A few of my favorite Superbowl Commercials
2.8.2010
And suddenly I seem so very very normal
2.4.2010
My cousin sent me this link from our local paper today.
In case you haven't clicked the link yet, here is how it starts:
Sandra Williams was devastated in 1991 when her sister, Charlene Apling Edwards, was killed.
Williams dealt with the grief for years before being told of an even more nightmarish crime – her sister’s body was sexually assaulted by a Hamilton County morgue worker as it was awaiting autopsy.
Did you catch that?
her sister’s body was sexually assaulted by a Hamilton County morgue worker as it was awaiting autopsy.
Bet you want to click that link now. I don't even know what to think of a story like this. Aside from the eww factor the obvious Shannon things go through my head. How does that even work? Aren't there usually more then one person in a morgue? Wouldn't it be hard to climb up on the table and not have the dead girl fall off under you. Wouldn't it smell? THE SMELL!
Here are a few of the parts of the story that stuck out to me:
"Douglas was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday for having sex with the corpses of Apling and Angel Hicks. That’s in addition to the three-year prison term imposed on him in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to having sex with the corpse of Karen Range who was murdered in 1982. He had sex with Range’s corpse which was bloody, its head almost severed and had been stored in the morgue cooler for hours."
"He raped a five-months pregnant dead woman,” Apling, now in his mid-20s, said."
“There is no excuse for my crime,” Douglas told the judge. “If I wasn’t under the influence, this never would have happened.”
Huh, so it's all okay because he was drunk/on drugs right? I watched the video where he says he is sorry and it's been on his conscious since then.
It looks like he would have been about 29 the first time they caught him and 37 the next time. He worked there from 1976-1992. Are you really going to tell me in 16 years that only happened two times? And that it was 8 years between incidents. Bullshit. Looking a little further into it, it seems like he was already serving three years for a previous case and is going to do three more for the two most recent ones to come to light.
More information can be found here.
Now, 26 years later, DNA evidence has allegedly uncovered who did rape Karen Range - however the answer has the country reeling in disgust with the answer. That's because authorities now believe Karen Range was sexually assaulted as her cold body laid in the city morgue.
Investigators finally found a match to the semen found inside Karen Range's body. It came when 55 year old Kenneth Douglas was arrested in March on drug charges. During that arrest, a DNA sample was obtained which prosecutors say provides a positive match to the DNA obtained from the murdered woman's body.
According to police, Douglas worked at the morgue from 1976 to 1992 and was responsible for checking Range's body into the morgue soon after the murder occurred. Hamilton County Prosecutors say Douglas' job provided him the opportunity to sexually assault Range's unwashed body after it had been stored in the cooler for approximately four hours.
As if I wasn't grossed out enough, the bottom of the above story mentioned this.
In either event, this isn't the first incidence of a morgue or hospital employee raping a dead body. Earlier this month we profiled the case of a group of teens who dug a girl up out of the ground to rape her.
DUG HER UP!!!!!!! Excuse me while I go barf up my Eggos.
I am thoroughly repulsed. Now I would like to hear your views on the point.
Is this bad parenting?
2.4.2010
Codi is sick. He's had a fever between 101 ad 103.7 for the last three days now. At first he wouldn't eat but my mom and I got creative. In the last 24 hours Codi has eaten:
Home made brownies (which mysteriously disappeared from my kitchen when I left last night)
Hostess cupcakes
Hostess donettes
Otter pops
Chocolate pudding
Vanilla marshmallows
Push pop
Hostess cupcakes
Juice
And an ice cream sandwich.
The otterpops give fluid right? And the rest is good fuel for the body right?
Right?
2.1.2010
Have you ever found a song so perfect for yourself or someone that you can’t help but feel like it was created just for you?
When I was younger I remember hearing the song playing on my blog today. It’s by Cat Stevens. The song always caught my eye for one reason, the lyrics
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
and I'll always remember you like a child, girl
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you sad, girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
The song struck a cord in me because honestly when I was younger I was pretty fucking hot, and I knew it. I also knew that I could pretty much get my way with my smile. Don’t believe me, ask my algebra teacher in high school who let me audit the class the entire year and then gave me an A on my report card.
I’ve gotten out of a lot of speeding tickets with a smile. Even as recent as last June, when Ginger and I got pulled over going to Vegas, I put the smile on, and drove off with no tickets.
Anyway around the time I graduated or moved out I remember my mom giving me that CD. I knew what she was trying to tell me, and I understood it. I kept my smile, because it is true to me, but I put away all the other things I was keeping up just for appearances.
