So i am way to tired and should be really working on a extra credit assignment so instead i am going to leave with you two different "claymation" clips. One if is from one of my favorite claymation clips "The year without a Santa Claus" and the second one is from a new one that will be premiering on Saturday.
And here is the new one.... its called "A Miser Brothers' Christmas," and is premiering on ABC Family on Saturday, December 13th @8:00pm ET/PT.
I am not quite sure how i feel about them making a new movie but i will definitely be watching and then maybe posting my thoughts later :-P
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
its the magic of christmas
So i had my exam today (totally sucked) and then decided to take the night off to relax and recharge before i started on my take home exam and project that i left to do. Anyways i was watching the 25 days of Christmas on ABC Family (more in a future post prolly) and my roommates boyfriend walks in the room and i was like "I love Christmas, I am such a kid at heart sometimes", and he responds by saying "Yeah i love it too...especially since i was an only child as a kid." This simple and cursoury statment got me thinking.....
For me the reason why i love Christmas so much is not for the presents (although its always nice to get gifts ;)) but rather for the feeling in the air so to speak. I love being able to spend time with family anf friends, i love to give them little tokens to show that i care, I love to sit down with my family and watch the old Christmas Claymation movies, and putting up decorations...all of it. I think that is why i love the Virginia letter that i posted the other day so much. Cause it focuses on these points. That is what Santa Claus is about...not just the toys etc...but the love and joy that is spread in teh simple act of giving. That is what Christmas is supposed to be like. That is what i miss. I feel as each year passes, more and more the magic that is Christmas disappears and i struggle to hold on to the tatters that remain. If only i could go back to the childhood innocence when everything was magical and the world was good and stress-free....*heavy sigh*
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Love Actually
i have to study for my exam tomorrow so for today you guys get one my my favorite quotes from an amazing chick-flick Christmas movie. No matter how many times i watch it or what my relationship status is...i always walk away from this movie feeling happy and filled with love. hope you enjoy this quote and if you haven't already seen this movie then should run out and rent it now!
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion.... love actually is all around."
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion.... love actually is all around."
A Christmas tradition
So i am going to try something...i'm not sure if it will work or if i will be able to follow through but i want to try and post something on her either every day or every other day from now until Christmas. more than likely it will be a mixture of photos, christmas stories i love or just plainly my thoughts about this time of year. lol.
so to get things started....Here is a story that i post every year and i have loved ever since i was little. Hope you enjoy it as much as i have
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus?Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
I got this copy of the passage from this website....http://www.barricksinsurance.com/virginia.html ....Hope you guys are enjoying this time of year as well and that this passage has touched you the way it was touched me....Merry Christmas
so to get things started....Here is a story that i post every year and i have loved ever since i was little. Hope you enjoy it as much as i have
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus?Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
I got this copy of the passage from this website....http://www.barricksinsuran
Thursday, December 4, 2008
stole from beth
So i was reading beth's blog today and she talked about this site Typealyzer in which the analyze your blog and tell what type of Myer's-Briggs personality your blog resonates. So i decided to check it out and here are my results:
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
ESFP - The Performers
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
a reminder and a plea
below is a reminder....something that i have to try and remember each and every day
and this is my desperate plea...my prayer...my desire..my all....
and this is my desperate plea...my prayer...my desire..my all....
Friday, November 14, 2008
a picture is worth a thousand words
so last week i took a break from working on my take home test and retreated to a little park near my apartment. I went there to go and read some articles for my tests but instead ended up taking pictures...here are some of my favorites....
twisting and turning and yet still reaching
through the wilderness is civilization
shadows and light dance together
the light will break through the darkness
there is still beauty in the "ugly"
twisting and turning and yet still reaching
through the wilderness is civilization
shadows and light dance together
the light will break through the darkness
there is still beauty in the "ugly"
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