If you have not read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, you need to begin. Right about... now.

Some quotes--

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. Even a brief illness or an accident can show you what is real and unreal in your life, what ultimately matters and what doesn't.

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is — which is the only sane way to live — there is no "good" or "bad" in your life anymore. There is only a higher good — which includes the "bad."

Since mind and resistance are synonymous, acceptance immediately frees you from mind dominance and thus reconnects you with Being. As a result, the usual ego motivations for "doing" — fear, greed, control, defending or feeding the false sense of self — will cease to operate. An intelligence much greater than the mind is now in charge, and so a different quality of consciousness will flow into your doing.



Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

http://www.inner-growth.info/power_of_now_tolle/eckhart_tolle_pon_quotes.htm

Not that any of you were wondering... haha.

I've had time lately to do LJ related things, but... turns out I am a little too addicted to *ahem*.... COUGHsecondlifeCOUGH.

Nerdy, I know. Second Life is just so addictive, though, what can I say? I want to start my own Anthropologie-esque furniture/clothing/etc. store. That would be freaking awesome. I just need to figure out how to create things. Anything.

Any of you play on Second Life? We should be friends. :)

Also, I have 99 invitations to Moola now, so feel free to join if you'd like. You never have to pay a penny at this site. It's 100% free. And you have the chance of winning big, so check it out. ;)

That's all I really have to say... haha. I'm a nerd. It's official.

I have 3 invitations to moola, for whoever [really] wants one. (So please do not use up an invitation if you don't care either way!) Here is the link:

join moola

It's basically a "play games to win money" sort of website, but you never have to pay anything. Ever. You can cash out at any point. And it's invite-only right now. So feel free to join if you think you will be playing. :)

This is going to be a very short entry because I need to be waking up for work in less than 2 hours. Guhhh.

I got a [temporary] job as a housekeeper and am still looking for a better job. I'm considering waitressing at Applebee's -- I hear you can make decent money from tips. Anyone have experience with this? Let me know! :D

And goodnight!

So this might not make sense to you if you don't know any Mormons and don't live in Utah... but here's how the original blogger (dooce.com) prefaced the audio clip:

Only In Utah
This is a small snippet from a radio news show here in Salt Lake City where the traffic reporter, Kristy Snow, is apparently high on cold medicine, and the result is really quite wonderful. This is what happens when you do those hard drugs!

Click here to listen

( hahaaa aa )

Ashley and I were bored and used soundboards to prank call people in our Address Book. Most people hung up pretty quick, but luckily a few people went along with it. XD

Listen to Mr. Rogers prank call our friend "Weed" (his name is really Ashley) -- here

Listen to Miss Cleo prank call Ashley's friend Russell -- here

Helppppp

Does anyone know genuine ways to make money online? I'm looking for a new job right now but I'm in desperate need of money until I find one. Even like $10-20/day would help me by. Please please share if you know any secrets!

Normally in this situation I would use my Dad's bank account when absolutely necessary but I haven't renewed my name on his account so I'm in a pretty hopeless situation until I find a new job.

So please, any help is wonderful!

I present to you... a few days in the making... Sam & Dean Winchester: Bringing SexyBack.



(I know there are probably 2.4 jillion videos of them set to SexyBack, but I couldn't help myself.) ;)

ENJOY!

This might be a long shot, but does anyone know where I can download the Supernatural Gag Reel from the Season 1 DVD? I know it's on YouTube, but I want to use it in a video so I need to download it somehow. Any help is REALLY appreciated!!

I don't mean to keep complaining, but hoooooolyyy fraakkinggg coowwwwww. No one was available to help me move yesterday, so I had to do it all by myself. Which I thought would be fine. But I had to carry boxes that weighed as much as me up one flight of stairs, pack them all somehow into my tiny car, then (after my roommate finally moved her car) I had to unpack the boxes again and go up two more flights of stairs to my new apartment. I was out of breath, and thought that would be the end of it. Last night, however, my arms felt like they were dying a painful, aching death, and I could hardly sleep. And when I did sleep, I was always having some sort of nightmare that related to my arms dying a painful, aching death. I woke up to find my entire body aching. You know how growing pains feel? My whole body was.... drenched, for lack of a better word, in growing pains. DRENCHED. All the way to my bones. Have you ever woken up to find your hand completely asleep? And then the feeling and blood starts to rush back in and it hurts like you couldn't believe? My arms feel like that. Non-stop. And it's just gotten worse as the day has gone on. It's not an I-worked-out-too-hard sort of feeling, it's an I-killed-my-muscles-for-good feeling. And I have a cold.

So now that my complaining is over with, I really love my new apartment. It is a nice little place, probably the nicest apartment complex in the entire city. That sounds impressive, but it's a tiny little town, so it's not all that incredible. Some pictures:

(The first two are the view from my bedroom window.)