Memories of Michael Jackson and Steve Irwan

Many celeberties have come and gone in my 18 years of exsistance. Most of the time I didn’t know who they were or even pay attention when they died. Death isn’t usually on the minds of kids.

However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that as I join the social networking sites, its almost unavoidable to find out when celeberties die. However, it still wasn’t until a few years ago that I actually began to mourn the loss of a celeb. Steve Irwan’s death was the first celeb death that I mourned. As a kid, I LOVED watching Animal Planet, and Steve Irwan had an awesome show and of course his accent and lingo were amusing. When he died, it was so sudden, and unexpected. It was heartbreaking and it took me a while to finally get it through my head that he was no longer here. Even to this day I sometimes forget that hes dead, that hes still alive on Earth somewhere. Hes not. Its sad to think about it.

I had not really mourned the loss of any other celeberty until now with Michael Jackson’s sudden death. The celeberties that had died from the time Steve died until now had all been older celebs that had reached their true star power long before I was even born. Its hard to mourn for those who you have no connection to. But now, with Michael’s sudden death, I’ve returned to those same feelings that I felt when Steve Irwan died. Michael Jackson, like Irwan, had died so suddenly and unexpectedly. You always imagined him growing older and dying from something dealing with old age, but something like this just takes your breath away. Jackson also had tied memories to my childhood like Irwan did. My mother always listened to his ABC song in the car, and I always thought it was a girl singing. He was in the news and on magazine covers with the pale skin, pointed nose, and skinny face. He was often the focus of satire and of jokes throughout my secondary education. I remember I once told people that Andrew Jackson bleached his skin, when I meant Michael Jackson. I didn’t know either of them so I guess its easy to see how I made that mistake. I was never a true fan of Jackson’s, but I did have Thriller and Billie Jean on my Ipod before he died. I was never a fan, yet I miss him so much that I feel incomplete and heartbroken. Its so weird for me to care so much about someone who I barely cared about before, someone who I had made fun of before.  I really wish that I could’ve watched him transform into an old man. What would he have looked like??

Steve Irwan and Michael Jackson’s deaths have been the only 2 celeb deaths that I have mourned so far. I’ve been told that as you get older, the more friends, family, and people you know begin to die out in greater number. I just hope that there are no more deaths in Hollywood for a long time. I’m still mourning about Michael.

-M.M.

Goals of Summer

I know I shouldn’t make this list….but what the hell. I can’t be lazy all of summer I suppose. 

Here are some various goals for summer.

*READ: I have a booklist going too. Books such as The Great Gatsby, The Death of a Salesman,  any of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, some nonfiction books dealing with symbolism and mythology and religion (I am not religious at all but I like learning about them) and of course COMIC BOOKS!!!! such as Pearls Before Swine, Foxtrot, Baby Blues, and others.

*EXERCISE: I may be skinny but I’m not healthy. I usually only run when I work out so I might have to figure something else out.

*PRACTICE PHOTOGRAPHY: This doesn’t include practicing by taking my own pictures….thats just stupid. I need to ask people to model for me….but many people hate posing for the camera so this will be tricky.

*PRACTICE PHOTO EDITING: I usually hate edited photos, but I know its important to have the skills of knowing how to edit photos in the photo industry, so I should probably learn. Thank god for tutuorials online.

And thats my list. I know the first 2 things seem so…..old…..but whatever. I’ll make an entry before college starts about what worked and what didn’t. Wish me luck.

Last Homework

I’ve finished my last homework of my high school career. A 3 page paper for AP Government…..of course.

I’m a little depressed right now because I know that Norman will be leaving in August….and yeah…..I bet I’m going to bawl at graduation if I’m by him.

I cried tonight when I was watching Discovery channel. A mother seal kept trying to pick up her baby dead seal. It wouldn’t move. She kept going until she just dropped her head down on its lifeless body. It brought tears to my eyes. Man I’m so damn emotional right now. I wonder how graduation will go.

4 more days.

 

-M.M.

Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and back to WordPress

I have an account for Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and I’m coming back to WordPress now…..oh man. I sound so self indulged, but I just love writing and putting my mind out there. Probably a bad idea but what the hell. I don’t have much else to say right now. I found Stephan Pastis’ blog on this site so I’m pretty pumped.

Graduation is in 5 days.

Oh what to do

Many of my friends have so much shit going on in their lives I don’t know what to do.

I listen and give advice and a shoulder to cry on and I worry…but thats all I can do. The problems remain.

