major corporations like GE. If every household in America switched five regular light bulbs for five fluorescent bulbs, it would be the equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the highways for a full year.

-Outdoor solar lighting: These yard or patio lights cost less than $20, and they don't burn any electricity or produce any CO2.

-Programmable thermostats: Though these thermostats cost from $50 to $100, they can actually cut your heating and cooling costs. Set the setting so it's a little bit cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer when you're not in the house. A difference of 2 degrees can reduce a home's CO2 emissions by up to 9 percent over the course of a year.

-Air filters: Changing the air filters in your heating and cooling systems regularly can knock 2 percent off of your CO2 output each year.

-Electric hot water heater blanket: Hot water heaters use a lot of energy and generate a lot of CO2. A blanket costs less than $18 and can cut your home's CO2 emissions by almost 4 1/2 percent.

Gore says that when you're shopping for major home appliances, look for the Energy Star label. "This is a signal that you're getting an environmentally efficient appliance that's going to save you money at the same time," he says.



oprah.com

The best decision I've ever forced

I can't wait until Monday! It's gonna be a good one!



First day of work was a little better than expected. Seems as though things have changed.... looks that way for now anyway.

All for now - I need a little nap.

3rd wheel

one of my faves...


When I'm done with thinking, then I'm done with you.
When I'm done with crying, then I'm done with you.
When I feel so tired, then I'm done with you.
Everybody feels this way sometimes, everybody feels this way
And I do.
You can't hear it, but I do.
You can't hear it, but I do.
You're trying to convince me that what I've done's not right.
I get so frustrated, I stay up every night.
You ask me for an answer, and I'm so tired that I'm up in the air.
Everybody feels this way sometimes, everybody feels this way
And I do.
You can't hear it, but I do.
You can't hear it, but I'm feeling this way just because you say
I will be ignored and
I will be denied and
I could be erased and
I could be brushed aside and
I will get scared and I will get shoved down,
But I feel like I do because you push me around.
I'm starting to ignore you, I've doubted you so long.
I'm tired of overthinking, I know you don't belong.
Now I'm asking questions - no one pushes me around.
Everybody feels this way sometimes, everybody feels this way -
And I do.
You can't hear it, but I do.
You don't seem angry, but I do.
I do

Ok Let's Go to Bed

Here is a clip from one of my favorite shows - as you all know - and one of my favorite episodes entitled "The Post-it Always Sticks Twice" (sound familiar?) It always makes my day when my favorite episode plays on TV. It's the simple things. So watch and enjoy.

Dream

The dream is this - that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals - find the guy, finish our internship, that's the dream. Then we get there. And if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we'd like to wake up.
And then maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.

Because the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway...

A little boys explanation of God

I certainly don't think an adult could explain this more beautifully!

It was written by an 8-year-old named Danny Dutton, who lives in Chula Vista, CA. He wrote it for his third grade homework assignment, to "explain God." I wonder if any of us could have done as well ?
... and he had such an assignment, in California, and someone published it, I guess miracles do happen ! ..

EXPLANATION OF GOD:
"One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grownups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way he doesn't have to take up his valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers."

"God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times beside bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. Because he hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in his ears, unless he has thought of a way to turn it off."

"God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting his time by going over your mom and dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have."

"Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church."

"Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work, like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't want to learn about God. They finally got tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him But he was good and kind, like his father, and he told his father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said O.K."

"His dad (God) appreciated everything that he had done and all his hard work on earth so he told him he didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps his dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important."

"You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time."

"You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God!

"Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway."

"If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He's around you when you're scared, in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids."

"But...you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and he can take me back anytime he pleases.

Aaaargh

Is it wrong that I love Johnny Depp even more as a dirty pirate?

Nah.

