Bright Moon

There was a beautiful moon last night – almost full. The moon was so bright it almost hurt to look at it. It was a lovely night, the temperature was right and my husband and I took advantage of it. We went for a two mile walk down our old favorite place to walk at night – a dirt road accross from our house. We used to walk our dog Wally down this dirt road because it was not busy. No more Wally which is sad, but we started walking it again. It feels good to get out and walk, especially last night because it was cool and the moonlight added a silvery, romantic glow to everything. It was nice to be out with my husband (that almost goes without saying). I was looking at my shadow cast on the road, big and bulky in the moonlight. Certainly not the shadow I cast when I first started walking that road with my husband over eleven years ago. I have to change that. I hope to go out for another walk tonight – the moon will be full.

I did not take this picture but I wish I could take some pics at night. Need to get a better camera.

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on July 26, 2010 at 3:42 pm Leave a Comment

NO EXCUSES!

So I have the new ipod Touch and today I downloaded two apps (and a pedometer) to help me start exercising. I really need to start exericsing because I am determined to be be somewhat thinner (all things being relative, haha) for my graduation. Theses apps keep track of weight, BMI, body measurements, fitness regimen, calories, and offer recipes plus tons of other things I have yet to discover. The best thing about them though is I can take my ipod to the gym and use it to learn how to lift weights and do some exercises. This is good because I always feel like a dork at the gym – I can never remember any of the exercises. Plus I will also learn more about movement and muscles, all part of my larger plan and goals.

I guess I am writing this to make a promise to myself to exercise on a regular basis and not to let myself forget about my goal of being thinner for graduation. I have no excuses because I have all the tools I need to accomplish my goal: I have my fancy new ipod, a wii with multiple fitness games, access to free gym, as well as an old lifetime gym membership and a husband who is willing to help me whip my ass into shape, LOL.

NO EXCUSES!! I just need the energy and the will power….going to counseling and battling my depression is helping me with that. I feel like I am on right track – just need to stay there.

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on July 25, 2010 at 8:22 pm Leave a Comment

i Touch

So one day my stepson says, "I really want an i-touch." I was like ‘WTF is that? Something for pedophiles?’ Welll I didn’t ask exactly in those terms but that is what I was thinking. Well he was talking about the iPod Touch. Haha. I had not even heard of it before. I had heard of the iPhone, the iPad but not the iPod Touch. I investigated a little bit (and argued with myself – tried to talk me out of it) and decided I needed one, of course

. My reasoning is that I needed one for the internet (it has wireless and with all the free wyfi around…) and it would help me stay in touch when I was out and about and I wouldn’t need to upgrade my phone (I am not a phone person at all), etc. Plus I had been wanting a new iPod because I have a lot of music I can’t put on my old one. I have a lot of pop music and ballads on my original one but I was thinking about getting a bigger iPod for jazz, blues, and classical music (all longer pieces of music usually) and the iPod Touch price was comparable to a regular iPod considering all the functions it offers.

I am really happy with my purchase. I’ve had one for few weeks now and I’ve been loading it up with my music and it is not even half full – I never realized just how far 32 MB of memory goes! I have been getting re-aquainted with some of my favorite jazz and blues music and it is making me super happy. Plus I have some audio books on it as well as iBooks and Kindle reader which is really cool. A lot of my favorite classic books were free or cost next to nothing. I have most of Jane Austin’s works, the complete Anne of Green Gables series, some Dickens and Tolstoy (to name a few) all on my iPod! – Not to mention some psychology books. I am excited I can carry this many books with me and not break my back, hee hee. I really needed this when I was a youngster. I will never be bored again.

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Bullying

What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?

The Untold Story of Her Suicide and the Role of the Kids Who Have Been Criminally Charged for It

By Emily Bazelon

http://www.slate.com/id/2260952/entry/2260953/?GT1=38001

This is a very interesting article. It is hard to know what to say about it. I like how the author illuminated some of the victims past troubles in other schools. It seems like the girl’s personality and own troubles led her to play the victim often. This is sad. It is a hard call on what else could have been done to help the vicitm and there is much not known as the victims mother would not talk to the author. I wonder if the poor girl was seeing a therapist every week – that should have helped.

As far as all six teens being charged with bullying and facing legal action, I think they should. Zero tolerance policies should be set in schools against bullying and they should be followed through on. All six teens should be punished and counseled but I do think prison too harsh of a sentence for most if not all. Of course I remember reading an article that some of these same teens continued to victimize the poor girl (her family) even after her suicide. The author of the article does not touch on that.

Bullying is a very complicated issue, and this case especially. A lot of bullying,particularly amongst girls, is very subtle so perhaps the author (and even other media) have not even heard the full story yet, do not have the full picture yet. Perhaps no one will ever have the full picture.

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