Life's everyday adventures!: A question.

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What is your favorite tv show of all time? I watch quite a few TV shows, so I can't really decide from any of the current ones. But I think my favorite show of all time would have to be the west wing. I watched it almost every Wednesday when it was on.
Via that's my answer
I went to the VA today, and I was there for like 20 minutes. I finished the weekly project, and they said there was nothing else for me to do. I rode around with the paratransit driver for about a half hour after I left, then came home.

Source: http://lifesadventuresnet.blogspot.com/2011/09/question.html

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Life's everyday adventures!: Oops!

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I almost forgot to post! I shut the computer down and everything. But then I remembered I needed to post, so started it back up again. I had my yearly housing inspection today. The inspector was only here for a few minutes, but she said everything looked fine. Lol, I forgot about that too, until this morning. I remembered it last week, but forgot about it over the weekend.

Source: http://lifesadventuresnet.blogspot.com/2011/09/oops.html

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A Day with the Family

I decided yesterday to take the day off from writing on the blog so I could spend the day just being with and  chatting with my girls and wife about how their week had gone.  

Last week was their first week back to school (except the wife as she spent a week at school before without kids).  It appears all is well except my youngest has been bombed by her teachers with "TONS" of homework every night and plenty for this weekend.  The oldest has been lucky as the way they have set up the schedule for all of the classes it gives them more time in each class and they get most if not all of the work done in class.  My oldest also made the Volleyball team (YEAH!!!).  She likes Football (watching the Huskers with me) but not enough to want to play or I would have tried to help her get ready to play against the boys.  She realized Yesterday that my Huskers Women's Volleyball is consistently ranked in the Nations Top 25 so she started watching Volleyball the other day.  

One is talking about orchestra and the other is talking about band.  One with a violin and the other with a clarinet.  Anybody know where I can get some top quality Ear Plugs?

Jackie, well she is starting to fall in love with her new "little ones".  Of course, she is suffering withdrawal from her last class as she spent 2 years with them.  She misses having them all in the class room but I give it another week and she will be over it and totally involved with the new class.

After spending a bit of time with them I decided to start loading up some of the games I had on the computer before she crashed.  One that my wife and I both like to play is called "Zuma".  If you haven't played it - DON'T!!  It is as addictive as anything out there.  I got it loaded into the computer so she and I could start "competing" with one another again.  I Swear this computer cheats for her!

Anyway, I had a good time being with the wife and kids talking about how their week went and being the big "L" playing against my wife.  

Don't Forget in our hectic lives to take time out and spend it with your family even if it is just to sit and talk.

Life goes by to quickly the older we get.  

When we are kids things don't move fast enough.  When we get older and we start to slow down things speed up and begin to fly by.  Don't miss out because you shut your eyes to long.

Source: http://anythingatanytime.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-with-family.html

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Your Signs....

...are pointing to nowhere.

Source: http://jdb1980.blogspot.com/2010/08/your-signs.html

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Birthday Season 2010 - Wrapping It Up

With my sister turning 16 on Sunday, we now conclude Birthday Season for this year. Oh, and I'm back home.

With my multiple assignments closing in last week, I sorta lost the time to afford posting without hindering my chances of getting my assignments in on time. Actually, my Declarative assignment got handed in with around 70% completion. It turned out to be harder than originally expected, and thus concludes the lesson of university time management.

Then I came home on Saturday, a relatively eventless affair, catching the bus down was a simple 2 hour ride playing an emulated GBA rom on my PSP, undisturbed. Although once I'd gotten home it was straight back to the technology to start my Computer Science project, which was due in around 48 hours. And I'm happy to say that I finished it completely, with help from Steve, who also had the task of completing it while going home for the holidays. Now all that's left to do is relax (and start reading over past materials).

On Sunday it was my older (and when I say older I mean the older of the two) sister's 16th birthday, the most notable gift was an extendable desk lamp which was later given googly eyes and the name Lawrence. We went out for pizza that night at a place called the Mediterranean Food Warehouse. They make very nice wood fired pizzas and I'm you're passing through Paraparaumu on the main highway I'd recommend it.

The night was concluded with my other sister's (now Miss Thirteen) failed attempts at stealing the conversation, and me staying up until about 2 finishing my project.

Because of the late night I didn't wake up until just before lunch, but I went out to the beach with my sister (the other one, Miss Sixteen) to take photos of seagulls for her painting portfolio. And in doing so we realised you can't actually get close enough to fill up the entire photo with a picture of a flying bird. But we tried.

