Big Brother 9

I don't know if you have noticed, but this is my second post about a reality show. Yes, I am a reality t.v. junky. What can I say, I love the fake drama with the little fights that these people do just to entertain. People go on reality shows and become characters and I love it. I have been watching Big Brother from the very first season, back then I don't think anyone even knew what the show was. This is the 9th season of putting random people in a house and kicking them off one by one for money. However for the first time ever, the contestants were paired up with a person that is supposedly their soulmate. If you have been watching the show, that is very much not the truth, in fact in the beginning of the show, half the couples hated eachother, but now they realized they must work together if they want to win this. Some of the people have been saying that this will be a short season because Big Brother 10 starts in June, and they only had this season because of the writer's strike. I don't really like the couple idea because I tend to like one of the two people in the couple so it makes it hard to cheer for them. However, in the show my favorite pair is Chelsia and James, I love there carefree attitude and I'm cheering for a romance between them. Yes, again I will say I know it is pathetic to watch shows like this, but it is my addiction.

Smoking

If you ever walked onto any college campus, don't you feel like your walking into an ashtray? Smoking can kill, and its a proven fact. It actually even says it on a pack of cigarettes that this will cause cancer! If people know this, then why do they still do it? What is the necessity, is it really worth your life? People may smoke for all sorts of reasons. Some may reason that the feeling when you breathe it in and you feel it literally filling your lungs, or that people smoke because they are bored, they like that dizzy feeling or even just because it became a habit that they can't kick. However, I feel the reason that many people smoke is because they are social smokers. You know the people who smoke only when they are out with friends and everyone is doing it. They want that feeling of the lungs burning, but for some reason it's only when they are out. Why do people want that sensation though? I have always found the habit gross. The smell alone is nasty and will stick to your hair, clothes even hands for what seems like days, no matter how many times you try toget it off. I won't lie I have been that social smoker once or twice and I have succumbed to the addiction, but after it I don't find the good in it. I'd later go home stinking of smoke, and coughing up a lung, and I begin to think why would I ever do that again. Smoking is an addiction, but it should be stopped as soon as possible, because it really is a nasty habit and it isn't worth your life.

" Do You Wanna be on Top"

If you have ever watched America's Next Top Model you know exactly what I'm talking about. This catchy tune of " Do you Wanna be on Top" and " I want to be fierce" are two ways for people to recognize this show. Channel 9 has hosted this show for nine cycles already and this Wednesday will be the premiere of the tenth cycle. Tyra Banks is the host of this show, in which young girls go on and try to become a top model. There has been some problems with the show, however, because people have felt that who are these people to tell young girls they can't make it or that they have problems with their bodies. This was a also a problem when a picture of Tyra Banks was put in the tabloids and she was seen as unfit. The tabloids made a big deal of the this because they felt that she didn't have a great body anymore and she shouldn't be judging other girls. I have been a faithful watcher of this show since the first cycle. I mean I'm not going to lie my dream like most other girls was to be a model, so of course when the show is on I go into model mode and do the catwalk like a thousand times. I don't belive it's a bad show and I don't believe the girls get judged too harshly at all. However, I do believe that the standards for models need to be changed. It is really not good for women to be 5"10 and 110lbs, but thats just my beliefs. Tune in though this Wednesday at 8 to see what it's all about.

No Regrets?

When it comes down to do it, how do you know if you make the right decisions? Everyday you are faced with new problems, options and questions, whats to say that if you chose a different decision you would be where you are today? I know this is totally mindboggling and you are probably reading this and thinking what is she talking about, but if you ever really thought about this it would drive you crazy. Just think, what if instead of going to St. Johns, you went to a different college, your life wouldn't be the same, but would you still end up meeting the same people eventually? There was a movie called "Sliding Doors" staring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, where the movie showed Gwyneth missing a train or catching the train and seeing her life played out in both ways. In the movie her life is obviously different, but in the end it didn't matter. She still ended up at the same point. This is exactly my question, is that the truth, is everything you do in life just a question with the answer already figured out? Is it really true that whats ment to be will find its way? I always wondered those questions especially the question of if you have regrets or not. I guess when it truely comes down to it, no one should really have regrets, because everything you have done is for a reason and even if you don't know the reason, it happened because it was ment to happen. There is a quote from Sex and the City" from Carrie and I feel this is the perfect way to end this, "Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."

