January 2009
24 posts
JM - “I’ve always held the belief that however you spend your New Year’s Celebration, it will be reflected in the year ahead. [For example,] if you have the dream of traveling, I suggest packing your bags and having them with you when the clock strikes 12. Really show the universe that your intention is more than a thought. It is an action!
Not being one to watch TV, the turn of the...
December 2008
35 posts
Banana Guards →
No more bruised, squished bananas!
“In my heart, I am more than a child of war. I am talented. I am a musician. I am...”
– Dominic, a former child soldier for the LRA and amazing xylophone player.
“I am excited to see what peace looks like.”
– Nancy, a young girl who has lived her whole life in war-torn Northern Uganda, eager to make her trip to Kampala.
Shine Global →
Help produce films that give a voice to children and their plight. Whether it be in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda or on a sugar beet farm in Minnesota, children have a story to tell. One that reveals hope within horror.
This Christmas morning I made pancakes for the family (unfortunately, we were out of chocolate chips). Now, I’m watching John Wayne westerns with my grandpa while working on a crossword puzzle my grandma and I started together. If this is being retired, then sign me up.
Okay. Will Smith. We need to have a talk. Because you’re straight up ridiculous. Will you just hold me? Please?
Proof that I watch entirely too much TLC:
I do not like the Duggars. They creep me out and I could not be more thankful that I wasn’t one of the poor kids to pop out of that woman.
Sometimes I wish I was a Gosselin.
Or at least that I could have Aaden and Leah. We’d all eat organic lollipops together, like any good Gosselin does.
(P.S. When I Google Image searched...
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they...”
– Will Rogers
If you ever want to get really stressed and frustrated and disgusted with people, spend an entire day at Costco and Sam’s Club. I don’t want any more things. Things make me feel suffocated. Just like wholesale stores. Or any stores, for that matter.
Weather.com today.
Chicago, IL: 10 degrees. Feels like -9 degrees.
Sun City, AZ: 45 degrees. Feels like 45 degrees.
I’ll be there tomorrow. So.
This year, give presence. →
I’m choosing to just be thankful to celebrate another holiday with those I love. It’s the best present I could ask for.
Since Netflix gave mac users access to the Watch Instantly feature, I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries. The most recent: Beyond Belief. I strongly recommend it. Seriously, however you can watch this movie, do it.
It’s about two women whose husbands died on September 11th and how they used that tragedy to reach out to widows in Afghanistan. We all suffer. We all feel grief. We...
Chicago is GQ's 'City of the Year' →
From Eat, Pray, Love:
“At the beginning of my spiritual experiment, I didn’t always have such faith in this internal voice of wisdom. I remember once reaching for my private notebook in a bitter fury of rage and sorrow, and scrawling a message to my inner voice-to my divine interior comfort-that took up an entire page of capital letters: I DO NOT FUCKING BELIEVE IN YOU!!! After a...
“Christmas is coming! Have you spent enough money to convince them you are really...”
– asofterworld
For fun, (and in an effort to avoid writing my philosophy paper) some of my recently played on my iTunes:
Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
La Vie en Rose - Yves Montand
Unfold - Jason Mraz
Burn - Ray LaMontagne
Claire de Lune - Claude Debussy
The Limit to Your Love - Feist
Salina - The Avett...
Saturday Night Live: SNL Digital Short: J*** in My... →
the definition of beautiful.
“Next time the sun shines through your window in the morning and makes you hide...”
– Nathan Pyle, Heart Language. Kind of obvious but I tend to forget too often. Nice to be reminded.
My art history course ended with a lecture on Existentialism. Read some Sartre if you want to feel hopeless about your future. Makes finals week go by much faster.
I really honestly forgot how much I hate winter weather in Chicago. It’s painfully cold. Unbearably cold. I’m not leaving my apartment until April.
“One time I ate all the Advent chocolates in one day… actually in one...”
– Caitlin Wilde, my roommate, after receiving an Advent calendar from Mama Gross
Super Obama World →
It’s already December? Crap. That means January comes next. And Februrary after that. Some of my least favorite months. I’m not much of a winter person, I guess.
There’s really no point of me writing this right now. Except that I’m procrastinating on getting stuff done for finals. I almost wish I was more stressed. At least that way I’d have a little more motivation...
