For Halloween today I decided to put on something that would be fitting, so here is Michael Jackson's Ghosts. His "videos" are never just mediocre weenie videos, so the video is divided up into 4parts. I also included in this post the Making Of Ghosts. There are 6 parts of it and after watching the video it's really cool to see that, so I hope all of you guys like this and have a great Halloween! If you like the songs from the video, they are called "Ghosts" and "Is It Scary". By the way, Michael plays himself, the skeleton, the super ghoul, AND the mayor...
The Making Of Ghosts
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Why Am I Always Left Out?
...Because I'm ALWAYS the one taking the pictures. I'm sorry you never really see me on this blog but hey, I think it's a pretty good trade off, look how cute this kid is! Here's Phoenix smiling away...and you know, I see some Sharrid in him but he's not all Shar. He doesn't have Shar's mean eyes...they are softer. Marce has Sharrid's eyes and brow line. I think Marce's lower face is mine while Phoenix has Shar's dimples, so I think his lower face might be Shar's...so basically if you took Phoenix' lower face and put it together with Marce's upper face, you might have a mini Shar. If you took the other two halves, Marce's lower face and put it with Phoenix upper face, you might have me. Talk about over analyzing...
Let's just say that our kids are great mixes...
Marce wasn't in a smile mood (wonder where he gets that) but he wanted his picture taken with Buzz anyhow...
We broke out the high chair for Phoenix. He does pretty well in it but he'll do much better once he can sit up on his own which should be soon. We're also going to try him in the bumper jumper soon. Good times at the dinner table.
Let's just say that our kids are great mixes...
Marce wasn't in a smile mood (wonder where he gets that) but he wanted his picture taken with Buzz anyhow...
We broke out the high chair for Phoenix. He does pretty well in it but he'll do much better once he can sit up on his own which should be soon. We're also going to try him in the bumper jumper soon. Good times at the dinner table.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Slap In The Face
Yesterday I went and got the mail. There were just a few pieces of junk. This was one of them...
Hmm, if it were that easy...
Wow, that's really easy. I wish I could get Lasik. Anyone who can should.
Hmm, if it were that easy...
Wow, that's really easy. I wish I could get Lasik. Anyone who can should.
I found this inside the envelope. By what these definitions say, I am none of these. I would be Nearsighted, but this says that you'll see far away things blurry. I don't see blur at all. I can't make out what they are, or at least the details of it but far away things for me are not blurry. They are for a better word raw, not detailed, not exactly clear, but fuzzy, blurry, No.
It was funny when I got this in the mail, cruel irony really...
I was snickering to myself the whole walk home.
Protecting Marriage Is About The Children
Christy, my friend had this posted on her blog, if you don't mind, I also wanted to post it on mine...
From the Los Angeles TimesOpinionProtecting marriage to protect childrenMarriage as a human institution is constantly evolving. But in all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations of parenthood.By David BlankenhornSeptember 19, 2008
I'm a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together.Many seem to believe that marriage is simply a private love relationship between two people. They accept this view, in part, because Americans have increasingly emphasized and come to value the intimate, emotional side of marriage, and in part because almost all opinion leaders today, from journalists to judges, strongly embrace this position. That's certainly the idea that underpinned the California Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage.But I spent a year studying the history and anthropology of marriage, and I've come to a different conclusion.Marriage as a human institution is constantly evolving, and many of its features vary across groups and cultures. But there is one constant. In all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations of parenthood. Among us humans, the scholars report, marriage is not primarily a license to have sex. Nor is it primarily a license to receive benefits or social recognition. It is primarily a license to have children.In this sense, marriage is a gift that society bestows on its next generation. Marriage (and only marriage) unites the three core dimensions of parenthood -- biological, social and legal -- into one pro-child form: the married couple. Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. Marriage says to society as a whole: For every child born, there is a recognized mother and a father, accountable to the child and to each other.These days, because of the gay marriage debate, one can be sent to bed without supper for saying such things. But until very recently, almost no one denied this core fact about marriage. Summing up the cross-cultural evidence, the anthropologist Helen Fisher in 1992 put it simply: "People wed primarily to reproduce." The philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, certainly no friend of conventional sexual morality, was only repeating the obvious a few decades earlier when he concluded that "it is through children alone that sexual relations become important to society, and worthy to be taken cognizance of by a legal institution."Marriage is society's most pro-child institution. In 2002 -- just moments before it became highly unfashionable