I might also add in how much shit I got for owning and listening to a Cat Stevens CD (don’t even get me started on the hell I got for my Joe Cocker CD, seriously, if you say anything I will kick you in the shin)
About a month ago I was driving with my much younger cousin and the song came on. I was flabbergasted because at that exact moment we were talking about appearances, and how you present yourself. You see, for a while my little cousin took a wrong turn in life. She went through the skanky clothes phase and the emo phase and it just drove me bonkers. She is beautiful. She has a great personality, and if she applied herself she could have an amazing future. That day she showed up in a pair of normal boot cut jeans basic white converse a very cute little hoodie. I said to her, “do you realize how beautiful you look right now?” We kept talking about how sometimes being plain is the best. She mentioned Jennifer Aniston, and I said YES exactly like her. No matter what she stayed true to herself. You never see her prancing around in skinny jeans or whatever the current trend is. It’s boot cut jeans, a tank top and a cute flannel shirt. Then my cousin had a bit of an epiphany, every man in the world has a crush on Jennifer, and they have for years. And then she understood. With the exception of about 5 months in 8th grade I have never strayed from my basic style. Boot cut jeans, tanks, hoodies, sweaters, and basic shoes. In the summer, casual dresses, and cute fun summery shoes. None of that weird gladiator shit that people wear because People magazine said it was cool.
At the exact moment we were talking about all of this, the Cat Stevens song came on and I was just blown away. I turned it up, expecting her to make fun of me but surprisingly she liked it, a lot. She listened to the words and in those three minutes it clicked in her head how much more important it is to stick to your guns, be who you are and be happy no matter what.
I have to say, that since that day she has dressed so much different, she still wears skinny jeans sometimes but only on days she needs to wear her uggs and tuck them in. She wakes up early to do her hair rather then go to school with it all ratty. But most of all she just looks happy. Every day, since that drive with her I have thought of that song, and thought of how much it hit home with both of us. While I still like my smile I have been careful to stick to who I am like it or not. I plan to buy her this CD for her birthday, so just like me she can remember how important it is to listen to yourself and not a celebrity, or the kids at school in their little cliques.
I am sure the conversation would have ended the same no matter what, but I can’t help feeling like that perfect song came on at the perfect time for the perfect person. I would like to hope that day helped her make the change, or it's possible she did it herself. Either way I am glad she woke up and saw the light.
This post may have ended up seeming irrelevant to a lot of you, but I'm willing to bet, on of you will listen to my song, read this blog, and understand just exactly what I'm saying.
In which you leave here more annoyed then you came
1.31.2010
For the last four days my husband and I have been going round and round with songs stuck in our head. The other night I intentionally started singing one because I just knew it would get to him. I was right, the next morning he woke up so pissed off because he had been singing it all night.
That would be the one by Shinedown, you know the lyrics: (Lyrics here 50 seconds into the song)
It's 4:03 and I can't sleep
Without you next to me I
Toss and turn like the sea
It was payback for the other night when he put that stupid fucking Taylor Swift song in my head:
Listen hear to hear the song 39 seconds in)
But she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts
She’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up
And find what you’re looking for has been here the whole time
She wears high heels, I wear sneakers
Shes cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you’re looking for has been here the whole time
(That one didn't go away for almost ten days)
Last night it was: (Click here to hear the song) 18 seconds into the song
Tag Team back again
check and direct and let's begin
Party on party people let me hear some noise
DC's in the house jump jump rejoice
There's a party over here
a party over there
Wave your hands in the air
Shake your deriere
These three words when you're gettin' busy
Whoomp there it is
And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse I started singing Whoomp there it is, in the form of a song my cousin and I made for our favorite pizza place, (Lisa I dare you to see if you can remember as much of the song as me).
But today, oh today it was the worst of all (click here to hear) (13 seconds in)
Blinded by the light,
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night
What is the problem with that song?
Have you ever heard of the websites making fun of the songs with the most commonly misheard lyrics?
Here, go ahead, check out #29. Yeah, that is what I was singing all day,
Revved up like DOUCHE another runner in the night.
Sigh.
I can't tell you how many of the lyrics on that website I thought were right. Like Zombie, from the Cranberries, yeah for about 3 years I swear it said" salami salami."
Okay, misheard lyrics are not what I came to talk about. What I want to know is, what is the song most commonly stuck in your head? Or what song is stuck in your head right now.
For all you moms out there I'll give you my favorite kid one.
LALALA LALALA ELMOS WORLD, ELMO LOVES HIS GOLD FISH HIS CRAYON TOO, THATS ELMOS WORLD.
Batter up, whats your song?
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