Currently Watching Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition) see related

A Recommendation

I rarely endorse anything this strongly, but I have just finished a movie that was absolutely bewitching.  For anyone who has not seen the remake of Pride and Prejudice... get it!  With the exception of Lord of the Rings, I can easily say I have never seen a better adaptation from a novel.  With that aside, it is beautiful and perhaps the best movies I have ever seen.  The entire film has such a fantastic tone to it.  I feel as though the screen write, the cast, and the director truly understood Jane Austen's best known book and explored on screen some of the facets readers often do not appreciate, especially those unacquainted with literature from that time period.  It is late, but I had to write this before the rush of such a wonderful film turns to sleepiness.  This is definitely one I will be watching a time or two more before it is returned. 

The Tuna

I'm posting. . . this is a big day.  I have been, for the past couple of months, reading two sites in partcular in cognito so to say.  This is pretty easy to do when its a weblog.  I don't have to walk into a room and pick up a diary like you do to your sister when you're ten.  I log on, I see if there is an update, I read, I log off.  The definition of a weblog for the most part.  So anyways, I'm writing this because something has finally got under my skin so badly that it deserves a few lines.  I read comments about how "men are only interested in my body, "  "I'm smart and brilliant and vibrant, why don't men see that?" "Why do men always want women who are prosaic and flat, all they do is worry them to death."  These are a good summarization of what I read.  I want to shine some light on this topic.  I believe that the reason men aren't interested in you for more than your body is because you display it every chance you get.  If your social life entails conversation in a drunken stupor, they're not going to see that shining intellect.  If you have the audacity to write posts about how much men are interested in your body and not your mind, unless you are Heidi Klume, you are delusional.  Yes, men may find your body pleasing and attractive, but the men you should be seeking should be looking for a whole lot more than that.  The good men aren't looking for the quick lays at the parties, they are looking for the person they can share their lives, goals, and beliefs with.  I have learned something valuable from my brush with these girls and my experience in high school as a "complicated girl."  You are complicated mostly because you want to be for the sake of attention.  If not, you are complicated because you have a grand inability to cut through the bull crap people are always going to feed to you. Either way, get over it. 

Lastly, being one of those prosaic women, "tuna fish instead of cavier"  as one person so poetically called women like me, I'd like to say thank you to all of those complicated girls.  I may not be complicated and have a slew of men all over me and constantly having to work through relationships, but I have a man who loves me and we are working towards a future together where we can raise our kids in the sight of God.  I may not be brilliant, but in my field I will work hard to be respected.  I may not have a fantastic body, but its strong enough to play with my children at work and coach my girls.  Overall, I may be the tuna fish, but what sustenance is cavier anyways?  Everyone have a safe and blessed day.