NEVER stop!!

This adult student theme seems to be a stuck record, it could be worse… Funk Soul Brother could be stuck at that “Right here, right now” part. That shit would just be too much. As per usual, I refer to my good friend (he doesn’t know it yet, but we are, totally, like, BFF’s) Dylan Moran.

Back to what I’m trying to say, become an adult student, never stop learning. Once you get that bee in your bonnet to start studying again, it’s like going into the store room of your brain where all previously important junk is stored and having to find all the parts of your brain that would work together to get you to learn new things. You know the room of which I speak, for some it’s the garage. Where the treadmill and spinning machine parts are, because yoh fat ass decided it was taking up too much space but, “I can’t sell it or throw it out because I will totally use it again”. If you just carried on using those things in the first place, yoh ass wouldn’t be fat. Same with your brain, I believe that the brain is a muscle (medical peeps, I do know it’s NOT) but if you look at how it works, surely it can be classified as a muscle? Quick “brain muscle” Google search came up with this:

New research shows that the brain is like a muscle. It gets stronger with practice. Scientists have been able to show just how the brain grows and gets stronger when you learn. Scientists have shown that, when people study hard and learn new ways to study, their brains change and grow. – Grow Your Brain | Khan Academy

On that note, I challenge you, learn something knew! Work that muscle! You want to learn to speak another language? Learn to take the perfect photo for that Instacrap thing? Learn  to dance? Learn how to paint or draw? Learn to play a musical instrument? Start doing it. I watched this TED ED video about how the speaker learned how to play the guitar in 20 hours. He explains that you can learn a new skill in 20 hours… that’s 1hour a day for 20 days – you learn your new skill within a month. Obviously things like learning a language would take slightly longer, but get started again at least. Watch this for some motivation:

Sorry, what’s that excuse you have? Oh you don’t have money. You don’t have time.

LOVE Will Smith

Yeah that’s right… bull shit! We live in the information age, people. You have the entire world of information literally at your fingertips!! Thank God for internet. You don’t need money to learn most things, there are endless tutorials on YouTube, endless experts (albeit self-proclaimed) taking the time to write down or video their skill to help others. Obviously you have internet, because you are reading this post.

And I don’t believe that you have no time… again, you are reading this post. So you are obviously just browsing through the internet. (Unless you are part of my elite following and you eagerly await my next piece of brilliance). What about all the time you spend watching series? Movies? Playing games… yeah looking at you CoD, LoL, WoW, and so on fans. What about the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter time? What about all the hours of sleep? Wait, before you yell at your computer that you need your beauty sleep… Studies show that adults (folks older than 18) need at the least 7 hours of sleep. I know that sleep is good for you and those around you, but too much sleep is bad for you. I heard someone say:

” People are afraid of death, yet they spend a third of their lives asleep”

Think about that!

Love this clip on Madagascar…

Stop making excuses why you are not pursuing your dreams. People aren’t interested in your excuses, it’s your results that WOW them.

Never stop learning!

Disney men… Princes?!

Feel like a child again!

I recently went to see Disney on Ice. And as expected, it was magical. But now I have been thinking, why are all these fairy tales always from the princess’ view? Why do we only hear from the Prince when the princess needs some kind of rescuing or when the writer thinks ok, the audience must be quite sick of just the princess, the men also need to relate in some way, queue Prince Charming! Yes, yes in some cases it’s not a prince, like in Aladdin, Tangled (Although in the original Rapunzel it is a prince and not the Smoulder) and the newest craze Frozen. But it seems that it is always a princess, except Mulan, no prince or princess there. THERE IS HOPE!

There are two Disney movies I can think of that is from the Prince’s view: 1 is the heart warming Lion King. But that’s not even a human type thing, and 2 is Aladdin.  Seriously, it’s like Disney don’t want men to dream to find the princess, or they want men to think of themselves as poor men with monkeys. At this Disney on Ice thing I noticed the little boys enjoying the princess parts as much as the Toy Story parts. So they obviously learn something. And EVERYONE, young and old, was a child again when that famous Lion King intro started. Lion King Rocks.

Aaaaaaa sibenya!!!

Here’s what I want to try, or get people to try. Try taking the princes from all these Disney Golden Oldies and think what the story would be like if it was from his view point. Considering how men think, how men have always thought the story must be quite violent and/or sexual. (Maybe that is why it is out of the princess’ view point). I mean the prince that came across Snow White’s corpse in the glass case surrounded by animals and 7 small men must have thought, well I obviously walked in on some WEIRD shit! 7 guys, 1 girl… no wonder she is pretending to be dead. Or alternatively he would gallop in there on his trusty stallion and kill everyone there because “the damsel was being held captive and them damsels love displays of violence and alpha male syndrome”

What sick stuff is going on here!!!???

Then there is the one where all the Princes devote their lives to compete on international level to prove who is the best in endurance, strength and mental fitness to conquer the deep dark forest and the dead quiet of the sleeping kingdom wherein the most beautiful princess in all the lands have been asleep for over 100 years. I wonder if they had the annual great games where the princes that that year reach a certain age would compete. Something like the hunger games, just on a royalty stage. Do you think the witch’s spell that made the entire kingdom sleep was cast that it also included the grass and trees and plants? And when you sleep for 100 years doesn’t your body do that whole sweating thing and the hair growing thing? Imagine that, all the men looking like Wookies and smelling like the return of the dead. Surely sweat and hair cells don’t sleep. Did these people age in this spell? Cos then Sleeping Beauty ain’t no beauty! Come on, stinky granny more like it! I would be pissed if I spent my life training to be the best of the best in all the surrounding lands because no one has even been able to break the spell and I get to that tower and in the bed is an old stinky granny… I would walk away.  I am really hoping the spell froze time in that particular kingdom just for the sake of my own sanity.

They posed for a family portrait as the spell hit… YIKES!

I should stop for now because a post that is too long gets boring. I will write some more and post next week… meanwhile. What adaptations would you have for the Disney Princes? What would the story be like if its main character was the prince?

Worst night of NOT sleeping EVER!!!

Why does it always happen like that? The night before you have to wake up really early you wake up REALLY early… and can’t fall asleep again. It’s like once you have been awake and laid awake for a few 20 to 30 minutes Sleep goes like, “Well that’s my shift over” and he NEVER comes back until you almost fall asleep at the wheel or at work or in church and then you think WORST EMPLOYEE EVER!!

Yes, this happened to me. I do think that the pizza I had should be blamed. Sleep probably thought, Woman how do you expect me to work under these conditions, you stuff your face with meaty stuff crust pizza and then you expect me to work while your body is jumping around like a mental person wearing a shower cap going “What can I do in here”. One thing I can say is that pizza about 2 hours before sleep is a no no… for reasons I shall not name here. 

I tried everything, putting my earphones in and listening to soothing music, opening the door, making sure that all sources off light are off, drinking water, laying really still and going “sleep-sleep-sleep-sleep-sleep” I even wished I could hire Mr Bean to snap me into sleep like he does his teddy.

Although if he had to be so close to me I would probably wet myself.

NOTHING!! So after about an hour of this I got up, made coffee (now I know what you are thinking but no, that’s soooo not the cause) and opened my laptop.  Then I washed my hands with this awesome scrub I bought at a market the previous day… seriously that stuff makes your hands feel like the skin has turned into velvet.

So after putting new music onto my phone and sorting through all of my pictures on both laptop and phone and then writing this exciting blog piece I feel tired again… and guess what? Its an hour till my alarm goes off. Murphy, you are a cold hearted skank!!