I found these awesome pics of objects in our solar system compared in size to stars and things visible from earth. These pictures are set to
scale, so you'll find a new understanding to the term "it's a small world," and also a new way to ask the question, "why did God choose us?"

Let the Wellabration Commence!!!!

This once-a-year, first-day-of-the-new-year celebration was held six days ago at Mike Bishop's house with all the festivities I could have hoped for on New Year's Eve. The glow of fireworks, and small, destructive children with sparklers. High-spirited adults with recently emptied wine glasses in front of them. The satisfying taste of sparkling cider, either grape or apple, deliciously sliding down the throats of those not old enough for wine. If you enter Shawn Bashor's man-cave, you'll find crazy men playing WWE on the XBox 360, beating the virtual crud out of each other. My friend Josh nearly blowing his ears out with bottle rockets that he didn't quite let go of in time, and concerned mothers gasping at his daring feats. A couple full rounds of "cops and robbers", arguing about whether the star in the middle of the sky was Mars or Jupiter, and wellabrating like no one else could dream of. Screams and shouts of delight rang from the Bishop's house like from no other house in Jupiter Florida, and the smiles on people's faces as they left the party proved that NOBODY wellabrates like we do.

And once again...

...A beautiful sleep interrupted.

Ohh, it was truly the best sleep I'd had in a while. With my alarm finally set for 6:15, I was reassured that it would wake me up no later, and no EARLIER than was necessary. I... was wrong. Let me tell this story from my sister, Jessica's perspective. It might make more sense...



She woke up at around 5:45. Reluctantly getting ready for her second day of her second week of her fourth and final year of highschool. As she was just finishing her daily preparations, she heard the phone ringing, which in her house, happens 24/7. She picked up the reciever, pressed the button at the top labled "talk" and pressed the phone to her ear. On the other end, her mom spoke to her about a rare asrtonomical event... a lunar eclipse. They were both excited about it, and Jessica was told to wake up Josh (who was staying there that night) and Jonathan (that's meee!!!). She hastened to the door of Jonathan's room, and forced the door open with a twist of the knob and a thrust combined into one motion.
"Wake up," she said sticking her head in the door, "it's a lunar eclipse outside!!"
Josh barely stirred on the couch he slept on across the room from Jonathan's bed, the couch covered in a thin sheet, and a genuine llama wool blanket from Peru. He was awake enough to utter "What?!" thinking the hour was 2:00 A.M. He got up anyway, and went with Jessica to look. Jessica looked at Jonathan, not stirring in his bed. Sleeping like a log, she thought.

The truth was that Jonathan was not asleep. He was rudely awakened by one who was excited about astronomical events over a good rest. I know what you're thinking... "OOOH, poor Jonathan has to wake up fifteen minutes earlier than normal. Poor poor him... wahhh!!" Sarcastic people, well, just think about this. You may wake up an hour or two before I do, you may work all night. However, whatever your hours are, I'd like you to consider... whenever you rest, wouldn't you like an extra fifteen minutes to continue resting before you wake up? Just fifteen minutes? Come on people, it's a great amount of time... to... *yawn*... rest...
You're probably also thinking "OH, he missed out on a lunar eclipse because he wanted fifteen more minutes of sleep? No way!!" Well, let me ask you something... why did you miss the eclipse?