2 posts tagged “movies”

I can't hide this any longer: I am so friggin' glad the holidays are over. I have really been feeling like Billy Crystal's Harry Burns the past few weeks; just trying to make it from the day before Thanksgiving to the day after New Year's. Thanksgiving I actually enjoy. But if I had to rank the holidays, New Year's would be at the bottom of the list. I think Valentines Day even ranks higher, and on February 14 my mailbox is about as empty as Charlie Brown's. There really isn't anything different about December 31 than any other of the 365.25 nights of the year. Yet somehow, if you don't go out, get drunk, tune in to Dick Clark, and/or kiss someone at midnight, you are un-American. Perhaps even un-human. The only thing that puts the Happy in my Happy New Year is the fact that it is O-V-E-R.

So you guessed it, no resolutions for me. I embrace making changes to your life throughout the year. And if you make changes when you want to, instead of when a calendar tells you to, you are more likely to stick with them.

I actually find Labor Day to be a much more natural turning point. Perhaps that is because, having started Nursery School at age 3, I have spent something like 71% of my life as a student. Might also have to do with my birthday. But life really changes in September. The weather changes, our activities change. That is really the time to chart a new course. Since I can never get excited about sending Christmas cards, maybe this year I will send out Labor Day cards. Certainly will be a shorter line at the post office.

Meant to post about this a long time ago: Sex and the City movie trailer! Yea!!

Last night I went to see Charlie Wilson's War. It was pretty good. The best laugh I got, though, was from the trailer for 27 Dresses.
       [Some random woman]: It must be so hard to watch your younger sister get married before you.
       Katherine Heigl: Yes, then I remember that I still get to have hot hate sex with random strangers and I feel so much better.

I'm definitely going to have to work that into my Maid of Honor speech.