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Natasha’s Organs Donated

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

natasha_organsEarlier, tonight, on either E-Talk or Access Hollywood (I forget which one because I watched then back-to-back) they said that it was reported that Natasha Richardson’s organs were donated after she died.

I have to say, if this is true, that I have so much respect for the family’s decision to do this. Actually, I have a lot of respect for anyone who wants to donate their organs, or for families who choose donate their loved ones organs.

I think its amazing that we are even able to do this. Organs from one person can save a lot of lives, or at the very least, give the recipient longer to live. I think its so cool.

Also, if my friends and family aren’t already aware, I would like for my organs to be donated when I die. I mean really, I’m not going to need them, and if they can save someone else’s life I will definitely be happy!

RIP Natasha

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

natasha_liamI would just like to send my condolences to Liam Neeson and sons, Michael and Daniel, and the rest of Natasha Richardson’s family and friends.

I’ve been debating writing about this since I first heard about it on Tuesday. Obviously, I didn’t want to write anything that wasn’t true. I first heard about it on E-Talk and they filtered out the false stories and only reported what they knew to be true. If I had written about it sooner I definitely would not have said she had died, which a lot of websites were apparently reporting, before it was true. But it has now been confirmed that she did pass away from her injuries.

Its kind of strange for me to feel so close to something like this. I have no connection to Natasha or her family but for some reason I’ve been actually quite upset about what happened. I’ve only ever seen one film she was in (The Parent Trap) and I never saw many interviews with her either. I think it may be just the fact that what I have seen of her, she seems like a really lovely person. Her and her husband, actor Liam Neeson, were married for almost 15 years, which is absolutely amazing for people in the entertainment industry, and they have two children, Michael and Daniel.

rip_natashaFor those of you who don’t know, Natasha was skiing in Quebec. She was taking lessons and was on a bunny hill when she fell. She did not hit anything or anyone. She simply fell in the snow. Obviously she hit her head, but it apparently did not seem to be anything major. The craziest thing is the fact that after she fell there seemed to be nothing wrong with her. She refused medical treatment because she didn’t think anything was wrong. Until about an hour later. She started to not feel well and she was then rushed to hospital.

After that was when all the media reports came in. Some were saying she had died. Others were claiming she was brain dead. And some were claiming she was in critical condition. Clearly, the critical condition reports were true. Its hard to know if at the time of the brain death reports, whether or not they were accurate, but apparently she was brain dead later on. She was later taken off life support and past away.

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and may she live on in their hearts.

And may she rest in peace.

Internet Troubles… yet again

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I just wanted to let you all know that I am having problems with my internet again. But this time I’m pretty sure the problem is my mom’s computer. Last time we thought that it was our wireless router, but we bought a new one and its doing the exact same thing again. Since the routers were made by two different companies, and they’re both having the same issue, it leads me to believe that the problem is the computer it is connected to.

Now, since the new router is a much better router, it seems to work fine when the main computer (my mom’s) is not on. Once that computer has been turned off for a little while its like it resets itself and then I can connect to it again with my computer in my bedroom. But when my mom is working, or my dad is online upstairs on the main computer, the router doesn’t want to cooperate. But we are planning eventually to replace my computer with that computer and I’m going to be getting a new laptop for school, but I think we’re probably going to do that sooner than originally planned because of this ongoing problem with the upstairs computer.

That’s all. I just wanted to let you all know what’s going on, because it seems to be whenever I’m in the middle of doing something on my websites that I have troubles, like today, I was trying to add an affiliate to two of my fanlistings and then I got disconnected because my mom was working upstairs. Right now, my mom happened to go in the shower, and my dad has been doing stuff in the basement all day. So as soon as my mom went in the shower I was able to get online again, but I don’t know when she’s going to be working on the other computer again.

Hopefully, this won’t be happening for much longer, but I just wanted you all to know, in case something happens again.

-Keira

P.S. And of course, in the middle of trying to post this, it happened again. So this won’t be posted until sometime later today (after writing it, rather than as soon as I was done writing it). This is extremely frustrating!!

HELP!! I need some ideas!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Ok, so I really want to do something new with my hair but I can’t decide what I want to do. I want to do something different than I have done before, but not something too crazy because I work in a public place and that might not be a good idea. I’ll save the crazy for when I go back to school because then it won’t matter. I can have lots of fun with it then!! :D hee hee

Anyways, I need ideas! To avoid repeats, here’s what I have done in the past:

  • Bright Red (multiple times)
  • Dark Purple (later faded to a brighter purple, but still pretty dark)
  • Brownish red/purple (died over the prevoius purple) with blond streaks
  • Lighter brownish red (following the previous listed colour) with blond streaks
  • Bright Red with black underneath
  • Brown with blond highlights and black underneath
  • Brunette (many times over, many shades and it is my current colour)
  • Dark brown with blue and pink peekaboo streaks
  • Dark brown with pink peekaboo streaks
  • Dark brown with purple peekaboo streaks

I guess I’m not completely opposed to doing similar things to what I have done before. My faourites were the last three listed. I honestly think I look best with dark brown/brunette colour.

