Julie's Journal

On January 27, 1984, Michael Jackson was burned while filming a Pepsi commercial at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. He was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, then transferred to Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, CA with second-degree burns on the back of his head.

My husband’s father was working at Brotman Medical Center as a burn technician at the time, and had Michael Jackson in his care. At the time of his release from the hospital Michael autographed one of his balloons that he had received and gave it to my husband’s father. He also gave him the thermometer that they had used on him in the hospital. My husband still has this thermometer and we thought that it’s time to show the rest of the world what a neat collector item this is for any Michael Jackson fan.

Michael Jackson was always donating to charities, and one of his favorite charities was Brotman Medical Center that took care of him when he was injured. We are seriously thinking of putting Michael Jackson’s hospital thermometer up for auction on eBay and donating some of the proceeds to the Brotman Medical Center.

What do you think? Do you think this might be a hot item on eBay and that we could raise some good money for the burn center? In this day and age of the fancy CSI stuff I’m sure they could lift his DNA off it.

I got a case of Blu Frog Energy Drink about three months ago to try and I thought it was the grossest stuff ever. Apparently I’m the only person on the planet that thinks that because everyone else in my house just loved it, and I’ve read really good reviews of the stuff on other people’s blog. I don’t normally like energy drinks to begin with anyway, so maybe I wasn’t the best market tester to begin with. But like I said, the boys loved it and so did all their friends.

BluFrog Energy Drink is sponsoring some pretty cool contest right now that are easy to enter just by twittering, leaving a comment on their blog, or writing about the contest on your own blog.

BluGamer: The Ultimate Gaming Package

• What are every gamer’s dream gifts these days? New socks and underwear? Um, not so much. How about an Xbox 360 Elite Gaming System with a Rock Band 2 bundle to boot? Now that sounds more like it!

Happy Blu-Year: Win a New Years Eve trip to NY

• No dispute here. You KNOW where you’d love to be as the clock nears midnight on December 31st … and now you and a friend can get there, absolutely free!

Blullapalooza: Win a trip to Lolapalloza in Chicago

• Get ready to jam all day and into the night, as you and your music-crazed friend attend the world’s most famous music festival in Grant Park, Chicago. It’s Lollapalooza time and you are THERE, absolutely free!

BluStreak: BluStreak: Win a Richard Petty Racing Experience

• Ready to race up a Blu streak? Then this is your pick … the Richard Petty Driving Experience that gives you the thrill of stock car racing, side-by-side action, drafting, passing and all! And you and a friend get it all, absolutely free!

XtremeBLU: Win a trip to the Winter X Games in Aspen

• You can’t get more Extreme than this … it’s the 14th Winter X Games from ESPN and you’re front and center in the middle of all the action … for free!

Those are some pretty nice prize packages! Out of those five I think I’ll try to win the 14th Winter X Games. Go take a shot at winning, it’s so easy to enter! Good luck!

Little Baby Lizards, originally uploaded by justj0000lie.

I’m out watering and these little guys are all over. He is only about the size of my thumb nail.

I’m not sure who makes these shirts, but I saw them at Target yesterday and I just had to have them. They’ve got that hippy/bohemian look to them that I love!

I need to alter the straps on the two identical ones though. They are too long, and they make the shirts a little too boobalicious plungy for my taste. Although Michael thinks they are just perfect the way they are

Getting ready for the 4th of July. Buying fireworks at the Indian reservation and watching their fireworks display.