things to complain about

i just seem to have so much to complain about these days.......i need to get a life and a friend to chat with!

i remember last year around this time i was depressed too.....must be the rain....one clue that i cant live in london. i need the sun! maybe its low sugar level. ive been on a much needed diet for 4 days (has it ONLY been 4 days!!!!! it feels like forever!). one meal a day and mini non fattening snacks the whole day with lots and lots of water to fill (fool) my tummy.

i feel like little miss marc needing a much needed diet

rant, rant, rant, complain, complain, complain silently.........thank goodness for good long baths and loud duran duran music!

been surfing the net to find something to cheer me up and i suddenly remember a strip that has always tickled my fancy

-At its heart, Pearls Before Swine is the comic strip tale of two friends: a megalomaniacal Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better. Together, this pair offers caustic commentary on humanity's quest for the unattainable. The title of the strip comes from the New Testament, and is taken from the phrase, "Don't cast your pearls before swine." In this case, Rat believes that he is an endless source of wisdom, and that it is wasted upon Pig, who is rather slow. In truth, neither of them is very smart, but while Pig is content with his humble status in life, Rat is always on a futile search for fame, riches and immortality.

deep yet humorous..........this cartoon is just me!

such a tristful state

WHAT MAKES ONE BLUE?

just this morning i was walking through the corridors of my work place and thought to myself how lucky i was. the fact is, there is nothing wrong. but then again there is nothing to be too gleeful about either. this sounds like a case of the glass being half empty or half full.

i am generally an optimistic person finding delight in the tiniest detail, say a cool but sunny day, finding my old favorite songs and videos, a great lecture, a praise from a superior, a good non-work related conversation with a role model, even a new ring tone...but the irony of it all is that i have always been thrown into a life with somber people (i guess not really thrown, duh! of all people i should know this, just look at the header!).

so what does make one blue? is it the lack of excess? is it a life of mediocrities? is it the lack of something to look forward to? is it all rolled into 1?

such a labile mood i am in today......maybe im just comfortably dizzy......

These are days of hit and run
In the stream with everyone
Is a moment of our lives

On a wandering river
Going on together
Many journeys to arrive

I've been walking
Through the valley
Through the tall grass
And the shadows
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it

Through the city
And the towers
Turning minutes
Into hours
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it

When I think I'm being strong
And I lose direction
then a life starts looking mischievous
Finding revelation
Out of desperation
Always stretching time
But it's never long enough

You think you're happy
Think you're free
But maybe we're just
Comfortably dizzy

I've been running
Through the valley
Through the tall grass
And the shadows
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it

Through the city
And the towers
Turning minutes
Into hours
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it

I've been running
Through the valley
Through the tall grass
Through the shadows
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it

Through the city
And the towers
Turning minutes
Into hours
And I feel it
I can see it
Yes I need it
I believe it


maybe as always, my emotions are just easily swayed
REMEMBER YOU CREATE YOUR OWN HAPPINESS!!!!

.....maybe if i say it over and over, i will again convince myself. after all, isnt this what i have been doing all these years? cloaked in a state of nonchalance to hide the fact that im rearing to go on an adventure. and why? because i have been held down by anchors that i myself have chosen.

so i shut my ears from reality and find comfort in replays that reflect a period when i thought i was happily living a fantasy.



photo by cindy diaz

more favorite euro music

these were (as an 8 year old) and still are my favorite songs of AHA

THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON THE TV




HUNTING HIGH AND LOW




CRYING IN THE RAIN

i was a euro child

i remember way back in the 80's i was only in the 2nd grade but i was more mature in my musical preferences than same age kids (thanks to santa's boombox gift). i loved AHA, spandau ballet, and of course who can forget duran duran?! i had their posters on my wall and said good morning to them daily as a child....i remember going to the park pizza place and seeing on the cork board that duran duran was performing in the next city in germany and i was so tempted to ask my aunt if i could go (ha! an 8 year old going to the next city to watch a concert!)
i never thought that dream would come true but now, 24 years later i really got to see them!!! believe you me, i had the greatest time of my life, as if it was just yesterday i had seen that poster in the pizza place......walking back thru memory lane.....

RIO




IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW




COME UNDONE



and after all these years they are still great entertainers!

IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW




REFLEX



i love this band!