New Years

Same Planet Different Worlds

/ Anita Marie / 2 Comments

( Non-Youtube video is HERE)

This is what I learned from this video: If you’ve only been alive for nine-years, the past decade you saw will  be different from the way anyone over the age of 30 saw it. However, if you want to meet on common ground ask a nine-year old about Bloody Mary, Big Foot and Barack Obama and you will be on the page before you know it.

:::about this video:::

So much has defined this past decade, but imagine what it would be like if the past 9 years were the only years you had lived through. Yahoo! News editor Allison Louie-Garcia spoke to fourth graders in Orange County, Calif. to get some perspective on the ’00s from those who have only experienced it.  From naming the biggest celebrities, to discussing computer habits, to explaining 9/11, these 9-year-olds’ answers–often funny, sometimes sobering, always candid–offered a clear snapshot of life in the 21st Century.

2009

/ Anita Marie / 4 Comments

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::::My 2009 resolutions are simple::::

I want to write more.

Oh.

And I want to have a little less fun

because I’m sure you know- to much of a good thing isn’t good for you.

Also.

I’d like to be a little more sarcastic, you know to round out my personality more.

That’s it.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Cheers!

Anita Marie

 

Too Bad I Slept Through It

/ Anita Marie / 5 Comments

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Some people didn’t have to spend the New Years in Bed watching tv ( okay, there’s a Twilight Zone and CSI Marathon going on so I’m not exactly busted up over that) because they’re sick.

Other people actually got to have fun….

Check it out: 

This is how some people saw 2008 in- this bar was built of Ice…I SO would have gone here myself.

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See more New Years pictures at  BBC page HERE

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This happened in Seattle-  right in Bill  ” Microsoft’s ” Gate’s  backyard…God I love stories like these:

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Computer glitch interrupts Needle fireworks

Fireworks explode off the top of the Space Needle, bringing in 2008, as seen from a condo complex on lower Queen Anne. Delays due to a computer glitch lengthened the show, according to a Space Needle spokeswoman. Ultimately, the show had to be executed manually, but it was out of sync with the accompanying music. In 14 years, this is the first such problem.

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According to the Media 

We did not have a Groovy Time in Snohomish County

This is the big  2008 New Years Story to come out of my little neck of the suburbs.

It’s about laws that go into effect  around Washington state today.

Geeze.

That’s like getting pencils and socks for Christmas.

and 

on the Blog Front

Here at my blog I had over 100 hits on Christmas Day from people looking for stories about Exorcisms.

Oh….and Exploding Pigeons.

Funny.

But Scary.

HEY

!hope you had a great New Years!

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