Hey everyone! I have started a team for the Dallas Komen for the Cure Walk/Run on October 16. If you are in the DFW area and are looking for a team to join, you are more than welcome to join mine: "Paint the Town Pink". If not, or you cannot come out that day, I would appreciate it (if you can) if you would help support and fundraise and help my team:
Join the fight to end breast cancer!
As the world's leading breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is committed to ending breast cancer forever. On October 16, 2010, I will join thousands of others playing a part in the annual Komen Dallas Race for the Cure®. It’s a 5k run/walk event to raise money for breast cancer.
My goal is to raise at least $200 this year. Please make a donation to help me reach that goal. Online donations are simple, and the donation page is secure. Please go to my fundraising page to make a tax-deductible donation. If you prefer to write a check, you can mail your donation to me(let me know if you'd like to do this) Please make your check payable to: Komen Dallas Race for the Cure and write my name in the memo.
The deadline to have my donations collected is by November 12, 2010. By making a donation on my behalf, you are supporting local breast cancer education, screening, treatment, and outreach along with international research that will someday lead us to a world without breast cancer.
Thank you for your support of this cause. Sincerely,
Though August in Dallas is unbearably hot, my friends T, L, and I went out to Superpages Center to see the Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, and Green River Ordinance a few Saturdays ago. My friend, A actually saw Green River Ordinance randomly at an airport when she was coming to visit me earlier this summer. She noticed the name on their cases and we googled them and saw that they were a local DFW band. I kind of forgot about them until I realized they were opening for this show. Switchfoot caught my interest at a low point a few years ago while I was in high school. Last year, I went to an album preview party for their newest album, Hello Hurricane, and really loved the sound. I have always listened to the Goo Goo Dolls; never finding a song that I did not like of theirs. This was definitely a concert that I had to go to.
Each of the bands are similar and have pieces of each other in them; they can all be classified as rock bands, with different infusions. They are all inspirational, but Green River Ordinance and Switchfoot have more of a religious touch to their music. Switchfoot is a bit edgier than the other two, and Goo Goo Dolls have more of an imaginative or fanciful hint to their music.
Green River Ordinance is a five piece rock band from Fort Worth, TX. Along with the slight religious infusions to their music, they have just a tiny bit of country rock in their music as well. We only caught the last two songs of their set (Goodbye, LA, and Come On), but even after hearing just those songs, I wanted to hear more. Next time, I will be sure to be there for their whole set.
Switchfoot is a five piece band from San Diego. Though their beginnings were more in Christian rock, they have evolved into an alternative rock band with an edge and religious, inspirational undertones. The songs, Meant to Live, and Dare You to Move first attracted me to this band. The songs helped inspire me through high school, and I really began to love their sound and ideas around their songs. Their set, of course was inspirational, but it also showed how much they loved and appreciated their fans. During Dare You To Move, John went out into the crowd; not just to the first through rows, but actually up to the second half of the amphitheater, singing to everyone in the crowd, shaking hands, giving hugs, and making everyone feel like he was there for them. You could tell that they really love their fans and really enjoy playing their shows and their music. Their set included some of their older hits, and songs from their newer albums such as Stars, The Sound, and Mess of Me.
The Goo Goo Dolls have always been one of my favorite bands. They've been together since 1986, starting in Buffalo. Their music is inspirational rock; it lets me dream, but keeps me grounded. Their music is real, and easy to relate to. They put on a great set, switching the singing up between Johnny and Robby for certain songs which put a different spin on the show. During Black Balloons, a bunch of balloons were released from the crowd creating a really neat, almost chilling effect as the song went on. The set included older hits, newer hits, and sneak peeks from their new album, Something for the Rest Of Us which will be released this week. They played favorites like Broadway, Name, Iris, and Slide, as well as The Sweetest Lie, Smash, and Not Broken.
I posted this on my personal blog, but I really wanted to share it on this blog too. Hopefully it will help some of you and inspire yall as it did for me.
"Earlier today, I had my health evaluation session so that my trainer could evaluate me for my training program. I won't go in to how that was, but my trainer is a really awesome guy and I'm really looking forward to all of this.
While he was working with me, my trainer started talking to one of the guys working out at the gym who he used to train. The conversation that transpired was one of the most inspiring things that I've heard in a while. I don't mean to preach or push religion or anything on anyone, but a lot of this had religious undertones which though our religions differed, our beliefs on this were the same and I wanted to pass it on. Again, this is not to preach or push a belief on anyone, but it was a really inspiring and interesting way to look at taking care of yourself and your body.
Your body is the ONLY thing that you were given when you were brought in to this world. Everything else, you acquired in some way. Gd, or whatever higher power you believe in, or whatever GAVE you the body you have. This is the only thing that you are truly responsible for that is yours. Take care of your body, keep it healthy. You were given this responsibility. It was the only thing you were given-how will you feel when your judgement day comes and you couldn't take care of the one thing that you came into this world with? Be healthy in your mind, body, and soul-don't cram yourself full of toxicities. Strip away cars, clothes, everything else-this really is all you have. It feels awful to have to limit yourself because you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, with your own body to do those things that you want to do. You were born with everything you need to make you happy-your heart, your brain, your soul, and your body. These are the real things that have helped you move and grow in this world, so take care of all of it-it's really all that you've got.
I encourage everyone who reads this to pass it on. Stay healthy, stay happy-enjoy yourself and the company of those who mean the most to you and who respect you. Rid yourself of all overdone toxicities in life and live it to the fullest."
My friend, Leah posted this on her Tumblr and I really wanted to share it with everyone who reads this.
The Body as Fashion Accessory
i finally found this website after years of looking for it. i ran across it when i was in the 8th grade and fell in love with it it made me love being who i was and not be ashamed of being who i was
What do full-figured women have that underweight women lack?
Curves, of course.
There could be no better indication of the media establishment’s conspiracy to suppress true, feminine beauty than the nonsensical (and highly suspect) fashion rules that it imposes on plus-size women—i.e., that they “skim over,” “cover up,” “disguise,” and “hide,” their curves.
Could the conspiracy to suppress true femininity find a more obvious means of expression? It is Orwellian doublethink at its worst.
And what is the result of following such rules? Plus-size women end up hiding their most attractive features.
Think about the implications of such a directive:
Hide what makes you beautiful.
Could anything be more insidious?
It would be like gagging the Mona Lisa to “cover up” her smile; or “skimming over” the Ode to Joy in Beethoven’s Ninth.
Not only should fashion work in harmony with feminine curves, but the greatest goal of fashion should be to function as a “frame for the female figure,” whereby it accentuates and draws attention to the beauty of the womanly curves, directing the eye towards the soft, natural contours of the womanly figure, just as a great frame leads the eye into the beauty of an exquisite painting.
Me Talk Pretty One Day is one of the most unique books that I have ever read. I did not want to put this down, and I'd read it again in a second. This novel is a collection of short stories all by Drew Sedaris. They are autobiographical, each story telling about a different time in his life and the trials and tribulations that went along with it. They are told in a quirky yet bluntly honest manner, where he unabashedly reveals many truths about his life. His anecdotes may not be personally easy to relate to for every single reader, everyone can appreciate the awkwardness, the joy, the discovery, and the experiences that shape life and gave purpose to the stories.
Every story does have a common theme that comes out in different ways throughout. Never try not to be yourself; don't let people change you. Mostly because they can't, and you can't not be yourself no matter how hard you try not to, or how much someone tries to change it
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