T-minus-10days

till GRADUATION!!!!

wahoooo.... #isurvivedgradschool

happy anniversary

Happy 1 year anniversary to me and my blog!
there were times when I doubted we'd make it.... i mean, i can't even keep houseplans alive for a whole year.

in calm personal introspective reflection, me and the ole blog have had some memories.

• when re-reading ripped open scabbed-over wounds and made me bawl.
• when i stayed up in the wee hours, furiously blasting another poor human cursed with XY chromosomes.
• when i smiled over how much i've learned. and grown
• when i chuckled (under my breath) at my own witty remarks. c'mon. you know its true ;-)

so here's to another year. to hoping it's more productive, that i get more action, and lessons learned are less painful.

modern society's IQ

so I randomly got to thinking about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome whilst (fun word, I know) I was tanning today.

side note: I refuse to defend my tanning. winter is depressing because it's dark before I get home from work - and I should probably get a sun-lamp like Sarah Palin does because she lives in the ass-crack of the arctic. But I dont have a UV lamp. And I only tan twice a month. so stick that in your pipe and smoke it

my ponderings ran along the logic of: society unawareness of the effects of alcohol on fetuses, combined with expensive/widely unavailable home-pregnancy tests (which would indicate that most women found out expecting much later in the pregnancy) - and if modern medicine is correct about alcohol's negative effect on fetuses' adult IQ - there would have been a much higher occurance of lower IQ adults in society at that time due to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Which if that were true, would prove that over time, human society overall has become smarter.

Because once the discovery of the cause-effect relationship of inebrieting alcohol whilst pregnant, majority of women would decrease (or preferably cease) to consume. Combine that affect with discovering pregancy closer to conception that ever before (which decreases unknowing consumption) = lowered occurance of FAS-affected babies being born.

and then my friend pointed out that, alcohol has a lot to do with a lot of babies being conceived in the 1st place. And that for this scenario to work, people would actually have to use their brains.

and further realization that Paris "thats hot" Hilton and Kim Kardigashigan are still on TV and helping PPL and other skeezy tabloid rags to sell... that people have actually like being stupid. It eases the difficulty and complexity of life.

oh, and men are still emotional fcuk-tards :-) have a great weekend

the secret to my success...

what is the secret to s-u-c-c-e-s-s in life?

most would say "following what you believe/love"
i'm motivated to pursue my passions. right now its my career. one day it might be a family. i dont know. life has no guarantees, so i only know that i will whole-heartedly pursue my heart's deepest desire - whatever that might be.

no one sets out to be mediocre, but sometimes it happens. sometimes life happens.... gets in the way
but only if you let it...

more importantly, you're only mediocre if you allow someone else to define what success means to you

only being a housewife would not be my personal definition of success currently.
but if it IS Suzy Q's definition of success and she's the best damn housewife she can be...
then she should be considered a success.
regardless of our own personal ambitions or pre-conceived expectations of "success"

its mind-boggling how fiercly independent most of us believe we are..... and yet we let ourselves be judged by standards or definitions that others set.
society, parents, church members, friends, co-workers, personal trainers, el hefe, etc.

i dont know that i'll ever really understand all different takes on being a successful female in modern times simply because i'll never be right there. its not the path my life is on right now.
but i can appreciate that there are different walks of life.

and in life, it takes all kinds