Food Combos (To Honor The Day)

Ok, seriously. Who puts pepper, ginger, and cinnamon into an iced chi tea latte? That has to be the spiciest cool drink I've had in a while. It was good though, so that's a plus. It was a weird feeling knowing that something so cool and icy was so spicy.

Other weird food combos that either I enjoy, or my friends enjoy:

Ketchup, Tabasco and Scrambled Egg

Scrambled Egg (very plain) on a Peanut Butter Sandwich

Hot Sauce and Popcorn

Soy sauce, Parmesan, and Popcorn

Peas and M&Ms

Pineapples and Salt

Milk and Pepsi

M&M's on top of Pizza

Baby Carrots and Peanutbutter

Hope everyone has a great day!

Short and Lucky

You never realize how short life is until something reminds you that it is certainly not infinite. Nor do you realize how lucky you are until you nearly lose something.

Please, do not drive drunk. You might make it home okay, but there is no sense in taking that chance.

Justice and Tragedy

So there is really no thing as justice. It's a fairy tale. A myth. An illusion. The real question is, why do you thing it's supposed to be? Who started that idea? The Bible? Society? Boston Legal? We just do not know.

Justice sounds like a good idea because it is an equalizer for pain. I get hurt, so you get hurt in return. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But, that's just not the case. there's more land than ocean, more salesmen than prophets, and more roaches than roach motels. Things aren't meant to be equal. suffering and happiness are not weights in some cosmic Weight Watcher's balance; their relative proportion is unpredictable. Just get over it.

Here's the deal, tragedy may be unequal, but it isn't random. Yes, there is meaning. Bad things usually happen to snap us out of whatever haze we are in at the time. We are supposed to start questioning our beliefs, try to figure out what is important to us, and try to figure out why we go on living. People don't usually change unless they feel sufficient pain to overcome their natural resistance to change. Change takes energy; it's a Simple physics concept that applies to day to day living. Tragedy energizes, and what suffering is supposed to encourage us to do is girue out how to avoid suffering in the future. It's evolutionary. Find out what happy people do and imitate them. It's not rocket surgery.

This Will Never Happen Again

Nothing is going to stay. It isn't a new concept in philosophy, and everyone knows it.

In every second, everything around us is constantly changing.

Websites That I Frequent

Websites that take up a fair amount of my free time.

Stumble Upon

http://www.stumbleupon.com

My roommate got me hooked on this site, and honestly it is really cool. Basically you sign up (which takes 2 seconds) and then you input your interests. Stumble Upon then directs you to off beat websites that can be quite a lot of fun. If you don't like a site, you hit the thumbs down button and it removes that type of site from your browsing options

Post Secret

http://postsecret.blogspot.com

I may or may not check this site religiously every Sunday. It has a lot of compelling secrets, and the books are great.

Wolfram Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Wicked awesome information site. I use it when I want to know random facts about an object, company etc. Also, it helps with chemistry and calculus.

Sporcle

http://www.sporcle.com/

Far too addictive. I must thank M for making this site a favorite. It is a trivia site that has quizzes ranging from "Name the Disney Princesses" to "Name All The Popes in Alphabetical Order"

Lala

http://www.lala.com

This is a great music site that is free. I usually keep it running in the backround when I am working because they have pre-made playlists.

Texts From Last Night

http://www.textsfromlastnight.com

Crazy funny site that is very quotable. Maybe it's because most of the things aren't done in the usual state of mind, but they tend to be hilarious.

Here's To The World

There are things that are not visible if one simply looks at my resume, my transcript, the college I attend, or the degree I earn. The world cannot look at my paperwork and see that I am a true friend, a lover, a person you can rely on, a person who listens. The world will not know that I spent the early part of nighttime staring at the stars, attending a concert, and taking photographs with my dearest friends. I can not show the world just how much each and every little activity has affected me, and how it has changed me as a human being. I can not even begin to describe how much the stroke of my brush across canvas makes me feel, nor can I tell the world how much I have dreamed about falling in love with the perfect man, how I've dreamed about becoming recognized as an artist. Upon observation of my statistics and lists that supposedly describe me, the world can not know that wherever I go, wherever I end up, I will paint, smile, laugh, calculate, sing out of key, write, rhyme, joke, listen, console, talk, dream, pray, read, love, and create. Maybe there is a chance that the world will not acknowledge my accomplishments that are documented on paper, but I can hope that someday it will be inspired enough to sense my footsteps across it's terrain and maybe amidst all the others hear what I have to say.

Catchy Songs

Ok...we all know them as the songs that you can't stop singing, the songs that keep running through our head. Some are good, others are just insanely catchy jingles that plague our thoughts for hours or days.

The 10 Top Ten Catchy Songs

1. Don't Stop Believin'--Journey

Who the hell thought that a song about a small town girl taking a train at midnight would be so catchy. Also, the fact that 95.7% of the American population knows some or all of the lyrics makes it a contagious sing-a-long song.

2. Bad Day--Daniel Powter

Sometime having a bad day can be inspiring, but really? A song about a bad day is full of horrible analogies, and a catchy synthesized keyboard part. It was part of that one commercial during that add campaign for that one insurance company (I know you know what I'm talking about), everyone and their mother was humming along by the end of that maddening add campaign.

3. We Didn't Start The Fire-- Billy Joel

Almost no one knows this song word for word, but everyone knows Billy Joel's voice soaring through the melodious chorus. Who the hell knows "Rosenberghbombsugaraypamunjonrandbrokerkingandiandthecatcherintherye", but every one know "we didn't start the fire, it was always burin since the world's been turnin...". Selective hearing is certainly the culprit.

4. Bad Romance-- Lady Gag

Who thought that baby talk could be so damn catchy. So many people ignore the words to this song, but they know the ga ga oh la la part. It is always funny to see people at a party turn to listen to this song and sing along. Anybody who hates Lady Gaga has to give her credit for creating a catchy song out of phonetic garble.

5. Seasons of Love--Rent

Although this song was popularized by the hit movie in 2003, the song was originally in the on Broadway production of the musical by the same name. Johnathan Larson managed to introduce many American's to an odd trivia fact...that there are indeed 525600 minutes in a year.

6. Baby One More Time--Britney Spears

An often over-parodied song that has a smokin' music video to accompany it. This was before Britney became the trashy celebrity that she is now. Her smoky voice lured guys and girls alike into the world where "somethin' wasn't right".

7. Wannabe- Spice Girls

This is horribly catchy. It was played throughout the 90s at various functions. Yes, the Spice Girls were a rather interesting group, but honestly, the did create the "any way you want it that's the way you need it" refrain that flavored a generation's elementary school years.

8. The Lion Sleeps Tonight- the movie The Lion King

Seriously catchy Disney song. "We-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-we-um-um-a-way" Everyone watched this movie at least a few times during childhood, and they know this song. It's just a fun, quirky song with a catchy chorus.

9. Kissed A Girl--Katy Perry

I am fairly certain that the sales of cherry chapstick went up significantly after this song was released. Also, a great song for parties. Guys like the song because it is suggestive, and girls like the song because it isn't grinding hardcore rap.

10. Party In The U.S.A.--Miley Cyrus

Yes indeed. People do have issues with Miley Cyrus becoming a sex icon, and the fact that she is so young and has a really good voice for pop music should help negate that. I have seen grown men dancing to Party In The U.S.A. Although they immediately call "no homo" afterwards, I believe that this song has the power to move mountains. Even if the mountains take the form of rather large football players (you know who you are)