You may not be able to catch a bat with a pot, but one thing is for sure - I love bags

Look at it... I love it. I have been visiting it online for awhile now and I even have a 20% off discount. Exciting I know. The bad thing is that they are backordered. (sigh) And even if I ordered it now, I wouldn't get it until middle to late September. (I just killed the most massive bug as I am sitting here by the way. Don't ask me what kind it was because I really don't know. Kinda like a spider and a grasshopper and something else mixed. Very nasty, Very big. And now just to add to that, I feel like things are crawling on me all the time now. I hate that. Plus, everytime I kill a spider or anything - which is pretty regular around here - I get a flashback to that time which we will not speak of. You know the time at the daycare. Ew. I get chills thinking about it. But anyway, I am getting off track.)
Back to my bag. I love it. Period. Love the color. Love the shape. Love.
Also, I added some new links to check out ------->
Domino is one of my favorite magazines of all time. It has great decorating ideas and is totally my style. And we all know that I love to decorate. If I could do school over - I would do that. Without a question. Interior design. I actually thought about transferring to the Art Institute of Washington in Arlington - yep contacted an admissions counselor and everything. Until I learned how expensive art school is. Then I had to begrudgingly bow out. For now anyway. But if i could do it over - that's what I would've done. Well that is all for tonight. Goodnight party people.


Oh and bats are attracted to light?

Well Chris Farley thinks so anyway. I think I'll watch Black Sheep for a little comic therapy since retail therapy is out of the question. Nighty Night.

Superman

Moths flicker under the golden glow of the street
lamps.
Why does it take so much longer to get back home?
There's no reason for me to glance back with innocent
smiles.
No sarcastic remarks about me hanging my head out
the car window -
Hair glossed to my lips.
Listening to the songs that you should be singing
with me.
Sole lyrics. Bouncing through my head.
Vaguely conscious of the buzzing traffic that
surrounds me.
Party night -
Nearly seduced,
Skipping the cracks and counting the little yellow
lines in the street.
24-25-26
If the world falls from beneath me, will you be here to
save me?
If only I could understand those long silent pauses
when you aren't singing
along.
I think the world may be falling now...
27-28-29

Tumultuous Tuesday

"Time heals nothing. It's what you do with the time that matters."

Great Quote.
Oh and check out my new music player... that is all for now. Maybe more later.

Comic Relief

I love Graham Norton.

New Apartment, New Life

Well I'm almost all settled in here - in my new place. Pretty much all unpacked minus a few minor details. It feels very good to finally have a roommate whom I enjoy spending time with. There is only one tiny little flaw. SPIDERS. We have spider bites all over us and I think we kill a little over a dozen each day. Gross I know. The pest control guy already came so hopefully soon they will start to die. I'm praying that this is the whole "it gets worse before it gets better" kind of deal. I guess we shall see in time.
On the other hand. I need to be thinking about where I want to work because frankly we already received a cable bill. We haven't even had cable for a week and they're already sending a bill. Leave it to Cox. I not only need a job for the money but also for a llittle entertainment. I'm getting tired of being in the apartment all the time already. Plus, it gets a little lonely since my roommate works full time and I have nothing to do. Sad yes. Pathetic yes. So the job hunting journey will commence Monday.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."

You're not Getting 'til your Gettin'

Tired Eyes

I am a little tired so this post will not be a long one. Today was a busy busy day - filled with chatting with friends who are far away and whom I miss, painting (which is always a favorite activity), a baseball game and peach tea. But it is also filled with nervous thoughts. I know in my heart everything will be ok - there's still that lingering thought in my head - The dreaded "what if".
Anyway - everything is going to be fine, I am just a worrier. That's what we do in my family. We stew and we worry.

Goodnight.

Quote of the Day:

luck never gives: it only lends.

-Ancient Chinese Proverb

A change is gonna come

Today was a very fun and relaxing day I must say. I got to spend time with all my favorite little ones and got to swim in the pool and soak up some sun. It's funny how fast they are growing up. The little ones I mean. Even though some of them are not so little anymore and are growing up right in front of my eyes. It makes me feel oh so old. For example, I can remember when the oldest was born. That was almost 8 years ago! Oh how the time has just flown by.
I have also had some sad thoughts today. I am leaving in about 25 days. And yes I am just going to back to school and that's no different, but I am really moving away. Moving into an apartment and embarkin gon my life. I mean it's not like I'm moving far away or anything or that I'm never coming back. It's just different now. This is the last summer I'll be home. No more christmas breaks even at home. It almost brings a tear to my eye. I will miss seeing the little ones grow up day to day, or even month to month. Times are a-changing... yes ma'am. Can you feel it in the wind?
Well this is all I have for now....

