Innocence

Eyes opened wide

Words not spoken

Small smiles begin

A heart not yet broken

Long fingers pointing

Hands soon guilty of pain

Legs stretching freely

With so much to gain

Precious being brings joy

Love is known

A baby with true innocence

Until they are grown

A baby was born

Innocence only lasts so long

Hope they make good choices

Hope that they stay strong 

; little MIRACLES *

Two months ago yesterday, my grandmother had past away. My family has been grieving over the loss of my grandmother since the day that she left. I thought that it would be a good time to go and visit my grandfather and see how he has been doing. So I went out with my cousin, who just had a baby, to visit. I left touched.

It really was a beautiful day yesterday. Not only the weather was gorgeous but my grandfather was. My cousin took her two month old baby over to my grandfather. My grandpa is too weak to really hold onto the baby so my cousin stood infront of him with her. My grandfather stretched out his hand to reach the babys foot and she smiled. She smiled so big.

I looked over to my grandfather and saw tears beginning to fall down his face. My heart broke. I flashed back to the last time I saw my grandmother in the hospital. My cousin, the baby and I were in the room with my grandmother and the baby began to cry and my grandmother touched her and the crying stopped. My grandmother began to tear up and I cried. We all cried together. I thought about that day.

I thought about the joy that this little angel brought into our lives. I thought about the strength that this little baby has brought into our family. It was incredible to see how a small being can make a large change without words and as the tears rolled down our faces yesterday I thought about how we are all still connected. I thought about how this baby is showing our family happiness. There was a reason that my grandmother was taken and a new baby was born.

I found peace yesterday through my grandfathers tears and my second cousins smile. I found comfort through the flashback of my last moment with my grandmother. I felt security and I felt safe. I knew at that moment that I was not alone and that no matter what we were all still connected. It was honestly a changing moment in my life and I am blessed to have the family that I do.

 

FACEBOOK FACT

I know that someone has already wrote a post about facebook and how it is over rated and how they think that people spend too much time on facebook. The blog had a lot of negative comments towards facebook and I can not remember whose blog it was to comment so I am writing a new one. The difference; this is a positive blog.

I need to start off by admitting that fact that I am a facebook freak. I go on at least once a day to check out my wall and inbox. I am connected through facebook to people who I would not be talking to any other way. I am talking to people who I have found through the search engine that I never knew their email. This brings me to my positive facebook fact.

I was reading the Enquirer at work the other day. It is a magazine that is filled with latest celebrity gossip but also includes real life stories. That is when I came across an article about a mother who put her son up for adoption when he was first born. The mother had her son at the 17. She felt like the only moral thing to do would be to put him up for adoption in hopes that he would have a better life then the one that she would be able to give him.

Eighteen years have now gone by since the mother has seen her son. She decide that it was time to look for him and explain to him why she chose what she did. So she began the search for him but was unsuccessful until she got a Facebook account that her friends insisted she got.

She learned how to search for people through the site and decided to search her son. The unfortunate part was she found 10 matches with the same name. She began to look at the profile pictures of each person and found one that she felt was her son. She sent a message telling the boy that she was looking for someone. She wrote in the message the date of birth and the middle name of the child in hopes that it would be a match. A few days later she received a message saying that all the information she had given him was exact to who he was. He then asked her if she was his mother because he has been searching for her for the last two years.

It was said in the article that as the mother began to read the words she broke down in joyful tears that the search was finally over and her family can be reunited. Today the mother has two other children who are excited about having an older brother. The son moved into the home with his family and is thrilled about his life.

I just wanted to prove a point that not all of Facebook is pointless. That Facebook is a lot more then just another version of a email/chat website. I think it is a great way to bring people together and to keep people together. It serves a lot more then just the social aspect of living. Facebook is over rated and I am not saying that every person needs or should have a facebook account, but I am glad to know that it truly is changing lives and giving hope to families like this one.

