ASL Snippets

If you enjoy working on your ASL on Youtube, you may like BYU Fanatic.

I do.

Working on receptive skills is so important!

Here is his whole channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/BYUFanatic

ASL – Gotye

This is an American Sign Language Interpretation of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know’.

I hope some day more videos are posted by this youtuber!!!

ASl – Firework – Katy Perry

This is one of the most beautiful videos I have seen. I swear, for me, sometimes I really “get” the song once I have seen it signed.

This song I love, it resonates with me. I know some people do not like it, but I think if you have ever felt like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again… then you know.

People. I don’t get them.

Most days, I feel like I am from another planet. No lie.

Lawns. WHY do people care so much about lawns? Knickers in knots over water restrictions. Fine, xeriscape your yard! Better yet, take a big picture approach and think “Yay, my city is doing something for the planet” or barring that, think back on how little rainfall we have had this year. You do not NEED two giant green lawns. You are not a golf course.

The Bible is true and the world is only 6,000 years old. Yeah, um, okay then.

Cigarette smoking is not an addiction. Oh COME ON NOW, you are joking, right?

Anyway, have some music.

Envy, cooking, tablets

I envy people who enjoy cooking. I spent some time tonight at my usual haunt, Barnes and Noble. I was seeking to learn a bit more about slow-cooker cooking. Indeed, I learned that Crockpots came out in 1970, so 43 years late, I am learning how to use one. And not even for myself, but for cooking dog food.

I suppose if I had ever had a big family or something, I might have been forced into learning how to cook, but I didn’t.

Nonetheless, I found this cookbook to be the best and easiest to read, with recipes that did not make feel stupid.

The Complete Slow Cooker Cook Book

Makes me wonder if people who do like to cook and really buy lots of cookbooks also enjoy buying cookbooks for their tablets, such as Nook Color or iPad and reading them for fun and inspiration. I bet having a cookbook on your device and making notes and stuff would be fun.

However, it is kind of sad that people will not find their granny’s old recipes anymore.

Kinda like Hilah did when she found a recipe card that said “Cocktail 1934″

Hilah also wrote a cookbook. Her website is http://hilahcooking.com/

Oy. I am just blathering now.

Oh Yes They Did: How Oh No They Didn't Stole My Article and Pretended It Wasn't Plagiarism

Reblogged from Popcornworld:

So there's a blog out there called Oh No They Didn't, also known as ONTD, famous for being the largest community on LiveJournal (which is apparently still a thing; who knew?) and for having a metric crap-ton of contributors providing celebrity gossip, reactions to TV shows, and notes on other pop culture filler. And it's all stolen. Every single word.

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Don’t f*ck with me

Words to live by

That is kinda how my day felt today. My Aquarius nature, the stifling environment I spend my days in, my doing the right thing, my not being allowed to tell my side of a story, all of this combines in a highly combustible mix.

I am desperately seeking to strive to be HAPPY not right, but sometimes when things are just so so so so wrong, it becomes difficult to sit back and not speak up.

Bear with me. Or Bare if you desire.

Payday

So, today is payday. And in keeping with my idea to start each day with a positive note, before I read twitter and get all incensed or catch up on celeb gossip on ONTD, here are my thoughts.

I am very grateful to have a job. Very grateful. Sure it has, as does every job, things about it that make me want to tear my hair out. But, I get this paycheck.

And by the grace of a higher power, I have finally been able to be the type of person who is mindful and splits the check by expenses. One half of everything from this check and one half of the everything from the second check, always leaving me just a little wiggle room. And when I say LITTLE, I mean little. Heh.

But just for today, I am grateful for that check. I will see what the day brings later. I anticipate some dramaz. I ask the universe for the grace to just brush it off.

Gratitude List

Tonight I am grateful:

That I have a job.

That my dog is still healthy.

That I have an apartment with a washer and dryer

That I have a lot of music in my life.

For clarity and freedom from feeling like I have to please certain people.

And another year passes

I must be the most boring person alive.

Not really.

But just bad at blogging.