Stranger

It's been awhile since I had a real post up so I thought since I have the time now, I should do it while I have the chance.

I have been home for awhile now and when I first got home it was all about the job search. So that took up a lot of my time. However, it seems that the job search was a little bit of a futile quest seeing as though most of the temp agencies didn't seem to have anything for me. They only had temp-hire positions (which obviously wouldn't work because I am moving back up to Fairfax in the middle of July) or they told me I didn't have enough experience. But just when I thought all hope had been lost... Protemps immediately found a job for me. The woman told me it was a temp-hire position but just not to mention that to the client. So I didn't and I assumed that I would be working there for awhile, possibly until I left to go back. But that excitement was short-lived because apparently I was either fired or somehow the client found out that I wasn't going to be there much longer. My theory is that they tried to offer me a full-time position (which they would've had to call the angency first) and then the agency was probably obligated to tell them when I was leaving. Well that is the story that I'm clinging to because, well let's face it, it's a lot easier on the ego to believe that then to just think I was fired. But I must say I was really thrown off by the whole thing - I left the office on Friday and everyone there was saying see you on Monday - and then BAM, don't bother showing up on monday they say. Anyways, now that I have gotten over that and I can rest easier at night, I am still jobless. Sad I know. So I think I'm going to start utting effort into finding a job at school because it's pretty much to late to be worrying about working at home. I only have 26 days left here. There really is no point.

Other than that, life at home proves to be pretty boring. SHOCKING I know. But I keep telling myself that it will be over soon and then the dreams of my fabulous apartment will finally be a reality.

I also wanted to take this chance to post some new paintings that I have finished... Both for my sisters for their birthdays. I like the way they turned out and I think I did ok with matching the concept to the sister. Well I at least tried to create something that would coordinate with their existing home decor. SO without further adieu...

You can also see these on my photo website which is a work in progress at the moment. I'm trying to put a lot of my photos up there so then it is easier to share with the fam and what not. The url for that site is just http://selena170.myphotoalbum.com

In other brief news... I really like Hilary Duff's new cd and especially this song... And if you want to hear the video than just pause the music on the side first.

That is all for now
Check ya later.

Laughing...

This video really makes me laugh... I don't know why, it just does. And I think Graham Norton is hilarious but that's just me.

Sex on the beach... then you woke up!

Thank you for being a friend...

goodnight.

I don't know what a Hollaback girl is... all I know is I want her dead

Ok I have a few videos that I want to share with you...
First, here is a family guy video and I must say it really makes me laugh. I love this show because it is so my sense of humor. Completely random and smart. When I was first introduced to this show I thought it was stupid. (And the certain someone who introduced it to me likes to point out a lot that I didn't like it at first) I vaguely remember saying something like "It's a cartoon, aren't we a little old to be watching cartoons?" No - it's a cartoon for adults and it's hilarious. So watch and laugh. Would you like an apple pie with that?



Now let's take it in another direction. I love this video and all the Anaheim ballet videos. Very awesome. It makes me wish I could go back in time and study dance. I always wanted to dance but my parents always said they didn't have the money for me to take class so I guess I just forgot about it. But then in college I took a beginning ballet class with a couple friends to get our fine arts credit. And yes it was entertaining for reasons we won't get into now, it was also eye opening. I really enjoyed the class actually. And the teacher also told me, between the "you could use a few extra crunches" remarks, she told me I had good natural feet. So the lightbulb went off in my head at that moment - I probably would've been a pretty succesful dancer. I definitely wouldn't be in the shape that I am in now, that's for sure. But coulda woulda shoulda. Maybe one day I will take some classes, but in the meantime I can enjoy these videos of the Anaheim Ballet and live vicariously. So here's a little taste...



