Sometimes I hate media.. Exibit A.

Tonight my mom, sister, and I all went out to eat because my dad and brothers went to Idaho for the weekend. We went out to Chili's, which is one of my favorites!!! However, one of the first things I noticed when I walked in were these little "ziosks" on each table. They were almost like little ipads advertising the different foods they serve there. My initial reaction was "thats kinda cool," at least until our waitress came and explained it to us. She said..."Here is our brand new little ziosks. You can play unlimited games, search our menu, and even pay for your meal all on this little machine, all for just 99 cents." That's when I got really annoyed. They already have a million TV's in their resturant, and lots of people were just sitting around on their phones anyway. It bugs me that they are encouraging people to play games now too!! When you go out to eat, its usually to get away, and enjoy the people around you. The atmosphere. The food. The memories. Not your stupid phone, or what's going on on the TV in front of you!! Now they want you to play on the ziosk. Whatever happened to HUMAN INTERACTION?????
xoxo,
Jessie

My news feed.

This week I almost had a panick attack! When I log into Firefox, it automatically takes me to a news feed of different articles that have been published in the news that day. Well when I logged in earlier this week, the top story was about the earthquake in Chile. My best friend is serving her mission there and is serving in that area. I was so worried about her. But luckily all the missionaries in Chile are all safe. I'm really grateful that there is media out there that can let us know about different parts of the world at the click of a mouse.
xoxo,
Jessie

Hilarious memes!

My face book has been exploding with "memes" lately! They have taken one picture of my friend and have literally gone insane with all these clever ideas! Note: its a picture of Charlie and his partner Lynnsay after they won a dance competition a few weeks ago! A pictures speaks one thousands words! Its funny how these are all so different too! Take a look!

Original picture 

Now look what they turned it in to... 

 

Yeah.... 

xoxo, Jessie

Food Blogs!

One of the things I am obsessed with lately are food blogs! I have never been a very good cook (or I haven't really tried to be) not sure which!!! So once I discovered pinterest, I was exposed to a whole new world of cooking! I fell in love with it, but my husband wasn't so sure about it! I'm known in my family as the "pinterest fail" queen! To name a few examples....
1: River cookies. I decided to make simple chocolate chips one day and looked in the oven with about a minute left and low and behold.... a cookie river in the pan bubbling and liquified all over my pan. I cried. My husband managed to get a video and sent it to my whole family! I didn't add enough flour! haha!
2: Avocado pasta: no.... just no. Never combine avocado and noodles.
3: Cauliflour pizza. Just eat the real stuff!
So these are just a few of my cooking examples :) haha! I really do love the food blogs Six Sisters Stuff and Mel's Kitchen Cafe! (Or it could be that I just love their photography) What are your favorite food blogs??
Help a sista out!!!!
xoxo,
Jessie

Rising above trials.

I've been feeling so bad about the missionary from Utah that died doing a service project. I read the story on the news and was shocked. One thing I really thought was amazing was how the family of this missionary shared their testimony of the church when being interviewed on tv. Even though this was a very tragic situation, I think it is amazing that his family used his life as a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. Media is an amazing way to share our beliefs and values with the world.      
Xoxo Jessie

Royals

Ok so this new royals song that everyone is obsessed with is so weird! What is cutting teeth on wedding rings in the movies mean???? Really. Then I was thinking about how most people don't even know the words to their favorite song! As parents I think it's important to monitor and educate or kids about the kind of music they listen to!
Xoxo, Jessie

Internet identity is SO ANNOYING!

So I had a really interesting experience with media this week. I am a student instructer for a 184 ballroom dance class at BYU and I decided to send out a "mid course evaluation" this past week to get some feed back from my students. As we all know.... these are anonymous so I had no idea what student was saying what. So I get my results back and apparently one on my students really isn't enjoying my class and said some pretty harsh things in her evaluation. Made me kinda sad, but I guess it's good to know! So it got me thinking about how people can act totally different when their identity is taken away! All my students in my class have seemed to be enjoying the class and all are really friendly... but all kinds of crazy breaks loose when I don't know who they are! haha! Way interesting.
xoxo, Jessie