You drive me crazy

Dear Media,

I appreciate everything you do, but you take up way too much of my time. I can't seem to get away from you when I want to. So when I'm tired and want to take a nap, please don't bother me in the form of a text, a good tv show I'm missing, a stereo blasting music outside, etc. I love you, but sometimes, you just need to cool it. Thanks.

Love,

Me

Basketball

It's that time of year again. March Madness is on in uor house without fail these days. I filled out a bracket. I don't even know the records of 3/4ths of the teams. I'm doing pretty well though. For the most part, I dislike having the game blaring throughout the house. Oh well. It'll be gone in a few weeks.

Texting

I love texting.It's always nice to get a sweet text when you're tired and have a long day ahead of you. Media is awesome

Texting

I love texting. Though it can take up a lot of time, I appreciate getting sweet or funny texts from my hubby throughout the day. It's the best. That's all I have to say today.

Diving for Media

So last week I went dumpter diving. Why, you ask. For fun of course. No for real though, my husband and I had borrowed two DVD's from a friend, and we were heading out to walk down to her house to give them back. As we were walking out, we decided we might as well take out the trash. I had a milk carton and cereal box in one hand, and the movies in the other. After dumping out the trash, Hubby and I started our walk to our friend's house. I realized shortly after that we had forgotten the movies. We ran in the house and looked everywhere, but we couldn't find them. I then realized that it was a possibility that I threw them away. So I grabbed some running pants to put over the ones I was wearing, just in case I had to dive, and we walked out to the dumpter. Hubby spotted the first movie after leaning over the side of the dumpter and moving a box out of the way. He was ready to jump in, but I told him it wouldn't be fair since I was the one that threw them in in the first place. So, he helped me into the dumpster where I spent about 5 min or more fishing through all of our free flowing gross trash, other's gross trash, and diapers. Yes, yes, there were diapers EVERYWHERE! Where we live, almost all of our neighbors have babies, so there were plenty of free hanging diapers for me to step on a push to the side. Eventually, I found the other movie and then proceeded to scrub myself down mercilessly in the shower. I still want to barf thinking about it. Did I mention those movies were the ones I used to code for our project? Yes, they were. Moral of the story is, media is not always worth the dirt. 

Sexual content assignment

It was an interesting experience to have to watch specifically for sexual content on the T.V. shows I watched on a normal basis. I thought it was a good experience because it made me be more aware of the messages I was taking in, and not just being a passive consumer of information. At least every show made some comment that referred to something sexual. The episode of Bones that I watched had a lot more actual sexual content than usual, but now that I think back on the episodes, there are many times that sexual things/situations are discussed in Bones. This experience was good because it made me more aware of what messages I was taking in, and will hopefully help influence my future viewing choices in the future.

Star Trek

My husband and I rented Star Trek this weekend. He's wanted to see it for a long time. I personally am not a fan of anything in that realm of fantasy- no Star Trek, Stars Wars, or Lord of the Rings ( I know it's not the same, but still fantasy). It turned out to be an interesting, well done movie, but I still didn't thouroughly enjoy it. As I was watching it, I figured out why. I don't like all the fighting that goes on. I do watch movies with war/fighting, but they are stories that are based around real historic events, like WWI, WWII, Civil War, etc. And even in these movies, I still can't handle watching every fight seen; it's just too violent sometimes. I don't like that in Star Trek, and other movies like it, there is fighting just to fight. It's not based on any true event that happened. They are just movies that involve wars between groups, ususally for some dumb reason ( at least in my opinion). So that's why I don't like these types of fantasy movies. They are just movies that include lots of fighting, none of which is based off anything real. It's all fake. Not my taste.