Sketch Up

Professor

I could not upload sketchup to youtube so sara gave me a site that I could send it to you through email , hopefully you get it!

Final Project again

Professor,

So heres my movie again. I changed the audio so I could put it onto youtube, but it lost the narration that my mom had talking about her adoption.

I did show it in class and Sara did see it, if this one is good I'll keep it unless there is a way to email it because it keeps telling me that the file is too large!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4OOPZhz4A

Final Project

This is the youtube link to my family movie. It has no audio because when I used Audioswap it lost the dialogue of my mother talking. I am attempting to send the one with Audio to Professor Baldwin but for now this will do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4OOPZhz4A

All done with blog.

I never had a blog before so this was a new experience for me. It is interesting to read about what other people are thinking about. It is also nice when it is people that you do not know very well. I tend to try and figure people out by what they say and how they say it, I guess in this case type.

I enjoyed writing about things that were on my mind however I don't see me having a personal blog. I tend to keep those things to myself in my own journal that I keep. I pull it out every once in a while to write down what has been going on in my life, just so I have something to look back on.

My journal is unbelievable. You see how much I have changed as a person just by reading what I wrote. I was definitely a dependent passive girl when I was younger. I went through so much over a short time that I completely transformed. Sometimes I wish I wasn't at too opposite sides of the spectrum. I wish I was able to have a happy medium of being passive and aggressive. I guess since I was a doormat for so many years, I'm having that middle finger up attitude a little too often.

Home Videos

Watching home videos now are really hard for me. I miss how things use to be when I was a kid. I use to follow my brothers around with a banana as a gun, as they played cops and robbers. Who would have thought that that little girl would grow up into who I am now.

I love looking at the way me and my siblings acted and trying to see if our personalities were developed then, or they changed as we got older. My sister had attachment issues with my mother and she still does. My oldest brother was easily angered, but he has definitely calmed down. While my other brother hasn't changed at all. Always trying to make everyone laugh and definitely a smart human being.
I think that I have definitely changed. I use to be quiet and gentle. Now I am a loud obnoxious woman that will speak her mind in any situation.

The best part about home videos is looking at my parent's relationship. The way they were back then , makes me understand why they are the way they are now. It is sad to see that but I was fortunate enough to grow up with two parents that were still married. Unfortunately I think we were the only reasons they stayed married, but whatever works, i'll take it.

Raining money

In Italy a bank truck crashed and was spilling out over 2 million euros. People were running through the streets and grabbing money. Now why can't that happen near me? If there were over 2 million dollars just floating in the street, I would put my game face on and collect as much as I could. Its like the pinata from heaven.

I think if that happened over here, there would be a lot more fights breaking out. I feel like people are extremely greedy and money driven in America, which is understandable since everything is so expensive now. If I could just get handed money rather than work 3 jobs, I'm going to be honest, I'll take it.

I do enjoy working and having something to do in a day but sometimes I feel like I work a lot harder than what I get paid. It frustrates me seeing celebrities and athletes making a disgusting amount of money and are set for life. Meanwhile you have people, like my father , that are almost 60 years old doing physical labor each day making enough to provide for the family for necessities. It doesn't seem fair to me.

my attempt at rainbow cookies

For the fourth of July, I tried to bake something. I decided to make rainbow cookies , I was feel ambitious. So I went to the store and bought all the ingredients and after spending $40 when I could have bought a batch for $6.99, I told myself these better be some badass cookies.

As I'm in the kitchen I had a few setbacks. I got so excited that the mix I made actually smelt like a rainbow cookie, that I proceeded to knock over the entire bowl of flour. Not the end of the world, just had to remeasure. Then when I was told to use 1 1/2 sticks of softened butter, I put it in the microwave and was left with a bowl of soup.

After all my setbacks I finally got them in the oven out baked and ready to eat. Then about 10 minutes later, my brother walks in to visit from the city. He works at a bakery and thought it would be nice to bring home 2 boxed of rainbow cookies....... reallllllly?

no sleep

So I've pretty much accepted the fact that I'm not sleeping tonight. I have so much work to do and I feel like I never have enough time to do it. It has been a really stressful last couple of days and somehow you need to hold yourself together.

I love being awake late at night but there comes a time where it really is time to go to bed. I am absolutely exhausted and I can only imagine what I am going to feel like going through my day tomorrow. I know the second I get home from school , I'm going to crash hard. Then I have to somehow go to work.

