Thoughts of the day and art update

Sometimes life is crazy, with decisions and luck you get thrown around in a whirlwind of experiences that are hard to know what and how everything really happens the way it does.

Today is kind of a crazy day, having it be the last day of my current job and starting and old, new job next week is kind of a crazy experience in and of itself. But making a little bit more and being able to progress a little faster within the work force - seeing as I kind of have put in some "time" already.

Having to change my schedule around that is going to be another activity making sure I'm still productive and keeping up with classes and schedules.

With everything going on I have still had time to work on the art projects, the top one is for my art class and the latest project we have been working on. We just turned it in yesterday and then the bottom one is the update to what I have so far on the Bountiful Temple for my friend.

Superhero Saturday 1.2

Today I was thinking a little differently, I put up some pictures to remind you of the majority of superheroes in the world, I understand there are more and that some people like villains more.

So being in college, and with my last post talking about how hard it can be to prioritize I got the idea to see what kind of super powers people would choose in college to use if they could. 

So you can comment and say 4 things.

1- Which super hero is your favorite one

2- If you could have any superpower to get you through college, what would it be and why

3- Would you use it to help others, or would you keep it to yourself

4- What would be your weakness

My favorite super hero is Iron man.

If I could have any super power, I would have the ability to teleport so that I wouldn't have to deal with the cold weather or traffic or parking tickets.

I would keep it to myself unless people paid me and I could monopolize on the commodity.

My weakness would be the inability to walk on carpet. It would be equivalent to walking on ice- possible, yet difficult. 

Well, there is my example go ahead and have fun with it!

T.G.I.F.

I found some funny memes this week and thought I would collectively put them on the same post on a day that is desired amongst so many! 

FRIDAY

Friday is such a great day because you are finishing up classes for the weekend, you usually are on your last day of work before the great break of the week, and it usually means that you can sleep in on Saturday (unless of course you have things to do or you are like me and your mind wanders carelessly around and around and you have an internal alarm clock that never stops going off at 5 in the morning)

Anyways the first one goes out to the ladies! Spring is coming around the corner and its about time to start harvesting!

Or when you were a kid, at least when I was a kid in elementary school, we always looked forward to Fridays.

Friday was always PIZZA DAY!!!! 

So, in honor of that looked forward to day-

Friday night date night? 

I think that it is always a maybe! (Usually no, because I work so late)

But to those looking to go out tonight, and the ladies aren't coming around the corning running into your arms, this meme could be for you.

Easy solution to drama free.

Then finally just as a kind of pick me up to our memories and reminiscing of childhood, the weeks or days when you ruined your weekend and got grounded for doing something your parents didn't approve of,  or that feeling of being double consequenced because in the moment you got spanked and then you got grounded afterwards- like, didn't I just get my punishment?

Now I know that this is becoming something illegal, I believe that discipline is good and sometimes that means a good spanking here or there.  

Working with youth, sometimes I feel like they lack the ability to have respect for others and can't take no for an answer. Now I'm not saying we should revert to spanking or any abuse whatsoever… I'm just saying…

I survived just fine. 

Why the top 3 really aren't the top 3.

I was thinking about my week this morning (after a pretty rough test and some assignments have been due occupying my time) and trying to figure out how we usually get things done.  I have heard of the triangle that looks like this … 

Where you have the choices between your top three priorities. Which as a college student I can vouch aren't always the easiest choices to make. 

1. Getting good grades

2. Social Life

3. Enough sleep

Only being able to pick 2 of these is hard enough to do.  We all live for each one of these and it seems like it gets to the point for most that say "c's get degrees" but with the way that society is today it seems like those that get c's or even b's can't really apply for their programs. 

In my research, as a good college kid does, I found a diagram that shows this kind of struggle to a more realistic level. 

This triangle then turns into a decagon with what really occupies our time.

1. Class

2. Work

3. Family

4. Homework

5. Sleep

6. Hobbies

7. Food

8. Extra-Curricular Activities/ Resume builders/ Volunteering

9. Love Life

10. Friends

Sometimes I feel like so many try to do everything that they don't realize how human they are and how much they can't do it all at once.  

How many of you end up veggin' in front of Netflix watching your  favorite show because you don't wanna deal with all the food on the plate anymore? 

My Visual Graphic art teacher this semester would say that there are way too many choices and that you can't mix flavors. 

If you have too much food on your plate then you might as well just blend it in the blender and drink it, cause that's what is ending up happening anyways!

Well, I guess today is about priorities, work 'em out and know that you can't get everything done in one day. And each day's priorities can be completely opposite or different from any other day.

Inspirational story

There was a group of boys at a summer camp. They were enjoying themselves, playing games and starting to get quite exhausted from the heat. In fact the heat became such a concern that the camp leaders decided to help out in a creative way- with funds available they made it a competition to see which group would drink the most water.  They split the boys into 5 groups of ten.  The groups started out drinking an drinking. They made piles where they could drop the water bottles off when they were empty so they could be counted at the end of the week. Through the heat, through the struggle the boys pushed on making sure they pace themselves but drank what they could. At the end of the week, one of the groups of boys cumulitively drank 3,000 bottles of water. The next closest group to them drank less than 1,000 bottles. And the number progressively got smaller.

