I don't know about you guys, but there is something about space and galaxies that just leaves me in awe. Everything from the simple twinkling stars we can see with the naked eye to the most distant and vibrant galaxies that we spy with the aide of telescopes and far reaching droids. I have seen so many breath taking images of the galaxies that surround us and this is just one of them.


This is the firefox galaxy. If it looks somewhat familiar...this would be why.

I don't think this one really needs any explaining...

For once, I'm not going to copy Breanna! Ha ha! Although her's were all good :) Basically, I'm too lazy and distracted to write about inspirational things... So instead, You get a whole bunch of pictures that have made it onto my computer via the net for some reason or other. All of them make me smile/happy. I suppose that's the one thing they have in common.

Okay, so there are a lot (and I mean a lot) of awesome nerdy shirts that I absolutely love and need but this is a design I came across a long time ago that I absolutely loved (despite the fact that it was a design I had an idea for before seeing that it had already been done). One day I will own this shirt or make my design idea (which I liked better because it had stars and such like this too but without the black knuckle lines and the stupid thumb ring - my idea was a little more clean cut and simple yet still beautiful).

Danielle and I are soooooooooooooo going on opening night for the midnight showing :D

I decided to do a picture of someone inspiring again but this time I did it with a twist. I went with an inspirational figure that just so happens to be an animal.



























Secretariat's story is one of the most inspirational tales that I have ever come across. In my eyes he towers above Seabuscuit, Phar Lap, and Man-O-War (all extremely inspiring stories). I find that I identify with Secretariat, another little horse (who was by no means little at all) named Barbaro, and (much more recently...though Barbaro is pretty recent) Big Brown, more than most of the others.With Barbaro it was about his struggle to live after a sever injury and his uncanny similarities with Secretariat. If anyone was going to be the next triple crown winner, it was Barbaro. Unfortunately he didn't get the chance.
I still remember how emotional I was when I found out they had finally decided to put him down (after months of struggling, gaining a footing over his injury, then getting worse again and again). After Barbaro, we had another shot in Big Brown. He won the first two races and had a great chance of winning the third and becoming the first triple crown winner since Secretariat, but it just wasn't his day. The poor guy didn't feel well and dropped behind the rest of the horses where he stayed. Like Secretariat, he was a closer (stay at the back of the pack and charge to the lead in the last stretch) and if it weren't for some decisions made on the part of his owners, he may have been on his A-game for the last race as well.

But as close as these two horses got to him, Secretariat remains the king of racing. His amazing time and length of victory in the Belmont Stakes has never even been approached. He is the raining triple crown winner and something tells me it may remain so for years to come. When there is an athlete that stands out above the rest in his sport, he is well remembered. I don't think Secretariat will ever fall into the background in the racing world, he was and is just too big to be lost in the shadows of the track. He was a giant.