Ghost Adventures

I would like to blog about the show Ghost Adventures. I personally love this show. I find all things paranormal very intriguing. This show seems to be so real, and gives so much evidence of the paranormal world.  I often wonder if other people have experienced haunting, or are sensitive to paranormal activity.  I have never really experienced much myself. Some things, but I'm just never sure if it is paranormal or not. I have experienced things like lights turning off, shower heads turning on when I had bath water running, and strange feelings in certain places. I wonder if anyone else watches these types of shows. I get so into it that I often get chills while I watch it. This also happens when I watch scary movies.. So I'm just not sure what to believe...

Facebook

I can't deny that I am a frequent facebook user. I will honestly say that I check my facebook about 3 times a day.  It is scary to me that people can actually get addicted to facebook. It makes me think that maybe I am addicted to it! I think facebook is a great social network. I can keep in contact with friends and relatives from miles away! I can share photos and stories with them and keep up on what they are doing. I also think that facebook is a great way to waste valuable time.  I find myself on facebook when I could be doing homework, spending time with my boyfriend, keeping up with my house chores, taking care of my animals, or spending time outdoors. Facebook seems to such the ambition out of me and make me want to sit around and do nothing. That worries me a little, and makes me wonder if other people are doing the same thing?? I would like to learn more about addiction to facebook, or other social networks and see what all can be done about it.

Why can't I say no?

I love animals. I currently have 8 cats, 2 dogs, 1 tarantula, and 3 fish tanks with my boyfriend. We live in a small house and really don't make enough money to live on. I know that having all of these animals really doesn't help our situation, but both of us are such animal lovers and we really have a hard time saying no. Actually we did only have 4 cats up until about a week ago. Then the number of cats we had doubled to 8. I am the one who brought the last four home.. First I found these 2 kittens that were about 2-3 weeks in age, and were abandoned in a sewer. I got them out and nursed them back to health. We were going to try and adopt them out, but fell in love with these little boys in the process and decided to keep them. Then while I was on my way home one day, there was an accident on the highway and people had to take gravels around it. I had just got on the gravel when I saw 2 very young cats come limping out of the ditch. I got out of my car to see if they would come to me, they both did and were rubbing against my leg, let me hold them and look at their wounds. They both had huge gashes on them and one had a limp back leg. I put them in my car and they curled up in the car seat and slept until we got home. We had them both fixed and they were both given medical attention for their wounds.  We have them outside in our shop right now, and are trying to decide what we should do. I don't want to get rid of them, because I don't know anyone who would adopt them. I want to keep them, but it really isn't in the budget. I don't know what to do. I cant deny these innocent animals who really have no control over what happens to them. Especially when they are so sweet and loving.  I feel like they are showing their appreciation to me for saving them.  I have never gone looking for animals. All of my cats and dogs have been rescued. Found limping out of the ditch, abandoned at 2 weeks of age, laying on the side of the road, taken from abusive owners, and saved from a nasty dog trying to kill it.  I could never just walk by and let them suffer. I feel like there has to be something that I can do.. My parents think that I am tying myself down and making my life difficult. I guess I don't look at it like that, I think of it as doing something good, saving a life, doing my part, and I just wish that I could do more. I would love to start an animal rescue one day. That is one of my many life dreams. I just want people to understand why I can't say no...

Remember

When I think of my grandma Fran, there are many things that come to mind. I can remember her coming to pick me up in her old blue buick. She would always be smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. I remember that she would take me to her house, that always smelled like good food. She was always cooking something and the aroma would spread throughout the entire house and make my mouth water. I remember sitting at her house watching TV and drinking sunny d. Every time her phone rang she would answer and say "Yello?". Grandma never got angry, even when my brother and I would not listen to her one bit. Somehow that made us feel worse and we ended up listening to her even better because we didn't want grandma to feel bad. Grandma always had her hair and make up done, and always thought that she looked like shit... She never did. She would wear her little plastic scarf over her head everywhere she went, so that her hair wouldn't get messed up. She always had her hair nice and curled because she slept with pink curlers in her hair. I remember staying over at grandmas and for some reason every morning her alarm would be going off for like 20 minutes until I went in her room and woke her up, because her alarm was so loud. She always let me play in her jewelry and make up, and often let me take some home with me when I left. My grandma was one of the most laid back people that I have ever met. She just wanted people to enjoy themselves and not worry so much. I think that I got a lot of my traits from her.

Change..

This quote from Mahatma Gandhi is very inspirational to me. "We must become the change we want to see."  This quote is something that I think we should all look in to. We want change in our world; we have to change within ourselves before we can expect anything else to change. For example; if we want to live in a clean environment, we need to be sure not to litter, and maybe even spend time volunteering and picking up polluted areas.  If we want racism to vanish, we need to be sure that we are open minded ourselves and not allow racist thoughts to enter our mind. When we want change we have to be willing to change ourselves. We can’t expect others to change when we are not willing to do so. People do follow by example. If you are striving for a change, you must start the movement. Show people how the change can be positive and worth their while.