Skip, skip...

...skip to my loo...skip to my loo my darling!

I'm doing my happy dance! A lil' somn like the funky chicken!

yeaaaaaaaaa, maayn!

whatcha know about that?!

Yes, I noticed all the exclamation points too... deal with it! ! ! !

:)))

Bla...

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall." - Confucius

It seems like I'm having one of those days...one of those weeks...one of those years?! Lol! Ok, now i'm reaching! But yea, there's always something that seems to be going not-quite-right but somehow God reminds me he's still in control. That's really about all the comfort I have now.

August is almost over. Wow!

I might have my candidacy exam in a week. Wow!

Ok then... I guess I'm off to study...or sleep...yea, study! Yea...that!

TGIF

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking...And I plan on finding out what it is." - Derek Zoolander

...that's kinda how i feel today....really really ridiculously good looking! Lol!

Off to find out what else is out there...TGIF!

I carry your heart with me...

A poem by E. E. Cummings (image via national geographic)

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;
whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

"If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting

the appetite may sicken and so die...

That strain again - it had a dying fall;

O, it came oer my ear, like the sweet sound

that breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing, and giving odour! Enough! No more!

'Tis not so sweet, as it was before..."

William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night (Orsino)

I remember reading "Twelfth Night" for a class... many years ago and absolutely loving it. It was probably the first Shakespeare book i'd ever read. I found it initially confusing w/ the awkward english...but it became highly entertaining once I got used to it. I remember reciting the above scene over and over 'til i knew it by heart (for whatever reason). I guess some part of me wishes people still spoke like that...making a big fuss about any and everything :)

Happy Monday!

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photo via confusion.kyou.co.uk

Smile...

My mama always told me that life doesn't get any easier as you get older... you just get accustomed to certain situations and learn how to better deal with them. It's interesting how as a child, you can't wait to grow up and start living your own life and making your own decisions...and then that time comes - you're an "adult" and you're suddenly required to make responsible choices and that freedom you so yearned for just really means "paying your own damn bills"...LOL! I love being grown - most times - but other times i just wanna yell out "mummmyyyyyyy!!!" and have her take care of Everything!

I woke up this morning feeling that way and then amazingly heard a song I absolutely love (Smile, by Nat King Cole) - that kinda made it all better :)

I'll leave you with the words... have a super-duper day!


"Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you...

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile"

Quotes on Prayer

"Pray, and let God worry." -Martin Luther King

"To clasp the hands in prayer, is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world" - Karl Barth

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." -John F. Kennedy

"Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble."- Philip Melanchthen

Lord, teach me to pray...even when I really don't feel like it...even when i'm not sure what i need to say!

Lin vs. Yang : Beijing Olympics

Yang (L), Lin (R)

Nine year old Lin Miaoke, performed "Ode to Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into the Beijing National Stadium...but...wait....it was actually Yang Peiyi singing (7yr old girl), while Lin was lip-syncing. Shhhhhhhhheeeeeeeee....tt!

"The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings and expression. ...Lin Mioke is excelelent in those aspects."

Just. Wow! *dead* Can't believe they're already f-ing with these kids minds about who's cute and who isn't... Just.Wow!

Lesson here for the kids - be born "cute"...and stay that way, if you plan on making it in Beijing!

photo via bbc.co.uk

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return."
-Moulin Rouge (2001)

photo via modernartimages.com

Bla...

Is it possible to have so much on your mind that you go totally BLANK?! I'd really like to crawl under a huge rock and hide there for a while...if that's okay with everyone? Even better - i'd like to have the power to freeze time. That'd be the coolest thing ever! Just click the freeze/pause button, get everything done that needs to be done, and then click "play" like nothing ever happened. Yea, that's it! I'm on to something here guys...

I've got a case of the Mondays!

"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you can't practise any other virtue consistently. You can practise any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."- Maya Angelou

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"I dream, therefore I become."
- Cheryl Renee Grossman

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"

I stole this quote from a friend (JP) and thought - how appropriate! Especially as I've been feeling like s**t for not getting much done all summer.

Elo ni jale?

For those that are not Yoruba, this simply means "what's the final price on this item?" (after a personal discount). So, depending on your hustle, you can get the item for a fifth of the original price mentioned after asking "elo ni jale?"

I was just thinking...wouldn't it be super-cool if you could ask that question in any/every scenario in life? For example take the following:

1. Your professor (or boss if you're out working already) asks you to get some project done before you go on vacay and because you're trying to do the least possible work, you ask - elo ni jale?
2. You're just starting your job and they say you need to go through a 2yr program to start off, before you get any sort of promotion and you ask - elo ni jale?
3. You start a program in school and they say you need certain courses before you can graduate and you ask - elo ni jale?
4. Your doc tells you to take a certain number of pills every couple of hours in order to get better and you ask - elo ni jale?
5. Your husband/wife tells you they want a certain number of kids and you ask - elo ni jale?

...always trying to get as little as possible done! Yes, I'm random and these are my monday morning thoughts!

Have a nice day :)

Live, Love Life, Give Love

"In an effort to avoid situations you might regret, you end up regretting some things that were left undone." - Anonymous

I guess for the most part I've been the "safe" type. I try to do things right most of the time but I recently learned to "let my hair down" every once in a while. Life's too short to be scared of making mistakes all the time. If you never make mistakes, you never get the opportunity to learn from them....And no matter how much you try to avoid making mistakes, you're gonna make 'em anyway :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should walk right into something that's a definite no-no...just that it's okay to take a chance on the most random things every once in a while.

I started writing this and was reminded about a song Bette Midler sang in a movie - Beaches

"You've got to give a little, take a little,

And let your poor heart break a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love...

You've got to laugh a little, cry a little,

Until the clouds roll by a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love...

You've got to win a little, lose a little,

Yes, and always have the blues a little

That's the story of, that's the glory of love."

I always loved that song... I always loved that movie. Hehe!

Okay, now I'm off to continue with my lazy lazy weekend. Hopefully I'll squeeze in a couple of hours of work.

Is today tomorrow?

That may seem like a silly question but not if you look at it from a two year old's point of view. Apparently, I asked that question when I was about 2. I'd been given an assignment in kindergarten (probably coloring or something along those lines) and was told to bring it back with me 'tomorrow'. Now, the only problem was that I'd heard people randomly refer to this day- tomorrow - but I never really knew when it was. So, every day (i think for about a week), I'd ask my mother - Is today tomorrow? And she'd try to explain that today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow...but I never really got it!...and so I asked over and over again until she finally said "Yes, today Is tomorrow."


Lol! It's amazing how eager I was for "tomorrow" to come so I could go ahead and turn in my homework (or whatever it was). Now, I feel like there aren't enough hours in a day! Maybe I just sleep too much. Maybe it's all the procrastination. Whatever it is... I can't believe it's already the beginning of August!