I can't believe it has been nearly a month since I posted here. I really am awful and have no good excuse.
It's high time for another installment of Things I Am Loving/Hating Right Now...
Jessica Simpson as the new Weight Watchers Spokesperson: Hating it. Well, I think we all saw that one coming, now didn't we? Rumor has it she's getting $4M. So let me get this straight -- Jessica got to eat and eat and eat and sit on her butt to the point where she actually looked deformed, and now she gets to make money off of it too? I got fat for free. I didn't know you could paid for it. I wish that Weight Watchers would stop with the celebrity spokespeople, who have access to personal trainers and chefs, and pick a real person, like me, who is actually eating their frozen "meals," if they can be called that, and trying to fit exercise into my busy day of work and a$$-sitting.
Summer: Hating it. Maybe it was growing up in a resort town or reluctance to be seen in anything more revealing than a burka, but I am not a fan of summer. I find the statement that work/life slows down in the summer to be a total myth; I'm working just as hard, if not harder, I'm just hotter while doing it. The only things I can see that are decent about summer are The Real Housewives of NYC coming back, trashy summer reading, and the Rock of Ages movie. I can appreciate that other people love the summer, but I just can't get onboard that bus. I'd rather stay inside in the air conditioning. Wake me when I can wear my sweaters again and when Mallomars are back on the shelves.
Summer Reading: Loving it. I read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and I couldn't put them down. Yes, they are porn, and poorly written, but somehow they just get under your skin. Like Shingles or something. I highly recommend them. I also loved Heft by Liz Moore, This is How ... by Augusten Burroughs, These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen, I Couldn't Love You More by Jillian Medoff, and eagerly await the new Jennifer Weiner (The Next Best Thing) and the Shawn Colvin autobiography (Diamond in the Rough). I'm sure that 70% of my after-tax income goes to Amazon.com. It's way too easy to One-Click and essentially buy a house or something. When I'm in debtors prison, remind me that the road to Hell was paved with books...
Marina Keegan's Now Viral Last Column: Loving it. A friend I hadn't spoken to, well, in years, sent this to me in the middle of the night Sunday, long before it became a sensation. It broke my heart, and made me cry and made me think, and above all, it made me hopeful.
If you are one of the three people who hasn't read it yet, go here. I dare you to not be moved: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/may/27/keegan-opposite-loneliness/?cross-campus
Every day that we are alive we have a chance to turn it around. To do something awesome or waste precious time. To choose to hold a grudge, or finally let it go. To apologize, or let it fester. To take the high road, or be petty and judgmental. To let people know that they matter, or continue to be disconnected and isolated.
Marina's column makes me feel uplifted and hopeful and grateful that I have a gift of another day -- to make mistakes and learn from them, and to try to do and BE better. And I thank Marina for this gift of perspective and send my heartfelt condolences to her family and loved ones.
As she says, "We’re in this together, 2012. Let’s make something happen to this world."
Indeed.
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