 

…thank god i’m a country girl…

I love where I live. I love being in a town where everyone knows everyone. Where driving a tractor to school is more of a norm. Where the smell of cows crap is at every corner. I love living in a place where time seems to fly by but at a relaxed pace. The country is home to me.

My perfect example for why I love the country would be partying. I hear about parties getting busted in New Hamburg or Kitchener but it is so weird that it never seems to happen to me. I used to have parties at my house all the time. New Years Eve was the worst one. People were everywhere. There was under age drinking and street fighting. There was noise and public drunkeness but none of that mattered when the police showed up to my house that night. They said keep the noise down and were on their way. Also driving four wheelers or dirt bikes in fields that really are private property. Not once have I ever been in trouble for driving through the neighbours fields or on a public road with a ATV that really is not suppose to be on the roads. Even wearing helmets while riding. It seems as though in the country things change and the rules are not as inforced. I love the country. 

The other thing that I love about the country is the fact that W-O is known as the country school. The place where the cows are next door and the smell is never fresh. People always ask what school I go to and when I tell them they have no idea so I refer to it as the school with the cows. Right away they know exactly where I am talking about. It makes me smile because we will be remembered. All those other “city” schools have what to be remembered by? We will always be the school with the cows.

The city. When I think about the city all i can think about it the busy streets. I hate the thought of the city. The never ending noise, and the many people everywhere I look. I hate stop lights and highways. I hate not having my own space. The city makes me think about businesses and stuck up people who have too many other things to do to take the time for a quick hello or a coffee. It is a place where the atmosphere reflects the way of life. FAST. I want to enjoy living.

The city is beautiful don’t get me wrong but I think if I were to live there I would go insane. I think I would lose a part of who I am and I would be a very different person. I would love to go to numerous cities and visit for vacation and such but to live there I think would just be way too much for me. I am happy being a country girl.

MAD MONEY

I saw the previews for the movie Mad Money featuring Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton and my first thought was this movie has to be good look who is in the film. Katie Holmes is the chic fashion icon. Queen Latifah is a fierce actress with attitude and passion. Diane Keaton is a legend in the industry of acting.  I also began to think that the plot would be the type of movie that keeps me wanting to watch. It was said to be a comedy, thriller and crime movie. So i waited for the release date and on that very day I went to the store and rented the movie only to be disappointed by the large amount of hope I had.

The movie is about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary—rob one of the most secure banks in the world. Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don (Ted Danson) is downsized from his job. She has no experience i the working world so she takes the only job she can get as a janitor. Bridget makes an unexpected bond with Nina (Queen Latifah), a hard-working single mom with two kids to raise, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), a free spirit with nothing to lose.

After a lifetime of playing by the rules, the three create a plan to try and take all the money out of the supposedly airtight Reserve. As the unlikely crime begins to occur and piles of cash are made, it looks like they have pulled off the perfect crime until someone alerts the authorities. With more money than they know what to do with, the women have to do all they can to stay ahead of the game.

I am not going to tell the ending because if you really want to watch it you can but i advise you not to. The movie is very boring and the plot seems to drag on forever. There is no situation in the whole movie that is any what so ever a thriller. The comedy is a weak sense of humour. The crime is the only real part of the movie that actually happens and even the crime would never really happen. The whole movie is lame.

cancer… phoney fraud*

I oing a project on cancer in english and why it is important to keep raising awareness about the disease. I am looking through the paper hoping to find obituaries or powerful articles when I come across this article titled, “Woman who made phoney cancer claim turned herself in.” I went on to read the article to be totally shocked by the guts this woman had. Michelle CLemmer scammed an old man she met through a newspaper ad when she told him she suffered from “a malignant breast tumour and needed costly treatments.” This man gave Clemmer 35, 000 dollars for “treatment.” He sent the money to a man named Ernest House who he thought was her friend but it turns out that he is her common law husband. It is said that he had no involvement in the scam but how did he not realize something was wrong when he had 35, 000 dollars he never made? I think somehow he knew but she covered for him. It is said that to this day she has paid off 11, 000 dollars of the 35, 000 she is owing and that she will be having to pay the rest that she owes (24,000). After going to court Clemmer was charged with breaching a condition and for fraud over 5, 000 dollars. Justice Colin Westman suspended her sentence and put her on probation for three years. After reading this article and the other articles I read I was very disgusted by the choices this woman made. We all need money at some point in out life but getting it this way is so shallow not only due to the fact that it is morally wrong but also that there really are people suffering from this disease. The money could have went to those who really needed it. I think it was a really selfish act and I am really unsure about the punishment. It made me feel sick to know that people would so whatever it takes to get some money and it makes me wonder about what is really important to our society.