Anyways, I have future plans for many more paintings and I can't wait to start on them. My summer is going to be filled with art. I might even try to sell some of my paintings. As I finish them I will post pictures for all to see. My latest - which I call "Caldera" is in the previous post that I did earlier in case you missed it.
Ok that is all for now.


keepyourpointeontheglobe.

Another Down

Here is the next finished project. The picture isnt very good, my camera's battery is dying and I couldn't find anymore batteries so this is the best I could do. But I must run and clean my mess and watch "Criminal Minds". (Love that show)
Maybe more later...

Row Row Row your Boat...

Ok here it is - the finished product. I must say I'm pretty happy with it. Although I could spend probably another year making changes to it and I will never be happy. I know this about myself, so I have to tell myself to put down the paintbrush before I really mess it up.
I am giving this painting to my roommate for her birthday tomorrow. She loves boats and pictures of boats, hence what I decided to paint for her. But I like it because it is cropped and it's not typical.
Anyways, work is becoming more and more exhausting. I really don't know how to help this child and I have almost accepted the fact that it's not going to happen on my watch. But I have to hope that one day it will get better - at least for the parents' sake. He's a tough kid and has some deep rooted issues. What it is, I'm not sure really, but I know that it's a lot bigger than not wanting to do his homework or being irresponsible. There is a rage there. And hopefully one day he will be able to conquer that. He is truly a smart and good kid. I can see that. Anyone can see that. I just pray that one day his attitude will improve.

I'm really looking forward to coming home this weekend! It will be a nice break right before exams start. But I'm happy to say that I'm really not that worried about my exams.

Ok who noticed my awesome music player over there ------------------>
Pretty sweet eh? Now you can listen to the music that I love!
Oh snap.

Truth of my Youth

There was a time and place
Where I never thought
I'd leave my own hometown
But those days finally
Are dead and gone,
It was never my intention to stay there,
Oh no.

There was a conscious effort played by me
To disown anything I see.
There was a girl I knew
Way back when,
Who says she doesn't know me anymore.
These are the lies the things you never mention.
These are my past, mistakes I'll stay away from.

These are my thoughts written down on paper,
It's my only savior
From not saying what I want to say.
These are the thoughts that are on my mind,
Moments that haven't yet been defined,
And I don't know if you could ever understand,
These are the things I can't say when we're alone.

There were countless hours on the telephone
My ears were ringing from the dial tone,
There were flashing lights,
People staring,
There was nothing I could ever do.
These are the lies the things you never mention,
These are my past mistakes I'll stay away from.

This is the truth,
The only time you'll hear it.
I'll write it down because it seems so hard to say it,

These are my thoughts written down on paper,
It's my only savior,
From not saying what I want to say,
These are the thoughts that are on my mind,
Moments that haven't yet been defined,
And I don't know if you could ever understand,
These are the things I can't say when we're alone.

Different Strokes for Different Folks

So I am painting again. It seems to keep me at a relatively normal level of sanity. However, I am oh so hard on my own work. I am a perfectionist what can I say. When I paint it, to me it looks like crap. Others like it, but i can't really see it. Once in High school I made a painting for an english project and one of the kids in my class bought it from me because he liked it so much. I think he was on some kind of drugs though. No really. Big druggie. But he still bought it nonetheless and I made money. It's kind of like when my mom says not to start decorating those cookies or sketch before you paint - because she knows that I will get frustrated because it won't look exactly the way I want. And right now as I sit here and look at the painting I started - I hate it right now. It's too dark and the colors aren't blending like I picture them in my head. And I am giving this painting as a gift so hopefully it will live up to my expectations in the end. But I don't know. Right now it's ugly. We shall see. But even when I think it's ugly - the activity of painting still makes me happy. So that makes it ok.
On another happy note - classes are basically over, but we all know what that means. I'm not really worried about my finals so it's not that. Classes over = MOVING. And I HATE moving. HATE HATE HATE. I hate packing and I hate moving. I can't think of anything else right now that I hate more. Well maybe my painting. KIDDING. I hate moving way more.
But right now I am exhausted so it's off to bed.


