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.
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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

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