Posts

Showing posts from August, 2013

Dating or not in the 21st century

I said it wouldn’t write about my personal dating life or what it’s like to be solo mio, but after watching a romantic comedy to polish off my Saturday night, I couldn’t hold it in. The story was about how a woman who dreamed of writing for a professional magazine (side note I had a dream of my own to work for the New York Times, or be a TV host) had a precise checklist and she wanted to find the perfect match. Her problem? She was single, jobless, and searching for direction. <Sure, sure, insert, cheesy line of: and she falls in love, we’ve heard this before> crap and the acting in this movie is terrible, no it’s awful; ignore all of the fluff and I think these writers were on to something and I think I actually believed it. The film hardly touched on what it was like to date as a single girl in the twenty first century, in fact the movie made it seem all too easy to find eligible, handsome, intelligent, driven, (I could go on, but you get the point) men. Well, ...

I'm so Hungry I could eat a whole bag of huh? : The Infamous Food Trough

In the working world, or at least in the office cubicle world, some of us go to meetings and in those meetings there is some great joy to it. Sorry, no not the speaker, or the presentation, or the guy with B.O who figured no one would notice he never takes a shower, no it's the goodies out on the table that your company budget allows every once in awhile. Of course you have seen those Special K commericials where they tell you switch the snack for a healthy one. But then your hunger mind kicks in...or maybe that's just me. It's not even 10am, and yes you had cereal this morning, you know the kind that has whole grains and tastes so bland you add a little sweetness just to kill the plain and boring. Lo and behold it's a  raspberry pastry and it sure does look good from where you are sitting. I mean come on, it's just one breakfast item, how bad could it be? Well imagine, temptation for hunger in comparison to a heat wave. There is nothing stopping you from finding a ...