Diet

Somehow my cholesterol diet didn’t work. 4 months ago (or so) I did some blood tests and the results were not good. My doctor said I should go on a fat-free diet to see if I could reduce it. 4 months later (today) I have a new appointment at the doctor’s office to show him the results of my new blood test. Well, the result is no good at all. After having cut all fried food from my diet, stopped drinking milk, reduced the amount of chocolate I eat (the most difficult task!), started to drink fresh fruit juice my cholesterol went up instead of gong down! Believe it or not. So fuck all these fucking diets! Later today I’ll ask my doctor to prescribe me some drugs. Let’s see if I’ll get better results with them.

MacBook

It’s been a week I’ve got my MacBook. To be honest with you, I’m really pleased with it. I’ve always wanted to have a Mac coz It just looked cool. But it’s much more than a trandy piece of plastic. Mac OS (Leopard in my case) is way much better and reliable than Vista Windows. I’m still not fully adapted to it, but I’m getting there. Vista was getting into my nerves, really! So I decided to withdraw some a lot of money from my saving accounts and get my so wanted MacBook. Pitty that Apple products are so fucking expenisve here in Brazil. My MacBook cost almost twice as much as if I had bought it in the U.S. :-/

R.E.M.

I had never been a fan of R.E.M. before 2001, when I first saw them live at Rock in Rio 3. In fact, I quite disliked them because they were trendy in the 90s and I tend to dislike most trendy stuff. After the 2001 gig I saw how great they are live and I started to follow them a bit more closely. (For me the only way to rate how good bands really are is to watch a gig and feel its energy).Anyway, yesterday they played here in Rio for the first time since 2001 and I couldn’t see them. (Well, in theory I could. But in the following lines I’ll tell you why I didn’t). The price of concert tickets here in Brazil have increased so much, that it’s total nonsense. Who will pay 200 bucks (cheapest seats) to watch a gig? Well, apparently lots of people do, but I don’t. I really wished I could have watched the R.E.M. gig last night, but I still haven’t reached this point of lunacy. Not yet.

Eleventh hour

When I read the plot I thought “I don’t need another X-Files kind of show, aren’t they tired of it?” And right after that I read that the show was a remake of another British show and that the main character is played by Rufus Sewell. My impression changed immediately and now I’m watching the 1st episode as I write this post. Why have I changed my mind? Don’t know! I’m strange dude, I think.

Second Date (continued)

Second attempt of having a second dated failed yesterday. On Tuesday morning I started to chat with her on MSN and after a few minutes invitded her out by saying that I was thinking about going to the theater and would like her to go with me. And that’s when she didn’t reply anything… I spent the next couple of hours totally disappointed but by the end of the day I was already a bit better. I had convinced myself that she really didn’t want anything with me. So I decided to give her some time, that I wouldn’t be forcing any more moves for a while, and I was even considering not speaking to her for a while too… Well, yesterday she was there, online my MSN list. I stuck to my decision and didn’t start a conversation. But she did! She started to talk to me, and said she was sorry for not replying me the day before. So we chatted a little bit more about work and stuff, and then I said that I had invited her to go out and she never replied… That’s when she said she’s not in a good moment and that she wouldn’t be a good companion for me and she also said that when she has the opportunity she will explain it to me. Well, smells like past realtionships to me. What do you think? Maybe she’s still emotionally attached to an ex. Or she likes someone that doesn’t care abut her. Who knows? I’ll wait for my next move. Even though I’m not sure what and when my next move will be. Anyway, what I know is that it’s pretty clear that she already knows what I want. Maybe, she’s the one who has to make the next move? Bloddy hell! Why does it have to be so complicated?

After almost 30 years later…

Earlier today I overheard a conversation among my mother, my oldest uncle and their aunt. And after almost 30 years later, I found out that my youngest uncle isn’t actually my uncle, biologically speaking, I mean. Apparently my grandmother adopted him when he was a baby. Well, it wasn’t a shock. Actually, it does make a lot of sense! It’s amazing how little I know about my family’s past (and I mean both sides of my family). Everything seems so obscure. The feeling I have now is that there are many more things hidden somewhere. What I don’t know is if I really want to know everything. This task will require lots of stress, which I’m not sure it’s worthy. In fact, I’m pretty sure it isn’t worthy. In the end nothing will change, so why bother?

Second Date

My first attempt of getting a second date has just failed. Just called her at work inviting her to have something to eat after it. Well, she had already made plans for tonight, which she explained detailed, and then she said other opportunities would appear. And before I could have asked her if she was free tomorrow, she just said she hoped I’ll have a very nice weekend and kind of ended the conversation (well, she’s at work afterall!). Anyway, it didn’t sound as a lame excuse. Lame excuses aren’t explained in details followed right after by “we’ll have other opportunities”, or do they? Damn, I’m so fucking confused!

First Date

Yesterday I had a first date with the current girl of choice. I’m not sure if I could call it a date, it didn’t last long! Well, It didn’t last long for work reasons and not because things didn’t go well. I guess things did go pretty well, I don’t think I screwed things up this time. We just talked, then I walked her home. Today I’m thinking if I should have kissed her, I don’t know, really… I don’t believe in this kissing on the first date thing, I like to play it safe. Problem is sometimes I play it too safe and kind of lose the proper moment. Anyway I had problems sleeping last night. She was on my mind, and now I have butterflies in the stomach. It sucks!

Anyway, she’s gorgeous! attractive, intelligent, funny. Everything I always dreamed of. I definetely want a second date.

80s or 90s (continued)

So, I guess I wasn’t fair to the 90s on my last post. I said it didn’t offer us much… Well, I guess I was wrong. It did present Beverly Hills 90210 to the world. And throw the first stone who has never seen an episode! Come, on! Throw it! Now someone (warner?) made a remake of it. And they simply call it ‘90210′ (very smart isn’t it?). I’ve seen all the episodes so far and let me tell you… I think they got the mojo of the original show, specially putting some of the original cast members of the old show. Who didn’t smile when Brenda and Kelly were walking down the school’s corridor on the last episode? And no, I didn’t mean smile in a pervert way, although they still look very attractive!

Now, getting back to the 80s… On the last post I did mention Knight Rider, didn’t I? It was so fucking cool for the time! I mean, the car could do anything and even talk! James Bond’s car didn’t do that at the time. So, it was new, it was fascinating. Well, some smart ass decided to do a remake of it! And they call it ‘Knight Rider’ (yeah I know, another very smart title). I watched the season premiere last night. Oh man, that was a piece of shit! It almost ruined all the good memories I still have from the original show. It didn’t ruin everything because I simply stopped watching it after 15 minutes, the smartest thing I did this week! I had never imagined that I would ever say this, but I missed David Hasselhoff!

80s or 90s?

A few days ago I was chatting with a friend of mine on msn and she was playing some songs for me. She wondered if I remembered any of those tunes. Apparently they were all hits during the 90s. Well, I didn’t believe I had ever heard them before, and thanks God, because they all sounded fucking terrible! Well, she was quite amazed by the fact I couldn’t recognize any of the songs (she played 5 or 6) and asked me the following question: “Where were you during the whole 90s?” Well, I told her: “Still lost somewhere around the 80s!”

Really, what did the 90s offer us? Can’t think of many things, can you? If so, let me know… As fot the 80s, well, we had neon lights, we had the pop music (MJ, Billy Idol, A-Ha, Europe, and many others), rock (Ozzy, Dio…), metal (early Metallica, Maiden, Hellowen…), we had Miami Vice and The A-Team on TV! Oh, we also had “V”, MacGyver and The Knight Rider! Honestly, do you really think the 90s were better? No fucking way!