Walk Hard Falls Short.

I watched Walk Hard the Dewey Cox story this weekend. This movie was very over rated. I hated the movie. An overview of the movie would be that Dewey kills his brother and the father hates Dewey for this. Dewey wants to be a good singer/songwriter so he begins his journey and becomes “famous.” he has sex with many women, is haunted by his brother and cheats on his wife. The plot of the movie had no steady flow. The messages in the movie seemed to all be negative. The messages in the movie are that cheating is okay, that women are more property then human and the party life is how celebrities live. The whole production, graphics and directing of the movie is terrible. It is a lot like Good Luck Chuck. I feel like there is a lot of unnecessary nudity. It is shocking to me how much they put into movies and television shows. Sex in this movie seems to happen at the most random times. This movie was suppose to be funny and it was but not like I thought it would be. I was very disappointed. When I saw the previews and the trailers I wanted to see the movie and now I hate seeing them. The trailers also make the movie look better then what it actually is. It shows the best parts of the movie and that is it. Many trailers do this though to make the movie look good. I would not recommend this to anyone. So much of the movie made no sense. I spent more time trying to figure out why scenes were placed where they were and how it all fit together then I did enjoying the “comedy.” In my opinion it was brutal.

6 *

Yesterdays are memories.

Tomorrows are mysteries.

My life is living for today. Taking it all one step at a time. Holding on to the past and looking forward to the future.

| flash into spring.

The rain came down hard raising the rivers and creating waves in the fields.
The smell of wet grass and dew worms filled the air. Little boys and girls in yellow raincoats and red rubber boots bounced around the puddles leaving them wet from head to toe. The birds flew to the soft soil searching for dinner and chirping soft music. The snow banks grew smaller and the air increased in temperature.

Childhood flashed before my eyes like it does when I often see children doing things that I once did but this time it was different. I thought back to teh friends I once had, the person I once was and the life I once lived. I thought about the present and the friends I have, the person I am and the life I am living. It made me reflect to the future and the friends I will have, the person I will be and the life that I will live.

Through this whole process it seemed as though spring would bring so much more then just a new season. It will bring another few months of change all over the world. It will bring new oppurtunities, adventures, friendships and a better understanding of who I was, who I am and who I will become.

Funny man or BAD actor ?

I recently went to the movies to watch SEMI-PRO! I loved the movie. It is about a one hit wonder artist Jackie Moon played by Will Ferrell, who owns a basketball team. He is not only the owner but a player and the announcer. The team is not a good team. They never have any fans and most of the time they lose. The team wants to be drafted to the NBA so they hold a tournament and play other teams. (Don’t want to give away the ending…)

So as I am sitting in my chair laughing hysterically over the stupid humour I stop for the simple fact that I really am the only one who is laughing. The rest of the theatre is completely quiet. This is how I came up with the blog idea. Will Ferrell… funny man? or horrible actor? In my opinion he is hilarious. I love him in all the movies he has been in Anchorman, Blades of Glory, Talladega Nights and now Semi-Pro. I think though you have to like Will Ferrell to find his movies funny and to laugh at the stupid jokes.

If you go to watch this movie look forward to the bear scene that you see in the trailers. The best part of the whole movie. He fights the bear and he loses and the bear gets out of the cage and is roaming around the auditorium which is filled with people. I cracekd a gut at this part and yes I was the only one laughing but if you watch it maybe you will laugh too.