"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
-- William Shakespeare
At least i think i'm hip!
So, the wonderful Kris Carr has added a wonderful forum to her arsenal. It's all about love and friends and life and canser and not having canser and did i mention love? It's all there, in black and white and color! Kris just has a way of making everything seem like a rainbow. Right after a summer rain. You all know what i mean. The kind of rainbow that takes your breathe away and makes you say "WOW".
There's so much to do and read and look at over at Crazy Sexy Life. It's kind of hard to describe! You just have to be there i guess. I highly recommend you checking it out!
So, here's the deal. If you are a lover of life and want to have fun, leave me a comment as to why you feel that way! Tell me something fun about youself. It can be almost anything OK? Leave me your email address and i will send you an invite. It's that simple folks.
Computer $1000 High speed modem $350 Computer desk $200 Mouse $20 Crazy sexy life PRICELESS
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
I would like to wish myself a happy anniversary! Today, marks exactly 1 month since i've started running again. You may wonder...where is she running, to what, to whom? Does she ever stop running? Well, the simple answer is no. The more complex answer is why would i want to stop? I don't run to or from anything. I just run. If there is such a thing as a runners high, i suppose i feel that too. Running, gives me strength. Sure, it makes my legs look 100% better than it did last month. Sure, when i finish a 4 mile run, i have a big smile on my face, even though i can hardly breathe! But, its more than that. It's almost spiritual in a way. It gives me what i need to start my day and then my day is just that much better. Maybe, i am chasing a distant dream but isn't that a good thing? Dreams and fantasies and thoughts always somehow make me feel as though i am a part of a bigger, brighter more loving world.
Saturday, is March 1st. Start of the first ever global juice feast!! It's extremely exciting and inspirational to say the least. As i have written here i was all set to start exactly at the stroke of midnight. I purchased all the recommended supplements, put aside some money for the first month and spruced up my Breville and it stands ready and waiting. Thing is, i'm not quite ready. Somehow, in the last month i felt a pull, not towards juice feasting but away from it, the total opposite. Eating! Yep, plain and simple i like to eat. I enjoy the tastes and textures, the colors, smells, the sweetness and the savory. So, what i have decided is possibly juicing 2X a day and have 1 raw meal. This may work, this may not work. I simply do not know! It's really all kind of a big experiment to see what works exactly right just for you!!!!
Well, maybe not exactly right, it may never be exactly 100% right, but your body will lead you the right way. I'd like to quote a friend here if i may! Her name is Dee and i am sure many of you know her, she's terrific by the way!
"You all have it in you, it’s just a matter of whether or not you have the cohones to bust it out, embrace it, love it, smother it, and never let it go. The possibilities of what you can become are endless, but nobody can make those possibilities a reality but you. You owe it to yourself to at least try, I promise it will be hard, and I promise it’ll get harder before it gets easier, but I also promise that you will never, ever, not even for one moment, regret it. You may ask, ‘what’s there to gain/lose?’ and that’s just it, everything. Isn’t that worth it?"
So, thats my decision. I hope everybody here understands and supports me! Somehow, i am worried that i am disappointing everybody, but most of all i feel like i am disappointing myself. I almost feel like a failure but then....i read the words of a friend who never ever complains! Never! And, she may have some things to complain about once in a while. It's her positivity that makes me realize that my decision is the right thing for me!
I love life, i really do! There's so much to learn and i want to soak it all up. There will always be another global juice feast right??
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
I was all ready to post about something totally different, but the events of today has made me change my mind. At the risk of sounding spiritless or insipid i will forge ahead with my thoughts.
First off, i actually had a good day. I accomplished things that had long been put off due to a variety of reasons. It felt good. I guess you can say i had a very fulfilled day and i feel pleased with myself.
I think i've mentioned that lately, i've been proud to make the aquaintences of various people here on the "net". Now, maybe and i use the word maybe very lightly, maybe i become a little too attached to the newness of these friendships. I simply do not know. I care. I care deeply for people that i may very well never meet. So, when something scary happens to any of these people, it upsets me. I want to help, i just don't know how. I want to be there, yet i don't quite know where "there" is.
I realize that i am scarily paying pedantic attention to details here. I am distracted by my thoughts. I usually go through life saying "it is what it is" meaning in a nutshell, "this is the way its going right now, and thats how it is." kind of a way to say: dont overthink the situation. a reminder to keep things simple, dont overanalyze things, or a way to put a definition on something thats hard to explain. Insert "tough shit" here!
