Eat Pray Love... blah, blah, bl...

For months and months and months, I looked over this book in bookstores. It was in the front of the bookstore that I frequented, and I would look at with ambivalence. I just didn't want to read. People were on radio talkshows and tv's talking about how it changed their lives and still I wanted nothing to do with it. A few months went by and I heard that it would be turned into a movie. I love movies, so I figured I would see it, but there was no way I would spend even a day trying to read it. Some time later, I heard that Julia Roberts would be playing the lead. That got my attention. I love her work. I have watched every movie that she has made. It is sort of like Sex and the city for me... I will watch her even if I think the movie will be bad. Anyway, they have done great by adding Julia because now I want to read the book before i go see the movie.

I was in a state of awe as I watched the trailer. It is the epitome of letting go and living for you. A year of nothing but exploring, soul searching,eating, and of course falling in love seems like it would be beyond wonderful. It seems insightful and encouraging. Telling you to take time to deal with you, to find an appetite for life, and to do it now. The whole soul searching is interesting to me though, because sometimes it takes a minute to know that something should be taken into account. How do you know for sure that something matters? Yeah, the old saying don't take anything for granted comes to mind, but we all know that we take stuff for granted everfy day. I've been trying these last couple of months to really live in the moment. To be aware of everything when it's happening and to know that you are aware is invigorating. I'm sure I've missed things though.

Take a look if you haven't seen the trailor. I can't wait to experience the journey.



Here is another version.

hmmm... New Life or Not

If I were to really let go, I would drop everything, move to New York, pursue acting, hang out with famous people, and live a fabulously wealthy life..... and then the sh!t would hit the fan because I don't have any money saved, haven't taken an acting class in 6 years, and don't have any connections in any places other than universities and casinos. As a result, I would become a starving actress and have to wear a Mo'nique costume in the daytime for chump change and waitress at a grease factory like Big Daddy's at night to pay rent in this dump all in an effort to get the role of Insulted Girl in a movie like From Justin to Kelly.

So, since I'm not letting go today, I will continue to live in my house in Tallahassee, working at FSU, talking to the the people that are in the blog challenge, hanging out at places like Borders, and living the life that I am living.

That's just Great...

 ~Reel Moments~

In the spirit of striving for something, whatever it is, I leave you with a quote from Up in the Air.

Up in the Air

Alex Goran: I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.

Theme of the Month

It was hard for me to think of a theme that was broad enough to not get bored or stumped, yet specific enough to not get frustrated with the broadness of it. I am pretty spastic with my writing.  I like to jump around and just write whatever.  That is probably true in everything that I do including, but not limited to living arrangements, jobs, journaling, reading, traveling, other hobbies, etc.

So, with this in mind, my theme for the month is not really a theme.  It is more of a leading statement that I will use to begin my post each day.  This will give me the freedom to be spastic, while also limiting my spastic-ness just a little.  My goal is to not be boring or repetitive, but instead to be creative and have a reason to say all the things that I wouldn't actually say out loud.  Maybe some of them, but definitely not all of them. You could probably consider this month to be a series of rants that were initiated by events, interactions, or random mumblings in my machinery (machinery = my brain - It was in a movie I watched yesterday- that’s kind of weird in a sentence though) I’m not really sure what will happen, or how this will pan out.... but hear me now and hear me clearly…. 

My plan is to stick this out for the entire month.  If I get bored, I will do something else.

So here is what I have come up with after many many hours of trying to come up with a leading sentence… 

Side Note:  If you are thinking what the crap??? You worked for many hours and that is what you came up with....then you should stop reading my blog now because it is only downhill from here.

Side Note 2:  I'm not really sure if it was hours, minutes, or seconds

So, here it is...... If I were to really let go, ......................... and then the sh!t would hit the fan That is how I will begin each post.