What Does Your Food Tell Us About You?
Last night my son and I were snacking on Flaming Hot Cheetos with Lime. I didn’t have any cream cheese to dip them in, so while they were good, it wasn’t the perfect snack. Recently my son switched from a self-paced, half-day charter school full of kids who couldn’t cope with regular high school. to a private college prep school. It's an interesting story, maybe someday I’ll post it here.:) As we munched, I asked Logan if the kids at his school ate hot Cheetos. He snorted and said “No." I was...
Wishing I was a 1950’s Housewife
Several weeks ago I made a big mistake at work. While I knew I was going to be in trouble and maybe reprimanded on Monday when the boss came back in, I was assured by my friend, who gave me a heads up that I wasn’t going to be fired. While this should have calmed me down, it didn’t. For two reasons: I’m a writer, and my brain took off creating the worst possible futures; second, I was sick with a fever, which meant those scenarios morphed into nightmarish scenes full of my family living under...
Being My Own Best Friend
In the coming year one of my goals is to be treating myself as I would my best friend. Not only is my inner dialog full of ugliness, but I don’t care for myself very well. If my best friend were allergic to wheat, I would never serve it to her. I would make sure there were treats around she could eat. A pretty glass candy jar like the kind my Grandma has full of hard candies, ginger candies, and really dark chocolate, so she could have a sweet treat but not be tempted to eat a bunch of them....
Norweigian Ninja
Norwegian Ninja is an odd movie, and has shown me that not everything coming from Norway is good. It’s supposed to be a campy spoof, I think, but they just didn’t take it far enough to make it really funny. I knew it was going to be a bad movie; my hope was it would be bad enough that it would start being good again. For me it just didn’t make it that far. There were some funny moments, and some might enjoy it. I won’t watch it again, and unless I know some one is just crazy for any and all...
Accepting Sensativity
I am a sensitive person. I don’t mean this in a - I need thousand thread count sheets and my food served at exactly eighty-seven degrees because I’m very delicate and sensitive. I mean I’m a very emotional person, which can make life difficult. There are books I’d love to read yet I’m afraid to because of how sad or angry I’ll become. In my job I have kids come and go from my care. Some I’m happy to send on their way, just so long as they go. There are others who are being placed somewhere...
Surfing Life, crap it’s another wave!
I used to think that achieve balance was like walking a tightrope. I did everything I could to get all my ducks in a row. I made charts, lists, graphs, and so many schedules I could have ran the entire world, if the world worked that way, unfortunately it doesn’t. No matter how much effort it put in or how many different colors I use in my schedules, there is nothing I could do to make my world be static enough to find and achieve balance. Balance requires flexibility, strength, humor, and...
RPG in Iceland
Astropia is a fun quirky movie from Iceland. I can’t remember seeing a movie from Iceland before, and I’m very happy with my first choice. As Hildur finds her way after her boyfriend is put in jail, she slides between reality and fantasy. But not creepy fantasy, RPG fantasy. If you enjoy role-playing games, or know some one who does, or know just a little bit about them, then this is a movie you’ll enjoy. It’s sweet, funny, and like all good stories has a happy ending. There isn't much to say...
Don’t make me use my superpower!
I have a superpower. I can control minds. Take a moment to be impressed, I’ll wait . . . Okay, so I can’t control the mind of someone specific, but every time I nap, someone calls me. EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN' TIME. There I’ll be: lying down, drifting off, a dream softly forming. Me on a beach with a young, dark-skinned man kneeling by my chair asking if there is anything he could do to make me happy, and the phone rings. I won’t be able to get that dream back. Yes, there will be others, but that...
Passive Aggressive Gifts.
Do you ever feel like the gifts you’re given are more of a passive aggressive snub then a present? Of course there’s the fattening rich food when everyone knows you’re dieting. The heavily perfumed soaps and lotions with a note, "So you’ll smell sweet all the time." What does that mean? you think, as you sniff yourself. Or the gift certificate to "their" stylist when you’ve never shown any interest in their hair, at all, ever. All of these are true passive aggressive snubs, but it is gifts to...
3 Idiots
3 Idiots was recommended to me by another Bollywood fan. This is a hysterical movie. Two friends go on a journey to find a third friend from college. The majority of the movie is done in flash backs of their college days. Two of the friends are straitlaced, trying hard to please their parents by being successful. The other loves learning for itself and looks at life in a totally different way. This is not a Bollywood one watches for the singing and dancing. It's there a little bit, but the...
