They got home today. First message I get from Christin? “Kait I’m home and so happy I can hang out with you because you’re the most awesome person ever!” was not it.

This was.

Mischief: Achieved.

Me: Clifford, I don’t want to hear this.

Clifford: Kait. Kait. Why did they? Why did the Gators cross the road?

Me: Cliffy I-

Clifford: Because they couldn’t cross the goal line. OHHHHHH BURN.

Me: CLIFFORD!

*insert fist fight*

So I’ve really gotten into football lately. It may lead to my death having my friends across the street being Auburn and FSU fans, but I’m a Florida Gator fan. And this football season has been pretty darn awesome. My Gator merchandise has increased significantly. I now have a new Gator shirt, a hoodie, a jacket, a hat, a sign, a football, a bumper sticker, duct tape, stickers, and random other misc. It drives Christin nuts.

The Gators have won all but one of their games. It was a sad night when they lost to the Bulldogs, 17-9, but overall, this season has been a great one. Tomorrow they play Jacksonville State(I didn’t even know that existed…?) and then next weekend is the big FSU vs. UF game. It is going to be epic. We are all planning on gathering across the street and watching it together. The ‘Noles have had a pretty good season also, so it is going to be an awesome game. Sad for me since I will be the only Gator fan attending. It’s gonna be intense.

On another note, this conversation took place on our way to the library yesterday:

Mom: Matthew stop going “Uhhhh” in the middle of your sentences.

Matthew: Yes ma’am.

Ben: Yeah what are you, drunk?

Researching him, that is.

You see, I have always had Michael Jackson painted in my head as this bad, crazy nuthead. I don’t know why. I grew up in the decade before his death, when he was at his worst. All I remembered was this pasty guy with long black hair who eventually died of overdosing on drugs.

Occasionally I’d hear something about him. Usually it’s about his weird cosmetics. But whenever I did hear something about him, it was mockingly said.

The other night, I began thinking. I’ve always had this “What if there’s more to the story?” mentality, so I began researching Michael Jackson. And I learned some interesting things. A few of those being that Michael Jackson had a HORRIBLE childhood, and that it was what gave him is excessive love for children. A lot of his life was devoted to helping children grow up with a better life than he’d had. That pasty skin? Vitiligo, a skin disease that lightens your skin over time in splotches. The complete pasty color came from the makeup he had to use to even out his skin tone.

And that’s just a couple of the things I found.

Then I got to thinking, why does the world always view celebrities as these horrible, moral-less people? Why to the tabloids never talk about anything good that they do?

So I started a blog.

It’s called Find The Good in Hollywood, and it’s dedicated to bringing out the best in celebrities so that people can see that everyone is capable of doing good, regardless of the fact that it never makes the front page or that they’ve made other mistakes. So everyday, I’m posting something that  a celebrity did that was good.

We’ve ALL made mistakes. But we don’t expect people to remember us by what wrong we did, do we? I mean, I don’t want to be remembered for arguing with my parents or being short with my brothers. We want to be remembered for the good we did, however little it was.

Because the good is far better than the bad.

“Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.”
1 Corinthians 13:6 

So spread the word! Go follow it, Facebook it, blog it, tweet it…something.

Anyway.

Yes.

The end.

It’s kind of a new realization for me. But for the last decade or so as superheroes have once again come into fandom, I have become increasingly aware that I get into this crazy superhero high whenever I see a new superhero movie. Unless it’s Spiderman. I never liked Spiderman. Why are they even making a new one? I was forced to see the trailer for The Lame Amazing Spiderman in the theater last night. It was pretty much just like watching it on your computer except 40 times bigger therefore 40 times more painful.

Okay it wasn’t painful. But I seriously have a desire level of approximately 0 to ever see it again. Also the actual movie.

Now that you’ve gained a firm grasp on the fact that I really don’t like Spiderman, we can move on.

Avengers!(yes there may be spoilers so don’t be stupid and read this if you haven’t seen the movie)

Yes, the hype of the entertainment world at the current moment. I could go into all the statistics and how they’ve made a quadrillion dollars or whatever but I just don’t feel like it.

What I do want to point out is that Hawkeye did not get enough spotlight. I mean come’on! He’s possibly the most awesome dude ever and what does he get? 30 seconds in Thor and then gets to spend half of the Avengers in evil mode? What?

Some may say that he doesn’t have enough character to have his own movie. These people don’t know anything. Okay, what I mean to say is that I completely disagree. They could have easily made a movie with Hawkeye and the Black Widow in it. They obviously have a past, and an interesting one at that, so seriously! Do something with the cool bow and arrow kick-butt guy! He is not GLITTER, people! You can’t just go sprinkling him into random movies.

Uh, case and point.

Second of all, I never knew how totally cool Bruce Banner is. Mark Ruffalo played an awesome Hulk. Edward Norton played in the latest Hulk movie, which I heard was pretty lame do I don’t even want to see it, but I would totally invest time in watching a Hulk movie with Ruffalo in it. He was perfect!

