I'm too Young to Die

The song I am about to post for you is one that I only recently discovered. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of Nicki Minaj. I hate her rapping style, really, I do. She's not "bad" at it persay, but I can't stand it.

Actually, one of the things that made me really like this song was the video. There aren't enough videos with a Victorian Steampunk theme. Truly. And the concept is actually really cool too. David Guetta is like a mad scientist who creates the perfect woman, Nicki Minaj. Understandably the other women (and men) are upset so they go to David Guetta. Who it turns out isn't what they expect either.

If you like Victorian Steampunk themes, David Guetta, Nicki Minaj or people that are naked like a Barbie Doll is naked, this is your kind of video.

Turn Me On by David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj

Aqua Amazing

I don't know why, but I kind of like this song by Aqua. And no, it isn't "Barbie Girl" (I much prefer "Barbie is a Bitch"). This song is kind of pedo-ish. It is weird. And of course the video is wacky, because it is Aqua for fuck's sake!

Lollipop (Candyman) by Aqua (My favorite line is "I wish I was a bubblegum" and my favorite scene is where Lene is being tortured by the aliens. Does that make me a horrible person?)

Dancing in My Chair

Sometimes, at random moments, I will passionately miss the 90's. As in the decade, the 1990's. Seriously, I don't know why. The 90's had some horrible fashion trends and some less than good music, but it was my childhood and I embrace that.

Its at these moments that I go back to the music I listened to, or discovered in the 90's. Or I watch some clips from my favorite shows. Or I sit and just dance in my chair to the music I loved (when I could listen to it that is, a certain man [who shall remain nameless] forbade the listening of certain music that wasn't Christian). I listen to 90's pop, Christian music, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston. I think about Doug, the Rugrats, All That, Wishbone, Are You Afraid of the Dark and Cousin Skeeter. I read excerpts from "Saddle Club", "The Boxcar Children" and "Goosebumps" (which I didn't read until I was in my late teens).

And sometimes, because I'm rediscovering my childhood, I discover new music and I fall in love with a decade when everything seemed so much more simple! At least to me. Do you remember when Britney was at the top of her game? Songs like "Lucky" and "Oops I did it Again"? Or "Big Butts"? We were the Nintendo players, the Mariah Carey lovers, the believers of Aliens and Y2K. We wore high tops and had crew cut hair. We were insane and believed in so much, hoped for so much.

I miss those times. I really do. I don't know why, because the 90's had its downsides too. Like any decade. Like any day. Like any life. But the 90's was my childhood. When I went swimming with my Aunt Carmen all summer. Or cleaned house with my Aunt Peggy, who would let me spend the night and watch Mork & Mindy in between homeschooling lessons.

I miss getting cappuccino for the first time and discovering how delicious it was. I miss running through the woods and pretending it was Narnia. I miss discovering "The Yellow Submarine" with my brother and all the movies my mom introduced us to. I miss falling asleep to Simon & Garfunkel at night and dancing with Hannah to Loggins & Messina. The 90's was my playground, my perfect time. My biggest worries were the boys I was crushing on and Y2K (which everyone was afraid of).

For New Year's Chris and I would stay up until midnight watching "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Henry V" with our family friend, Ivan, while eating pizza and teasing Ivan when he would cover his eyes during the bloody parts. We went to the Egyptian exhibit at the Children's Museum and rode our bikes up and down the gravel roads.

My mother taught me to read, inspired me to write, inspired a love of literature and writing, of exploring everything. She taught me that every moment is a learning moment.

I played with Hannah, my baby sister. She looked like Shirley Temple at 2. I took her outside and chased her all over the yard. At night she would kick me out of bed, even though she was 2 and I was 10. As a baby, I would feed her cheerios in her bouncy seat and sing her Simon & Garfunkel songs as lullabies. I would read books about Sacajawea and Sesame Street. She was my first experience with a baby (when I would've been old enough to understand it). And, in a way, she was my baby. I protected her, I dressed her up, I changed her diapers and fed her. I played dolls with her. And I failed her in many ways. And, in many ways, she is still my baby, even though she is 15 now.

Chris and I would race our bikes, try stupid stunts (like tying Chris to the back of my bike to help him run faster and "lose weight") and chopping wood. We chopped a lot of wood, fed and watered a lot of dogs. I forced him to play Barbie dolls with me and he drove me up a wall. We dressed up, we fought, we forgave each other and he is one of my best friends to this day.

I met my best friend, Sarah W., a friendship that has lasted us 13 years this year. We used to talk on the phone for hours and hours. We watched "Pocahontas" over the phone, because we didn't get to hang out in real life as often as we wished. We played Gordon Lightfoot as loud as possible and scream-sang along. We picked berries and ate them all, while sitting in a field of green and white. We played Legos and made up stories. We ran wild, wrote notes in our own secret language during church. She helped me fall in love with snakes. I helped her fall in love with Star Wars.

I believed in Jesus with all my heart. Believed there was some reason for all the pain, for all hard times. For all the deaths and the lies. The 1990's were beautiful to me, even though I had a step-father who abused my brother and my mother almost died on our bathroom floor. Even though I was sexually abused. Even though my grandparents died. Even though it was the last time I saw my father in person. The last I spoke to him on the phone. The last letter I received. I believed that a good and just God was going to make it all right. That He was polishing me like how a gem is polished with stones.

I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted to deliver babies in China, stop the abortions from happening. Protect the innocent. I wanted to be an actress and star in the movies I had seen. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a civil rights activist. I wanted to be free. Dream my dreams, live my life. I wanted to be married and have 16 children that I would home-school. I wanted to be a missionary. I wanted to be loved.

