Eric Bailey's

Well I am going to blog on a couple of different and unrelated things today. Is it really blogging when you are outlining?

Anyway, I need to address this movie first because I was told by a friend to blog on it. The movie is... (oops that is the way of In the Actors Studio, not me). The title was Something Happens (or something like that). It was an East Indian film, done with subtitles. I was asked to comment on it because of my vast international experience, because I have great insight into other cultures and because I am so cultured and knowledgable about international movies (oh yeah, you can't hear sarcasm on the internet).

One of the strange parts of this movie was hearing the mom of the one girl lecture her about marrying for love. The mom told this girl that she had always dreamed of her daughter marrying for love and that would bring happiness. There was such a strong emphasis on this idea that love, true love, happens once, everything else is comprimise. First I don't agree (I often don't agree with movie definitions of love - the movie itself disagreed at times but not consistently). Second I just found it weird watching a movie from a culture that still accepts arranged marriages and that we generally expect to hear moms talk about these as the norm, preaching on the idea of marrying for love. It was just weird that way. While I enjoyed the evening, I did not connect with the movie (maybe someone who watched it can reply and post the title for those millions of readers who may wish to view the movie - not that I recomend or condemn it).

Today I had a meeting and at the meeting I talked about what I do during the day, at which point we discovered that I have fairly busy days actually. It is not just my feeling (although that could influence the way that I express what is happening), but someone else confirmed that I am busy. That alone feels better.

Yesterday I went and saw an asthma and allergy specialist and we are starting to work on improving my breathing (I didn't think I was doing bad until we did the blow test and I registered fairly low). I had allergy tests (he was glad he did not test for penicilin because I reacted so severely to the other molds, it could have been a bad thing). Now I have some medications to try out and some things to do to the house (anyone have extra hardwood lying around?) so that breathing will be easier and when spring comes I won't make my annual trek to the hospital (breathing chamber).

We also went to the gym yesterday. I was busy there, but everything is bright and shiny and new so I like that part. Hopefully joining a new gym will reinvigorate us to go regularly again. Last year we did, but this year we are having trouble getting started.

Should I include something about Christmas? Well we have Christmas at home before driving all afternoon and evening to my in-laws for another Christmas. At home my youngest son open the first gifts and yelled excitedly "Bionicle!" Both boys had great Christmases, presents here, presents at grandma's, and everything they wanted and more. I was quite pleased with my gifts, the new Star Wars DVD set, the final extended version of LOTR to complete my set. I also recieved a number of books, a coffee cup, gift certificates, cards, a game, chocolate, life is good. "Bionicle!"