Men at the Gym

I like the gym. The gym likes me. It works for me. I always knew I would like the gym and when I went for the first time last year (at the gym at my school) I knew that it would work out well for me.
However, in the last year and a bit that I've been going to the gym, I've found some things that really, very much bother me.
Not too long ago, I saw a man nearly kill himself at the gym. I don't know how many other people noticed it, but I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This man was lifting freeweights (a barbell) and after a few reps, he could not lift the barbell off his neck. He continued to roll the barbell down his entire body until he could get out from underneath. So he changed the weights to a lesser weight and continued his workout. You know what happened next? HE DID THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN! I couldn't believe my eyes. The moral of this story: do not try to lift more weights than you are able to. It is not risk strangling yourself with barbells to show off how many weights you can't lift.

The same day of this almost-suicide, I saw a guy on a weight machine, purple in the face, essentially making this face:

The reason behind this face: THE WEIGHTS ARE TOO HEAVY! You should not have to contort your face into this ^ to lift the weights. Girls are not as guilty of this gym crime. I think most girls understand that they would rather look like pansies lifting 20lbs in weights than pull a fucking muscle!

I'm tired of going to the gym and seeing people almost injure themselves. People that have absolutely no idea how to use the equipment and do not check the instructions or ask. It pays to know what you're doing at the gym, so check it out before you go!

I'll continue going to the gym and I'll continue trying to get healthier, and I'm sure I'll never run out of people to get angry at at the gym.

My Fashion Dilemma

I'm not a fashion expert, I don't claim to be. I know a bit about fashion after watching multiple seasons of America's Next Top Model, Project Runway and other fashion related shows. I do know though, that I would love to dress better than I currently do.
I'm a big fan of the "basics" when it comes to clothes. You know, jeans, tshirts, pullovers, stuff like that. But I've always wanted to be one of those reall ywell dressed women that wear skirts, dresses and even heels everyday.
Here's my problem though: I either can't pull off the trends that are in nowadays or I think that everyone's going to judge me for trying to look nicer on a regular basis.
There are problems with both of these thoughts of mine however.
Firstly, the trends that they have today are relatively simple and easy to pull off so it's basically my own insecurities that are holding me back from participating in the cute trends of today's fashion world. (Although when it comes to rubberboots, I just don't think I can pull off that look like fashionable people).
Second, I'm an idiot for thinking that everyone's going to judge me. As one of my best friends told me "People aren't going to look at a nicely dressed person and say 'I can't believe how good she looks? Who does she think she is?'" If I dress nicely, most likely the only thing people are going to say (most likely) is that I look good (if I pull off the trends).
In the last few days I've been trying to dress in dresses and boots and I've felt great about myself and I think other people have noticed.
From this point onwards I'm going to put more effort into the way I dress and attempt to look more professional and sophisticated.
I'm hoping this works out for the best.

Babeshow

Over the reading week I realized something. I watched Just Go With It, with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston and I noticed what a complete stunner Jennifer Aniston is. I always thought she was pretty but some of the closeups of this woman in that movie made me understand that she is a truly beautiful woman.

She has the most incredible hair (as we all know, Rachel's hair in Friends was one of the most popular requests in hair salons around the world) and her eyes are shockingly beautiful.
This woman is badass, especially her character in Horrible Bosses. She's a definite siren in that movie, with her dark hair, bangin' bod and bright eyes.
Now I have to hand it to her, she's gorgeous and she's in her 40s! She barely looks older then she did when she was doing Friends. I don't know what her secret is, but she could go up against a 20-something any day and easily pull away with the prize.
I have a new-found respect for this woman. I love her. She's got a sweet body and she has one of the most beautiful faces. Jennifer Aniston, do us all a favour and stay as lovely as you are forever and ever.

Unbelievable

I came across this post on my homepage today. It was an article about how women are only attractive for the first 2 hours of the day, on a regular basis.

http://blog.fashionism.ca/2011/10/study-women-only-look-attractive-for-two-hours-a-day.html

Now as offensive as I found this, I gave the article the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe they would make up for/explain what they meant by that later in the article, so I read it.

Yeah, I was wrong.

