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Favorite Things

Hey I hope everyone is having a great day. I'm going to Arkansas tomorrow for my family reunion. I'll put some updates and recaps of my trip if I capture something good. In the mean time here is a video I made of some if my favorite things.

Earthquake!!!

We just had a 5.4 earthquake. I was born and raised here in Los Angeles so I have experienced my fair share of quakes. Earthquakes are something I don't think I'll ever get used to. When the ground starts to shake out of no where and you have no idea when it's going to stop. This one was creepy because I was walking to my kitchen and I heard a strange noise that sounded like some one was trying to tear my roof off so I stopped and looked up and said what in the heck is that. Then everything started shaking and I immediately held on and it felt like it wouldn't end.

Kelly Clarkson is still the best American Idol winner ever

No disrespect to Reuben, Fantasia, Carrie, Taylor(lol), Jordin, or David but none of them can hold a candle to Kelly Clarkson when it comes to vocals. Fantasia(who screams and hollers way to much) and Carrie are good but Kelly can still blow them out of the water.

I have three new t.v. show addictions

Cold Case, The Closer and Saving Grace(even though none them are actually new shows, but there new to me considering I just started watching them)

I am absolutely hooked on these shows to the point where I am actually tempted to go bye the DVDs of the seasons I missed. There are so many things I love about these shows but one of the things that stands is that all three of theses shows feature a strong woman as the lead character.

Believe 2008

Now that I have said my goodbyes, it's time to look toward a future that burns bright. And so begins a new era in Dolphin land. We were down and now we can only go up. We go forth with the belief that we will return to glory.

We Believe

This Made Me Cry

Okay you guys are probably going to think I'm crazy but I can't help it. I am such a huge fan of the Miami Dolphins, Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas. I am passionate about my favorite teams and players as you probably already figured out. When I love a team I'm with them through the ups and downs. I love the Lakers. During the basketball season I bleed purple and gold. I adore Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher. I go through a strange sort of depression when they lose. When Derek left the Lakers to go play for the Warriors, I cried. I was equally as emotional but in a good way when he came back to our team. As the football season approaches and training camps begin, I am excited and remarkably sad. I'm excited because I am full of hope for what the Miami Dolphins can be. I know we're rebuilding but that's okay. I endured last season, I was able to withstand being the butt of every ones jokes and I know it can't be any worse. I'm sad because my favorite Dolphins are no longer technically Dolphins. I went through this a little bit when Dan Marino retired but it was sort of easier because he wasn't going to another team. Jason and Zach are on new teams with new numbers, but it's pretty cool that they have the same number, 55, but I am so used to 99 and 54 and their playing for teams that I didn't watch last season. I know that was a crazy run on sentence but I don't care. It's hard because as the season approaches, my blood is turning from purple and gold to teal and orange. The reality is setting in and my team is officially in rebuilding mode and don't have the players that I fell in love with when I became a Dolphin fan. I found this video on YouTube and as the title said I cried, this is a tribute to Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas.

Old School Jam of the Week

So this week OSJW come from the King himself, or at least that what some people call him. I love this song. I'm also going to post a version that Chris Brown did for the television special Movies Rock. Enjoy.

Artist: Elvis Presley
Song: Jailhouse Rock
Album: Song was released as a single in 1957

Original:



Movies Rock:

Just for Laughs

Watch Out!!!

How to Cheat on Test

Bon Qui Qui

This is funny

I'm Going Through An Adjustment Period

My two favorite Dolphins are playing for different teams this year and they are no longer wearing their Dolphin numbers. Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas are both wearing the #55 jersey. I'm conflicted in a way. I'm going to watch my Miami Dolphins play this year and I'm also going to watch the Washington Redskins play. My problem is watching the Dallas Cowboys play. I hate that team. Their are three teams in the NFL that I absolutely can not stand. They are the New England Patriots, the Oakland Raiders and the Dallas Cowboys. The conflict comes into play because I want to be able to watch Zach Thomas play. I know for sure that I will be watching them twice this year when they play the 'Skins. It's easy for me to watch the Redskins play because I have never had a problem with them, but Dallas that's a whole other story. Why couldn't Zach sign with the Saints. I really like the Saints and love watching them play. I get that Zach is from Texas and lives their, but couldn't he help out a loyal and faithful fan. Oh well, Jason and Zach will always be Dolphins as far as I'm concerned, it's just going to be really weird seeing them in the #55 and with uniforms that aren't orange and teal.

Here's a video I made featuring me

A Proper Farewell

This article comes remarkably close to summing up my feelings regarding Jason Taylor and the Miami Dolphins.






Dave Hyde
Sports Columnist

July 21, 2008

His grandfather sat at a Smith-Corona typewriter each New Year's Day and pecked out annual goals that he'd then read to the family. Jason Taylor inherited that idea.

He arrived as a no-name Dolphins rookie in 1997 and wrote three goals on an index card that he leaned against his nightstand lamp.

That way, he saw them first thing in the morning and last thing at night:

1. Make the team.


2. Improve each day.


3. Start on opening day.

Let's remember that today. Let's remember how his Dolphin time began as we get swamped by its ending. Let's note how Taylor achieved those early goals, then added bigger ones each year.

Become the team's Most Valuable Player? Lead the franchise in sacks? Become the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year?

By the time Taylor left Sunday night in a trade that benefits the team more than it does him, those football goals were only part of what he achieved. Let's note that, too. He made the kind of bond with a community that only the best players do, the ones great enough on the field and good enough off it are able to do.

