Thanksgiving Break!!

During thanksgiving break it is a time to go back and visit family and feel at home again right? Kids get a break from school and are home for the holidays. I am really enjoying thanksgiving break so far. Time off from school and just relaxing is very nice. I am excited to stuff my face full of turkey and other goodness until i cannot move any more. I like how us americans have thanksgiving and then three weeks later have christmas, which is basically thanksgiving all over again. What a tradition! Thanksgiving break is the first time we all are away from school and work and back with the family to relax.  It is wierd going home though after being at college for over three months. I don't feel that homey feeling any more when i come home. Maybe that is because things have changed with my family and it just doesn't feel right any more. During thanksgiving i am used to eating until i can barely move, and then snuggling up and watching james bond over and over again. Thanksgiving is awesome. 

Die another day ... james Bond Movie

Die another Die was made in 1997 and is a James Bond film. For those of you who have not heard of James Bond...shame on you. Anyway Die another Day starts out in South Korea. Bond is under cover and he is trading diamonds for weapons. Bond kills the general whos father then tortures him over and over again. He is in their captivity for over six months. Finally he is traded with a guy named Zao whom the US captured. Bond is taken off duty because the british secret service thinks he told the koreans information when he was under drugs while being tortured. Bond escaped from the hospital in Japan, and then goes to Cuba to find a lead in his case. The general bond supposedly killed never died. Some how his army recovered his body and transformed his body and facial structure. In the end this "general" creates this sattilite to destory the world. In this action packed film bond chases the bad guy to the very end. Very good movie for those of you who even like James Bond films.

Movie Runaway Jury

I recently watched the movie the Runaway Jury and really enjoyed it. The movie is about gun control and the large, greedy, gun companies. In New Orleans, Louisiana this investment firm is gunnned down by a group of poeple. Eleven people are killed and numerous injured. One of the men who was killed was at the top of the company. His wife and him had just had a birthday for their four year old son. There ends up to be a huge lawsuit over the makers of the guns used in this shooting. Of course the makers deny any responsibility to the gun down, and say that every citizen has a right to purchase a gun on the second amendment. The gun company hires an under ground team to select the jury of this trial. They dive into every hury member to make sure that the trial will fall of their hand. The movie gets very in debth about the trial and how this team dives into all of the jury pool. In the end the gun company does not win and the wife of this husband is awarded money in her return. This is a great movie for anyone who likes a crime / thriller movie.

Reality shows...suck!!!

Almost the only thing that my room mates watch are these reality bullshit television shows. These shows are extremely addictive and show how stupid are world is today. When are youth watches these shows they see these idiotic people as role models. Shows on M.T.V. are the worst out there. I watch glimpses of these shows and i feel more stupid from watching just for a minute. These shows demonstrate how these redicolous people live their fantasy lives and don't think anything of it. A lot of these shows are so called "valley girls" or girls or women that say "like" a lot. I don't understand why anyone talks like this. I call them ditzy. The reality shows of today's media are the worst thing that could be out there viewing to our citizens. This material is brainwashing to think that the stuff these people do is actually ok is modern society. These shows show no real value or morale to the audience viewing them. They should be taken off of television forever. 

Mother Nature

Last year in the Colorado Rockies there was an obsurred amount of snow. Not only just in colorado bust also else where. In many ski and snowboard resorts there were records that were set. In some places there was a total of over 700 inches accumilation over the winter season. Mother nature takes many people's lives over the course of the winter season. The media portrays stuff like it is mother nature's fault that takes people's lives and not the person's fault for not watching out. Some people are actually aware of mother nature and its hazards and there is nothing they can do to stop these accidents. In the newspapers throughout the winter you will see "mother nature" claims two lives in winter wreck. During winter you have to look out for black ice, ice, snow on the roads, avalanches, and other obstacles that may have come or fallen down. Media is helpful in letting you know what roads or passes are open, and what to look out for. 

The Internet!

The internet today puts us americans and others in a very lazy state. Most things that an ordinary citizen would want or need to do in order to live is availbe to them online. You really dont even need to leave your house or the place where you live. Online banking allows you to transfer money, pay bills or any other thing to pay off just with the click of your finger. Also all of these bills you get can be online as well, which saves the environment. The direct deposit system allows people's paychecks to go directly into their bank account. If you are in the work force the majority of things can be solved by the internet. The internet makes some peoples live so much easier by the click of your mouse. What will our world come to with the internet becoming more and more advanced?

Home Improvement (television show)

Home improvement is a television show from the 90's about an average family from Detroit, Michigan. The Tailor family lives in a suburb neighborhood with three kids. Jill the mother, is a stay at home mom who takes care of their three boys. Tim works for a show called tool time, which is a televised show about work tools and how to use them. The show itself home improvement is very humorous. The show brings in real life situations about the Tailor family and their issues as a family. Tim Tailor the dad is very funny and brings a lot of the life into the family. Tim jokes a lot at work with his partner Al Borlin. The show is a show in itself. You are watching Home Improvement and then Tool Time is filmed inside of it. 

Long Lines all over the nation

There were extremely long lines this morning all over the country. People are expected to deluge

voting polls today. In some places lines were spread blocks to blocks with hundreds of people lined up. Some people got up before dawn to go wait to be the first in line. Some people have said they have never seen anything like this since the 1964 election where the last very popular democrat won the office. I wonder how long it will take to get all the votes together and counted. I hope this election won't be anything like the last where it took months to count and recount and all the other attached issues that held back the election. 

Christmas with the Kranks

I watched this movie last night and i really liked it. The movie itself got me into the Christmas spirit even though Christmas is not for almost another two months. In the movie the Kranks, they are very into the Christmas theme and get very into decorating and what not when the time of year comes around. Their only daughter Blaire goes to South America around Thanksgiving time. She plans to be there for almost a year or more. So the dad Luther plans this trip to go away and skip Christmas. They plan to go on this 10 day cruise starting on Christmas day. The neighbors dislike the Kranks for this because they are usually into the whole Christmas theme and spirit. The Kranks are not getting a tree or any other things they have got in the past. Due to a call about 10 hours before Christmas eve they were still planning to go on the cruise. The call is their daughter and the news is she is coming home for christmas. They are not ready what so ever. This comedy shows how there is nothing like Christmas at home with your family. This was a great movie and i recommend to many.

Voting 2008

I voted at the La Plata County Courthouse on halloween. This was the early voting in Durango. There was quite a bit of people there waiting to put their vote in on the ballots. I had some trouble because i was supposed to have a mail in ballot. Our mail had been receiving mail at the wrong box due to our landlord not knowing the correct address. The lady had to wave the ballot and she set me up to vote on the spot. This was my very first time voting for a presidential candidate and the other amendments up for debate. I did some research before i went in the just to know what i was actually voting about. After voting i felt like i did something worth while that made an impact on our country. I enjoyed the experience and i look forward to voting again in the future.