I was working from home, listening to my Melissa’s Megamix playlist on Spotify and the song “Stand” from the NBC show Smash came on. I could go on and on about the lyrics and how they resonated with me and stuff, but I’m going to just tell you one thing: list, and I mean really listen, to the lyrics – they will speak for themselves.
As someone who personally was belting out various Disney tunes last night around my fire pit, I wonder how my neighbors would have graded my performance. This came across my twitter feed this morning and was too good not to share. . .
I really hope I would be graded along the lines of “Tiny Dancer” and not “Walk This Way”. . . .
Next weekend, I may have to bust out some Broadway songs and maybe a dance number with jazz hands.
Author’s Note: This is another re-post from a site that no longer is live, but I wanted to share it here as well. Enjoy.
Not many people know that I was a Girl Scout for 15 years (as both a girl and an adult member) and received my Gold Award, which is the Girl Scout version of the Eagle Award. I worked for two summers as a counselor at a day camp run by my local council. I was the keynote speaker at a Gold Award dinner while I was in grad school. While I’m currently not an “active” member – which is something I really need to remedy – I still consider myself a Girl Scout since I am a reflection of the organization and the skills it taught me throughout my many years of involvement.
Over the past few months, Girl Scouts have been in the news. While, many of the stories highlight the 100 years of successful programming for girls currently being celebrated, there have also been a number of attacks made on this organization that are quite simply distractions from the actual mission of Girl Scouts of USA. This is, in my opinion, taking away from what should be a positive year of celebration by causing the organization to play defense.
The past few days have been absolutely lovely – weatherwise – here in Minnesota. Granted, it’s likely a titch warmer than it is supposed to be at this time of year, but who am I to complain. The sky has been stunning – bright blues, fairly cloud free, and just picture perfect and smile inducing.
It is quite the contrast to what has been going on generally in the world. It seems as if over the last few weeks (and months and years really) there has been a lot more negativity especially in the ways that people are talking to each other and about each other. Granted, we’re in an election year (with two especially divisive constitutional amendments on the ballot here in MN), and this has become expected, but it doesn’t mean it’s right. I have a hard time, at times, reading the news or going on twitter because of the hate being shared and spread just makes me feel . . . .sad.
A secret skill I have is that I make pretty good homemade applesauce. While, at first, this seems like a daunting task, however like many other things you can make at home, it is super easy, takes very little prep time, and saves some money too.
