Diaper wearin', booger pickin' good time.

So I had jury duty this past week and one of my fellow prisoners jurors made the observation that "Adults are really just big kids."  This really made me think.  I am 20, but am I really an adult, and are my parents really adults, what about my colleagues?  What really defines "adult?"  Think about it, we start in diapers, go out in diapers.  We whine, we fuss, heck, sometimes we pick our noses (you know you do).  So what really defines adult?  Lets look at the facts:

Kids think the other sex is "icky," but they still chase them around the playground and flirt...Adults go on dates with people they don't like=we all want attention from the opposite sex.

Kids love making messes...Adults, have you looked at your garage lately?=We all like chaos.

Kids are picky eaters...Adults, do you still want to eat green beans and brussel sprouts? I dont.= Green is not always good.

Kids procrastinate, Adults procrastinate.

Swingsets are timeless and ageless.

So maybe what adults need to do is embrace their inner child.  Go see Toy Story 3, it is a great movie...and don't drag a kid along, eat play-doh (ok..maybe not...little salty), play outside!  Enjoy life.

Slim slow

So lately per my "I know why I am fat" I have had the revelation to eat like an American and look like a European...therefore meaning I go on a fad diet that makes me miserable, only to bounce back later...crap.  My diet of choice?  Slim fast.  The name...does not really live up to it, as I have observed.  Due to my lack of patience the term "fast" to me makes me think of email rather than snail mail...or the judicial process.  The slim fast diet represents the latter.  Lots of inflation...and uncomfortable times.  Though, I am liking it so far, it goes like this:
3 snacks a day...100 calories (I personally eat the snack bar, and then a snack with higher calories..but it all balances out)
2 meals a day...200 calories each...this means a slimfast shake...or a meal bar.  Both of which smell funny.
1 normal meal...500 calories...ish.  Which for me is ending up being about 700 due to my dessert cravings...Spain, you need more sugar, help a girl out.

Total calories?  1200....I was eating this before on my healthy kick.  So slim fast...I am not planning on replenishing your stock, your products, though healthy, smell funny.  And I was doing fine on my own before my sugar cravings...plus, I have finished off my German chocolate.

There's Always Someone Cooler Than You

So I was blog surfing today and while I was reading this song popped into my head.  I think so often people are obsessed with having "the perfect life" or looking like everything is all right.  But what is the definition of "all right"?  I mean, there is no control in that situtation...so normalcy can have literally billions of meanings.  White picket fences, maybe? Or a state above the influence?  Or even liking anime conventions.  All people have their own states of normalcy.  So what can we do?  Embrace our own attitudes, and be happy with we do and who we are...we have nothing to prove to anyone but ourselves, and if we keep trying to impress people, we will always be one-upped.  Maybe I am preaching to only myself...but this song has a good message.

I know why I'm fat

Today, I had this revelation.  Americans are fat.  Why did I have this revelation?  Because despite my efforts not to gain weight upon my return to the States...namely Oklahoma, I have taken it upon myself to work out for an hour 4 days a week (at 6am), at least, and count my calories (1200 daily ration).   And yet, I have gained a steady 6 pounds, in one month.  Compare this to Spain, where I lost that amount on a monthly basis, and my workout regimen consisted of running 3 blocks to the bus stop every morning after dragging myself out of bed at 10am.  Now that I am home, I hear people complaining about going to the gym, and how they have to drive there, myself included.  This American society is obese because we are lazy...and our meal choices don't exactly help either, though they are incredibly appetizing:

Dinner consists of:

A whole, dead fish...or.... a juicy steak dripping in marinade.

And for our seasoning to everything?

A nice sprit of olive oil...or...a vat of ranch dressing.

And to finish the meal we have dessert:

a juicy pear...or...a tower of cupcakes.

So now my problem is that although both look appetizing, I find myself quite lonely with my culinary tastes regarding a fish body covered in olive oil.  So I settle for the gobs upon gobs of fats and sugars, that are oh so succlent.  And it doesn't help that I love baking and am going through a cupcake phase.  So my next objective is the slim fast plan...a diet fad.  Bound to bounce back...but hopefully not before I go to the pool.

HIATUS MISCELLANIOUS

So I think it is pretty apparent that I have been on hiatus lately.  This will come to an end due to myself being chained to a desk all summer with a computer at my...fingertips?  Wow, it has been a long time...the originality is really sucking.  I blame it on my new habit of journaling.  It is really hard to write the same thing twice, and my journaling has taken to be a bit "angsty" now that I have returned to Jenks, Oklahoma.  Still, faithful invisible readers, I will try to make up for it and be as original as possible, or at least myself.  So to appease ya'll as well as myself I will provide you with a list.  Now, there is a story behind this magnificent list, I was discussing last night how I always say a movie is my "top-ten" but then, what really is top 10 material?  For me, I like movies that are all encompassing, yet different...and ones you can semi watch over and over, though I still find myself falling asleep in movies...all the time.  So here they are, according to me, at the present.

TOP 10 movies of ALL TIME...maybe
1. The Blind Side (Something you should know about me...I love dude movies...and this mixes football and heartwarming, which is genius.)
2. Forrest Gump
3.500 Days of Summer (the best chick flick!  Because it is REAL)
4. Titanic (Fun fact #2...I am obsessed with all things Titanic...it is almost creepy)
5.Pan's Labrynith (El laberinto de fauno...as they say...the best part?  I don't need subtitles.)
6. Sex and the City (I'm just obesessed.)
7. The Sixth Sense (I watch it over and over!)
8. An American Tail (How can you not love Fievel?)
9. Happy Feet (I love the innocence of it)
10. Seven Pounds (mainly because of Will Smith and his versatility of roles, and again, the message)

And just because I like you...and I have a hard time making decisions...
TOP 5 Film Series of ALL TIME..definitely.
1. Star Wars
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Matrix
4. Shrek (yeah, I went there.)
5. X-Men
Honorable Mention: Harry Potter, The 10th Kingdom, The Secret of NIMH

OMG? You didnt pick ___________________?!  Now I present...
TOP 10 Overrated films of ALL TIME...because I said so.
1. The Hurt Locker (maybe should have won best director, but not best picture)
2. Gone With the Wind (Note...I do love the movie...but Scarlet O'hara is too whiney, though still good)
3. 300 (I still have yet to make it through the whole thing awake)
4.The Princess Bride (yes, I like it a lot...but again...not that new.)
5. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks movies are always overrated...sweet, yes, but depressing.)
6. The Lion King (Mufasa dies.  Life goes on.)
7.Boondock Saints (I like it...but I can't rewatch it)
8.Sleepless in Seattle (a little too sappy for me)
9.Spiderman (a 4th one, really?)
10.Borat (its just not funny.)

So there ya go!  Note: These could change by the hour, I watch way too much TV and movies.