dumbo

originally written: 1.November.2011

"the very things that held you down are going to carry you up and up and up!" -- timothy q. mouse

friday was a night of fantastic bliss for me. i ate my favourite meal (spaghetti!) then some delish hallowe'en-themed choco cake. and as i ate the sweet, sweet goodness, i watched, wait for it ...DUMBO! which, in my opinion, is in the top three disney movies of all time (along with every other disney movie ...save for snow white ...) i always forget how absolutely amazing that movie is, and it's supes encouraging, too!
encouraging parts:
-when mrs. jumbo does get her baby
-when casey jr. thinks he can make it over the hill and he does
-when timothy q. mouse and dumbo find out that dumbo can fly
-when dumbo discovers he can fly without the feather
-when dumbo flies into his mother's trunk at the end of the movie
-when the crows sing about puns (there's always a pun to be found and that's always an encouraging upside to life)

anyway, my favourite character, timothy q. mouse, spoke the encourage words i quoted above. dumbo's big ears, the cause of all his pain and sorrows, the things that led to his separation from his mother, ended up being the very things that carried him "up and up and up!"


what's that thing (or what are those things) that hold you down, that make you all self-conscious? how can it/they make you even more awesome than you are now? what are your big ears? use your weakness(es) to carry you up. be a dumbo.


*sidenote: the above pictures are not my own. courtesy of google images ^^

testosterone

originally written 28.October.2011

-the post that was so be for yesterday:

continuing on with the awkward dating stage between my posts and any readers they might have, i couldn't muster up a good idea full of manly testosterone in which male readers might be interested. every idea i had seemed more appealing to the ladies. probably because i'm all woman and chock-full of estrogen. so i decided on a relatively neutral topic: television. scratch that. good television. what is good television? basically, if i watch it, it's good. if not, there's a good chance that it sucks (no offense).

glee -- not great but good enough ...no, scratch that, i just watch it out of habit ...
new girl -- def good
psych
modern family
up all night
the office -- it's lost some of its pizazz but it will always be a classic
30 rock -- tina fey ftw
parks & rec -- amy poehler ftw
community
chuck -- the best thing that has ever happened to my eyes. team bartowski for life
snl -- come on, who doesn't like that show? (don't answer, i don't want to know)

then there are of course the classics that are no long on television: arrested development, i love lucy, all those 90's cartoons/shows (mostly on nickelodeon), that 70's show, reba, and you can be your sweet life i've seen every episode of ever show i've mentioned. flight of the conchords almost made the list, but i haven't seen enough episodes to legitimately awesome-ify it yet. i'm going to one day, though!

so those are the classy tv shows that i keep up with. there are others like "so you think you can dance" that don't count because they're rtv and ...*whispers* secret life of the american teenager ...<--i am not proud of that but it, like glee, is a habit sort of watching -_-
but to redeem myself from admitting i watch that nonsense, i'm going to move on to psych. does anybody watch it? has anybody been keeping up with it as religiously as i have? if you have, i officially like you because you're on of the few people that do.
is it just me or has this season been crazy amazing so far? these first three episodes have each made me more giddy than any other episode and this season's new theme-song-video-montage thing? i think it's so great! also we've only seen the icky little shawn once so far and i am all too okay with that. i miss the cool little shawn, he was delightful. and did you see the "last night gus" ep? it was totally a "make-fun-of-the-hangover" episode and they did it so well! wah! i love that show.
on a sadder note, my most favourite show ever, "chuck," comes back for its last season tomorrow night [[that's tonight, friday]] depressing? you bet your not-so-sweet life. i'll whine more about that later, probably. i just want the world to know that layna t. franklin detests the thought of chuck ending and will always be chanting "one more season!" i could stare at zachary levi as chuck bartowski for the rest of my life

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on a less awkward note


those are my most pressing views on television at the moment and those views are as testosterone-y this post is gonna get (maybe save for the zachary levi bit)


*side note: the above pictures are not my own. courtesy of google images ^^

tired

originally written: 28.October.2011


i'm half asleep as i type this, so my real post from today will be typed up and posted tomorrow.

bon soir, readers


*side note: the above picture is not my own. courtesy of google images ^^

captivating

originally written: 26.October.2011

turns out blogging is a bit harder than it sounds. i've spent 30 minutes trying to think of what to write and realized something. no matter what i write, it's going to be awkward. i've never blogged before so my blogging hands (as opposed to my sea legs ...) haven't come in yet. these first few blogs are like the first dates between two people (or more people if you roll like that ...) they're always awkward but they make for fun memories. so don't break up with me quite yet. i promise the dates will eventually get better within the next year or two ;]


so now that i've informed you that by reading my blog, we're essentially dating, i'll move on to this post's topic: captivating. today i had a pretty sweet convo with a girl in one of my classes named lucy. our conversation started off with feminism and how we agree and disagree with some of its point and we went on to talk about chivalrous dudes and how they are super fantastic (hint hint, boys) and then we started talking about guys that treat girls crap and why girls might accept it. my reasoning was/is based on the book "captivating" by married couple john and stasi eldredge. a point they made is that every person that identifies as female is naturally born with a question: "am i captivating?" the answer these females are given shapes the kind of women they become. some girls ask their parents "am i captivating?" by dressing up in their mother's clothing or asking their father to play tea-time with her. sometimes the answer is a yes when the mother gasps in awe at how precious her daughter is or when the father eagerly pours his daughter some imaginary tea and they clink

their cups in cheers. sometimes the answer is a no when the mother scolds her daughter for for getting into her stuff or when the father continues watching television or when he claims to be too busy. the question could also be answered by classmates, teachers, anyone, really. unfortunately, a single "no" can totally change a girls outcome; and there are a lot of no's in the world. ladies, i'll tell you this: you are beautiful, precious, captivating. there is a man out there who thinks you're to die for, who wants to protect you, who wants you for the rest of your life. you don't need to be blonde and blue eyed or a skinny-frakkin-minnie (nothing wrong with that) to be beautiful. beauty is so much more than that. beauty comes from the inside. cliche much? you bet your sweet life it's cliche! only because it's true, homeslice. beauty is found in every female -- physical, emotional, what have you. i dare you to go out for a day and find beauty in every woman, girl, lady, whatever you come across. we're all captivating.
male readers, if there are any, sorry this post was so chick-y. i'll try to make the next one a bit more testosterone-y =]


*side note: the above pictures are not my own. courtesy of google images ^^

beginnings -- hard, nerve-wracking, exciting, unpredictable.

originally written: 25.October.2011

life is a series of cliffs. all beginnings of each life experience is a step off of a cliff, the start of a fall that can end in a quick splat or continue for a ridiculously long time and end in a light landing like alice's fall down the rabbit hole (yea, that reference just happened). i'm hoping this beginning is like alice's fall, that my blogging can go on for a long time and that when it's time for it to end, my landing is soft and leading to a whole other adventure. i have a bunch of visions, fantasies, what have you about this blog and they're pretty sweet. now that i've got the beginning out of the way, i can be pretty sure that my other entries will suck a little less. so wish me luck, reader, and enjoy this blog and all the beginnings you may come across.

*side note: the above picture is not my own. courtesy of google imgages ^^