Sigh... So in love with this song & video!!! Must see!

Sinking Sand Super Heros

I was at the beach yesterday and heard a snippet of a conversation between 2 young girls. (prob around the age of 6)…

“Wait!” one of them screeched, “What are my super powers again?”

“Ummm… I can throw fire balls and you have the power to be invisible” the other one replied.

Ugh, fireballs & being invisible… wouldn’t that be nice?

It got me thinking… when we are young, our imagination is vivid. You can wake up as super man & by noon decide to be yourself again with no issue. Now, in your adult life should you wake up feeling like super man you’re a weirdo. Wear that cape to the office & you’ll be in a 51/50 ward by lunchtime.

As time begins to win the race of life we all become so conditioned. We tend to loose sight of that young, over confidant mind where the world is our oyster & no dream is unreachable. Remember when you wanted to be an astronaut AND a veterinarian? I bet your loved ones said go for it! Where did it loose steam?

I think what’s important here is that we fail to recognize that though we may age, we can still have super powers! For instance, my mother has super strength. She has the amazing ability to detonate or diffuse any difficult situation thrown her way, all while spinning the rest of the world on her finger.

As I age, Im beginning to realize if we fail to revisit our unabridged childhood self, we allow society to chip away at the individual who originally entered this world. Like sand in an hourglass, society’s pressures begin to fill the cracks and mold you with its opinions of who you ‘should’ be. Let it go too long and it will take over.  Suddenly you have no sense of self outside of what your told to be.

So be your own super hero and take the time today to look back on your younger self. Grow from there.

XO

Fun with Friends

I had a wonderful time in Palm Desert over this past weekend! We had a 'premier party' for our "OWN" episode that aired on the new Oprah Winfry Network which was a blast! After the premier party I headed out to a bar called The Hood with a few friends to catch up and boy... what a night!

REMINDER!

Just a quick reminder to tune into the new OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) tonight! My mom and I will be on "Your OWN Show" at 9pm!

Check out the article on My mom and I

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20110113/NEWS01/101130345/Daughter+s+letter+gets+Palm+Desert+woman+on+Oprah+TV
Click the link to read the article :)

Check out My Rescue 911 episode from when I was 5 & saved my daddy!

Befriend new beau or no?

Is it a good idea to become facebook friends when beginning to date someone?

Its girls night. Your out for drinks and you meet someone that may have potential… By the time you’ve exchanged names and he’s walked away you’ve googled him, know where he works, is he a homeowner? Photos, facebook page, descriptions of his 1^st born… you get the picture…

Having quick access & such personal insight into someone’s life has started a trend I like to call, “Gray Fever’ and its known to drive people crazy… Its thrown those of us still circling the dating drain into this floating gray zone where monogamy can easily be questioned & a person can be assessed as quick as the click of a friend request.

So you go on a few dates and suddenly you find yourself on their facebook page scoping out the pictures… does he have any quotes? What’s his relationship status? Hometown? Wonder who she is… Next thing you know its 1 am, and you have driven yourself to a little land called facebook hell. You have now seen all these things about the individual with no explanation. You can’t ask! its too soon, right? You certainly cannot react…exclusive? Who knows? Welcome my friends, to the gray zone… What Im realizing is peering into someone’s life through a web portal must be seen just as if you are looking through a peep hole in the door. A small peek into a much larger space.  

I must ask, is it worth it? What ever happened to the original method of getting to know someone face to face? Furthermore, are we preventing ourselves of this?

In dating, is technology providing us with TMI too soon?