An Attempt At Blogging

I want to blog...really, I do. But for some reason I'm not. I'm choosing not to find the time to sit down and do it. But yet I can find the time to read everyone else's. Interesting.



So, the Oscars have come and gone for another year. I gotta say, this year it seemed like they would never leave. Ugh! I feel sorry for Ellen Degeneres. She dreams of hosting the Oscars and then that's the year they change format and it all goes to pot. I haven't read any reviews but I hope she doesn't get blamed for the whole thing. I saw her in an interview with Oprah, and she said she was waiting backstage for something crazy to happen so she could come out and comment about it..... but nothing happened. Ain't that the truth. Nothing until 1am when the big awards finally came. Sadly by then, I wasn't so excited to see Scorsese win. I was just so tired.

Yesterday we drove up to Doaktown so Jason could put his name in the mill up there. It was a nice day for a drive. Very Springy. Jules was home from school again. I kept her home just to make sure she could go the day without getting a temperature. Her and Abby played in the car all the way there and all the way back. The road is very hilly and twisty on the way to Doaktown. They were hanging on and pretending they were on a roller coaster. I remember doing that when I was their age. The girls' sugars were both getting low, so we decided to eat in at Burkes 2. The place was pretty much empty except for us. It proved to be a nice way to pass the day.

I've been getting some extra hours at the school lately. Last week, I covered for Mom on Tuesday and then worked til 3pm on Friday(I usually only work Fridays 8:30am til 1:30pm). And this week I work Monday, Thursday and Friday til 3pm. An extra day here, an extra hour there.... every little bit helps.

Well I mustn't procrastinate any longer....... to the laundry room I go.

The Show Must Go On

Yesterday morning, I sat here typing a post announcing that I was cancelling my annual Oscar party. I had decided on Sunday that it was best just to skip it this year. It wasn't that I was overly depressed or anything so dramatic. I just found I wasn't as into it this year, as I usually am. Normally, I start planning this event, weeks or even months, in advance. eg: new fun ways of decorating, invitations, food, etc... After all, it is the event of the season. :)

As I finished writing the post, I found myself feeling sad and disappointed. I have always loved the Oscars. I'm a huge movie buff and especially love that old Hollywood feeling that you get with the Academy Awards. The red carpet, the dresses, the surprised acceptance speeches....love it, love it, love it. I would print out a copy of all the nominees (before I had a computer, I would use a pull-out from US magazine) and try to predict who would win each award. Usually I would get half right. It was fun, the idea of being an amateur and trying to guess who would win for "Best Sound Mixing". And thus my idea of hosting my own Oscar party was born. I started saying how one day I would host an Oscar party - a night where all of our friends would come dressed in formal attire(as if we were actually attending the awards), fill out our own ballots and watch the Academy Awards together. Some day... I would say. I was waiting for us to have a house, a bigger and nicer space to hold such an event. But two years ago, I grew tired of waiting. Even though we still lived in our old mobile home trailer, I decided that life was too short and hosted our First Annual Oscar Party. I swore to myself that I would host it every year, without fail.

So, to cut to the chase, I never published yesterday's post. I changed my mind. How could I not have it? So what if it's been a hard year? So what if we have no money? Life is too short. The show must go on....