One of the boys from te winning group turned to the councilor and asked him in a tone of frustration  "Why didn't you tell us we were winning by so much?!" 

Looking for the opportunity to teach the young boy an important lesson he took a moment to think about his response. 

He turned back to the boy and said "if I had told you where the other boys were, you wouldn't have pushed yourself so hard. You would have just gone the bare minimum and where would it have gotten you?  You may still have won, or maybe not.  What would you do if everyone told you what the minimum was that you had to do in life? Where would you get in life and what would you do? Would you still push yourself? Would you give up out of frustration?"

The boy stopped. A little puzzled he started making the connection of the analogy. He realized that life had no limits. 

In fact, life only has limits that we put around it and for some reason we stop ourselves from doing great things because we let others tell us what should be our maximum potential and we live with that dissatisfaction - at least until we pull away from those who hold us back and reach for the stars.

So as for me this year on living life for this year, I am going to get married! We are going to go to Mexico and then a few months later we will go and live in China for 4 and a half months.  We just got accepted to a school to teach english in Changzhou! We are so excited!! We will be living it up for sure because that is what we do best! 

San Valentin

Seeing as today is such a big holiday in many parts of the world, and seeing that so many people are either really for it or really against it or somehow in someway kind of in the middle ground, I thought it would be a great idea to post a little history about Valentines day.  

In my genius, and the help of a good friend Google I typed "the story of valentines day" and picked one of the first options.  So to that website I give credit.  Whether this is a true account or a complete fictional one made up by some great story teller- I don't really care. 

ENJOY!

Story of St. Valentine

"The story of Valentine's Day begins in the third century with an oppressive Roman emperor and a humble Christian Martyr.   The emperor was Claudius II.   The Christian was Valentinus.

Claudius had ordered all Romans to worship twelve gods, and had made it a crime punishable by death to associate with Christians.   But Valentinus was dedicated to the ideals of Christ; not even the threat of death could keep him from practicing his beliefs.   He was arrested and imprisoned.

During the last weeks of Valentinus's life a remarkable thing happened.   Seeing that he was a man of learning, the jailer asked whether his daughter, Julia, might be brought to Valentinus for lessons.   She had been blind since birth.   Julia was a pretty young girl with a quick mind.   Valentinus read stories of Rome's history to her.   He described the world of nature to her.   He taught her arithmetic and told her about God.  She saw the world through his eyes, trusted his wisdom, and found comfort in his quiet strength.

"Valentinus, does God really hear our prayers?" Julia asked one day.

"Yes, my child, He hears each one."

"Do you know what I pray for every morning and every night?  I pray that I might see.   I want so much to see everything you've told me about!"

"God does what is best for us if we will only believe in Him," Valentinus said.

"Oh, Valentinus, I do believe! I do!"  She knelt and grasped his hand.

They sat quietly together, each praying.   Suddenly there was a brilliant light in the prison cell.   Radiant, Julia screamed, "Valentinus, I can see!  I can see!"

"Praise be to God!"  Valentinus exclaimed, and he knelt in prayer.

On the eve of his death Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God.   He signed it, "From your Valentine."  His sentence was carried out the next day, February 14, 270 A.D., near a gate that was later named Porta Valentini in his memory.   He was buried at what is now the Church of Praxedes in Rome.   It is said that Julia planted a pink-blossomed almond tree near his grave.   Today, the almond tree remains a symbol of abiding love and friendship.   On each February 14, Saint Valentine's Day, messages of affection, love, and devotion are exchanged around the world."

Today my valentine is Cortnie- She will be my valentine for a long time coming- CUUUUUUUUUTE!

To all those lovers out there have a great Valentines day! Don't get to crazy, but have fun and enjoy it!

I tried to avoid it. . . I swear

So I didn't want to overwhelm the great people of the blog. I was hoping to get some good  Breadman photos. But I think with his superpowers he is on to me. I even said to myself "you know, maybe he deserves his privacy... He doesn't want his cover to be blown" 

So out of pure love I decided to drop the camera for a day. As I got done with this thought process and actually started to pay attention in class I look up from my notes and saw the screen. A half loaf of bread with 5 slices. Just like what he was eating a week ago! I noticed that he glanced up as well an started eatin his bread a little slower. (If you look at the picture carefully you can see fingers by his mouth.  Proof of eating bread) 

Was he wondering if we knew?  Will he ever know that we've caught on? 

Or was this just a plea for help? The equivalent of the Batman symbol in the sky in Gotham city. Some innocent bystander in need of help and he just didn't want to blow his cover. 

It's gotten me thinking, what if every super hero was like this? They are more concerned about keeping it on the down low that they don't answer the call for help. I mean it had to be up to The Bread man- Mr. Whiplash was out cold. No one else was available!!

I guess when college students need saving there will always be some super hero to them. For me it's super curve on my American heritage test. For others it may be The Breadman -- whoever it is for you. Praise 'em!