Carrie Diaries

"The Carrie Diaries" by Candace Bushnell

I must confess, whenever I watched Sex and the City.. I never thought about the girls backgrounds. A shame, actually. On the other side, in my opinion I am approved- the backgrounds are something that one rarely thinks of when watching a tv-show like this one. You are more interested in fashion, plot, sex, kisses, again fashion, New York, persons and so on. As long as the background- the city where the persons are from, friends from before, even family - doesn't matter, you are not interested. It's the information that would make the story deeper, more dimensional. The depth is something what we usually don't want. It's the entertainment we are after, right?

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So, what made me choose this particular book, beside the fact that it had "Carrie" written on it, there were few girls in the bookstore admiring this book and totally jealous when I bought it (they didn't want to spend the money.. their loss!)? The smaller, white print, was the one which forced me to stop and dig the money from my purse. Candace Bushnell.



Candace was born in 1953 and moved into New York from Glastonbury at age of 19. She wrote then her first book- a children's book. After this, she wrote many columns, one of which was 1994-1996 the "Sex and the City"- column. It was made into the tv-series and then into two movies with SJP. Carrie, the main person and the protagonist of the show is an alter ego of Candace, who herself wrote the experiences of herself and her friends.

Personally I love her writing style, her edge in words and a positive radiation in books. The Carrie Diaries reveal how Carrie met Samantha, what happened with her family, how she came to New York, her first friend in New York and a problematic teenage dating. It is amusing, funny, I even cried once and overall a book in a good taste. Oh, and the funniest part- Carrie and her friends are virgins, not sex-crazy adults. :D Made me laugh so hard, since I never thought that Carrie had selfconfidence problems or thought whether she should have sex with her idiot boyfriend, just because everyone else has.


-Liz

P.S. check this out.. Carrie Maths. Now there I have to say, amazing.
http://the-frenemy.com/post/5366472538/carrie-bradshaw-math

New look, new season

    Sorry Liz, I didn't ask you if it was okay or not to change a little bit the look of our blog. I did it anyway because I thought the summer season needs something new! The first picture is still same but with colour, and the background is pale white. Doesn't it look much more better? And fresh?
    Let's continue. I have a tomato! I mean, a tiny tomato tree which I bought today. Hopefully I'm able to take care about it, so after few months I could eat some fresh tomatoes :) The tomato wasn't the only strange thing that I bought. Basically, the idea of buying bras doesn't sound odd, but it is very odd to travel to the neighbour city to buy bras. In fact that's what I did. At least I have sexy new bras now. What a interesting story -or not at all.
    Maybe our exam week is the reason for my strange behaviour. Tiredness. Exhaustion. Misery. To be honest that sounded far too depressing as it really is, but this has just been a horror week. Three exams left and then tadadaaaaaa FREEDOM! Let the summer begin.

                                                        

Here were some sunny memories.

-Ivon

Disappointment

Another story and this time not so great, I think.

There are the completely opposites- two guys, and just not to make things more black and white, they both have black hair. (it rarely happens in real life like in Harry Potter- the bad guy has blond (SEXY!) hair and the good guy is sporting a dark hair look) They are both popular, just in different spaces. Todd is absolutely the bad boy, he drinks amounts of alcohol no one is supposed to be able to drink, he has a steady girl friend but she is kinda slutty and he flirts with everything that walks on two feet. School is not so interesting for him, he nearly fails every class but inside he is one of the brightest guys I've met. He smokes, talks about sex all the time, has dirty jokes.. Well. Imagine him being something like Chuck Bass.. Just not as rich and he has a normal family. Oh, and he doesn't dress like him. The attitude is although the same.

http://weheartit.com/entry/9885842

The second boy is sweet, nice, thoughtful, has an awful style (just saying) but his playboy-ish best friend who has a good style tries to save the cause. Jacob (sorry, but now I'm actually using the poor boys second name.. I'm not a Twilight fan to use those names on free will) is the guy who you dream to be your friend, the only thing is that he has practically only girls around him, with the few guys in between. His girlfriend is younger, and a bitch.. okay, I don't know her well enough to judge that harshly. She must be a very nice girl, shy, and all, if she's his girlfriend. Imagine.. Jacob is kind of a perfect guy, he hugs and tells you he loves you.