So, i'm ranting here. Not making much sense even to my over-stimulated mind. Things always have a way of working out. I truly believe that.
I think tomorrow i'd like to talk about the global juice feast. Lots to say about that just have to organize my thoughts.
Lastly, Philip over at lovingraw has brought to my attention a wonderful raw chocolate site gnosis chocolate
Vanessa Barg, owner of Gnosis Chocolate and Certified Holistic Health Counselor is a chocolate alchemist, and has really done an amazing job with combining a love for chocolate with potent superfoods and medicinal herbs. Besides the delicious taste, and the love for cacao, some of her clients and customers are even experiencing physical healing from the ingredients contained within her bars.
A message from Vanessa:
Most of you have heard that I make chocolate – many of you have tasted it at raw events, some of you have bought the bars in NYC retail stores, and others have ordered it through my website…. I want to thank you SO much for your support with this GI2MR Gnosis 4-Pak Special Offer! Here's the site: gnosis special These chocolates will certainly fill the need for anybody with a sweet tooth. Simply terrific!
I know this post is all over the place, but thats because my mind is as well. It is what it is!!!
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' Conan O'Brien
I meant to post this much earlier in the day, but you know how that goes. Today, at 5.30PM Starbucks is closing its doors for three long caffeine-deprived hours at more than 7000 of its US locations, in a massive plan to "retrain" its barristers in the art of brewing its famous cup of joe. Starbucks described this lapse in service as "espresso excellence training.
Now, i don't know about you guys but aren't there many other places to purchase coffee in the big cities? In fact, i read that to compete, rival Dunkin' Donuts will drop its price for a small coffee down to $0.99 from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. as "to ensure that no coffee lover is denied a delicious espresso-based beverage." Oh my!!!
Maybe, its me but i'm just not feeling this. Are people so very addicted to their caffeine that Dunkin' Donuts had to do this? I mean don't get me wrong, a $0.99 cut of coffee is quite enticing especially when coupled with a warm jelly donut. What i don't understand is some of the thoughts of some young people in NYC...Here is a quote..."A lot of people come here (starbucks) to make out, read, sleep (huh). I can't imagine how lost people will be". Here's another "What am i supposed to do, make it myself? (yikes). Mind you this is coming from an 18 year old and a 22 year old. Now an older wiser 27 year old said this "the closures are cool beans (who says cool beans anymore?) "if its going to be an improvement, i look forward to the change".
I used to be a Starbucks fan, big time! Everybody always asked me...why? I said because it tastes good and i like the music they play! Mind you, i never made out, read or slept in Starbucks. This whole thing just rings funny to me. Whatever can they do to retrain the barristers to be more espresso trained? Beats me!!!! It's 5.34PM, Starbucks has been closed for 4 min! Oh my!
Guy: Well, what do you think? Do you like it? It's just a demo, you know... Guy's Dad: It's fucking brilliant. Guy: Really? Guy's Dad: Fantastic stuff. That'll be a hit, no question.
listen to the song!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, i admit it...my name is Michelle and i am a music geek! (hello michelle)...
So, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova just won the Oscar for Best original song from the movie Once for the song Falling Slowly! Oh, they also performed the song at the Oscars. The Oscars!!!!See this movie folks! Here's some stuff...
'There is a certain poetry in a Grafton Street busker playing the Oscars," grins Glen Hansard.
"I feel like a plumber at a flower show. The indie rocker in me wants to say it's a load of bollocks, but if you are gonna get an award in this life, why not try and get yourself an Oscar?" The 37-year-old Dublin musician's life has the kind of fairy-tale arc that would make a good film, if it hadn't already been turned into one.
Hansard is the co-star of Once, a shoe-string budget feature (made for under £100,000) about an Irish busker and his platonic relationship with a Czech immigrant, played by 19-year-old Marketa Irglova. From extremely humble beginnings ("We never even thought it was going to get released, we just thought we might sell some DVDs after gigs"), it went on to win an award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and become one of the art-house hits of the year, grossing $7 million in its first three months.
And, it doesn't hurt that Glen is quite easy on the eyes or should i say he's eye candy????
"Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake!" Daniel Planiview
Exhilarating, suspenseful, chilling and beautiful.
i heard once that the reason people stand whenever the 'hallelujah chorus' is performed is because it was first performed for a king, and he was so moved by it, he simply stood up during the song. this movie is just like that.
i'm happy to be alive and at an age where i can appreciate this sort of thing now, because 50 years from now, people will surely say, 'i wonder what it was like to see that movie in theaters when it had just been released.'
when i say, 'you should go see this movie,' i don't mean it's really entertaining, a good way to spend a Saturday night, worth the price of admission or what have you. i mean it in the way that i think everyone should see the sistine chapel, read hemingway, listen to beethoven's 9th symphony and so on. it will certainly be remembered for generations to come as an important work of art.
Daniel Day Lewis's performance was chilling - the themes of family, good vs. evil, and greed topped with the multi-layered visuals presented by Mr. Anderson had my head swirling in film-geek delight. Brilliant film!
Much talk surrounded “There Will Be Blood” before it even started shooting. Adapted from a 1927 novel called “Oil!”, the lead character Daniel Plainview was a rich and complex one that a lot of people thought Day Lewis would be able to shine in. But for me, I had no expectations walking in because other than buzz… I hadn’t seen one single clip or one single trailer for the film… which doesn’t happen often for me. It was kind of a nice feeling.
THE GENERAL IDEA
Daniel Plainview is a hard working and determined man at the start of the 1900’s who seems limitless in his pure determination to succeed. A miner searching for gold and silver, Plainview changes directions when he accidentally discovers oil on one dig. When one of his crew members is killed in a digging accident, Plainview adopts the man’s baby son as his own, telling no one, not even the boy, that he isn’t his natural son. As the years pass and Plainview becomes more and more successful, he develops a deep and loving fatherly relationship with his son, H.W. Plainview and even tells people the young boy is his “Partner”. But when Daniel is told of a rich oil deposit in a small faith lead community, Plainview begins to reveal his darker side. Pushed by greed and spite, Plainview quickly comes to odds with the community’s young fanatical religious leader, Eli (played by Little Miss Sunshine’s Paul Dano). Hatred, ego, love, greed and deception all boil to the surface like oil.
The entire background set up is told in the first 5 minutes of the film… WITHOUT ONE SINGLE WORD OF DIALOG! It was fantastic! So, i loved There will be Blood!
Now, i just want to take a moment to list the films up this year for Best Picture at the Oscars:
Picture Nominees: No Country For Old Men, Atonement, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, Juno
I saw 3 out of the 5 films...i still need to see Atonement and Michael Clayton! I am conflicted because i loved Juno but honestly, it is not anywhere near the caliber of the other films. We'll see though! Should make for an interesting Oscar night!!!
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Today, there was snow. Finally. I was resigned to the fact that i may not see snow the winter of 08 and that was OK! They predicted 6-10 inches in the city. NOT!
When i opened my eyes at 6AM and peeked outside there it was in all its majectic beauty. OK, i know your probably saying gosh she's corny. I am, i know it. It's a character flaw of mine, but in a good way. Anyway, by 6.04AM i was back in bed, disappointed because i was unable to run today! It's ok, my body needed the rest.
I live in a 23 story apartment building so the walking paths are always cleaned right away. Cars are another story. We are on our own to clean and shovel our cars out! So, i bundled up, hat, hood, scarf, gloves, boots, i have to say i looked kinda cute. Walked out, it was amazingly warm in a wintry mix kinda way. I saw my car from afar and it didn't look quite as bad as i anticipated so i thought a quick cleaning was in order. A few minutes later i noticed an older gentleman friend of mine coming by with a younger, quite handsome (i want to say hot guy) man. He introduced him as his relative from Israel who doesn't speak english. Well, you know how that goes, i tried to initiate a conversation but without language we only had our eyes and maybe our smiles to communicate with each other. He was nice, he shoveled me out (and i don't mean that in a dirty way) i watched (he had a cute butt) and soon it was all finished.
So, now i'm thinking "hmmm, i really don't need to be there anymore* but yet i didn't leave. I figured i'd talk to my older gentleman friend and get some info. Info is, he's leaving tomorrow for DC. :O(
So, today when the water came to life in Brooklyn somehow so did i! It's really only called snow and not much of it, but it was fun while it lasted. Now, the question is will it be clean enough for me to run tomorrow???
By the way, i do not know the little joyous boy in the photo above, i just really liked his enthusiasm!!!
Sure, I gotchya. New York, third-wave, feminist, college-educated, single and pretending to be happy about it, over-scheduled, under-sexed, you buy any magazine that says “body image” on the cover, and every two years you take up knitting for a week.
I am a jaded, no bullshit kinda gal with tattoos! I used to eat raw. I used to eat crap. That is all about to change!! The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain.
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