TRASH FOOD

I am generally speaking feeling fine about myself. As regards my weight I usually get some during winter and then I loose it during summer. I don’t know, maybe my metabolism is completely crazy and “self-governed” so “he” has chosen to always stay idle from September to February and then getting active again from March to August and so on and on…
But this winter I got really fat… and I mean it. I gained almost 20 pounds and my clothes wouldn’t fit. But this was the minor problem. I was feeling like I needed to get rid of that surplus burden but I just couldn’t. Of course I never lost my confidence or my self- esteem and not because I have such an idea about myself but I just believe that good- looking is so temporary and so easily changeable matter that it’s really not worth concerning about how awesome and breathtaking someone looks. Of course taking care of yourself and your appearance is not objectionable at all but I think that the one’s who are truly attractive and desirable are the one’s who abounds with inner beauty.
Now as I said my metabolism has started getting out of its slippery condition and within two or three weeks I have lost a considerable amount of the 20 extras. The “before” pic is taken two months ago and the “later” the current day.
I’m thankful I’m getting back in shape again but the effort to write this post and do the before and after picture is not because I think it’s such a big deal that my cheeks are getting in normal size again but I just try to see the funny side of all this hysteria we all may get from time to time and we transform the counting of the calories into the biggest issue we should ever trouble with.

TA SEA SOU TA MEA SOU

Heat… Hot…. High temperatures….
However you call it, it’s the same thing. So, this afternoon was a great opportunity to go to the sea.


I really enjoyed it though there was a little more wind than the appropriate, sea became wavy and some seaweed made their appearances dominant. But it was my first bath in any case and it was fantastic just for that.


Apart from my sister my dog followed as well and it was his first swim ever. He seemed to like it and like all dogs by instict do, he was pretty good at swimming and he could float by the very first second. The time we left him alone outside on the beach while we were swimming he was crying like a small wolf.




P. S A fleeting remark
In Greece a lot things malfunction and this troubles a lot parts of our lives but for balance's grace we can enjoy sea, sun and sand. That's the public's comfort/(opium).

WEST SIDE BALCONY SUNSET VIEW

A VISION FOR EUROREANS

I watched the Eurovision song contest last night. Eurovision is the most celebrated festival in Europe. This doesn’t mean the most prestigious but like the most intriguing events, its value is controversially confronted.
Although it’s an extravagant with bad tasted spectacles at some points show I admit that I watched it with great curiosity. Man I don’t know what to say. Greece didn’t go well or at least as expected cause the expectations were maybe way too high. But the performance by the Greek singer was emotionally strong and amazing. I’m Greek, what can I say!
Ok, the winners were the representative rock band from Finland and the truth is that for my taste they were more than I can chew. For the ones who do not know what I’m talking about, the band was disguised in monster outfits and masks. I guess that they were considered as ugly in appearance except for the ones who may are monstersexuals…
I felt surprised by their win but I thought that lately (or not) people really enjoy to watch ugliness. The ones in specific were like the digital and the other creatures that starred in movies like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and all the subsequent. Of course those films were massive Box Office hits which means that people is hungering for repulsive views. That’s really oxymoron I think. From one side there is something repulsive which means that makes you want to avert it and on the other side the most abhorrent gets the most popular. For this matter, tasting what you distaste is not bravery or challenging but paranoia. And of course needles to say I’m not talking about what we simply choose to watch on TV or things like that but about the world’s current obsession of embracing whatever seems unattractive.

IT'D SOUND SO MELODRAMATICALLY CLICHÉD TO JUST NAME THIS POST MOM

This morning I had a computer license exam and… along came my mom. No, even though she is one of the traditional Greek moms who even when their sons are 20 pounds overweighted they are still deeply concerned if they have eaten all of their food or not, she wasn’t there in order to support me or something like that. I’m 22 and that would be awful! She was there cause she was having that exam as well. You see the reason I’m posting this is because I’m amazed by her willpower and her ability of getting adjusted in occasional changes.
One story about her is that when my sister and I moved out of the house because we went to another city to study, she found herself alone and having nothing to do because my dad was missing in his work all day long too. So, even though she had never needed to work in the past before, she decided to step out of the house and find a proper job for herself. She hasn’t studied also because she fell in love with my dad when she was still in high school and when it was the time to make the crucial decision she chose to create a family and not to board her knowledge field any further. So, 20 years later she felt the need to contribute a constructive labor made by her abilities apart from raising kids. …Child- rearing is a miraculous and extremely contributive for the society thing to do but maybe the woman was asking for some paid and actual occupation….
Five years later from then, which means now, she is still working as a secretary in a TV station but she never gave up evolving. She always tries to get better in what she does and right now she is taking some computer classes and she has already succeeded in some parts from the seven she is in general supposed to, so to hold the so desired degree. Of course the road is harsh and difficult but she does her best.
For the record today she failed. But who cares, there’s always the Sunday after the next one…

PUPPY CHULO

A few days ago we got this wonderful Caucasian shepherd. I can’t describe all he does but he is so lazy and sluggish that the things he doesn’t do are way much more. He is family now, though we can’t decide an appropriate name for him. Booky (from the Greek or Turkish word TOURLOUMBOUKY) and Botox were thrown on the table but they don’t seem to fit completely. Not an easy decision.

When I was 10 I had this false and strange perception of defining the level of happiness by obtaining or not three acquisitions; apart from a horse of course: No1 a tennis racket, No2 a pair of roller- blades and No3 a dog. I never had those simultaneously but now that I do, though this has stopped being my vision for some respected time ago, do you think I should dust those old rollers and play tennis match with the puppy?

NEW POST ON THE BLOG

I just got out of bed from my afternoon nap, so I don’t know if I’m bright enough to even right a few words. I am listening a song which says that li-li-li-life is wonderful! This is what I need to hear right now in order to get myself out of my drowsiness and feel… jo-jo-jo-jolly good. I didn’t sleep that much anyway, because I was wearing my eye- contacts and if I sleep while wearing them, they have the tendency to get dry and stick to my eyes which makes it really hard to take them out afterwards.
Change of topic, I’m doing a lot of things lately and if I am to psychoanalyze myself, this probably means that I probably have some emotional gaps which need to get filled. I don’t care. I like to be energetic and occupied with million things than sitting on a couch flipping innumerous TV guides …
So, apart from faculty classes and the temporary permanent occupation in my dad’s business, I work during weekends in a nightclub as barman which provides me quite good money and social communication of course and despite that, I’m dissecting a really interesting job proposition I had these days from a local TV station to undertake its advertising department… It’s not as pompous as it sounds but it’s definitely fruitful for me and a good start since this is the more adjacent thing ever to my (I hope so) prospective field of profession…
I also accomplished “Good Deeds” which is my first short story and it’s sited somewhere between the previous posts but I think that when I’ll find the appropriate time to “polish” it I may get a new blog just to get it there…
For a while an awful saying had stuck in my head telling that “when someone makes plans God laughs” or something like that… That’s crap, I firmly believe that “if you first, don’t care about yourself and don't set goals for your future then how and why God should?”