TTFN

Knocked up

I saw this movie in a screening last week and it is now officially my favorite movie. It's called "Knocked Up" and it stars Katherine Heigl, we all know her as Izzie Stevens from Grey's. But the movie is about a one night stand that leads to a pregnancy, and honestly it is just hilarious. I think my favorite line is "Married life is like an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond... but it's not funny.. And it doesn't last 22 minutes..... It lasts forever." And I must say that the screaming during childbirth vaguely reminds me of someone I know. Hmmm. = ) Anyways, Enjoy the trailer, it will make you laugh. And we all need a few laughs these days.




Carry on.

Gnomes!

Is it sad that I can still sing this theme song even though I haven't watched the show in almost 20 years. Boy does that make me feel/sound old. Anyways David the gnome was one of my many favorites. Enjoy.

Friday

Friday, April 20, 2007

Orange and Maroon Effect Day
Support families of Virginia Tech students by wearing orange and maroon.
(Nation wide participation)

Great.

Hee-larious.

Interesting website. Sad.

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

So much to say

Just like most of you out there, I'm sure you are glued to your televisions about this incident at Virginia Tech. And I must say that it is hard for me to watch the coverage. For many reasons:

1. It makes me upset to hear all the finger pointing - like the university should've done this and should've done that. But of course it's easy to look back and say this is what should've been done. Hindsight is always so much clearer. The school and its officials did everything they were supposed to do. There was no way they could've known what was going to unfold. And if they had any idea, any kind of inkling - they would've reacted differently. I know it. And trust me, they don't need the finger pointed at them, they feel responsible enough and its probably something they will think about for the rest of their lives. They don't need to be punished by the public because I am sure they are already punishing themselves. Furthermore, you can't stop a crazy person. He was determined, I mean he chained the doors shut. He chained the doors. So no one could get out and no one could get in. The police had to blow up the door to get in. He was crazy. Sick. There's only so much you can do with a person like that. And also, people in college these days know how easy it is to get into a building even if you are not a student. Yes you have to swipe your card to get into the building, but I can stand by the door and get in right behind someone. And just like at VT, he (the gunman) could easily hide himself in the crowd. Just like VT, GMU is huge.

2. It can happen anywhere. It could've been here. If that same scenario played out here, on the same day, I was in class at that time. If it was here, it could've been me. I can't help but think that. And I really admire the students' strength, because if it was here I don't know if I could be that strong. I mean this is going to affect them for the rest of their lives. But not just that. It affects everyone. It affects me, probably more than I realize now. Everytime the door opens in your classroom, you just wonder. Who is about to walk in? You never know. You almost tense up a little. Call me overdramatic I don't care. But I'm sure there are others who feel as I do. If it was here it could've been me.

3. The South Korean gunman, Cho Seung- hui, is from here. About 8 miles from here. Centreville. He was a resident alien, which means he was allowed to be here whether it was temporary or permanent, he had a green card, but he was not a citizen of this country. So someone tell me why he was able to purchase a gun from a gun store. Because that's where he got one of the guns the friday before. Honestly? I don't want to hear the NRA and their stupid excuse of an arguement of "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". That angers me because you know what, this could've been avoided if he was unable to purchase a weapon. He would not have been able to shoot 32 people without a gun. So my 2 points here are that a.) there need to be some kind of gun control laws in this country. Why is it in America we have such an issue with that? I'll tell you why. Because it's a huge front. Almost unbeatable. Republicans need to wake up. No one cares if you hunt, but why does anyone need a semi-automatic weapon? Why does anyone need the capability to shoot off 32 shots in a matter of minutes and be able to reload in 3 seconds. Someone tell me why a regular citizen needs that kind of power. It's ridiculous and how many more shootings and massacres is it going to take in this country to have a change made? And why is it that America is the only country with this issue? Gun control laws. Other countries have much stricter and better laws and look, you don't hear about 32 students being shot at school in other countries. The gun was too easy to get, and if you want someone to blame, then blame the government for looking the other way. Which leads me to point B. This kid was not a citizen of this country. And I guess I will preface this arguement by saying I am all for immigration. I have no problems with people coming to this country to have a better life. I'm glad they are here. But it infuriates me that someone who is not a citizen has so many benefits in this country. They can get a driver's license, they can get jobs and they can even get in-state tuition at our universities. It's hard for me to understand how people justify that. Oh here's their arguement.. They work for cheap and bring money into this country. Seriously? Whatever happened to integrity and nationality? It flies out the window when money and greed come into the picture. Something needs to be done, what it is I don't know, but something. Maybe if it was their child or friend who died in such a massacre they would think twice.

