My favorite Food.

                Place it in the microwave press two buttons and wait 3 minutes and you will have my favorite food. Every since elementary school popcorn has been my go to snack, having a bag right when a get home from school every day.
               That routine lasted all the way through middle school but it had to end once I began high school due to football practice right after school. I could eat popcorn for every meal on every day. I don’t think there is anything than a nice hot bag of popcorn with some peanut m&ms in it. Even though most consider popcorn a healthy snack I wouldn’t put mine in the category. After I put a ton of salt and butter on I, it kind of loses its nutritional value.
               Even now when I get hungry I usually just put a bag of popcorn in and eat that. I think that a bag of popcorn is perfect too because it fills me up but it isn’t a struggle to try and finish it. In fact in middle school I would have a bag before every football practice and it never caused any problems. I will eat any type of popcorn but my usually is Orville Redenbacher Movie theater butter. But my favorite kind of popcorn is Carmel corn.
              My favorite part about popcorn is the un-popped kernels at the bottom of the bowl. I don’t remember when or why I started but I love to eat the kernels. Even though it upsets my parents because they claim I will crack a tooth. I don’t know what it is about them but they are so awesome to chew on. They have a different taste then the popcorn, obviously they are still buttery but they don’t taste like popcorn.
             That’s another cool part about popcorn; there are so many different types of popcorn you can’t get tired of it. You can have cheesy popcorn to kettle corn and it will be delicious. I will continue to eat popcorn until I can’t eat anymore.

Future of TV

             My family just got Netflix and I will be the first to say it is the greatest thing ever. It is allowing me to watch shows that aren’t on anymore, either cancelled or in between seasons. I have already re watched the first season of Workaholics which is one of my favorite series and I am now watching one of best series on MTV that got cancelled called Skins.
             I just started watching Weeds, a series about a widow turned drug dealer to maintain her high end lifestyle. It is very funny and has a good story. I have only watched three episodes but I plan on watching all of it,

Skins is about a rowdy bunch of high school juniors that tend to do some rather ridiculous things for anyone led alone juniors in high school. I think that’s what appealed me to the series. It shows how messed up kids nowadays are even though it is exaggerated. The head of the group is Tony, the good looking popular kid that takes everything he has for granted. Tony’s best friend is Stanley, the lazy stoner bum at the school that rarely goes to class. Then you have Chris, my personal favorite because he is nuts. He pops whatever pills he gets a hold of. That’s the plot to the series, a group of kids with drug problems and then the usual high school drama.

I plan on re-watching The Walking Dead since it is the best show ever made. But I also plan on watching some of the other main series that my friends have seen.

Superbowl Sunday

                It’s Superbowl Sunday. The most watched event on television is on tonight but you would never know. In the past Superbowl Sunday was as close to a holiday as you could get but slowly society has changed and now it is just another Sunday with a football game on. I don’t know why this is happening, maybe people just don’t enjoy football as much as they used to. Either way I will be watching the game hoping for a close game.

                You have people that watch the game for the game and then the people that watch it for the commercials. I will admit the commercials are pretty funny but I mean it is the Superbowl. The two best teams in the NFL are playing and this year two brothers are coaching against each other. I think the emphasis should be on the game and the commercials just a bonus during the ridiculous amount of commercial breaks the game has.

                The worst Superbowls are the blow outs. Even if you are cheering for a certain team, it is better to see them lose close than to win big. No one wants to watch a blow out especially when it is so hyped up. This year the media is only talking about two things, the Harbough brothers and Ray Lewis. I think the Harbough brother situation is possible the coolest thing that could happen. Just imagine your two sons coaching in the NFL then to have them in the Superbowl is crazy.

                Ray Lewis on the otherhand doesn’t deserve my thoughts. I hope the game is close but I really want the 49ers to win.

Ice

Ice covers the ground and I am stranding inside my house and I have no complaints.I don’t know where my love for the cold comes from but I have had it for a while, always begging for the winter weather to come earlier and earlier. Maybe it’s the memories I have of winter and all of the activities I used to do when I was smaller. When I was little I loved to be outside in the cold. Whether it was helping my parents shovel the drive way or just playing outside building forts and snowmen. Winter also brings Christmas with it, my favorite holiday ever, waking up early to go downstairs and open all of my presents. Looking out the window and seeing nothing but snow just brings a warm feeling to me.