On the way home I managed to get a glimpse of our new house on Toru Road, and we also discussed the making of a mini-documentary about our house. We start filming tomorrow, and I hope to possibly have it uploaded by the time I get back to campus in September.

Facebook Trial Week (and a bit) - Day 12
It has been a huge success! After almost two weeks and almost 100 friends, I have decided to keep in touch with my Facebook Account, much to selected people's delight. I'll still keep you posted with this blog, and once I get things working right, the posts will aslo come up on my Facebook wall, so you can check out everything from there too. We now move on to...

The Final Section
Seeing that I missed Sunday's post and it's almost Wednesday... I figured, let's have a video and a link.
The Super-Late Weekend Watch: This week's most popular video worldwide, with just under 5 million views, is a clip of Roger Federer's trick shot at a Gillete commercial shooting. Click here.
The Super-Early Mid-Week Website: Japanese Text Smilies - They're upright, they're descriptive and they're so darn cool if you can pull them off. This page is a nice big reference list if you don't know how to convey a particular emotion, or if you're looking to learn a new one. Good for facebook posts too. Click here. And for all your other emoticon reference needs, check out the main site, Cool Smilies, here.

And with that, I'm taking a short break from posting until the 1st of September, when I get back to campus after a nice break from things. But I'll still be floating around online. It's just too darn distract- ooh, what was that?!

Source: http://sontaiknu.blogspot.com/2010/08/birthday-season-2010-wrapping-it-up.html

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FINALLY...our new home.

You know how, when you move into a new place, you want everything to be clean and tidy before you take the "after" pictures that everyone is anxious to see?  Well, we missed our first opportunity to take those "perfect" pictures right after we moved in and now life has taken over.  Dog toys are rarely put away as Lennox seems to find new interest in them as soon as they're nicely corralled in a corner or basket.  Homework takes over the dining room table and the nursery is a catch-all of things that are not yet being used and therefore just put in the crib on on the glider.  But hey...this is our life.  And so I decided to take pictures today, just as it is, so that those who are curious can see where we're living these days.  Enjoy.

When you first walk in, this is the entrance that you see.  Normally the washer and dryer would be back a couple feet so that there is more room, but we have some leaking pipes back there that we're waiting for maintenance to come fix so we've been living in some cramped entrance quarters for the past couple weeks.  I am thankful, though, that we do have a decent sized entrance and that we have our own laundry.  Makes up for a little inconvenience now, I'd say!

Pause the tour...little side note.  These are Lennox's dishes.  You'll notice that we have a bowl of water on the left as well as an ice cream pail of water on the right.  We're doing a little experiment with Lennox starting today.  See, we usually fill up his water bowl once every day or day and a half.  And it's not a huge bowl.  But yesterday we were at my parents' place and he drank an entire 4 liter ice cream pail full of water between 4pm and bedtime.  We'd also heard that he drank alot while staying with the people who took care of him this winter while we were in California and Nathan thinks they had water for the dogs in an ice cream pail.  SO, the big question is...do we have a picky dog who prefers drinking from an ice cream pail over a dog dish?  We found it kinda funny, so now we're experimenting with having both available to him and watching to see which one is empty first.  Maybe it'll just make him confused, but we're curious to see if he actually prefers one over the other!  Silly dog.  Back to the tour...

Kitchen.  Basically the same as the picture I took before we moved in except now there are actually things behind the cabinet doors.  Or at least on the bottom two shelves.  The top two shelves almost all the way around are empty because I can't reach them anyway.  These days, with the belly, I find it a stretch to even reach beyond the bottom shelf!

Nursery.  I think it may get re-arranged before baby comes yet.  And I haven't really "organized" as much as I'd like.  But we still have 6-ish weeks before baby is due to arrive so I think I'll be safe if I allow myself AT LEAST 3 more weeks to have everything ready to go. : )

Dining room.  That clutter on the table?  That's a laptop and three stacks of books, each 1.5 feet high.  Nathan has been busy...

Living room.  Pretty self-explanitory...

Storage room.  Because the basement is so humid and "dank - disagreeably damp, musty and typically cold" we've decided to store our not-quite-empty boxes upstairs.  Perhaps, if you come to visit, you will be lucky enough to have this pile of stuff watch over you while you sleep...it is also our "spare bedroom."

