Thursday, April 22, 2010

Perception is....

...Such a strange thing. Such as, for example, today I had a track meet and it was a home meet so it wasn't like I had never saw the track before. And yet for some reason it looked larger than it had the day before. Obviously it didn't get bigger, but because I had to run on it in a competition it suddenly seemed to grow. This wasn't the first time it had happened either though, at every track meet I have gone to this year each track seems to be bigger than our own. It wasn't until today when I noticed it all had to do with perception. Which is such a funny thing when you think about it, why do we do this? Picture things and expect things a certain way, and then when they actually happen, or we see them, they see seem completely difference (even if they aren't!) Anyways it's something to think about! :) Hope everyone has an awesome rest of the week and weekend... and for all of those competing in the Minnesota State FFA competition this weekend.... GOOOOOOOOD LUCK and have fun!!!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Girl That Never Wins Anything.....


....Wins something!! Amanda and Travis Marsh are brother and sister who are both starting to break into the Country/Rock Music world. About a week ago they held a contest on Twitter in which the first 5 people to email them would win their cds. As you may have already guessed I was so excited to learn that I was one of the top 5!!

If you have never heard of them before you should most defiantly go check them out at their website: http://www.atmmusicgroup.com/or at their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/amandamarshmusic

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Did You Know?

Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten

The first "False eyelashes" were made out of real human hair

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used

Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump

Switching letters is called spoonerism

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second

Ants never sleep

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

Coca-Cola was originally green

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles

Kermit the Frog is left-handed

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

French Manicure With a Hot Pink Twist


Step One: Apply two layers of clear nail polish to each nail


Step Two: Using white nail polish- sweep over the top of your nails
just covering the "free edge" (the tip of your nail)


Step Three: Using a pink nail polish with a decorating end,
(The one in the picture is from Migi Nail Art)
swipe a thin line just under the white swoosh.

Step Four: Once dry, go over the top of your nails
with a thin layer of skin color nail polish
(to tame down the other polishes a bit.)

Step Five: (Optional) Once dry, cover over with one more thin layer of clear and...

Bam! you have BEAUTIFUL nails!

Hope you enjoy this "French Manicure With a Hot Pink Twist" idea and give it a try :D

Castle - Wrapped Up In Death

Last nights Castle episode, just like all the other's, was AMAZING. There were so many cute and funny Castle and Beckett moments! The coffee prank had to be the best part of the episode! Without giving away any spoilers or anything else, let me just tell you that you should without a doubt go check it out if you missed last night's episode either on Itunes or Hulu.com!! :)

Monday, April 5, 2010

Summer Is Just Around The Corner....


...Well almost anyways. Summer is that time of year when we can take out those flip flops, sunglasses, swimming suits, shorts, and tank tops and put away all of our sweatshirts, long pants, and everything else that reminds us of those long cold winter months.

Of course summer isn't here quite yet. I still have the months of April, May, and little bit of June to get through until my official summer starts, but that doesn't keep me from wishing and hoping that it would hurry up and get here! Of course the fact that it's not quite summer yet, hasn't stopped me from wearing shorts almost everyday for the last couple weeks. :)

I can't wait to see the beautiful flowers blooming, hear the sounds of the colorful birds, and of course I'm completely and totally pumped for sunbathing and swimming at the beach!! Oh and I can't forget my yearly trip to Biloxi, Mississippi! I'm so ready and excited for summer to come that I have a feeling that these next two months are going to fly by!! :) (fingers crossed!)

Until then though, I guess I'm going to have to pretend it's summer by picturing myself under the hot warm sun by looking at photos of last summer...