Marilyn Monroe

I find it to be a requirement in life to know who this beautiful woman is.

This is the photo that is displayed on the wall in every Applebee's that I have ever stepped foot into.

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe

She was more than just a pretty face. She was wise with her words. She was realistic with her thoughts. And she had a very pretty face.
"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty." - Marilyn Monroe

I don't think it was possible for her to not have a pretty face.
She was known for many things. She was an actress, singer, model, and showgirl. She became a major sex symbol and was one of the first to be. She had what she called a Cinderella story. She was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, changed to Norma Jeane Baker soon after her birth on June 1, 1926. She grew up in foster homes and came to be what I would say one of the most known people... ever. to me at least.

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." - Marilyn Monroe

There was a reason she was a sex symbol.

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere." - Marilyn Monroe

And there was a reason she got somewhere in life.

Iv grown up with a father that has had a subscription to Play Boy since I can remember. It is a Christmas presant that my Grandpa (moms dad) has been giving him and my two uncles for years. Having a subscription for that many years, you can imagine how many are laying around my house. Now he says "there are good articles," and I am sure that they are.. but I also discovered the naked ladies in the middle.. and all over. Because I grew up with them around I never found it strange. And when my brother and I started to get older, my dad would go less and less out of his way to hide them. It is not like they are showing anything that I was never going to discover. They are pictures of the female body. They are all different in so many ways, But at the same time they are the same. When I first looked at these photos I was in elementary school and I was amazed at what I was seeing. It was beautiful but I had never yet imagined that women would ever expose them selves like that. Its human nature to be curious about others and I am not ashamed of it. According to this quote, "The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up," she wasn't ashamed either.




"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything." - Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to both with what I do, then I'm already better than them." - Marilyn Monroe

Shes absolutely spectacular. It saddens me that could not live when she did. What also saddens me is that the life she did live, ended so shortly. She was only 36 years old when she was found dead in her California home. Her autopsy confirmed that the cause of death was "acute barbiturate poisoning." They recorded her death as a "probable suicide," but there are many conspiracy theories that say otherwise.

"We should all start living before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets." With this being one of Marilyn's quotes, I find it hard to believe that she ended her own life. But then again, she was not living the average life and never had.

Prison Break

I started watching Prison Break this week and by the first episode I knew that I was hooked, but by the third, there was no turning back. It doesn't hurt that the main character is supper sexy. Actually, were getting married. I already told my parents when I texted them about the problems I was having with Netflix, and because of the problems I was not able to spend time with him.

This show is nothing I have ever seen before. It is a story about one brother who purposefully put him self into prison to break him and his brother out. You get to know how things work in prison, you see that the guards are just as bad as the prisoners, only they have handcuffs and the prisoners wear them. Being in prison, you can get away with just as many things as you can in the real world. There is always the possibility of getting caught, but it is possible to get away with things like murder and doing drugs. You can make friends in there with other inmates and you can bribe the guards to help you out. But on the opposite end, you can make enemy's very easily and that never turns out well. If a fight breaks out, the guards are not always right there, meaning you are going get yo ass beat for a while until they do break it up. You can get blamed for things that you did not do and get severely punished no matter how much you beg and plead your innocence. If they have questions that can not be answered, you will be punished. If you go against the guards, they have the power to put you into a cell with.. well a scary cell mate. When you hang a sheet up, it means that you and your cell mate are getting "friendly," but if that sheet is down and one wants to be more friendly than the other, there really isn't anything that the guards can do and also they don't really care.

Something that I find very interesting about prison life is how if you are married, you can have you spouse come and have a conjugal visit. This is where they can spend time together privately and engage in sexual intercourse if they wish. They allow these to hopefully give incentive to the prisoner to follow the rules in order to serve their time and get back into the real world with their family's or significant other. In the show, Michael the main character, his roommate is allowed these visits with his girl friend because they are to be married. When something goes wrong with the escape plan, he has to go out of his way to be where he is not supposed to after hours. He begged Micheal not to make him do it because he knows that if he is caught, his visits will be gone and he might lose his girl because of it. It turned out that he did get caught and they thought that he was trying to escape. If you are caught in the act of trying to escape, you get 10 years added onto you bid. Well of course he was caught and his conjugal visits were taken away, and just like he thought, he girl friend started having second thoughts about staying with him. Although I find it strange that prisons allow this type of visiting, I do understand why they do it. They keep the prisoners eye on the target, which is serving as less time as possible so that they can get back to their lives before the were convicted.
 
There are many things that I am sure know one can understand that happen behind prison walls, but Prison Break gives you a pretty good idea of how broken the system is and at the same time functional.

