Everybody Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger

My latest review is for Lauren Weisberger's book Everybody Worth Knowing. This book is by the author of The Devil Wears Prada. If you are in the need of a good girly read about a girl, a hot PR job in NY, and love then this is your read. It won't stretch your imagination but it is entertaining. Not much else to say other than it was entertaining and a good way to pretend you are part of the NY night life!

Men and Women Can't Be Friends Part 2

So again my theory that men and women can't be just friends has been proven true. I do think some married men and women can be friends and even single people and married people of the opposite sex can be friends but that is getting off the topic. Men and women can't be just friends because eventually someone will want something more. And once the line is crossed - whether by action or words - you can't go back. Things will be wierd. You can try to make it not be wierd but it will be. Because now you wonder what each and every action means. You try to interpret it, analyze it, beat it to death. Of course this is where us women should realize that actions mean NOTHING to men. They don't think, they don't plot, they don't scheme, they just do. They mean nothing by anything that they do. But us women ALWAYS want it to mean something so we try to figure it out. So once that line is crossed and one party isn't interested or doesn't want to pursue things, then please do us women a favor and shut the door. Don't leave the door open or even cracked because then we will wonder, ponder, analyze. If the door is shut we will just think you are a jerk but the good news is that we probably think you are a jerk anyway so either way you lose. I know that I am personally guilty of not shutting the door - you say "sure we can go out again" but really you don't want to and you don't return calls or avoid the person because you don't want to hurt their feelings. I have done this - guilty as charged. But being on the other side of things, please hurt my feelings. Just tell me how you feel and what you think. Either way, I will think you are a jerk and I will be mad, hurt, upset but I will get over it. And I will still think you were a jerk.

After all that bashing and channeling Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy, I feel like I should leave on a positive note. Here is an article that my mom sent me about How to Choose a Man to Marry.

Why?

Why is it that some people ALWAYs have a boyfriend or girlfriend? You know the people I am talking about. They get out of a 2 year relationship or a 6 month relationship and next thing you know they are seriously dating someone else. Or if they aren't seriously dating someone else, they are serially dating - one guy/girl Fri night, a different girl/guy on Sat, etc. The bigger question is why can't I be one of those people? I think I was that girl in college - I always had a steady boyfriend - maybe a few months of singledom here and there but I was alwaysdating someone seriously. Then somewhere between a year out of college and now, it has been nothing. Well, not nothing but not anything to be excited about. I think I lost my mojo, I need the eye of the tiger again. I don't know if it is because I am content doing my own thing, I am not in the right place to meet people, I don't seem available. I just don't know. Someone send me the eye of the tiger!

I know you have missed it - I am getting all SATC on you again. I must admist my last few posts have been boring and pretty poorly written. I will vow to do better! I guess now that I have material, I am more inspired to write something interesting/funny and of course related to being single!

Kimpton Hotels

I highly recommend Kimpton Hotels. I have ben staying at the Topaz Hotel in DC for several months and they are the nicest people. I almost feel like I come to a second home here which I think they strive to make their guests have that feeling. Today, I even have goldfish in my room - like 3 real goldfish - a white one, a gold one, and a small one. They are so cute. I have pets in my hotel. How great is that! The staff here definitely take care of me. They give me the same room every week that I like, they have my key ready when I get to the hotel on Monday, they have passes to the nearby Y so it is like working out at my own gym, they put apples in my room, they sent me a Christmas gift. If you have to travel for a living - give the Kimpton Hotels a chance.

Home Depot

I was driving near a Home Depot this weekend - it is actually a closed Home Depot but has always been a spot where folks hang around waiting to pick up work. I watched a mini-van drive through the empty parking lot and the van was literally swarmed by people. If I had been inside, I think I would have been more than a little bit afraid. Apparently the folks in the mini-van weren't looking to pick up day laborers and continued to make their way through the parking lot. After witnessing this, I thought why does this group of 20+ men stand and wait to see if they might get work day after day. It was already lunchtime by then and I don't think too many people would start to look for workers after lunch but maybe they do. How could you live day to day, hoping to get work and being so desperate to beat out your neighbor for work that you would swarm a car? I can't event imagine a life like that. I suppose they do it becasue they are illegal immigrants and can't do legit work. But how sad.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

I just finished Nicholas Spark's latest book Dear John last week. It was the 3rd book I started this year but the 2nd one for me to finish. I am still working may way through the 2nd book. I think I have cried at the end of every Nicholas Sparks book. His books really are all the same - he makes you fall in love with the characters and then some tragedy happens and it makes me cry. The ironic thing is that I am not a cryer - I didn't cry during We are Marshall and that movie was really touching given it was based on real events. So I was pretty mortified when I am on a plane crying because I just finished the book. I wouldn't even say this was my favorite Sparks book. Of course I fell in love with John and Savannah the main characters but really only Part 1 of the book was good. Part 2 and 3 didn't really give a lot of detail and hear I am crying anyway. The first book I ever cried while I was reading was The Notebook - another of Sparks books. I have actually read it twice and was able to keep my eyes dry during the 2nd reading. I watched The Notebook on Friday night and luckily made it through with dry eyes - I still love that story though. So there is my not-really-a-review of book #2 in 2007.