The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Bill y Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... Terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves..
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
More of those Leverage Promos
I found these, and they are just too good to me not to want to share them with you.
The Muscle
The Impostor
The Thief
The Man with the Plan
These were all I could find. Hardison was no where. Sadness.
But because I feel like sharing,
Another promo, this with my one of my favorite lines
"They named a SANDWICH after me!"
And the Energy Drink Commercial
The Muscle
The Impostor
The Thief
The Man with the Plan
These were all I could find. Hardison was no where. Sadness.
But because I feel like sharing,
Another promo, this with my one of my favorite lines
"They named a SANDWICH after me!"
And the Energy Drink Commercial
Fabulous Day (Long Entry )
Ever have those days where things start going right, and they keep going all day, right up to when you lay your head down to sleep?
That was today.
Woke up to rain out side. The loud kind, where you know its huge drops of rain splattering everywhere? Love it! It's been a heat wave all over San Diego, and the rain was the muggy kind? Where you feel like you could drown if you breathe too deep? Where there's lightning and thunder all around and you just want to stand outside and watch and get all wet? I love the smell after or during rain. It's not a great smell, but I like it anyway.
So after work (where I made some awesome tips!) I headed over to a friends house to pick her up, because we were going to hang out after taking my brother to the airport. We hung out a little, checked out some news online and then piled into his car to drop him off. He and I have different tastes in music, and his power metal is very different to what my friend and I have been listening to the past few months. So downtown San Diego, we figure to head over to Blick's to get me some art supplies, but because the lights are all backed up, we decide to just head over to Seaport Village. If you're in SD, check it out. It's fun, quaint, and there's a little something for every one. I purchased a new addition to my slowly growing music box collection. A music box that play's 'You Are My Sunshine'. I was a little too excited about it, but what the hey, it's something I like ;) 'You Are My Sunshine' has been a little special to me since I was about six or seven, so finding a music box was priceless for me.
The Village Hat Shop (not to be confused with the Haberdashery...oddly enough...) was the obvious second shop. TONS OF HATS! And me with wanting a new style...nifty that. Nearly bough Hogwarts House beanies, but decided against it, because we could probably find them cheaper someplace else. Also checked out Jack Weyland's studio and bemoaned the fact that I am unable to even really consider buying something from him. But maybe one day.
Also, got some fudge, because in my family, you just don't pass that kind of thing up. We're sort of on a quest for the best fudge ever, and so far have found it in Jerome and at a farm about four hours away from where we live. The shop at Seaport Village isn't that great, but I figured my mother would appreciate it. And she did.
We nearly left after that, because it was getting a little late, but then I saw a shop named 'Mistletoe' and my curiosity won over my 'might as well get home'. It's a shop packed FULL of Christmas ornaments. Christmas is probably my favorite holiday, but not for the reasons you'd think. We went nearly row by row examining everything. Commenting on why we liked this one, wasn't that one so pretty, If I only had the money for these. Seriously, had we the money to spare, our hope chests would have had much less room in them. Let's understand now, I don't really like themed Christmas trees. For me, ornaments are something you collect as or receive as gifts or get because you think its cool/pretty/just something you like. We figured once we get married, the one of us will just give the other some money and take them shopping for starter ornaments for the first Christmas. We're pretty dorky like that.
So, after checking out a wooden toy shop and wishing for more money to buy stuff for kids we know (and hopefully our future children) we headed back, listening to our choice in music. We ended the night eating pasta and watching Crossfire Trail (because I love a good western as much as the casting ;) ) and an episode of Leverage which I have got her LOVING. She's one of those girls I can talk during a movie or while were listening to something with and it's like she's on the same wavelength as I am. Gotta love friends like that.
So that was my most recent awesome day. Now for tomorrow, where I get new glasses and wait for the premiere of a music video I've waited for since July. Odd I know, but there you have it.
That was today.