http://weheartit.com/entry/3909064

The actual story now, after the introductions (as always ;) ) They both failed maths, and to everyones amazement.. their teacher said that they had a second chance, to do better. In our school, it is a opportunity that is rarely given. The whole week everyone talked about their chance and the importance of studying. One of the guys had his girlfriends birthday last weekend. He actually missed her party and promised her as a compensation a weekend trip. She accepted, got her school friend (who is great at maths) to help him and was the most kind and understanding girl who anyone could have expected. He studied hard, and today did the test.. When he walked out of the class he looked relieved, proud of himself and happy.

The second boy told his girlfriend that he couldn't go on a party, because he had to study. His girlfriend did a tantrum that made him moody for a week, he went to the party and got so drunk that was not accepted in a cab. In the end, he did not study at all, spending his sunday on a picnic with friends and shopping on the week. There is no guessing how his test went.

http://weheartit.com/entry/9894687

This should be a mystery, but one guesses the answer too easily. If I was shocked, my trust and believe in them both cracked,... My version of Chuck Bass had the nice girlfriend. He studied like never before. Jacob did no move to study, got drunk and was moody, just because of his girlfriend who wanted him on the party. Why I am shocked? I had always believed and judged Todd so harsh when in reality I had no right to do so, and no knowledge of him and his thoughts. And while I believed to know Jacob and his thoughts and ideals, it suddenly clear that I have no knowledge of him what so ever. The guy I thought I knew and was friends with is not the one who he in reality is. I was disappointed in myself, since I am known to my friends as the one who "knows" the types and people. When I told this story to my friend, (we were in the bus that moment) I started crying.

-Liz, disappointed in herself and so sorry about judging Todd. (if you ever read this and get who I am, please accept my apology sincerely straight from my heart)

Planner or not?

Are you a planner? I always thought I was. My whole life I spent thinking that I was practically the reason why people hate planners (because human beings really do, we want quick decisions, new ways to see things, people who think outside the box and create) I had everything planned, the plans A, B, C, D, E, F, all the way up until M (never went beyond that since I thought that if all my former plans would fail it would mean that hell has frozen over and I have been dead for 20 days).

http://weheartit.com/entry/9581015

The only things I never planned:
-my wedding (have to have a man to do that I think)
- my kids lives and carriers (have to have kids to know what they can do, right?)

http://weheartit.com/entry/9847923
Love this picture, absolutely love it. See? I can't know who the man is!

For me the overall planning "syndrome" meant in some way being a own person, being an adult and other things in that way. I still have no idea why I had this strange opinion. Possibly because my parents, sister, all the "adults" in my life seemed to be always busy, having heavy calendars and many books to read and people to meet.

Now, to the point (I know, I've always got these weird introductions) I found out this week that I am not a planner. A friend of ours has actually planned her wedding (now, I'm serious, even though she now denies it, she has told me once about it) she plans.. nearly everything. Like, there is no such a thing she hasn't planned.

And then the shock: my best guy friend is a planner too. I nearly fell from my chair when I understood that. We are meeting again on saturday (how I wait for saturday!!!) and he wanted to plan where we eat and what we could do.. What about do things that come to our minds and cuddle in freedom of not planning, celebrating the fact that I am not a planner?

http://weheartit.com/entry/9860566

-Liz, a newly reformed NOT-planner.

Boys, boys, boys

- are idiots. Or not all, but one specific guy, who was supposed to be my dance partner, but he kind of me. Actually, I don't want to talk about it now, because the whole situation was weird, quick and too complicated to explain. Anyhow,  (and this question is to girls) have you ever wondered what is going on in those tiny male brains?!?! I obviously don't. Maybe that is the reason for all my failed relationships with boys. Any tips maybe? I'm hearing!
Tomorrow I´m invited to some kind of beach-birthday-party, but I think I'm definitely not going. First, there isn't warm enough. Secondly, I don't really know those people and parties mean always alcohol. At the moment I'm rid of alcohol because of the 1st May.
Okay, okay.... Nobody is interested. However, the life is messy. That's the truth.