And, last but not least, the latest progress on the baby-growing project.  This is McBaby at about 34 weeks.  Not a great picture as far as pictures go, but there's definitely a baby in there.  The belly growth seems to have slowed down in the last few weeks as I'm measuring about the same as I did a couple weeks ago (whew!) but Baby is definitely packing on the pounds!  The numbers on the scale climb almost daily.  Look out!

Source: http://whatelseisred.blogspot.com/2010/08/finallyour-new-home.html

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When love is not enough

This post has nothing to do with fashion, so feel free to disregard it if you're not interested in my random ramblings about my life.

My 4th year anniversary is a week away and I don't know if my relationship will make it til then. Like most people, I got married madly in love and forever. My husband and I are complete opposites in almost every way, but that use to be a good thing. He was always more calm and patient than I was, and he had a way of making everything ok. I met him almost 10 years ago when my life was in shambles. Slowly he helped me trust myself and be more confident. He's always made me feel beautiful, but over the years things have changed. There were few clues before our marriage, but any minor flaws he exhibited I figured were worth dealing with since he was in every other way, perfect.

I don't know if he's changed or I've changed, but something is different. We still love each other, but lately it just seems that we can't make it work anymore. His patience is mostly gone and his minor flaws seem to have taken over his entire being. I can pretty much pin point the day things changed. A few months after our wedding his grandfather went missing on the day we were supposed to go out and have a picnic. He left to go look for his grandfather and they did find him, but he was terminally ill and a couple of months later he died. He took it extremely hard, and I don't think he felt that I understood what he was going through, and I always felt that he shut me out. The same thing happened when my niece passed away, and I needed him. He didn't make the trip with me and I was left alone to grieve. I didn't complain because I knew he had to work, but still, I felt alone at one of the saddest moments in my life.

Looking back, I think there are a lot of these little things that have added up to us distancing ourselves from each other. It's like neither of us wanted to make the effort anymore. We pretty much stopped celebrating holidays and we always blamed money, dogs, time, etc for not being able to spend time together. The truth is, we're both to blame because we let a good thing go bad. This isn't the first time that we go through this, but he always wanted to make it work, and recently I think he's started to give up. I talked to him and told him that I wasn't happy because I gave up everything to come back home and be with him, and he doesn't seem to think I want to do anything. Anytime I bring up our issues he tries to blame it on everything but himself. He's pretty much a workaholic, but I can't complain because he provides for me and gives me everything I want, except his time.

What really did it this time is actually quite stupid. We've been kind of arguing for a few days, and yesterday as we were in the car driving home, we heard this guy on the radio say he would never give up his video games. We both laughed and I asked him if that was true for him too. And you know what he said? "Well, of course I'd give up my PS3 if we had kids, but I wouldn't give it up for you." That was all I needed to hear. I just knew that he had no intention of ever changing. I reminded him that when we got married I told him I didn't want to marry someone who played video games, and he left everything at home when we got married. For more than two years he didn't have video games, but then I felt bad that all his friends had a game system and he always felt left out, so I told him to buy one. He always told me that if I ever wanted him to stop playing he would, but he conveniently forgot that.

So when we got home, I told him that I had had enough, and I just couldn't live with someone half-assing our relationship. Then that led to a huge fight about how I'm controlling and I make all the decisions about everything and I never take his opinion into consideration. In all my dramatic anger, I started bringing down everything I'd ever put up and breaking things (yes, I know I go overboard) because I was just so upset that he would say that to me. Here I was thinking I'm decorating our home and he's complaining that I don't take him into consideration when I buy sheets. There was so much going on that we just got it all out. I told him that I felt like he loved his PS3 more than us (dogs and I) and that he always ignored us when he was playing and that he didn't consider us a family. He was upset because I said I'd never have children with him. It went on and on, until he said, "fine, just divorce me then."

I'm usually the one who talks about divorce and he's the one who always wants to work it out, so I was shocked and hurt, and I just started crying and told him that if that was the case there was no point in me being home anymore so I'd leave. As I was packing he asked me to forgive him because he didn't mean it. By that point I was just too upset and angry to care. After much pleading, I told him that I would stay and I'd leave in the morning. Plus, it was 4am and I didn't have anywhere to go. Today when we woke up, again he started pleading with me and said he posted his PS3 for sale and that he would do anything to be with me. Honestly, I don't know what to make of all of this. I still love him and I know he loves me too, but like I told him, sometimes that's not enough. What's worse, I don't even know if I really want to work it out anymore. I feel so hurt and I don't know what could make it better.

