A day

And that's about all I can say about it. I just have been feeling off the past few days and today I woke up already exhausted.  I am apparently back to not sleeping so well. Its not the insomnia because I can fall asleep just fine, its just not good sleep. Hopefully I can get out of this and back on track soon.  Its hard when all you feel like you need is a full day of sleep, and yet you cannot do that due to obvious parental responsibilities.  I cannot wait to have my support system back.  It really does take a village, I guess.

On the unproductive front, we are caught up and getting caught up on our top two shows. Both shows have so much going on at once - - so dynamic and thought provoking.  They really suck you in.  I should be back into the Best Picture game here in a week or so once we are done with catching up.  Slumdog Millionaire is next on the list.  Again, not really too interest, but it has to be better than The Hurt Locker. Oh how I hope so.

It must be time to head to bed because I completely got distracted and almost didn't finish this. 2 minutes to spare...at least it made it in.

Honesty

Okay, so after four attempts at The Hurt Locker, I just couldn't do it.  I got about halfway through.  I just could not get through how slow it moved and really just not feeling the subject matter.  Other than the extreme realism, I am not sure why it won Best Picture from the Academy.  But then, it wasn't a great year for Best Picture nominees that year either. 

Good news - almost ALL but about 6 Best Picture winners are now available on Netflix.  Including Wings which is the very first winner that I was having a hard time finding. Yay.

I am taking a break from this project though at least for a week or so, as we are trying to catch up on FRINGE. We have six episodes left of season 2 before getting season 3 and then are only a couple episodes behind this season.  With watching 4 episodes a night, we should push through this quite well.  Its such an intriguing, well written show that makes you think while watching it.  I enjoy having to engage my brain while watching television shows and films, instead of the inactive monotony of vegging out.  This goes for all art forms really.

Another month

Yep its October and all that really means is we've been here that much longer than we would like. I never would have expected this move to have affected so many in the way it has, including ourselves.

Video chatted with the besties today. And saying bye tonight hit harder than ever for some reason. There were tears on both sides.  Tears now for that matter.  I have been homesick before, years ago.  But now this just hurts more as it is having an impact upon so many others that we care about.  We are at a point that we are near counting months, weeks, and days until we hope to move back.  We are grateful for what we have, for the help we have received here, but that is all just small aspects of the bigger picture. We are not happy and neither are our friends and family.  Hopefully the next few months fly by fast. I need to see my friends. I need to hug my mom. I need a little bit of home.

Love for Cara and Timmy

New week

The idea of blogging has been hard as its been one thing or another. Sad news. Frustrating news. No news. And it goes on and on.  So its a new week. I am back to the grind. And back on track here as well.  Today/tonight I will start back in my Oscar Best Picture movies with The Hurt Locker. I am not thrilled to actually watch this movie, but a goal is a goal and there are no short cuts.  So I will bear through it and hopefully be surprised a bit as well.  Maybe I'll enjoy it more than I expect. Who knows. 

I'm getting a bit excited for our "busy season."  We have at least one, if not two, visitors coming next month. Halloween at the end of the month (yay!). Another birthday a couple weeks later. And then THANKSGIVING! And our visit to Vegas. This time better go fast because I cannot wait to get my feet on Vegas' lack of good soil again. This just is not working out for us.  I will be glad when I can start a countdown instead of the count up. Dallas isn't cut out for me and I'm not cut out for Dallas.  Just not my speed. I'm ready for the change...which is still a ways off, but somewhere out in the very far off horizon.

So much for that

Things were looking up and seeming like we could start making some real plans for the next few months.  And its all sort of cracked and started shattering the last couple of days.  Its annoying and ridiculous.  Let's hope some of this is a quick fix and we can get back on track.  It is annoying it when our plans get derailed.

Dropped the ball

Talk about not sticking to a goal.  I have seriously dropped the ball on the blogging this last week.  Not a good thing. I really wanted to keep up with this and hopefully get it up to posting daily.  I guess I've been in a bit of a funk or maybe a wee bit o' writers block.  I don't want this to be the usual boring blog of not a whole lot going on, but it has somewhat become that.  Not my intentions, but I need to spend more time on it.  I need to freshen it up and also find some fresh ideas.  I want this to be fun, not a task that I realize I haven't done at 11:30pm at night and have to rush to the computer to get it in.  I think I have lost a bit of focus on why I was doing this in the first place.  So this calls for some hard thinking, contemplation, and a better commitment - - like I had when I started this whole journey.  Hopefully I can get back into this and bring something better next time.