My attempt at a political rant

The longer I watch/partcipate in politics the more I realize how much I ride along both sides of the aisle. This being said, I believe that both candidates for the next presedential election are terrible! As I was watching the town hall debate the other night I realized that neither have a clue on how to appeal to their targeted audience and would rather bicker with one another than prove to the citizens of the US as to why they are the ideal candidate. The targeted audience for Tuesday night was women, as most that were present at the debate and even in their own living rooms back home are more likely to ride the fence over which candidate to vote for. As the debate progressed the more and more Obama and Romney seemed to dig themselves a bigger and bigger grave. One of the biggest things that women hate and turn them off to people, mostly men, are bullies and Obamney (as the two shall be called) both proved to be one by constantly getting in one another's face and confronting one another in a disrespectful manner. Seriously?! If you know your target audience is women, which their campaign leaders and speech writers did, why would they badger one another and stick their heads up their a**?!
Obama lied Tuesday night, don't get me wrong Romney did as well, but it seemed that Obama had to rely on the moderator to at one point "bail" him out. And if those deceitful words flow from his mouth like honey, as they so eloquently did Tuesday night how am I to believe any other claims he has made over the past four years? President Obama was overly arrogant throughout the debate, leading to the demise of his argument. Most answers he beat around the bush, identifying the "weed" to the audience but not giving any instruction or demonstration of how he would deal with the so called "weed".
Romney did the same as well! "I have a 5 point plan!!" Ok, great, but what exactly is that 5 point plan of yours? Romney to say the least did play fair. I'm not saying that he has to best friends with Obama, which my prediction is is that they both play golf together and laugh at us "silly Americans" who get so heated about which side of the aisle you are from, but at least have some decency. Discussing the integrity of President Obama following the Benghazi attack was outright unnecessary and disrespectful. There are plenty of things I disagree with Mr. Obama about but I don't doubt his love for this country and that he holds the utmost respect for our troops and service men and women. This being said, Romney held no tact in his address to the president and often faultered in his argument making him seem less than educated about the issues and topics at hand. What message does this portray?
I'm not trying to sound biased, because honestly I don't like the idea of this country in the hands of either men but come November 6 it will have to be who will be the LEAST destructive to this country and economy.
May the best man win?

Joke of the day: The past, present, and future enter a bar together. It was tense! (cheesy, I know. I couldn't find any others!)

Woohoo!!

My "Been there, Done that" board is finally growing!! Over the summer, especially towards the end, I powered through several pins and made lots of crafts. Since then my Pinterest obsession has not waned, however, my craft making has! I decided this weekend that enough was enough and if I had time to sit on Facebook I had time to do some crafts :) So I upcycled an old leather crossbody bag by painting a section a blush pink and added cutout portions of fabric flowers! Check it out, I'm a little proud! I also tried using a study tactic I found, essentially you place a gummy bear on each paragraph of the book you're reading and when you reach the paragraph you can eat the gummy bear. It did not work so well. I skipped ahead and ate them all at once plus the amount of reading I have to do as a college student would significantly decrease my wallet while at the same time increasing my waist line. That was all I was able to accomplish this weekend but hey, it's better than nothing.

Stay tuned for more Pinterest creations! :)

Prayers for Nate

Hey everyone

Please keep Nate in your prayers today. He started the conditioning process today. It is a 6 day long process that involves intensive drugs to destroy his bone marrow. He has had neuro radiation for the past several days and praise be to God that pretty much the only side effects have been some headaches.

Please continue to pray that :
- the Holy Spirit moves through the hospital and through Nate
-that God would make himself clear to Nate in this time
-that the Holy Spirit would give the doctors not only wisdom but the skill they need to perform
-that the Father's love permiate throughout Nate and the hospital
-protection over Nate's healthy cells (particularly brain cells)
-and complete destruction of all the cancer/bad guys cells!!

Thanks friends :)

Procrastination at it's finest!

Things I have done to avoid working on my English homework:
-take out the trash
-paint my nails (4 coats)
-sit on Pinterest for hours
-sit on Facebook for hours
-google study abroad programs
-look at study abroad programs for hours
-watch Arrested Development
-listen to the new Mumford & Sons album for hours
-do my algebra homework
-do my speech homework
-apply for a CA position

I am now out of excuses and energy! Time for bed and a crazy filled day tomorrow of class, meetings and tackling this unwanted English paper. Eh. Definitely not looking forward to grad school!!

Q: What do you call a cat that has 8 legs and likes to swim?
A: An octopuss! :)

Hold On To What You Believe

I, I can't promise you

that I won't let you down

And I, I can't promise you

that I will be the only one around

when your hope falls down

 

But we're young, open flowers in the windy fields

of this war-torn world

And love, this city breathes the plague

of loving things more than their creators

 

I ran away

I could not take the burden of both me and you

It was too fast

Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break

When it was a promise I could not make

 

But what if I was wrong?

 

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

 

And now this land means less and less to me

Without you breathing through its trees

At every turn the water runs away from me

and the halo disappears

and the hole when you're not here

 

So what if I was wrong?

 

But hold on to what you believe in the light

When the darkness has robbed you of all your sight

 

So hold on to what you believed in the light

 

--"Hold On To What You Believe" Mumford & Sons

My lip gloss be cool

So, for some reason this morning in the shower, I had the song "Lip gloss" by Lil Mama stuck in my head. It continued to stay in my head for pretty much the rest of the day. And the more I listened to the song, the more agitated I became with the song. The more agitated I became with Lil Mama, and with the current music sector in general. Let's be honest, most pop culture music today is terrible! Should I name some examples: Lil Mama, Snoop Dog, 50 cent, Rebecca Black and even Katy Perry. Don't get me wrong, their tunes are catchy and often witty but are they really substantial? What message does it send? Only ones that you like to have sex and party. Definitely intellectual!! This isn't just within the past five years. I mean go back 20 years and you have songs like "Ice Ice Baby" and "Baby got back" and "MMMBop". But what happened?! What went so wrong that we went from writing deep, intellectual and meaningful songs to writing fluff? I seriously think there are marshmallows more dense than most songs today, in comparison to songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Imagine", and "Awake my Soul" (I had to throw a Mumford song in there :)). Just saying.
As much as I am bashing pop culture music, I will admit - I have Beiber fever!! And hey, if it makes you dance and makes you happy then to you it is good music, but I think that overall there has been a steep decline in quality and content of music in the past 30 years and I pray everyday for a new revival of artists to step out, not only in courage but also out of the box and put their heart on their sleeve to come up with creative and meaningful music.

"Music expresses feeling and though, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words." - Robert G. Ingersoll

Hakuna Matata

It means no worries...for the rest of your days!!
Apparently, whoever wrote this song has never been to college. In the last week of college, I can't believe it's only been one week, I feel as though I have read an entire textbook, written the equivalent of a doctoral dissertation, had more to do than I ever did in all my high school years combined! And yet, I have to say, I am thoroughly enjoying it. Call me crazy but I love to have a busy schedule. And yet at the same time I want to pull my hair out. A feeling that only a fellow college student could understand!