Crumpled Notebook

I’m officially old and one of “those” adults. I was driving the teens home from a late movie last night around 11:30pm. I have one kid who lives out in Marina, which takes about 7-8 minutes to get there and the kids always want me to take her first so that they get to be home later. It works for me usually that way I’m not sure in the vehicle with one child all the way out there (Child Safety rules and all).

We’re driving down Hwy 1 back from Marina, listening to their crazy music and they are playing a bunch of old school songs mixed with new stuff like “Take My Breath Away” (not the Jessica Simpson version) and then they pull out “Bust-A-Move” which was pretty hilarious (come on, you all know that you know it still).

She’s dressed in yellow, she says “Hello,
Come sit next to me you fine fellow”
You run over there without a second to loose
And what comes next, hey bust a move

If you want it baby you’ve got it (repeat)
Just bust a move

Well, other than the chorus, that’s the part I know. So I did that “thing.” You know, the thing that adults do to try and be cool, act goofy, sing, make the kids laugh at us because we’re old and trying too hard. So, here’s the deal. I started singing, being goofy. It wasn’t to try and be cool or make the kids laugh, I was just being myself. It wouldn’t have matter who was in the car with me for the most part, I would have sang to make fun of the song. But to a kid, I’m sure it came across as the other way.

At any rate the kids laughed, but I also got that same look I used to give my parents or other adults. You know the look. It’s the, “wow, you are weird and old, but we’re laughing because you are embarrassing yourself,” look.

Ah, the life of a youth worker.

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John Mayer is awesome in my book. After his amazing collaboration with Alicia Keys at the Grammy Awards the other night, and now this. Funny guy and good way to mess with the paps (watch the vido in the link).

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John Mayer Has Jock Itch

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I figured I’d post something that was less serious than everything else I’ve written lately. I love this video, if even just for the amazing video/audio editing alone. I found it a while back and came across it again today. I don’t think I’ve posted it before. If I have, sorry.

Okay, I’m going to admit something a little embarrassing. Embarrassing only because it’s not “cool” for a grown-up to be all up on this stuff, but oh well.

So I’ve been kind of following this Britney Spears stuff. I made the mistake of going to TMZ website one day and have been addicted since. But addicted in a bad way. Like, initially, it let to random rants of how there are no “real” journalist anymore and that someone, some media agency that matters, needs to recognize that and start putting ethics down. Stop paying tons of money for Britney Spears or Brad Pitt photos and maybe, just maybe people will leave them alone, at least more than they do now. Anyway, that’s a rant for another day. We’re talking about Britney here.

So, I’m all enthralled in what is going on. Not because I’m a fan but because it’s just so sad to me. Like, here is this girl, who we’ve all seen grow up, make some good choices, and some bad ones, who is crying out for help, and yet, for whatever reason, it’s not there. Sure, she probably doesn’t want it, but it’s almost like a wake-up call for our country. Here is someone who can have anything she wants, and the people close to her, that love here, still can’t get her the help she needs. It just emphasizes that it’s never easy in those situations…even if you are Britney Spears, or Britney’s family.

But alas, here’s what I wanted to share mostly. Tuesday night I was sitting here. Not doing anything in particular, and I started thinking about all this drama. I immediately check out to see what is going on at that particular hour in her life (cause TMZ has it all very documented) because I just feel this urge to. It wasn’t anything spectacular, at least for her. But afterwards I felt this immediate sense of urgency to pray for her. So I did. I felt a little weird praying for this celebrity. After all, who am I to her? But I did it anyway. I prayed for just a Godly intervention to get her the help she needs.

So anyway, apparently she was taken to the hospital again last night. Voluntarily from what I read. Not to say that it wasn’t coming, but it made me feel better at least. It made me feel like just maybe, my crazy sense of urgency to pray for this person may have made a difference. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one though.

Maybe there is something bigger here we don’t see. I mean, last week, when you read about the big “celebrity death”…you were probably thinking Britney, or Amy Winehouse, right? I know I certainly was. “Hollywood mourns Ledger’s death” didn’t quiet click with me first. My first thought was,”whoa, didn’t see that one coming.” Not to say people shouldn’t have. But I don’t know all that much about that one, since following this celebrity stuff is not something I normally do.

I just think instead of waiting on Britney to die and that “pre-written AP obit“, we should just be praying for her. Or, if you don’t pray, then sending happy thoughts her way. Seriously, this is re-motivated me for my rant on ethics in journalism.