Woke up to rain out side. The loud kind, where you know its huge drops of rain splattering everywhere? Love it! It's been a heat wave all over San Diego, and the rain was the muggy kind? Where you feel like you could drown if you breathe too deep? Where there's lightning and thunder all around and you just want to stand outside and watch and get all wet? I love the smell after or during rain. It's not a great smell, but I like it anyway.
So after work (where I made some awesome tips!) I headed over to a friends house to pick her up, because we were going to hang out after taking my brother to the airport. We hung out a little, checked out some news online and then piled into his car to drop him off. He and I have different tastes in music, and his power metal is very different to what my friend and I have been listening to the past few months. So downtown San Diego, we figure to head over to Blick's to get me some art supplies, but because the lights are all backed up, we decide to just head over to Seaport Village. If you're in SD, check it out. It's fun, quaint, and there's a little something for every one. I purchased a new addition to my slowly growing music box collection. A music box that play's 'You Are My Sunshine'. I was a little too excited about it, but what the hey, it's something I like ;) 'You Are My Sunshine' has been a little special to me since I was about six or seven, so finding a music box was priceless for me.
The Village Hat Shop (not to be confused with the Haberdashery...oddly enough...) was the obvious second shop. TONS OF HATS! And me with wanting a new style...nifty that. Nearly bough Hogwarts House beanies, but decided against it, because we could probably find them cheaper someplace else. Also checked out Jack Weyland's studio and bemoaned the fact that I am unable to even really consider buying something from him. But maybe one day.
Also, got some fudge, because in my family, you just don't pass that kind of thing up. We're sort of on a quest for the best fudge ever, and so far have found it in Jerome and at a farm about four hours away from where we live. The shop at Seaport Village isn't that great, but I figured my mother would appreciate it. And she did.
We nearly left after that, because it was getting a little late, but then I saw a shop named 'Mistletoe' and my curiosity won over my 'might as well get home'. It's a shop packed FULL of Christmas ornaments. Christmas is probably my favorite holiday, but not for the reasons you'd think. We went nearly row by row examining everything. Commenting on why we liked this one, wasn't that one so pretty, If I only had the money for these. Seriously, had we the money to spare, our hope chests would have had much less room in them. Let's understand now, I don't really like themed Christmas trees. For me, ornaments are something you collect as or receive as gifts or get because you think its cool/pretty/just something you like. We figured once we get married, the one of us will just give the other some money and take them shopping for starter ornaments for the first Christmas. We're pretty dorky like that.
So, after checking out a wooden toy shop and wishing for more money to buy stuff for kids we know (and hopefully our future children) we headed back, listening to our choice in music. We ended the night eating pasta and watching Crossfire Trail (because I love a good western as much as the casting ;) ) and an episode of Leverage which I have got her LOVING. She's one of those girls I can talk during a movie or while were listening to something with and it's like she's on the same wavelength as I am. Gotta love friends like that.
So that was my most recent awesome day. Now for tomorrow, where I get new glasses and wait for the premiere of a music video I've waited for since July. Odd I know, but there you have it.
Monday, September 20, 2010
How nice...
Ok, I don’t know what it is about me, but I really like compliments. Especially ones I don’t make any active effort to receive. It’s just a nice little ‘up’ to my day. And when that day starts with a nice little ‘trip’ to the DMV, it could use any and all ‘ups’ it can get. (even though I ran into a lady from church there. She works there and was able to give me my spotless driving record to pass along to my boss and then off to my corporate superiors)
So, in History one of my class mates wasn’t here for the last assignment, and he was asking the teacher about it. She asked if he had a classroom buddy, and when he said ‘no’ she pointed him to me and said, “here, you have a buddy. Laura, right? Pond? I remembered!” and proceded to tell him I was really smart and could help him out. Which I could, but it was awesome to
1) Be remembered
2) Be told I was smart
This is the teacher I who caught me reading before class and we started bonding over the book I was reading. She is so cool! I wish she taught American History, but I’ll have to go back to Mr. Estes for that. (and he’s pretty cool too)
For a day that should have been a bummer, it’s gone along splendidly. I even have my Visiting Teaching lesson prepared! (even if I don’t have a snack/magnet/treat/thing.)
