Favorite Toy

When I was born I got a purple teddy bear and I named it Purpley. It was my favorite toy, because it was my first toy. I had it in perfect condition up until four to five years ago. Our new dog at the time got a hold of it and chewed up its ear, but I still have to this day. Now we no longer have that dog, but whatever toy she got a hold of she would chew it up and we would have to throw it away after a day or two, so I had to protect it until she got hurt.

Now I care for all types of animals and people. When I got a bit older I would play a computer game about running a zoo and now I take care of the little children in my family when we get together; I also take care of little toddlers when I do my volunteer work. I think that all of these developed in my interest to care for animals and children from my teddy bear. I would take care of it and cuddle with it and I started liking more and more animals, because I would want to make and have friends for my bear.

I'm majoring in art now and that doesn't have anything to do with my bear, but the next to choices for a career would to help and take care of little children, like at a day care- maybe like the area that I do my volunteer work, or to take care of animals and work with at a zoo possible. My siblings always talk to me about being with the little kids at family things, I say that it is because I the youngest. They don't think so and thinks that I should go into childcare for a career. I don't know if that means they don't like my art or don't think I can get a good job with my art major or if it is nice of them to suggest that I'm good with children. Complement or Insult- I don't really know?

TV Show

A show that my family has always watch (at least for as long as I can remember) is the Simpson's. When I was little we would watch it every night and every time airing it was playing. Before every episode we would try and guess what one was going to be play that night. Our guessing game wouldn't work now, because they tell you what is happening on the episode that is going to be playing.

The shows are very funny even the bad story written for the show have funny parts. The oldest episodes are the best and the newer ones aren't that good anymore; it seems they are running low on show ideas. There is one movie and they are planning to make two more movies still. There has been about 17 or 19 (something like that) seasons made; which is the longest show still running, so it must be pretty good. They were going to stop making new episodes, but they still are making them; and they could still make new shows until they are done making the other movies.

The main characters are of the Simpson family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. They are funny to watch and to see what dumb things they are going to say or do. There are many other people who live in there town, Springfield, and can have main roles in a show. There has even been Christmas and Halloween show. They are very funny and think that you should watch the old show to see the humor in the show (really good and funny to watch).

Emotion

My family has done some very crazy things in our past; and when we get together now and talk about those situations it is extermly funny to all of us. Sometimes we talk about my parents when they were younger or about us kids growing up.

My mom has a few good stories like: her whole family was outside playing and went inside to eat, she must of been about five or so; it smelled really bad and they couldn't figure out where it was coming from- it turned out that my mom sat in dog poop, and her brother and sisters would play funny games such as bull fighting; during this my uncle would hold the sheet in front of the refrigerator and my mom would run right into it, since she was the bull. With there being four of us kids within five years we got into lots of trouble. Some starting even before I was born: there was cows that would always try eating my oldest sister when she was a baby, my second older sister would yell out of the car at the police station, "We're murders, we're murders come get us," good thing they never came after them, and my older brother would play with an iron instead of his trucks- he made his own truck out of that. There are many other stories and some of our favorite ones weren't even mentioned yet, but when we get together it is a good funny time for all of us; even when they aren't part of our family who are hearing the stories.

When I watch TV, I keep it on the same channel most of the time when I'm watching a particular show. With "channel flipping" I don't do it that often; my brother does it all the time and I don't like watching TV with him that often for that reason. I don't mind when I'm not watching anything or if I don't really like whatever was on. Some of the time I flip, but I don't do it all the time. With the advertisements I don't really look at them that much. The only time when I do is when something catches my eye, such as: the product, colors, songs, or even the actors in them. These same reasons are the same for if I don't like the advertisement. There are many I don't like and half I don't listen to, because I only pay attention to the ones directed to my age group. So when the advertisements come on I work on something or talk to somebody or think about the show I was watching to try and figure out what will happen next. The advertisements that I do pay attention to are usually movies. I like to watch movies and I like to watch their advertisements too. The other advertisement I don't really like and I hate when it gets to voting time, because politic advertisements are on all the time. They bug me lots, you never know who is telling the truth. Other advertisements bug me about adult things that I don't have to worry about and when that time comes I will have my parents help and I don't need to watch the TV to get that information; I wouldn't trust them that much really with whatever they are doing.

Spring Break

Over spring break, most of the time was at work. Between the ten day break, counting the Friday before plus the weekends, Melanie was at work for eight of them. She put in a total of about 54 hours between those days. On her spare time outside of work, she painted a little and worked on her fibers project. With staying a her parents house, she saw them a lot and went to her oldest sister's house to help with her sister's wedding in the summer and to spend time with her nephew. She also saw her brother the first couple days and talked to her other sister to help with this sister's baby showers. The amount of work put into her break made her tired. At the end of spring break she found out that her aunt was in the hospital and wasn't doing well. That Monday after break she came back to campus and went to class at 8 A.M. Later that night she got a call from her oldest sister and was told that she smashed up her car that morning and she was making plans for this weekend. She was worried about not reaching their parents to tell them and Melanie had to tell her about their aunt which made her sister worried (her sister gets worried easily and freaks out about that). Since being back on campus, she has went to class and worked on her homework. She still hasn't heard how her aunt is doing since Sunday. With being sad about her aunt she hasn't done anything fun since she's been back, but tonight she is going to see her friends again for the first time from being back and they are going to watch the movie playing on campus tonight.

Family

My family is big and only getting bigger.  There is my mom and dad and I have three siblings.  My oldest sister is 24 and has a six year old son; she is getting married this summer in July; she lives with her soon to be husband and son in Geneva.  Then my other sister is 22 and soon to 23 and is going to have her first child within the next few weeks; she lives with her husband in Rochester.  My brother lives here in Mankato and is majoring in economics.  My parents live in Ellendale and don't do that much other than work and relax.  This last February they went to Hawaii for two weeks to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  Over spring break I worked and that was about it.  Most of my family is doing well and we are getting together for Easter.  This Easter could be very different from any other for us because there is two possible things happening.  My sister wants to have her baby on Easter day because that is her husband's birthday and she was born on my dad's birthday so she thinks that it would be neat to have a girl on her husbands birthday.  The other different event wouldn't be a birthday because that has happened before but instead there might be a funeral.  My aunt isn't doing well, she doesn't have enough of a lung capacity to breath well anymore.  She went into the hospital this weekend and is now in urgent care.  I hope for the best, but it isn't sounding good.  So overall my spring break hasn't been the greatest:  I worked lots, help with my sister's wedding, helped with my other sister's baby shower, and my aunt isn't well.

I don't think it will be hard to top spring break next year though.

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift was purposing to help his country with the poverty was to feed on infants of one year. In all reality he didn't actually propose this idea and didn't want it to happen. He just was trying to come up with something to say for his country to do. This was merely a joke and that he didn't actually wanted to eat infants. I already read this in my High School 12th grade English class and we discussed what it was saying, so I was able to understand the reading and reading it again I was able to picture it more clearly this time through on everything he was saying.