All Week Long OR I Don't Film Enough OR The Price Is Right

All week long I've been wanting to post. I've been commuting to the office and thinking of posts as I drive, then not finding time to write them once I get home. This is a messy compliation of all those ideas.

I've been tired this week and going to bed early and getting up late. Never in my life did I think I would call getting up at 6:30 late, but now it is very, very late. If someone had told the pre-children me that once I had kids getting up at 5:45 would be the norm, I may have waited to have children. It would have been a ridiculous reason to wait to have children, but I can see how that knowledge could have resulted in that outcome. This makes me think I'm being far too transparent with my sister if I want her to have children in the near future.

I've been enjoying a bit of a lull in my workload, but I can feel it building as sure as I feel spring springing. Once I'm in the thick of it, I'll be fine, but right now I'm full of self pity for all the work I will have to do in the next few months. I was really moved by this post over at the Panic Room. This guy always seems to put it so well ... if I tried to write this post it would go on forever, but his quiet little paragraphs say it all. He's also a really talented photographer and the video (the video!) link on this post is so beautifully done. I got a little misty because it all comes together so well and also because I know we are definitely not taking enough video of Nicky. It's hard to fit it all in--the iPhone pictures, the good camera pictures, the seeing it with your own eyes and just enjoying the moment mental pictures. The video camera is often left out, but man I would love to have a video like this of Nicky to watch during a stressful moment at work. Just to have it. That would be great.

Writing this I remembered that I do, in fact, have something like this to watch on this site. My husband put it together for me so long ago. He came in while I was watching it and said he would work on another one today. Yay!

What else ... the other night the husband and I watched the Departed again. I believe I've seen it 20 times. I love that movie so much for so many reasons -- the actors and the pacing and the setting and the music and the subject. I love crime/mob/gang/street drama. I'm not sure why I find it all so intriguing, but I know I'm not alone. If you, too, see the appeal you should check out novels by Richard Price. He's a great writer and penned the scripts for more than a few episodes of The Wire. He also wrote Clockers, which later became a Spike Lee joint and is said to be the inspiration for The Wire. I would recommend the book Samaritan, written about a middle-aged divorcee who returns to the projects of New Jersey to teach a writing class at an inner-city highschool and ends up in the middle of a murder mystery. I know it sounds very Dangerous Minds, but trust me it's much, much better. I've had his first novel, The Wanderers, and a more recent one, Lush Life, on my to-do list for awhile now.

Anyway, that sums up most of what's been floating around up here. Have a great Easter everyone. We are looking forward to egg hunts and 80-degree weather and little boys in button-downs and khakis, and maybe a date night or two in the mix. Love ya!