August 8th, 2007
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that peridot is their favorite gemstone. In fact, I’ve heard several people say that August has the ugliest birthstone. However, there are a few reasons to love peridot:
- It’s a semi precious gemstone, meaning you can get a very large gemstone for not a lot of money & who doesn’t love that?
- Peridot is very clear, unlike Emeralds.
- Green matches most everything.
- Unusual.
This month I’ll be posting about some peridots that will hopefully help out the reputation of the “ugly duckling of the gemstone family”. Actually, I just made that term up so it really shouldn’t be in quotes, but I really like peridot & hopefully you will too!
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August 8th, 2007
I’ve always wanted to be a princess, more than I wanted to be a model. Being a model just seemed like a lot of competition so you could wear ugly clothes, never eat, & be washed up in your early twenties. Models just seemed to me to be very picky & unreasonable & have a tendency to throw office equipment at their assistants. So it’s always confused me that young girls look up to supermodels.
I’ve enjoyed watching “A Model Life” on TLC. It documents six women who are trying to make it in the business, with the help of Petra. There is only one (Angelika) who has the model high maintenance thing going on. The other five girls seem genuinely nice, a little insecure, even grateful. I guess that I don’t have to imagine a big controversy with princesses & models in a boxing ring duking it out, I think it’s possible to be both.
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August 8th, 2007
When I was a kid, I was always on the lookout for role models, princesses to look up to. I didn’t know it at the time. Luckily, my parents did know this, so they always made sure that I was surrounded with good books, music & TV.I feel like I’m getting really old & should be saying things like “Back in the day”, even though I’m 25. The world just seems to have changed a lot. I look at celebrities who are my age, who are role models for the younger generation & they all seem to be going to prison. Trying to find good role models, books & movies for a teenager now must be almost impossible.
So I was excited to see a movie coming out Opening August 24th in select theaters: Eye of the Dolphin. It looks like a movie that everyone can enjoy, with a fantastic storyline written by Wendell Morris, who is a three time Emmy Winner. The movie is about a teenager who gets expelled from an LA high school. Then she has to go live with her distant father in the Bahamas, where Alyssa befriends a dolphin. The really amazing part of the story is that Alyssa & the dolphin try to help the impoverished people in the Bahamas. That is definitely a positive role model for teenagers to look up to, something that anyone can learn from. I just wish there were more movies coming out like this one.
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