"Journal Writing" on The Myth of Doomed Kids by Bella DePaulo

I grew up with my parents divorcing when  I was 9 years old. I choose to live with my father in a single parent household. I would go visit my mother, she had remarried so I guess you can say it was a two parent household my mother and step-father. When I turned 12 my aunt came to live with my dad and I so I guess you can say it was a parent and relative household. DePaulo's characterization of my family is agreeable and I do believe it to be fair. She brings up some strong points about that there is not much of a difference between some of the data that was presented. But for myself I can say I did not fall under these statistics at all. Like I stated in the beginning I lived with my father and a relative and I never had an issue with drugs and or alcohol in my life and never will.

" Journal Writing" on Vampires Never Die by Gullermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

I do not care to watch any television show , movie, or read a book about vampires. The stories do not interest me at all. I think it is crazy how all the people go ga-ga over these vampire roles. The reason they do not interest me is because there just not belivable the story line goes to far off what may have been. To me vampires  have always been so fictional that I really do not care to watch anything about them. I would choose just about anything to watch or read over a vampire story.

"Journal Writing" on I Want a Wife by Judy Brady

The obligations of a husband are to go to work and provide for his family financially, provide health
care, help take care of the children, cook dinner from time to time, help balance the check book, pay
bills, and help clean the house.This is what a husband should do when it comes to providing for his
family. When a wife is incapable of doing all of her duties the husband needs to step up and fill in
where and when needed. These are just some of the obligations of a husband there are so many more
but  I believe a wife's obligations will always exceed that of the husbands.

"Journal Writing" on Michael Pollan's Corn's Conquest

     I wish we as Americans would have left food the way it was all natural. But there is not much I can do about it when I live in a house with little land to grow my own fruits and vegetables. I am not surprised at all Americans are always trying to find a way to make food last longer and have more salt and sugar than there needs to be. I am very concerened especially since I have high blood pressure and diebetes. Pollan has me thinking that I need to check even futher into what I am eating. I already watch what I eat because I must not eat things that have to much salt, sugar, and carbohydrates. I think Pollan has writen something that is informative and that foods in the grocery store are not the best to be eating and we as Americans need to be more thoughtful to what we are putting into our bodies.

"Journal Writing" on Linnea Saukko's How to Poison the Earth

     I have used satire when it comes to making my bed. I believe why should you make your bed if your just going to sleep in it again. There should be no one who walks in my room except me and I think that not making my bed is OK. I am the only one who sleeps in my bed so it really does not get messy therefore it does not need to be made. I know that making my bed is not necessary because it does not hurt anyone by not making it. It only makes it easier to get into when going to sleep.

"Journal Writing" on David Sedaris's Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa

When I was a teenager I envied the life of my best friend Sandy. She had a mother and father that were still together, she was pretty, she was smart, and she would go on exciting vacations with her family. When it was summer vacation from school my best friend would tell me that she would be leaving for a few weeks and she would see me when she came back from her trip. When Sandy came back she always had a lot to tell me. I remember one year it was about her and her family going to Walt Disney World and Epcot Center in Florida. My best friend said it was different then Disneyland in California. When she discribed all the details to me I had already made up my mind that some day I would make to Florida so that I too could go to Walt Disney World and Epcot Center.

"Journal Writing" on Dave Barry's Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out

      I believe men have a hard time opening up about their true feelings, can work on a car that looks like it should be scrap metal for many hours,  and feel all they need to do is go to work without helping around the house. 
      Out of the traits I have listed the one that is the funniest to me is working on a junkie car for hours. It just does not make any sense to me what so ever.  The car has no seats, no engine, and no steering wheel so how can this car take up so much of someones time when it can not even be driven.
      The craziest thing is it takes him hours just to figure out how he is going to get the money just to paint the car. I ask why would you even want to worry about that when it does not even have an engine. That should be the last thing on his mind. He could be thinking about how we can go buy a new car that does not need any work at all and it will even be able to take us from here to there. He will get outside and just sand and sand the car until I go out there and ask when can we go some where. He will then get up and act like it is going to be the end of the world. It reminds me of one of my children reactions after I have told him to clean his room.
       I believe working on a car that probably will never be able to be driven to be one of the most time consuming things. I feel the car gets more attention then I do maybe that is why it bothers me so much. If I could just look like that car for ten minutes maybe my man would pay more attention to me. I guess that will not be happening any time soon.