Noooo, not Big Bird!

Haha... Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

I'm in the midst of preparing our family's grand Thanksgivng feast. Pictures of the delicious spread to be posted later.

Coldplay- Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

My apologies for those of you who are already sick of this song, but... I happen to absolutely love it. Just listening to it takes me back to my first Coldplay experience in the summer of 2008. It was simply amazing(I love live music).

Delight in our existence

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. 

-Khalil Gibran

Animal Crackers (Cookies)!

Remember Barnum's Animal Crackers that were all the rage in elementary school? I was quite a fan of them as a child, I'd pout and whine to my health-conscious mother until she agreed to buy them for me--only if I ate no more than four per day. 

To this day, whenever I see a box of them(or the like) in a grocery store, I get a bit giddy and get a strong urge to buy them. Normally, I'd give in, but I'm making a serious effort to be healthier lately. So when I saw a box of these beauties at Trader Joe's today, and I didn't allow myself to buy them, I wept a little inside.

...they even had icing on them! mmm.

Yes, I just wrote an entire blog entry on fun-shaped cookies. That is all. :-)

Let it be

 
This song soothes my soul.
I love that the sound is so raw and untainted by modern synthesizers and AutoTune.
Love.

Animal Humane Society Talking Cats

While taking a break from late night work, I was watching some trashy reality TV online and this commercial to promote the adoption of cats from the Animal Humane Society came on:

I am normally not a cat person, at all. But, this particular commercial just made my heart melt.

Check it out...and maybe consider adopting a kitty?

Cookie the Giggling Penguin

Okay, so many of you may know that I love animals/birds/critters (The San Diego Zoo ranks very high on my list of favorite places to visit for this reason). So when I saw this video of Cookie, an absolutely adorable penguin, waddling about and giggling, I had to share. Unsurprisingly, this video has gone viral on YouTube over the last few days.
Take a look at let me know what you think:

Remember how I was talking about stopping to enjoy the silly little things in life in my last blog post? Yep, this would be one of them.

Innocent Joy & the Epitome of Happiness

I haven't had the time to write a real blog post in a little while, but today I came across this image while doing some research for a course project. This adorable little fellow(and by fellow, I mean turtle) seems to be quite content to just be laying there eating his strawberry...it's almost as if he represents the epitome of happiness. While I can relate, because I love all things strawberry, I can't help but be tickled a little by his innocent joy.

Innocent joy.

Do you still take the time to enjoy the innocent pleasures of life? I know I don't, nearly enough. Fortunately, living in a coastal community of Southern California allows me to enjoy the just-warm-enough sun and cool, clean, crisp air nearly year round. But, beyond that, I feel like I have been too preoccupied in my academic pursuits as of late to enjoy the rest. Considering I have about a decade of training/schooling left, this obviously has to change.

In this sense, you could say that this little turtle is who I strive to be.