The article says (if you don't want to read it) that women are attractive until about 10:03 am or something, and that people start to notice that they look more dishevelled and "much worse" as the day goes on.
Again I was hoping to find at the end of the article that women shouldn't stress too much about this, or any words of comfort to the women who read the article, but they didn't come. So obviously due to this I ended up feeling much worse about myself as I read this.
Now I'm not a horribly insecure person, in fact I find myself a relatively confident for a young woman, but like all other women I have my insecurities and personal flaws. And this article tore me to shreads. How could you make a woman feel any worse then by implicitly saying "It doens't matter how much time you spend on yourself in the morning to make yourself feel good or look presentable to the rest of the world, it's not going to pay off and everyone's going to think you're ugly by 11:00 anyway"?
This article is horrible and why they thought it would be a good idea to publish it, I have no idea.
So essentially the effort women put into their appearance on a daily basis is a waste of time and everyone thinks we're ugly no matter how hard we try to look good. Unless of course you're one of those super hot model types that every man goggles over.
I can't explain the anger that this article brings up in me, how shitty it makes me feel.
Cheers to the confidence boost... I think I'll shave my head and throw in the towel now.

It's Been Awhile

I apologize for not having written in awhile. Not that anyone noticed or even cared, but I'm still sorry. I'll try to be more diligent about my blogging from this point onwards.

Hot Guy #8

So I know I said I'd be posting a hot guy every day, yet I've been busy and been at home so I hvaen't posted anything in a few days. My sincerest apologies to my many followers.

Hot Guy #8: Ryan Gosling.

This man is a stone-cold fox. He's Canadian, he's a musician and he's a sexy actor. I'm not typically a fan of blondes, but he is H-O-T, HOT! And his body is incredible.
I originally saw this guy on Breaker High when he was younger and he was the cutest thing. Super cute! Since then I've seen him in many more things, his most famous role probably being The Notebook.
I have never really been a fan of The Notebook either, I'm not a huge sucker for romantic movies like that. It's good, don't get me wrong and he is definitely the best part of it. All manly and scruffy and burly.
He's also got a wicked band that makes groovy, awesome music. He did a song with JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake when he was younger and it was the cutest thing ever! He sings like an angel.
Ryan Gosling most definitely earns a solid A+ because of his superb sexiness, Canadianism and musical talent. Ryan, look me up.

Hot Guy #7

This hot guy is actually a pair of hot guys, but I'm going to include them both together, because they're always together in the context that I know them in.

Hot Guy(s) #7: Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement

These guys are the hilarious New Zealand duo from Flight of the Conchords. If you don't know this show, you are seriously missing out on some vital humour in your life.
Two struggling musicians living in New York City, they try to make ends meet while trying to hit it big in the big city. A little spoiler for you: This doesn't happen. In fact, the show ends with them being shipped off back to New Zealand. Very sad for those fans that wanted more from them.
The songs that they do to correspond with the show's episodes are fantastic. Obviously the songs are meant to be spoofs and meant to be funny more than anything, but they're actually fairly catchy too. "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor" may sound shitty, but it's a good one, I promise.
Their characters are complete morons who are far too naive to be living in a city like NYC. Which of course makes the show 100% funnier.
Their accents are strangely sexy too. It's hard to take them seriously as sexy men when they're so dumb, but they are too cute, and Jemaine is really big and burly. A true man. Plus, the jokes would not be half as funny if they didn't have the accents.
So basically this has been more of an advertisement for Flight of the Conchords than anything else, but if you watch this show I promise you will not be disappointed. Just don't judge it by the first episode... Kinda shitty... But it gets better!
Even though I included them together, I'm going to give them separate marks.
Bret gets a B+. He's cute, but kinda scrawny and he is the extremely naive one. How else would they get him to dress up as the human cond-om? He also hasn't been in anyting else as far as I know.
Jemaine on the other hand gets an A because not only is he sexy and manly, he's been in some movies outside FOTC and he's the funnier one... I think anyway.
Jemaine and Bret, I miss you. Please come back to TV soon, preferrably with another season on FOTC. Or with an FOTC movie...