Do any of those childhood dreams still hold sway? Can they still exist now that I'm older, wiser, and I know all that I know?

For your viewing pleasure, a song from the 1990's that I used to dance to, alone in my room.

That's right, "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin. And yes, I am that dorky.

Random is as Random does

As some of you may or may not know, BlogSpot has a thing where you can put tags on your blog. I have a LOT of tags. So this, and the following blogs, are going to have a something to do with the different tags I have. Are you ready?

There are probably 111 reasons why the year 1961 was both a good and bad year, but I don't know them.

Reasons why 1961 was good:
Well JFK became President of the United States. He was the first Catholic president.

JFK established the Peace Corps.

JFK appoints Janet G. Travell as his physician. She is the first woman to hold this position.

Princess Diana was born.

West Side Story was released as a Film.

Reasons why 1961 was bad:
The last public Tram in Australia was closed down, bringing The S. Hemisphere' largest tramway to an end.

A dam on the Dnieper River in what was formarly the USSR burst and killed 145 people.

The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba began and failed.

Freedom Riders bus was bombed and the protestors were beaten by an angry mob.

Freedom Riders were arrested in Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after they left their bus.

I have posted pictures of 2NE1 which is a Korean girl group. So I thought you might want to read about them (or not as the case may or may not be). Now, follow the Wikipedia link!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2NE1

RANDOM PICTURE TIME!

I wish I had had one of these when I was a kid!!


Cutest Baby Elephant in EXISTANCE (in my opinion)


The most BADASS and HOT superhero EVER!!


Corey Haim died this year, we all know. I posted a blog about it. Well here is a picture of him, just in case you have never seen him!


All for now, more later!

I'm a Barbie Girl

Hey everyone! So I am stumbling (AGAIN) and I am going to share with you what I have found interesting. I hope to have something a little more uniform than this eventually, but for now this is the randomness that is my blog. Please enjoy and tell your friends!!

Some Websites ^^
http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/
http://virtualfunzone.com/literally-live-pictures.html

TWO news item that are too good to wait for the news blog!
Meet the first LEGALLY GENDERLESS person. It is named Norrie May-Welby and is from Australia. A VERY interesting article, I think. I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/16/2010-03-16_no_sex_for_me_please_extranssexual_briton_is_first_legally_genderless_person.html

I personally love Archaeology and so I am incredibly interested in this article about a 4,000 year old cemetery discovered in the middle of a desert in Tibet.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/desert-riddle-unearthed-ancient-western-boat-people-20100316-qcks.html

You get not one, not two, but FOUR pictures for the day!!

HELLO KIDNEY!


I wanna place a bet of $100 on the Count von Count!


Mona Lisa never looked so tasty!


I love BioShock! ^^


A few Quotes I really like
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
Ayn Rand (Objectivist)

"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."
William Jennings Bryan (Lawyer)

and in honor of Women's History month a few quotes on women.
"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."
Ginny B. Waite (Female Politician)

"We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel."
Indra Devi (a Disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya)

"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."
Rita Mae Brown (Author)

And, because I COMPLETELY spaced African-American History Month (I usually don't forget it as it is my favorite month besides September)
"No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women."
Bell Hooks (Author, Feminist)

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
Barack Obama (The First Black President)

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Vladimir Nabokov (Novelist)

And a recipe for good measure!!

7-Up Apple Dumplings recipe
makes: 10 Servings

2 c Sugar
10 Large apples
1 ts Cinnamon
1 Can biscuits
1/2 ts Nutmeg
1 ts Nutmeg
1 Stick butter
1 ts Cinnamon
20 oz 7-up
12 Butter

In saucepan combine first group of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter and the
7- up.

Heat until melted, set aside.

Peel and core apples, separate dough from 1 can biscuits. Separate and roll out each biscuit individually and place 1 apple in each.

Combine second group of sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Sprinkle 1 tsp. of this mixture in center of each apple along with 2 T.
butter.

Fold biscuit around apple and pinch dough. Put dumplings in 9 x 13"
pan. Pour sauce over each dumpling.

Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Barbara Manatee

Current mood: Froggy

So your song is one of my favorite silly songs!! ^^



News of the day!

Mark Anthony Griffin, from Bartow, Florida, got sentenced to 15 years of prison time because of stealing a box of cereal and a can of evaporated milk.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560260,00.html?test=latestnews

Gretchen Whitted, 74 years old, was viciously attacked by A PACK OF RACCOONS! She was trying to shoo them out of her yard and was then attacked by five raccoons.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560150,00.html

Kelly Ann Walz, 37, was killed on Sunday by a 350lbs "pet" black bear being kept by her husband who was an exotic pet dealer.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560144,00.html

New York mom slashed her child's throat because he wouldn't stop crying. Fortunately the baby survived.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560149,00.html?test=latestnews

In Taiwan a 17 year old boy chopped off his father's hands with a knife for years of abuse.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,556921,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g12:r5:c0.093832:b28113262:z10

And just for the hell of it:
Sex in the Middle Ages (10 Titillating Facts you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask! http://www.oddee.com/item_96646.aspx

When Ex-Lovers take Revenge! http://www.oddee.com/item_96736.aspx

15 Most IDIOTIC Tattoos! http://www.oddee.com/item_96748.aspx

Experience some strange World's Longest (no dicks!) http://www.oddee.com/item_96837.aspx

12 Accidental Deaths You WILL NOT Belive! http://www.oddee.com/item_96835.aspx

and last, but not least:

12 Weirdest Barbie-Inspired Dolls (this is some crazy shit!) http://www.oddee.com/item_96785.aspx