A Tribute To Anna Nicole Smith

This is my official tribute to Anna. May everything good she done shine in our memories, and everything not so good be forgiven and forgotten.

She was a model and an actress. Her birth name was Vickie Lynn Hogan, born on November 28, 1967 in Mexia, Texas. Anna Nicole Smith rose to fame as a model for Guess jeans and for Playboy magazine. She was even named Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1993. In 1994 she appeared in Naked Gun 33 1/3 and The Hudsucker Proxy.

Anna was a high school dropout. She had a hard childhood, growing up without her father who had left the family. She married Billy Smith, a guy who flipped burgers. They had a son named Daniel in 1984. Later they were divorced. Anna didn't let that stop her dreams of becoming the next Marilyn Monroe.

To get to Marilyn Monroe status Anna had to work her way up. She had been a waitress and then a dancer at a strip club. There is met J. Howard Marshall II, a Texas oil tycoon. She was 26 and J. Howard was 89 when they married, The following year after they were married he died. This meant for Anna years of fighting for her portion of her husband's estate. After many years it went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. The court's decision opened the door to Anna Nicole Smith collecting some money from her late husband's estate.

Some how Anna stayed in the spotlight despite all her many tribulations. She was in many celebrity magazines and tabloids. She started her own reality show called The Anna Nicole Show in 2002. In which television viewers got an inside look at the life which was anything but ordinary in which Anna at times seemed disoriented or confused, but always fascinating. Sadly the show went off the air in 2004. But that didn't stop Anna. She was still in the spotlight. She was often shown in the company of Howard K. Stern, her attorney.

For many years Anna struggled in controlling her weight. She became a spokesperson for Trimspa. She had much success with losing the weight. She looked sexier than ever. She then returned to acting. Her son Daniel worked beside her on a new project. It was a movie in which she had the starring role in a science fiction-comedy Illegal Aliens.

In the summer of 2006 she announced that she was pregnant. On September 7 she had little Dannielynn. But the happy moment was short lived. Just three days later her son had died from a drug overdose. Anna was heartbroken. Something she never recovered from. The investigation into his death remains ongoing.

Sadly on Febuary 8, 2007 Anna was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Later she was pronounced dead. She was only 39. Most believe that it had been drugs that killed her.

Now an on going battle rages on for her daughter Dannielynn. Who is the father? Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead, Prince Frederick or could it be some other guy we don't know about yet?

After her death, she has been compared to many of Hollywood'’s beautiful women who died too young, including Jean Harlow and Smith'’s personal favorite, Marilyn Monroe.

We will miss you sweet Anna!

Blizzard Wizzard

I awoke this morning to snow. Which is all find and well but now we are getting an ice storm. I'd rather just have the snow. New York has four yards of it and counting. They went from inches to feet to yards. What next? My main concern is my house. Mainly the roof. I worry that it might collapse. I did however make it to work only to be sent home two hours early. Mom had called in along with another employee. What does work do? Call someone in that doesn't even work. All they do is goof off and stand by the office with a drink in their hand. They're a teen even. What bills do they have? I'm an adult knee deep with bills. It's crap.

Who took me home? Heath! I called Amy to see if she could send someone over to take me home, and she asks if it would be alright if Heath takes me home. Which it was but that's beside point. I don't know about her. I think she might just let him in. She'll boot Chris and let Heath have his way. Regardless of how it goes, I really don't think Chris is going to be around much longer. Just the way he acted yesterday. Something isn't right.

Uck! The ice is really accumulating out there. I can't believe all they have us on is a level 1. Probably because compared to counties up north we don't have it so bad, but really I think we do. We may not be getting a blizzard but we sure are getting allot of ice!

Jabber

I really wish I hadn't upgraded my livejournal. I hate the ads. They are a real eye sore. For some reason every other time I try to post a new entry a window for netscape pops up, wanting me to download it. So I cancel it and then I lose my livejournal window. So I have to start all over again.

We got the bills paid this time. Next payday it will be rent and Tom seems to think we can knock out what we owe the bank. I think by then it will be well over three hundred dollars but whatever.

My laptop is still in the shop. Not that I can do anything about it even if it was fixed. The guy called and left a message saying the connector pins weren't lining up. He has to get another connector and try it again. But it isn't a bad thing. Maybe by the time it is fixed I will have the money or at least half.

Tom keeps telling me to quit freaking out. That things arn't as worst as they were the last time we were down. But I really think things are. It is really taking its toll on me too. I feel like going in a corner, grabbing my knees and cry. But on the bright side, things really could be worst and they could always get worst. So I better just take things one day at a time and suck it up. Get happy. Not that I'm not happy with what I do have. I do wanna be happier and funner. I wanna get over these hard times. I miss not having these worries.

On a lighter note. I had Tom download some songs that I think are great. Not the greatest but just great for this time period. But out of all the songs I had him download, my favorites are (Into The Ocean by Blue October). I am not sure how well I like that band. I have only heard that song and part of another. I also like (Lips Of An Angel by Hinder) and (Fidelity by Regina Spektor). I like (The Killers) too. (Bones) was a cool video but not as great as their (Mr. Brightside) video. Tom downloaded the acoustic version of that song. I wasn't happy with that but he says he will download it again, so that gives me another opportunity to have him download other great songs that I like. Maybe older ones or something. There was another song I like allot but not as much as I liked the video. (After Glow by Inxs). That is a hot video. I have it on my laptop. I really miss my laptop.

