Potential (adj.); capable of being or becoming
Sometimes, life gets so wound up, so busy, so crazy, that it’s easy to forget just how amazing it is. How truly wondrous life can be, and how amazing it is that we ARE living, breathing, moving creatures and that life has so much potential. It’s so easy to get caught up in everything that we forget just how much potential life carries every single day.
Yesterday, I came home from work to find the above envelope waiting for me. My first thought: how awesome is that?!? Really. When was the last time you came home to find mail from Russia, let alone mail that’s in a Sochi 2014 Olympic envelope? Enclosed was a really neat postcard from a city in Russia called Kstovo. I know I’ve discussed Postcrossing on my blog before, but since I’ve really started to get back into, I figured it was time to revisit.
One of the newest films in the movie industry today is the just-released Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters film, starring (among others) Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Jake Abel and Stanley Tucci. This movie is a sequel to Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which was released in 2010, and is based off the second book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Overall, I thought the film was good, but I was definitely thrown off at parts that were changed or eliminated from the book, and select scenes that seemed completely overdramatized for the film. Please note that this review is not completely spoiler-free, though I’ll try to keep it spoiler-free as much as possible & will note when a spoiler is coming up.
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