Small Tallk

Have you eve caught yourself listening to the little conversations people around you are having. I don't mean to evesdrop (sp?), really! I just catch myself hearing snippets of the things people talk about. And I can't help but laugh sometimes.
The other day I heard a girl telling a friend of hers that her cat is huge and last time she took it to the vet they needed like 5 people to hold it down to give it a shot. All I could think was, is this really what people talk about with each other? Is this what I sound like when I tell my friends things about my cats? Do I sound like a moron who has nothing else to talk about?
I'm not claiming I'm not a moron,  and I'm not even making fun of this girl who was talking about her super-human cat. It was just funny for me to hear.
The worst is when you hear younger girls (again I'm not claiming I've never done this) talking about textual conversations they've had. I work at a coffee shop and sometimes it's hard to NOT overhear the things people are talking about.
Once I was sitting at work, having finished all the jobs I had to do at the time, and I heard this girl that had to be around the same age as myself (17-20) telling her friend something along these lines:
"So I text him asking him if he still wanted to hang out. And he was like, yeah, but I don't know if I can. And I was like, well I mean if you don't want to hang out just tell me so. And he was like, yeah, I don't know, I guess I want to but I've just been busy."
And I find myself wondering again, is this what I sound like? This story was terrible to listen to, I won't lie. I was bored, I can't even imagine what this girl's friend was feeling like. Maybe she had no feelings because she was probably asleep...
But I just ask, that next time you're out and about around large groups of people, try to pick up snippets of what people are saying. If they're talking about serious things, like a girl's boyfriend cheating on her or something, I don't suggest listening to that once you've found out what it is. But if they're simply making small talk, just listen and see what kinds of obscure, entertaining things people say to one another. You might hear some funny ones here and there.
And if you do hear some funny ones, please let me know 'cause goodness knows we can all use a laugh.

Hot Guy #6

This is a recent one that I've only just come to realize. Here he is.

Hot Guy #6: Seth MacFarlane

I was watching the Charlie Sheen Roast, who Seth MacFarlane happened to be hosting. After a few minutes, I realized, this guy is a fox! He's good looking and has a sexy sexy voice.
Like most people in the world, I'm a big Family Guy fan. The show is great, funny, sometimes overdone, but still highly entertaining. I've watched most of the epidsodes and laughed at most of them. But I never thought much of the man behind the action. I know he voices some of the characters, but I never took much notice of Seth.
It seems weird hearing his voice while looking at him in person. I'm used to hearing it come from Brian Griffin's mouth on Family Guy, obviously, so it just seems strange.
But the more I look at him and hear him speak, the more I like him. He's obviously hilarious and I'm sure his standup is phenomenal.
But that's all I have to say about this slightly mysterious man.  He's known as the creator of Family Guy, but he hides behind the show. He's not all flashy and in-your-face, which I like.
Seth MacFarlane, you're a hottie, and you get a B+. Why?  Because you're behind the scenes and I don't know who you are. But you're a stone-cold fox and if you want to give me a call to discuss your rating, feel free. What I wouldn't give to have that voice talk to me for an hour...

Hot Guy #6

Another Gossip Girl hottie.

Hot Guy #6: Chace Crawford

This guy is smokin' hot! He plays Nate Archibald on GG which is the only thing I've seen him in. I know he did a movie called The Haunting of Molly Hartley, but let's be honest, I'm not going to watch that.
I love him on GG. His character is a little bit boring, but he has some of the sexiest scenes on the show. And no question as to why. I was so distracted by Ed Westwick (Chuck) the first few seasons that I didn't remember to watch for Nate and his hotness. I watched the first two seasons last year and finally got to appreciate Chace Crawford's captivating good looks.
I'm pretty sure he's dated/hooked up with almost every female character on the show. I never thought about it before but he i the biggest player ever!
So anyway, I had an obsession with him while rewatching the first 2 seasons of GG and it is easy for me to say that he is one of the best looking men around Hollywood right now. He just needs to find some bigger roles so I can watch his movies and drool over his perfect face and body.
Chace Crawford gets an A- because he's SUPER hot but he needs to find some bigger and better roles! Hurry up, Chace! I'm waiting (not so) patiently over here!

Hot Guy #5

I don't know a lot about this guy, but I do know he was a straight up babe when he was young! And alive... Anyway, ladies and gentlemen may I introduce...

Hot Guy #5: Marlon Brando (in the black and white days)

This picture says it all. Here he is, in all his glory in A Streetcar Named Desire. He plays the biggest asshole EVER (he beats his wife and rapes her sister. Cool right?) But I can forgive him that 'cause he is just so damn sexy.
Look at this picture for a minute. Appreciate that glory. Look at the big arms, the badass expression on his face, how sweaty he is. Mmm. Imagine being all sweaty with young Marlon Brando.
Granted he didn't look so great in the last few years of his life... I don't want to speak ill on this great man, but he kinda let himself go. See: Don Juan deMarco (good enough to watch just because you get to see Johnny Depp being all sexy and charming)
Now I have only seen these two movies (Don Juan and Streetcar) but I know he did The Godfather and countless other movies. The Godfather isn't exactly my type of movie, so you'll have to excuse me for saying I'll probably never watch it. I'm sure he did a great job though.
So young Marlon Brando earns the mark of a B+. I can't really get over what an asshole he plays in Streetcar and he let himself go later, but in his prime, this guy could really make the girls drop some eggs, if you know what I'm sayin'.
In fact, just looking at this picture does just that for me...

