Starting Up... Again.

It's about time I start blogging again. I was just chatting with an old friend whom I have recently reconnected with, and she had said that she was looking at my blog. This prompted me to look at it. And then I realized that I hadn't written or published anything for a long, long time.

This also gave me a chance to glance through my posts and reminisce a bit.

I think that we so often forget about the importance of writing. I think that we forget how beneficial it is to express our feelings through art. I know that I had forgotten.

But here I am! I'm back, BITCHES! :-)

I'm back to writing; back to watching old seasons of "The Hills"; back to listening to great music; back to sitting down over cups of toasted coconut coffee; back to me!

I hope that all is well in your little corner of the world. I hope that sun is shining on your face.

New Thoughts Taking Over

Indoctrination. The lost hour of sleep. Obesity. Homophobia. The KKK. World War II. Hate. Love. The church. All of these things have been on my mind lately and have consumed my thought process. I feel like one of the middle school kids I work with: a wandering mind, easily distracted by thoughts of problems at home or with life in general.

Problems. That is what all of these things are. Or perhaps they have problems with them. Either way, they bug me, simply put.

Is there any way to prioritize the problems of society? Certainly we cannot deal with all of them at once, can we? We are all too busy to care about racism, discrimination, sexism, and all of the things in between, right? We should only have to worry about our life and how we plan on getting from point 'a' to point 'b'. After all, the earth has only heated up .6 degrees in the last 50 years, right? That isn't even a whole degree. Why the hell should we care about it? We'll be long gone before that reaches 2 or 3 degrees.

So many things wrong. So many. Things. Wrong.

Isn't it about time that we re-member? Re - Again. Member - A part of a whole.

Take the parts of this world, the good and the bad, the successes and the problems, and re-member. Isn't it time to say that we cannot only focus one problem at one time? Isn't it time that we stop 'saying' and start 'doing'?

Out with the apathy.

Re-member: our self, our community, our prejudices, our hatred, our passions, our dreams.

Re-member the connectedness of this world.

Tokyo DisneySea

Apart from my blog with pictures and text about my visit to Tokyo DisneySea, I thought it appropriate to show a couple of videos from the day.

Enjoy!

This video was taken at the entrance of the park. Sorry for the stuttering and anything that doesn't make sense. We were just so excited be in DisneyLand!!!!

Rachel decided to take my bet: run through the waterworks (sprinklers) with all of the little children playing in it and get an ice cream.

Mickey-san

On Monday, July 27th, Rachel and I went to Tokyo DisneySea for the day. She had received two free passes for her birthday and chose to take me along for the ride! Lucky me, right?

Japan has two Disney Resort parks, sort of like how America has DisneyWorld and DisneyLand. Except Japan's parks are both located in Tokyo. In Tokyo, you will find Tokyo DisneyLand and Tokyo DisneySea. DisneySea was the most expensive Disney Park ever built. Maybe because it is practically in the sea? Hmmm.

The day was beautiful! We could not have asked for better weather, until it started raining, that is. But, it only rained for about an hour and simply cooled everything off! It was so lovely!

Granted, nothing can really compare to Orlando's DisneyWorld. None-the-less, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was not crowded, the weather was almost fully cooperative, it was not expensive, and the themes were a nice break from the everyday manga and anime in Tokyo.

Being at the park was quite nostalgic, actually. I thought of how nice it would have been to have been in Florida, staying at the Grand Floridan once again, and enjoying the company of family and friends.

Enjoy the pictures!

Rainbow after the brief unruliness of mother nature.

Hightower Hotel Tower of Terror

Cape Cod in....Tokyo?

Tower of Terror view from the American Waterfront.

I did not ride this. Fat guys do not like to be wet. But it was just as much fun to stand and watch everyone get soaked.

My first time to Cape Cod. And I was in Tokyo.

Visiting the Mermaid Lagoon.

At the entrance, preparing for the wonderful time I was about to have.



Love and Peace.
Coming home August 5th.

Mt. Fuji Pics