Sunday, February 21, 2010

Things That Are Awesome

When I get bored or feel the unrelenting urge to procrastinate homework (which is more often than not...), I rely on some websites for help. Facebook is the obvious one. I don't go on there to play farmville or mafia wars or sorority life, like my sister. I watched her playing that the other day and I gave a little prayer of thanks for my strength to not give into temptation and play that one - I'd so be addicted to that stuff!! However, there are a couple other sites that rock my world...those being this gem and the greatness found here. Also, every Sunday morning, I wake up and check out all the new postcard secrets at Frank's blog which is awesome and epic and I love it. I nervously anticipate the new week's postings on Saturdays.


I also saw something very very awesome a couple nights ago. We've been getting the first season of "Glee" on DVD from netflix and it is extremely cheesy, pretty hilarious (Jane Lynch - the woman is outrageous!!), has some great eye candy (seriously, Cory Monteith is delicious), and sometimes, it is perfect. Such was the case with this particular episode. The Glee Club is preparing for sectionals and they've found out their competition - one school is for troubled girl's and the other is a school for deaf youth. So, there are a TON of jokes about it, and if you think about it, its a funny situation...right? Well, they get a performance done for them by the girls' school and there is a ton of booty shaking and some grinding...they did Beyonce proud. Then, the coach from the deaf school comes in and wants equal treatment, so they do a little "scrimmage" with them. The kids get up and start to perform "Imagine." It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen on any television program ever. One of the boys in the front spoke the words while the entire group signed them. Of course, the Glee club got up and sang with them and it was all butterflies and roses, but it really didn't distract from the beauty in the performance. It was just one of those moments that takes your breath away and gives you chills and I'm super proud of the show for putting it on air and showing that people from all walks of life can do anything. That's the American Dream right there baby!!! :)


Friday, February 5, 2010

Love It!

I always feel like I need to blog frequently...because people live and breath to read my thoughts, right?? :)


So, since my life is dull and nothing super exciting happens EVER, I thought I'd share something with the world that gave me an "aaw" moment yesterday.

I aide in a couple 6th grade science classes and they are currently teaching the kids astronomy. Yesterday, the sub was telling the kids about how the moon was a piece of the earth that broke up 4.5 billion years ago or something (I don't know how true any of this stuff is... I'm just sharing background, I'm not a scientist.) and one of the kids turns to me and says the cutest thing ever! To truly appreciate this though, you have to know that this kid has been kind of negative lately. He's a sixth grader getting closer to seventh grade... it's pretty normal So, he turns to me and says "The Earth is God playing with play dough." I thought it was so adorable!!!!!! Well, it's school and I don't want to get too in depth on this conversation because I quite like my job and don't feel like getting in trouble for the whole church/school politics so I just said "Well, I hope God doesn't get tired of playing with the play dough then?". He just looks at me and says "No, he won't." It was super cute. I loved it. Totally totally made my day.