But one thing Dad and I noticed was that when he first went crazy he tried to attack everyone. It didn’t matter if they were on his team or not, he was killing everyone. But at the end, he knew who was on his team and who wasn’t. Wha?

My thoughts are that he purposefully became Hulk the second time so he was more in control of himself. Even then, he socked Thor. Which was absolutely hilarious.

Iron Man, err, Stark, was a jerk. As usual.

I mean seriously, he is such a meanie. Sorry, couldn’t think of any other word to put there.

He thinks he’s better than everyone else. And to those who are like “WELL he IS!” — y’all don’t know awesomeness when it’s wielding a bow and arrow on a 30ft wide screen right in front of your FACE.

Okay Iron Man is fairly cool but really, if anyone other than Robert Downey Jr. had played that part, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it.

But he did it perfectly, adding a nice touch of humor where needed.

Then there was Hawkeye– oh wait. I already talked about him.

Dang.

Next is Thor, who was just as awesome in The Avengers as he was in his own movie. Out of the Marvel movies I’ve seen, Thor was definitely the best one. I LOVED Thor. It was just such a great story. And even though he’s evil, I really liked Loki as well. Both of the brother had such deep character — I loved it! And they were just as good in The Avengers.

And Captain America! Dunduhduhduh! While I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie, I really liked Captain America in The Avengers. He was pretty much the dude with sound reason in the group. He was so cool.

And last and also least, the Black Widow, who was cool but not that cool. I mean, I think her and Hawkeye could make a good movie together. But alone, she was just assassin-y cool.

All in all, it was a pretty dang awesome movie. I really enjoyed it and can’t wait until the next one comes out, along with Thor 2(2013) and Captain America 2(2014).

Overall, superheroes are pretty cool. And just plain heroes because technically Hulk isn’t a superhero or something.

Also, anyone find it funny that Captain Marvel is a DC character? Hehe wait wha?

Yeah it’s confusing. Doesn’t really make any sense.

Also, if only Batman was Marvel. Then it would be so easy to say that Marvel is my favorite. But alas, DC has both Batman and the Green Arrow so I am stuck being able to not say that.

Oh well.

So. That’s it

My geek side is going back into hiding now.

Until next time.

It was horrible.

Every time I went to get something out of the fridge in the garage I would come face to face with a giant box of heavenly goodness that was off limits. It just sat there. Teasing. Saying “Nah nah nah nah you can’t eat me.”

It’s pretty bad. For a while I was having trouble sleeping at night knowing they were down there.

So now, after all this time, they’re still in there. So I’m going to go ask Dad if I can have them since apparently “work” doesn’t need them all that bad.

I’ll let you know how that goes.

Waiting.

That's Dad coming in for a landing.

Happy birthday Sammy!

1. Hold a baby cheetah.
2. Get engaged. Get married. Have a marriage more beautiful than the wedding.
3. Travel to another country.
4. Tour the U.K. Or at least go to England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Oh wait…
5. Go to the Galapagos Islands.
6. Own a Mini Cooper. This IS going to happen people.
7. Build a tree house.
8. Go to a drive-in movie.
9. Visit all 50 of the United States.
10. Go parasailing.
11. See a narwhal.
12. Visit the Sherlock Holmes museum.
13. Catch a jar of lightning bugs.
14. See the Northern Lights. I thought this was something good to do in Alaska while fulfilling #9.
15. Be in two places at once.
16. Swim with a dolphin.
17. Put a message in a bottle and put it in the ocean.
18. Learn to juggle.
19. Catch a bride’s bouquet.
20. Own a grand piano.
21. Write a book.
22. Visit the Hershey’s factory in PA.
23. Take a road trip to Disney.
24. Watch every single episode of Doctor Who.
25. Be an aunt.
26. Take a picture every day for a year straight.
27. Finish a whole tube of toothpaste.
28. See a capybara.
29. Ride a horse on the beach.
30. Throw someone a surprise party.
31. Visit the Library of Congress.
32. Own a Pillow Pet.
33. Run a 5K.
34. Make my own crayon art.
35. Eat a whole roll of hubba bubba gum at one time.
36. Receive blue roses.
37. Create a secret family recipe.
38. See the Statue of Liberty.
39. Have my favorite author sign my book.
40. Raise a horse.
41. Read every C.S Lewis novel.
42. Learn how to knit.
43. Steal a street sign.
44. Have the courage to put one of my songs on YouTube.
45. Build a blanket fort.
46. Dig a snow fort. 
47. Get my license.
48. …coming soon to be sure. Until then we’ll just say travel to England. Again. Because I super badly want to do that.

Curious as to why something is on my bucket list or want to know the story behind one I’ve completed? Leave a comment below or shoot me an email. Unless it’s really really embarrassing, I’ll tell you.