Impatiently Waiting

"I've been dating since I was fifteen! I'm exhausted! Where is he"? -Charlotte York, Sex and the City

I'm in my late twenties and I've never been love. Is that weird? I've had crushes, I've been in lust, I've been in unhealthy relationships where I knew I was over it but I stayed anyway; but I have never been in love. I want that Noah and Allie kind of love (minus the dementia), that Jack and Rose kind of love (minus the freezing to death), that Jamal and Latika kind of love (minus the massive bad luck), I want someone to tell my dad that nobody puts me in the corner kind of love (although I wouldn't recommend telling my dad what to do). I mean is that too hard to ask for? Yes, I know that these are all movies but I want it. I want the whirlwind affair, the romantic proposal, the exciting and slightly stressful engagement, the huge wedding that will cost more than the budget we had, and finally the happily ever after which includes children and grandchildren.

My parents have been married for 35 years. I want that. I want to grow old with someone. I want the good and the bad that comes with it. And most importantly I want to stop dating these "boys" who fear commitment. I'm waiting prince charming. Where are you?

The Carrie Diaries

Well Thanksgiving was eh and Black Friday was blah.  I promised by brother that I would accompany him on his shopping spree and it was slightly horrible.  Shopping is very unappealing when you aren’t buying things for yourself.  I did not buy (nor planned on buying) anything as I am on a limited budget this year.  The only thing that could have salvaged this day was a brand new episode of Carrie Diaries but like most holiday weekends, new episodes aren’t aired.  Instead of The Carrie Diaries tonight, they are giving “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” *rolls eyes*. Ugghhh.  I’ll just have to wait until next week but in the mean time I’ll share what I think of this surprisingly entertaining American teen drama.

So the prequel to Sex and the City is…so far so great!  Especially the second season now that Samantha’s been introduced. BT-dubs Lindsey Gort, the actress who plays young Samantha, is doing an incredible job. The faces, the attitude, the voice, everything is pretty spot on.  All great things have cons though. The inconsistencies kind of bum me out.  I think writers should respect that we or (maybe just I) will remember everything about the Sex and the City episodes and that when it differs in The Carrie Diaries, I (or maybe we) will be annoyed. 

1. In SATC, Carrie says that her dad walked out on her and her mother when she was a toddler. However her young, lawyer father is not only present but really great to her and her younger sister, Dorrit.
2. Speaking of Dorrit, I don’t remember Carrie mentioning a younger sister in SATC.
3. In SATC, Carrie says that she lost her virginity to Seth Bateman in a “smelly rec room on a ping pong table” but in Carrie Diaries she loses it to Weaver not on a ping pong table but still in a rec room.
4. An episode of SATC was dedicated to a boy she dated in high school named Jeremy (played by David Duchovny).  They have not once mentioned any kid by that name yet in TCD and I don’t think they will. It’s all about Sebastian.
5. One of the SATC movies said something about meeting Charlotte first or something but Samantha is the first one introduced to the viewers in TCD.

I am sure there are more but those are the ones that I caught quickly and can remember. I never read the books but apparently they aren’t inaccuracies and Candace Bushnell in fact wrote them with these weird loopholes but either way it is odd and annoying.  Nonetheless, I’m used to it. I grew up watching sitcoms like Boy Meets World, Family Matters, and Saved by the Bell where characters would disappear or lose/gain a sibling out of nowhere without an explanation.  I can deal with the dual life of Carrie Bradshaw because I enjoy the show. I heard it is on the verge of being cancelled but it better not be.  Whenever I like something it gets cancelled.  Don’t do this to me CW.