#GenConf

I love media. Especially on weekend like this past one and the upcoming one. Why? Because of General Conference. What an amazing blessing it is that conference can be live broadcasted around the world! I remember as a kid often just listening to the audio...but you just have so much more of an experience when you can actually see them too!

And, it is so great that the messages of conference are not only so accessible because they are online, but are shared more often because of social media. The hashtags are awesome too. I love seeing all the people sharing what they learned from conference that weekend. Social media just seems to be flooded with the spirit. And it's beautiful.

Conference is such a special time to me because it is an opportunity to feel the power, strength, and love of the Lord. I love hearing from the church leaders and I am always able to feel spiritually uplifted when I listen to conference!

I also love it because of the memories surrounding conference. Growing up, it was always a family-centered weekend. We would set aside our normal busy weekend activities and instead we would sit together and listen to the messages being shared. We would always have the same snacks and conference -related coloring pages. Those awesome family traditions surrounding conference enforced it with even more positive emotions in my mind. Anyways, if you can't tell, I am just super excited for conference!

Plus, my brother and his girlfriend are coming from Idaho for the weekend because we actually have tickets for the conference center! It will be his first time actually attending conference...and I am so excited to share that with him.

I hope you will take the opportunity to attend some of the conference sessions this weekend!

That's it for now, folks.

Empowering Media

In our media class this week we watched a commercial promoting engineering toys for girls. And it was fantastic. Not only did the song remind me of a song from Annie because of its catchy tune, but it also had such a great message. To be honest, I felt empowered just from watching it. And I appreciate media that does that for me and for kids in positive ways. And I think the media needs more empowering messages out there for boy and girls. Because those empowering messages really are powerful... and they really do have the power to change the world!

So, without further ado, the amazing commercial:

That's it for now, folks!

Fuller House

So I watched some "Fuller House" this week. And I have mixed feelings.

As a kid, one of my favorites shows  to watch was "Full House." So, it can only be expected that I have a lot of fondness for the show. When I heard that Netflix was releasing "Fuller House," I was surprised and I didn't think that it would be any good. How could it be? What would the story even be about with them all so OLD?!?! However, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the first episode. I was filled with nostalgia while watching it...and I absolutely loved all the parallels to the first episode of Full House. To me, the first episode set the bar high for the rest of the episodes. But, with such a high, it was almost inevitable that the rest would not quite be as good.

In my opinion, the show is decent, overall. But, I just haven't developed the same amount of love for all of the new characters and for how some of the old characters grew up. I love it when the old cast makes guest appearances....and I do enjoy the show generally. But it just isn't Full House.

So, acknowledging that weakness, I do enjoy the show as a fun, short time filler every once and a while. I don't think I'll binge watch it or anything though.

Really though, I do like how so many things have come out recently with characters from shows or movies grown up...it's a cool feeling to see your childhood grown up and living in a similar world to you. It's just fascinating that this has become one of the new ideas for media...to have the old classics grow up along with their generation! Sometimes they butcher it when they try, but I think they've done a good job with Fuller House.

That's it for now, folks.

Media to the Rescue

This week I want to mention how grateful I am for the relaxing effects media has had on my life....especially this past week. This past week was rough for me for a lot of different reasons that just kept piling on top of each other. But, because of the marvel called media I was able to finish so many of my tasks in a very productive and effective way. Thank goodness for that, because otherwise I may have died from an overload of things to do this week. Google docs? Life savers. I can cintribute with what I know and then I can also benefit from the smartness of my classmates and we all learn more and study better and do well on our tests. So I'm grateful for media because of that.

But, this week I am also so grateful for the relaxing (or maybe just distracting) nature of music and shows. So many nights this week I just felt super overwhelmed, but sitting down to watch an episode of of Fuller House of Pawn Stars with my husband allowed me to just forget about what I went through and what tomorrow held. Or, when I just blasted music as I did the dishes in order to just focus on the emotions conveyed from the song. Those moments were short respites from a terrible week. And I appreciated them sooooo much. Plus, my husband. And, with the aid of media and my husband, I was able to survive this intense week.

And now, tonight, my husband and I are going to watch an episode of Star Wars and relax because this week is OVER.

Thank goodness for that!

I hope you enjoy your weekend!


That's it for now, folks.