I came into work today and read some really great entertainment news: Sandra Bullock adopted a baby from New Orleans!
It's all over the news and in addition to adopting this little boy, she also filed for divorce in Austin. Apparently, the adoption has been years in the making and they've had the baby since before the Oscars - I believe January! What a secret to keep!
That's obviously also before all the horrible things surfaced with her husband. It leaves me completely speechless to think about all that. I mean, hello! You had Sandra Bullock! I keep thinking back to her Oscar speech and how in love she sounded thanking him among others. How devastating to have a life with someone you think you knew and then it just be changed in an instant, and this has hit me personally as well. But now she's moving on with this little cute bundle of joy to love and cherish. She looks so beautiful and has pure joy written all over her face as she's pictured with baby Louis on the cover of People. All I can say is that Sandra Bullock is nothing short of a class act. I've always been a fan of hers (Miss Congeniality, come on!), and now she's definitely at the top. She's a role model and the grace and strength she has shown during her tough times is inspiring. I wish her all the best with her precious little baby Louis and look forward to many more of her movies!
I've been going to the gym in the morning, waking up just as the sun is, at 6:15. I've found it to be much easier for me to get through my workout and then extremely nice to be able to just go home after work and be a couch potato. I've kind of made a little friend with an older gentleman that works there. He's super nice and will always ask me how I'm doing. Once I asked him if there was any other way to pay for parking other than the stupid tokens they have, and he was like "no, there's not - it's annoying, isn't it?" And I said, "yeah, it really is" to which he opened the drawer and gave me a handful of the tokens. I'm not in the best moods in the morning because 1) I'm up super early and 2) I'm at the gym, so it's nice for him to be friendly to me as I drag myself into the Y.
If you know me and my routine, you know that I watch American Idol. I got a little frustrated with it last night. I guess to start off with, I don't care for Michael Lynche - at all. I don't really care for Siobhan that much either, and both of them got raves last night. Was I listening to something else? Even Simon thought they were both wonderful. My goodness... Michael just gets on my nerves, and his voice just sounds so whiny and nasally and just not good. Siobhan, I go back and forth with her, but mostly back to dislike. Favorite by far is Lee. I pray he wins. I don't vote, but I might start as it gets closer and closer. With that said, I have no idea who will be going home tonight, but it makes me nervous because "everyone" (in the opinion of the judges) had a really good performance. Another great thing about the episode last night, possibly the best thing - Shania Twain was the mentor and all the songs were hers! She's so beautiful, and classy, and timeless and an icon in her own right. Man, back in 1995/1996, I would blast her CD! I still love her songs, and after last night, I might have to go on a massive search for her CD's to see if I still have them. If I do, they're undoubtedly somewhere in the basement of my parents house, but if after my scavenger hunt I don't find them - iTunes, here I come!
Also, today marks one year since Tim and I "became official" I guess you would say. All long distance as well, and despite it being difficult at times, we're still goin' strong!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Space Jam
If you know me well, you know that I'm not a fan of the NBA. I think it used to be great. Except now I feel like it's so much of a show... a dunk show, to be specific. I prefer actually watching basketball where there is hard, legitimate defense being played, and I just don't see that anymore with the NBA.
In any regard, you may or may not know that the NBA playoffs are going on right now. When I've gone to the gym these past two mornings, ESPN has been on the television, forcing me to watch sports highlights as I push myself through my 30-min workout. On one highlight, the Cavs are playing the Bulls, which from the highlights appeared to me as LeBron James playing the Bulls. James had some 37 or 38 points in that game with two buzzer shots from way behind the 3-point line, one almost near half court. The highlights just showed dunk after shot after dunk after shot of his, and I have to say, it was pretty amazing.
Again, I don't care for the NBA nor will I sit down and say "hmm, I want to watch the NBA playoffs" and turn to that channel, but James was impressive... and entertaining. It was like "did he just do that?!" and the answer was yes. I guess I'll take my dose of the NBA in the ESPN morning highlights and nothing more.
(The title of this post - who doesn't love the movie "Space Jam"?! I know I did back in the '90s!)
