In my class, my professor just posted these facts (in my advertising class, talking about TV advertising today)
“By graduation, 11,000 hours in school(through high school), 15,000 hours in front of the TV. By age 20 today people have seen 800,000 tv commercials”
Now, what I get from this:
AGH! Too much TV! I know people really enjoy this, and it is good sometimes, but I really think spending more time watching TV than in school is ridiculous! At my house, the TV is on a lot. But lately, I’ve been reading in some parenting magazines that TV in the background is not so good when your babies are playing. That’s really all the TV is to me, though, background. I rarely ever pay attention to it. When my mom comes over to help watch Neils, or when Anthony turns the TV on sometimes, it is on the TV Guide Channel. From me…trying to find something to watch, but getting distracted or playing with Neils instead. Ha. They always say “Sierra must have been watching TV, her favorite channel is on.” It really isn’t my favorite channel, I just end up doing something else and don’t turn the TV off.
Now, to get Anthony, who says he hates TV…but watches is all the time…to stop watching it so much while playing with Neils…that might be a task. Ugh. I hate tasks.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
1000 Journals Project
I think this is amazing. I've known about it since I was a sophomore in high school, I think. Maybe a Junior. It is this project where a guy bought 1000 journals, decorated the covers, numbered them, etc, and sent them out into the world. It is such asn incredible idea, and even more incredible that people kept it going. I wrote about it in high school, in the school paper, and even in my blog on Myspace. I wrote to the guy who started the project, got stickers from him, learned about another project (vandalsandpoets.com), but I haven't thought about it in a while, until now. I just got an e-mail saying he now has a documentary showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and he even has a book! I wish I could see that, and have the book. That would be so amazing!
Here is a blurb from the SFMOMA site
"This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative and participatory experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to draw, paste, rip, or write on its pages, and then pass it on when finished. Exchanged by friends and strangers or left in bus shelters and other unexpected places, the books have accumulated a rich tapestry of stories, drawings, and personal reflections. Collectively, the journals have traveled to more than forty countries and all 50 states. Co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department, this presentation features a selection of journals that have returned to San Francisco. In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to visitors, offering an open invitation to participate in this exciting social-art experiment."
Ahh..I love it!
Other things in my life:
Neils is getting his third tooth
I had my first day alone at work today (only my thrid day working, too)
First test of the semester
My other professor has been gone for three weeks, the sub, another professor, is kind of odd, but I really enjoy him. I enjoyed oth of them
Um...
I'm still sick. I really just have a cough now, but it is annoyoing and sucks. It is worse at night.
Here is a blurb from the SFMOMA site
"This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative and participatory experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to draw, paste, rip, or write on its pages, and then pass it on when finished. Exchanged by friends and strangers or left in bus shelters and other unexpected places, the books have accumulated a rich tapestry of stories, drawings, and personal reflections. Collectively, the journals have traveled to more than forty countries and all 50 states. Co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department, this presentation features a selection of journals that have returned to San Francisco. In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to visitors, offering an open invitation to participate in this exciting social-art experiment."
Ahh..I love it!
Other things in my life:
Neils is getting his third tooth
I had my first day alone at work today (only my thrid day working, too)
First test of the semester
My other professor has been gone for three weeks, the sub, another professor, is kind of odd, but I really enjoy him. I enjoyed oth of them
Um...
I'm still sick. I really just have a cough now, but it is annoyoing and sucks. It is worse at night.
List of Classics
I saw this on a friends blog and I like it....
Here is a list of Classics. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan on reading , Copy and post!(ideally, then you will pick a book you havent read, and get to it)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - well, only three I think. I forgot...
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Ahh...my favorite book!
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Here is a list of Classics. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan on reading , Copy and post!(ideally, then you will pick a book you havent read, and get to it)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - well, only three I think. I forgot...
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Ahh...my favorite book!
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Monday, October 13, 2008
Baby Neils!!
Oatmeal container=awesome toy!
already wanting to get out of the bath tub!
This is so funny...he climbed under anthony's drafting desk, clear to the back and under the chair, and got stuck. Luckily, my camera was on my desk right behind me...
