Well I have an excuse, I was sick for about a week. I had a crazy stomach virus and a bladder infection. After a shot in my butt, a weeks worth of antibiotics as well as nausea medicine I am all better. I went back to work and school and it was weird. It was strange, well going back to work and school well has been hard, I didn't think how hard it would be to play catch up after missing school for about 4 days. My professors have been understanding and of course I had a doctors note so they did excuse my absences. I am really exhausted lately and on the good side I have one more paper to write this week and then all that is left are finals... then freedom until Summer I begins. I definitely am in need of a little road trip and I have the perfect suitcase for it. When I graduated from college my mom asked me what I wanted and I said a new luggage set and she bought me an expensive all black set which I am grateful because with my professional job I plan on using it... but it looks like every other persons luggage, that is not good for me. I'm not a young professional now so why should my luggage be, so while I was in the DFW area I searched the resale shops and came across this little gem. The perfect suitcase to go on the above mentioned road trips. I paid only 4 dollars for it, I saw on ETSY recently that people are selling these for 52 dollars, which reconfirmed myself that I made a great purchase. I think down the road I will try to find the smaller case that goes with it or reupholster the case some kind of way but for now I think it looks great.
Oh and also while I was sick I had a ton of free time so I watched one of the movies that was on my list of things to do before I was 30 and it was "Gone with the Wind" yes I had no idea it was that long, but thank God for Netflix, I was able to pause it and eat or take a nap and restart it where I left off, and actually I loved the movie, not to sound like a band wagoner in anyway, I do love old Hollywood productions. I also love Vivien Leigh, she is in my favorite movie/play of all times "A Streetcar named Desire". Vivien was a crazy bitch before crazy bitches were cool. You can see it in her eyes in every film she's acted in and GWTW is no exception. I was a bit thrown off with the inaccuracies with events that happened in the movie pertaining to the Civil War as well as the stereotyping of the black cast members... come on Mammy, please. I have read many books on the Civil War and I have a great interest on "Slave Culture" (I don't know if that is the right term... it may be African American culture before the 20th century) and I know the depictions in this movie were off, but then I guess you have to factor in that GWTW was written in the 1930's and was not a historical account of events happening in the 1860's through the reconstruction era. Overall it was entertaining and I guess thats good for a movie, and immediatly after I watched the movie I was looking up a cameo brooch.. I'm a nerd, but I want one.
I went to Gandhi's Bazaar yesterday after class and bought some stuff to finally make Gulab Jamon it's going to be amazing, I'll try to post pictures when they are done and I bought some chile sauce, all for under 5 bucks, I love Indian Markets.
and lastly I have been listening to Jessie J's CD for what seems like a long time thanks to my sister and her Anglophile tendencies. Everything going on in Britain and she knows the scope. This album just came out in the U.S. on April 12th so it's still fresh so go get it.
Speaking of Amy Winehouse, she is looking better these days so hopefully she can get that third album out soon.
Also it's Sunday, and there are a ton of shows I have to watch every Sunday...The Amazing Race on CBS, then The Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, next The Borgias on Showtime, lastly The Real Housewives of Orange County on Bravo. I have a problem.
My favorite new show would probably have to be The Borgias on Showtime. It premiered 2 weeks ago and has successfully filled that void of my historical dramas that have been missing since The Tudors ended last year. I thought to my self who will replace King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Charles Brandon, the Duke of Suffolk (Henry Cavill) as my favorite historical people that I obsess over. Then comes along The Borgias and Cesare Borgia ( Francois Arnaud) appears on my TV...
Who is Cesare Borgia, you may ask?
Well he was forced into the priesthood against his will by his father. Cesare is in reality violent, dashing and cavalier. He serves as his father's Consigliore and carries out the most heinous crimes to advance the family's cause. While devoted to his sister and mother, he is locked in a bitter rivalry with his brother Juan, whom he believes to be his father's favorite. So on the show, you get the caring, protective side, as well as the ruthless, murdering son that everyone knows and comes to love during the Renaissance period in Rome.
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