to say so -- a team of researchers from Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center, reported that "family structure clearly matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage."All our scholarly instruments seem to agree: For healthy development, what a child needs more than anything else is the mother and father who together made the child, who love the child and love each other.For these reasons, children have the right, insofar as society can make it possible, to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world. The foundational human rights document in the world today regarding children, the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically guarantees children this right. The last time I checked, liberals like me were supposed to be in favor of internationally recognized human rights, particularly concerning children, who are typically society's most voiceless and vulnerable group. Or have I now said something I shouldn't?Every child being raised by gay or lesbian couples will be denied his birthright to both parents who made him. Every single one. Moreover, losing that right will not be a consequence of something that at least most of us view as tragic, such as a marriage that didn't last, or an unexpected pregnancy where the father-to-be has no intention of sticking around. On the contrary, in the case of same-sex marriage and the children of those unions, it will be explained to everyone, including the children, that something wonderful has happened!For me, what we are encouraged or permitted to say, or not say, to one another about what our society owes its children is crucially important in the debate over initiatives like California's Proposition 8, which would reinstate marriage's customary man-woman form. Do you think that every child deserves his mother and father, with adoption available for those children whose natural parents cannot care for them? Do you suspect that fathers and mothers are different from one another? Do you imagine that biological ties matter to children? How many parents per child is best? Do you think that "two" is a better answer than one, three, four or whatever? If you do, be careful. In making the case for same-sex marriage, more than a few grown-ups will be quite willing to question your integrity and goodwill. Children, of course, are rarely consulted.The liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously argued that, in many cases, the real conflict we face is not good versus bad but good versus good. Reducing homophobia is good. Protecting the birthright of the child is good. How should we reason together as a society when these two good things conflict?Here is my reasoning. I reject homophobia and believe in the equal dignity of gay and lesbian love. Because I also believe with all my heart in the right of the child to the mother and father who made her, I believe that we as a society should seek to maintain and to strengthen the only human institution -- marriage -- that is specifically intended to safeguard that right and make it real for our children.Legalized same-sex marriage almost certainly benefits those same-sex couples who choose to marry, as well as the children being raised in those homes. But changing the meaning of marriage to accommodate homosexual orientation further and perhaps definitively undermines for all of us the very thing -- the gift, the birthright -- that is marriage's most distinctive contribution to human society. That's a change that, in the final analysis, I cannot support.
David Blankenhorn is president of the New York-based Institute for American Values and the author of "The Future of Marriage."
From the Los Angeles TimesOpinionProtecting marriage to protect childrenMarriage as a human institution is constantly evolving. But in all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations of parenthood.By David BlankenhornSeptember 19, 2008
I'm a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together.Many seem to believe that marriage is simply a private love relationship between two people. They accept this view, in part, because Americans have increasingly emphasized and come to value the intimate, emotional side of marriage, and in part because almost all opinion leaders today, from journalists to judges, strongly embrace this position. That's certainly the idea that underpinned the California Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage.But I spent a year studying the history and anthropology of marriage, and I've come to a different conclusion.Marriage as a human institution is constantly evolving, and many of its features vary across groups and cultures. But there is one constant. In all societies, marriage shapes the rights and obligations of parenthood. Among us humans, the scholars report, marriage is not primarily a license to have sex. Nor is it primarily a license to receive benefits or social recognition. It is primarily a license to have children.In this sense, marriage is a gift that society bestows on its next generation. Marriage (and only marriage) unites the three core dimensions of parenthood -- biological, social and legal -- into one pro-child form: the married couple. Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. Marriage says to society as a whole: For every child born, there is a recognized mother and a father, accountable to the child and to each other.These days, because of the gay marriage debate, one can be sent to bed without supper for saying such things. But until very recently, almost no one denied this core fact about marriage. Summing up the cross-cultural evidence, the anthropologist Helen Fisher in 1992 put it simply: "People wed primarily to reproduce." The philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, certainly no friend of conventional sexual morality, was only repeating the obvious a few decades earlier when he concluded that "it is through children alone that sexual relations become important to society, and worthy to be taken cognizance of by a legal institution."Marriage is society's most pro-child institution. In 2002 -- just moments before it became highly unfashionable to say so -- a team of researchers from Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center, reported that "family structure clearly matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage."All our scholarly instruments seem to agree: For healthy development, what a child needs more than anything else is the mother and father who together made the child, who love the child and love each other.For these reasons, children have the right, insofar as society can make it possible, to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world. The foundational human rights document in the world today regarding children, the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically guarantees children this right. The last time I checked, liberals like me were supposed to be in favor of internationally recognized human rights, particularly concerning children, who are typically society's most voiceless and vulnerable group. Or have I now said something I shouldn't?Every child being raised by gay or lesbian couples will be denied his birthright to both parents who made him. Every single one. Moreover, losing that right will not be a consequence of something that at least most of us view as tragic, such as a marriage that didn't last, or an unexpected pregnancy where the father-to-be has no intention of sticking around. On the contrary, in the case of same-sex marriage and the children of those unions, it will be explained to everyone, including the children, that something wonderful has happened!For me, what we are encouraged or permitted to say, or not say, to one another about what our society owes its children is crucially important in the debate over initiatives like California's Proposition 8, which would reinstate marriage's customary man-woman form. Do you think that every child deserves his mother and father, with adoption available for those children whose natural parents cannot care for them? Do you suspect that fathers and mothers are different from one another? Do you imagine that biological ties matter to children? How many parents per child is best? Do you think that "two" is a better answer than one, three, four or whatever? If you do, be careful. In making the case for same-sex marriage, more than a few grown-ups will be quite willing to question your integrity and goodwill. Children, of course, are rarely consulted.The liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously argued that, in many cases, the real conflict we face is not good versus bad but good versus good. Reducing homophobia is good. Protecting the birthright of the child is good. How should we reason together as a society when these two good things conflict?Here is my reasoning. I reject homophobia and believe in the equal dignity of gay and lesbian love. Because I also believe with all my heart in the right of the child to the mother and father who made her, I believe that we as a society should seek to maintain and to strengthen the only human institution -- marriage -- that is specifically intended to safeguard that right and make it real for our children.Legalized same-sex marriage almost certainly benefits those same-sex couples who choose to marry, as well as the children being raised in those homes. But changing the meaning of marriage to accommodate homosexual orientation further and perhaps definitively undermines for all of us the very thing -- the gift, the birthright -- that is marriage's most distinctive contribution to human society. That's a change that, in the final analysis, I cannot support.
David Blankenhorn is president of the New York-based Institute for American Values and the author of "The Future of Marriage."
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I Found Them!
In 2003 I was living at home working at Wally's. I had already been up to Provo. I've never had a job I liked so working at Wally's pretty much sucked. This job was not a waste though for 3 reasons, you see, I stocked everything...AND made the lunch food. They bought chicken patties (for chicken burgers/sandwiches) by the box. While there I perfected "my" chicken sandwich. From then on, everytime I went to Vegas with mom or what not, I'd stop at Wally's and make my chicken sandwich. This is what it was...
1.Mix a packet of ketchup and mayo together and spread on top bun
2. Steal a squirt of Nacko Cheese and spread it directly onto the chicken pattie
3. (Optional) Add a few little round pickles to the top bun
4. Put it all together and microwave so it's hot again (10 seconds)
So reasons why this job was not a waste
1. My chicken sandwich discovery
2. I didn't have to talk to anyone and I could listen to my discman
3. I made enough money to buy my drum set
My chicken sandwich is SO GOOD! I have made everyone that I could try it. I was thrilled to see that they had these at Walmart & Fry's. It makes for a great lunch! I don't know about you, but I like my lunches to be hot, kind of like dinners. So something like this or leftovers is the best.
The only thing missing from my sandwich this time around is the Nacho Cheese, I'll have to get some of that because I'm sure I don't remember what I'm missing!
