July 10, 2007

  • Thank you for all of your various messages of support. I think venting about it and being heard helped a lot, got it all out of my head and let it live somewhere else for awhile.

    Also, DH "kidnapped" me for the weekend for my birthday. We went up to Bodega Bay and drove around (Sonoma) wine country, on Saturday we visited Healdsberg where a lot of the local wineries have tasting rooms (fun for DH) and cute little shops (fun for me), and on Sunday we drove to Point Reyes National Park/ Seashore and hiked around before coming home. I was hoping to see starfish, but the tide was almost all the way in by the time we got out to the right beach, so I had to settle for sea anemones and a crab.

    We also had a nice 4th of July. One of my co-workers, one I have always felt simpatico with, but never hung out with outside of work, invited DH and me to come out to their house in the East Bay for the 4th. We hung out with them and some of their friends and played cards and ate 7 layer bean dip and hamburgers from the grill. It was exactly what I wanted to do for the 4th.

    I finally watched "Brokeback Mountain" yesterday (I got it from Netflix in March!  ). I don't know. It was well done and beautifully shot, but I wasn't as moved as I expected to be. Maybe it was more shocking and moving for older generations who couldn't conceive that two men could actually love each other (as opposed to just having a sexual relationship). Of course, I was breaking down boxes and trying to get the living room in better shape while I watched it, so maybe I was too distracted. It did give me a better appreciation of Heath Ledger as an actor, though.

    I also watched "The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio," which has also been sitting in my living room since March and was also not as good as I hoped it would be. Not that every movie needs to have main characters who follow and arc and change, but the main character seemed pretty much the same throughout. It was interesting, but failed to really move me.

    I did like Ratatouille, though. Didn't quite pack the emotional punch that Nemo did, but had it's own message about finding your place and incorporating seemingly opposite facets of yourself and your life without compromising your own authentic self.