Ever had the day you need to hit the ‘refresh’ button? Talk to someone with a different perspective, someone who motivates you and what you do?
It’s a rainy day today. The skies are grey. I have ‘meeting men’ parental pressures (despite being hitched), and ‘I want a real job’ money pressures. I have a speech to present in two days, and a wedding reception to host in a week and a half. I just got braces and I’m living on liquids. And I’m scraping the barrels to find a ray of hope that things are going to get better.
I like to call Mondays ‘Motivation Mondays’ because I always feel focused and excited about the week. But I get the Tuesday blahs. Actually, Tuesday blahs, Wednesday la-la-las, Thursday jitters and Friday freakouts.
Part of it must involve writing (or not writing) down my plan of action. But another part must be cocooning myself into Gaga’s egg and struggling to push myself through the gelatin. Today, I’m looking for inspiration. Not those inspirational quotes people tweet and retweet - they don’t speak to me. I’m talking about getting to the core of inspiration and motivation, seeing what future potential holds and grabbing it. I’m looking for positivity and a role model. Someone who when you sit with them, you feel your head clearing and a truthful understanding about potential.
Right now, I’m sitting in front of a computer, a book beside me, writing a speech. And I can tell you right now, if I was focused at this moment, I wouldn’t be blogging.
Classrooms around the World | Guardian (click through for vital stats)
Very interesting click-through/read. We don’t understand our own privledges.
First Gen Starters
(Tim Burton Inspired Pokémon Re-Designs)
First generation starters are done! Whew!
I can’t believe the response this little side-project has gotten though. Crazy! Thanks a lot guys!
And yes, I was planning to finish the 151 at the very least. But I’m pretty busy most of the time so I can’t post these regularly. But I will update when I can. :)
Also, I’ll be responding to the messages some of you have sent… eventually.
Amazing chune.
Thanks Frank.
Delicious!
Making Of The Cantina Bell QR Code (by tacobell)
Going. Going. Gone. Cut down on your paper usage, and you never know what you might save…
(via faunafacts)
Who remembers the adorable little French girl making up a fairy tale including Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, lions, hippos, monkeys, bats, witches an orange ring and everything else intertwining every fictional story?
Reasons why I think this is the best rendition: Elaine Paige played the original role of Evita in musical theatre, West End London in 1979. With the amount of times she’s sung this and played the role, she understands the emotions of the character. Now, she’s personalized it accordingly. Her singing is dramatically different than that of the 1985 Tim Rice collection, but I think her 40th anniversary performance brings an absolute air of uniqueness and power I haven’t seen in any other performance of this song by any other singer.
Elaine Paige: Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (by marcelofacamargo)
The Avengers’ Day Off by Illustration A Day
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I haven’t laughed this hard in eternity. This was the best waste 8:24 of my life!
Michael McIntyre- 2012 Comedy Gala (by tvholic62)
SO AWESOME!
Thomson Airways Safety Video 2009 (by ThomsonHols)
This was published last September on Mental Floss, but I only came across it now. He’s 14 years old, he loves radioactivity, and he built a bomb before he was ten and now he’s built a nuclear fusion reactor.
Pretty cool!
