June 2012
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Housekeeping!
OK I am going AWOL for a few days whilst I vacay with the fam. See you in July!
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Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl » One Thousand... →
Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl » For Monday... →
Relationships—with each other, and with God—are what are important in life! So simple, but so easy to forget.
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Sort of begging? :)
OK i I get 8 more followers I’ll have 100 and that would make me really happy!!!!
So, um…follow? Please? :)
I’ll give you a bow and arrow? :)
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Brave trivia
I believe it is the fifth Disney movie where the protagonist has BOTH her parents.
The others: Sleeping Beauty, Mulan, the Incredibles, and Tangle
To run down the others that come to mind:
Ariel: mom’s dead
Bambi: mom’s dead
Cinderella: BOTH are dead by the time the story really starts
Aladdin: Orphan, Jasmine: mom dead
Snow White: BOTH, again.
Pinnochio: Well,...
Where do we get Do Re Mi? →
Scroll down a bit to find out.
Two Nerdy History Girls: Would You Wear Jane... →
Would I?!?!?! Are you kidding me?
Someone give me $100K. Fast.
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Movie Review: Brave
I’m going to make this short: Ignore all the cranky critics and go. see. the movie! I don’t know why they expect every PIXAR movie to be this incredibly profound movie going experience, but I think most critics’ expectations for this studio are somewhere around Mars at this point.
Brave is very well-done, on all points. The animation is gorgeous, especially the scenery, and...
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Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl » Say what? →
Head, meet keyboard.
Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl » One Thousand... →
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Poems carry a tiki torch for Kahiki | The Columbus... →
A travesty happened with Kahiki closed….
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When a counter-tenor sings the mezzo part in the...
This is SO TRUE! I mean, there are so few great Alto roles in the repertoire of classical music anyway, and then we take it away and give it to a COUNTER TENOR! Hello! Handel specified “ALTO” people!
soyouwenttoschoolforsinging:
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Eavesdropping
Or, “The New Bionic Ear”
Yes, the new bionic ear allows me to eavesdrop. :) I have to say I’m liking that.
There are a few differences from the old (Freedom) processor I’d been using:
It’s a lot smaller, both in width and length, which makes it easier to wear.
It has two microphones, which helps increase input, but also to reduce ambient noise that makes...
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Way too cute
People, how could I not post this? Really…
(And I’m Belle. )
(And yes, my head is almost always “stuck in a book.” )
Belle
[X] You’ve kissed someone your friends didn’t like. [] You’ve been lost in the forest. [X] You love to read. [ X] You are not shy at all. [X] One of your family members is a bit weird. [X] You have done volunteer work. [X] You have a wild...
Better hearing?
Better hearing? Getting the new Cochlear Implant processor tomorrow! I am very excited about this. It’s a lot smaller and you can “lock” the two pieces so they don’t come apart (like, when I’m doing my hair–really it will come apart during that–or doing yoga, or even… View Post shared via WordPress.com
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CI part deux
So I’m getting a new CI processor on Thursday!
Well, OK, that’s a lie. I already have it, upstairs, put together, but it’s not programmed, so it’s not usable. I will post pictures soon so you can see the amazing size difference. It’s small and light and I think I’m really going to like it. 100% of the people who have the upgrade (Nucleus 5 from Freedom, which...
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Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl » Corpus... →
Reflections on today’s feast.
Steelers quarterback Big Ben says baby boy will... →
Congrats to Ben and Ashley!
The Pixar Touch - history of Pixar - Blog - Pixar... →
These are great tips for storytellers of any medium.
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Keck's Exclusives: AFI Tribute To Offer First Look...
downton-diary:
There was a sweet surprise for fans of PBS’s Downton Abbey during the filming of Shirley MacLaine’s AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony Thursday night in Los Angeles. After Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern, who plays matriarch Cora, offered some kind words about MacLaine, she inspired joyous gasps when she announced the screening of a Season 3 clip revealing MacLaine in the role of...
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In defense of movies
(and, really, art in general, and those who make it)
C.S. Lewis said, “We read to know we’re not alone.” I think art, in all its forms, does the same thing, or tries to: to connect humanity, and to remind us of the things that bind us together.
In my sophomore year of college, I took the first part of the British Literature Survey. It went up to the beginning of the romantic...
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Best books I've read this year (so far)
I’ve read 101 books this year on my quest to read 150 (think I might have to up my goal?) over on goodreads. Here are my favorite books thus far:
The Master’s Muse
Imagine: How Creativity Works
Shirt of Flame: My Year With St. Therese of Lisieux
Galileo’s Daughter
And, the best book I’ve read this year: Song of Achilles. LOVE this book.
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British Invasion (with a Downton reference!)
On my bookshelf.
See, I have this weird thing: every summer I re-read Jane. All of her. (OK, that’s not a lot, it’s only six novels, but still). And in June, I read Mrs. Dalloway, because, come on, ‘LIfe, London, this moment of June’? Gotta do it.
So it’s all Brits, all the time, mostly. Of course, British Lit was my concentration in college, so this isn’t...
An English Rose | Beauty | Everything Bobbi →
This is so perfect: Bobbi Brown presents a makeup look based on Jane Austen heroines, thus the “English Rose” name. LOVE!
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