Just Bethany :)

Most people turn on their television, sit down, and waste time avoiding things to do.  Last night, I was at my aunt’s helping out with my cousins kids.  I waited anxiously for 8:30 to come around.  Somewhere after a three year old throwing up on me, home made pizza’s, and before putting to bed one very sleepy 6 year old, my favorite time of the year finally came around.

People think I’m nuts.  I’m a hockey nut, and I really am.  I try to learn everything I can about the sport, I’m still learning, but I can’t get enough of it.  I would sit for hours watching the NHL Network and not think another thought about it.  In fact I had a hard time deciding whether or not I would attend my niece’s blessing simply because there was a hockey game in Vegas that I would have given anything to be there for.  That’s just how I am, hockey comes before most things, aside from school work of course.

8:30 was when the Blue Jackets opened their season, opened my season.  They showed grit, determination, and character as they battled to earn a 1-0 lead, then went down 2-1 in the second, and in the third had a 4-2 lead then the Stars came back to tie it up.  The game was decided in overtime, when Rick Nash scored the game winner, we won, my team won.

Somewhere between now and April we (the Jackets) will play 81 brutal games, they will sacrifice their bodies, to win.  We will have ups and downs, trades, injuries, and whatever else pops up.  It’s a long, long road, but I’m ready for it.  And one day, hopefully at the end of April, the Blue Jackets will skate onto the ice at Nationwide Arena, and play their first game of meaningful hockey.  Ironically the NHL’s campaign for this year is, “Is this the Year?”…enjoy one of the commercials for the NHL.

My brother and sister in law are slackers in the blogging department, so I have taken it upon myself to put up pictures of my gorgeous niece.  The world needs to see her.  She is so gosh darn cute and we are so lucky to have her in our life.

Brooklyn is a lot like her Aunt, she likes to eat, and she has no patience.

Oh my gosh, so funny.

H/T to The Pensblog

**Assignment for school.**

Here is the link.

This video is the paparazzi stationed in front of the hospital that Britney Spears was at, during one of her many episodes.   There are many ethical issues here, but I think the one that I am most concerned about is the other people that are in the hospital and their privacy.  These people have families that need to come in and out of the hospital.  They deserve to be able to go in and out of the hospital as they wish.

What I would have done differently is just report the story.  You don’t need to show who is going to visit her, or who is going to stay with her.  Report that she’s in the hospital and leave it at that, in this situation Britney Spears was suffering from mental illness, and she needed to be treated and left alone.

**This post, and the next post entitled, Ethical Dilemma #2 are for a class.**

 This is the link to my ethical dilema.  Here is the link to the video, in question.

The Ethical Dilemma is that it has nothing to do with the election.  It’s also showing gruseum  things that the public doesn’t need to see.  If I am running for an office, I would say what my plan is.  As Ted Leonsis said, “If I was a candidate right now, I would NOT get into the mud. I would try to rise up and rally America with a plan; with specifics; and with inspiration.”  The shape our country is in, we don’t have time to deal with the smack talking, we need facts.

If I were a candidate, and this ad came to me, I would first of all, tell them absolutely not.  This has NOTHING to do with the shape the United States is in.  It has nothing to do with the majority of the United States.  Not once does it mention what the alternative is.  It also never mentioned the overpopulation of the wolves in that area, and how they come into camps, and how they injure people.

If this was an ad I was putting out, I would change it around, you don’t have to show animals getting killed to get your point up.  You could get the point by just doing a dark commercial with white words on the screen, a completely silent commercial, people would notice that there was no sound and pay attention to it.  Whenever something changes on the television and I’m watching, I notice.

I seriously love this little baby.  She makes my life happy, and I miss her way too much.

That face cracks me up!!

She’s so happy!!

 Isn’t she gorgeous?!  LOVE HER!!