Came into the Blog today and realized I had hit 7000 views. What does this mean? Not much really but it is a cool number! For those who stopped in to actually read something I had written thank you! For those adolescent boys searching some type of “boobie” title and happened across here…well HAHAHAHA surprise!
Category: Me
And action…
I love to play around with video editing. When I was still with Best Buy, I won a trip to LA as a reward for holiday sales performance. During that trip we were given cool media items and had an opportunity to make a mock video for the then just up and coming, little know group, Maroon 5 who was playing later that night for the group. I am sure getting them to play a gig like a Best Buy achievers weekend would be out of the question these days. Although the video made by my group was terrible, we all were given the software and ever since I have been hooked! Now movie making software is much more user-friendly especially with my much-loved MacBook.
I just finished making a small movie from all of the videos of Madison’s first year. What took so long you may ask? All of the videos we had taken of my baby were stuck on old virus ridden or basically dead windows based computers. During the week I sat and moved them over to my laptop, it took many, many hours. I was so happy to get them back! So now hours of video spanning a year of life have been cut into a 9 minute movie set to Disney songs. What was really fun was having the girls help put it together.
I would bet if I had a therapist, they would say that my fascination obsession with my scrapbooks and videos of the kids would be some type of statement about my own childhood. I have a small shoebox of pictures from my youth that my mother sorted while she was ill. After she passed we all had a box waiting for us. My kids will need a dump truck to haul it all out!
Pink Pink everywhere
Every year it spreads a little more, pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness. But as we are all aware, it is not just ribbons. It is cleats on professional athletes or bats and gloves. I went to an office supply store yesterday and felt compelled to buy a pink pen placed on the counter. My husband bought a 5 hour energy that was also wrapped in a pretty pink label. I have some socks with pink ribbons, they sell apparel of all types as well as those plastic bracelets I don’t think there is really anything that has not jumped into the pink arena. Even the local pet store seems to be “aware”.
I have become a very cynical person in my older age. I Would just love to believe that all of this money raised in the name of awareness actually went to research for a cure. Imagine, a future where we would not need to worry about the ever worsening breast cancer statistics, for that matter cancer statistics in general.
CEO’s of these charities making massive six figure salaries, third-party calling centers keeping large percentages of donations for “fees”.
I would love to believe that by the time my girls are old enough I would not need to worry about answer the question that Madison asked a few weeks ago, “Mommy, will Megan and I have to have our boobies operated on when we get older?” I can only hope they will not have to ever know the word mastectomy in theirs lives.
Maybe I am wrong, I pray that I am. Millions of woman and an increase number of men are counting on it!
Decisions for my Family 