Hand to Temple in the Shape of an Imaginary Gun

I put together another little rant during the class I had with the computer-challenged prof today.
Class presentations are not a new invention in univeristy. We've been doing them since grade school. Yet they seem so foreign to some university students.
I understand that presentations can be intimidating, stressful, nerveracking, etc. But I have grown very tired of the shitty presentations some student's give.
I'm certainly not claiming to be an expert at class presentations but I at least make the effort to avoid boring my class to death and making critical mistakes that dock me marks.
If you're going to give a handout, make a PowerPoint or whatever, please for goodness sake do not write word for word what you're going to say to the class. If you do this, I may as well read directly from the handout, PowerPoint or whatever. There's no point in you even standing in front of the class. In fact, you'd be better to just sit down if this is the case because everyone's going to hear (read) what you have to say anyway and it will save you the stress of publlic speaking. However, as the presentation portion of a presentation is slightly more important than a handout, you may lose marks for sitting down and telling everyone simply to read your handout.
My advice to you is simple: Just avoid this situation by not writing exactly what you're going to say on the handout. That's what cue cards are for. The handout gives the gist, you provide the real info and evidence.
And here you have my rant of shitty class presentations that some students make us sit through, with our hands to our temples, in the shape of an imaginary gun.

Houston, we have a problem

Another one of my pet peeves is people that do not understand the basics of operating a computer.
A professor of a university for instance should know how to turn up the volume on the computer.
So my opinion is that if a prof is going to operate a computer at ANY time during the school year in class, they should know at least the basics of using a computer.
Your lack of knowledge of operating a computer has absorbed 20 minutes of class time that I am paying A LOT of money for.
More frustrating than having my money wasted on you not knowing how to play a DVD is having to explain how to move the mouse across the screen, and the prof just sitting there, saying "I don't know what to do..."
This is all I have to say. I have exhausted my anger with this rant.
I am happy again.
Continue.

My Furry Little Friends

I mentioned this in my Bucket List, but I want to hold a squirrel at some point in my life. Sounds random, I know, but there are so many squirrels at my school and they're all so cute and friendly, that I decided I want to hold one (and not be attacked preferrably).
I used to always think that if I were to come back as an animal, I would consider being a squirrel. And then I realized how often they get hit by cars and decided on an owl instead. Have you ever heard of an animal that preys on owls? No! Because there are none! Those flying creatures are magnificent. They can turn their heads around, fly, they're beautiful (minus those ones that look like they flew high-speed into a brick wall) and just bad-ass in general. Not to mention a key animal in Harry Potter.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic. Squirrels.
Me and some of my friends at school have tried to lure them with trail mix and fruit and stuff and we've actually come pretty close to them. I've always chickened out though, especially after my older brother reminded me that they will probably bite me if I try to put my hands around one.
But now you know my enjoyment of squirrels. They're one of my favourite things of my campus and I love to see them frolicking around at this time of year collecting nuts and shit.
So cool. One day squirrel, I will hold you in my arms.

Hot Guy #4

I'm going to go with another slightly obscure man today. He is lesser known, but very well recognized in my world.

Hot Guy #4: Ed Westwick

Who is this guy? He's Chuck Bass. Still need an elaboration? He is a star character on Gossip Girl, the best show in existence. He's devilish, charming, dark and brooding. A woman's true fantasy. Tall, dark and handsome? He's your guy, in more than just looks.
He's British too. Hello?! Accents are sexy, especially British, Irish and Scottish ones. Oh, and he plays in a band. Enough said.
Being on Gossip Girl, he's very successful and rich, so of course he's well dressed and it drives me wild when he wears purple. Oh me, oh my, when he wears purple, my pulse quickens. He can pull off a suit better than anyone I've ever seen. James Bond has got nothing on this guy.
If you're not already watching this show, I suggest you start, 'cause you're missing out on more sexiness than just Ed, here (other GG hotties will be soon to follow in my "Hot Guy" blogs).
Oh, and have you SEEN the hair on is chest? Droooool.
The downside is that I think he smokes (gross) and he was dating one (my lest favourite) actress from the show, who I've heard is an utter idiot in real life.
Regardless of his disgusting habits and poor choice in women, I'm still going to award Ed Westwick a good ol' A. He's hot, his character on GG is one of the best, he's sexy, British, a musician and more importantly, he NEEDS to get back together with Blair!
Ed Westwick, you can have me. Come get me Tiger! ;)

Can you pass the kleenex?

