Movie Night Anyone?

My family has recently discovered a new way of watching movies, either online or getting them through the mail.  It is called Netflix. I mean who wouldn’t like watching Never Say Never or No Strings attached for only $8. My mom pays the fee and we get all the new movies. I think that my mom puts way more movies on our Queue than I do!

I think that the online feature is what I use more. I go on Netflix.com on my laptop and I go to “Watch Instantly”. I have been in my room for the past couple nights just watching random movies that look interesting. I have seen some really good movies, but then there are just some ones that all I think is, “Why?” because they are so stupid. I think that best movie that I have watched online was the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I never saw it before and now I just love it. Thanks god for Watch Instantly!

Then you have Your Queue. I Your Queue you can request to have movies sent to you in the mail. We usually get the newest and most recent movies like Crazy Stupid Love. You can also put T.V seasons on request and just watch every episode ever. For me, I love watching One Tree Hill and Obsessed. Y brother usually puts a lot of his weird movies on there, whereas my mom puts a large variety on movies on our Queue.

Netflix is an awesome way to see all the great new and of course old movies and T.V. shows out there. If you don’t have Netflix I think that you should definitely get it, or that new Red box thing because it is worth it for sure!

Wishful Thinking

Everyone has hopes and dreams from childhood up until you are old in age. Dreams never die; they keep living and being built onto. When I think about some of the hopes and dreams that I have I feel like some are able to be achieved, but others are just so outlandish that they probably will continue to be dreams forever.

When I think about hopes, I think about things that I want to happen and that I can actually achieve someday. I hope that I meet my soul mate and we get married and have a lovely family with either two or four children. (I haven’t decided how many for sure yet!) I think that I can for sure make this happen. I am a believer in the saying “for every kettle there is a lid.” There is my hopeless romantic side coming out again. I also would like to teach a child to read. I feel like helping a kid read every word from the first page to the last would be so amazing. Don’t know why I think that, just do I guess.

My dreams that are silly and not realistic are next. First off, I would like to have a house just like in the Notebook. That house is beautiful. It’s a white house with a wrap-around porch and blue shutters for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie. Plus who wouldn’t want a guy to build a house from basically scratch all in a hope to get his girl back. I would be there in a heartbeat! Anyway, I would also like to be a billionaire and have a bejeweled hot pink Hummer. Oh, and a zebra named Stripper. Think that is feasible?

I dream big and now I am dreaming out loud. Hope even bigger because I think those are way more worthwhile. Go and make your hope and dreams come true. Share them with everyone because they might want some of the cash if you helped them become a billionaire. Dang, I wish that was me.

Got MTV?

When it comes to watching TV I usually flip on MTV. My favorite shows would have to be My Life As Liz, The Real World, and True Life. I think I like these shows so much because they are relatable to my life and my favorite kind of shows are reality! They also have a humorous, yet meaningful message so they are great to watch.

My Life As Liz in season one was the girl who was nerdy and had the guys who were just as nerdy. They were not popular, but that is the way they wanted it because they were happy just to have each other. Liz Lee, the main character, went to a high school to a small town in Texas. Liz started liking a guy, Bryson, but just like every teenage girl has had to deal with, he had a girlfriend so Liz was in the "friend zone". Liz looked to her guy friends to hel her, but her best friend, Sully, was practically in love with her so it was really hard for Sully to help. At the very end Bryson says that he likes Liz and we are left wondering if they ever dated or not. The second season is about Liz's adventures in New York at Pratt University to pursue art. By this time Bryson and Liz are together, but then Louis from school gets involved and starts crushing on Liz and she is mega confused. Bryson then confesses that there was a little something that he forgot to tell Liz about the last night in Texas...

Then there is True Life, which is completely well true life. The show has all real people who have real issues they are dealing with. I think the show is very intersting and I am like entralled by some of the things people have. I remember this episode called I Am A Shopaholic and it was really depressing to see that having an addiction to shopping, as stupid as it sounds, is really tough to break. The two girls were so in debt that one actually hid from the furniture company because she couldn't pay for it. It is so sad. Another episode is called Im a textaholic and one girl sends 14 thousand texts a month. HOLY MAN! I can't even imagine that. She has serious damge to her hands and her lifelong dream of playing volleyball in college is slowly fading away. Again, sad.

MTV has great reality shows I think and I believe that they are really great. I will watch these any day! I can't wait to see more episodes. Tonight at 5:00 PM a True Life called I'm Addicted To Exercise is on. Go and watch it! I hope that another season of My Life As Liz airs really soon too. MTV is not only music, it is REALITY.

Black and White Beauties

So I am a zebra fanatic. I love them, don't exactly know why, but all I know is that they are my favorite animal. The pattern of the black and white draws me in maybe because no other animal has that. I mean if had black and white stripes I would definitely be flaunting that around, no question about it. This post is going to be about "real" zebras and not just about the lovely PillowPet that I have.

Zebras are included in the horse family as African Equids. They have a very distinct pattern, GO FIGURE, but the interesting part is that no pattern is exactly the same. Maybe the stripe are a bit larger or thinner, or maybe the color is different than the most common black.  The technical term for the stripes is "zebra crossing". Something that I did not know about zebras are that they can actually tell who is who by the structure if thir stripes. Zebras have better eyesight than dogs that is for sure. Supposedly they can see all of the colors that we can see. When you think of how we humans communicate you think of us talking and voice inflections, well so do zebras. They use whines and screeched to get the attention of others in the group.

I have seen zebras at the fair and at the petting zoos, but I  would like to see them in their natural habitat. I bet they would look so cool and majestic out in the open. Then I could see the different stripe shapes and the different types of social behaviors they have. I definitely would like to stand in the middle, well maybe not the middle, more of to the side, of a herd of zebras and see what happens. How they play, how they move, how they flirt, how they everything. It would a once in a lifetime experience.

I now know one thing I am going to do before I die. Go to a grassland and watch zebras for hours. I will write down everything that I see and put lots of pictures up and write a day-to-day diary of reactions. Wish me luck and hope that I don't forget to do this in the future!