December 3, 2007
blurb.com
I think this website is such a cool idea (Griffin maybe project 4 for next year?)
There is even a blog book section.
CHECK IT OUT!
www.blurb.com/home/1
Choices
So much pressure is put on us to make choices. Every day, we make so many choices, from what to wear, to what to eat, to what to priortize. Some days you make bigger choices. Those days when you sign up for classes and declare majors, choose colleges and pick careers, change cities or end relationships. But, how much do all of these choices that we put so much thought and effort and stress into really matter? Is it really like the movie Sliding Doors, where you miss the train and your whole life is changed? Some people like to think that life is laid out from the beginning, that God or some other universal force has a plan for each one of us. Is life more like the movie Serendipity, where you can move and change and think you've taken one path but really you've circled back to where you started because that's where the universe wanted you? It is so hard to tell how much influence we have over our own lives, and how much of our lives is luck and chance. But, I guess that you just have to keep making those choices, continue making your plans, and hope that if the universe is going to have it's own plan for you, that it's a good one.
Worries....
Christmas Time
It Reads that way because IT SELLS!
"It elevates the mood"
And puts one in the frame of mind
The proper attitude..
To lavish guests with wondrous foods
To buy, in spite of COST...
To act as if one knows what he is doing
When he's LOST!!
But Christmas is a frantic time....
For ME, and others too!
The buying gifts, the wrapping...
And all else that we do!!
It starts with DECORATING
The house, outside and in....
My dad strings cascading lights
While I, inside BEGIN...
To open up the boxes
Of my treasures through the years
Life wondering how they fared this time
(I try to quell my fears!!)
My SANTA CLAUS collection
Is such a great surprise!
I swear that HE is really is there...
I see those "TWINKLING EYES"!
Place them just where they should be
The rooms are getting full
Of characters and colors...
So bright where i was dull!
And this is what I LOVE the most.
The way these things appear!
One cannot help but feel god
When the HOLIDAYS are near!!
Of having this GOOD FEELING
With "programs" here...and running there,
We all are just left "reeling"!
And look, instead to CALMER times
When we might just SLOW DOWN
It seems so sad, but WE MISS OUT
On all that is around!!
And, therefore, I will make a PLEDGE
This year that we will start
Not just observing CHRISTMAS
But feeling it in the heart!!
By slowing down our pace a bit...
And SEEING sights around us
And through these basic, little acts...
Our problem will be solved
And what seems insurmountable
Will MAGICALLY dissolve!
I feel good already
Have I left something out?
Or was it just that SIMPLE
To turn this thing about?
- by the issue (finally brave enough)
December 2, 2007
Teddy
Can you believe a British teacher was arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed". The Muslims finally realized that she meant no insult to their God that they believe in. She is now on her way back to London. But can u believe the ridiculousness of calling a teddy bear anything and millions of people getting upset because of the name of a toy. I hope one day Muslims will understand our Western Ways.
November 30, 2007
The Juice is Loose...He Posted Bail
OJ Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas in a hotel rook, where he and others were attempting to sell sports paraphernalia that OJ claimed once belonged to him. He was with three friends, one of whom had a gun, and now he is now being charged with armed robbery and faces life in prison.The trio face 12 charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, coercion and conspiracy. If found guilty he will get life in prision. Maybe second time is the charm?
How do you explain him…you don’t!
November 29, 2007
Green Holiday
The European dollar and the English pound are at all time highs against the American dollar. Europeans are flocking into New York and Miami buying property that is half priced to them. Electronics and clothes are other things that are half priced to them as well. But whoever would have thought that Barney’s would cater to Europeans instead of SMU girls.
Speaking of Barney’s their concept of taking high fashion and going “green” has been a huge topic in the advertising society. I think it is one of the best campaigns I have seen and truly enjoy walking buy the store, seeing build boards and flipping through the catalog.