What a wonderful movie! I am by no means a cook and my husband would waste no time admitting that fact but one thing I learned from this movie, is that I am much like Julia Child. Watching her trying to find something to do with her life while her husband worked was exactly what I have done. Her passion was right in front of her and it didn’t click until after trying to become a hat maker, a bridge player and I am sure much more that we don’t know about. The one thing she loved was eating French food. She wanted to learn how to cook french style but there wasn’t any cook book teaching in english. So, she took french language classes thinking she would be able to read the cook book and eat french cuisine. After a time, she decided to go to a french cooking school.
Some movies make you wish you never watched them and wasted the 2 hours of your life on nonsense. This movie was a definite joy and made me look back on my life and see where I am now. We all have a passion for something and it could be staring us right in the face. Mine is writing. I don’t have a problem putting words on paper. It comes fairly easy and I love coming up with ideas that would possibly get the attention of the reader.
Watching Julie write every day for a year was inspiring. To actually follow through on something that took a year, especially cooking recipes that don’t look easy to make, that was awesome. She was faithful in her posting on her blog and it took months but she started to get readers and comments, which are hard to get. That is what I plan on doing, being faithful to my Diaries of a Fruitcake and to my readers.
This movie is one to see. I watched it off of Netflix. The name, Julie & Julia.
I don’t know about you but I am thinking about doing the black friday shopping for the first time in my life. I have been reading the articles in the local paper here and it is starting to kind of scare me. Hearing about people who are crazy enough to snatch a little elmo doll out of a child’s hand and then that same man being beaten in the parking lot for his actions. It sounds like crazy animals and long lines. Are you brave to shop early? If so, let me hear of your experiences with Black Friday!
I will be updating if I decide to venture out.
It’s a cold Saturday morning and I decided that my girls and I would go and see a chic flick. I suggested “Love Happens” with Jennifer Aniston! I thought it would be a nice romantic movie, something that girls would love to watch without a man falling asleep next to them. My oldest was like…NOOOOO..but she gave in and decided to sit next to me and watch the movie. Looking at the empty seats, she counted herself, me and my youngest daughter and another woman. So, there were 4 of us in this little area at the noon showing. I guess she was trying to make a point?!
It was a touching movie. I wouldn’t call it a romantic movie though it does have some great ideas for sparking the dying flame in your relationship. There are a lot of things we can do that are free and crazy that show you care enough about the person. To make them live life and put a smile on their face. This movie is about a man who deals with the loss of his spouse by writing a book to help others. But does he really deal with HIS loss? He is going to different cities and doing a week seminar to help others take the first step, of many, in recovery. I personally haven’t really experienced the death of a loved one that was really close to me, like a child, parent or spouse. I have lost my dog and went through the grieving process, with a tear or two, here and there. I really can’t imagine losing someone so close to me but I know it will eventually happen, like it does for so many of us.
It was interesting that the movie pointed out fear.
That we allow fear to stop us when we lose someone. He brought up that some stop doing things that make us who we are. They die to self. For example: Do you still take the elevator or taxi? Do you stop working in a certain field? Do you stop attending certain events or stop going to a store that you frequented with your loved one? It hurts because they aren’t there or the last time you did a certain thing, like ride in an elevator, was with them.
I don’t know what type of books or help is out there for those who have lost a loved one but I would like to hear from you and what has helped you cope.
For the last day of 2008, while my husband and teenage son were on the first row, in the end zone watching Vanderbilt play against Boston College in the Music City Bowl, I took my teenage girls to a movie. We decided to watch Marley & Me in the Governors Square Mall off Wilma Rudolph Blvd. I had heard that the ending was sad, so I didn’t really want to go see this one but we did.
I was pleasantly surprised by a crazy, insane dog that liked to tear up the house and eat the furniture, even the floor! It made me think, “This dog is special. Not all animals are like this.”
They got 
their ‘clearance puppy’ as the next step after their marriage, instead of babies. It reminded me of my husband and I when we got married. Our first addition to the Agnew clan was Cocoa, a deer chihuahua. With long legs and big ears, she looked like a rat as a baby but grew into her own. She was so faithful and loyal but not very obedient, which led to her death. She was 8 years old.
We had left on my Grandpa’s tractor to go fishing, (this is in Alabama) and Cocoa was in the fenced-in yard but somehow got out to try and follow us (so we assume, we didn’t see her). When we got back she was hiding in some bushes. We had thought she got hit by a car and took her to the Vet immediately. As we were waiting for the results of the x-rays, I was looking through her coat and saw teeth marks and that is when we realized she was attacked by a big dog, according to the markings. The Vet gave us some pain medicine for her but she died the next morning in our arms. It was very hard to let go of our first addition to our family. Because of my experience, I could associate with the characters and their feelings with their “baby”.
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So you had a bad day! As you drive home you notice that your taken deep breaths a lot and sighing. You decide when you get home you are going to have a big glass of red wine or maybe you’re a beer person and want a couple of beers. You can understand how people become alcoholics, no pun intended!
Maybe you just want to close yourself off to the world and have a long bubble bath. No matter what it is that you decide to do to calm your nerves, the one thing that remains a fact is that you are stressing out because of your boss!
I decided to write about this subject because it is something that doesn’t seem to be addressed that often. I never knew that sites existed to help those who have the big bad boss syndrome. Not until my friend called me and told me to check out a site that shows we aren’t alone! read More >