He gave kids school clothes in one charity function, opened a football camp for underprivileged youth, even started a reading room in Miramar where dozens of teenagers got extra schooling every day. Among pro athletes who gave back, Taylor belongs in the class with Dan Marino and Alonzo Mourning.

That matters. At least it should. And it's why a proper goodbye should be said today, one without the bile of these recent months, one that puts 11 years of good work into the perspective it deserves as he goes off to Washington.

Oh, Taylor asked for a trade like this. Sometimes you don't get exactly what you asked for. That might be the case here, because instead of a championship-ready team Taylor goes to one that eked into the playoffs last year and then got blown away in the first game.

Maybe the Redskins are young and coming. Maybe they need a veteran like Taylor. We'll see. All we know today is Washington lost starting defensive end Phillip Daniels to injury and so paid the asking price for Taylor of a second-round draft pick in 2009 and a sixth-round pick in 2010.

This was the ending that had to come, the sooner the better, because no one came off well in this long goodbye. This new Dolphin regime had an odd, passive-aggressive treatment of Taylor, one week saying in a snit he'd never show up to practice and the next attending his charity events. And if Taylor's Dancing With the Stars commitment was one thing, his tap-dancing over whether he wanted to be traded was another.

Thankfully, that's all passed now. The angst will be quickly forgotten, as will Bill Parcells' March comment that, "The only way Jason Taylor doesn't play for the Dolphins in 2008 is if he retires. The team is not going to trade him.

Everyone knew such bluster was for show when he said it and so can't hold him to it now. Everyone played his part in this parting. Again: This trade had to happen. Again: The sooner it was done, the better. And again: Taylor will be missed, in the way all great players are. He was the last Dolphin on the marquee, too.

There will be others, perhaps soon. But who's left to put up there now? Zach Thomas was released to Dallas months ago. Now Taylor's gone. That's about it as far as forever Dolphins of late.

Consistent? Taylor started 130 straight games, a team record. Talented? He had 117 sacks, another team record. And tough? Well, that was a given, considering at 5, he got into a fight with a dog and bit it.

But then he had an unusual background of a tank commander for one grandfather, a University of Pittsburgh quarterback for another and a home- schooling background at a time that was just coming into vogue. At 12, he had a home-repair business. At 14, he memorized the Book of James.

At 22, he became a Dolphin and he kept growing up before everyone's eyes in the way that doesn't much happen in sports anymore. Sometimes players aren't good enough to last. Sometimes the money takes them to another city.

And sometimes it wasn't pretty with Taylor. That's part of it. We're all frail. He got into an ugly affair with his stepfather that landed in courts. He admitted to personal problems that nearly ended his marriage with Katina, Thomas' sister.

In other words, he grew up in the headlines in a manner a lot of sports stars do. His problems weren't unusual, just magnified. He never ducked the issues. All the while he gave his best on the field and gave back to South Florida in a manner only a couple of athletes have.

Suddenly, he's another city's star, another team's hope."As you might imagine, this is a bit overwhelming right now and I probably need a little time to digest it all," Taylor said in a statement Sunday night.

The timeline was all wrong here. Taylor, at 34 next season, is nearing the end. Parcells and his team are at the beginning. It was best this ending came before the start of Friday's training camp. Taylor gets the start he wants. And the Dolphin era that advertises "A New Beginning" has a complete one.

The last few years on the index card he still kept on his nightstand, Taylor started with one word, always the same one:

Win.

It looks like that's the ending here. Taylor wins in getting to Washington. The Dolphins win in getting a couple draft chips for the future. But, given everyone wins, it doesn't feel like that today. It feels like a goodbye. And, if necessary, those aren't always something to celebrate.

My Jason Taylor is no longer a Dolphin

So it finally happenend, my Jason Taylor was traded from my Miami Dolphins to the Washington Redskins. As I said in an earlier post, I will always root for Miami Dolphins but now I am also cheering for the Redskins. My Dolphins no longer have my two favorite players on our team, Jason Taylor and Zac Thomas.





Jason Taylor and Zac Thomas















Jason with his gorgeous family

Old School Jam of the Week

So I'm back with another OSJW post. I know I said I would be updating the blog and if you noticed I did do some minor changes and there will be more, just be patient with me. So this weeks OSJW is a song by one of my favorite bands Bon Jovi. I'm going to post two versions of the song. The first one is the original version and the second one is from the CMT Crossroads series. The second version includes another one of my favorite bands Sugarland. As much as I love the original, I love the Crossroads version even more. I am convinced that if Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles recorded an album together it would be one of the greatest put out, there voices just are so great together.

Artist: Bon Jovi
Song: It's My Life
Album: Crush (2000)


Original:



CMT Crossroads

HeHe Posh Taking Her Driver Liscense Test

Behold the River Dance

I love Irish culture, the Celtic music and especially the river dance.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson



I hope everyone has a great day. While you are enjoying your barbecue and fireworks take time and reflect on how great our country truly is. Sure we have some flaws and some shameful events in our history but I believe that in our greatest time of need no country bands together like America. There is not another country in the world that has as many different ethnicities and cultures that blend in to make an amazing melting pot that has been touched by the hand of God. We truly are the greatest country in the world.


America the Beautiful sung by Ray Charles



The Star Spangled Banner sung by Whitney Houston



God Bless America sung by Celine Dion