I am IN LOVE with this movie, and I've only seen 2 minutes and 7 seconds of it.

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"Where are my FEET?!"

I'm marrying my best friend! How amazing is that?!

I'm not a big cat person, but you have to admit this is cute.

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Gone but never forgotten.

This made me smile today.

Umm, yes please!

Star light. Star bright.

I can guarantee I will be out observing this Tuesday morning.

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning

One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive.

The best seats are in Asia, but North American observers should be treated to an above average performance of the Leonid meteor shower, weather permitting. The trick for all observers is to head outside in the wee hours of the morning – between 1 a.m. and dawn – regardless where you live.
The Leonids put on a solid show every year, if skies are clear and moonlight does not interfere. This year the moon is near its new phase, and not a factor. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere with dark skies, away from urban and suburban lighting, the show should be worth getting up early to see.

"We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Other astronomers who work in the nascent field of meteor shower prediction have put out similar forecasts.
Urban dwellers and suburbanites will see far fewer, as the fainter meteors will be drowned out by local lights.

Behind the Leonids
The Leonids are created by the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which passes through the inner solar system every 33 years on its orbit around the sun. Each time by, it leaves a new river of debris, mostly bits of ice and rock no bigger than a sand grain but a few the size of a pea or marble.

Earth will pass through one of the denser debris streams at around 4 a.m. EST (1 a.m. PST) Tuesday. If you have only an hour or less to watch, center it around this time. Leo will be high in the sky for East Coast skywatchers, putting more meteors into view. In the West, Leo will be low in the eastern sky at this time, so fewer shooting stars will be above the horizon, and therefore Western skywatchers should also try to stick it out until daybreak.

Now if only I lived in Asia.

Oh, Jamie. I forgot how much I adore your music.

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i find this adorable.

I WILL BE going to see this! Who wants to come along?

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coffee

joe

java

black gold

cup of jolt

daily grind

drip

mud

tar

cup of brew

leaded

unleaded

wakey juice

Whatever you call it, I could use some right now.

If I could just go here once it would make my life.

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Kuroshio Sea - the 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

"We can do better."

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Vacation's over in less than 48 hours. They always go by so quickly.

I'll miss my dad when we leave.

But I'm looking forward to

getting back to the

daily converstional eMails with

my mom during work.

I've missed her.

Ryan & I leave for a 10 day vacation on Thursday.

Couldn't come soon enough . . .

Thanks, Mr. Narwhal!

p.s. these types of whales really exist!Thanks Smithsonian magazine!

Dreamin' of revelry

Friday. 9.25.2009

Seinfeld was on to something.

The top is definitely the best part of these things.

Guten tag

Alvederzane

I was going through my mind trying to think of the German word for "bless you" and only came up with these two words instead.

I had to Google it to find out what I couldn't remember.

"Gesundheit"

I used to have a better memory than this . . .

Complete Awesomeness.

Thanks, Mom :o)

Men are selfish beings.

Get excited.

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My dad spoiled me with this type of "camping" as a youngster:

and now I'm going to this type of camping this weekend:

& I'm, actually, really looking forward to it!

My new obsession

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Being a 20-something is incredibly disheartening some days. I want more.
I want to, actually, be able to do more.

Not buy more, but accomplish more.

Be less focused on getting to the next payday.

More focused on God, family, friends

& the real things that matter in life.

I'm sick of day-to-day monotony & routine.

Variety is the spice of life,

and my spice rack is fresh out.

"A mother is the truest friend we have,

when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us

when adversity takes the place of prosperity

when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine,

desert us when troubles thicken around us,

still will she cling to us,

and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels

to dissipate the clouds of darkness,

and cause peace to return to our hearts."

--Washington Irving

I couldn't ask for a better friend, a funnier cohort, a more loving mother or a kinder spirit than I have in my mom. She's more precious to me, and has impacted my life in infinite ways, than she'll ever realize.

Love you right up to the moon and back.

It has begun. Oh, yes, it has begun.

It's finally official when we're going to be the official

Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Collins

6.12.2010

The One

I think I found the one, but I'm not posting it because I want to take your breathe away. . .

. . . but don't hold it now because you won't be seeing it until 2010.

Zeus, in cat-form

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I'm kind of in love with this

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Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, not small, but valueable. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I've read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void.

So, goodnight, dear void.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Days like today just make me want to go home, snuggle on the couch & watch movies.

Scrumtrulescent

One of my favorite artists - Bansky. I think he is brilliant.

Observers

I would love to be a Graphologist.

Or a body language expert.

How amazing would it be to have insight into people's lives without even knowing them?

What Took You So Long?

Oh Boy

I'm not looking to the night of his party

I should NEVER have seen this movie.

. . . and I know it's a ginormous exaggeration

but still

how do you deal with the thought of another woman touching your future husband?

Ugh.