The Rescuers Down Under

What's The Story: The RAS agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher who doesn't care about the laws.

Memorable Quote:
McLeach: I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.

Lessons:
Sometimes trapped animals freak out when you try to help them
don't let someone know that you are on to them when you can get away
Just because you are small doesn't mean you can't be helpful

Main Challenges:
Toss a boomerang
Lizard time – spend some quality time with the lizard

Attitude:
Helpful, friendly,

Challenges:

Talk to Animals

Ruining My Fun

Okay so one of my challenges this week was a secret because I didn't want to give any warning that I was going to do it, I was supposed to hide everyone's left shoe. Unfortunately, some people have to ruin my fun. I first had to decide when to do it, obviously I would be up for divorce if I did so during the week when my husband had to go to work so I decided to wait until the week end. Could I find time to do this of course, but everyone had some important thing to do.

Last minute today on a Sunday, I hid everyone's left shoe, which would have been awesome only, we had a memorial to go to. Foiled again! So what would have been a really fun challenge ended up being lame. I will put a little dog ear in this challenge some time over the next year I will hide everyone's left shoe and it will be awesome. Lets see how many in my family actually read this!

Aloha Lilo

If I were to be totally honest with myself I think that Lilo hits a sore spot with me. I love the movie Lilo and Stitch but Lilo reminds me a lot of myself or at least me as a child. I see the way she is rejected by her peers and am instantly warped back into my childhood. I can recall the various Lilo like games I used to play and the mischievous and playful nature that is woven into the fabric of who I am.

The sore spot is that all that childhood wonder, joy and creativity went flitting away the moment I learned to be mindful of what other people thought of me. The moment I cared more about what other people thought of me then what I thought of myself is the moment I began to lose myself.

I get angry with myself that I actually chose to be miserable in order to fit in. The worst part is, that I never really fit in even when I was attempting to be “normal”. Shades of my true self always poked through and most often in times when they were most inappropriate. It was as though I had a “me” tick that blurted out thoughts that were so unusual to what people thought of me that my true self seemed phoney.

I became something that I wasn't, dark, mysterious, angry, yet accepted. I did drugs and drank since those are the only times in today's society, that one is permitted to be “wild”. When I quit drugs, the “wild” me was forced to take a back seat to the more “normal” socially acceptable version of me. Without the excuse of drugs to be myself, I became even more miserable, I no longer had an excuse to be me.

It may seem like this all comes easy to me but it doesn't. Like I wake up and feel at ease with baring my soul to the world. Its actually quite difficult to be yourself when you know that people are watching and judging. The thing is that I have called attention to myself and through my own doing have put myself on display for all to see. I have said that it is okay to be yourself but the truth is I am basing this opinion on faith not knowledge.

What I see is that the more I challenge myself the more I love myself. I have discovered through Disney that I am the happiest person that I know and that the true happiest place on Earth is within. Its not Disney/land/world that holds the magic, the magic is in the dream come alive. The magic is in the wishing and believing. I suppose that its time I forgive the woman who stole all my magic; myself.

Lilo and Stitch Pictures

 
 
 
 

Fantasia 2000 Photos missed costume is the Ballerina from the stedfast tin solder

I Come in Peace

I have been staring at a blank page for the past week, its not that I don't have things to say this week, I have plenty to say about Lilo and Stitch its just that I am having a hard time focusing what I want to say. Making my rounds this week was fun as usual, now that people are getting used to me there seems to be less antidotes to write about, either that or I just happened to go out on a perfect day with open minded people.

I hula-ed my way down the street making my usual stops spreading cheer as per usual. I stopped into a local tattoo parlour where they have a large cut out of Elvis and asked the lovely gentleman to photograph me. Okay, so that in itself is enjoyable to see young strapping lads with goofy grins on their faces as I requested that one of them photograph me with Elvis. They were very kind and actually quite encouraging of my nonsense.

I know its more entertaining to say that I was met with adversity and that I had to explain what i was doing wearing a grass skirt but quite frankly, I am getting exactly what I wanted. I am spreading the joy that I had first intended to do, the question becomes, now what? Now that I have gotten the attention, the question becomes what do I say.

I suppose what I want to say is aloha, and welcome to life, I'm so glad that you could join me. Now pay attention closely, life is beautiful, it is filled with wonder and the moment you take your eyes off of that wonder you create that which is not. All anger, struggle and hatred is a lie, the truth is love is our true nature. We must sway with the rhythms of life, and stop becoming so attached to the outcome of every situation. We must have faith, in humanity, in our highest vision of humanity, that we can not only achieve it but surpass it.

End Transmission.
Blank Page Filled.

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