Right now I'm home and I'm trying to make sense of what's happened and I'm trying to decide what to do. When we got married we both really meant forever. I guess the problem for him is that he can't come to terms with being away from me. It's like breaking up is not an option for him. And for me, I don't know. I've never really meant it when I've told him we should break up, but I'm almost at that point now, and I feel like he is too, but he doesn't want to admit it.

I feel emotionally drained and confused. I don't have a problem with starting over, but I've always considered him the love of my life and I can't even imagine my life without him. So I don't know what's going to happen. He keeps pleading with me to give him a chance and to start over, but I don't know if that's even possible. How can we both erase all the horrible things we've said to each other. I don't want to end up like my parents either. They live together, but that's it. That's not what I want, actually I don't eve know what I want at this point.

Anyway, so that's what's going on. I'm very hesitant to even post this, but I don't feel comfortable sharing this with my family, but I needed to get it out somehow. If you've actually read all of this, thank you so much for "listening".

Source: http://txlovelifeandfashion.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-love-is-not-enough.html

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Going The Rounds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._N._Taber

Although I do not post comments on the blog I always read them. So many thanks to all of you who commented on my comments and poem yesterday’s. I got the impression that some of you thought I was sitting on a fence or sorts. However, I think I made my feelings clear and it is not for a poet to dictate how his or her reader should react to a poem, only open avenues of thought.

Meanwhile…

It is true what they say. What goes around comes around. The fashion scene, for one, can testify to that.

Hopefully, the same will not apply to attitudes towards gay relationships…but I have my doubts. If certain individuals and groups within the world’s major religions - predominantly Christianity and Islam (they that like to present themselves as models of peace and love!) - have their way the clock is already turning backwards for us. Even laws meant to give gay people equal rights and protection can only go so far.

At the end of the day, you cannot legislate for bad attitude. If emails I receive and discussions I’ve had with both gay and straight readers are anything to go by, there is still plenty of that around among the world’s predominantly heterosexual communities, even in the so-called liberal-minded West.

This poem is, yes, another villanelle.

GOING THE ROUNDS

What goes around, comes around,
no matter gay or straight
on history’s merry-go-round

Let time, our mistakes, compound
(love will always see us right?);
what goes around, comes around

As dogs of war run peace to ground,
see humanity put to rout
on history’s merry-go-round

Let martyrs quit this mortal round
where light and dark mate,
what goes around, comes around

In all nature, no finer, sweeter sound
than love songs killing hate
on history’s merry-go-round

Where sexuality dares speak its mind
or society constructs a closet…
what goes around, comes around
on history’s merry-go-round

Copyright R. N. Taber 2010

Source: http://rogertab.blogspot.com/2010/08/going-rounds.html

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Do you have real 'Social Network'?

Social network...The word says it all, we all know what it means on net. Today everyone of us have Twitter, Facebook, Orkut etc... accounts used as Social network which connects to you more and more people, making a chain of friends of friends of friends .... and friends!

This is good, to connect to friends and new peoples online. Also it seem to be an easy way to communicate, so its widely used. But have you ever thought what a real Social Network means? It means to live in Social group, to be Social by nature, attitude and doings. It means to be in relations other than colleagues, family and friends and keep them live.

We all know that human is the best creation of nature, and they evolved day by day with new things in life. But as our life goes ahead, we forgot the main logic behind mankind. It is, mankind is always different than other animals in a way he behaves. We all forgot this truth which makes us special and different than others.

Since mankind created on earth, man had always been in groups and created the societies. From there the world social came right? And today, what we have done? We have just kept the word, not the meaning. The social networking technology today is good for use, but not to be addicted much that you forgot your originality.

I always say, "man has created technology for his ease, not the technology created us". It always be in our control. It's same like SkyNet from "Terminator" Movie. Technology is taking our minds and being our basic need, it should not be.

Remember the time before 1995-1990s, when people used to talk on phones, send letters, visit their loved ones, make real communities who have meetings in month etc...They lived without net friends, and better than us I think. Ask your parents Or grand-parents, how they have enjoyed their life before, and you will know what you are really missing.