Tyson brand also has really good chicken nuggets that we buy for lunches also. They are even great from the microwave, seriously I've done both microwave and oven and there's no difference in how they turn out.
MMMM my chicken sandwich...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Candids Of The Week
We took the boys on a walk to the tot lot and it was dusk, perfect weather but the Mosquitoes ate us alive, so much for that. I guess we can't even enjoy the weather when it is good because of all the bugs. I got bit on the back of my neck and my hands and arms.
Phoenix had one right on the side of his mouth.
Marce had this big one right in the middle of his head and others on the side of his head and on his arms...
This picture is so cute to me, we were playing peek a boo with each other.
These two play together pretty well. I thought this was funny. They were playing tent with my bedspread. I told Marce to not put the cover over Phoenix' head. I had to tell him about 3 times but eventually he got it...They had fun though, and it's so funny how Phoenix can kind of keep up with him even at 5 months old. I can see that he'll probably be the side kick forever! These two will probably always be very close. I hope so.
Phoenix had one right on the side of his mouth.
Marce had this big one right in the middle of his head and others on the side of his head and on his arms...
This picture is so cute to me, we were playing peek a boo with each other.
These two play together pretty well. I thought this was funny. They were playing tent with my bedspread. I told Marce to not put the cover over Phoenix' head. I had to tell him about 3 times but eventually he got it...They had fun though, and it's so funny how Phoenix can kind of keep up with him even at 5 months old. I can see that he'll probably be the side kick forever! These two will probably always be very close. I hope so. 
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sunday Afternoon
Today we made a few changes. Things needed to be done. Sharrid lowered Phoenix' crib because Phoenix is now able to get up on his knees and even his feet (stinkbug) We also took Marce's car seat and washed the covering to get it ready for Phoenix who is getting uncomfortable in the little baby carrier. Putting him in the infant seat is like trying to wrap a burrito up when you've put too many beans in it! It's annoying, so we're re-arranging the straps and Marce will use his travel car seat (a piece of crap) until we can get him a new one.
I found out that Sharrid will be able to go to the tri-ward Trunk or Treat with us because this week he is working a normal schedule 6-3 for training. I'm glad he gets to go with us...maybe I'll enter the chili contest! Marce loved trick or treating last year, I think he'll have a blast! I can't wait to see him enjoying himself, it's so cute.
I have been working out, lifting every other day with my OxygenFit system, but I haven't done the cardio like I said I was going to, only twice or something so I have committed ed to start that this week because it's probably cooler in the mornings now a days and I can run. I'll probably need to, to burn off all the Halloween candy I'll eat in the next few weeks.
I have some pictures and other things to blog, I'll try and do them tomorrow. I have been trying to incorporate little stories and personal history into my blog because I don't want to forget these experiences, lucky for you, you'll get to hear them...ha ha Since I talked to my grandpa about writing his personal history I decided you are never too young to start with what you've got. I want to get certain experiences down on paper before I forget the good details, so I'll be working on that more from now on. I apologize for not doing more Poetry Posts, Personal Spotlights, and my "Item of the Week" has not even started, but I'll try to get them back and running...
I found out that Sharrid will be able to go to the tri-ward Trunk or Treat with us because this week he is working a normal schedule 6-3 for training. I'm glad he gets to go with us...maybe I'll enter the chili contest! Marce loved trick or treating last year, I think he'll have a blast! I can't wait to see him enjoying himself, it's so cute.
I have been working out, lifting every other day with my OxygenFit system, but I haven't done the cardio like I said I was going to, only twice or something so I have committed ed to start that this week because it's probably cooler in the mornings now a days and I can run. I'll probably need to, to burn off all the Halloween candy I'll eat in the next few weeks.
I have some pictures and other things to blog, I'll try and do them tomorrow. I have been trying to incorporate little stories and personal history into my blog because I don't want to forget these experiences, lucky for you, you'll get to hear them...ha ha Since I talked to my grandpa about writing his personal history I decided you are never too young to start with what you've got. I want to get certain experiences down on paper before I forget the good details, so I'll be working on that more from now on. I apologize for not doing more Poetry Posts, Personal Spotlights, and my "Item of the Week" has not even started, but I'll try to get them back and running...
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