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!

Visiting Teaching

I decided to post about Visiting Teaching.. like the good little mormon I am.
I feel way too spoiled to have the media in my life in regards to visiting teaching. For example, I just got 2 new sisters to visit and today I find out from ...facebook... it is one of my sisters birthdays. That is just embarrassing. Because of facebook I wrapped up a bunch of english taffy with an old fashioned bow for my friend. I should have known this information from meeting and getting to know her, rather than social media. I am grateful for the knowledge.. or else I would have been a real failure. But in a sense I still am a failure for letting that be where I get my information.

Peace and blessins

Gilmore Girls again

In one of my classes today, we discussed parenting. We spent a majority of the time talking general terms, but at some points examples given and definitions gave me a greater insight into a side of parenting I've not thought much about. For example, the level of autonomy you grant your child and how to grant it. In the media I feel as though parents are not portrayed very well in their levels of autonomy given to their "TV kids." But as we discussed autonomy I began thinking about Lorelei Gilmore from the show Gilmore Girls. She gives her daughter a fine amount of autonomy, I hadn't really thought about it until her daughter becomes interested in a boy that is up to no good and it reminds Lorelei of her past relationship. If you have never watched Gilmore Girls, She dated and fell in love in high school and ends up pregnant at 16. The show is highly based around this for most of the first few seasons and more. An aspect of parents hesitation in granting autonomy stems from not wanting your child to fail. This aspect shows through as Lorelei begins fighting with her daughter about this new crush and putting up new restrictions because Lorelei can see where her daughter might fail. Though, I would also be afraid of letting my daughter date this more edgy guy, it comes to a point where the daughter does more behind her mothers back. The mother then accepts her daughters wishes more while still keeping boundaries. I felt as though these episodes portray a healthy relationship of granting autonomy in the media and enjoyed making that connection today..
Lorelei is awesome.

CAN I GET AN AMEN SISTAAHHHHH from my millions of readers......

Fear in Media

What a coincidence that the night before my classes lecture on "Fear in the Media," my husband made me watch a slightly scary, more disturbing film that gave me quite a negative reaction. After watching this movie, that ends where evil wins I might add, I was disgusted and spent the night thinking about what kind of spirit was brought into my home from that film.
After our discussion on fear and its effects on children and even lasting into adulthood, I feel even stronger about really monitoring what plays in my home. If I truly want my home to be like a temple, these scary things do not need to be in it.
Now this does not mean I am cutting ALL scary movies or stories or anything out of my house... but I am simply making a goal to try to be more aware and prayerful about it.

Romantics anonymous

Speaking of media.... Here is my latest media class's assignment. I watched 2 season of Gilmore Girls and got 0 hours of sleep for 4 days because of this project.

The prompt was: I had a dream..... Here is my psycho dream of two emotif adults.

Video Games

An interview with a friend on her plans for video game use in her home.

Did you grow up with with video games?

No.

Why not?
Parents felt them a waste of time.

do you plan on having any type of video game in your home.
Wii console, but only for the dancing games for my kids.

What are your thoughts on violent video games and why?
I hate them (haha) because they are an unintelligent way of spending your time, and it degrades the violent feeling that should only be felt in a violent situation.

How do you feel about the fact that laparosopic surgeons were tested and those who grew up playing video games were 30% more accurate in their procedures and had 30% fewer mistakes?

Very interesting... Never heard that before...



Hahah a silly interview with a friend.

My Favorite Book

"The Sorrows of a Young Werther"

This is my favorite book.

I have never read the end of this book..

Until last week.
I was ready to quit school from overload of homework so I decided to finally read the last pages of this tragedy.

it was a good idea.. sometimes it was.. then sometimes its not. I knew it would be sad but I didn't want the ending to ruin the beauty and magic that is in the words throughout the beginning of the book. I haven't read any passages from this section since I read the end, and I am not ready to. So, until I do I will let you know if the ending ruined the my favorite book. Meanwhile, I WILL break the rules and quote one of my favorite lines: "I go my way in the world wearing the smile of a dreamer."

More lyrics.....

My folks they left the TV on
I was falling in love years before I ever met someone
Like a prayer you don't expect an answer
Though you ask for one

And sure my love would come along
Like some little bird and only I would recognize its' home
Like the actors I see on the television
With the stage lights on

What I found was a gamble
You threw yourself in with me
Made a cross and you lit a candle

But we were only strangers calling in a dark room
Rejecting stars or cozy lives on the wall
In the dark I thought I saw you
Or was it nothing at all

Every one I ever knew
I'm giving it all to you
I'm asking everything in return
And I have nothing left to lose
I'll get it back through you
And take your offer



Thoughts?

The Smiths

On Sunday we drove through the mountains in a borrowed red convertible and on the way home right as the sun was dying, we kept the roof down and bundled in blankets and blasted music all the way home. These lyrics came to mind.. 

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their home
And I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Rambles

School this semester includes two classes about media. One, the class which forces me to write on a blog which I truly struggle with, is all about the effects of media. The other, forces me to be a master at it. Both have media on their scholastic title but are so so so entirely different. It's blowing my mind what I am learning in both classes and I am the thouroughly happier because of them. Does this mean I am happier with media? Who knows. Meanwhile, I will continue to play the theme from Sabrina, by John Williams. Any one play the violin and can accompany me??