- Ivon

Fencing

Just a passing note.. I have finally reached the last pics on my camera! What a wonderful day, really. The last pics (I'll look which one's of them are okay to be shown here) are taken, I will take the film to the shop probably tomorrow, so I'll get them next week.. Oh my my, I'm happy. 

We were fencing today with my school.. And oh my, it was so funny! Seriously, if you ever will have a possibility to try it, don't be shy and think that everyone else will laugh over you. They may do so, but remember- even the best of the world sucked in the beginning. Well, enough of that. 

http://weheartit.com/entry/15941

There are some things you probably would want to know about fencing- or the side effects of it. After having fenced for one hour I can officially tell ..

- you will have not sexy bed hair if you don't do your hair properly (really. uncool.)

- you will want to try again

- even though you will be scared at first ("oh my god, it hurts!" - trust me, it doesn't. you are forced to have proper shields on you (breast shield.. anyone? it takes over 800N on it, so trust me, it does. not. hurt)) you will love it once you will understand it doesn't hurt

- you will be very sweaty after your session

- those fencers.. hot boys. hot, athletic boys who are too underestimated ;)

- if you have glasses usually. be kind to yourself and wear contacts that day. 

http://weheartit.com/entry/5984770

Have fun fencing! 

-Liz

Don't Tell me it's over, it only just begun

The second of may.. Last school month and we will be free for summer holidays. Yep. Sounds amazing, except that now our teachers suddenly realized they have to test us on every single subject possible.. I'm nearly dying here.

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Things that make me happy:

+ sun outside shining like there is no tomorrow
+ good music (as in Amy Macdonald.. hence the title)
+ my classmate with whom I have been in the same class this year and with whom I realized today, I have never spoken privately. This changed as I stumbled on him when getting on a random bus to get to the library. 15/10min? Well. First it was like a bucket of ice had been poured on us.. then, with me doing the most job of talking, it got kinda better. Slightly better, but still.
+ a girl in my school who I am on friendly terms with didn't get a F on a maths test -> she might not fail this whole class. (yeah, might.. I guess we will all find out how it went in a month or so)
+ Jane Austen book club - film yesterday on TV. Made me smile and laugh for a while
+ tights, socks, stay-ups (!!!) and sexy lingerie.. Oh how I love this kind of shopping while waiting for people
+ the feel of class unity when we start thinking when and how we will meet on summer.. (my guess would be that we will not do that even though we plan all this now)
+ the feeling of a good thing done, as I found in a shop something my friend had searched for a while, water tattoos! The most nostalgic thing ever, and it was cheap. A great may- present for her!
+ Royal wedding (Kate is adorable!)
+ I'm meeting tomorrow three amazing persons, and have a trip over to my best friend planned!

http://weheartit.com/entry/9385541

The things that trouble me:

- the cars in here are blasting expensive! I'm having a crisis in few months!
- the first of may is always a big deal in here.. So this year we had an totally drunken friends best friend to drag with us through the whole city.. As there were no busses or trams on time. Being drunk she accused us of caring, her best friend of lying, told her parents she hated them and that her few years younger brother drinks and smokes. Which they didn't believe of course but they surely were pissed off on her for being drunk and an idiot.
- this said friend accepted that she doesn't know her best friend as she thought she did and was pissed and sad and nearly cried
- I nearly picked the wrong color of stay-ups in the store.. Phiuh
- horrible two weeks ahead of me
- mum having a problem with her back.. and even though I feel sorry for her, this leaves all the house work onto me.. and I'm not getting enough sleep now
- watching at all the young ones in parks totally drunk and making fools out of themselves. Sad. Horrible. Alcohol, even though fun sometimes in our age, but horrible for those who are too young to understand the negative sides and the risks.

http://weheartit.com/entry/9228007

Yeh it's Harry Potter day today! :D I've been wearing the colors of my favorite house all day. Mm.. Feeling great! ;)

-Liz