Dr. 90210
One of the top concerns for women today is how to lose weight. The subject almost haunts you everywhere you go. Everybody wants to be perfect - and perfect today means, mostly eating 3 almonds a day. I, as most of you know, am no exception to this rule. But I found a very good way to lose weight. Just watch Dr. 90210, which airs on E! entretainment television (surprise, surprise). 
The show is so absurdly gross it's unbelievable. Last night, they operated on a very, very fat girl. She was young and had a beautiful face, but she was fat - and she wanted to be thin. Now, I understand that. I think she should have lost more weight before going into surgery, but fine, none of my business. But they show you every damn inch of the operation. It's quite disgusting. The doctor takes her nipple out to put the breast implants on, and then he is just punching the implant and the fat tissue into her breasts again. Can you get an idea here? And then what does he do? He goes on and starts liposuction on her belly, and he takes away to strips of skin that are bigger than most small dogs, one from each side of her back. Her love handles, if you prefer that expression. But seriously, the amount of skin he takes off of her is just absurd. It's comparable to a blanket.
Again, I am not the skinniest person on earth - or skinny at all, for that matter - but this is just too much. I promise you, if you see that surgery without closing your eyes, looking at aaall the little details, all the skin, all the fat tissue that remained in her, you won't want to eat anymore. Not even the 3 almonds a day.
And just to add up to the fun, that girl's sister was presented by their mother with breast implants that same week. As a present for her 17th birthday (please insert any comment on that here, because I just don't know what to say about it).
Either everyone is mad or I am.
beeeijos
"Daaaad, Tom Cruise won't come out of the cloooset"
I know he just got married, and I hope they are annoyingly happy for the rest of their lives. I still can't get over the fact that her married Joey from Dawson's Creek, and that she now has a baby, and is, well, Tom Cruise's wife. But really, have you ever watched the South Park episode about Scientology? I don't mean to be disrespectful, because I don't know much about the religion, or what they do, or anything at all. But South Park is known for not respecting things - everybody and all religions, and all subjects in general, so I don't understand why people made such a fuss about it. Getting back to the episode, it is centered on Scientology, Stan being the reincarnati
on of their prophet. And when Tom Cruise appears in the town to meet the prophet, and Stan tells him that Leonardo DiCaprio is a better actor, he locks himself in the closet. And the rest of the episode is "Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet". John Travolta and Nicole Kidman try, telling him it's all ok, that no one is mad and everybody understands, and begging him to just come out of the closet. Just type it on You Tube I suppose it's there, just as everything else is now on it. It is really ridiculously funny. With "all due respect", like they say in The Sopranos.
Great Expectations
Did you ever have one of those days when you think "hmm, I don't think I should get out of bed today"? Not for laziness - which would be a good excuse as well - but just because you think something makes that day not your day? Well, this was one of those days. Basically, I hit my car. And before you start thinking that I can't drive, and that women make traffic chaos, and bla bla bla, it wasn't my fault. I was stopped, and a lovely guy hit me with his car, which made me hit the car in front of me. So, this was the first accident - not counting various scratches - in 3 years of driving. And, like most first times, it was bad, to say the least.
And why the hell am I writing this? Simply because that destroyed my day - and some of my week. Destroyed is a bit of a strong word, but fine. I was scared, it gave me a headache, and my mood wasn't really pleasant anymore - not that I am very pleasant normally, but I was really in a bad mood after that. It was the first time I ever hit my car (yes, it was, don't discuss it), and it was just so upsetting and annoying, not just the hit itself - and the fact that my neck is now killing me because I hit my head on the carseat - but everything that follows it. Contacting the guy, the security company, filing a police report, and looking at my poor car everyday, and at the damn blinking light in the panel that tells me the hood is open. And of course, having to be without my car for 1 or 2 weeks when it's being fixed, I'll hopefully find that out tomorrow.
And aaaall of this was just to say that things really do blindside you. Always. It's always when you don't expect it that things happen, good or bad. And that one simple wrong move by someone you have never even met can change your whole life - or at least your whole day. So how do you prepare if all you know is that you can't expect anything? Or, better yet, that you can expect everything - and what will probably come is something you have never even dreamed of? How do you prepare?
Beijos
painting: "Unexpected", by Eugenie Torgerson
"Honesty isn't a synonym for truth"
Drugs, violence, mafia. The sopranos minus all the sex. Or, better yet, another look at the mafia, and this one has no soft side. I didn't like Martin Scorcese's last movie. I though it was so ridiculously violent, but had no meaning. In the end, I though I missed something, because he is such a good director, so it must have been me that didn't get it right. But this one... as I watched it, my jaw just dropped.