So, in History one of my class mates wasn’t here for the last assignment, and he was asking the teacher about it. She asked if he had a classroom buddy, and when he said ‘no’ she pointed him to me and said, “here, you have a buddy. Laura, right? Pond? I remembered!” and proceded to tell him I was really smart and could help him out. Which I could, but it was awesome to
1) Be remembered
2) Be told I was smart
This is the teacher I who caught me reading before class and we started bonding over the book I was reading. She is so cool! I wish she taught American History, but I’ll have to go back to Mr. Estes for that. (and he’s pretty cool too)
For a day that should have been a bummer, it’s gone along splendidly. I even have my Visiting Teaching lesson prepared! (even if I don’t have a snack/magnet/treat/thing.)
Friday, September 17, 2010
the LiPod
It's the name I put my iPod under on our computer. What's that? Oh yeah, you heard right. Laura got an iPod. It is so pretty and shiny and WONDERFUL! And full of empty space right now. I have far more room than I have music.
I'm going to make a case for it, eventually. Something nice with padding so if it falls it wont get damaged. I'll post pictures of it eventually.
I'm going to make a case for it, eventually. Something nice with padding so if it falls it wont get damaged. I'll post pictures of it eventually.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wish Me Luck?
I'm finally sending in the shirt!! (Which Shirt?) THE SHIRT!!!
This one! http://pondie.deviantart.com/#/d2yg03g
(you're gonna have to copy and past, because I can't get anything else to work.)
I can't help but maybe wish a little that Christian Kane likes it enough to maybe say something. I shouldn't get my hopes up, but my wayward imagination takes over sometimes.
This one! http://pondie.deviantart.com/#/d2yg03g
(you're gonna have to copy and past, because I can't get anything else to work.)
I can't help but maybe wish a little that Christian Kane likes it enough to maybe say something. I shouldn't get my hopes up, but my wayward imagination takes over sometimes.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Not Quite an Epiphany...?
So I'm sitting in math lab, supposed to be working on math, but I needed a little break.
Working on some easy problems, my mind wandered to iPods and the Apple store. Now, I've finally decided to get an iPod, (refurbised, obviously) when I was thinking of what I want to have etched into the back (because you can do that for free). Movie quotes or scripture references seems to be what I've decided on. But I dont know any really good enough to have around like that. Movie quotes anyway. If I go with a scripture, I want it to be something I can always identify with and has some kind of important meaning to me.
So recently I cam across a scripture that was soul inspiring. But I don't know if I really read it, or if it was in a dream. This is going to drive me a little crazy till I get home and review the last few chapters I read. The sad thing is, I think it was in a dream.
So what could it have meant, inspiring scritures in a dream? And if it really was from a dream, what scripture (or movie quote) could i have inscribed on it instead?
Working on some easy problems, my mind wandered to iPods and the Apple store. Now, I've finally decided to get an iPod, (refurbised, obviously) when I was thinking of what I want to have etched into the back (because you can do that for free). Movie quotes or scripture references seems to be what I've decided on. But I dont know any really good enough to have around like that. Movie quotes anyway. If I go with a scripture, I want it to be something I can always identify with and has some kind of important meaning to me.
So recently I cam across a scripture that was soul inspiring. But I don't know if I really read it, or if it was in a dream. This is going to drive me a little crazy till I get home and review the last few chapters I read. The sad thing is, I think it was in a dream.
So what could it have meant, inspiring scritures in a dream? And if it really was from a dream, what scripture (or movie quote) could i have inscribed on it instead?
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
I share such wonderful things don't I?
