TV Vs. DVD/VCR

I remember when I was a little girl (there she goes again with her boring speaches!), that whenever I got sick, and tried to watch some TV, I had to wait until everyone came back from school to watch cartoons or GOOD shows! There were no VCR's and most defenitely no DVD's. (And no, I'm not OLD, I can hear you thinking that!)

Now that TV has "grown up" there are hundreds and hundreds of TV channels to choose from in the US, well in here we have around 100 give or take... out of those, less than half are worth something during the day.

This past week I've been forced by an ear infection to stay home, move very slow or at least try not to move that much, so what can you do? Move your thumb to change the channel! LOL

Well, the first day my thumb was sore because of all the switch... " loose weight in 2 weeks!" ... switch! "with this incredible machine you'll have a great body in a few weeks!" ... switch! "with this ointment you will look younger in weeks!" ... switch! "learn English in 5 easy steps!" blah blah blah, get the message? Infomercials informercials... blah blah blah...

Well, thank God for DVD's and/or VCR's :) I can choose to watch whatever I want, stop it if I want, repeat a scene... well, I'm not saying anything new here.. but.. I'm glad there are other choices now to watch TV instead of waiting for the "prime time" hours to come and watch something descent!

So from now on I say.. they can have as many as they want, I won't be watching any, I rather watch my favorite movies/taped TV Shows :D

Pastimes

Well, a lot of you might know about my pastimes :) others may not, others may *think* they know everything.. but, not that much.

I got pastimes like everyone else, movies, internet, books, DVD's, computer games, etc.

But, there is this small little..."hobbie" you might say, or pastime, that I like to do and enjoy doing most of the time. Some people won't even have time for this, and they should do it.

Have you ever... and I mean actually stopped everything you are doing and look around? Actually take a look at your surroundings... I always enjoy waking up early and listen and I mean actually listen my surroundings, there are no cars, there are no people, no stereos no nothing.. just birds singing... it's actually very pleasant to the ear :)

In the evening, I enjoy going to my backyard, when everybody is settling in, listen to again the birds, feel the air, look at my garden, or when I come home in the bus, I enjoy the colors the sunset paints on the buildings... Corny? Maybe, but you might want to try it sometime, when you feel tired, stressed out or just feeling a bit blah... take a deep breath outside, take a look at your nice surroundings and think *why didn't I think of this before?"

Yeah, that's what I enjoy doing, crazy, corny, but it makes me realize that every day we have some small little gifts that because of our busy lives, we are not aware of.

Kids and Police in the USA

Well I wasn't going to say anything about what I heard recently on the news, mainly because I didn't want to start my blog with sad news, but I slept through it and I thought that I had to say something.

Recently a little five year old girl was hancuffed by police because her teacher (an adult) couldn't control her.

My first reaction was... WHAT were they thinking?!?

The teacher (Principal whatever) is an adult, and like one you have to be able to control a child, a 5 year old girl who weights a lot less than an adult and it's smaller.

Calling the police was just an insane thing to do.. call two three teachers if that would be necessary, one distracts her and the otherone can hug her from behind and wait until she calms down! Again.. -she's just a kid-

The police shouldn't have handcuffed her! What were they thinking?!? Was the police in danger from a five year old? Did she have a gun? What they should've done was just hug the girl and wait for her parents to come.

Everyone has their right for an opinion, and this is mine... if we continue to allow these kind of things, the world will be a bigger mess that it already is.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, and this is mine.

The Great Master on the Lord of the Rings Triology, Such a huge thrill to meet him!  

If you are a Lord of the Rings fan, you would know who this guy is, I just couldn't beleive my luck to have a picture with him! Can you tell with my expression? Hehehe 

I love comics and meeting Mrs. Charles Schultz at last year's comic convention sure made my year! I was overwhelmed and honored, Peanuts have been in the family ever since I can remember! And I'm sure it will keep going for a long time.  

This is a recent picture of my niece, I just had to put her in, she's my little angel and I'm so surprised that she has grown so much! Hoow fast kids grow huh? :) 

Bienvenidos!

Hello! And welcome to my blog.

I can imagine what you are saying now "oh no! Another blog!" but.. but, before you close this window and go somewhere else, let me explain.

I did this so I can keep in contact with my friends I know some of you would like to know where/how I am! And I owe a few friends (Hi Keith!) a hand written letter, but when I had time I was in my bed and sometimes I just wanted to sleep, and others I had my paper and pen ready, but my mind was in blank, (yes very rare LOL) so I thought, this would be a nice way to share my thoughts and pictures.

But please, don't think of this as a daily diary... nonono, that would be too boring wouldn't it? What I mean to do with this blog is besides talking sometimes about myself, I would also like to share news, comments and stuff that are going around the world. Or just to post some facts that might be interesting/fun and, sometimes I'll tell you about my crazy hobbies. LOL

So, before going any further, I would like to welcome you again, make yourself at home, bookmark this place and come and visit my little corner once in a while.