The Departed is also ridiculously violent. But it has more basis to be, it all doesn't seem to be in vain. And when I say ridiculously violent, I mean just that. Very explicit deaths, a lot of guns and blood. I don't know if that much violence was actually necessary, maybe it was, maybe the point is that you leave the movie shocked by that. 
And then, there is Jack Nicholson. Oh God. How can a person look that insane? How can he be sooo good? I would honestly run away from him if I saw him on the street, just on pure simple fear. He is such a good actor, he makes the movie half of what it is. He is just... Jack Nicholson. If you have seen "The Shining", expect a performance just that good. The other half of the movie can be credited to Scorcese and the rest of the cast, since they are all very good. And Leo, oh Leo, maybe this time they will forget he was a teenage girl's d
ream and give him an award, an award he certainly deserves for this movie. He is so angry, so afraid... vulnerable although he won't give in. If you can get past all the violence, all the blood, enjoy all the lies and deceipt, all the tension and all the drama, and the great plot and fantastic actors in this Scorcese movie. Another good one, at last.
The end of denial
The following information will be totally and completely useless - as you might be able to tell from the picture. Do not say I didn't warn you before.
So, the lovely marriage seen above is now over, after 2 years. Britney Spears has filed for divorce from Kevin Federline. Although I can't imagine why, since he is such a promising guy. The pants in the middle of his ass really tells enough about his personality I think. So now after 2 children, a tv show, and producing a CD for him that cost her a lot of money that will never ever come back, I suppose. She is now a 24, divorced, single mother of 2 (no prejudice meant, just a statement).
I could use this post to discuss the shift of values in modern society, using this case as an example of how bad things are going, and just how plain absurd this all is, and so on and on. But I won't. I just wanted to share this lovely and very useless bit of information. And share a fear: does this mean she will start singing again?
Hello Sunshine
Hey! In the trailer, you think "oh, this will be a cute movie". But really, you have no idea how good it is until it starts. "Little Miss Sunshine" starts being funny even before they get into what could be loosely described as an old van. And with "old" I mean old as in almost giving up sort of car.
The family of Olive, that lovely little girl in the picture is well, unus
ual, as is the little girl, in a very very cute way. I really don't wanna say much about the movie, because I wish I hadn't known all about the family before I saw it. The absurd that sets in 5 minutes into the movie is so embarassing you just laugh, but since I was already expecting most of those dialogues, it wasn't sooo funny. Still great, but no surprise. Well, just to give you the basics, they are going to take her to a beauty contest - that very, veeery weird thing that I have only seen in the US, and that, honestly, creeps me out. Little girls dressed and acting like grown up women - and generally, slutty women. Why, whyyyy would you do
that to a child? YOUR child? Anyway, it's just horrible in that sense. But, like I said, the family is unusual, so everything on the way to the pageant follows along those lines.
And the whole movie goes on like that. There were times I was so, so embarassed for them I just didn't want to look anymore. And it is much sadder than I thought - all the reviews I saw about it were all about happiness and sunshine and on and on- so the sad moments caught me by surprise. But indeed, what prevails in the movie is the general feeling of happiness. You kind of leave the cinema with a warm heart, you know what I mean? It is just... sweet. And sad, and different, and simple. A
nd indeed, very cute. And it is one of the best movies I have seen this year. beijos
(by the way, the name of the little girl, in real life, is Abigail. Isn't it just perfect for her??)
Pointless Nostalgic
Last time I went to the beach, there was a little girl - maybe 5 or 6 years old - talking to her mother, probably discussing their next trip, probably one that will occur in the christmas-new year's eve period:
"- But mommy, where are we going to go this year?"
- To the beach sweetie, where you can play and swim with the dolphins!
- But I don't want to swim with the dolphins, who cares about that? I wanna see snow!"
Now, I have to say, after living in Finland with at least 3 or 4 months of snow, I couldn't really understand the little girl, and I discreetly (as aaalways) laughed at her argument. I was just so happy to be on the beach, the sun/ tanning lotion combination making me fell like I was some sort of piece of chicken on a frying pan (I am too white to be a piece of regular meat, and too fat to be considered a piece of fish, so, chicken), and the hot sand.... ok, saying it like that doesn't sound that appealing, but after being buried in snow and ice for so long, it was really great.
But after 5 months of being back home, just waiting for summer to start, and with no prediction whatsoever as to when I will be again buried in snow, and when will be the next period in my life that I have to calculate 5 extra minutes to get in and out of the house because of all the coats, and watch my every step so I don't fall on the ice, and soak my hands in warm 9sometimes too warm) water when I get home because I am too lazy to wear gloves, I bump into this picture online.
And suddenly, I begin to see the little girl's point of view.
Beijos
ps: sorry, Giu, for stealing your msn name for this post