Valentine's Day

Today is February 14, the day all single people dread. It is a day when they feel lonely and depressed because they don't have someone to buy them a 2 dollar card. I say WHO CARES, a day shouldn't make someone feel bad, if you really want that chocolate buy it for yourselves, you deserve it! Everyone deserves to find true love and if it doesn't happen on this day then don't worry about it. You look around at all these people who are "in love", but they are not, they fight all the time and really don't care about eachother, they flirt with other people and know nothing about who they are in a relationship with, but on this day everyone is "in love", I'm not saying this is true for all people, if you are in love then congratulations and have fun today. Valentine's Day goes back a long time and is a day when people are suppose to show their love to eachother, usually by giving roses or candy. It is a romantics favorite day, where they get to be all lovey dovy with eachother.It is a day when people wear red and have that permant smile on there face. I personally have never had a good Valentine's Day either single or when I had someone. I always hated the holiday because I feel it is made up. I would so much rather a guy give me flowers or candy on a random tuesday and just show me they like me in little ways, I never needed anything big, just the little things that make me smile. Whatever the case may be have a good Valentine's Day and if you are single today remember that the people that are in a relationship, are probably fighting.

Cause You Had a Bad Day!

Have you ever woke up and just known that you shouldn't get out of bed, you just have a feeling that everything is going to go wrong. Then you decide to get up and just do it because how could it be that bad , but you end up being late to school, stain your clothes, have the worst hair day, hit every light possible, and this is all while it starts pouring rain. Right then you probably feel like crying because you knew, you knew not to get up, you had that feeling it was going to be bad, but instead of crying, you just start laughing to yourself and everyone thinks your crazy. If your anything like me, I feel like I have those days alot lately. Those days when everything I just listed plus more just happens. You feel like you hit rock bottom and theres no more light at the end of the tunnel. You try so many things to make you better, the normal eating ice cream or listening to music that would usually comfort you, but it doesn't work. My question though is how do you get out of this rut? What truely makes you feel better? Like I said I am somebody that has those bad days often so i'm not and expert, but my advice if you ever feel this way, is to sit back take a deep breath, think positive and just smile. Like they say, " It is what it is" and "it could always get better", and "What's ment to be will find it's way".

Secrets

Shhh!!! Don't tell anybody. Secrets are a very dangerous game and everybody has them, but what is it about a secret that is so intriguing? Is it that nobody knows or is it that people could find out, or is it that you are doing wrong and nobody would suspect it? In society secrets happen everywhere, a secret affair, secret business deals or just things that you would never want anyone to know. Secrets even make the best plots for famous shows and movies, such as Grey's Anatomy, when one of the ongoing sagas is the relationship between Meredith and McDreamy and how their relationship started out from a lie and progressed to a secret romance throughout the show. Whatever the case may be why you started or poesses a secret, it still eats you up inside. What people don't understand is that secrets will always come out one way or another, that high, that reason why the secret started will come down and sooner or later you know that deep down you want it to come out and let it go.

Superbowl Sunday

Today February 3rd, 2008, is the day many sports fans have been waiting for. It is the Superbowl. This tradition has been happening for 42 years. Today the undefeated New England Patriots will face the New York Giants. As of right now the Patriots are 18-0 one game away from the perfect season. The only other team in history to have the perfect season was the 1972 Miami Dolphins. I personally am a huge football fan, and my team has always been the New York Jets with a great liking to the Green Bay Packers, however, tonight I will be a true New Yorker and cheer for the Giants. I absolutely hate the Patriots, mainly for what they did to my Jets in the beginning of the season. I have always thought they play dirty and it was proven. In both cases tonights Superbowl will be a great achievement. For winning the game, the Patriots will make history being the 2nd team ever to be undefeted and the 1st team to go 19-0 because when Miami won, the season was only 17-0. However, for the Giants they will probably make an even bigger "Cinderella" story because they will stop a team that is 18-0 from winning that "game", the game that will make New England perfect. I feel that for the Giants to win will be the biggest accomplishment. It will show that Tom Brady isn't the "god" people think he is and it will show that Eli can be better then his brother, but even though that would be proven, the reporters would make up some excuse for Brady and Eli would still be compared to his brother. Tonight I am cheering for the Giants, I hope that Eli can prove to everyone that he is great, I hope that his "Cinderella" story will have a happy ending. Whatever the case may be, the Superbowl is "The Game", it doesn't matter what happened early in the season, it doesn't matter how many games you won, it just matters what happens tonight and who will reign supreme. GO GIANTS!!