In any regard, you may or may not know that the NBA playoffs are going on right now. When I've gone to the gym these past two mornings, ESPN has been on the television, forcing me to watch sports highlights as I push myself through my 30-min workout. On one highlight, the Cavs are playing the Bulls, which from the highlights appeared to me as LeBron James playing the Bulls. James had some 37 or 38 points in that game with two buzzer shots from way behind the 3-point line, one almost near half court. The highlights just showed dunk after shot after dunk after shot of his, and I have to say, it was pretty amazing.
Again, I don't care for the NBA nor will I sit down and say "hmm, I want to watch the NBA playoffs" and turn to that channel, but James was impressive... and entertaining. It was like "did he just do that?!" and the answer was yes. I guess I'll take my dose of the NBA in the ESPN morning highlights and nothing more.
(The title of this post - who doesn't love the movie "Space Jam"?! I know I did back in the '90s!)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tax Day
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden."
-President Ronald Reagan, 1981 Inauguration speech
I figured 15 days into April would be about time that I post something for the first time this month. That and my Mom posted on my Facebook wall that I needed a new post. Thanks Mom.
Today is tax day. The day where the deadline is set for you to claim your money and give a sizable portion of it to the government. Each year it just reminds me how much I'd rather keep more of my money.
I posted this quote because I am reminded so much, working in state government and reading national news, how much my generation is one of no personal/individual responsibility.
For example, an article by a woman named Phyllis Schlafly said this: "Income tax day, April 15, 2010, now divides Americans into two almost equal classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. The percentage of Americans who will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009 has risen to 47 percent. That isn't the worst of it. The bottom 40 percent not only pay no income tax, but the government sends them cash or benefits financed by the taxes dutifully paid by those who do pay income tax."
How lovely.
The generation before me, my generation, and undoubtedly generations to come have been and will be bred to have no incentive to work and earn money on their own. Their attitude: government will take care of me.
It makes me absolutely sick.
I understand that there are some who legitimately need assistance from government, and that's fine. But we are now dancing on a very, very fine line of giving money from those who have it to those who do not. I'm all for helping others, but we're not just helping those who need it, we're starting to help everyone else too at the expense of the money that I and many others make getting up every morning and having responsibility in life. The statistics are astounding. And our society cannot function or be sustained running on this sort of policy. Plain and simple.
I understand that the job market is tough, believe me. But there is work to be found out there. No, it may not be a career or even that glamorous, but it's out there.
It is probably one of my greatest wishes for society that my generation and those that follow will decide to take pride in themselves and their future. That they assume individual responsibility for what they have and not accept mediocrity. That we become a generation that helps solve our national issues, not worsen them over time.
Happy Tax Day everyone.
-President Ronald Reagan, 1981 Inauguration speech
I figured 15 days into April would be about time that I post something for the first time this month. That and my Mom posted on my Facebook wall that I needed a new post. Thanks Mom.
Today is tax day. The day where the deadline is set for you to claim your money and give a sizable portion of it to the government. Each year it just reminds me how much I'd rather keep more of my money.
I posted this quote because I am reminded so much, working in state government and reading national news, how much my generation is one of no personal/individual responsibility.
For example, an article by a woman named Phyllis Schlafly said this: "Income tax day, April 15, 2010, now divides Americans into two almost equal classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. The percentage of Americans who will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009 has risen to 47 percent. That isn't the worst of it. The bottom 40 percent not only pay no income tax, but the government sends them cash or benefits financed by the taxes dutifully paid by those who do pay income tax."
How lovely.
The generation before me, my generation, and undoubtedly generations to come have been and will be bred to have no incentive to work and earn money on their own. Their attitude: government will take care of me.
It makes me absolutely sick.
I understand that there are some who legitimately need assistance from government, and that's fine. But we are now dancing on a very, very fine line of giving money from those who have it to those who do not. I'm all for helping others, but we're not just helping those who need it, we're starting to help everyone else too at the expense of the money that I and many others make getting up every morning and having responsibility in life. The statistics are astounding. And our society cannot function or be sustained running on this sort of policy. Plain and simple.
I understand that the job market is tough, believe me. But there is work to be found out there. No, it may not be a career or even that glamorous, but it's out there.
It is probably one of my greatest wishes for society that my generation and those that follow will decide to take pride in themselves and their future. That they assume individual responsibility for what they have and not accept mediocrity. That we become a generation that helps solve our national issues, not worsen them over time.
Happy Tax Day everyone.
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