Food for thought

Just wanted to go ahead and share this with you all. I’ve been working on some posts but haven’t really been able to get them all structured up in some way. See you soon!

 

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

Wishes of a Big Girl

Almost every little girl bursts with joy at the thought of seeing Cinderella’s castle. I fought back watery eyes tonight cause I wanted to be a 5 years old again.

An Astronomical Side of the Family

Dad’s side of the family. This is only the side of the family in Nicaragua. There is probably a whole ‘nother picture for the family in the U.S. My mom’s is just as big, if not bigger. Shocked?

Mad About Mad Men

Lately, specially with my new shift I’ve regained leisure time which pretty much allows me to read, watch shows and movies on Netflix or from Redbox and bring me back to you beautiful folks in the blogging world. I’ve taken as much advantage of Netflix as anyone possibly could. So here is my latest find:

 

I have fallen in love with the show, mostly due to the change in time. Lately most shows are modern-like or shows about a coming zombie-apocalypse (The Walking Dead!!! woo hoo!). Honestly I try to carry on with shows that will make me laugh, but if the show makes me say things like “Oh. My. God! I knew it! Ok, maybe I didn’t but wow!” or “I swear I would’ve slapped her too!” to no one but me then I consider it a good to great to amazing show.

In case you were lost in regards to the world in those little boxed machines and are hearing of such show for the first time, as happened to me about two months ago, then let me explain.

This show is based in New York in the 1960s and it pretty much shows you the life that the women and men in the advertising agency “Sterling Cooper” in Madison Avenue lived. It shows you a different but similar lifestyle to today’s business and personal life, where we continue to compete to be the best and rise above but hide sections of our personal lives.  It depicts the “businessman-secretary” scenario with Roger and Joan as well as the double life that Don lives.

But I’m not gonna go ahead and tell you the story of each of the characters, I’ll leave that to you when you start watching the show if you haven’t already. The best part about this is that the season 5 starts Sunday, March 25th which kind of worries me though because of The Walking Dead and they happen to be at the same time on AMC so I’m not sure of where this is heading. The only problem is that I just have to make sure to set up my DVR to record every episode of the new season because I’m only by Season 2 on Netflix. It just keeps getting better and better.

Take a look at the characters. This first one is pretty cute(:

 **Note: All pictures are linked back to their original source.**

These are only some of them but they’re each a whole different story worth watching.

Do you watch Mad Men?

If not, what are some of your favorite shows? I may get some ideas for the next show I should watch on Netflix and maybe some of the other readers will too.

Is Your Brain Holding On To The “Important” Things?

**Note: When referring to the “important” things, I am speaking of the material you gained while in school or at work. **

 

Soon after Valentine’s Day I visited my boyfriends home and he remarked on the jeans I was wearing. Asked me if they were new, although they were the ones I’d worn for Valentine’s. Jokingly I asked how he could not remember that they were the same jeans I’d worn when we went out. Then he asked me what he was wearing and I remembered half of the stuff by surprise. Then he said “nobody ever remembers the important things”. I thought otherwise.

He went on to prove me wrong.

 

I took the challenge. And it proceeded something like this:

Jorge: I’ll ask you two things and you’ll answer as fast and as accurately as you possibly can.

Maria: You’re on.

Jorge: What’s George’s last name on Seinfeld?

Maria: (within a second) Constanza

Jorge: Alright. That was quick. (took a moment to come up with the next question) What’s the Pythagorean theorem?

Cesar (who happened to be enjoying this blurted out the response): a squared plus b squared is c squared

Maria: (about five seconds later) what? this is what you ask me? a squared plus.. who remembers this.. b squared equals c squared. is that even right?

Jorge: there you go.

 

I had enjoyed the first question. But I don’t think it’s fair, mostly because I haven’t used the Pythagorean theorem in the past year or so but I had just finished watching a Seinfeld episode. Plus, I never liked math.

 

So what does your brain hold inside?

Let me give you another example.

 

I needed to ask for Saline water at my job about two days ago and one of the nurses told me to go into the supply room and get a small bottle. So I thank her and in I go to the supply room looking for a label that reads “Saline Water” and never find it. I am confused and she notices and says it’s right there and I deny such thing. Then she went and grabbed it. It read “Sodium Chloride Irrigation”.

Talk about embarrassing. I am a Chemistry major and you’d think that after taking several chemistry classes I’d automatically realize that this is what Saline Water is made up of. To make this even worse, I held up the bottle and questioned her by scrunching up my face as I read the label. I then let out an “Oh. My. God. So Sorry.” thanked her and ran out.

Shouldn’t this have been at the edge of my little brain, ready to scurry out at a moment’s notice. Apparently not. But I remember an old friends birthday. All of the Friends character names.  And the yellow fish clock/radio that my grandpa brought me to the hospital when I had my appendix removed.

 

So why is that? Why is it that we sometimes remember things that sometimes don’t need to be remembered?

You don’t forget anything, you just store it and have to do some deep searching for it. You store memories because although they are not important in business they make up who you are and they tell your story. You remember facts when you need to go back to them often because they’re always being used, that’s why you begin studying for an exam weeks prior to the test rather than the day before. But you don’t need the Pythagorean theorem in order buy a banana from the grocery store. You don’t need to learn how to find the temperature based on the kinetic energy of an object unless you work in the specific field where you’re required to. Obviously there are studies that talk about what goes on in your brain and what you keep and don’t keep and I’ll just leave that to the experts to fully answer.

 

But, What do you remember? How fast did it take you to figure out the Pythagorean theorem? Can you remember all the characters from a specific TV show? When did World War I and II begin and end? Ladies, can you name the nail polish you’re wearing?