But Neils was ready to get out!
He really likes mylar balloons
He gets this big smile all the time
Talking to grandma on the telephone
He makes this funny face, kind of like fish lips but then he smacks them...does that make sense? It was so hard to catch!
Eating daddy cereal!
This one is cool, you can see his eyes looking at me. He was trying to get the cereal in his mouth this way. What a smart guy!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Proposition 8
These people aren't from Utah, but the video is still relevant, and it still matters.
Go here to see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUlJel4RR8
I can't figure out posting a video just yet. I have to go, but I needed to do this right now.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Irritants - baby talk and gay marriage
There are things that make me upset, and I’d like to share them.
I hate baby talk. I think that you should be able to talk to your child with normal words, not ones that may hinder their learning, especially if they are at an age where they are able to understand and comprehend just what you are saying. I think you need to talk to them normally! I think it hinders their learning, and he is old enough now that he understands and actually listens to the things I say to him. Ugh.
Anthony and I don’t talk to Neils like that, my family doesn’t talk to him like that, nobody I know talks to him like that except a few people.
Here is my chance to really express my voice, and I will not apologize for anything I say here—
Another thing that is really bothering me—and I know I may strike up some nerves here, but it is very important to me—I am a real believer of gay marriage. I think love is love, and people should be able to express their love with each other, no matter if they are male or female. I really don’t like when people think it will “ruin the sanctity of marriage” or that it is gross. Come on. The world is bigger than that! And I seriously don’t think it is going to change your life in anyway, so I don’t think you should try to take that away from them. I wish people were more empathetic to these situations, and not just followed what someone else is telling them to think. Live, laugh, LOVE, right?? These people aren’t any different than you, you probably know gay people right now, and like them. Maybe you don’t know they are gay, and maybe you do, but do you really want someone to be that unhappy? What if someone made it so you couldn’t marry who you wanted, for some reason? The reason may seem dumb to you, but they’d believe wholly in it, and you’d be upset, right? I hope I get you thinking, and that you really think about it, not just get upset at what I’m saying.
A few years ago, a guy I was dating asked me a question, something like this "If you could debate one topic, what woudl you choose?"
You know what I said? I bet you can guess. Right now, I am going to go thank him for asking me that question.
I hate baby talk. I think that you should be able to talk to your child with normal words, not ones that may hinder their learning, especially if they are at an age where they are able to understand and comprehend just what you are saying. I think you need to talk to them normally! I think it hinders their learning, and he is old enough now that he understands and actually listens to the things I say to him. Ugh.
Anthony and I don’t talk to Neils like that, my family doesn’t talk to him like that, nobody I know talks to him like that except a few people.
Here is my chance to really express my voice, and I will not apologize for anything I say here—
Another thing that is really bothering me—and I know I may strike up some nerves here, but it is very important to me—I am a real believer of gay marriage. I think love is love, and people should be able to express their love with each other, no matter if they are male or female. I really don’t like when people think it will “ruin the sanctity of marriage” or that it is gross. Come on. The world is bigger than that! And I seriously don’t think it is going to change your life in anyway, so I don’t think you should try to take that away from them. I wish people were more empathetic to these situations, and not just followed what someone else is telling them to think. Live, laugh, LOVE, right?? These people aren’t any different than you, you probably know gay people right now, and like them. Maybe you don’t know they are gay, and maybe you do, but do you really want someone to be that unhappy? What if someone made it so you couldn’t marry who you wanted, for some reason? The reason may seem dumb to you, but they’d believe wholly in it, and you’d be upset, right? I hope I get you thinking, and that you really think about it, not just get upset at what I’m saying.
A few years ago, a guy I was dating asked me a question, something like this "If you could debate one topic, what woudl you choose?"
You know what I said? I bet you can guess. Right now, I am going to go thank him for asking me that question.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Ah, the funny things he says
Today, Anthony said,
"When are you going to graduate so I can be a stay at home dad?"
He is silly.
"When are you going to graduate so I can be a stay at home dad?"
He is silly.
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