Find your real friends... relatives... neighbors ... family members from your parents' natives... and meet them face to face... Build your own relationships with such a real society, and let Facebook shame on itself. It's just a idea for earning by your online time wasting. I don't say it's a bad idea. Use it, but don't get addicted.

Be real... Be Social... by the rules of mankind's nature... Understand the root element of human life...Relations...Isn't it?

Source: http://re-thinker.blogspot.com/2010/08/do-you-have-real-social-network.html

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Our growing family...

I thought I would post about our growing family... 

These pictures were taken in the backyard on Saturday afternoon, when we spent time just enjoying one another! As is evident in the pictures, Noah is walking...still needs to keep those arms out for balance (so cute...and funny!).  Savannah is still our nature girl and adores the outside! She's a beauty inside and out and we're so proud of her. And _____, who is still being intricately formed in the womb by his Creator, is growing too!  (thank you daddy for including the wee one!) =) In fact, he is 30 weeks old today! (Side note...we will be going in the morning for a 3D ultrasound).  

Overwhelmed by God's goodness and the precious gifts, only He can give. 

Source: http://notesfrommommysnest.blogspot.com/2010/08/our-growing-family.html

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What is Sacrifice?

In Sri MadBhagvad Gita, chapter four the concept of Sacrifice has been explained. It says every creature is meant to do some sacrifice and unconsciously we do it all the time. However we are never aware what we renounce. All creations are made of five elements Earth, Wind, Water, Fire and Sky.

When we want to attain a certain desire we sacrifice to procure them. Fire is an essential element that is present in all our senses and sense organs, physically and metaphysically. Hence in literal or metaphorical sense fire is termed to be the divine sacrificial tool. As it would burn all into ashes which then sublimes to the rest of four elements.

For instance: Married couples to attain sensual pleasure sacrifice at times their pleasing sights, habits, sounds and peace.” Karma Yogis” or Eucharist’s oblation to achieve some material success are all basic instances.

Similarly to attain self realization some sacrifice all their material pleasures to the fire of Knowledge. The elaboration goes to what we are meant to do , why the term of ultimate truth comes up while it is only self realization of yourself that your physical presence is only their to do prescribed actions of nature, no matter what you desire there is nothing you will take with you. At the end of it all you will get what you deserved.

Detachment is a sacrifice. Some practice celibacy as sacrifice. However what we do not realize is even if we are doing are regular activities, at some point we all sacrifice something which was required for attainment of the goal or certain pursuit.

When Krishna asks Arjuna to stand up, leave all material thoughts to fire and fight is a simple manifestation of what we need to do in our daily life. Instead of being belittle, attached unnecessarily to certain attributes, if nature prescribes a sacrifice of them to move ahead, do not ponder. Only react.

To brief, we should not step back and think otherwise if we are on a certain track for it to be good or bad, at the end we only react to nature’s action. There is nothing that we do on our own. Nobody owns you. Your presence came alone and will leave alone. Your biological parents only reacted to natural science of reproduction. They do not own you.

Once we reach the stage where we have sacrificed all for eternal knowledge, the fire turns all our sins to ashes. Valmiki, who wrote Ramayana, was a miscreant however once he chose to indulge in route to transcendental knowledge all his sins were washed away.

The other revelation in this chapter is the explanation of Braham’s reincarnation from time to time whenever there is some unrighteousness prevalent. It is not necessary that it has to be an avatar or physical being, it could be anything. Even a flood is nature’s force to wipe out the physical beings that are no longer required and have been taking too much from nature without sacrificing anything.

We blame the wars however it too is a cosmic force that made people stand and fight. The way we are going, we are ruling out sacrifice and only taking as much as we can from nature. And it is science that if you do not give something as an action you will never get a reaction and your physical presence hence is not required. Hence there would be a point when we all will perish. It could be anything, nature’s wrath to nuclear holocaust.

Hence sacrifice is nothing however it is surrender in a certain manner to nature. It is a gradual process and even if we go through the Gita several times, the realization of the true essence comes only with prescribed time. With each action we break away from one incarceration. Once we reach where we oblate attachment, the rest of the sacrifices will flow without any thought or emotions. The knowledge of being you will come to you once you follow nature’s course and surrender. When the true knowledge will evince, it will give you a state of absolute bliss and pleasure. You will be nothing; will want nothing however will be afloat profound happiness where love and happiness will only be your rest of the state for eternity

Source: http://childrenofsea.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-sacrifice.html

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