Amanda Talar that I chose to learn more about

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Amanda Talar is "a (late) twenty-something who can’t help but wonder about the mysteries of dating, people and life in general." She seems like she is a really friendly open minded girl who likes to express her feelings on here with her blogging. Today I read her article about songs that make you reflect on a past memory or people in your life. She wrote "It often makes me wonder what makes a moment something that will stick with us for years to come, possibly even for the rest of our lives? I find myself remembering the smallest details of a memory that can come rushing back to me instantly". This article really grabbed my attention because I always find my self either scrolling through my ipod or listening to the car radio and coming across a song that really brings me back to a time in my life where it reminds me a good memory or a person that had really put an impact in my life. Agreeing with her on her question "What is it that makes us remember certain moments of our lives?". Thinking about it now it's crazy how much songs will go about and describe just what your feeling at that point in your life or bring you back to a certain time. She describes this feeling just like a dream that you awoke out of and simply think to yourself "Wow. That was crazy. I need to remember this dream later this morning. And, you wake up maybe hours later and for the life of you — have no idea what the dream was about. So, maybe we often remember the moments we don’t realize are actually moments at the time?" As I now listen to the radio I always will keep track of the lyrics in each song and relate to them in each point of my life now just as Amanda has and making me realize what the song is really saying and how it really can bring back the good old times in your life.

My life motto

"Goal – I aim straightforward and emphasize and evaluate what I want to achieve often."

I feel goal describes my life motto the best in many different aspects. I think most of the time I always try to find the main thing of what I am trying to achieve and what's the best way of trying to reach it. I try to always sort out my goals and see which ones are the most realistic ones that can be reached first and which ones are the longer term goals for my life. For my goals I tend to always figure out what exactly I want to set first then do my very best to work on it day by day to fulfill it. An example of one of my goals is to become a nurse when I'm older, so evaluating it I look for classes I can take now in highschool that might help me out in the long run entering collage and becoming a nurse. I feel laying out what you want to do in your life with every goal will help you try to achieve it faster. 

Feelings I feel

I am utterly disgusted by when people pick their nose in pure daylight and either wipe it on their pants, smear it on their hand or arm and even worse when they actually eat them... I honestly don't understand why some people don't have the common curtesy to go to the bathroom at least and grab some toilet paper. People wonder why gross colds and sicknesses get spread around its from these people I'm telling you now. If we make it out to people how serious and  important it is to wash your hands after you do your snot show I feel we would have a lot less colds being sent around. For people who straight out pick thier nose's in public, we do see you so I don't know why you think your fooling us by pretending to "scratch your nose" casually we all know what you're doing. Whenever I see this it really makes me want to shake the person and show them what a box of tissues are and some hand sanitizer is. This is one of the many things that utterly disgusts me that people do in this world.

Poem

In a world where opinions are wealth 
and different ideas are expressed with open minds
where judgment didn't exist 
and being different from everyone else is okay


In a world where no fighting came about
where peace was world wide instead of
all battling against each other for
years and years on end


In a world where everyone is equal
where skin color didn't mean anything
but different shades on the color wheel 
and we were all in this together


In a world where we help one another
fight through the troubles that may come along
where we all come together as one and
take on the world as it comes at us

Nursery Rhymes ARE Relevant to Life

You put your right foot in,

You put your right foot out;
You put your right foot in,

And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey-Pokey,

And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about! You put your left foot in,

You put your left foot out;
You put your left foot in,

And you shake it all about. You do the Hokey-Pokey,

And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about! CONT.

This nursery reminds me of my mom's bestfriend Bev. When I was little I used to go to her house all the time and play with her kids that are my age too. When I was ever in a little bad mood or anything she would just start singing this song and it would make me laugh so hard because she would start dancing along to it until I finally got up and danced with her. I always remember that about her whenever I see her and honestly she still does it to this day and I start cracking up every single time. It's the little things about growing up that always wil stay with you and this happens to be one of them. She always told me that in my wedding when I grow up that this song will be playing and she will be right up there dancing along to it. Hearing this song always takes me back to the simple days of being a kid and never wanting to grow up, I always will make this song my favorite nursery ryme.

TU Tuesday- Tanka

Reading through the given article I thought it was a really interesting and attention grabbing piece on Japan. It really opened my eyes to how serious the tsunami affected Japan and how hard it was for them to talk about it. People who were present in the ceremony expressed their dark past as they tell about the day it happened, coming from the imperial family: "expresses his sorrow and horror in watching the dark waves of the rolling tsunami on TV news footage." The poem shown was so simple yet everything was perfectly said within the lines and was really easy to comprehend.  You could feel the how the writer was feeling when he wrote this poem how bad the storm affected his life since then. Not only was her poem acknowledged but a few other poems were read about their lives and how terrified they were when this was all happening.

