This morning I heard the sad story of a young woman who disappeared in Aruba. NOT Natalee Holloway. Another pretty blond. Apparently she had met a man 30 years her senior on Match.com, met him in Aruba and told her boyfriend she was going to Florida. Her friends and family were explaining how much she loved life but may have been too trusting with people. They were flashing pictures of this beautiful girl. Professional shots that say, "Hi, I'm a hottie". While everyone, including Natalee Holloway's mother was quoted about how sad this is I almost called Matt Lauer to say..."if you are stupid enough to travel to a foreign country to meet a man you do not know you have invited potential murder".
Much like I question the reasoning of parents who allow their children to travel to a foreign country where alcohol is served to 18 year olds to celebrate high school graduation. Sorry, I don't mean to sound cold but what are you thinking? At the least there will be drunken revelry. Sex is a given and 18 year olds, especially girls, do not know how to tell an older, handsome, charming person to "kiss off". Even if there is simply an accident your child is in a foreign country and needs mommy and/or daddy. What if they need surgery? You want to be trying to book a flight while some doctor you have never spoken to is cutting on your child?
Destination Weddings. WHAT? "I know let's get married in a foreign country on a beach. That will be romantic". OR "let's get married in Europe, that will be a lifetime memory". Your guests are thinking, no, don't think I will be traveling around the world to watch your romantic wedding. Attendants are thinking, holy crap, how am I supposed to afford that?
My stepson was a groomsmen in a destination wedding. A beautiful chateau in Paris, France. His wife couldn't go because there was not enough room for that many guests. She stayed home, he flew to Paris for a weekend. The wedding was beautiful. It would have been beautiful here too. America has some lovely beaches and churches and historic buildings for weddings. OR better still. Just get married. It's a joining to two people for life. It's not a fairy tale. Besides, those first weddings....short. Well, many of them.
Oprah. I love her. I don't understand why everyone on earth follows her advice. She has every people skill. You can feel her pain, she can feel yours. She does not take crap, I like that. She unleashed Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz on the world. I haven't forgiven her for that yet. Here is my point. Oprah has a weight problem. She talked about it for 25 years on the air. She had chefs and life style coaches and work out buddies. She lost weight, she gained weight. People wrote books about helpin' Oprah lose weight, exercise, eat right. They were best sellers. Oprah is still over weight. Obviously none of the things she promoted worked in the long term. Wouldn't that make her, well, easily taken by some one's B.S.?
I blame Oprah for people thinking we have relationships with food. NO, we don't. We eat food. It is fuel. The rest of that babble is personal issues. I'm sad, I eat. That's not a relationship. That is an escape. I'm happy, I eat. That is not a relationship, that is a celebration. PLEASE! People over eat because food is good, they make poor decisions too often and all we have to move in America is our fingers.
Here is a hint. When you sit down, if your stomach hangs between your knees, you need the salad with no dressing. Not the burger and fries with gravy and extra mayo. See? I didn't write a book. I have no relationship with food. Those of you who know me are shaking your head going, "she has always been thin". NO, 180 ain't thin and I hit that once. I didn't need anyone to say, HOLY SHIT. I did that. I didn't need a book or a coach. I needed to eat less and exercise more.
I must upgrade! This is a gadget junkie's mantra. Apple started this....gotta pay more for the NEW one. It has apps that burp! It is 4G! It has two screens! It is faster! It is more expensive to replace when I drop it over and over. The iPhone is too small, get a iPad. USE BOTH. Have an iPill, take two. Chill. How much information do you really need at your finger tips every minute? Can you not wait to hear the score? See the stats? Take a picture of your privates? See the headlines? Check the movie schedules? Apple has more cash reserves than the government. Um, can you hold on to that phone until it breaks?
Rich people get free stuff. They get complimentary everything. Why? Why do they fill up bags of very expensive items for the Academy Award nominees and entourages? They don't need that stuff AND they can afford to buy whatever the hell they want. Here, John Travolta, have a twenty-five hundred dollar watch. How's that compound with all the jets and private runway? Here Brad and Angelina, surely you have room in one of your homes for a little trinket from Cartier. Hey, George Clooney, you look like you need a free week at the finest suite in Vegas. That villa at Lake Como, Italy must be so lonely. The one in Hollywood is kinda big and sad, isn't it?
People tell me I am a socialist. I hear it a lot. I certainly don't think of myself that way. Socialist has a nasty, fascist, WWII connotation. Sorry, I don't get why we live in a nation where people are millionaires because they can play a game or rap a stupid rhyme about bitches and hos or emote on film and our hard working people are suffering financially. Children go hungry, restaurants throw out half eaten plates of food hourly. People don't have jobs and the richest among use get endorsement deals on top of the millions they make. I think people should have basic care and needs. If that is socialism, I guess I proudly wear the title.
I was thinking about the loaves and fishes story from the sermon on the mount. Jesus was a socialist too. He fed everyone with the resources he had. Not the lucky, not the few, not the rich, not the connected. So, though I do not get it. Jesus and I, we are socialists.
WOW, that was an eye opener.
LBB
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