Archive for October, 2008

Of tall men

Posted by Blanca in Everything else on October 22, 2008

There are quite a few tall men that have played some role or the other in my life. The first and probably most influential has to be my father. At 1.93m tall, my friends used to (and still do) refer to him as “Little Johnny”, though I cannot really remember if they ever called him that to his face!

My maternal grandfather, a Clark Gable look-alike, was also a very tall (and good-looking) man. There have been a couple of other tall men, but I won’t write about them today because I am totally focused on the one that is patiently sitting on the side of my bed waiting for me since he arrived to my place last Monday.

Truth is (there you go), what is waiting for me is not the real guy, but his most recent book. He is tall and handsome in an ugly sort of way (or is it the other way around?), totally rude, and the owner of the crudest British humor. But truth is (there you go again) that I am totally infatuated with him. I am talking about Jeremy Clarkson, of course – who else?

Pause to allow those who hate him to leave the blog — probably for good!

For those who don’t know who he is, Clarkson is the ‘love me’ or ‘hate me’ type of personality. I obviously belong to the first group. I won’t go into what I believe he does well or not on his BBC show; but his writing is witty to the point of managing to keep my unconditional interest from cover to cover even when he publishes a book about cars and nothing else. And that is what I call VERY sexy.

So at the moment I am keeping the latest “The World According to Clarkson” installment waiting for me while I finish a really interesting novel by some Indian author.

But that’s OK; I read somewhere that it’s good to keep the ‘bad boys’ waiting a bit before a big date.
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The scary 80s

Posted by Blanca in motherhood on October 21, 2008

So after seeing some old photos I sent to my friends in Mexico, my daughter decides that she wants to dress up as an “80s girl” for Halloween.

Without thinking it twice I go to eBay and search for an “80s fancy dress”. Not much to be found, other than a ‘sexy Ghostbusters’ outfit (not really suitable for a 10 year old) and a couple of Madonna-like wigs. It’s like no fancy dress supplier on Earth has realized yet that the combo of big hair + shoulder pads + leg warmers and plastic earrings deserves its very own Halloween-80s outfit!

So I put the outfit together myself. Sadly enough, I got rid of my ENTIRE drawer of shoulder pads, and do not own one single leg warmer or at least one t-shirt with neon wording on it.

I e-buy a FRANKIE SAYS RELAX bright pink t-shirt to which I will attach some shoulder pads I still need to find; a black polka dot ra-ra skirt; neon green leg warmers and matching perforated gloves (never wore any of those but they are so kitsch I had to buy them); yellow plastic belt and of course very large plastic earrings on lemon yellow color.

It seems that the only 80s thing that survived all my moving around the world was a pair of bright blue aerobics leggins and some hideous blue eyeliner & eyeshadow and white lipstick (don’t ask!!)… so it’s all been thrown into the outfit.

She wants to wear vampire teeth on the day, but I think that once she sees herself on the mirror after the make over she will realize that she looks scary enough!

Pics in due time…
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I don’t work for Coke

Posted by Blanca in Everything else on October 20, 2008

This post is mainly for those of you who don’t speak Spanish and wonder what’s with the You Tube video on the sidebar of the blog and on my first post (same song, two different versions)…

First of all, no, I don’t work for Coke. Never have. Most probably never will. But I have to confess that I have recently become addicted to Coke Zero. I was a big time Diet Coke drinker when I was at college … the one thing that would keep me awake other than coffee! and managed to get rid of the bad habit until a few months ago … that is until I started working late nights again.

OK, back to the subject… The reason for posting these videos is that the words in Spanish go something on the line of “you’ve gotta share (hay que compartir)…. the happy moment (el momento feliz) ….” and that’s where the name of my blog came from “Hay que compartir” or roughly “Gotta share…”

There you go … no Coke employee, just a Coke drinker that likes a song that played a zillion times on TV when I was a kid.

And you will hear more about that in coming posts!
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Hay que compartir!

Posted by Blanca in Mexico on October 19, 2008

De la nada me acorde de la cancion que cantaba Topo Gigio y que va algo asi como “en el Estado de Mexico naci … yo soy de Zacazonapan donde creci…” y me puse de buenas.

Es increible como en el año (pausa de 2 minutos para ingeniarmelas para poner una ñ) antes de cumplir los 40 la nostalgia o el no se que ma ha acercado de nuevo a amigos del pasado. Nostalgia (para los mayores de 30) es el otro nombre de Facebook.

Y sin mas ni mas se me ocurrio compartir. Compartir todo (bueno casi) lo que vivo y vivi en los ultimos 20+ que he estado fuera y todo lo demas que se me ocurra.

Las ideas me van y me vienen. Generalmente en ingles, asi que no me sorprendera que esto salga como una super spanglish ensalada a la que no le faltara el Fetta y Halloumi de vez en cuando. Que raro no? Mi asociacion de palabras con Grecia y Chipre tienen ambas que ver con queso.

Asi que como decia Coca Cola en lo que yo siempre crei fue un comercial de los 80s y ahora que encontre el video en You Tube me di cuenta con horror que fue en los 70s!!! HAY QUE COMPARTIR… con quien se deje!!

Hay dos versiones de este anuncio … a mi me gusta mas este que es el de Navidad.

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