An article in Time Magazine titled, "How much for a room at earths first space hotel." It states that the Russians are putting a space hotel in orbit around earth, space enthusiasts unite, this is your dream come true. If you are a millionaire maybe, if not keep dreaming.
This is a little on the ridiculous side of insane, who pays almost a million dollars just to sleep in orbit around the earth for five days? However upon further reading if I was a millionaire I just might have to try it out for myself the idea is very intriguing. Who doesn't want a different view of the world we live on.
Yes the price tag sounds a little excessive, but you get 16 sunsets and sunrises, gourmet food with earth as a backdrop,and the opportunity to sleep in a bag on the wall, you can't do that here on earth. So to some it will be worth the hefty price tag.
Its too bad we will have to wait on this new and exciting prospect for at least 5 years, but hey all things good are worth waiting for right?
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Five Minute Marrige Makeover.
Is marriage as hard as they make it out to be? According to the article from MSNBC.COM, a marriage can be made better thru 6 easy steps. Can following these steps make a difference in your marriage? Research says yes, and they are giving you ways to improve your marriage.
My first thoughts on reading this article was ya right, improve my marriage in just five minutes, whats the catch? However as I continued reading it made a lot of sense, after all marriage is hard work. So five minutes of my time would be worth making my partner feel like I have a stake in the marriage.
The steps given in the article are not hard to follow, mostly they are just common courtesy, but in a long term relationship these things are forgotten. We need to remember that our partners need to feel that we still need them as much as they need us. Communication is also one of the most important cornerstones of any good relationship, without it we get too comfortable and expect them to "read our minds", causing more frustrations than are necessary.
Our spouses, they know us better than anybody else, they know the good, bad, and the ugly. Everybody wants a healthy marriage so why not take the steps to improve it when the steps to a better marriage are so easily available to you. Taking five minute of your day to make an effort to improve your marriage doesn't seem like such a sacrifice after you realize how much time you might save in fighting.
My first thoughts on reading this article was ya right, improve my marriage in just five minutes, whats the catch? However as I continued reading it made a lot of sense, after all marriage is hard work. So five minutes of my time would be worth making my partner feel like I have a stake in the marriage.
The steps given in the article are not hard to follow, mostly they are just common courtesy, but in a long term relationship these things are forgotten. We need to remember that our partners need to feel that we still need them as much as they need us. Communication is also one of the most important cornerstones of any good relationship, without it we get too comfortable and expect them to "read our minds", causing more frustrations than are necessary.
Our spouses, they know us better than anybody else, they know the good, bad, and the ugly. Everybody wants a healthy marriage so why not take the steps to improve it when the steps to a better marriage are so easily available to you. Taking five minute of your day to make an effort to improve your marriage doesn't seem like such a sacrifice after you realize how much time you might save in fighting.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Encouraged by a teacher to Fight?
A dispute between two 8th grade students as reported by fox news, in Omaha, NE led to a school yard brawl encouraged by their teacher. Patrick Kocsis the teacher involved has been suspended from the school and cited by police for taking two of his students outside and encouraging them to fight out their problems.
They say boys will be boys, and fighting with your fellow classmates has been one of the things that boys have always done. However I don't agree with them almost being forced to fight by a teacher. There are many other options open to them on how to fix a problem. So as I understand that fighting amongst your peers at that age is almost necessary to save face, I don't think that having a teacher tell you its what needs to be done, is the right way to handle it.
You read about it in books set back in the earlier years of our country, in movies that define the older eras of time. Boys fight but to have a teacher tell you that violence is the way you workout your problems is another story altogether. Teachers are supposed to be the ones that give you information on how to do things logically, if they can't find a way there are others to do the job. Even though they fought it out, the boys could not even remember what had started the fight in the first place. The mother of one of the boys said,"That's not what we teach children to resolve disputes." I agree that there are plenty of other ways to resolve issues when there is an adult to help, rather than just tell them to "slap it out".
This article was not about fighting amongst children, it was about the influence of teachers on students when there is a dispute. This teacher was wrong,ethically speaking, if children want to fight they are going to fight, but there should be no encouragement from a teacher to fight out their differences.
They say boys will be boys, and fighting with your fellow classmates has been one of the things that boys have always done. However I don't agree with them almost being forced to fight by a teacher. There are many other options open to them on how to fix a problem. So as I understand that fighting amongst your peers at that age is almost necessary to save face, I don't think that having a teacher tell you its what needs to be done, is the right way to handle it.
You read about it in books set back in the earlier years of our country, in movies that define the older eras of time. Boys fight but to have a teacher tell you that violence is the way you workout your problems is another story altogether. Teachers are supposed to be the ones that give you information on how to do things logically, if they can't find a way there are others to do the job. Even though they fought it out, the boys could not even remember what had started the fight in the first place. The mother of one of the boys said,"That's not what we teach children to resolve disputes." I agree that there are plenty of other ways to resolve issues when there is an adult to help, rather than just tell them to "slap it out".
This article was not about fighting amongst children, it was about the influence of teachers on students when there is a dispute. This teacher was wrong,ethically speaking, if children want to fight they are going to fight, but there should be no encouragement from a teacher to fight out their differences.
This is me.
My name is Randi McCullough I was born and raised in southwest mo, I have been married to my husband Robert for 2 years, we have been together for 10 years. We have a baby daughter who is 6 months old Aurora Belle, we tried for many years to have a baby to no avail. We were finally blessed with her, she is that thing you want most that you reach for and when you finally have it you are just so happy with it you just want to tell the whole world. My little family is my world and just knowing that god felt me worthy of having them makes me the most blessed person in the world.
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