I'm opening my second 5 hour energy shot hoping it will last me. I am so happy the fist session is almost over and I got my credits done that I had to. Now if I was done with school for good then I'd be even happier however, I am convinced I will be in school until I am 30.

Pepsi Refresh

I just saw a commercial for the Pepsi Refresh. The idea was really sweet and it was from a 10 year old girl. She had people donate old clothes and she made them into reusable shopping bags. The fact that such a young girl is contributing to society to help the environment is such a positive thing. I feel that the younger kids start by helping out, the more likely they are to grow up into appreciative adults, which are not that common these days.

I think I may try and submit an idea, it can't hurt to try. I'm not sure what it would be but I would to incorporate something with Autistic Children. I know from the boy that I babysit, he loves carnivals and bounce houses more than he loves anything else. I would love to have an interactive place where he could go where he could learn and also have fun.

where did 50 cent go?

So I saw the pictures of 50 cent losing all the weight for his movie hes doing. I think it is unbelievable how the human body can change, he doesn't even look like the same person. He doesn't look healthy for that matter.

People in hollywood lose and gain weight like they change their clothes. Meanwhile , everyone else has to bust their ass to try and drop a damn inch. It really is crazy that he was able to make such a transformation all for a movie.

When people lose weight, it really changes them. Even on shows like the biggest loser, some of them are unrecognizable. They look like they lose an entire person. Even though it is sometimes hard to believe how they even got that out of control big, it is still possible to lose it all.

Fears.

I think fears are extremely interesting. I always wonder, what makes someone so afraid of something, that doesn't phase the next person. How can you over come fears or even sometimes outgrow them? I have fears, some are ridiculous and some are clearly valid. I still don't know where the fears came from though.

When I was younger, I was afraid of thunderstorms and that is probably an understatement. I wouldn't go to school if I saw there were clouds in the forecast. I use to fake sick to come from and I would make my parents stay at soccer practice with me if a drop of rain fell. My fear began to take over my life and one day, it was gone. Now I find thunderstorms to be beautiful and I love to watch them and I don't understand what made me go through that transformation.

I also have a fear of birds. My friends think it is hysterical to be with me in the city as I dodge the 1203345 pigeons that roam the streets. However, to me, its not that much fun. I don't know why I am so afraid of birds but for some reason I start panicking when they are around me. Maybe one day i'll grow out of this fear too and be a crazy bird lady that lives alone with 100 birds in the middle of no where. As of right now though, I just want them to stay away from me.

I need to leave the country

After watching the world cup and everyone talking about their summer vacations, I really need to travel. I have never left the country before and I feel like I am missing out on so much that the world has to offer. I feel like sometimes I don't fit in in our society because I appreciate the little things in life that people pass each day without noticing.

I have an obsession with the night sky. I find myself sitting outside for hours just staring up at the moon and the stars and getting lost in my own thoughts. I would love nothing more than to be able to be somewhere without street lights and car tires interrupting my peace.

I have always wanted to go to Italy. Partly because I am Italian but also because how beautiful it looks and how loving and affectionate Italians are. I would love to try and go the end of the summer but I only have 8 days in between summer session and the fall semester. I feel like if I got to leave the country and experience how others live, I would really appreciate what I have and realize what I am missing.

Donating Blood

Tomorrow I am donating blood for extra credit in one of my classes. I think it was a really good idea to offer this as an option because I feel many people never really think to go out of their way to donate. I definitely fall under that category, not that I don't want to donate , I just never think to look up when it is being offered.

I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous. The last time I donated blood, the nurse didn't really do a good job. My arm was bruised it looked I got attacked by something. Also, if its going to continue to be 100 degrees I don't know how well my body will handle losing blood.

At the end of the day though I am excited because I'm happy I'm doing something good with my time. I know I have the rarest blood type too so maybe it will be of use to someone that needs it. I just hope the nurse knows what she's doing this time.

reality tv are jokes

reality TV shows are getting more and more comical. The other night when I was out, I got to experience what really goes down. A woman approached me and asked if I wanted to be on an MTV reality show they were going to come out with. I really had no interest and wrote my number down to pretty much get her to leave me alone , not thinking she'd actually call.

She called me the next morning and explained to me it would be a dating show. I couldn't stop laughing. She said how they would come to my house and I would have to spend the weekend with two boys and my parents would pick the boy for me.

