Super thinness

My daughter is majoring in fashion merchandising, and naturally she enjoys reading fashion and style magazines. I am really not into fashion nor do I follow trends, but the other day I was looking through one of my daughter's magazines, Vogue, to be exact, and I was absolutely disgusted by the pictures of super thin models and celebrities. They were too thin and looked very unhealthy. No, let me rephrase that. They didn't look thin, they looked like walking skeletons! Do designers actually think that clothes look better hanging on rail-thin models that look like third world refugees? A clothes hanger would display their fashion jsut as good as these models if not better. Heck it would be a lot cheaper to use hangers.

The sad thing is that the fashion industry continues to use these girls who look like they are inmates at a concentration camp. This sends a message to young girls that you must be a size O for your clothes to look good on you. Teenagers are following these examples and are starving themselves b/c they think that the skelate thinnes is ideal. It is time for the fashion industry and the media to stop all this. It is not healthy to be fat, but being bones is not healthy either. It is impossible to be skeletal thin and healthy at the same time. We need to see real women with curves in these fashion magazines. They look good in fashionable clothes, too!

Dove is not a high fashion retail house, but the company is trying to bring a positive change into all this mess by delivering a message that all women are beautiful. Have you seen the Dove Ads for their Real Women Campaign? They are trying to change the way society views beauty by using curvier non-airbrushed real women from different ethnicities for their new skin line products. I’m not sure if Dove is really trying to improve women’s self esteem or this is simply a marketing trick for the company, but I’ll say, more power to them. I applaud Dove for using loud Dove for refusing to hire skinny models to promote their products. In any event, these ads are getting plenty of attention; both positive and negative. Men in Chicago complained that they didn’t want to see full figured women in underwear on billboards. Let me tell you, these women are hardly chunky! They are more like size 8-10. How said is it that we can’t even see a picture of a real woman (not even fat) in the media without having to hear negative remarks. Unless your bones are protruding through your skin, you’re not beautiful in this society! Then they wonder why eating disorders are on the rise.

Dinner conversations

So, I had a couple of my single girlfriends over this past weekend for a dinner before I got really busy with school. The food was awesome, the conversation was interesting, intelligent and filled with lots of laughter. Overall, a great time was had by all.

Here are some tidbits from our conversation around the dinner table:

My Friend S: Having M's babies yet?
My Friend D: Oh, stop it. it's nothing like that.
Friend S: Right. you're just "friends"
friend D: friends without quotation marks, thank you.
Friend S : so when are you and your firend without-quotation-marks getting married?
Me: Stop this nonsense now! Let's have another slice of cheese cake.

I told you the conversation was intelligent.

Here's more:
Friend S: So what's wrong with your car D?
Me: When I press the break I can feel is going vvv-sshoo vvv-shooo!
S: : Ha ha ha, is that what you're going to tell the mechanics?
Me: Maybe!

BTW, I told them it makes a creaking noise, no sound effects.

On a side note, I read somewhere that a movie about the legendary rock band, Queen is in the works. The rumor goes that Johnny Depp wil be playing Freddy Mercury. Can you imagine Depp as Freddy? Depp is a versatile actor, but I don't know if he can pull of AIDS striken, overly flamboyant gay Mercury. Johnny Depp is far from that. No, Johnny, don't do it, please. Don't part from your pirate thing. They really need to get someone else. I think Borat would be perfect for the role. I just can't imagine Johnny Depp, one of the sexiest man in Hollywood wearing a mustache and kissing another man. I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Nothing else to report at the moment. Oh, almost forgot to mention, my blog is one week old today. :) Speaking of my baby blog, what am I still doing here? Gotta run, I am late for school.
Bye for now!

PS: Hello Friday, please be nice
-D

All about moi

This is my first stab at blogging ever. I hope it goes well because I am quitting my day time job to start blogging with google ads as my new source of income. Ha! Who am kidding, with millions of active blogs out in cyberspace, who is going to be interested in my musings, rantings, opinions and wanderings? Okay, a hand full of SWIC students might possibly read my blog, but that's because they have to! See, this blog was created for a class assignment. Speaking of which, my dear Eng 101 classmates, this is my forewarning: This is going to be a boring read b/c I am boring beyond all possible measures. Now that we got the warning out of the way, lets talk about moi, shall we? So here's me in a nutshell, in no particular order:

I'm a(n)... mother of four girls, avid reader, good cook, cardinals lover and cubs hater, glass is half-full believer, people person, natural flirt, free- spirited, a bit stubborn, avid exerciser, food lover, coffee hater, curious, loyal and dependable friend and... always a work in progress. Oh, cannot forget, goodlooking, smart and fun.

I am NOTa(n)...smoker, drug user, church goer, gym rat, the camping type, intolerant, mean-spirited or sarcastic, conceited, the jealous type, sharped tounged bitch, loser

Thank you so much for stopping by the site, I'm really touched (tears are falling onto the keyboard). I don't want to short-circuit my computer so I will sign off for now.
-D