Sleeping in a Box

I know I haven't posted in a little while but here goes,

These are pictures of cats sleeping boxes, a fellow blogger, Ruslana, did them, they have full credit.
Start from simple sleeping on your back...

Author: ClausM

...or on your side.

Author: sevargyma

Use the box side as a pillow.

Author: Woodenship

If you are longhair, use the benefit of your coat and tail.

Author: oskay

Remember that you and your box must nearly amalgamate.

Author: Gini~

Use your imagination: try S-like positions...

Author: ClausM

...or C-like positions...

Author: PunkyBrewster

...or even L-like ones.

Author: georginchen

If you totally trust your humans, relax your back legs to the maximun.

Author: JnL

Sometimes O-like positions do not fit the box well, but you can always make an experiment.

Author: suziesparkle

...or stretch just one paw out, like this (back paw)...

Author: gui.tavares

...or like this (front paw).

Author: roguedragon23

Invite your friend to join you...

Author: choytony

...and enjoy it.

Author: choytony

Your humans may wonder how you can sleep like that...

Author: taurussun

...ignore them and enjoy.

Author: Borrowed Periscope

Perhaps they will not even notice you.

Author: (_)

Try disguising to avoid unwanted attention...

Author: matti naskali

...or you can hide in an absilutely unexpected box.

Author: simplybecka

This position is for experienced yoga cats...

Author: Feodora Umanov

...as well as this one.

Author: Smeebot

Even small boxes can do.

Author: janekeeler

Be creative.

Author: eugenethephotobug

...practice makes perfect. To get more experience, use as a box any structure you can find.

Author: Gandinis

Like I said, I thought these were absolutely adorable when I went to this bloggers website, http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1oVwgU/mysmelly.com/Archive/TopComfortableWaysSleeping-Box/cvdcc/post.htm/r:f. so amazing!

Remember to always Dance Out All The Pains

Late Night With An Incurable Optimist

So, I started reading Micheal J. Fox's Always Looking Up, The Adventures Of An Incurable Optimist. I want to clarify that Parkinson's Research is one of the biggest goals in my life and support for this disease is so important. I've lost one of the most important people in my life to PD and cancer and have another who has been diagnosed.

So needles to say, it's important to me.

So, i'm only part way into Part I: Work and knowing fully that before I opened the novel I was already a huge fan of Micheal's, this book has already changed my life. The way he describes his day to day challenges and his trials throughout his early years, of diagnosis, force me to remember all of the trials I witnessed myself.

I remember the shuffling gait, the stooped posture, the tremors, the fidgits, the dementia, the medication. If you have ever dealt with this with a family memeber or friend, or yourself, you know how taxing it can be on your emotions. It's so hard to watch someone struggle with this and knowing in your heart that there is nothing you can do to fix it.

At least not right now. Research is still in my opinion 15 years from being applicable to the situation. Parkinson's is so different for everyone that it effects because everyone's brain is hardwired differently. If we were all wired the same, and how boring would that be, we would have had a cure for this years ago. But, being as it is, we don't and we aren't.

I would just like to personally thank those effected by PD for their never ending strength and for those who are looking at the darker side, please please please, keep your head up, and be like Mike!!! be an incurable optimist, because it could always be worse. Be so thankful for the time you have and had. It only gets better, or as Micheal puts it, "it only gets... worse." But I don't think he means that life gets harder. But, that life could get harder. You could choose to dwell on the hard parts or you could just get over it and enjoy what you have now so that you'll always have those memories.

I hope that you get the opportunity to read this book. It is amazing and it helps for funding his foundation. I know he doesn't pocket all of the money because he is far too dedicated in the research and foundation and you pick that up on the first page.

So for the most fitting of exits for the evening,
Remember to always Dance Out All The Pains

Bicycles, Dancing, and Losing Big

I was reading an article in the New York Times this evening; it was about a man with end-stage Parkinson's Disease who could ride a bicycle with ease.

The news comes because of the way the neural pathways are formed in the brain. Walking and running are pathways that are linked in one area of the brain whereas riding a bike requires a different set of skills and thus is wired in a separate part.

With those two not in the same area, Parkinson's doesn't affect them, normally, at the same time. This man had a conditionary symptom that disallowed him to walk normally, he stumbled and froze in place because of it, but after seeing him jump on a bicycle and ride around like it was as easy as breathing, it was amazing. It gives me so much hope for my career and my options in the medical field. I'm so excited!

Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/health/01parkinsons.html?ref=research

I hope you check it out!!!

I also read, since i couldn't watch, that Kate Gosselin is safe this week and Buzz Aldrin is gone. I would rather see Buzz that Kate anyday. She's just too whiny. If you need someone to work with you Kate, don't cry about it and yell like a 4-yr old. Just tell them! I think people who voted for her more often just wanted to see her trainwreck each week.

She was horrible. I'm sorry Kate, but you're too stiff, and your face looks like your going to hurl, either ease up or go home. Chill out and enjoy this, don't get pissed at Tony everytime you don't get something. Take some advice from the PD patient and his ability to ride a bicycle, Chill out and believe in yourself.

I also am watching some Biggest Loser! I am upset at the people who a couple weeks ago, I think Week 10, the people who ate the cupcakes, You are rude, hateful people who resort to giving people minutes b/c your too lazy to do the work yourself. Why work hard and be proud for it even if you go home when you can be lowdown and hateful? wow what a wonderful story to teach your children, family, and friends.

Good Night
Remember to always Dance Out All The Pains!