Ok, so one of my favorite shows ended this Sunday. Not permanently, just finished it's 3rd season. I stumbled across some promos for season three and thought I'd share them to give you an idea what the show is about.
Leverage
Hitter/Eliot Spencer
Hacker/Alec Hardison
Grifter/Sophie Deveraux
Thief/Parler
Mastermind/Nathan Ford
(this is the whole TV spot)
They've got someone for everything.
Leverage
Hitter/Eliot Spencer
Hacker/Alec Hardison
Grifter/Sophie Deveraux
Thief/Parler
Mastermind/Nathan Ford
(this is the whole TV spot)
They've got someone for everything.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Never Back Down
What is it with me and Action movies? I just love the fight scenes! Like a dance. A vicious, violent, bloody dance.
There's something about the fight that draws me. I can't look away, and I flinch when I see the hard hits and the bad impacts. I get so into them I sympathize with the characters.
I wonder why that is?
There's something about the fight that draws me. I can't look away, and I flinch when I see the hard hits and the bad impacts. I get so into them I sympathize with the characters.
I wonder why that is?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
As promised...
Nearly forgot about this list. My favorite Romantic Comedies.
Princess Bride
So classic, every one can find something to love about it. From Inigo's "You killed my father, prepare to die" to Westley's "Good work, sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning" its full of eternally quoteable lines.
Roxanne
Steve Martin as a Romantic Lead is a surprisingly good choice. He balances self loathing with enough humor to make others think he doesn't care how he looks, and the female lead becomes friends first. And it's based on a pretty cool play, Cerano De Bergerac (Steve Martin's character's name is initialed as CD. Clever no?)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Because it reminds me of my own family. Love them, because you can't really get away from them.
10 Things I Hate About You
I like the interaction between the rival characters, and the sisters relationship is very realistically portrayed. And the music selection rocks. Plus, Heath Leger is in it, and he is so much fun to watch on screen. Plus the father's humor reminds me of my own dad.
Romancing the Stone
A romance novleist has to help her sister who is in major trouble, and meets the personification of her male romantic character on the way. The banter between the two leads is funny and charming, and you've got to like a guy who will make gator skin boots from a gator he killed.
Her Minor Thing
Slightly naive software programer is dating a tv anchorman but ends up in the middle of a battle between the sexes when her boyfriend lets it slip that she's a virgin. Cue his new-in-town camera man who moonlights as a photographer and runs into out never-clumsy, always in a good mood female lead. Cute story, likeable characters and the wonderful line "Tell her I love her. Like never before and never again."
(and yes that is DiNozzo as the Boyfriend!)
Some Like It Hot
Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis, two amazing actors with sex symbol Marylin Monroe. What could be better than that? Love, Music and the Mob!
Simply Irresistible
This has gotten bad reviews, but I'm a sucker for things like this. A chef who can't cook well finds the talent in her when she buys crabs at the behest of a man who comes and goes mysteriously and cant mind his own business and runs into a high profile store manager arranging a menu for his restaurant's opening night. With the ability to transfer her emotions to her clients through the food she cooks, you have to suspend your disbelief to truly love it like I do.
Sweet Home Alabama
Maybe it's just because I love the south and kinda wish I could move there, this movie has major appeal to me. Hicks, gentlemen and Civil War reenactors, this movie makes me wish I knew the life down South better than just through stereotypes. Plus, Reese Witherspoon is SO CUTE.
The Proposal
I had to get something from Sandra Bullock on here. She's too spectacular to just gloss over. Love it love it love it, even if the grandmother is immensely off kilter. I wish the pacing had been a little slower, but we cant have everything in life. This movie makes me wish I could go to Alaska, just to see if it's that scenic and serene. I think I could like a slower paced life. I just don't think I could handle the cold.
Princess Bride
So classic, every one can find something to love about it. From Inigo's "You killed my father, prepare to die" to Westley's "Good work, sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning" its full of eternally quoteable lines.