If you made a mistake and were sent to prison, besides conjugal visits, what would be a good incentive for you to behave and fallow the rules so that you can return to freedom?

The Man Who Killed Christmas

no not the Grinch who stole Christmas, but I was just watching that on ABC family!

My fatha was just talking with his dad the other day (my grandpa) and they were talking about how the end of the semester was coming and that we should get together to celebrate Christmas. He was suggesting that we get together on the Sunday of the 18th and my dad explained to him that I would not be home for Winter Break yet. my grandpa said "Winter break, back in 19 what ever, I was on the team that changed the name from Christmas break to winter break." my dad replied,"you were the one who killed Christmas?"

When my dad told me this story I broke out into laughter. my Grandpa is not the type to joke with when he is telling a serious story, especially when it is about him.

In most family's, grandparents are named with their first names: Grandma Joanie, Grandpa Dick.
But with my dads dad, the day I was born he said, she can call me Grandpa Black.

When I was about 12 or so my Grandpa "Black" was visiting and one of my friends was over hanging out with me. When my Grandpa was leaving she asked me " so whats his name?" and I told her it was Bob cause that's what I thought she was asking. Hes walking out the front door and she yells "bye Grandpa Bob!!"  my entire family burst out laughing. we had never heard that before. His name was Grandpa Black. He turned around and had a look on his face like he was offended by the name, but we didn't care, hes been Grandpa Bob ever since. And now hes the man who killed Christmas.

Sorry for my absence.

well... iv been MIA according to this blog since... well, my last post. I now have many blog post to create, like right now. Considering I have to make a few portfolio pages by Thursday night, I need to have things on my blog to put into my portfolio!

I deeply regret thinking "oh man, I should really look at that blog of mine.." and then not.. looking at it, or posting anything.

I also made one portfolio page of a past post and of course mista Livesey opened it up in front of the entire class and mocked me for it. (I will say that it was a vEry rough draft, but still yo)

I am a freshman in college this year and it is coming to the end of my first semester. I had finals when I was in high school but there are very different things. And even if you have been doing well in all of your classes the whole semester, the last few weeks is the worst time to slack. The largest projects are normally due at the end and if you have something that you were supposed to be doing weekly throughout the semester and did... well those last few weeks is the time to do something about it. Over break I am going to able to sleep in, party when ever, and not have to worry about school. But it is also the perfect time to think about what I did well during the past semester and what I need to improve on for the coming semester.

Its about time Winter break came along, but from the looks of the weather out side and the visual grass.. it looks to me like spring is creeping already!- I WANT THE SNOW!

night driving.

on my way home from a Tonka tuesday, it was dark and once again there were a lot of semis. they are literally everywhere and there even a weigh station that they have to drive throughout "when lights are flashing."

i found out what that little nob on the bottom of my rearview mirror is for. when cars are behind you at night with their lights on. its extra bright and you almost have to squint in the night time. when you flick it, it tilts your mirror up and there is a reflection that has filtered a lot of the light out almost. any way, how ever it does it, its awesome.

while driving from the cities further and further i always kinda wonder what all the radio staions sound like: whats coming in and whats getting fuzzy. right about when Dunn county, B96 or 96.3 went fuzzy and i had to change the station back to cities 97.

thats about all i noted on during my lonely car ride back to uw stout. and also that lot four is a Bi0tch to find a parking spot at 10:45. seriously like the back row.

Makin me giggle

so its a tuesday night and im at home. no not in my dorm, not in Menomonie actually. i am literally back home in Minnetonka Minnesota, or more specifically, Excelsior.

i just got in from getting a hair cut for the first time in about... i don't even know and my brother says to me, "i feel like you don't even go to college.."
i just died of laughter, cause really i don't feel like i am either. iv been home about five times since school started, im only doing 12 credits this semester so i barely have class, which only leaves more time to sleep or 'nap' i barely have any home work because everything that im assigned i really don't mind doing so it doesn't even seem like homework. like right now, im writing this blog post because i thought of somting to write about and its part of my home work for my technical writing class... and im home.

also, the reason i came home in the first place: i was on my way to the Mall of America to meet my mom to buy the new iPhone 4S. but it had to be black and only 16 GB so this was like the 5th time i had tried to get it. once i got to Woodberry my mom called and said that i could turn around because they ran out right after she got there. so like two and a half minutes after i had turned around i called my mom and asked if she had called Ridgedale center and turned around again. she called me back saything that they did have some left so we decided to meet her there. right around 3:26 i hit the cities where i also hit rush hour traffic. there was a semi behind me in stop and go.. and he was participating in the stop and go.. as in he was stopping and going whether i was or not. he was literally on my ass, and not in a good way. he was scarring the shit out of me and i had to cut someone off just to get out of the lane cause i was freaking out so much. im not kidding it was like a transformer was tailgating me. when we would stop, i would stick my head in the back to look up and him and he was so close that i couldn't get a view of him. i seriously thought he was going to hit me. this was only adding to my annoyance of all the semis on 94 on my way out of WI. there would be two of them in different lanes right next to each other... driving the speed limit... it was so annoying. and i guess that doesn't really make me giggle.

