Woman Crush Wednesday: Mindy Kaling

I just finished Mindy Kaling's book, "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)".  It was great.

To be honest, I've been a Mindy fan for a while now.  I loved her character Kelly Kapoor on "The Office".  Even though she had a small part, I loved her and after reading her book I realize she stuck to the small part because she was also writing for the show.  When her new show, "The Mindy Project", started this past fall I knew I had to watch it.  I did and I loved every minute of it.  I'm now patiently waiting for September.

So I was already a fan of Mindy.  Her book made me even more of a fan.  I love that Mindy isn't a size 0 actress.  She's the size of an average American woman and from what her book says she's okay with that.  I love seeing that attitude.  I'm no size 0 either and most days I struggle with being okay with my weight so it's nice to have a role model that's not going to conform to the size 0 that most of Hollywood is.

I also enjoyed that in her book she talks about the less glamorous side of being famous and how she got there.  I have no real want or need to be famous all I really want is to own a business that sells baked goods that I have made but when you look at someone successful sometimes all you can think about is how they are successful and then you get a bit jealous (and when I say you I mean me).  You (I) tend to forget that they probably did go through a few hardships before they got to where they wanted to be.  I needed Mindy's book to do that for me.  A lot of times, especially recently, I've been pretty down on myself because I feel like I'm never going to get to where I want but after finishing Mindy's book I see that the road to success isn't all hearts and rainbows.  There are going to be times where I feel like giving up.

So to conclude, Mindy's book really gave me a confidence boost but further than that it's a great read and she's a pretty funny gal so I'd recommend it to anyone.

Happy Wednesday!

The Silver Linings Playbook a.k.a. The WORST Movie Adaptation EVER

Last night I watched "The Silver Linings Playbook" and a week ago I read the book with the same title. The two should not have the same title.

When a movie comes out that was originally a book I usually make it my mission to read the book first. I like to be "that guy" that compares the book to the movie and usually get mad because the movie was nothing like the book.  Sometimes whoever is in charge does a pretty great job of doing the movie adaptation.  I think that the Harry Potter films are probably the best.  The books will always be better but the person/people in charge of those movies did an amazing job.  Kudos!

The same cannot be said for whoever took it upon themselves to make "The Silver Linings Playbook" into a movie.  At first I wasn't even going to read or watch "Silver Linings", that was until Jennifer Lawrence (who I have a huge girl crush on) won the Oscar for Best Actress.  So I ordered the book and LOVED it.  I was really excited to watch the movie because the book was so good and I thought you could totally make a great movie out of it.  Well they didn't, in my humble opinion.  They completely changed EVERYTHING.  They changed the characters, they changed major events and they changed what the story was really about.  The movie should have been called "I have nothing to do with The Silver Linings Playbook, I'm a piece of crap".  Okay, that's a long and contrived title but the movie was sh*t.  If you haven't read the book you might be okay, it actually could be a good movie.  But I went in having read the book and expecting the movie to be like the book and I was very disappointed.  I don't even know how the author of "Silver Linings" let it happen but maybe he didn't have a say.  I'm not really sure but I am sure that the movie version of "Silver Linings" is terrible.

That is all.  Happy Wednesday.

P.S.  Work was better today, my boss said she was impressed with how well I can ice a cake.  SCORE!!!