Media and the Pioneers

I have to write a paper for my Pioneers and the Persecution class. For this paper I must talk about what it was like to live as a saint from 1847-1891. I am choosing a story about a girl named Susanna Stone. She traveled from England on her own, and joined the church. She crossed the plains with the willie handcart company and endured more than I can imagine. So much so her friends did not recognize her when she finally arrived in Salt Lake City.
Now, to relate this to Media. This story, little that I know, is starting to change my life. Thank heavens for media and so I can be able to learn about this miraculous woman.

I Finally Like Joni Mitchell

My mom once told me about her most perfect date in college.
He had deep AND dark blue eyes (both deep and dark is a good sign) and was the epitome of tall, dark and handsome. His name was classy, and my mom was perfectly hippy-ish and hot. The perfect mix. She said they went from activity after activity and it just kept getting better.
It ended with the two of them sitting in his car, listening to Joni Mitchell and eating apples. She said they stayed up talking until 2 or 3am. They "may" have even kissed.

I have always hated Joni Mitchell. I used to take my moms albums of hers and hide them. I still remember fearing that grey cover of the CD with her freckled face and straight hair staring at me.
It wasn't until I heard this "Perfect Date" story and I decided I loved Joni. My mother was laughing, and giggling and smiling, and blinking, and sighing during her whole rendition of a past memory that it turned me onto Joni Mitchell like I couldn't believe. This precious moment of my mom's past life was beautiful to hear and now.. I am a sworn Joni FAN! Now, here is my Social media plug in: Listening to JM, I have felt compelled to write on my moms facebook wall for everyone to see and make her smile with my coy comment about Joni Mitchell and Apples.

ps... this dark stranger is not my dad.

Any Roswell Lovers Out There?

Can I get three "Woot Woots" for R O S W E L L???

If not. Get off my blog.

Jk. You can stay.

But I just wanted everyone to know that Michael (from Roswell) is in a movie.. wait for it... a LIFETIME CHRISTMAS movie.. on netflix. My Christmas just got exponentially better and it was as cheesy and amazing as I hoped it would be. Look it up.

A Christmas Kiss.

It has it all. The horrific script.. an actress that looks almost identical to a famous actress.. (in this movie's case, Kate Hudson) a painful "falling in love" collage and almost no real life consequences for the terrible choices they make. Oh wait... BONUS... amazing rip off holiday music. Its a must see. Media am I riiiiiight?

#theend.

Can we step away from media for a second?

Can we step away from media for a second? Can we really?... (*long contemplative pause*) This weekend I plan on leaving and going camping with my hot hubby and I want a media break. But.... I want to take pictures.. So I will need a camera..

I also want to be safe.. and things can happen while camping.. so we will need a phone..

I also want to read my scriptures at night before we go to sleep.. which now includes bringing a book. Three forms of media are now on my non-media trip. 

So can I ever really go off media? Realistically? Probably not. So I am going to start calling this media break I constantly want.. LIFE EXTRAVAGANZA!!! It sounds more fun and to me it means that I will go out in nature, be with people, live life and still have a little bit of media. Since its inevitable. 

Theres my rant today. 

Lets talk video games.

Lets talk video games because I am playing the Mr. Craig Anderson tomorrow and I want to tell everyone a little about my (his) studies!

I, Craig, did a sweet meta-analysis on video games and aggression. What a fascinating find I found. (I hope you stumble upon this matty(husband))
Lets start out with the fact that Video Game exposure was positively associated with
1. aggressive behavior
2. aggressive cognition (aggressive thoughts)
3. aggressive affect (aggressive mood)

All three of these results were reliably found in experimental studies.... cross sectional.. and dun dun dun.... longitudinal. BAM watch out little boys playing M games..

Video game exposure was ..(here come 3 even worse effects of VG's)... positively correlated with:
1. Desensitization
2. Lack of Empathy
3. Lack of Prosocial Behavior

BAM!!!.... what now. I'll get back to this later...

I am learning HTML and loving it! It's a section of the world of media I have always wanted to learn. Here is an awesome site with a beginning explanation to coding in html:

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/


Go for it.. if you dare....

Bridal Showers

Using media for bridal showers... Life saver.
Pinterest is saving me and also gonna get me major friend points with the amazing ideas on there. Throwing two parties for my friends in the next two weeks, I seriously could not be more grateful.
Music is the easy part.. decorations.. just copy a picture.
One aspect that media is failing me on is that game where you ask the fiance a butt load of questions. I want fun interesting questions and the lists posted online are LAME. If anyone has any ideas.. let me know.
I have so far...

Questions for the Mr. 

• What is your signature dance move
• What is your favorite moment you have had with (blank)

See... I need help!