Sexy, seductive, scintillating, smart, sassy, and suspenseful.
I am in love with the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries. I want to be Phryne Fisher so bad! She is smart, sassy, sexy, and stylish, with the money to make 1920s fashions look so amazing, I would actually trade my yoga pants for her clothes! I also wouldn’t mind all the sexy men she takes to her bed 🙂 Set in Melbourne in the late 1920’s Phryne needs something to do and becomes the first female private detective, much to the horror of the local police detective Jack Robinson. A wonderful cast of...
Is It Manly Enough?
So the other day I had just finished dropping off the evil, um, precious children at camp, and the morning radio DJ asked for people to call in with the “Unmanliest jobs they had seen a man doing.” My first thought. “Fuck You. How dare you! This question is part of the problem, you’re part of the problem!” I let it go for a while, because I hadn’t eaten yet and that makes me tetchy, but two days later I still say, “Fuck you.” What is unmanly? What do they mean by that? Is it braiding your...
What Your Personal Trainer is Really Thinking About You
A while back some website did a post on The 10 Things Your Personal Trainer is Thinking About You. I went expecting to find something funny, but no they were serious, BOO! So as someone who has inflicted themselves on a personal trainer, these are the 10 things I think personal trainers are REALLY thinking about you. 1. Do you realize how see through that garment is? Personal trainers have to watch you exercise, frequently in odd contorted positions, while you’re sweating. Make sure your...
Ten to Twenty Years
No I have not FINALLY been caught and sentenced to prison. Rude! I have recently turned forty and been a bit introspective, thinking about the rest of my life. And now I’m worried that I might only have ten to twenty years left, if I take after my parents. My mom died sixteen days before her fiftieth birthday and my dad died just before Christmas at sixty- one. After a moment of panic and realizing exactly how little time that is, I kind of calmed down and thought about what I would really...
Foreign Film Friday- Philomena
Philomena stars Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, so yes, you should just go watch it right now :). This movie is based on the true story of a woman, Philomena, who was forced to give up her baby fifty years ago and kept it a secret. But now she wants to find him. Martin, a journalist, helps her as a ‘human interest story’ and to try and save his career, but what he finds is so much more. I don’t want to give anything away, but do have some tissues ready ...
Killer Potatoes
This is the kind of thing I have to put up with: Daughter brings me dinner. “Here mom, I have dinner for you.” “Thanks, honey. It looks good.” “I’m not so sure about the potatoes. I ate a bite and then threw-up but maybe you’ll have better luck.” Laughing, she walks away. Really? My daughter serves me killer potatoes. And this is why I never encourage people to have children. Do you encourage people to have kids, or do you tell them stories of your daily life to scare them?
Is Man Whore the New Prince Charming?
I have noticed a new trend that I’m not sure I like, the ‘hero’ of the story being a man whore. Now before we go further I’ll explain that to me the difference between someone sexually active, aggressive, and casual and a ‘man whore or slut’ is respect. Respect for themselves and respect for their partners. So a while back I was reading the beginnings of several books, which I didn’t bother to finish, and each of them the hero was slutty. I don’t care about abs, tats, and broad shoulders when...
Foreign Film Friday- The Fairy
This was a weird, strange, quirky little movie. If you don’t mind that things just happen and don’t make sense, and if you don’t mind strange sudden dance routines and can let go of reality for a while, then I say check out The Fairy. It’s a French film about a fairy (what else?) who stays at a hotel and offers the night clerk three wishes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwYjyAtcT_w
Injurtainment
So the other day I am sitting on the couch with my son minding my own business, when my daughter comes up and says, “Hey mom do you want to see something cool?” “No.” This is the standard answer, it is always the answer, and always shall be the answer because in fourteen years of life, anything my daughter has shown me after that question has always freaked me out. She grins, and I wonder for a moment if Satan is her father, then she drops into the splits. Well almost the splits. Her hands...
You Sleep in Your What???
It wasn’t until I was in my mid-thirties and working with teens at the group home that I found out some girls/women sleep in their bras. Uuuumm, why they hell would you do that? The girls told me it was so they’re breasts wouldn’t sag when they were older. But bras are uncomfortable. I always assumed that as soon as a woman got home they all changed into comfy clothes and took off their bras. It’s what my mom always did. But to sleep in a bra to try and keep my boobs from sagging, I don’t...
