my first class tomorrow is cancelled! this gets me off the hook for reading like 100 pages of moby dick until tuesday! woohoo!
i went to boot camp tonight. this is only remarkable because the temperatures are in the 40s. there were like 20 people there monday night, but tonight there were only six or seven. i was lucky 'cause i ride bike to get there, so after that brisk 20-minute bike ride, i was quite warm. except my feet were frozen. anyway, it was a helluva workout tonight. i guess he wanted to keep us warm?
i hate this weather. i hate to complain about the cold, but c'mon... we're not supposed to get temps in the 40s here! i guess it could get down to freezing temps tonight. it makes me feel awful for that kitten at school. stray cats in general. and the iguanas! they'll be falling out of the trees tonight i bet. i'll check in the backyard tomorrow to make sure there are none passed out on our docks. you know, like last year, when i found the one and we thought it was dead and almost tossed it into the canal. then i realized maybe it was still alive and put it under a lamp and, sure enough, he got better.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
