bon voyage!

I'm going to the 'old country' in 3 days. 3 DAYS! That's insane.
I'm 60% excited and 40% anxious.

I will take lots of pictures and video and will try to parlay this into a thesis project for next year. Hopefully something will come out of it.

In other news..working out has been great. There is now almost 40lbs less of me to love, sorry. What I lack in a bulging stomach and wiggly thighs I make up for in ripped biceps and shapely quads.

Oh boy.

Basically I've really been enjoying the working out situation. I never would have thought that I'd be into something like this, not in a million years. But here I am into it in a big way. It makes the world go 'round for me these days. Nothing beats it.

Don't ever let anyone convince you to try to lose weight in a different way. The only thing that works is working out hard and eating better. A half hour on the elliptical and 3lb weights won't do you any favours.

The Thing About...

...working out is that you spend half of every week limping, wincing and living a horrible sore existence. Climbing up and down stairs is a real treat.

Out Of Touch

As much as I am a product of many places, I am a New York girl through and through. I did most of my growing up in this glorious city and it is a part of who I am. I was an uptown kid and a downtown grownup and this duality helps define me. I still get an indescribable buzz when I am in New York. I suppose it's the feeling that so many worlds co-exist, that you can lose yourself in any one of them at almost any hour of the day.

Please visit Gwyneth Paltrow's website Goop.

It is her personal website where she shares her opinions on what we should wear/do/eat..how to live her life basically.

I love how Ms.Paltrow is so out of touch. So very out of touch.

She has been criticized a lot for this website, and recently in an interview she said that "I'm just trying to help people, maybe the world isn't ready for it."

No. I don't think we are.

Hostile Territory

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Glendale Golf and Country":

first of all, its a wonderful use of natural space,,not a waste,, and if you dont enjoy watching from behing the gates, (like you would at any private club),, then reach into your pocket book and join. you say rediculous?? i think your comments are rediculous, and yes you are breaking the law by trespassing onto private property, so please stay off the golf course property!!

I replied to this.....

Why so hostile?

It is a waste of natural space because only a select few get to enjoy it. I don't see what is wonderful about it.

Thanks for the trespassing tip.

Also, I'm being 'ridiculous' not, 'rediculous'.

This made me really mad. It's not that someone is being rude to me online, because a certain amount of that should be expected on the internet. Whenever you put something out there you should be prepared to have it judged.

It is the central message of this comment. The claim that to enjoy nature you should have to fork over the cash.

The notion that a well manicured natural space is for the privileged to enjoy is horrible.

Golf Courses are a complete waste of natural space. Nothing will ever change my mind about this.

Here is a direct link to this post .

douchebaggery

and now for something insulting and and completely ignorant...spike.com on fat actresses.

Seriously?

..ughh

So there I was, in the ladies locker room at the gym minding my own business. I was done working out and was covered in sweat. What I really wanted was to get in ..get my stuff..and go home and shower. What I didn't want is to be held hostage in the locker room eavesdropping on a lesbian breakup.

I walked into the locker room and I heard yelling. "Odd", I thought, and I continued walking towards the locker where my stuff was. As I got closer I realized that directly in front of my locker were two women in a very heated argument. I side stepped this and took a detour to the bathroom instead, I thought this would buy me some time and that surely the women will wrap this up. Instead, I stood in front of the sinks washing my hands for like 5-10 minutes waiting this disaster out. At this point, the two women were really throwing some emotional punches at each other. Things like "I can't do this anymore, it just isn't working", "I made you breakfast this morning, how dare you?!", "Stop making a scene, you always get like this, it's really hard to talk to you."

I really wanted to leave and not hear any of this, honest, it was very awkward for me. Eventually, after what seemed like an eternity, an older woman walked into the locker room. I took this as a sign of a higher being and I sort of followed her towards the lockers. Because the fight was right in front of my locker I had to give the fighting women a tight smile and an awkward "...just need to get to my stuff". The more aggressive woman stepped aside, still yelling, and I got to my locker. I wanted to get the hellz out of there as soon as possible and in my rush I managed to mess up my lock combination. This extended my stay and made things even more uncomfortable as both women glared at me to get out. Eventually I got my lock opened and I grabbed my stuff and sped out of there like a bat out of hell.

I let out a huge sigh of relief when I finally got out.

2009

It's weird to think that we are living in 2009. This sounds morbid, but when I was a kid in the 90's the 2000's seemed so far away that I just assumed I wouldn't be alive when they finally arrived.

If I had spent more time on my math homework I could have figured out, "jeez that's only 4/5 years away chances are I'll make it..." looking back on it, it sounds really silly. But that's how I felt. I just couldn't picture living in the future .

I'm not really into Resolutions that commence on the 1st. I make small resolutions throughout the year as I see fit, or more like, as I try to learn from my mistakes.

Like..No matter how hungry I think I am, I hereby resolve to never accept a free second homeburger from Lick's. That one stuck, the stomach pain just isn't worth the sweet bargain.