Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Family

Most of my immediate family is here to visit. It is noisy, chaotic, ovens just generally crazy - but I think it makes this house feel more like a home.

I struggle with being so far from my family. Though I long ago accepted the fact that the Bay are offers career opportunities I can't get anywhere else, I do sometimes look at Max and wonder how it would change who he is if he were surrounded by this much love and attention regularly instead of just a few times a year.

There is no way to answer that definitively. Thanks to modern technology he is able to
connect with everyone in some way. I guess that is a good thing. But small things he doesn't get - we don't get. Nights at Grandma's house, babysitting by the aunt or uncles, holidays with family.

I think about it a lot. The trade-offs we make to find a better life. Sometimes I feel guilty. Sometimes empowered. It is all over the board.

I guess all that's important is having people who love you regardless of
Distance. Right? Reassure me
Here.

Monday, June 25, 2012

I'm a Sharer!

Today was a day of re-watching some my faves. I get ridiculous amounts of pleasure introducing people to things I love. Here is my list of late:

Introduced my dad to Luther. I LOVE that show (and Idris Elba is ridiculously hot).
Introduced my bro and sis to Misfits which is funny and dark and awesome and re-watching episode 1 of the show reminded me of how good it was from the start.
Showed my step-father and fam the movie Goon which I have seen no less than about 6 times and still find hilarious. Makes me love hockey even more.

It makes me really happy to share good things. I wish we could share kindle books - that would really make my life complete!!

I'm too tired to think. I just wanted to share that! ;)

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Tough Love

I'm enjoying an indulgent Sunday morning watching Tough Love. I can only imagine the plethora of issues this guy would have found with me.  Additionally, I have to wonder how they find these women and if they represent the female dating population. Because some of them are SO stupid or slutty or mean. I mean....does that work out there?

What i also can't figure out if why I like these shows. What is the appeal? Is it just that watching effed up people is interesting because it makes us feel slightly better about ourselves. I most definitely don't see myself as exceptionally different from many of them - and I'm sure if I was in front of a camera I would be far worse because I would be edited to look even more crazy than I am (or revealed to be even more crazy).

Why do relationships make us act like crazy people?

Saturday, June 23, 2012

The adventures continue

I loved blogging and did it far too much back in the days when I was single, childless, and had significantly more drama to talk about. But, I miss the days to being able to drop a quick note about my life or things I'm thinking about so I'm rebooting my blogging career and putting this up for people to read or ignore (I'm fine either way - this is more a creative outlet for me than anything else).

Here is hoping I actually have some compelling and interesting things to talk about.

Stay tuned.