It goes without saying, I HATE being sick. It is one of those things that irks me more than most. I don't like the coughing, sneezing, sore throat, chills, tiredness, body aches, upset stomach... The list goes on as I'm sure you know.
It makes me sound like a nerd, but one of the main reasons I dislike being sick so much (besides the annoying bodily symptoms) is because I REALLY don't like missing class. And what makes it even worse is that if I go to class sick, I can't focus because I'm constantly sniffing, coughing, sneezing, mouth breathing due to my stuffed up nose... Which then causes more anxiety because I worry I'm bothering every other person in the class with my sniffing, coughing, sneezing, mouth breathing due to my stuffed up nose...
I also come from a family that doesn't believe in taking drugs to get rid of a cold. In my family, you just wait it out, take some natural remedies like echinacea (which me and my mom swear by) and drinking lots of tea/eating lots of soup. But there are times when I just want to take some drugs and pass the fuck out. I'll assume you've had those same kinds of colds too. You just want to drug yourself into a coma and only wake up in a week when you're not sick anymore.
I believe it's a miracle I haven't been sick yet this year, but I know it's coming. It always starts the same way for me. Sore throat, which progresses to sneezing/runny nose, then to a plugged up nose (which then disturbs my sleeping patterns) and then I finally start to recover.
Obviously I started popping echinacea immediately when I felt this cold coming on and I have decided to use the "wait-it-out" approach, but at this point, this cold better not fuck with me. I'm not having this right now. I refuse to let this cold get the best of me!
I'll show this cold who's boss! I'll show it that no one fucks with my immune system and gets away with it! You wait! I'll go Chuck Norris on this bitch and make it regret the day it ever messed with me!
I will fight this cold and come out VICTORIOUS!

Hot Guy #3

I'm going to switch it up today and choose a male celeb that is slightly controversial in the way of hotness. Some people may not agree with me on this, but that's okay.

Hot Guy #3: Jesse Eisenberg

I watched Adventureland last night and that is one of the reasons I am choosing to post this today.

This guy is totally cute, as well as being very sexy in some way. He tends to play the same kind of character, but switches it up from time to time (See: The Social Network). He plays kinda dorky, sarcastic characters that are deep, sensitive and very intelligent. All of those qualities, I love, even if it is just him playing a character.

Another reason I like this guy is because he is like a super-hybrid of Michael Cera. It sucks that he's not Canadian like Michael Cera but I find him more entertaining and not as monotonous.

His movies are bomb:

- The Social Network

- Zombieland

- Adventureland

- 30 Minutes or Less

- Cursed (many people may have forgotten about this, but not me)

He is thoroughly entertainig to watch and I find myself swooning over him while watching his movies. I'm a sucker for the way he treats women in his movies (save for, The Social Network because he's an asshole in that one).

This picture of him is quite nice, and I don't think anyone can deny he has style.

Jesse Eisenberg receives an A-. He loses marks for being American and playing the same character a lot, but he's hot, sexy and romantic in his movies. For these reasons, I refuse to miss one of his movies in the future.

Blog, blag, bloog, blip, blop, BLOG!

I definitely cannot get enough of blogging right now. I just want blog all day, all night, all my life! And the best part is, I could if I wanted to! Because this is about me! I can write whatever I want and it doesn't have to be for anyone, not even me!

I totally stole this from a friend on FB, but I like it so I thought I'd post it as well! This is what I mean. This doesn't have to have a purpose. I liked it, I blogged about it. Why I never created a blog before I do not know. Shout out to my girl Brigitte who gave me the advice to start a blog and I'm so glad I did.

I know I said this before, but if you're reading my blog for the first time, hope you enjoy it and if you keep coming back, thank you friends for enjoying my random thoughts.

I'd love to say I do this for you, but we both know that's not true. I just said I do this for me.

Blog, bloog, blap, blop, bip, boop, blip, BLOG!

Hot Guy #2

Hot Guy #2: Chris Evans



From what I have heard about this guy in public, he is super nice. Oh and anyone can see from looking at him that he's UNBELIEVABLY hot! Look at this picture for instance; he's all sexy looking with his angry face, and those abs, and that bum... *sigh* I could look at him all day and not get tired of it.

He's also been a few good movies:

- Captain America: The First Avenger

- Not Another Teen Movie

- The Perfect Score

- Cellular

Not all of these have been hits, but I thought they were pretty good. And he's hot so I can't complain.

Chris Evans receives a solid A+ because he's got a good face, body and I haven't heard anything negative about him thus far.

Break me off a piece of that!