I realized I had better write something that isn’t a movie review, even if it’s just a rambling sort of update of my life, so everyone won’t leave in droves.
I don’t know why I haven’t felt like writing anything apart from the movie reviews. Actually I haven’t even felt like writing those, but I keep pushing myself because I would like to keep a record of the movies I saw this year and my impressions of them. I know that already movies have slipped through the cracks and I can’t even remember what they are. (Plus, we saw two this weekend that I need to write about soon.)
The idea is that I will eventually tinker with the Web site enough to have a page that lists all the movie reviews, which will be a nice record for me to have. I am always surprised (pleasantly!) that people actually read the movie-review entries and even post comments about them.
It’s funny, I know this happens to other people, but I get in these moods where I will tell you that I haven’t written because nothing is going on, but of course that’s not really true. I never write about earth-shattering events anyway, so it doesn’t matter what’s going on. What I really mean is that nothing in my life seems to inspire me to want to write. That’s not true, either. Sometimes my boyfriend and I have these hilarious conversations that I am sure would make for quite entertaining writing, except that they’re always about topics that I don’t like to discuss publicly. (For example, we decided that someday we will adopt a cat and name it Candida. If you get the joke, you understand why I’m not sharing any of the rest of the conversation. It’s for your own good, people.)
I just survived a big product release cycle at work, and that was stressful and tiring. Even when my own work wasn’t stressful, other people’s tension was contagious. I’m very glad that’s done for now.
I’ve been fretting about writing, and that’s not very interesting to talk about. I can’t find the time/energy/motivation to write anything besides movie reviews. Yay for me.
I don’t have any motivation to work out at the gym, either. That’s been creeping up gradually. I’m not sure how I’m going to fix that, either. I know I had better fix it soon because I can’t afford a new wardrobe.
I bought three pairs of new shoes for work/casual stuff and I was ecstatic because it has been very difficult for me to find shoes that meet my exacting standards. I can’t wear backless shoes, I need arch supports, I have narrow little heels that pop out of the backs of shoes, and so forth. Also, I was trying to meet all of my footwear needs with a single pair of shoes and I finally realized I needed one pair for pants, one for skirts, and so forth. I also bought lots of socks. If anyone knows where I can buy Happy Bunny socks in Austin, please email me, because mail-order is a little more than I want to spend. I love Happy Bunny socks.
I haven’t participated in any colorful family conversations lately. Everyone’s been boringly normal, or at least their problems haven’t been the entertaining type.
My freelance projects have been vanishing lately for less-than-pleasant reasons. See? That means more time to write, right? Oh, sure. Let’s talk about shoes again. I like shoes.
I do have an entry I want to write about DVD rentals and movie theaters and I’m going to do that any day now, I swear. I will say that I’ve been watching a lot more movies, all on DVD, because we finally signed up for Netflix. I am full of Netflix love.
I made my boyfriend watch Sunset Blvd. for the first time and fortunately he liked it.
We’ve been eating out a lot lately, because we’re just too damn lazy to cook anything, and I suppose I could write a lot about that, too. We’ve had some very nice meals and a few sucky experiences that would certainly be entry-worthy.
I developed a theory today that a major migraine trigger for me might be cheese. Not dairy generally, just cheese. (“Cheese, Gromit!”) I have an appointment with the neurologist tomorrow and I’ll have to see what she thinks about this. I actually kind of hope I’m wrong.
I also have a new wallet and a new purse. They look very nice with the new shoes. Also, the purse strap isn’t hanging by a single thread, so that automatically makes it an improvement over the last purse.
We had the most gorgeous weekend. The weather was beautiful and we saw movies on DVD and had coffee outside at Halcyon and ate outside both at Chuy’s and Green Mesquite and would have worked on computers outside except that my patio furniture is collapsing. And my boyfriend made the best blackberry pancakes ever. We still like living together. We’re still schmoopy. Life is good.