Why is it We Choose the Careers We Do?

I visited the Menomonie Wastewater Plant this fine morning. During the tour, it made me wonder why someone would choose to work there. i mean the smell was horrible, all the time. as in it never went away. some places were better than others but it was pretty raunchy. We learned about all of the steps that are taken to clean the water and what happens with all of the materials that are taken out of it. by the end of the tour i realized the impact that the plant was making on the society around us. someone commented that that whole place smelt like mexico, and she was right because they don't have plants like we do to clean our water waste. they dump it back into streams that eventually lead to the ocean and then we go on vacation there to swim with the dolphins and take pictures on the beach. with out these water treatment plants, where would all the shit go? literally. Anyone who first arrives at a plant would question why anyone would want to work there, but after the tour i saw why someone would choose that career.

First of all, someone has to do it. And secondly, it could be found it very rewarding. The people who are dealing with our water are doing a dirty job but they are doing it for all of us. They are putting water back in to the Red Cedar River that is actually cleaner than it was originally. they make it so that we can go boating in the river and water ski behind the wake. with out them there would be diseases spreading of all different types. someone could find that really rewarding and thats why they would choose that profession

A common saying is "those who cant do, teach." well this could be true in some cases. but teaching is also very rewarding. helping someone understand something or guiding them when learning certain skills can be very rewarding. you will be there and see the moment that what it is your pushing finally gets through and they can now use it to be more successful!

All careers have something rewarding to them. if all that is rewarding to is is only getting your pay check every friday, then you have a job. a career is something that you can be passionate about and have the urge to succeed.

Facebook is Evil and I Love it.

So i just attempted commenting on someones blog that was also about Facebook, and since it didn't work, I am just going to make it one of my posts.

In her blog she said how when anyone opens up a web page the first thing they do is log onto Facebook. and I cant argue with that. i normally only type in face and then my computer recognizes what i want to go to (Facebook) and i hit enter and i am already logged in. This only doesn't happen if i am going onto my computer to look up a youtube video and soon after you can be sure that i will add a tab and be on Facebook. Even if i was just on five min ago and know that there is nothing new, because i scrolled up and down my news and mini feed about three times, i can always find someone to creep on. and that sounds creepy, but only because it is and we all do it.

also in the blog, she questioned if Facebook is messing with our worlds productivity. i would have to say yes. i know that Facebook is the most commonly use tool for procrastination and i know this because multiple people have made statuses..on Facebook.. about it. people can be chatting with one person, creeping on another, and video chatting with their mom all at the same time! now i know that i have never done this because can not multitask for my life, but i sure that others have and do. now what is so important on Facebook that we need to be constantly updated. nothing. in fact, we should be studying for our bio test that our professor so kindly scheduled for halloween. Facebook is used for boredom, communication, creeping, procrastination, uploading pictures to improve your profile, and mainly... creeping. thats all it really is when it comes down to it. nothing about it is productive and its awesome.

on a different note: aside from procrastination and doing nothing for our productivity, i think that Facebook and other digital ways of communication is messing with our generation socially.
when i was in 6th grade i had this boy friend that you could say was my online boy friend only he so wasn't. our lockers were next to each other, we had three classes together, and lunch at the same time. but the only way we ever talked was with instant messaging. now texting had not made it big yet and Facebook wasn't invented so IMing was the way to go. we would talk for hours and say things that we would have never said in person and then we would get to school the next day and it was like we didn't even know each other. kids now can be texting and sitting right next to each other! i don't know about you but i think its kinda messed up..

also, when my parents were my age and younger, if they wanted to hang out with someone, they would go to their house, knock on their door and hope that they were home. and if they just wanted to talk they would call their home phone. today, i never answer my home phone because i know that its not for me. if anyone is trying to get ahold of me, they will call or text me. even my doctor has my cell phone number and calls that first.

our generation is becoming so dependent on the instance results that we are getting and we start to expect results back faster than humanly possible. when i was in High School we would take tests on these remotes that would give us our test score as soon as we submitted it. or on a scantron, if everyone finished early enough, the teacher could run them through and give them back before we went on to our next class. I recently turned a paper in to my English 101 teacher and its driving me crazy that i don't have it back yet!