I don’t think I really want to go blond, but I have considered it because it would be quite a change. I haven’t been fully blond since I was a kid. My hair was naturally blond when I was little but it got darker as I got older. I started dying it when I was 14 or 15 (in grade 9) and I went with red as my first colour. I don’t look too bad with red but it looks a little funny on me when its really really bright. I like it better a bit faded lol. I have had blonde highlights and streaks in the past since I started dying it.

I don’t really even know what my natural colour is anymore. I think its changed since I started dying it. Right now my roots are about 2 inches long (Random unrelated thought: For some reason, even though I’m Canadian and grew up on the metric system I think in inches for certain things. I don’t know why. Anything more than two centemetres and shorter than a metre I tend to refer to in inches. And then of course, height. I honestly have no idea how tall I am in centemetres or metres lol.) and the colour looks a lot more brown than I remember it being 6 or 7 years ago. It used to be that kind of between blond and brown colour. I hated the colour of it! lol. But it looks more brownish now. But its really hard to tell since there is only about 2 inches of it. The rest is a faded dark brown lol. When I died it the last, in August 2008, it was so dark it was almost black, but its faded a fair bit now. Its still pretty dark but not nearly as dark as it was. And you can see lighter faded chunks where I had my pink/purple peekaboo streaks (they were in the same places because I had them died over twice; they were originally supposed to be purple but the first time it turned out pink, then when I got them redone a couple months later they came out purple, even though my hair dresser used the same formula).

Anywho, I need ideas. If anyone has any ideas what I could do, post a comment!!

Happy Birthday Canada!!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

My country is 141 years old today! I just wanted everyone to know that. If there are any of you reading this and you didn’t know before, you know now

I am Canadian!

Apple Snails Mating

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Ok, so we’ve had these two apple snails for a while now. We never really knew if they were male or female or whether they were the same or not. Recently we noticed that one of them has gotten significantly larger than the other one. Then in the last couple days the larger one has been basically mounting the smaller one. We weren’t really sure if that’s what was going on because it kind of just looked like it was cleaning the other one’s shell. I don’t know. It was odd. So I actaully tried to find some info.

I figured out that the larger one is a male and the smaller one is a female and she’s ready to reproduce. This is what I found (link):

When snails with a tranlucent shell (albino Pomacea bridgesii in this case) are ready to reproduce, the ovaria of the female (left) can become suspicious through the shell.
When snails with a tranlucent shell (albino Pomacea bridgesii in this case) are ready to reproduce, the ovaria of the female (left) can become suspicious through the shell.

The small one that we have definitely has that darker colour in the middle and it was not there before. It looks a little bit different because I think our breed of snail might be different. I have yet to figure out which breed they are.


Normally the penis sheat is folded inside the mantle cavity, but sometimes it folded outwards and visible (Pomacea flagellata).

And this is, I’m pretty sure, what I saw coming out of the shell of the larger nail and going into the shell of the smaller snail, and at the time her head (or whatever part of her body has the face and the feeler things and it usually out of her shell) very far. It was strange because I could see right in side her shell. It was really quite odd.

We had been thinking that there had already been eggs laid in the tank because we thought we saw some stuff that was eggs. That’s what started my research (which wasn’t very good) abotu the snails but we couldn’t figure out for sure if they were eggs or not but since they never got any bigger, we assumed not. We also never saw them mating before either. So now I think we will get some baby snails! It’s kind of cool.

Island Dog

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I was just watching Ellen and this guy, Steve McGarva, was on talking about how he went down to Puerto Rico to go surfing or something but ended up helping dogs that were abandoned on what they call “Dead Dog Beach”. People were just dumping unwanted dogs there to die because they didn’t want them. I was in tears watching this and even when I went to their website afterwards (IslandDog.org). I just can’t believe that people would do anything like this. But the work they’re doing is amazing. And they’re bringing these dogs that they help into the US to good homes and no-kill shelters.

I would really love to help them somehow. I don’t really know how because I’m kind of broke right now and there’s no way I would be able to rescue/adopt a dog (which I would absolutely love to do) since I’m still living at home and very likely not even going to be here in September since I’m likely going too far away for school. But if anyone reading is able to get involved somehow I really encourage you to. And let me know if you do and what you do to help them!! Even if it’s just a donation.

Again, the website is islanddog.org. Go there for more information. They’re also working with horses and cats down there too.