The revived beginning

New faces new lives
are started before our eyes
the past is over now
we bow our heads now
the future holds great new things
look at all the change we bring

Comic Connection

I chose this comic because this reminded me from a time last year when me and my two sisters went sledding in  the neighborhood. It was just like this where a fresh snow storm had just blew in from the night before and we wanted to break in the new snow. My sister carly discovered a brand new huge hill somewhere in the neighborhood and wanted to show us it to try out our new tubes and sleds. We all bunddled up in our gloves and puffy snowpants and took off into the freezing weather. Going toward our shed to pick up our sleds we only found a couple tubes and a tobagin... Wondering where our sleds from the previous year went, we didn't have the paticiants to search so we hauled out the tobagin and set off for the hill. Lugging that huge thing around probably got me a work out for the rest of the week but we all thought it was well worth it when we finally arrived at this huge hill! We couldn't even believe it when we came up to it, how could we have not seen this before? We all plopped down on the tobagin since none of us had the guts to go first on the hill so we went all together. With the frosty wind chill blowing in our faces we pushing off the ledge going full speed down the hill. It had a thin sheet of ice on the top which made the hill extra slippery and more speed for us. Gripping on for dear life since I was the onbe steering this thing i landed us off a jump kids must of made from the week before and sent us crashing into some bushes with two children scattered across the snow. It was by far the most scariest experience of my life and I can't wait to do it again this year.

Tu- Tuesday Monster

http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Iowa-mother-arrested-in-death-of-twin-girls-2457600.php

What is first degree murder? How do you get charged with two counts of the same thing?

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The times and union article I red was about a young mother getting charged and arrested with the murder of her two twin baby girls. The two babies were finally found in the trunk of her car in Iowa dead. The police and detectives did firther research on the mother and found out she never even gave birth to the children at a hospital she gave birth to them in her own house? I thought that was really strange and not something you hear about daily. Later on to find the kids bodies left in the trunk at the home of Jackie Burkle. Jackie was arrested finally and she was charged with first degree murder. I learned that first degree murder is defined as the murder was "planned or thought out and willfully". Basically the killing was not on accident and the person had every clue in thier mind of what they were doing when they were committing the crime. So learning the main idea of what first degree murder was I'm guessing the mother of these two children had planned out in her mind that she had a long term plan of killing them and disposing thier bodies not expecting to get caught, maybe that's why she gave birth to them in her own home and not in a hospital where they could keep records and other health things of her children?

Pep Talk

Turn “can do” into “can did”.

This pep talk really reminded me about the time when I was in tumbling and finally got my back hand spring for the first time. I had been in the class at the time for around two months and most of the girls in the class had gotten thier back hand springs and were moving onto thier back tucks and so on. Me and my friend Nicole had joined the class later on in the year so we had some catching up to do. My teacher Matt had started us out on a long trampoline called the tumble track where we would practice with him and he would spot us in the mean time beofre he felt comfortable letting us do it on our own. Finally one night it was my turn to step up and do my round of back handsprings. In previous classes he told me I was so close to getting it and this time around he wanted to see what I could do on my own. My heart beating out of my cheast I ran down the tumble track and flew in the air for what it seemed like 5 minutes really only was about 5 seconds and landed perfectly on my feet on the other side.  Not knowing what I even just did everyone in the class started clapping and smiling and yelling my name, I had just pulled my back handspring for the first time by myself. I was so relived that it finally happened and that I could now say I can do it. From that day on I would never really doubt myself in believing I can't do something because when you work hard and believe you can full fill it one day.

Q = Eight People to Emulate

1. Queen Latifah: This lady has starred in many movies that I like and I think she is such an amazing actress

2. Queen Elizabeth: Is a very intelligent women and her name has been carried on through out many centuries having strong queens that follow her spot

3. Quincy Jones: Extremley talented musician and film producer. He had set a very good role model to many singers and had even helped in the Michael Jackson "Thriller" album.

4. Johnny Quest: A popular cartoon charater I used to watch when I was younger and I liked the show he starred in.

5. Glenn Quin: A well respected movie actor and was in Rosanne and I think that show is absolutely hilarious

6. Paul Quantrill: A famous baseball player with played on the Florida Marlins, he was known for his really good accurate pitching

7. Caroline Quentin: She was on Who's line is it anyway and has been on many telivison shows and won best comedy actress

8. Stephane Quintal: A very famous retired hocky player who was a hard working player who on record had never missed one game. He seems like a hard working player who shows a good sports player and role model to people.