Thanks for teaching me to try new things....

I saw this video on Ellen yesterday - it's unbelievable. The video is of Stacy Westfall and her horse, Wizard's Baby Doll. She reins the horse completely bareback and bridle-less. The amount of trust built up between this girl and her horse is amazing. You must watch!

Leaping toward the weekend...

February 29, 2008; an extra day of February; "Leap Year". These special leap years occur every four years. They are what cause our seasons to change at the same time every year and they keep the calendar in alignment with the earth's motion around the sun .... used to "fix" the error time misses in one year (source).

Even time makes mistakes :)

I'm off today - on account of working tomorrow. The day plan is to clean house - specifically my scrap room...we'll see if the gumption reaches me. It hasn't yet, and we're midway through the day already.

Last night, on AI.. Jason Yeager was no surprise, he'd already outrun his welcome...Robbie, on the other hand was a bit of a surprise...as I thought Luke would certainly be the next to leave. Next week, Luke; you can't sing. As for the girls, I only really enjoy Brooke, Ramiele, and Carly, so it didn't matter to me who got booted...however, I'm a little shocked to see Amanda last another week, and I was as flabbergasted as Kady was when she found out she wasn't going home this week (wtf?? I guess America like to look at her and are turning a deaf ear. She can imitate Britney really well, but she doesn't have a leg to stand on when she sings 'herself').

Happy Friday, peeps!!! The weekend is close at hand!

Happy Hump Day

I felt a bit challenged with trying to post a follow up to the last poignant one, so had a day gap inbetween... and, for the record, I normally will not reference anything "Oprah" - I used to enjoy Oprah...but I enjoyed fat-Oprah much more than skinny-Oprah. She used to get it at one time...now, not so much. Her aside, I still feel Randy Pausch's message is one that everyone should hear.

It's been awhile since I properly updated you all on the mundaneness that is my life. For those interested, here's a quick 'n dirty:

• I worked another week of nights - which really does nothing to increase my social circle or blogworthiness.
• on Friday night I was supposed to meet with my SU club for a night of crafts & laughs but I had to bow out on account of feeling like a large turd of dog poo. Yep - it was coming over me in waves all day - waking up Friday morning feeling awful - but having the stamp night to look forward to so I kept hanging on... At around 3pm my head was pounding so hard I couldn't see straight, and I felt like stomach contents were going to resurface...so I left work and headed to the couch. I never made it to Angela's for SU night.
• Saturday night I missed a staff party on account of the continued feeling-like-poo-state I was in. I stayed on the couch watching back episodes of Greys, thanks to Mummy and her wonderful gift of Season 2 & 3 DVDs :). Did I mention that I *heart* Greys?
• Sunday was a continuance of Saturday.
• Monday I made it to work - still feeling slight poo-ness (today was the first day I felt poo-free actually).
• Tuesday marked yet ANOTHER scheduled scrap class that was cancelled due to zero sign-ups. I'm the teacher that didn't teach...*sigh*...methinks it's just time to scrap for me and leave this world of rejection! No issue, however, since the evening was not a full bust! I thoroughly enjoyed BB (holy DRAMA again!!) and AI (wow...DavidA is going to win - let's just say that right now. I still really enjoy Michael & Jason a lot...and I like David despite his over-cockiness). Good TV night!

A little bit of perspective...

...we can all use a dose of it every now and then. When the trivial things in life feel like they're too much, take a minute to really think about what's bothering you.

Dr. Randy Pausch has terminal pancreatic cancer, and has very little time left. He revisited his "last lecture" on Oprah - which details life, and how to "live". Please, take the time to watch this. Some points to ponder from it:

• brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
• have fun all the time
• know the importance of people vs things
• experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted
• work & play well with others
• have patience
• show gratitude
  
• if you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself -the dreams will come to you
  

A letter

Dear Mr. Horton,

PLEASE instruct your staff to STIR the coffee before throwing it out the window.

That is all.

Antidote

Again courtesy of http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

For some reason, this particular cartoon reminded me of the full moon...reminded me of the 'weirdos' I deal with, regularly, when the moon hits it's full status. I picture them mumbling, talking to themselves...like this sort of person...

I'm just biding my time...waiting for the day to finally pass - pretty much annoyed by anything and everything today. Chris chided: "Well that's no way to spend a day! Get yourself a blizzard on the way home. :)"... after much thought it was decided that a chocolate milkshake is the cure that ails me and I'm just biding time til I get my milkshake. I might, just might have to throw in an order of mozza sticks, too...cuz, let's face it...where shaken up chocolate milk and ice cream can't fix something, deep-fried cheese surely can.

Nothing but the boob tube

Did anyone catch the DRAMA last night on BB? Un-freaking-believeable...Joshuah had NO right to say that...and I truly hope that as soon as the words left his lips he was overcome with complete and utter shame/remorse/guilt and sadness. And after the whole race thing that Jen pulled, I'm more than glad to see her go...blatant lying right to Ryan's face - it's not hard to see who wears that pants in that relationship *whip sound*. It will be interesting to see how Allison plays out now that the 'gf' is gone. Who thinks she'll try to break the two of them up?

And as for AI - I do still tune in...it's really early yet, but I do have a few favourites. My favs on the boy side are Michael, JasonC and David. I'm a bit of a sucker for an Aussie accent, so Michael just has to talk and I like him...but he can really sing too :). JasonC needs to get rid of the dreds, but I really enjoy him, and David is an ultimate cutie patootie - though his cutesy bashfulness will soon get old. On the flipside, my fav girls are without a doubt Carly and Ramiele -they're really the only 2 girls I enjoy. Carly can SING. I didn't like her song choice at all last night, though, and think that might be why she got such a knuckle-rap from Simon. Ramiele is a power house...the voice that comes out of her itty-bittiness is incredible.

Predictions for who's on the way home tonight: Garrett, and Luke or JasonY for the boys and for the girls, Amy, and Kristy or Joanne.