The fascination with Jersday

So I had a little time this morning to talk about two of my friends who have a Thursday night ritual called Jersday. If you live on this planet we call Earth you probably already know about the "epic-ness" that is Jersey Shore, which I have been guilty of watching from time to time. My friends usually switch every week who's house they watch the show at and are very set on not missing a single minute of it. Like I said I can not blame them entirely for wasting an hour of their time every week because I have joined in on this ritual a couple of times. However, I have to catch myself every so often and ask "What is the frieken significance of this mindless show?" Sure it's a lot of fun to dress up like them, have a good laugh at them, and fist pump just like them at parties... but is it really worth wasting that precious hour every week watching them get crazy drunk and beat each other up because a guy in a club had the audacity to look in their direction?

At my age,  I know right from wrong so watching a tv show like this probably wouldn't influence me to add a smush room to my apt. But can you just imagine what this show is doing to those youngin's who are viewing this show, striving to hook up with their own "Italian Stallion?" Maybe I'm just more upset because I work with children. The things that come out of their mouths and their deliquent behaviors are without a doubt, directly correlated with watching this show when their parents are not aroundlor worse, they're parents don't mind them watching it. I wish the tv had a scanner that did not allow kids of a certain age to watch shows like this, but until then I'm just going to be the nerd at the party who decided to speak out against crappy television for the 30 seconds it takes you to read this post. Sorry I'm not sorry.

Gahhhh!!!

So the title of this post is really all I can say at the moment because there are no words to make up for how many days I have gone without writing. Between 2 jobs, planning a wedding that will happily end my long distance relationship once and for all, and searching for insanely inspiring grad schools, blogging has unfortunately gone to the bottom of my to-do list. If you haven't given up on me yet hang in there! I have so many "friends" to catch you up on! Don't worry I'm making a list. I promise, if you give me just a few more weeks, things will slow down and I will have checked off a highly anticipated life changing event to my list of things to be thankful for: )

 In the meantime, I have a friend who has the most interesting book collection. She has a crazy passion for improving the lives and well-being of all children and even rivals my personal drive to help the less fortunate little ones. She let me borrow one of her books called "Jesus Land" and although it is very sad, it is very eye-opening. It is a true story based on the accounts of one girl who endured a very abusive childhood and was brave enough to share it with the rest of the world. This book only reinforces my passion to help children who grow up not knowing right from wrong or even what true happiness is. If the book does not interest you my feelings won't be hurt. I only ask that you find another book to become inspired by as an assignment while I get my ducks in a row and finally marry the love of my life!