At the Museum Today...

I was at the museum today following another tour for training. The museum was packed with kids running around everywhere! It got kinda loud at times. I had the cutest encounters today. A girl in our third grade tour group kept staring at me the whole tour and then she came over and said "hi" to me and introduced herself. She was really cute. Then later I was taking notes on the exhibits and a group of little girls came over to me and starting chatting. One adorable little Asian girl asked me if I was drawing the exhibits. She thought I was an artist. Then when they had to leave they didn't neglect to wave and say "goodbye" to me. It was truly the cutest thing and I can't wait to lead my own tour. I wonder why I was such a kiddy magnet today?

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I'm sleepy. This starbucks is doing nothing for me.

Rain


46 Degrees


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Another case of B.S. misogyny

I was reading CNN.com when I came across the following story,

Pregnant Student Defies Graduation Ban

Apparently, this girl goes to a Catholic high school and because she got pregnant she was banned from walking at graduation. Of course, I'm completely against this anyways, but that's not what got my goose cookin. (yes, I'm getting old, thus, the bizarre phrase.)
And it wasn't the fact that the girl's name was obliterated from the graduation program. Although, I think being banned from walking should have been enough.

No..what really got my goat (yah, another one of those phrases) is what I read buried in the last paragraph of the article.

"The father of Cosby's child, also a senior at the school, was allowed to participate in graduation."

WHAT THA FRIGGIN HELL???????????????????

If that isn't THE most blatant form of misogynistic, pigheaded, male chauvanistic societal female-bashing, then I don't what is?!?

How is it that this stupid high school allowed the father, who commited the same "sinful" act as the mother, to fully participate????? Not only is that complete bullshit, but it's sending the wrong message to young people telling them that women are the only evildoers in a sexual act AND that men shouldn't be responsible for their actions OR their offspring.

Well, should I be surprised? Another female gets shafted in this world and the Catholic conglomerate once again shuts the door on truth and justice.

Stupidest Thing I've Read Today

This is a doozey and it's only 9:25 am.

A MSN Health & Fitness article purports that you can get into "tip-top swimsuit shape" with only 1 hour of exercise per week.

I'm so gullible I think I can lose weight by working out 1 hour a week

HHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

And that was my good laugh for today.

Smells like...Spam

I just took a quiz called "Made in America". One of the questions was, which U.S. state consumes the most Spam annually, per capita? At first I looked for California, but it wasn't on the list. The list, which consisted of Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana, and Hawaii, gave it all away. I just had to look for the state with the highest Filipino population and, of course, I guessed correct - Hawaii. Ahhh yesss...the correlation between Filipinos and their spam!

Getting old...

Growing old really sucks. I'm in complete denial. I don't see how it's possible I've become an adult. In my head I think I'll always be 22 or so. Twenty-two is a great age!!! woo woo! Anyways, today some girls at the horse stables asked me how old I was. I told them 29 and they almost fainted. They thought I was joking. They thought I was 20!! And they happen to be 19 and 20 themselves so that makes their comments even more legite! Bless their sweet little souls! =) Thank God for my Asian genes, which make me look ten years younger than I really am. This has often been a bad thing for Asian men...forced to look 12 years old when they're really adult men. But for us women...wooowoowoowowowowoowowo...she-RA! princess of power!!!!!

Oh, but that doesn't change the fact that I've been discovering an inordinate amount of grey hairs on my head. I'm absolutely steamed about this!!! When I only had two I stood by the ole' wives tale about not pulling them out because it's bad luck and two will sprout back in its place...but that crap went out the window last week when I had to pull out three baby grey hairs. Those dirty lil' basturds were trying to sneak in, but I got them! I got them ALL!!!

I will definitely be one of those old women who dyes her hair. I will definitely NOT be one of those old women who cuts her hair short into a little teased out puffball.

Live For Today

I came across the Today Show's list of the Top 50 Things to Do Before You Die. Here it is:

1. Watch whales migrate
2. Go white water rafting
3. See wild game on an African safari
4. Find a long-lost friend
5. Learn to dance
6. Fly a plane
7. Drive a NASCAR race car
8. Appear on Broadway
9. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
10. Skydive
11. Golf on a world famous course
12. Travel the Nile in Egypt
13. Be serenaded by a Venetian gondolier
14. Swim with the dolphins
15. Play with an orchestra
16. Paint the Big Apple red
17. Float in a hot air balloon
18. Sip a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby
19. Visit the Oval Office
20. Trace your roots
21. Helicopter over a Hawaiian volcano
22. Ride a mule down the Grand Canyon
23. Stroll along the Great Wall of China
24. Cruise in a Ferrari
25. See the Taj Mahal at sunrise
26. Walk the Inca trail at Macchu Picchu
27. Ride a Harley down an open road
28. Feed sharks
29. Scale a famous peak
30. Explore a Rain Forest
31. Learn to be a cowboy
32. Play ball in a Major League park
33. Prepare the world's finest meal
34. Be an extra in a movie
35. Gaze upon a magnificent waterfall
36. Horseback ride along a beach
37. Conquer a fear
38. Ride a steamboat down the Mississippi
39. Dive in a submarine
40. Taste the finest wine
41. Run a marathon
42. Write a song or poem for someone you love
43. Volunteer overseas
44. Visit a nudist colony
45. Explore the Alaskan wilderness
46. Hover in a blimp
47. Eat a cheeseburger in paradise
48. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
49. Say a special thank you
50. Experience weightlessness

I was pleasantly pleased to find out that I had actually done some of these things already.

