Imma Let You Finish

Confession: I watch MTV and VH1. ALOT. I know, I'm like the TV equivalent of a 13 year old.

But did you watch the VMAs? Did you watch open mouthed when Kanye went off? Do you know what I'm talking about? If you don't, here's a video of it:



Look at her poor face!! SAD!! Anyway, people are of course making fun of him. Because Kanye is a huge egomaniac. And there's this website making fun of him, and I love it. Here are some of my faves:


Find more at http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/

Imma go make dinner now

Conversations With Marcelo

Me (at 9:45 am): Marcelo? Are you back in bed?

Him: Yeah! I'm tired! I played with the baby all morning!

Me: You know what I did? I made you breakfast, washed TWO loads of dishes, finished folding the laundry, cleaned the kitchen, put dinner in the crock-pot for tonight, made you breakfast, brought it to you, and am now cleaning it up.

Him:. . . Right, so we both were busy this morning.


I'm sure I'll laugh about this SOMEDAY.

Picture of the day:



Try finding a cuter baby. JUST TRY!

P.S. She TOTALLY looks like those "American Girls" dolls in this picture. Like the Samantha doll. Am I right or am I right? Look for yourself.
It's those two little teeth.

Book Review: Young Woman and the Sea

Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World by Glenn Stout


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was amazing. Interesting history, woman's lib, robbed childhoods, this book has it all. Did you know that Trudy Ederle invented the bikini 20 years before French engineer Louis Réard did it in 1946? She actually swam the Channel in one because she found that it had less drag than any other suits she tried.

Also, did you know that Native Americans invented the crawl, or freestyle stroke? For years the breaststroke or sidestroke was thought to be superior to any other swim stroke until the Americans showed up at the Olympics and blew everyone out of the water. But this book talks about how it was discovered by an artist and displayed to the world at the world's fair (If I'm remembering correctly)

And while all that is awesome and interesting, this book is about Trudy. A New York native of German descent who fell in love with the water on the Jersey shore. About the struggle of women to be treated as equals. About this history of swimming. About the fear of water. About the geological makeup of the Channel itself. About the rights of athletes. This book honestly is so amazing and will suck you in within the first few pages. I'm not kidding. If that story about the fire in the ship off Long Island doesn't get you, I don't know what will.

I really want some of you read this so we can talk about it! You will not believe what happens at the Olympics in 1924. And you will NOT believe what happened the first time she tried to swim the channel. But ultimately this is a story about one woman's triumph and how she succeeded when everyone tried to tell her to get out of the water. LITERALLY. Oh, not only did she succeed, she SMASHED the record. A woman. An American Woman. Oh, and did I mention she was 19? Yeah, she was a teenager.

This is the Seabiscuit of 2009. I'll go on record as stating that right now. Makes me happy to be a swimmer. And by the way, it's ok to be chubby if you are a channel swimmer. Maybe I should look into it?

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Liar

Is there any smell more delicious than rain on hot asphalt?

Seriously?

If you say there is, I will call you a liar.

I love the rain. The snow can suck it. But the rain?

Hmmmmmm. . . .

Currently Reading

So I'm currently reading this book that you see appearing to the right of my words. I'm going to admit that I TOTALLY pick books based on their cover. And this one grabbed me.

I'm only on page 45, but I am SUCKED IN. It's about the first woman who swam the English Channel and how she did it hours faster than any man had ever done it. (At that time, that is)

Anyway, I'm not done yet but I found the funniest story on page 34. Apparently, there was a very "Pro-American" push around the time of the first world war. And many of the immigrants (especially those of German descent) were feeling the pressure to prove their loyalty to America whilst it was fighting against the Motherland.

Anyway, here is a quote:

"Foods such as sauerkraut temporarily became know as 'liberty cabbage,' German measles was referred to as 'liberty measles,' and even the most ubiquitous of American foods with a German heritage-the hamburger-temporarily became know as the 'liberty sandwich.'

Ha!! Does that remind you of the "freedom fries" debacle that was going around a while ago? Anyway, this book is awesome!! I'm not even 15% through it and I'm dying to get back to it right now. So I will leave you so I can go back to reading.

And for dinner tonight? I think I'll have a liberty sandwich with a side of freedom fries. And of course I'll hold on the Benedict Arnold mayonnaise. "

Loser

It's official. Marcelo has more friends than I do. Just now, 2 friends called him up and invited him to go to a movie. Friday night out with the boys. He was in the process of cooking himself some chicken, (in his chones of course. We are ALWAYS in our chones around here.) and so he asked me to pull it out of the pan so he could take it with him. And I did. And then he rushed out the door and went.

I'm so freaking jealous I could vomit.

My itinerary for the evening:

Step 1) Take a shower
Step 2) Fall Asleep while listening to a book on tape.

I was thinking about watch Disk 2 of Season 1 of "The Tudors" but now I'm too depressed.

It's so not fair!! I've lived in this country for 29 years! He's only been here for 5! It's not fair that he has more friends than me.

Boo Hoo for me

Dear 14 Year Old Boys and Girls All Over the World. . .

. . .This is not a good idea


I know you may think it is right now. And I know that Rob Pattinson is like "SO HOT" right now. Especially with his crazy messed up hair going on. But believe me, this Twilight thing is just a fad, a phase, a moment in pop culture history.

In 70 years when you are 84, I SWEAR you will not want this on your back. Please, just listen to me and trust me on this one.


I can see you don't believe me. I'm sorry I had to do this to prove my point.

I know most of you are too young to remember this, but there was a time when THIS haircut




















was considered cool.

Enough said