Besides music, I have been playing GTA Vice City. I have 74% complete on one game that my cousin and I started playing three years ago. I have been working on finding all the hidden packages and doing all the rampages. It's just a matter of finding those things. There are also ramps that I need to find and jump. I think there are a couple of check point missions that I need to find and complete.

When I get bored with GTA that I go on to The Sims 2. Mom has it and The Sims 2 Pets. Lucky her. She is all the time calling me and then telling me how much fun it is. Makes me a little annoyed. I really want GTA Vice City Stories and GTA Liberty Stories. Maybe someday.....Until then I will just be happy with what I do have. It's for the best I suppose. Or so I am telling myself that. Just to make myself fell better.

As for the cat situation. Well....It's still here. I would really like to take half of them to a cat shelter or something. Even if it were just a couple at a time would help allot. It is so overwhelming and it doesn't get any better.

Amy still has her two little kittens. They are getting big but very cute. She did however get rid of the puppy. She was too much for her to take care of. A friend had said she would love to take it. She said this many times, so Amy gave her up.

Concerning the Amy/Heath/Chris situation. It is a bit harry. Amy should have never got in with another guy so soon before her and Heath had officially split. Now she is confused. Heath keeps talking to her. Telling her how much he's changed and how sorry he is for this and that. He even wrote dad a letter. It seems to me that there might be a small possibility that he actually means what he says but that just isn't enough for me. Things just don't get fixed within a person over night. If he really means it then he should be aware that he needs counseling and have a change of attitude towards all things. Then I might reconsider how I feel about the two of them getting back together again. Of course dad says that is all well that Heath is sorry but he still wants him away from Amy. To never get back with her again.

Chris on the other hand his smothering Amy. Something she isn't use to. But I think a person that was use to that sort of thing might feel the same as she does. He really lays it on thick. So that doesn't really help Amy right now. He really needs to back off before she pushed him away. I think she might do that if he isn't careful. He is great with the kids. Teaching them how to be proper little people.

Amy is forcing Gavyn to see Heath, in which I think is so wrong. So Gavyn has been mad and I kinda think he might be depressed. I brought that up to Amy and she said he wasn't feeling good. Which may be so but I still think something isn't right there. I guess the other day he tried skipping school by staying at home but Amy caught him and made him go to school late. This morning he stood over the heat vent and then told her he had a fever. It almost worked but then Amy figured it out.

So after seeing Amy and the kids today I kinda feel bad. I know how I get so angry with not seeing her. I actually get jealous of her friends. Maybe that isn't fair of me or maybe it is childish. I do love my sister and I know there will be moments when I do have sour feelings. I just need to learn to do something about them and not let them boil over, that I may start saying all these mean things about her. That deep down I do love my sister. I only wish we could get close again.

As for somebody else that I dearly love and think about often....Someone who might read this one day. My cousin. I miss her allot too. More than she knows. I miss hanging out with her and chatting with her online and on the phone. I miss the fun times we had on the internet. And I wish one day we could be close again too. I just wonder if she is thinking the same thing too.

Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007

10 February 2007 @ 06:20 pm

Thursday, while brushing my teeth I heard on the radio that Anna Nicole Smith died after she was discovered unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Her private nurse was the one to find her. I am assuming the nurse was there because earlier in the week she had been feeling ill with flu like symptoms. Anyway. I was quite shocked and sad. I know she lived her life in the fast lane and sooner or later something bad was gonna happen. But it is one of those things where you see the people on TV all the time and you just don't realized the reality that someday these people are going to die. Needless to day I have been following the story. Darn right I am interested. I use to watch her show (after my cousin pointed her out to me one day) and I had come to like her very well. I was sad when she had lost all the weight and turned into a whole other person. Of course I was happy for her but sad that she had changed so mcuh so that it was like a whole other person. So I guess I lost some interest in her. But that never meant I stopped liking her.

As for how she died that is still unknown. Yesterday an autopsy was done. The medical examiner stated that he didn't see any pills in the stomach, only a small amount of blood due to shock. He did however mention a sustance in her heart and that it would be three to five weeks before more tests come back. So the world waits. Of course many believe that her death was drug related. Perhaps it was but what about Trimspa and all that weight she rapidily lost? No one is questioning that. I wonder if it might of been both that had cost her to lose her life at such a young age. Her mother had come on ABC's Good Morning America. She said that she suspected drug use was what had killed her daughter just as it was for Anna's son Daniel, whom died at the age of 20 last September.

Anna left behind her five month old daughter Dannielynn Hope. Three men now lay claim to the baby. Are they only interested in the money that this little girl could inherit? Or are they looking out for the child's best interest? I hope Howard is the father. He has been by Anna's side for years and knows her best. He also knows Dannielynn Hope. His name is on her birth certicate as the father. I know Anna slept around allot. One could even say she was a slut but I had always hoped that her and Howard would get together someday. They did get married but of course their marriage is in question now among other things.

I guess the world will only have to wait for the complex answers to Anna's life. Just like Marilyn Monroe, her life will always have a mystery about it.

Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007