Book Challenge

The Challlenge

Earlier this year I attempted a "Daily Challenge" on Twitter; while wandering around the internet I found an image of a Book Challenge and thought I could manage to send out a tweet each day for 18 days. Needless to say, I did not take into account the fact that I'm terrible at keeping track of days--I managed to only go two days in a row without a post for the entire month I attempted it. I came across the image and thought I'd try it again, only this time in a more extensive setting.
     I'll post my answers from Twitter along with either an explanation or updated answer. If I succeed in this challenge I may even add covers of the books I'm referencing.

                               Stephie

Crunch Time

     A couple months ago I shared that my sister was engaged, and has asked me to be her Maid of Honor. I'm still excited, but the timeline for all of this has been shortened significantly--from a year and several months to (at the time) 69 days. We're counting down and at day 14 now. That comes to just two weeks before we're inundated with family and friends for the event, you wouldn't believe what goes on the to-do list when the time gets so short. For example:

• laundry
• flowers
• hair & nails
• insurance certificate
• chairs & tables
• people to help decorate
• grocery shopping

Just because there's a wedding doesn't mean everything else stops--June is a busy month and on top of all the preparations cleaning the house and finding the manpower to complete tasks on the to-do list becomes the most important. 

     It's exciting to have such a milestone coming up for someone in the family, but how do wedding planners do this all the time? I'm off to get some more things checked off that to-do list. 

Stephie

A Drop of Time

     The idea that we're alone in the universe is either arrogant or ignorant, in my opinion. It's such a huge universe--why shouldn't life exist elsewhere? If we believe that humans on Earth are the only form of life (ignoring the idea of sentient life for a second) it's saying the miracle that put us in just the right place with just the right nutrients couldn't possibly happen in this great big universe of ours. Next, even if there is life, thinking that it couldn't have become sentient is completely ignoring the fact that we don't even know what makes us sentient. If it's so mysterious who's to say it won't happen again somewhere else, far away from us?
     Okay, so sentient life is a possibility, but not life that's able to evolve to the point of space travel. We did it. Why shouldn't some race that's been around longer than we have be able to travel the universe? Isn't the hope that we will be able to travel the universe, someone else has probably had the same desire and achieved their goal.
     I recently had a conversation about the possibility of life in the universe and there's a theory that says (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly how it was described) humans are a single blip in the amazingly expansive measure of the universe so we're either not the only ones out there or we're destined to destroy ourselves before we actually make an impact on the greater environment.
     And, as depressing as that sounds, in the grand scheme of things it's true. But when we're living day to day each second seems like so much more than the minuscule drop of history that it is.

Just a thought...
Stephie