For now that is all the ranting I can handle. Too many thoughts. Too much to digest.

True.

There are no words. Just watch.

Dear Love....

One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists. A song written to the emotion of Love.

Love, so many people use your name in vain.
Love, but those who have faith in you sometimes go astray.
Love, through all the ups and downs and joys and hurts.
Love, for better or worse I still will choose you first.


goodnight.

Kalimera

This is probably the best video I have ever seen for 2 reasons:

1. It makes me laugh. (Uh maybe I am on diet)
2. Frappes are good.


If you dont have a mixer though I have learned you can use a bottle, maybe a water bottle of some kind and mix the water, nescafe, and sugar in the bottle and shake it. Works I swear. Very Foamy. Enjoy. It makes me want one right now. Thelo ena kafe =)



ok goodnight. Yassas

The Selfish Giant

People are selfish. That's pretty much a known fact. Most of the world's population is completey and utterly selfish. They don't care how their actions affect the ones around them. Sometimes not even the people who you think are your friends. You want to think that if they knew the situation you were in, then they would act differently. Well if you thought that, then you would be wrong. Because like I said, people are selfish. They are in it for no one else but themselves. Sometimes you don't even know the people that your action affects, amd sometimes you know them well and do it anyway. Those are the kind, the kind that blatantly disregard others' feelings, those are the ones to cut out of your life. Those are the ones who only listen to you when it's convenient for them. Or those are the ones who would rather sit on their ass all summer instead of getting a job and keeping a promise. There are too many good people out there to let people like that waste your time. My parents used to call them "Fair weather friends". And you would think that I would be used to them, and able to spot them from a mile away after growing up in the town I did. But that never happens. Because those people will sneak up on you and disappoint or hurt you everytime. EVERYTIME. So there it is. Take it or leave it. Do with it what you may. But heed my warning. Put it in your pocket and learn from my mistakes.

Chuckles

Oh this commercial makes me laugh...




night night.

Oh I forgot...

On a good note... I have a new favorite show. It's called the Black Donnellys on NBC. Love it. Here is a little taste.




You probably would've never guessed that I liked this show. But I really do. Enjoy.

Simplicity

Why can't anything be simple? If a professor would ask me this question in class I would surely have a quick response for them and I would boldly raise my hand in the air and say "Nothing is ever simple because some people are irresponsible and only think about themselves". And then Im sure the teacher would look at me like I have some issues, but oh well who doesn't? But my statement would still be true nonetheless. Life would be a lot simpler if maybe other people thought about how their actions (or inaction) affect the people around them. I could be way off the mark here, but I don't think so. I mean think about it. For example, A girl gets a boyfriend and all of a sudden her priorities change and the relationships she used to have with her friends suffer because she is unaware of how her actions (or inactions) are affecting those closest to her. Therefore, the relationship becomes Comlicated, and no longer a simple friendship, because she chose to be absent. I mean I guess you could apply the idea to a different metaphor. Like if you're driving your car and you forget or maybe don't see the red light and you don't stop. SCREECH.BANG. You've crashed into the car in the intersection and then you are no longer simply driving, but because of your irresponsibility, God knows you've complicated the situation in so many ways. And then everyone else is left with the stress caused by your mistake. And yes I hear you out there... people make mistakes. But when you consciously make them, that is where the problem lies my friend. That is where the problem lurks. Irresponsibility is dangerous. it could break someone's bones, break someone's spirit, or leave them to live in an apartment alone.

Theme

Lord lift me over the hurt and pain
Deliver me from the rain
See I don't wanna stress over stress no more
I don't wanna struggle no more

Rather be here...