Roxanne
Steve Martin as a Romantic Lead is a surprisingly good choice. He balances self loathing with enough humor to make others think he doesn't care how he looks, and the female lead becomes friends first. And it's based on a pretty cool play, Cerano De Bergerac (Steve Martin's character's name is initialed as CD. Clever no?)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Because it reminds me of my own family. Love them, because you can't really get away from them.
10 Things I Hate About You
I like the interaction between the rival characters, and the sisters relationship is very realistically portrayed. And the music selection rocks. Plus, Heath Leger is in it, and he is so much fun to watch on screen. Plus the father's humor reminds me of my own dad.
Romancing the Stone
A romance novleist has to help her sister who is in major trouble, and meets the personification of her male romantic character on the way. The banter between the two leads is funny and charming, and you've got to like a guy who will make gator skin boots from a gator he killed.
Her Minor Thing
Slightly naive software programer is dating a tv anchorman but ends up in the middle of a battle between the sexes when her boyfriend lets it slip that she's a virgin. Cue his new-in-town camera man who moonlights as a photographer and runs into out never-clumsy, always in a good mood female lead. Cute story, likeable characters and the wonderful line "Tell her I love her. Like never before and never again."
(and yes that is DiNozzo as the Boyfriend!)
Some Like It Hot
Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis, two amazing actors with sex symbol Marylin Monroe. What could be better than that? Love, Music and the Mob!
Simply Irresistible
This has gotten bad reviews, but I'm a sucker for things like this. A chef who can't cook well finds the talent in her when she buys crabs at the behest of a man who comes and goes mysteriously and cant mind his own business and runs into a high profile store manager arranging a menu for his restaurant's opening night. With the ability to transfer her emotions to her clients through the food she cooks, you have to suspend your disbelief to truly love it like I do.
Sweet Home Alabama
Maybe it's just because I love the south and kinda wish I could move there, this movie has major appeal to me. Hicks, gentlemen and Civil War reenactors, this movie makes me wish I knew the life down South better than just through stereotypes. Plus, Reese Witherspoon is SO CUTE.
The Proposal
I had to get something from Sandra Bullock on here. She's too spectacular to just gloss over. Love it love it love it, even if the grandmother is immensely off kilter. I wish the pacing had been a little slower, but we cant have everything in life. This movie makes me wish I could go to Alaska, just to see if it's that scenic and serene. I think I could like a slower paced life. I just don't think I could handle the cold.
Back in the Game
Game of School that is. Four classes, two actually on campus, the other two are online classes which means LAB TIME! History and ASL 4 are in the new building on campus (the HS building with the cool green glass around the elevator shaft) and Math 50 and Health 100 require Lab time. The nice thing about the Math class is I only have to go to lab until I take the final. Apparently I can take it early (SWEET!!!)
On an end of summer note, I have officially gotten my friend Rebekah hooked on Leverage. How great is that? Now I have another person to talk to about the awesomeness of the show. We finished Season One and are now on Season Two. GO LEVERAGE!!! I've also been getting her hooked on Eliot. It's nice when someone understands my obsessions.
So that's all for now. We'll see how often I update my Blog once the school year gets rolling.
On an end of summer note, I have officially gotten my friend Rebekah hooked on Leverage. How great is that? Now I have another person to talk to about the awesomeness of the show. We finished Season One and are now on Season Two. GO LEVERAGE!!! I've also been getting her hooked on Eliot. It's nice when someone understands my obsessions.
So that's all for now. We'll see how often I update my Blog once the school year gets rolling.
Friday, August 13, 2010
odd movie
Raising Arizona.
Lots of screaming, screeching tires and a VERY lanky Nicolas Cage. That man was very good looking back in the day, and he has aged well.
But Raising Arizona is a WEIRD movie.
Lots of screaming, screeching tires and a VERY lanky Nicolas Cage. That man was very good looking back in the day, and he has aged well.
