I LIVE and 5 favorites

It has been a really ( that needs to be underlined more than once for the mere understatement) long time since my last post, and for my few readers I apologize.  For the past few months I have been traveling up too Chicago and seeing a team of doctors as I went through tests, pokes, scans and will now become the worlds next superhero with the amount of radiation that is on my body. You can submit awesome name, what you think my powers will be power and costume idea's below.

Good news is I have answers for almost everything now.  I also found out how truly awesome and special my body is with doing the whole Darwin thing and trying to adapt to what is going on.  I may be only about one in 200 people for what I have but my body would not take that and decided to try adapt, improvise, and attempt to overcome.  The outlook is a surgery to fix an issue with my kidney aneurysm within the next coming month or two, and than monitor, the remaining issue with my kidney and aortic artery.  The coming surgery will not put me out of the woods completely but it will make me less high risk.

 And now with that update let's get the the real reason I blog, to be funny, and to share my current likes, and so I give to you my current 5 favorites.

1.  T Swifts new song.  I went through the " I WILL NOT LISTEN TO IT!!" stage and than finally did once another fellow blogger shared it.  She made me laugh and smile.  You go T Swift.

2.

ALS is a horrid disease and if you have facebook you have seen the ice bucket challenge all over it.  My main issue with the it was the worry of it becoming just another fad, and people not donating money and just doing the challenge to say they did it.  A few days ago I saw Anthony's video and was moved.  He is 26 and has ALS.  All my health issues are scary but not ALS scary and he is so brave for making the video that he did.  I urge you to watch the whole thing and if you have not already give to the ALS foundation or even his personal fund page.

3.

I am sorry if I made your cry.... Baby Groot will make it better....

4.

Buzzfeed has a wealth of videos where both America's and their oversea's counterparts try foreign food.  This one is one of my favorites.

5.

This also makes me laugh every time, mostly because I feel like I am watching myself on camera, and timers are for cowards.  I also now have Pizza and wine night...

Hope you are all having an great weekend and don't forget to be awesome. 

Evil did NOT win

Saturday is the heartbreaking anniversary of when Sandy Hook happened.  I sadly would have totally forgotten about it if I had not run into a video last night that one made me cry, and two reminded me of how amazing our God is.  How He heals and how the kindness of other can make the biggest difference in a persons life.  Back in April I wrote on Tragedy vs Beauty.  How the hope and beauty in this world is what we need to look for when bad things happen.  Below is an amazing video, of what love can do.

Because it Mattered

Ok so maybe it was like a year ago, but about 3 months ago I decided to step further into this.  To let myself be happy even though my current situation is well lets be honest...crappy. To be ok with the fact that I am done with religious life and to accept the person my past has made me.  For far too long I kept it as two separate things because I am not the same person I was three years ago, in fact I was scared of that person.  I went from being a depressed, timid, quiet, introvert.  To more of an extrovert who speaks there mind and goes after conflict.  I went from a person who just went with it so I was not noticed, to more of a maverick  because I have had the freedom to be who I was indented to be (Lord help those who have stuck with me through this change).  But my past that was not something that I had fully accepted into my life because I don't think I was ready but now (being past few months) as John Green so eloquently puts it....

And that is ok, in fact it's ok if it always hurts in some aspects because I have finally come to the conclusion that some things you can never forget and leave behind, but you can accept and go one.   There will be hurt and bad and pain but more importantly there will also always be light, and one to turn to at the end of the day who understand its all.

September is

September starts off so many things, school is in swing, the summer heat is cooling down, and tv shows are about to start back up.  Yet it is also the month to remember childhood cancer.  To remember children like Jessie, Ronan, Lane, Ayden and Prestun. Thee of which have passed away. So instead of Sunday funnies for the month of September I will feature a story about a child fighting cancer and ways you can help, but for today I will leave you with some facts...

Cancer sucks.  It took my mom and so many other people that I know.  My hate fire is fueled even more when I see what it does to children and how underfunded it is.  Children are our future and I one day hope we have a government that see it that way, so as this month goes by and I give more information I hope that you are inspired, that you take some kind of action, and that you get behind a cause for those who cannot fight for themselves.  

Five Favorites

-1-

This video I stumbled upon and feel in love with.  As personally seeing what a family and society does to someone who is gay through my brother and I cried right along with the main character.  I dislike how a cruel society can set what is normal, but love this video so, so much.  It is 20 min but a promise it feels like 5 and so so worth it.  

-2-

The mass amount of picture out there of Pope Francis kissing babies.

Melts my heart every darn time

-3-

This crazy otter picture

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How awesome science is, and how close we are to curing cancer and many related diseases

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And finally the down to earth humor and voice that the amazing Michael Bublé has

Tragedy vs. Beauty

I was going to have my Sunday funnies a day late because several people have requested it, but when I heard about the bombing today in Boston it got me thinking.  

We live in a world that is not perfect, that is full of hurt and bad things.  We also live in a world of extreme beauty.  Where a traveler gives a young girl his shoes, a man gives an American Solider some tea on a hot day, a dry cleaner who offers free cleaning for the homeless, and a Subway who offers free meals for the homeless.  Hope and beauty are everywhere, we only need to open our eyes a little to see it.

I remember when 9/11 happened and for months the images that were played.  The same happened for Sandy Hook.  I remember yelling  "STOP!' at my TV a few weeks after Sandy Hooked happened and they were showing videos of scared child again.  We have become a society that concentrates on the bad, that replays it over and over again.  That makes us hate those who did it.  Hatred breads nothing, but harm.  Ultimately in time, we need to come to forgive as we are forgiven but if that is too hard remember the beauty instead.  Remember the life that people had.  Remember someone who was lost name instead of breading hate for those who did the act and above all pray.  Pray for the healing of those effected but also pray for those who did it.  It is crazy to think of and sometimes even saying that makes people mad, but take a moment and imagine a word where we prayed for those who did bad.  It is not saying that they do not belong in jail, or that the law should not be served, it is simply saying that I know God created you for a better purpose and I am going to pray for you to see that, that you seek forgiveness and His love.

This is Noah and he is one of the Children who died in Sandy Hook.
I choose to remember his face and name and the beauty he
gave to this earth even for a short time.