I found some of the butterfly pictures I have been digging for but not all of them.  I am what you can call a neat disorganizer, my stuff may look cluttered and in disarray but they are cluttered in my own way.  I can see one of my “piles” and know exactly where something is I need.  When my stuff gets cleaned and put away it is lost forever, or until I decide to tear my room apart looking for it.  As many of my readers also know my attention span is smaller than a nano-quark and each one of my separate “piles” has there one subject.  I have my anthropology pile, my chemistry pile and my movie projects pile just to name a few, I like to leave them in their neat disorganized fashion in case I ever want to reference them or maybe revisit whatever it was that infatuated me I can dig right in without losing a step.  My downloaded pictures are jumbled and way too disorganized for my liking but sorting them to my satisfaction would take months and I just don’t have the patience for that so I apologize again if you see repeat pictures every once in a while, it means that I have stumbled across one that I liked and now that I have better editing software I like to fix them up.  Anyhow I got a little off track I choose this picture for today’s post because one of my few New Year’s resolutions was to become a fluent Spanish speaker by next January 1^st and my favorite word in espanol is mariposa, which means butterfly.  Right now on a scale of 1-10 I would rate myself a 4 when it comes to speaking and understanding spoken Spanish and a 6 when it comes to reading and understanding the language, my goal is to be at least an 8 in both categories.  I have found four college text books on the subject and a few websites to help but the most important step I have taken is immersing myself in their culture, I do this by watching at least three hours of Spanish television a night.  I watch movies I have seen numerous times in English in Spanish and I have to admit that although it is only the 14^th of January I can see myself being fluent by August or September at this pace.  Last week I began thinking in Spanish and I practice it everyday at work.  As soon as I start thinking about anything I force a part of my mind to translate it into Spanish, or the best I can, I then imagine myself actually either hearing it from a Spanish speaker or saying it to one.  The easiest way to learn a new language is to think like a native speaker and to learn the culture.  I am so excited about this and since I made it a resolution I can’t quit on it.  I have even become hooked on one of the Spanish soap opera’s I started watching for this project! So if anyone wants to learn as well so I have someone to talk too flip over to Univsion or Telemundo and start practicing!!!!SALUD!!!!!!!