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Insert Romantic Christmas Title Here

For all my love of historical romance I'm not a big movie consumer. I know most of my peers love a wholesome Hallmark movie which is essentially a rom com made on a TV budget.  I personally just lose interest in bad acting. Not that I'm a good actor but when you understand what's in the sauce? It's not super fun seeing bad acting and bad plot together.  How many times can the uptight career orientated gal be spun around and learn the real meaning of Christmas from the sweet hometown tree farmer she runs into when she visits home for the holiday? Apparently like 300 times at least. I realize it's none of my business but I have been hearing about this Candace Cameron Bure thing where she basically said she jumped networks because she could executive produce content in line with her beliefs around traditional marriage at some other third tier network I've literally never heard of with America somewhere in the name. People have been mad and I totally understand why....

The Cheating in the Elephant Room

I'm not a person who normally cares about pop culture tabloid stuff but did you hear that Adam Levine of Maroon 5 cheated on his model wife?  It's weird how interested I am in this topic. I'm eating this up. Oddly it's not for the reasons you likely think.  I like seeing all the sides. (Also, not entirely related but damn, mercury in retrograde was hitting so hard.) Some people appear all bent out of shape about Adam cheating on a literal model as though there's no hope for love if the most beautiful people get cheated on.  I can see the logic but that's not how cheating works.  Beautiful people actually aren't entitled to being happier than ugly people despite what we see in TV and movies.  I forget who first told me but guys don't leave you because they are able to get a more beautiful, smarter, more successful gal in the bed.  They leave you for someone easier.  Easier is not bad, it's just easier.  Let that sink in.  I know that sounds nu...

Literary consumer

The pandemic has brought forth many a weird hobby.  Recently I've been in an almost maniacal feverish romance novel addiction.   I've always been a bookish person.  I devoured Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley High and Land of Oz Books as a young girl. I was always a bit on the nerdy side, rule abiding and good grade getting.  I was in essence a good girl and I played by all the rules and gave no one reason to distrust me.  I also lived in a very strict household where I was often told I couldn't hang out with my friends and yet often left to entertain myself.  Why I couldn't just have fun with my friends, who can guess?  Perhaps allowing me freedom was too much of a risk to my virtue?   In any case I read a lot of books, watched a lot of tv and did a lot of daydreaming.  When my cousin who was 12 years older than me moved out of the house and left her books when she went to college guess who read inappropriate books given her reading...