My Pledge

Little Boy Larry

For those of you who don't know, I absolutely love dogs, and have fallen in love with this little pekingese named Larry.  Anyway, I just kind of wanted to publicize the little guy, to maybe help him find a good home.  It breaks my heart that such a sweet, little creature would be so mistreated! I would adopt him in a heartbeat, but I already have three dogs of my own and just don't have the room (or the patience) for another.

 

Larry lost his eye due to the poor conditions that he grew up in, but he is still so sweet.  I'll post a link to his page below.  Help little Larry find a home! :)

http://www.adoptapet.com/pet/6604585-elizabethtown-pennsylvania-pekingese

BubzBeauty

I feel like this is kind of an awesome video.  Watch.  Watch now.

They Went to the Nightosphere

Yeah,
ugh,
political rap.
Yo yo,
demon apathy,
yo zappity.
Get ready.
Government,
where you went?
Yo, farmer’s market.
Ride bikes.
Get on it.
Geodesic domes,
science.
You heard?

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful"

Somewhat Personal Confession Hour!

When I was in sixth grade, I would make myself a sandwich every night after dinner. I called it the triple decker. It was three layers of peanut butter and bread, and I would eat it all. I would always hide the evidence once I was finished, because I didn't want my parents to know that I was stuffing my face after dinner.  Sometimes, I would even have a bowl of ice cream after my sandwich. 

 

That is the story of how I developed an addiction to food.

Three years later, I restricted myself to a bowl of cereal or oatmeal for every meal.  If I ate more than the allotted amount, I would throw it up and then exercise for an extra hour.  I even went so far as to use detox treatments.  I got down to 104 pounds, which is eleven pounds underweight for a girl who is 5"6.  To put this into perspective, I went from having a BMI of 23.0, to a BMI of 16.8.  Sometimes I would get really depressed, and binge on anything that I could get my hands on.  This of course resulted in more exercise and the occasional trip to the bathroom.  I didn't realize how out of control this was, until my friend asked me why I was exercising at one in the morning, after spending the day walking around Spain.  I had such a distorted sense of self, that I actually believed that I was still too "fat."  Fast forwarding to the present, my bulimia has been under control for over a year and a half, and I can honestly say that I am more than content with my body.  

This post may seem kind of random, but I was doing a lot of thinking about people my age and younger, who are bullied for their weight.  The thought of the pain of these people, made me really emotional.  Every malicious word or gesture made in reference to these people, breaks them down.  In fact, it destroys every once of self-confidence that they may have.  Too many of them feel ugly and worthless, when the fact of the matter is that they are all amazingly beautiful.  Eating disorders are not fun, and after years at both ends of the spectrum, I was able to learn this for myself.  

My advice to you?  LOVE YOURSELF.  Not in a narcissistic or pretentious manner, but in a way that exudes confidence and helps to make you even more beautiful. 

Hipster Hitler, the Webcomic

From Blossoms

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

- Li-Young Lee

Charlie Boy

If You Can't Love Yourself, How the Hell You Gonna Love Someone Else?

My Heart Be Breakin'

The Abominable Charles Christopher, My Latest Ish

8 Ways Video Games Have Saved Our Society?

I saw a really cool post on Smosh the other day, about how video games have contributed to society in a positive way!  Anyway, I thought that it would make the perfect addition to my blog.

1.  Crime is lower
2.  Video Games have created a ton of jobs
3.  Video Games have turned everyone into nerds
4.  It is the greatest medium for story telling ever created
5.  Video Games will teach you stuff
6.  Playing games makes your brain good
7.  They help you to make friends
8.  Playing games are better than doing drugs

Of course all of this was on Smosh so they were not trying to be completely seriously, I just thought that they made some interesting points.