Tears are Beautiful!

There are so many people who are taught not to cry because it shows a sign of weakness.  I think that is an incorrect statement.  I believe that crying shows the exact opposite...strength.  Tears are not always sad.  They show intense happy emotions too.  I have two photos that were taken during very special occasions to show how tears are beautiful!

 

My friend Kim just became a new auntie to two beautiful twins!  This is her holding one of them during their first meeting!  You can definitely tell in her eyes that she was so emotional that she had been, or was still, crying tears of joy.  That's beautiful! 



A family friend, Amy, just got married to the love of her life.  When I was looking through her wedding photos I was blown away by this picture.  It is her now husband Erik's reaction to seeing her for the first time in her wedding gown.  It is one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen in my whole life.  What he is thinking is read through his eyes.  To me he's thinking: she takes my breath away and I am the luckiest man in the world to be able to love someone so amazing for the rest of my life.  This photo is definitely something to treasure!  I suppose you want to see the beautiful bride to know what he was looking at too huh?  Okay, well here she is:

Joyful tears are beautiful because the moments that create them are timeless. 

Fame Has Feelings

Right now I am watching one of my favorite shows Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and a thought popped into my head.  Fame has feelings too.  What do I mean by that?  Well, the famous people everybody hears about are real people just like us.  The only difference is that their jobs involve being in the public eye 24/7.  Something that really bothers me about my peers and just the general public is that they feed off of the negative media about these people.  The reality of it is that most of the media construe their information into tales that are "more interesting."  I admit it, I used to be hooked on the magazines that creates that garbage.  Star, OK!, Life & Style, Us, InTouch...they were all magazines that I used to read religiously and I believed all of their fabrications.  Until one day I started reading Lynne Spear's (Britney Spear's Mother) book Through the Storm.  In one of the chapters she spoke about how during a flight she was sitting next to a really nice individual and they started to talk.  It turned out that the person worked for one of the above trashy magazines and they wrote out a fabricated version of their conversation.  I remember reading that story in that magazine and I also remember believing every single word of it.  Until a year or so later when I read the excerpt in her book.

I highly recommend it if you want to know the truths!

It's not just magazines that are doing this.  It's all media and even just attention-craved people.  They do cruel things...extremely hurtful things.  The one that pisses me off the most involves an actress from my favorite television show One Tree Hill.  Her name is Bethany Joy Galeotti and she is amazing!  She is an actress/musician/director.  She does it all!  She is expecting a child right now with her husband Michael.  Some low-life ass hacked into her e-mail and leaked her extremely private Ultrasound pictures on the internet.  It's people like that who are making the world a scary place to live in.  The ones that have no sympathy towards the people that they are hurting.  It's pitiful.  Here is the beautiful and talented woman who was wrongfully targeted.




Beautiful Joy pre-baby!  Isn't she adorable?!?!

 


Here's Bethany Joy (on the left) with her adorable baby bump and co-star Shantelle!

 

It sickens me to think that people feed off of the negative aspects of people's lives.  Lindsey Lohan is going to rehab.......again, Britney Spears locked herself in the bathroom,  Lady Gaga's actually a man, Jennifer Hudson's family was murdered.....do people seriously need to hear traumatizing personal information about people to live vicariously?  We need to stop the nonsense.  It's nobody's business.  They have hearts like us, they bleed like us, and they cry like us.  They are us.

WubbaNub

What is a WubbaNub?  Has anybody heard of it before?  Well, it is a cute and unique pacifier for infants!  I've been on a baby kick when searching online for things because one of my best friends is having her first child the end of February.  The cool thing is, someone posted this link on Facebook and that's how I found it!  Click on the picture to go to the site!

 

HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!  The infant will be comforted even more with a soft little stuffed animal attached to it!  And they have a bunch of different ones!  I think the price for each is around $15 so it is definitely affordable as well! 

It's basically like getting two different items in one.  Once your baby is done using the pacifier you can just cut it off and then they will still have their little plush companion!  LOVE THIS!!!

True Love in Tuscon

This elderly couple first started dating when they were in the 6th grade.  They then moved on to different paths in their lives and were both in 40 year long marriages.  They reunited through a cousin after both of their spouses had passed away and fell in love again shortly after. 

They both attended the Congressional Outreach Event at a street corner in Tuscon.  A 22-year old man, Jared Lee Loughner, attempted to kill innocent people that day.  When he was going on a killing spree the 76-year old husband, Dorwan Stoddard, shielded his wife, Mavanelle, from the bullets by covering her on the ground.  Unfortunately, he was killed that day along with many others who lost their lives or who were severely injured.  That is true love though isn't it?  Risking your own life to save the one you love?  It is tragically beautiful! 



Dorwan, you made the ultimate sacrifice for the woman you love.  You are a true hero!  Rest in Peace!



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The Kindness of Strangers

There are so many random acts of kindness still in this world.  It's hard to believe sometimes but it's true!  Whenever I receive an act of kindness from a stranger I am going to dedicate a blog about them.  So, here is the first stranger story...

Thursday afternoon I was sitting in my car and already had everything I needed to bring home with me in my back seat.  I started my car and began to back out of my parking spot when my car got stopped....by the snow.  I put my car back in drive to go forward to attempt to get out but, it was official, I was stuck.  A guy, walking back to the dorms, walked over to my window and asked if I wanted a push.  Within just a couple seconds I was out.  He walked away from me right away so I yelled out the window "thank you!"  He looked over his shoulder and waved nonchalantly.  I know it's just a small gesture but because of him, I wasn't stuck in the way of everybody else.  I would have been panicking too, but he didn't even give me time to do that!  Thank you kind stranger!  Your help was greatly appreciated! 

1 Month

I was on Facebook reading other people's statuses just now when one from Amy stated how she has been married for 1 month today!  That's awesome news for her and Erik but the thing is, is that means it's also been a month since my Great Gram passed away.  At 1:03 in the afternoon it will be official.  One month already...I can't believe it.  I've been doing so well but now that I realized this I feel my heart hurting again.  This really sucks...  



Life isn't the same without my Gram!  Miss you pretty girl!



High Traffic Murder

This is going to be a more gloomy type of post.  I have been listening to little snippets of the 'Tragedy in Tuscon" and it made me think....what if someone was murdered in a high traffic area with nobody else around?  How would they be able to find who the murderer was?  For instance, say someone was in Wal-Mart or some other big retail company and, for some odd reason, nobody else was around.  Maybe the store was already closed...who knows.  The murderer knew what they were doing and killed cleanly and meticulously...but they forgot about one thing...to wear gloves.  Now, think about how many people are at a big retail store each day...500 or more right?  They're touching everything and checking different products out so there are fingerprints all over the place.  So, when the investigators come in to gather evidence, how will they know which fingerprints are which?  Do some fade with time?  Can they tell how long the fingerprints have been there?  It's just some random question that popped into my head yesterday.