But Raising Arizona is a WEIRD movie.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
new foods
I tried the Crispy Shrimp Tacos from Rubios. They are pretty friggin' delicious. I have issues with food textures. If I don't like the texture, I wont eat it, no matter how good it tastes. I hate the texture of shrimp, but I love the flavor which means if I eat it, somehow the texture must be disguised. Fried shrimp works well for hiding the texture. I like discovering new foods I can like. I'm just really sad the the Crispy Shrimp Taco wont be around for long. Go figure the foods I'll eat there wont stick around.
What is a girl to do?
On another note, I want to like Chinese food. I see people eat it in movies and shows. It cant be that bad, can it? And I sorta know how to eat with chopsticks, so I'm half way there, right?
What is a girl to do?
On another note, I want to like Chinese food. I see people eat it in movies and shows. It cant be that bad, can it? And I sorta know how to eat with chopsticks, so I'm half way there, right?
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Holla!
So my family went out this morning to help someone from our ward with their house. After wards we went to In-N-Out for lunch and on the way home we started joking around. MASSIVE mental anguish there. My family seems to love crossing the line, and then overreacting about it. I guess with a family of seven children there are no real secrets about your parents. But that doesn't mean you need to go on and on about it, do you?
Friday, August 6, 2010
Romantic
Uh...No matter how hard I try not to be, my romantic side insists on coming out. So you readers out there, YOU GET TO DEAL WITH IT!! Mwahahahaha!!!
For starters, Jane Austin. She writes such nice heroines. Believable in personality and time set.
Princess Bride. There is no better classic love story, even if its really only from the 80's. Revenge, miracles, swordfights, True Love.
I think my next post will be about my all-time favorite Romantic Comedies. Better start working on that list....
For starters, Jane Austin. She writes such nice heroines. Believable in personality and time set.
Princess Bride. There is no better classic love story, even if its really only from the 80's. Revenge, miracles, swordfights, True Love.
I think my next post will be about my all-time favorite Romantic Comedies. Better start working on that list....
Current Obsessions
Chocolate (this is an on going obsession. I just cant resist the stuff.)
Christian Kane: Country music star, actor, and all around pretty cool guy. Who is this man? Ever seen Secondhand Lions? He plays young Hub. He's also the Hitter, Eliot in my current favorite television show Leverage.
Here's him in some movie I'll never see because it's rated R, but I like the song.
So I'm on this fan site for Christian Kane, and apparently I may be able to send him something that I made. Remember this? http://pondie.deviantart.com/#/d2vnwqz Someone on the site may be able to get me a fan mail address and I can send him another shirt with that design on it. AWESOME!!! And there's still speculation, but I may be able to go up to see one of his performances in Oregon. Cross your fingers for me!
Christian Kane: Country music star, actor, and all around pretty cool guy. Who is this man? Ever seen Secondhand Lions? He plays young Hub. He's also the Hitter, Eliot in my current favorite television show Leverage.
Here's him in some movie I'll never see because it's rated R, but I like the song.
So I'm on this fan site for Christian Kane, and apparently I may be able to send him something that I made. Remember this? http://pondie.deviantart.com/#/d2vnwqz Someone on the site may be able to get me a fan mail address and I can send him another shirt with that design on it. AWESOME!!! And there's still speculation, but I may be able to go up to see one of his performances in Oregon. Cross your fingers for me!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Being a giver
Do you know how it feels to constantly be giving to other people? To feel driven to make your intrusion in their lives as easy on them as possible? Not because they want it that way, but because you feel compelled to make things easy on those around you, no matter who they are.
Let me just tell you, it sucks.
Whether it's friends who take advantage of the help they know you'll give while throwing in your face your request for their help, family who expects you to bow to their every whim while not caring anything about what you'd like or someone you care deeply for feeling burdened by your feelings for them IT BITES THE BIG ONE.