First off, she said that if my parents didn't want to do it, they would supply me with fill ins. Second, I said I had a boyfriend and she said he could play along. These shows are absolutely outrageous and I don't see how people see this as entertainment.And for the record, if you haven't guessed, I'm not doing the show.

sisters

To me there is nothing like a bond between two sisters. I have a little sister who is also my best friend. I am lucky enough to experience what it is like to have both brothers and sisters and the different relationships that you share.

My sister and I have the best relationship. We can talk about anything and we can have fun with anything that we do. I'm lucky because she is not an annoying little sister that people have trouble dealing with. She has taught me so much. I look up to her and I know I am the one supposed to be setting the example.

She carries herself way better than I did when I was 18 years old. I hope that she learned from my mistakes because as long as she makes the right decisions, I am okay with my failures. I started thinking about how much she means to me because she is leaving to go to the Bahamas in a couple of hours and I am truly going to miss her so much. The house will definitely not be the same without her!

Help with Sketch up and Flash!

With sketch up does anyone know how to upload it to youtube and get it to have motion? I dont get how to make it rotate around the picture.

Also, I can't download flash. Can someone tell me what version they used or how they got it to work!

Thank youuuuuuuuuu

Tanning

Today I finally had a day off. I had nothing to do, no obligations. I was excited because I could lay out and tan. Then I started to think, when did tanning becoming what was attractive in our society? I mean you have people that just like to get a little color, but we all know we have seen orange species walking around.

In the winter I go tanning, I don't know if I genuinely think that I look better with a tan, or its because what is thought to be attractive. It is such a damaging thing, yet so many people continue to do it. People will do anything to be good looking even if it risks their health.

This is definitely a new trend because I know my parents do not care about any of those things. They grew up with whoever could work the hardest, would make it the best in life. Now it is felt that the better looking you are, the more opportunities you will have and sadly, that's party true.

So confused

I am horrible with computers. I'm sure you are wondering what possessed me to take this class then. I needed a Dec D but I actually really like the programs that I have been introduced too. However, it does get really frustrating trying to figure them out.

First off, this flash player won't download onto my computer and I have been trying for hours. I do not know how to change my music on my movie and I am completely pretending like I know what I am doing with sketch up. Thankfully effort counts in this class because I definitely am trying. I have so many good ideas for my project I just have to figure out how to display them.

I can't believe our last class is on Wednesday, I feel like the session completely flew by. I wish I could say I was done with summer classes but I am taking the second session. I feel like I didn't even have a summer yet and its pretty depressing. I'm definitely not looking forward to the fall semester since the summer was definitely more lax with the classes I took.

Lottery

I'm not a gambler, but I am obsessed with Lottery tickets. I will go a while without buying any , but once I buy one I can't stop, it's kind of like Pringles. I use to buy $1 tickets because I thought it was more fun to have 10 to scratch off rather than 1 $10 one. Then I realized , you never win more than about $2...

The other day I bought a fat wallet, the new scratch off and I won. I only won my money back, but the sick addiction set in. I went back in and bought another. I won $20. I went in bought another, and lost. I went in and bought another and won $10. The guy started to laugh at me becuase I was literally in and out of the store every 2 minutes. I said that this was going to be my last ticket and if I come back in not to sell me won. I went to my car, scratched the last one and won $50.

The way i reacted, you would have thought I hit megamillions. I cashed in and made myself go home. I don not understand why I think one day I am going to hit the jackpot. Lotto is awesome when you win, but when you don't you literally just donated your money to nothing. I am glad that I have a little innocent addiction. I am definitely staying away from casinos because lord knows what damage I will cause.

...Just because you're a cop, doesn't mean you can say that.

I was at Penn Station the other night by myself and I was trying to pass time before the train came. I was just walking around the station when a group of cops called me over and asked if I was lost. I explained I was just killing some time before I took my train back to Long Island.

I thought that they were just being polite becuase they are cops and are supposed to help, however they had different motives apparently. They start asking if I wanted go to out with them and how we should exchange numbers. Just because you have the authority to arrest me, does not mean you get my number, good try though.

I thought it was really pathetic especially with some of the comments they were making. I hate how they think just because they are cops, that they are God. Far from it. I have respect for what they do and a lot of them have a lot of courage but I do not like that they have to ruin it by being inappropriate like that.