Even though the cold can be a hardship, like Friday night when we had to play a football in the 30’s when it still should be in at least the 50’s. Even though I played enough to maintain my warmness it was still a little too cold for a football game. But on the other hand I much rather be cold at a game than be dying of heat exhaustion and needing a drink every second to replenish all of the sweat you are losing.  But for the rest of the season we will have to deal with these frigid temperatures. Which I don’t mind too much because personally I think I play better in the cold.

No matter what this is still my favorite part of the year and I wish it last longer than it does even though it tends to drag on a little long for most people’s preferences. So I will start cherishing these days as they slowly pass until the last snow melted and the smell of spring is back in the air. But until then I will love every day.

Taper

            Taper, it is finally here. Swimmer’s favorite time of the season, taper is the part of the year where practices get easier to prepare your body for the big meets coming up. The amount of yards drops as the rest in between increases. Also morning practices are over so you can actually sleep like a normal human being for the first time since swimming started.

             I was 6 years old when I joined the local swim team. I was already a good swimmer because I grew up a few blocks away from a pool and me and my mom and sisters would go to the pool every day, rain or shine. This is where I originally learned how to swim, no swimming lessons just messing around at the pool all day. I was very talented at a very young age. I could swim every stroke and do well when I was swimming kids two years older than me because the youngest division was 8 and under. At practice I swam with the older kids because the kids my age weren’t fast enough for me. Plus I liked the older kids a lot more. Swimming with the older kids challenged me and made me push myself which just made me better and by the time I turned 8 I won the 8 and under 25 yard breaststroke city championship.

 The best part of my younger days of swimming was the enjoyment I got. Nowadays every time I wake up early for swim practice I hate it and I don’t want to swim. But back then I woke up early every morning wanting to go to the pool to get better and swim. I don’t absolutely hate swimming anymore because if that was the case I would’ve quit by now. I don’t love it anymore but I enjoy enough to still do it. Even though I don’t enjoy it as much as I used to, I will still miss it and the memories I made

Miss Reprensentation

            In the film Miss Representation it said that only 17% of congress is made up of women. After seeing that, I wanted to investigate that fact. After some searching I found a website with some information.

            I found that 52% of the women that ran for congress won their district. That is more than half so it isn’t like Americans won’t vote for women it is that there isn’t enough women running for office. Women have no one to blame but themselves. If you want more women in congress more women need to run. Even though you may think people vote for people due to their race or gender, which some do, most people vote for the better candidate.

            I don’t think you can blame media for the lack of women in politics. Yes, you can say that media scrutinizes women who are in politics, but then look at the big picture. Men are attacked just as much as women, the only difference is men aren’t attacked for their appearance. I think that is because men simply don’t care about their appearance as much as women. If someone called President Obama too skinny he would probably make a joke out of it, so it wouldn’t bother him as much as it would a woman.

            We are all raised on the saying “You can do whatever you want to as long as you work at it.” So maybe women just don’t want to be congress women or political leaders. I know some do and that’s great run for office but don’t go blaming other people for not having enough women in politics.

Superbowl

                The Superbowl has been set. The Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers will face off, which means the two Harbough brothers will be playing each other on the biggest stage. Even though I really don’t like either team I do think it will be a good game. The Ravens defense against Collin Kaepernick and the speedy offense of the 49ers.

                I think that the 49ers will win just because of their offense. The Ravens are not going to be able to stay with the 49ers offense and the Ravens offense isn’t good enough to outscore the 49ers. I am still surprised at how bad the Patriots played against the Ravens in the AFC Championship game. I am a hug Tom Brady fan and to see him play poorly and lose was not fun. But after watching the game I realized how good Tom Brady really is. He got to the AFC Championship game with potentially the worst offensive line I have seen. He also has a very little run attack which is needed by any quarterback led alone a quarterback trying to win a Superbowl.

                My team’s season (the Chiefs) has been over for a while and finishing dead last in the league comes with one good thing, the first pick. But with the Chief’s luck there are no outstanding players that would usually be a number one pick. Unlike last year when there were two number one picks between RG3 and Andrew Luck. I still think the Chiefs are in desperate need of a quarterback but with the new addition of Andy Reid I don’t have a clue who the Chiefs will pick.