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Tuesday, 05 February 2008

Currently Watching
The Bucket List
By Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rob Morrow
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The Bucket List

The other day my sister and I went to see the movie The Bucket List. Well the movie projectors broke in the middle of the movie so we didn't get to see the end of the movie (and won't be able to until I get back to the States). But we liked the idea of a bucket list. So here is ours. In no particular order.

Skydiving and Bungee Jumping
Go on a Safari in Africa
Climb on the Pyrimads
Walk at least a mile of the Great Wall
Swim with Dolphins
Experience Weightlessness
Go Camping
Go down class 3 (at least) white water rapids
Learn how to play a stinged instrument
Learn a classical masterpiece on the piano
Hike in the Himalayas
Scuba dive and see fish
Make a vase using a wheel
Do an oil painting
Walk a mile in someone elses shoes
Snowboard down a Green square
Stand up while water skiing (for my sister) Go outside the wake while water skiing (for me)
Learn how to ride a bike (for my sister)
Learn how to drive a manual (for me)
Change the oil in a car without any help
Inline skate with a fanny pack in a public location near the beach (and be seen by at least 50 people)
Have something published
Do closed course stunt driving
Memorize the Bible
Ballroom dance at a formal dance
Lead a Bible Study
Ride on a dog sled
Lick a live moose
See a penguin in Antartica
Go to all the continents
Hold up Piza, Ride a Gondela, See Pompoii, Make the pigons fly in Rome (and kick one) (We're going to Italy in a few weeks)

Saturday, 14 April 2007

Olympics in Chicago?

Today it was decided that Chicago recieved the USA’s bid for hosting the olympics in 2016.
My thoughts: Oh Crap!
I live a little ways outside of Chicago, but close enough to recieve the Chicago News. It seems like there’s already been an endless supply of news stories created about this possible oppritunity for Chicago. I mean it is exciting and all. But the stories have already gotten old to me.
I was hoping that LA would get the bid so that the news stories would end here in Chicago. But I’m not that lucky.
I was reading an article about Chicago winning the bid when I found this quote, “”It’s just beginning,” said Patrick Ryan, Chicago’s bid committee chairman. “It’s a long road.”" (http://sports.aol.com/news/articles/_a/usoc-picks-chicago-as-2016-bid-city/20070414133609990001?cid=2194).
Oh man, it’s just the beginning of the news stories.
Knowing Chicago, there’s plenty of contraversy and talk about nothing ahead. I guess I just have to prepare myself and grin and bear it, because the decision about which city will actually host the games in 2016 won’t come until October of 2009.

Saturday, 24 March 2007

Currently Watching
Akeelah and the Bee
By Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael (IV), Sahara Garey, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Erica Hubbard, Eddie Steeples, Dalia Phillips, Tzi Ma, Jeris Poindexter, Sara Niemietz, George Hornedo, Craig Wasson, Katie Kerwin McCrimmon, Marjorie Harris, Jacques Bailly
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why do i avoid achieving?

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Akeelah and the Bee

ok. More appropriately attributed to Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles.