Had a nice low-key New Year's. Took the kids and spent the night at a friend's beach cottage with some other couples. H and D got some good surfing in on new Year's Day (too cold for me!). The couple who hosted it are old friends - he's an ex-student of mine from the time I taught organic chemistry in summer school at the junior college. We met up a few years later when I was a resident and he was a physical therapist; I was married, he was engaged, and our spouses hit it off. My H is their youngest child's godfather
Why I Am Mad At Harrison Ford
Of course, you all know he left his wife of many years and is out gallivanting around with the emaciated Callista Flockhart. Well, I read that his wife finally filed for divorce after 2 years of separation. Yet another weenie MLCer who makes the LBS finally do the dirty work of filing.
On the brighter side - I had a dream about Bruce Willis last night. He was sitting with my H and I, and I was telling him how sorry I was about his marriage failing. He started getting teary-eyed. It was pretty clear he's waiting for Demi to wake up from this Ashton Kutcher fantasy!
Oh yeah - and now even Seabiscuit is screwed up for me - because unlike the movie, which implies Howard's first wife left him - the book makes it clear he was still married when he began his affair with the older sister of one of his son's wives! Imagine his poor LBS - first she loses a son to a tragic accident, then her H has his MLC and marries a younger woman who she had probably treated as FAMILY, and then gets famous so she has to read about H and OW in the papers all the time.
I must admit, this whole DB experience makes me realize how skewed our media coverage of divorce is. Ellie
My favorite Weenie Head award has to go to.....Jack Nicholson. I remember seeing an interview with Angelica Houston about how they had been together for years and then she reads in the paper how he had a new girlfriend. A Weenie Head and a Coward too!
True about the way Hollywood has set a bad standard, but have you noticed a new trend, i.e. One Hour Photo and Phonebooth?
Yeah - I loved Phonebooth!!! Didn't know the theme when I rented it though - think it made H a little uncomfortable!
To anybody out there who hasn't seen it - the guy who is pinning the other guy in the phone booth justifies it because the guy in the phone booth is a slime who is cheating on his wife Script must have been written by a LBS - hey, maybe it was Harrison Ford's wife - she's a screenwriter!
Ellie, You kill me. The only defense for Nicholson is he wasn't married... Yes, I just started the Seabiscuit book. I think the director/writer is more of a family man, and wanted to make that less of an issue in the movie.
We should come up with a list of LBS-safe movies... good start with One Hour Photo and Phonebooth.
Relax. Appreciate. Be calm. Laugh. Enjoy. Be secure. Be loving. Be loved. Don't personalize. Don't ASSume. Accept. Be grateful.
I have written a draft of the note I want to send H, as he asked me what I thought of his SMS message... can't believe that I am airing this most private of messages on the internet but I did test things by typing some words into a Google search, but it doesn't seem to come up with anything from the Divorce Busting site's BB. Does anyone know if you can bring up stuff from here in a casual internet search?
Ellie, you sound a little similar to me in a way - I was rather more active in my twenties and early thirties, cycling and stuff, but a couple of years after the birth of D I started having chronic lower back problems, and that really affected so many areas of my life - made me inexplicably (to others) grumpy, less interested in you know what, less active at times etc. And my H actually RESENTED my bad back, in so many words, rather than show an ounce of sympathy or concern or love.
Amazingly, the last few days I have got out of bed in the morning ache and pain and stiffness free!
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
