Well... I'm headed down a good path... or something.

So while I'm sitting here bored in Colorado while the bother, I mean brother, plays COD, obviously I go to Stumbleupon for my time-filling needs. If you know me at all, you know this happens on a regular basis anyway. Stumbleupon is the greatest thing on the internet. While it gives you a heck-of-a-lot garbage, it also gives you an excellent amount of the intellect and creativity of the human race. Millions of people out there just waiting to be heard. I love it.

But that's not what I'm here to talk about.

No, I'm here to share an experience I've had with this intriguing and very addicting site. You see, there are a lot of websites out there that want you to live a better lifestyle, eat healthier foods, find better ways to travel, improve your personality/habits/resumes/anythingyoucanthinkofreally. Among these lists of things to do better than you already do sites is one I stumbled on today. "The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks." This was a new one. I've gotten the "foods to prevent cancer," the "20 healthiest foods/drinks for you" blah blah blah. But not this one. I'll give you a little rundown.

The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks

1. Tomatoes. Vitamins, antioxidants, Dr. Ozzy acclaimed, better than acai berry... the works.

2. Green Tea. Helps with cancer and anti-aging.

3. Broccoli. Best vegetable apparently. Good for eye health (including under-eye skin), arthritis, heart disease, and sun damage.

4. Salmon. Anti-inflammatory vitamins. Oh and it makes your skin glow.

5. Extra virgin olive oil. It has to be EV because the other stuff isn't pure... helps with heart and cholesterol problems.

6. Dark Leafy Greens. Vitamins and iron. Of course.

7. Walnuts. Heart health, and better brain functioning.

8. Blueberries. Vitamins, brain boosters, and FIBER WAHOO

9. Dark Chocolate. UV damage protection

10. Avocados. Heart health, vitamins, potassium, and things that make you happy or something. (There was an ad in my way of reading the entire thing)

So there it is. Now, I'm not going to go into detail about how half this list doesn't FULLY have anything to do with your looks except potentially keeping you skinny. But here's the thing. Most people look at this list and go "awesome, I should just start eating more of those foods." I look at this list and go "OH MY GOSH another list of healthy things that I DON'T EAT EVER. Seriously, this was the worst list I've seen for that. I got a little excited when it got to the blueberries and i thought "Yes! Fruit! I love fruit," then it occurred to me all too quickly that I do not eat blueberries either. So basically, what the internet is telling me is because I am A.)tremendously picky (though you have NO IDEA how much that has improved since childhood) and/or B.) low maintenance - I stick to the same foods all the time, I am in line to have a non healthy existence and will probably die of cancer by the time I am 38. Oh and I probably won't look healthy/good either. Literally every list I ever see is like that. Stuff I don't eat, that would make life potentially better for me.

Here's what I'm going to do about this:
-still gonna drink Dr. Pepper
-still gonna eat my chips and chicken like it's going out of style
-still gonna contain my stomach to the pea size it is to maintain non-excessive intake
-still gonna eat fruit because I love it, and it's the probably healthiest thing that's in my diet already
-still gonna maintain my current level of exercise
-maybe I'll start stretching more to help out my tiny vertebrae back there

I am a child.

I'm still okay with this realization.

I want to sleep inside a bear.

Yes, that is right. I want to sleep inside of a sleeping bag that looks like a bear. I don't think there is any item in this world that I want more that I can't have, because there is no way to buy this thing. This guy is crazy for not selling it. So many people would buy it. Crazy, I tell ya.

Inspiration comes from the most bizarre places...Facebook.

Well, I'm giving this whole blog thing another go. But this time, I'm not going to talk about me and my boring life, where the same old stuff happens to the same old people. No, this isn't about me at all, I hope. This is about what inspires people. Tonight, I was on Facebook and I saw a picture of someone I knew from high school. He looks quite different, so the picture caught my attention, in that respect, by itself. However, upon clicking on it, I got this sudden feeling inside me that said "This is a really cool picture, and it gives me hope." Sounds cheesy, and I hate being "cheesy," but isn't life just a big cheese ball anyway? I think of art and music, two things that inspire me more than anything, and really it's all so cheesy. But it's delightful. It's all so wonderful: things that make you smile; things that inspire you; things that make you live day to day knowing you're living for something worthwhile. It's a fascinating concept. Something that inspires a person may be completely meaningless to another, even if the two are very close to each other. The world is so cynical, and I am not excluding myself in any way, shape, or form. But things that make you smile, make your brain rattle, or just get you to think are worth the meaningless jargon the world throws at us.

So there is the back story to this blog. My purpose is to kind of have a photo/thought of the day. Probably won't happen everyday, but I'm sure no one is really upset about that. It will be fun to focus on something and get the creative juices in my head flowing.

So without further ado, the photo that started it all: