Read this article about Madonna. She is 47 years old. I am 23.5 years old. Madonna looks twice as good as I do. At half her age, I would like to look half as good as Madonna. Do I? Not even close. Can I? You bet.

Grant it, Madonna has personal trainers, millions of dollars and basically unlimited time to keep herself in perfect Kabbalah shape. She’s also had two kids. Well, maybe I don’t have unlimited wealth and time, but we do share Ashtanga in common! So, perhaps my goal of having arms like Madonna isn’t just a fantasy.

Yes, dear readers, at the age of 23.5, I would like to look half as good as Madonna. Is that too much to ask?

The beautiful and talented Ashley and I saw Friends with Money last night at the Regal Metropolitan. The theatre was mostly inhabited by women, and it was a chick flick…but not in the normal sense. I really enjoyed this movie as it seemed real. In fact, I could really relate to Jennifer Aniston’s character as she was the lone single and poor friend among all her rich and married friends. But I think the moral of the story was that just because you have what society might call the “perfect life” doesn’t mean it actually is…and those who you might view as a failure really are. Jennifer Aniston gave a great performance, as she usually does in drama. This movie could be compared to her role in The Good Girl, where she also plays a depressive, unhappy woman. I would recommend this movie for it’s great roles for “mature” women that really deals with life in an ordinary way.

Doesn’t it seem like there are only about 5 news stories right now? Let me list them for you in the order that they annoy me.

 1. Natalie Holloway - Although the only topic of discussion on the Nancy Grace show, no one is going to find her, Aruba can’t be that big.

2. Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal - Personally, I don’t think a rape occured, but something bad probably did. Let’s move on.

3. Tom Cruise - He’s officially gone off the deep end. Why is he doing publicity for his movies when his new baby is at home? What a Dad he will be.

4. Angelia Jolie and Brad Pitt - Once again, congratulations on having a baby and exposing most of the world to Namibia, which I’d never heard of before. Now leave us ugly people alone.

5. Gas Prices - I like driving, I get places faster. Don’t buy a big car if you can’t afford to fill it up. Stop whining.

I try to keep this blog nice and friendly and don’t usually discuss politics or controversial issues, but I have seriously gotten tired of seeing the same news stories on all the time. As an avid Foxnews reader I can tell you that their headlines are usually something like, “bad things happened with the war.” “celebrity did something shocking” and either something about gas, the latest scandal or a political scandal.

I’m not saying that the news has to all be about kittens and grandmas, but I’m pretty sure that there are more interesting things going on in the world than Tom Cruise and unfortunate college occurances.