It's Complicated

Is a WONDERFUL movie! It is just scrumptious. Delightful. Dishy. Witty. And highly entertaining. I was leaning forward in my seat laughing and clapping. The story itself is superb, but the fashion and designs are so luscious. Everyone always looks like a healthy mixture of Ralph Lauren Polo, Banana Republic, and Nautica. And the kitchen! KITCHEN! Meryl Streeps kitchen in this movie is magnificent. I have total, complete, unabashed kitchen envy! And she cooks and everything on the screen looks delicious and so tempting. I left the theatre starving. And I had eaten right before I went in. The whole movie is just wonderful, really, please, go see it. Now. Stop reading and go see it. My words will be here when you get back. Nancy Meyers really needs to do more films, and she needs to keep working with all the same set decorators and set designers, because her movies are fantastic, but the scenery and the colors and the little details is what put them on another level. The acting is great, the cast is all so attractive and well picked. The kids that Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are supposed to share look like they could physically be from the two of them. I always applaud movies when they make a family look like a real family, I was telling my housemates about how they should give an Oscar for that sort of thing. It's important to a film. It's one of those films that you just want to close your eyes and fall into, and you know it's going to be comfortable and smell like fresh linen and summer berries. I bought five candles this weekend...I know, I know. Candle overload. But they are my new favorite thing. What better thing is there then to have a pleasant aroma surrounding you and uplifting your spirit? It can change your whole mood. I went with a British theme: one Mulberry, one Lilac Breeze, one Basil and Red Clover Tea, and two Hemingways. I know right! A candle that is named after Hemingway! How fantastic! How often do I quote that man? All the time. And it's such a great smell. I have Mulberry going right now. I had a wonderful weekend. I really did. Friday night I had an amazing date. That's when I saw the film. And I think I'm still riding the endorphin rush from how great it was. Then the next day was even more wonderful because I got to see my sisser! And we had a great time together. We baked apples pies and talked in the kitchen and confided in each other and it was just like long, long ago. Before everything between us got so complicated and distant. There we were, hanging out in my kitchen, baking pies and smiling and laughing. And then we had delicious sushi for dinner. It was a wonderful day with her. I miss her. I miss all my family, but I don't think about it often, because if I do then I get sad. But I shouldn't be sad because things are good/better between all of us, but that's due in part to my moving away. It's complicated. So I had a fantastic time with my sisser. And then I didn't have to sleep alone that night either, my date from the previous night came around. And we just cuddled until we both feel asleep. It was a rare treat. But it's complicated. Because there is another boy in my life, or sorta in my life. He's my New York Sweetheart. But he comes and goes like Times Square traffic, so I don't know what to make of it. It's complicated. He's complicated. And so is the new guy, my Midwest Cuddler, but he is very fond of me. But not the type of boy who usually ends up in my arms, but maybe that's a good thing. Right? Maybe? It's Complicated. I've been cooking all weekend to take my mind off of it all. Just like Meryl Streep does in the movie. Has that woman ever made a bad film? I think not! She's amazing. And so pretty. I have to keep a food journal for the next week for PT training, and I kind of want to impress my instructor with all my delicious, vegetarian cooking. Hopefully we will silently bond over that, and he will pass me. God knows I'm going to need all the help I can get. I'm great at exercising, I actually got complimented twice today by the instructor for my form and inventiveness, but my quiz scores have been lacking. That's because of 3rd shift. I rarely have energy to crack a textbook. But I have the personal skills and know how for the job, I just don't look good on paper right now. You know what sounds good though? Bon Iver. And Lykke Li. No, I'm not speaking a foreign language, those are musicians. And I'm listening to them while I was typing this. For free. You just Google search a band name and their song title and then Google plays it. I read about this the other day in O magazine. I have no idea where I was reading an O magazine, but somehow I was. So I've been therapeutically typing and listening to great music and enjoying the aroma of Mulberries, it's kind of wonderful. And the second I step out of my room, everything will become, well, it all goes back to being complicated. Life is complicated. It's Complicated.

"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived." -M. Streep