Thinspiration

So I'm stoked that So You Think You Can Dance is back on for the summer. AND there's gonna be another season in the fall. Awesome. Not only is this show inspiring to live your dream and follow your passion, yada yada yada, but it's incredibly thinspiring. Nothing makes me want to get off the couch more than watching superhuman people with legs for days and 18-packs leap around effortlessly in spandex suggestions of shorts and wife beaters and look amazing doing it. And nothing jiggles. Except if it's choreography. It's a very "what am i doing with my life?" kind of a moment... le sigh...

I'm actually gonna stop blogging and go to ghetto jam.

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The Final Frontier...

Today is SPACE DAY!!! My broseph and I went out to Kennedy Space Center and watched the Space Shuttle Atlantis get beamed up into the sky to go give a hug to the Hubble telescope. Here's a pictoral review of the day:


Looking refreshed at 6am waiting for our late tour bus. Don't worry, the morning glow went away real fast...

We were greeted by an astronaut at the Kennedy Space Center. I don't think anyone told him he wasn't in space anymore, although he fakes weighlessness very well.

The Rocket Garden. That's right, a garden of rockets...or perhaps q-tips?

On the causeway, our first potential viewing location, scrapped. BUT you can see the blur of the Atlantis.

Second attempt viewing location: much better. complete with food stands, bleachers, and a countdown clock. This may or may not have been a private area...

I don't know what this building is.

I don't know what this building is, either.

This maybe is the vehicle assembly building. Or maybe I just made that up. But it has the giant NASA emblem on it. Pretty cool.

And for your viewing pleasure.....

Cool, right?

The vapor trail, post-launch. Call me crazy, but I secretly wanted it to blow over us and rain Hydrochloric Acid on us, just to say we got baptized by the space shuttle. Something to tell the grandkids.

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Mama's got a secret...

Happy day after Mother's Day! We all keep secrets from our moms. And moms have secrets, too.


I used to purposely leave too late to walk to school so my mom would have to drive me before work...my school was seriously down the street.

Either you or your mom in senile.

Ha! She may not have given you everything you wanted in your lunchbox, but she gave you a great ass.

My secret:

Thank you, Mom, for giving me your curly hair. I promise to give it to my kids, too.

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Desiderata

I meant to share this a long time ago, but didn't follow through. So here it is now.

There is a magnificent poem my Max Ehrmann called Desiderata and it has gotten me through some cloudy and uncertain times.

I don't know if I'd call it a poem so much as words of wisdom from a complete stranger that is the exact thing you need to hear at this moment. So read this, and by all means, hug your pillow, hear the angels sing, and let your life be changed.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Feels good, doesn't it?

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