Week 11, Curation

My three favorite things this week

• On Pinterest  I have spent a lot of time this week and I have loved it. I am currently in the process of bringing my home together since we found a wonderful home for rent and we have moved in a little under a month ago. Currently, I am working on bringing each room alive and decoration. I now know what I want to do as my media center thanks to Pinterest! 

This is the style of media center that we will be aiming towards as we re furnish a great craigslist find

Image found on Pinterest

• If there is one site that I will always visit every week that will be Netflix. I enjoy Netflix so much it is unhealthy but I cannot stay away. This week I have decided that re-watching Grey's anatomy for the third time is an excellent idea! I have not regretted it yet.

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• Last but not least, Qualtrics has been another website that my history will prove to be very visited this week. I would for the College of Public Health at OUHSC and in the past weeks we have been traveling to do on site research and we are using Qualtrics for our data. Thank you Qualtrics for being the Real MVP. BTW, Qualtrics in not HIPPA compliant. We have learned that this week... 

This log in page and I have come well acquainted

Image taken from personal screenshot 

Week 11: Enjoy the ride, Growth Mindset

Enjoy the ride. 

This past week  (more like two weeks) has been very hard for me. I have been fighting off the flu and it has been very hard for me to be happy about what I am doing. However, thinking back and thinking further. I have to remind myself to enjoy the ride. These past weeks instead of thinking "Man, I feel like complete crap (just to not say the word that I was really thinking). Why did this happen to me?" I should be thinking "Hey, at least now I actually get to sleep and have a reason for leaving things half done and going to sleep even though I will regret in the morning when I wake up. Hey, at least I didn't have to go to work today and instead I got to spend a whole day with my family which does not happen very often." I just need to learn to enjoy the moment. That is all, folks. 

Image taken from Growth Mindset Memes Blog 

Storytelling Week 11 : The Wheelbarrow

The Wheelbarrow

Hello, my name is bachelor or was, anyhow. I am a nice, handsome, tall man. For many years I searched for my woman, She would just never appear. That is why I lived by myself for a very long time. Now, let me tell you about myself at that time. I was very lonely and food would fill my void. However, soon enough I learned that there are others who loved food just as I would. 

The meats that I would by I would put them on the shelf and slowly one by one they started to go there. They were tiny and hairy but still I was not afraid. Company was nice so I did not care. Their names were rats and mice and soon enough they were more than that. They became important to me that I had to make sure that I had enough meats and food to make them come back. 

So there it was, every week I would make that trip. With my wheelbarrow I would make my way to the streets of London all the way. I chose the finest meats and beets. Then I would take my wheelbarrow back home again. This was the trip that they lead me on and for that I am thankful, as you shall see. It was one fine morning when I realized that there was no more meat so I got up and made my way to London once again. This time however, I had more in mind. Today I was going to London to get me a wife. 

I had met this fine woman the other week; she had smiled back at me at the Juniper her love was for me. I told her I would come back and so It was. With my wheelbarrow I would take her back. She sat in it and screamed with joy. I had a wife and I could not ask for me. My name was no longer bachelor until... that was. The streets were narrow and very filled so the wheelbarrow was the only choice. Had I known I would have brought some other way to bring her home. You see, my wheelbarrow was made for meats and beets not my little wife and all. Through the streets I pushed and pushed until the wood could no longer do. The wheelbarrow broke and my wife fell down and the wheelbarrow tumbled, with my little wife, and all.

So now I go back home again, this time back with nothing, oh.... well. 

The bachelor and the little wife

Taken from the :  Untextbook 

Author's Note:

This is a story based on a rhyme I found in Nursery Rhymes about Love and Matrimony. 

This original rhyme was very short about this bachelor who would go for meats and then the rats and mice would lead him to London to find his wife. Unfortunately due to a weak wheelbarrow he only had a wife for a short time. I was very skeptical about how I could make this into a story but after some thought I just thought that I could expand on every line. I added some detailed description and backstories to make more of a narration of the events. 

Reading Diary A: Nursery Rhymes

Nursery rhymes

Nursery Rhymes: Songs, Part 1

• The misty moisty morning song reminded me of a rhyme song that my daughter sings, "Daddy Finger" because of the "how do you do, how do you do."
• I loved the cunning fox song because it once again reminded me of gabby. She is always happy to see me when I am brining food into the house.
• I expected to see "London Bridge is Falling Down" to be the same song that a majority of us have grown up listening to. Instead, I found a different version and I enjoyed it because it spoke about rebuilding the bridge with different elements until the correct element was found.

Nursery Rhymes : Charms and Lullabies : 

• Hush a bye baby was my favorite of all the lullabies. When I would rock gabby when she was an infant all I knew was Rock a bye baby (Hush a bye baby) and I would just sing it over and over because I did not know the lyrics. At least now I am much for familiar with it if I ever have to go back and sing it.
• Hickup Hickup go away was a fun charm! As I was reading it I immediately began to read it as if I was reading Rain rain go away. They both have the same style.

Mother rocking her baby to sleep

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