I just want the people I love to know that they matter to me, to know that if anything were to happen to them, I'd be there to help any way I could. I want those who claim to love me to actually mean it when they say it, and give me some kind of sign that they aren't just saying it because it's expected of them.
I want the people around me to know that they are worth something, not just to me, but to the world and society around them. I want them to know that when I say something I almost always mean it. Yes, I misspeak often, but I try to always be clear and precise, but sometimes (because I'm human) I screw up.
I want those who I trust to show me the same kind of trust, because I am up to the task of being trustworthy, of being steadfast in my friendship. I am up to accepting them as they are, no matter what that is. I take the relationships in my life seriously, because in the long run, these relationships are what's going to carry me through the hard times. It doesn't matter my education, the cool people I've met, the books I've read or the things I've painted. What matters is who I helped when I could, who I befriended when they were around, who I let into my life, and who let me into theirs.
When we die, all we can take with us is our knowledge and our experience.
"Men are that they might have joy"
It's a matter of choice, of choosing to be happy, of choosing to live your life to it's fullest regardless of the opposition where ever it may come from.
Happiness comes to NO ONE. It must be sought after, or better yet, made.
Let me just tell you, it sucks.
Whether it's friends who take advantage of the help they know you'll give while throwing in your face your request for their help, family who expects you to bow to their every whim while not caring anything about what you'd like or someone you care deeply for feeling burdened by your feelings for them IT BITES THE BIG ONE.
I just want the people I love to know that they matter to me, to know that if anything were to happen to them, I'd be there to help any way I could. I want those who claim to love me to actually mean it when they say it, and give me some kind of sign that they aren't just saying it because it's expected of them.
I want the people around me to know that they are worth something, not just to me, but to the world and society around them. I want them to know that when I say something I almost always mean it. Yes, I misspeak often, but I try to always be clear and precise, but sometimes (because I'm human) I screw up.
I want those who I trust to show me the same kind of trust, because I am up to the task of being trustworthy, of being steadfast in my friendship. I am up to accepting them as they are, no matter what that is. I take the relationships in my life seriously, because in the long run, these relationships are what's going to carry me through the hard times. It doesn't matter my education, the cool people I've met, the books I've read or the things I've painted. What matters is who I helped when I could, who I befriended when they were around, who I let into my life, and who let me into theirs.
When we die, all we can take with us is our knowledge and our experience.
"Men are that they might have joy"
It's a matter of choice, of choosing to be happy, of choosing to live your life to it's fullest regardless of the opposition where ever it may come from.
Happiness comes to NO ONE. It must be sought after, or better yet, made.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
So...Life, yeah?
Lost my job in November, aced Salsa, passed Bio 100 (which means I don't have to take it again!) and I still don't know about my Math 15 class.
I work at Papa John's now. Working there is....interesting....But it's hopefully only till I get out of here and move to BYUI. Then I can get a job at another pizza place! So exciting, huh?
Summer is looming ahead. A little over a month till Comic Con. That is the highlight of my summer, because I cant go to Patriot Academy. Wish I'd planned things better.
So If anyone reading this has fun plans for the summer, try to count me in, because I'd like to get out of the house a little.
I work at Papa John's now. Working there is....interesting....But it's hopefully only till I get out of here and move to BYUI. Then I can get a job at another pizza place! So exciting, huh?
Summer is looming ahead. A little over a month till Comic Con. That is the highlight of my summer, because I cant go to Patriot Academy. Wish I'd planned things better.
So If anyone reading this has fun plans for the summer, try to count me in, because I'd like to get out of the house a little.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I need to post more
I have things going on in my life. I just don't see the point of posting them. I'm starting school again next week. Biology, Salsa Dance and Pre-Algebra. That's about it.
Wow, my life is a little boring. Why are you reading this? You should have MUCH better things to do than keep checking my blog to see if I've updated....
Wow, my life is a little boring. Why are you reading this? You should have MUCH better things to do than keep checking my blog to see if I've updated....
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