30 Tweets for 30 Peeps Challenge - Day 1

So, I found this 'list' of 'tweets' on this BLOG as a personal challenge to herself. I was intrigued. It seemed like a great way to express yourself, not only to others, but to yourself. And it can be incredibly freeing to let these feelings/emotions/thoughts out into the world wide web. So here goes. I don't have many real people that I've met on my Twitter list, so most of the names will be fake. Just a warning.


So here's the list of 'tweets' I have to write. Conciseify (I know it's not a real word haha) my feelings into 140 characters. Scroll down for my tweet.
Day 1 — your best friend
Day 2 — your crush
Day 3 — your parents

Day 4 — your sibling 

Day 5 — your dreams
Day 6 — a stranger 

Day 7 — your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — a deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — the person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — the person you miss the most
Day 16 — someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — someone from your childhood
Day 18 — the person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — the one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — the last person you kissed
Day 24 — the person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — the person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — the last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — the friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — someone that changed your life
Day 29 — the person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — your reflection in the mirror

So here goes day 1 (your best friend):
@Lover&BFF You are my life, you make me smile, and you make me look inside myself to see all the good I have inside. I'm so glad to have met you.

 Check in next time for Day 2 - Your Crush

Monday Musing: Happy thoughts

Sometime this past weekend, the issue of labeling others as "gay-haters" (in this particular incident) simply because they did not do what was wanted of them came across to me as it's own form of discrimination. How can people of a minority (gays, coloured people, blind/deaf, etc) base the opinions of others on something so small? How can one say that they don't treat everyone like that, and the person of minority is assuming that it's simply with them that there is a problem?

Discrimination takes many forms, you need to think positively to affect positive change. If you automatically assume that whoever has done you a wrong is discriminating against you, then you are discriminating against yourself, because it means that you feel that something about you is worthy of being treated as less.

Take charge, tell yourself that there is nothing wrong with you. Because there isn't. You are all beautiful, wonderful, perfectly unique people. And people are not all the same. So rejoice in your differences, for they make you, you.

Peace and love,

Simply Me

Enjoy my Monday Musing series? Here is a list of the other posts from this series:
Gardens
Automatic negative reactions
Thanksgiving
Sustainable eating
Contentment
Crutch or Reason?

Movie Day: Shark Tale

So I've decided to keep track occasionally of what movies I've watched recently and my opinion of them. Nothing regular yet, but we'll see where this takes me.

So first on the movie block, a movie I watched just last night with my daughter and fiancee.

Shark Tale!
Starring such famous voices as Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro, and many more. 

I started out watching this movie, thinking it would be along the lines of The Reef and Finding Nemo but was pleasantly surprised.

The main little fish, Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) is a cleaner at the local Whale Wash and he accidentally happens across the body of the son of the Boss Big White Shark, Don Lino (Robert DeNiro) who is a sort of mafia-godfather type character.

Being a nobody, Oscar makes it look like he killed the shark, to give himself a name and a presence, so that he can feel important.

He befriends the outcasted great white Lenny (Jack Black) who was kicked out of the "shark mafia family" due to his being a vegetarian, and only eating kelp. Lenny disguises himself as a dolphin and stays with Oscar and his friend Angie (Renee Zellweger). Turns out, Angie is in love with Oscar, but doesn't like his new fame and what he does with it.

In the end, the truth about the shark's death comes out, Angie and Oscar hook up, and Lenny is re-accepted by his father. Along with quite a few other little plot twists and funny moments.

All in all, a great movie that was pleasingly but not boringly simple, and fun to watch. Very cute and good plot. Shows that fame and money aren't everything, sometimes all you really want and need is what is right in front of you.

My camping experience

So, like I said, I hadn't been camping in somewhere around 10 years. But this weekend was AMAZING! I loved it, the freedom, the fresh air, the lack of time constraints. It was just wonderful.

Now, for my first picture heavy post, here are some shots of the drive up to the campsite:

Driving in the countryside

It's so  beautiful

On both sides :)

Believe it or not, we're going around 80-90kph, and this is with a camera phone

As you can see by the occasionally blurry spots

But some are super clear :)

So much green! Love it!

And some shots of the campsite and the river, which had some GORGEOUS rapids right next to our site. It was fantastic:

Red flowers by the river

Purple flowers on rocks in the middle of the river

Red flowers on the other side of the river

The tiny silver speck on that rock is a pretty little dragonfly, who (with his many kin) kept me mostly safe from those evil deerflies :)

One of the many frogs I saw

Just chillin in the river, keeping an eye

One of the rapids, with a little bit of sea foam

More purple flowers, so pretty

Decent shot of the rapids

Closer shot of the rapids

Looking down the river from the middle of the rocks

Sitting in these rapids was like sitting in a jacuzzi that only blows one way, soo cool

Calm river shot as the sun begins to set

Shot down the other way from the rapids as the sun sets

And our glorious campfire that kept us warm and relatively bug free, unfortunately these shots are all after the sun has set, so they don't quite embody the awesome that was the fire:

All in all, had a fantastic time, swimming in the lake, up and down the river. I can't wait to do it again!

Camping weekend! Yay! I think...

So turns out I get to go camping this weekend! In a tent! I'm excited, but scared at the same time. I have this gigantic, irrational, ridiculous fear of creepy crawly creatures with more than 4 legs. I have come to accept, ants, butterflies, and ladybugs. The rest of them cause my skin to crawl. Almost literally.

So hopefully I can keep my squeamishness down to a dull roar and get to enjoy the weekend. No windows or screens to keep me safe, just a tent and a butt load of blankets. I may end up being a big butch camper by the end of this, or I'll end up hiding in the tent the whole time with my eyes closed. Time will tell.

The thing is, I love the outdoors, I love fresh air, trees, walking around barefoot. I'm just a big sissy about bugs. I also don't use bug spray, since that pretty much only keeps mosquitoes away, and mosquitoes are not what I'm afraid of.

I'll be bringing books, my current knitting project, food (not sure exactly what yet, since I haven't been camping since summer camp and at camp you don't need to bring food!), maybe some playing cards. Other than that, hoping that I will be able to venture outside of the tent and explore a little bit.

Long pants and shirts are a must-have for any squeamish hiker, as I hate the feel of bugs and spider webs on my skin. You want to see my skin crawl, watch me when I accidentally touch a spider web. Hahah, so not funny.

Anyways, so I'll be back Monday around lunchtime and hopefully will have good things to share! Maybe even some pictures! Yay!

Enjoy your weekend, lovelies who pass by here, and know that I will return.

Lots of fun and enjoyment,

-SG