The time...where does it go?

The time...I wish I had more of it. It's been just a horrible horrible past few months. I had a grandmother and great aunt pass away, which is sad but not surprising given their ages. About a month prior to their deaths however a young teen and friend to my daughter was killed in a home fire. My husband and I had babysat and driven to/picked up from school this gal and she had been a special friend to my child while in grade school. This was not our child, and I cannot in a million years imagine what her mother is feeling, going thru, or how she is coping with this. From our years of being in her life however we had profound sadness and grief. Why someone so young and vibrant has to die at such a young age I don't know, and will never know.

So...not a fun house. I really had no desire to blog, and am just getting into the winter season for those critics end of year best movies list. I have a few ideas on what I'd like to see but I will contemplate further upon this before I post. Of course there's many many films I haven't seen but I usually got on gut feeling. I have vacation time coming up the end of this month after X-mas, and I fully intend on seeing at least three new films.

Because of our general lack of enthusiasm for much of anything in Casa De Under A Rock I've really not watched much as of late. Wait...I take that back - a new season of Top Chef has started, there's been lots of college football, wrestling, Svengoolie, Iron Chef, and Three Stooges. I did have one afternoon where I thought to myself 'fuck it, I need to giggle' and watched Slap Shot twice. Then I put in My Man Godfrey and just drank in the Deco and Powell and Lombard. Great way to spend the afternoon, the dishes didn't get done til late but I was happy for awhile.

I'm thinking I need to get into the swing of the season and put in Come To The Stable tomorrow afternoon. Why isn't this out on dvd yet? Another film I was thinking of was Blossoms in the Dust but I found out that the film isn't available as a stand alone, it's only available out of the box set. At least there are two other films in the set that I like, so it's been added to my X-mas list.

I promise...more blogging to come. Really, I'm not kidding!