The News in my House

For almost as long as I can remember, the news was always a time in our family where everyone either had to sit down and shut up or leave the room entirely. Of course, that has grown even more since my two grandparents moved in with us a couple of years ago. They really enjoy watching the news and every day in the morning, at noon, 5, and 9 the news needs to be on.

The news, though, doesn't always do the best thing for everyone  It is always filled with negativity. Even though I enjoy learning about what is going on in the state and in the world, I get so tired of hearing about homicides  murder trials, and shootings. It's getting to the point where I actually believe that the media is part of the violence issue in our world. Think about it: these people want to make a big bang and the media is right there to make it even bigger. I wonder if that contributes to the person's odd thinking, because they know if they do something it will be spread world-wide, whereas 50 years ago that was virtually impossible.

Also, many times when were watching then news, my grandfather will be watching it with us as well. I really do love him, but many times I wouldn't say we get blamed for it but it's stressful explaining to him that we are safe and things like that have never happened around here and so on. Sometimes its all good, but there are those touchy subjects that just don't bring out the best of people. I also notice with a negative of the news that sometimes it does cause my family and I to argue a little bit. I am the weird child that doesn't agree with half of the things that my family thinks is right. So of course when those issues start it gets difficult to keep my mouth shut about things. I have learned though.

One thing that I really do appreciate is when the news blows something up that is really good and touching and isn't negative at all. That is one of the reason my family and I were so excited to see how much air time the Team Jack and touchdown run got because it is something that is so good and we need more of the positive stuff going around the country and around the world. My family spends quite a bit of time watching the news, but in the end it's just a habit I guess.

A Day with Mr. Kim

Now, I don't know what has been up of Mr. Kim Jong Un's pants lately, but to be completely honest I am really getting sick of all of his "I'm going to decimate the world!" talk. It's stupid because I hope he knows that if he tries that will be then end of it for him. I think that he needs someone from the outside to sit down and have a serious talk with him about what the heck is going on. Of course, then they need to lighten the mood for him. If I had a day with Mr. Kim, it would probably go like the following: 

The first thing I think I would do with Mr. Kim would be to sit down and have a ravishing cup of tea with the fellow. Tea has a tendency to calm most people down, so  I figure why not. Also, I may just be able to grant him some outsider knowledge about how great the rest of the world is doing compared to North Korea. Of course, I wouldn't jump in right away with dissing because they still have some interesting weapons over there. Tea time would help to ease things in and get to know him a little bit.

Of course with Mr. Kim, I think we would need to do something so random to get his tired little mind off of the war that he kind of wants to start. I think that we should go zip-lining or something super random just to get the adrenaline going in his mind. It would be a way to vamp him up for a little bit. Then, I think that he should take me shopping, hopefully if there are places for us to go shopping together  so then I can get some nice North Korean artifacts before someone decides to nuke them. I think we would have lunch and then go into the afternoon.

Since they were blocked off from some of the world, I bet he has no idea that the dance of Gangnam Style started in South Korea. I think it would be a great way to end the lovely day that we had spent together. So I would teach him this very insane and lovely dance, and then we would go up in front of the entire North Korean government and people, and dance it. Of course, South Korea would recognize this as peace and want to talk more to North Korea, creating a very lovely end to their awful war. World peace!

My Easter

Easter is always one of my favorite times of the year. Kind of like Christmas, everyone always seems so happy and excited about it all. The mood in the house is always better and we just all seem to get along for the most part. I was really excited about this entire weekend, because I knew I got to go to a place I haven't been to in probably 8 years. And that lovely place was Chuck E Cheese. We took my two nephews, and had a blast. I felt like I was once again a seven year old with all of those tokens I had.

So getting to Easter, the day started out pretty good. We got up at a decent time because church wasn't until 10 that morning. We woke up to find our Easter baskets and the lovely candy enjoyments that we all got. We had our homemade Polish sausage that morning and soon everyone started to arrive at the house. It ended up being my parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle, Mary, Kristi and her family, and Andy and his family. It was a pretty full house! So we all went to church together where my dad was singing that morning and enjoyed Easter mass.

We came back and soon had an Easter dinner consisting of steak, twice-baked potatoes, salad, bread, and fruit. For dessert, we had homemade cream puffs and the awesome bunny cake I had made the day before ( I was so proud of it). But, I have to say the highlight of the day was when we set out eggs for my 2 year old and 3 1/2 year old nephews. Even though they didn't have to go very far to find them, it was the coolest thing to see them collecting all of their eggs filled with candy, fruit snacks, and crackers. It was also priceless to see the look on their face when they would open up one of the eggs my grandpa had put money in. They were all so happy and excited. Drew, the younger of the two, was so excited that the minute he opened up an egg he would eat everything inside of it. It was priceless!

Of course, by the end of the day everyone was pretty tuckered out. My older sister, Kristi, said that she wasn't feeling that great when she left and was ready to return home. That is when the cycle of the stomach flu started and passed to basically every member of my family, including me, regardless which house they were living in. That wasn't the way I had hoped to end this weekend by being off of school for another day and living on saltine crackers and Gatorade. Epic sadface.