30 Day Challange: Day 11

Day 11: Put your music device on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play.

Music: Words With Wings

 

1.)    Glass of Water by Coldplay

2.)    Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas (featured in Kung Fu Panda soundtrack)

3.)    Father, Spirit, Jesus by Casting Crowns

4.)    Bach Cello Concerto by Yo-yo Ma

5.)    Bucimis by Barrage

6.)    The Cullens from Twilight Saga-New Moon written by Alexandre Desplat

7.)    Fear Enough by Murray Gold from Dr. Who Series 6

8.)    Counting Stars by One Republic

9.)    Gap by Konk

10.) Nothing Compares by Third Day

Feel free to look anything up.  I felt like it was a pretty accurate portrayal of what I listen to.  I love soundtrack music, classical music, contemporary Christian music and a few modern day artists such as Coldplay and One Republic.    

30 Day Challange: Day 10

Day 10: Your guilty pleasure (or pleasures)

                I can just see this post getting lots of views…right alongside the ‘what are your top five pet peeves’.  Well, don’t get too excited there, I’m not about to give away all my secrets.  But, here are a few of my favorite things:

                I have a huge sweet tooth.  I find it entirely impossible keeping sweets out of the house…seeming as I’m the one to shop for groceries.  It’s not to say that everything in my house is junk food, but I must admit, I always have at least one of my favorite things in the pantry.  My favorite cookies or chocolate or strawberry liquorish—just to reward myself after a long day filled with things I often don’t enjoy doing.  The good news is whatever I get tends to last a while because I do have some means of restraint in how many I’ll allow myself to have.  This seems to lead right into my second guilty pleasure.

                Coffee.  Not house coffee.  Lattes.  Starbucks will suffice, but I really enjoy a good ‘mom and pop’ coffee store—you know, the ones with every flavor imaginable, soft quiet couches, a book case full of games and books, a warm atmosphere that beckons you to stay just a moment longer and that delicious taste of you new concoction of your favorite flavors with the smell of quality fresh espresso all put into a large round white mug with the foam shaped as a leaf.  And what’s more but to then have one of my favorite books to get lost in?  Which leads to my third guilty pleasure.

            Books.  I have this sort of admiring love for the smell of an old book found in some lonely corner of a library.  And the older the book, the more character and adventure it has to offer.  I’ll take an old ratty book over the newest ipad or nook any day.  Reading has always been my escape in life.  Ever since I could piece together words with meaning, I’ve devoured books and if I couldn’t read them, I begged my dad to stay just one more story and read to me until I fell asleep—though I rarely ever did.  And as I think back, I often favored books with talking animals…which leads me to my last guilty pleasure.

                Animals.  You might be wondering how animals pose as a guilty pleasure.  Well…the problem is, I can’t ever seem to have enough of them.  One bird turns into, “Oh, but he’ll get lonely!  He needs a friend!”  Which will turn into, “But maybe they’d like to have some other entertainment like a guinea pig!”  And before I know it my one bird turns into three birds and two guinea pigs.  Yes, yes, I know…it’s bad.  The truth is I just can’t help myself.  I always kind of had this secret goal of mine to own as many different animals as I could in a life time.   Not all at once of course.  But then again, who knows?     

                Well, so there you have it.  This was actually unusually hard to write.  Thanks to my husband though for helping me with this one.  I think I’d still be sitting here scratching my head if it weren’t for him.  I was stuck on the fact that a guilty pleasure was something that pleased you in secret.  I guess I just like to share the things that make me happy with others so I don’t lead a life of secretive pleasures.  Guess I just can’t keep my mouth shut.  I bring you good news of great joy!  LoL

30 Day Challange: Day 9

Day 9: If you could choose any job in the world what would it be?

 

I’m currently going to school to become an elementary school teacher.  However, I can’t say that’s my dream job.  I’ve always loved working with animals.  They bring my heart joy and I find myself always smiling when I’m around them.  That’s not to say that I’d want to work just any animal job.  I wouldn’t want to work in a zoo, a circus or with food animals such as cattle.  I’d LOVE to work with intelligent creatures such as dolphins, birds, horses or service dogs.  In other words, I’d love to be a trainer.  Often, there is no closer bond than between an animal and its trainer.  There’s a type of communicative connection that occurs—as if human and animal have found a very small hidden bridge that allows understanding into two different worlds.  Whenever I go to a show where animals perform I just love to see how happy the animals are in performing and how there’s a ‘behind the scenes’ speech in every look and gesture between the trainer and the animal. 

Have you ever seen a rider direct a horse bareback by just the slightest pressure change in their legs—riding the great beast with both hands in the air completing complex spins and gates?  Or have you ever seen a bird show where the trainer and the bird have a complete seemingly intelligent conversation in front of an audience—and for them to demonstrate later that the bird’s answers were all based on a few subtle hand gestures?  Or have you seen a herding dog perform sharp turns, sudden stops, and quick leaps to herd hundreds of sheep to one location— all because of a few vastly different whistles hardly audible to the human ear?  All of these things are just remarkable and fascinating to me.  What I wouldn’t give some days to have a job like that.