You Tube can be such a great resource for finding those clips of American Idol's past. Every so often I have to do a search for Constantine Maroulis & see what he is up to & reminisce over my favorite American Idol performance of all time. The season ended for me with his early departure. Do you all remember this??? *sigh*
And for fun I clicked on this amazing performance of Bohemian Rhapsody by the Ten Tenors...quite entertaining!
Ever since Drew taught herself to read and write she has been writing stories of all kinds, dreaming of publishing. She will make up songs writing down the lyrics with many "oh"s and "ah"s added. Last year she discovered Shel Silverstein and has a new passion for writing poems. They rarely make a LOT of sense...but they ALWAYS rhyme!
Yesterday she came home from school and had written a poem on the bus that totally cracked me up and I find it quite publishable.
When Your Old
by Drew Bassett
When your old,
You are bold.
When your old,
You don't fold.
When your old,
You will scold.
When your old,
You feel cold.
When your old,
You don't need to be told.
When your old,
You smell like mold.
(published as written...spelling & punctuation)
Okay...so if you have followed my blog you'll notice that there haven't been that many entries as of late. I am at a blog block because my friend Rachel tagged me: 
Well I did a post a while back revealing 100 things about myself which really covered a LOT of quirks! I have been pondering and just couldn't really come up with any good ones because I am blog blocked.
Last night I decided that instead I was going to write about 7 amazing things that have happened in my lifetime (really in no particular order).
1. The Space Shuttle was introduced. We watched the first launch on tv at school...it was BIG news! Since that first launch 2 of the shuttles have disintegrated in flight...one at the launch at one at the reentry. I am not a part of the generation where even landing on the moon sounds crazy...but it is still amazing how much exploration there has been going on in space.
2. Technology is amazing! Computers have gone from taking up an entire building to being as small as a notebook. Microwaves can boil water in a matter of minutes. VCR's & DVD's, CD's, i-pods...well you get the picture!!!
3. The Red Sox won the World Series (oh come ON! You KNEW that one was making the list!!!)
4. All worthy men are given the priviledge of holding the Priesthood in my church.
5. The World Wide Web is a mainstay in most homes & used as a resource MUCH more often than the hard-copy alternative. (For us oldies...remember researching a report in college and using the catalogs to look up different topics and then praying that the University subscribed to that particular journal & schleping around the library finding stacks of journals & copying millions of articles to research???)
6. One of the most horrific terrorist attacks in history happened in the US. I will never forget because it changed me forever.
7. A black man can not only run for office, but win an election.
I know that there are so many other things...and so many that you may think are MUCH more important than the ones I listed. I am AMAZED at the changes occurring all around us. So many things happen that people think will/can never happen. I haven't lived THAT long of a life and I think that this list is rather impressive! I wonder what 7 things my kids will list when they are 36...
Here's my 4th picture from my 4th folder. This picture makes me both laugh and cry at the same time (and not the crossed wires crying when I'm laughing problem I have). Ellie is talking on the phone to grandma and I took a picture to send to grandma. I want to laugh when I see how cute she was, but I want to cry when I see how sick she was & I didn't know because I didn't know what she SHOULD be looking like. It's one of those things where I see how healthy she looks now and when I see her back then I truly have a shudder go down my spine!
I tag 4 people from 4 walks of my life: Karen (my NV buddy), Becky (my Boston buddy & only friend who really understands the Sox thing), Krin (my NIL...niece-in-law in UT) & Stephanie (my old on-line boss, since you did the 6th one...now you can do the 4th!!)
