Enjoying Myself

Yes, yes, it's true. I haven't been on the computer much (a few of you have noted this!). But don't fear, I am alive and well and enjoying myself, my family, and my vacation. So far I've read an entire book in 4 days and am almost finished with another I started yesterday. The first was "Julie and Julia", a memoir about a woman named Julie approaching her 30th birhtday who decides to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 1 in one year. I highly recommend it, a great read. I constantly wanted to share tidbits with my family, and occassionally did. She talks about politics, living in NYC, chopping up a live lobster, eating entire sticks of butter in one recipe, just great stuff. Now I'm reading "Big Boned" by Meg Cabot which is the third in a cute chick-lit mystery series I am enjoying. Both gifts from Ang! Also, I am beginning Stephen Colbert's "I am America and So Can You" - again, great reading.

In addition to all that literary stuff, we've seen a few movies notably yesterday's "Juno" which features an excellent screenplay and equally excellent actors. Allison Janney, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, and in the title role Ellen Page who can I just say is too beautiful. One of those girls who is ridiculously beautiful like Mrs. Affleck. The story was so good, so well written, one of those that makes me want to do that for a living, for my life. Makes me just want to be a part of GOOD movies, good stories, good stuff. Go see it!

We also saw Shrek 3 last night and can I just say, I hope they're putting the other Shrek's on a hold for a while until they find some new, good story to tell with these characters? It's sad that the best parts of this movie were the gingerbread man's life flashing before his eyes and a few lines by the minor characters like Puss in Boots? So went downhill from the last ones. Glad I only Netflixed it. We're in the middle of Harry Potter 4 right now, we're going to finish it tomorrow when everyone's wide awake and we're hoping to see National Treasure 2 uptown tomorrow too, big plans people!

So yeah, I'm enjoying myself. Another week left on vacation, family to enjoy, another Christmas to celebrate, good times to be had. And yes, I'm loving wearing my cuddle duds under my new hood WMU alumni sweatshirt! I like being cold (well not Kalamazoo cold but this cold is okay!).