I do whatever I can. I have never had such severe problems like they do. I worry about them and it wears me out somedays. Somedays I just want to ignore them and I feel bad if I do.

I’m also wondering why I even keep my  wordpress account. I don’t care if people read it or not, its just something for me to do I guess. Why I don’t delete it, I don’t know. Why am I typing right now? Well frankly, I don’t want to do my AP Gov. homework.

Well whatever happens happens.

-M.M.

Correction, I don’t miss him. Heres a song a dedicated to you asshole.

If you were dead or still alive,
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
And all the things you left behind,
I don’t care,
I don’t care

If you were dead or still alive,
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
And all the things you left behind,
I don’t care,
I don’t care

If you were dead or still alive,
I don’t care,
(I never cared about, I never cared about)
I don’t care,
And all the things you left behind,
I don’t care,
(you won’t be there for me, you won’t be there for me)
I don’t care at all

Thanks for nothing Lasse. I’m forever happily free from your exsistance.

song: I don’t Care

artist: Apocalyptica

Spore

September 11th was my boyfriend’s birthday.  He doesn’t really like how his birthday is tied with the hijackings and such so I decided to get him some really nice gifts this year to make it a great birthday.

I got him 3 video games that he requested among other things. I bought him Mario Kart for the Wii, Spore, and Godzilla unleashed because he wanted it and it was on sale. xD

Godzilla unleashed was hilarious and amusing. Not really much else to say about it.

Mario Kart Wii is probably my favorite. My boyfriend and I owned my little sister and her boyfriend. The funny part is that my sister’s boyfriend has been playing for months and my boyfriend and I had only played the game for 2 days…it was hilarious.

Spore was the most impressive to me. I like to watch people play computer games. I’m weird like that. I watched my boyfriend start at the cell stage and from there on, evolution. I think the cell stage is my favorite age….that or the space age.

Anyways, the way he chose to design his creatures was interesting…to say the least. Eventually by the last stage of the animal age, his creatures ended up looking like green and red dinosaurs….with bug like mouths…..yeah. The mating was pretty funny to watch. I’m guessing that the creature you play is always female…unless you want your male creatures to lay eggs instead of the females. That sounds good to me! xD The creatures during the animal stage are pretty wacky. My favorite one was probably the creature that looked like a frog wearing a long mustache…xDD

The tribal stage was boring for me. The most interesting part to me was the naming of the random babies. I wish I could remember them.

The only part I liked about the civilization age was the designing of houses, buildings, etc. My boyfriend decided to take over the world…not too surprised. I was bored watching that too. It reminded me too much of Starcraft. I tried playing that game 2 or 3 times but I epicly fail at it. The language that the creatures have make me laugh. I thought they were actually saying something when I first heard it.

The space age is awesome. I thought you could battle other people online but I guess all you can do is see other people creations and planets but not actually battle with them. I think. I didn’t get to see too much of that age since it was late…and my boyfriend had been playing the game for maybe 4 hours or so.

I think my boyfriend’s creatures are called Dumas….that or the planet is named Dumas. I can’t remember.

I wish the game had involved a few more stages in between the animal and the tribal age and between the tribal age and the civilization stage. Over all I like it. The creature creator is fantastic and allows for more unique designs.

Hopefully I can buy this game eventually. I have to keep saving up for Germany though.

Someday.

-M.M.

The World isn’t Going to End Tomorrow.

I’m sorry,

The world isn’t going to end tomorrow.

The Mayans already reserved that day.

Its going to end December 21, 2012.

el oh el.

-M.M.

Hannah Montana truely is a tramp

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/08/27/ad-wizards-maybe-not-the-best-merchandising-opportunity-for-a-15-year-old/

^This story made my day. I hate her soooo much.

Planning for German Trip

I’m already starting to plan for my trip to Germany over winter break this December. I know its kind of early but I’m pay for a majority of the trip myself…and a round trip ticket is going to cost around $1000…so I want this trip to go pretty smooth with as little confusion as possible.

Its kind of hard to plan with Lasse and Kirsten though. They’re both very busy so they don’t get time to respond much…and they forget to answer some of my questions sometimes. ^^; I really hope that they talk to each other as well. I need to know who I’m staying with, when, and for how long…or if all 3 of us will be together for a while or what. Its so confusing.

I’m doing most of the planning and organizing. I don’t really mind though, I just hope they can give me answers and we can figure something out. I’m just not sure which questions to ask exactly…

4 months until December.

-M.M.