Things I've done so far:

2

4

16

19 (I think I already did this because I took the White House tour back when it was possible before all this 9/11 nonsense. I don't really remember much.)

22 (i had a bruise on my ass the size of Texas afterwards, but damn it shore was fun!)

27 (ok, it wasn't a Harley, it was a Japanese motorcycle where you have to lean forward over the bike, not sit straight up...I think that's better anyways, so I'm listing it.)

31 (ok...I haven't exactly learned to be a cowboy, but I ride horses so that's close enough)

37

49

Things that need to be taken off this list:

5.) I already know how to dance

10.) I refuse to skydive unless my plane is falling out of the sky.

11.) I could care less about golfing in general.

32.) I could take or leave playing ball in a major league park...UNLESS Derek Jeter is present...in which case this moves to #3 of my must do list.

40.) Taste the finest wine???? What is the finest wine? I've had some good ones before.

47.) what the hell is eat a cheeseburger in paradise???

Things I will likely accomplish within the next two years:

12.) I'm going to Egypt before I have kids no matter what I have to do. It's my dream of a lifetime!

21.) helicopter over a volcano in Hawaii (honeymoon is coming up!!! )

25.) Goin to India soon.

35.) Goin to Hawaii soon.

Things to add to list:

Ride an elephant.

Ride a camel by the Great Pyramids.

Swim with manatees.

Go horseback riding through the Redwood forest.

Backpack across Europe.

Visit Petra in Jordan.

Visit Pompeii in Italy.

Save a life.

Give birth to a child.

Visit my sponsor child in Kenya.

Find my ol' high school buddy Michelle.

Visit relatives I've never met before in the Philippines.

Go snowboarding and skiing in Aspen.

Go to Alaska and see real penguins.

Hold a koala bear in my arms.

Scale a Mayan or Aztec ruin.

Learn to play the violin.

Participate in a dig with Dr. Zahi Hawass.

Design and landscape my own garden in my future home's backyard.

Swim with stingrays.

An addition to list, which I've already done, suggested to me by a friend:

Drive California's Pacific Coast Highway from L.A. to San Fran.

This is an absolutely gorgeous drive with magnificient shore cliffs and, as you get further north, at night it looks like you can just reach up and pluck a star out of the sky.

The Zoo

Originally I wasn't going to post this, because I'm annoyingly morbid enough as it is, but then I wanted to share a couple of pictures with you so here it is.

Saturday was a washout, but Sunday we went to the zoo. I love animals, plants, flowers, the environment...so I don't know why I torture myself by going to the zoo. Everytime I go I get depressed seeing those animals behind plexiglass playing on concrete floors with pieces of cardboard. The zookeepers think they've tricked them by painting colorful jungle scenes on the walls, but no one's fooled...least of all the animals. The saddest exhibit is always the gorillas. They sit around like a bored family in need of prozac. The large silverback always looks the worst no matter what zoo you go to....this time he was sitting in the corner platform as far away from the crowd as possible with a grim expression of hopelessness on his face. I guess one could say that they're better off here than slaughtered for their hide somewhere else, but I always find this argument weak. I think it's just another excuse so people can feel good about themselves...so they don't have to take responsibility for destroying everything on this planet and then regurgitating it back into a heaping pile of trash. The small critters seem to have things better. Their size gives them more adequate accomodations. The glorious peacocks had the run of the place. They weren't encaged, but roamed around freely. It's too bad half of them were being chased down by toddlers whose parents smiled and clapped at their little one's curiosity. Perhaps the most annoying thing about the zoo are the human visitors. A motley crew if ever I saw one. Ghetto families gawking at the animals, while throwing empty bottles and wrappers all over the ground. Attentive parents teaching their children about the animals...."Momma, what's that??" "That's a nasty pig!!! Nasty!!!"...teaching them which animals deserve a cage and which ones deserve to die.

Anywho...I only got two decent photos while I was at the zoo because my dumbass forgot to charge the batteries for our camera. You missed many wonderful things like gorgeous male peacocks struttin their stuff, vampire bats drinking from bowls of blood, the depressed silverback gorilla, snoozing flamingos, a cheetah grooming his mate, and an African elephant taking a dump.

Here's a photo of a female monkey. I can't remember what kind of monkey, but she had a beautiful face which isn't quite captured here because of the stupid delay of my digital camera. See, she's sitting with her feet pressed up against the glass!



And here's the cutest and tiniest monkey ever, the Pygmy Marmoset. If you'll look closely there's a baby marmoset sitting on the mom's back. Unfortunately, the baby was looking the other way.