A tune for your Friday. I quite enjoyed this 2012 mash-up (though I feel a couple of those songs are not from 2012).
It’s a long weekend here for Australia Day and I am really looking forward to it. This week has been hectic so a few days off with my man is just what the doctor ordered.
Have a good one!
This begs the question, why isn’t Doctor Who a musical? I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in a musical. Surely it would be amazing. Though I wonder if they ever spot the musicians or if the music is just in everyone’s heads simultaneously.
I hope you have such a wonderful weekend that you burst into random song.
Do you remember that feeling? The first time you see something truly incredible that takes your breath away and you will remember all your life.
Here’s to a wonderful weekend everyone. I am diving in to try and sort all the wedding/honeymoon photos. Wish me luck!
Happy Labour Day long weekend (for the Aussie states that take it this Monday).
We have watched this a few times and it just made us happy. It does need sound and the sound mix is terrible but its really funny (well it is if you like to laugh at fails).
Our plan is to spend this Labour Day long weekend doing some manual labour (shifting furniture around). It’s only 2 rooms just happen to be switching the office and lounge room around. When we’ve had enough for the day there is plenty of Guild Wars 2 waiting for us.
If I was hosting a dinner party for 30 of the most amazing people alive or dead* Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson and Stephen Colbert would be getting an invitation. I hope watching this video will show you why.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is crazy smart but has no arrogance about him. He wants us all to share in and love knowledge and listening to him I have to agree. At one point in this video he describes being smart not as reciting a list of facts but being able to make connections and solve problems (kind of like MacGyver). Yes this resonates with me because I am not a fact-lister but also because there is some truth in that. Who would you rather in a crisis?
Colbert in his regular show challenges you to question what you see in the news. When I was little journalists were the epitome of truth, its why I considered being one. But with the invention of 24/7 news channels the content went from reporting to entertainment.
At 1:13:11 in the video they talk about how we can become more scientifically literate and I love his answer. It seems so obvious to let kids discover through playing but it can be hard. If you have spent the whole day vacuuming and a kid tramples dirt through its hard not to tell them off for it. But I have to try and remember that I am helping shape that persons response to learning by doing so. It will be hard and Richard will have to show me this video many times to remind me but I would like our children to grow up questioning things, it won’t be easy but it will make them better people.
*hmmm that could be an interesting conversation, who else would I invite to that dinner? I’ll come back to it later.
We are back! I hope you are well and life has been treating you to even just a little of the joy that we have had over the last few weeks.
I promise you will hear all about our adventures both from the wedding and our adventures in the US of A shortly. The 14+ hr flight has really done a number on us today but I wanted to say hi and to share this little video with you. It seemed appropriate somehow when we were watching it earlier today that I share it – since we just came back from the US and today we bought tickets to this.
The whole video just made me laugh so hard. Have a fabulous weekend
So this is happening today! Let the celebration of our love begin.
If in the morning when you wake,
If the sun does not appear,
I will be here.
If in the dark we lose sight of love,
Hold my hand and have no fear,
I will be here.
I will be here,
When you feel like being quiet,
When you need to speak your mind
I will listen.
Through the winning, losing,
and trying we’ll be together,
And I will be here.
If in the morning when you wake,
If the future is unclear,
I will be here.
As sure as seasons were made for change,
Our lifetimes were made for years,
I will be here.
I will be here,
And you can cry on my shoulder,
When the mirror tells us we’re older.
I will hold you,
to watch you grow in beauty,
And tell you all the things you are to me.
We’ll be together and I will be here.
I will be true to the promises I’ve made,
To you and to the one who gave you to me.
I will be here.
What a gorgeous poem by Steven Curtis Chapman, just perfect for how I feel right now.
Bruno Mars I love this song but it will not feature today …. as it is feels like it is featuring in every wedding this year. Oh and marrying Richard is the smartest thing I have ever or will ever do with my life. But I love your song, its so joyful.
In honour of the fact that in 13 sleeps the newly minted Mr and Mrs Holz will be jetting off to Hawaii I felt I would share some Ukulele action with you. Love this song, I could listen to this over and over.
Sorry I’ve been bad at posting lately, life has gotten away from me a bit with the wedding and honeymoon plans. Oh and apparently quitting your job and then jetting off where they can’t reach you is a lot of work! Maybe I should unfriend colleagues on Facebook …..
Found this on io9. I can’t believe this is a thesis project, it is incredible. This would totally work on me, I do believe that something could be deadly adorable. Heck, my message tone is “It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die”. Same principle.
Big Bang Theory cracks me up. Great to see that they make themselves laugh too. In Kaley Cuoco’s defense, the Vulcan salute is really REALLY hard to do.
I’m in Adelaide this weekend for work. The faculty at our Madison Down Under course are incredible people and I love being able to see them even if its just once a year.
