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Carbohydrates and Vera Farmiga

8/2/2016

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or "Why I am a Little Bit Like Norman"

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You love me.

...Thanks to the genetic hand I have been dealt, I have come to the realization that I can no longer eat simple carbohydrates -- AT ALL -- unless I want to be shopping in the "Woman's" department (which as cool as that might be for some people -- I just don't have the confidence to pull it off). So, my carbs are between 20 - 40 grams, and the carbs I do get are from healthy, nutritional sources.

One of the benefits simple carbs used to offer me is the release of chemicals in the brain that release serotonin.  This stuff -- 5-hydroxyltryptamine (5-HT) -- makes me feel calmer, happier, like life is good!  So, I need to give up the carbs without giving up the serotonin and this is where Vera Farmiga comes in. No judgments, now, I know I'm crazy (think about the line from Elf now) in a GOOD way.

Now let me preface this by saying that I love my husband and I'm attracted to my husband and as far as I know all signs point to me being straight. I do, however, love Vera Farmiga from afar.  So I have discovered that when I look at her photograph, view her films, look into her eyes, and especially hear her voice, I get a serotonin release. So, thanks to her existence and her career, I can stay off the carbs.

Now, this intense actress-girl-love is not a new thing for me.  It started with Judy Garland.  At about the age of six, I decided that I loved her and I would be her. (I didn't understand acting, so I thought of her as "Dorothy").  I thought about her, looked at her picture, played her album at every spare moment, and because when you are six you can be whatever and whomever you want to be, I told every new acquaintance that my name was Dorothy. That finally stopped when I got busted.  A new neighbor moved in; I told her that my name was Dorothy and that my little dog, was named "Toto."  This lady had a coffee klatsch with our next door neighbor who clued her in that my name was Jennifer and that the dog's name was "Gidget." 

It's hard to believe, but my old neighbor (now in her 80s) still remembers it and brought it up on her daughter's FB page recently! After that, I kept my passions a bit more to myself. Here's my list of celebrity loves:

Judy Garland
Carrie Fisher

Sherilyn Wolter (my college age General Hospital period)
Finola Hughes  (more college age General Hospital)
Isabella Rossellini

a little bit Jane Seymour
And now, the best of all of them, Vera Farmiga. (officially announced on this blog in April of 2014)

So, I've managed to accomplish things and hold a job and get married and have a family even with this little crazy side of me.  And I need the serotonin, so it's just another reason why crazy can be good.

Thank you, Vera.

Love,

Jen

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Vera Farmiga

6/26/2016

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Being a fan is both pleasure and pain.  I am able to enjoy the influence this person has on my life, but there is always that nagging reality that it is an entirely one-sided relationship.  She can influence me, but I in no way can influence her. And those fans who attempt to reach a celebrity and express their admiration will usually come off as creepy. I wouldn't do it.

As a writer, she has inspired me to come back to a screenplay I wrote circa 2002.  I always dreamed of who might play the lead role in my film -- and I could not come up with a better idea than Susan Sarandon. She would have been good -- but not quite right.  An unknown was my first choice back then, so there would be no one having to look past the celebrity to see the character.  No problem with Vera. She is a character actress who moves so deeply into her roles that celebrity doesn't factor into them.  I love that. Vera Farmiga would be perfect.  She's got the acting chops and I know her well enough (from my lowly position as ardent fan) that she would without a doubt fancy the role.

So here is the logline for my screenplay, Modern Persecution:

Committed to an insane asylum by her reverend husband, a mother of five must dig deep within to survive -- and escape. Based on a true story.

She'd love it.  I know that, especially because her creative baby, Higher Ground, has such parallels.

So, it's a nice fantasy.  I'll keep dreaming it.  I'll keep writing because that's a compulsion.  And finally, I'll hope that someday the entry fee into one of these screenwriting contests will pay off with a little attention from someone solid in the business.

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Still Love Her...

4/22/2015

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It's a bit awkward to express admiration for my TV girlfriend now that I know a few people who know her (that breaks the rules), but I must. Bates Motel is on and I look forward to Monday nights like a lifeline. All the stress in my life fades away as I watch Norma tackle the various and sundry challenges offered by her childhood and children. My life "rolls easy as a breeze" (thank you, Paul Simon) compared to hers.

I do wish I looked like her.
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Thoughts After Midnight

3/28/2014

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I have a new TV girlfriend. It is such a nice feeling to admire someone again. People who know me well know that I have these fantasy boyfriends and/or girlfriends who are usually television and film actors and sometimes authors who I fall in love with to a certain extent. With the women, it's not that I'm thinking about kissing them or anything like that -- I just admire them and enjoy looking at them. With the men, it is also rarely a sexual fantasy that plays out in my head (with a few notable exceptions). I tend to admire people and put them on a pedestal, because I think some people actually are worthy of admiration.

Here is a list of some of my celebrity boyfriends starting with Randolph Mantooth at age seven (my first):  Russell Johnson (the professor from Gilligan's Island) (at the age of eight or so I had this running fantasy about the professor finally realizing that Marianne was perfect for him), Robert Wagner, Paul Simon, Andy Garcia, Phil Hartman, Kevin Spacey, Gary Sinise, John Steinbeck (authors don't usually count, but in Steinbeck's case, I really felt like I knew and loved him), Joe Lando and a few others that I am now embarrassed to mention. Currently, I have no celebrity boyfriend, but I am kind of digging author Frank Bruni who wrote Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater because it is nice to know that there is at least one other intelligent person out there who had a completely bonkers relationship to food... like... I... did.......do.

My celebrity girlfriends include: Judy Garland, Carrie Fisher, Isabella Rossellini, Sherilyn Wolter, Finola Hughes, Jane Seymour, and my newest addition, Vera Farmiga. I started with Judy Garland -- really with Dorothy Gale -- at the age of five or six. It was during that time that any stranger who asked my name got the sincere answer, "Dorothy." Then the Star Wars geek in me took on Carrie Fisher -- I admired her for adolescent reasons; now I admire her strength and wit. Isabella Rossellini was someone who I identified with. Why, I'm not sure. I just felt that we were similar people on some astral plane somewhere. Then came my soapy period. Then Jane (which has quite a lot to do with her beauty). And finally, Vera Farmiga who I think is absolutely brilliant in her role as Norman's mother in Bates Motel. She is lovable and hate-able and believable all at once. When I was in acting school, I longed for a part like Margaret Hoolihan in MASH. If I were still acting, Norma Bates would be the coveted role.

Though I very much love my flesh and blood family, I do enjoy my TV boyfriends and girlfriends. And I'm on the lookout for a new TV boyfriend so if you have any recommendations, feel free. Maybe I should go with a younger guy this time instead of the "dad" type?


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