Future Fossils

I love NPR's Radiolab podcasts. They always make me think and look at the world differently, so they end up accomplishing their goal of pushing boundaries and your own curiosity  Every morning on my ride into work I listen to episode lasting the whole hour it takes me to get through traffic.  Each one gives me new information that fascinates me and leaves me thinking for days.

Example 1: We know dogs are color blind seeing only a few colors due to only having 2 cones.  Humans have 3 cones on our eyes that allow more us to see even more colors. The mantis shrimp has the most cones at 20! But it is so small! And its brain even smaller! Can they even process the colors?  There are other animals in between the mantis shrimp and us that are seeing an insane more amount of colors than us. What do they look like? Would earth look like Mars or some other alien planet? Would it be more beautiful?

Example 2: Time moves at different paces for everyone. Synchronize your wrist watch with someone, come back an hour later and it will be different. Crazy! There wasn't a correct standard time until the railway because people eventually hated missing the train! But if you asked the time and you got 12:30, 12:45, 1:00, they all would have been correct. Say whaaa

Anyways Radiolab is fabulous but this morning my world changed in the episode Deception.  It was all fine and good until the last segment where they talked about deceiving yourself.  People who told the truth and saw reality for what it is ended up unhappier than those who lied and lied to themselves. What is that about? It shocked me because I want nothing more than happiness but in order to get that I have to alter my perception of reality? Messed up.

Another crazy item, future fossils. People that's an actual job, finding out what items today will look like as fossils 6 billion years from now. Concrete will obviously hold up well but most cherished items, not so much. Books? No way Jose. It will look like a rectangular thing with the script not even noticeable. That kills me.

I don't think any of this will stop me from loving my books and keeping it real with honesty. Who says you cant beat a statistic?

I am

"Whatever follows 'I am' will come looking for you" - Joel Osteen

Yea I'm still thinking about Oprah's life class, but come on how true are those word? Why do I always feel more tired/sad/annoyed after I label myself it? duh because words are power.  Sidenote: why did things Joel say only hit me once Oprah repeated them? Her soothing voice? Unsolved mystery.  What it boils down to I think is your perspective of your life.  Me actually stuck inside all day, is not something I ever wanted and I never needed a new perspective so badly.  I thought making a new mantra might help me out a bit. 

These are all the things I want for my life and hopefully they will come looking for me :)

The weather got a bit chilly the other day and I finally was able to pull out my tights! I'm currently obsessing over this color- Go Overboard by Essie. What colors are you loving right now?  I'm finding it difficult to keep my nail polish from being ruined after a day at work. Too much paperwork I think. I got my name plate  which is sort of a stamp of the system I guess, cool but so weird. And yes I stare at a comfy couch all day, dreaming I could be napping on it instead of in front a computer. C'est la vie

Truth Time:  I accidentally honked at a family biking today.

Oprah

It's been a dream of mine to see Oprah since high school. Every day at 4 o'clock I would watch and wait for a new Aha moment to hit me, I was hardly ever disappointed.  I felt like I knew Oprah, it was as if she was sitting next to me in my living room having a one on one discussion about life, she was practically family. I was of course crushed when she went off the air and my chances of seeing a taping of the show died. But then she came back with Oprah's Lifeclass, whaat! And then she's coming to Houston? I signed up to win tickets to the show, and didn't get them. I thought why? This is my time. She's here, I'm here, It's Houston, I don't understand. I was distraught.

That's when the email came. My mom and I volunteer for the Hobby Center as ushers and they sent out an email requesting 75 volunteers to be stand-by's in case there are empty seats that need to be filled. We signed up. It was first come first serve so I showed up at 5:45 where I was the third person in line with the first two were a mother and daughter from Atlanta. Later I would find out they were in no way the farthest traveled people to see the show (Amsterdam).  Friends, it was everything I dreamed it would be and more! Oprah is a huge dork who is even funnier in real life. Andre, her hair stylist, comes out between takes to fix her hair.  This makes me feel better about myself knowing that if I had someone fix me up every few moments then I too would look fabulous.

Pastor Joel Osteen was her guest for the Lifeclass which I didn't know how I felt about. I had been hearing mixed messages about him and had never truly researched him before to hear the real deal.  I thought "ok go in there with an open mind. Oprah has a reason. She knows what she's doing".  It was true, hearing both of them talk about the power of words was amazing. Aha moments were hitting me every minute and my life will be changed forever. I can't believe it really happened but as the guest Joel Osteen says "Believe Big, Pray Hard" and well I believed big didn't I?


Truth Time: In college I skipped my classes for two days to repeatedly call the Oprah hotline in hopes of getting tickets.

Tuesday Truth

Amoung other things my childhood consisted of watching Shirley Temple movies. And then re-watching the same Shirley Temple movies. The term Honor Bright for me comes from one of these movies where little Shirley phrases it in a way where you are making a promise. This year of 2012 I'm all about honesty. It's improved my life so completely and I want to continue- honor bright and all that.

Truth Time:
I used to ask my mom to put my hair in spongy curlers so I could have the same luscious locks the child star used to sport.