In conclusion, Facebook and all of our new technologies yes can be helpful in many ways, but what is it doing to us socially and to our expectations?

Waiting untill your 21.. really?

Now i know that when my parents were my age, it was legal for them to drink. The drinking age was 19 in MN and 18 in WI. and now that im here, i have to wait until I am 21 (legally that is).

If I am old enough to vote for who will run my country, and I can also fight and die for my country, why is it that I am not old enough to sit down and have a beer. Here in the US we have the highest drinking age in the western hemisphere. We also have the most problems related to drinking. this is because we are not able to experiment in safe environments. We have to hide it until its legal. No matter how hard the police try to crack down on underage drinking, its still going to happen and its only going to go further under ground. kids are dying because their friends are afraid to call for help when they have had to much to drink because they know that they will get punished for it.

I do know that the drinking age was raised for a reason and that it has lowered the amount of drinking and driving, but if drinking and driving was the problem, that is what should have been addressed. maybe the amount of under aged drinkers has gone down, but binge drinking has been constantly increasing since the 90's.  In most other countries, drinking is a casual thing and people learn at a young age how to handle them selves when drinking. In the US, people get rough and fight when that is rarely seen in other parts of the world.

I know that we have the technology to help fix the problem of drinking and driving. I know that after a certain amount of DUI's, someone is required to have a breathanalyzer in their car in order for the vehicle to start. If that was in all cars, it would not be possible for a person under the influence to start their car. and i know that if i had children, i would buy them that feature.

Before I was even a senior in High School I knew of SIX people who had gotten pulled over and given DUI's.  one of them even totaled someone else's car. so when I say that I think that the drinking age should be lowered, it is not because I am a 19 year old college student. its because I have seen what underage drinking can do to people and I know that if everyone was more educated and had more experience, there would be less tragedies related to underage drinking.

When someone turns 16 you don't just hand over the keys, so why should drinking be any different.
A uneducated driver can be just as dangerous as an uneducated drinker. 

The Roaring 20's

After the First World War, after women entered the work world, it was hard for anyone to go back to the way it was before. Women were working and making something besides cooking and cleaning. They were redefining who women are and what their role in society is. They changed their look, their way of life and they changed it forever.

Not only did they cut their hair but they cut their skirt hems. They started smoking cigarets and drinking out in the open; Although, this was the time of the prohibition (1920- 1933). They danced in night clubs provocatively and dated openly. Petting became more and more popular as parties were made just for it. women were much more casual about "hooking up." They created their own slang for getting alcohol, having sex, and getting engaged. These women were fighting against the tradition life that they were supposed to have.

There was a different group of older women that looked down on the flappers because they saw them as unworthy of the rights they had fought so hard for. Women could finally vote and many flappers were not even interested in politics. With the two sides, does that mean one is wrong? or do they balance each other out? Will there ever be anything like this again or will woman's progress go unnoticed?

Forever 27- Amy Winehouse

Over the years there have been many stars who died at the young age of 27. The four most famous of the club are Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison. They all died within a period of two years.  Jones and Morrison died on the same exact day, two years apart. All of these artist died at the prime of their career. There have been many others to join the club but the most recent member is Amy Winehouse. Just like the other deaths, there is mystery in what actually happened. All of the artist have many other things in common as well. They all had a unique style that came with a big following. They all have a history of heavy drug use, depression/mental problems and bad relationships. Amy fits in perfectly.

All of these artist died before we were able to see them lose their edge or become a has been. Its also probable that they never even reached their full potential because they died so young.

Winehouse was supposed to be going on tour in Europe but that was sadly canceled. When i was on the Island of Crete, I walked into a shop where the owner was fashioning fire red hair. I was raving to her about how much I was enjoying her store and was trying things on. After being in the store for a while I heard a song come on and asked if it was Amy. Her facial expression became doleful as she nodded. She went on telling me how she had tickets to fly into Athens, Greece and see Amy Winehouse live. The concert tickets were posted on her wall behind the desk. As I was purchasing my items from her shop, we chatted about how sad it was that Amy had joined the "stupid club," like Kurt Cobain's mother had called it.

Anyone who is a fan of Amy knows that she has been through a hard time. She had addiction and unhealthy relationships for a long period of her life up untill her death.  She had been told by many that she was slowly killing her self with all of the poison that she was putting into her body day after day. She was so young and already had Emphysema from all the the smoke inhalation. Even if she had started to clean up and become healthy again, there no way of knowing if it would have even helped because her conditions were so bad.

My Heart goes out to the family and friends of Amy Winehouse.