Likes: Friends, ginger peppermint tea, and being pampered ever so slightly.
Dislikes: Being sick for the better part of the week.

Joni Mitchel - Both sides now: http://youtu.be/zIYu4EHq0Lo

Keep in mind that life is short. Don't waste time holding grudges or focusing on petty upsets that, in the big picture, mean nothing.

Winifred M. ReillySappy Blog Post About Marriage
(or the sharable part anyway)

On these lonely raging mornings
I would whip you if I could
But Your on the mighty side of strong and the perfect side of good

The WaitingHands in the Air

Kuehler: It's not every day that one gets to live out a childhood dream. Get your s#!+ kickers on and enjoy the show!!

He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these uncomfortable things happening to him.

The Velveteen Rabbit

These fantastic days have got to stop.  I'm not sure what to do with all of them.  Can I start saving some for a rainy day?!  Seriously though, I am as happy as I can ever remember.

Let's go ahead a stick a pillar of rocks right here.  ~~~>

Sheryl Crow - "Beautiful Dreamer": http://youtu.be/f_aB1NOqC3Y

It's about time, John Green, I was starting to wonder.

Also, I just watch the most beautiful movie. It made me cry and made me glad to be alive. Don't ask me what it was, I'm not going to tell, it's my experience. Not yours. ;-)

(edit. I'm not sure if it was Short Term 12 or Beginners but both are wonderful. Watch them.)

Wisdom from the likes of Lorali Gilmore

(Re: Kirk preparing for a date)

LORELAI: How is it my fault? I'm not going out with him.

LUKE: You're the one that told him to find someplace he felt comfortable.

LORELAI: How did I know he felt comfortable here?

LUKE: I don't know. All I know is that you talked to him, and now he's over there talking to a camera.

LORELAI: Oh, come on, Luke. Give him a break. He wants the date to go well. I mean, it's all any of us wants - to find a nice person to hang out with 'til we drop dead. Not a lot to ask.

(=-D)

Satire is my life.

Also, photoshop for the win.

:-D

http://www.xkcd.com/ (or what I've most recently called "comics for nerds")

Happy Thanksgiving from The Oatmeal!

15 push ups, 30 chair dips, 30 squats, 24 lunges and 300 jumping jacks.  Not to bad for not being active the last six whole months. ;-)

My Mind and Heart

The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What Yo…: http://youtu.be/7S94ohyErSw

Now, I'm not exactly invested in a particular  side of this Ferguson argument (for better or worse)(at least I know what's going on)...

<aside>even though it seems to me that Jesus (if he's real) seems to favor (ie. love) the outcast and downtrodden</aside>

...I'm plagued with a lingering question. After reading THIS, I find myself wondering why it's called a "grand" jury when it seems the least grand of all the juries.

And for the record I can see why people (yes, all types, colors, and sizes) are burn shit down angry. Not just stand there silent and get in the way angry.

Mars and I just took our first walk in the snow!! Winter is my new favorite!

Does anyone realize how hard it is to find benedict cumberbatch footsie picture pajamas?! Why hasn't this been done?!

Too many times we stand aside
And let the waters slip away
'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow
Has now become today
So don't you sit upon the shoreline
And say you're satisfied
Choose to chance the rapids
And dare to dance the tide...

Three "funnies" and an "aww" for your Friday afternoon

A little humor to brighten the day...

In times like these...

When I'm having a particularly sad moment (Luke can't be in this relationship...) I look over and my kitten is licking my akita about the face and ears.

Si growled more than once to show his discontent but the kitty completely ignored him. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pup... as I had a good laugh.

Then life just doesn't seem so bad. ;-)

Well there went my afternoon... ;-D

Also, JUST LOOK AT THIS FACE!!!

IT'S NO SHAVE NOVEMBER!! Too all my guy friends out there... you've all got one month to try and look this awesome! Unless you are amazing and already do. I'm probably secretly in love with you.

World Beard and Moustache Championships

P.S. This also goes for Lizzie. I believe in you and your lazer-focused mind-induced man-beard.

Two inspirational stories for your day:

"We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick."

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay

And:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-9822514.html

I don't care who knows it but come December 12, I'll be crossing one big thing off my bucket list.  BAM.

http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2014/10/29/garth-brooks-little-rock-shows-december/18106103/

And this is how Mr Bean won the internet.

"The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither."

~ Mere ChristianityCS Lewis