"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world."

-Anne Frank

Okay

I bought a book a few months that was indirectly recommended to me. Meaning, I just kept hearing about it, from a wide host of people. The book is Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist Let me just say this book is amazing! Its about "celebrating the extraordinary nature of everyday life." Shauna is a gifted writer and her comedic tales of adventure really grab a hold of your heart; revealing truth. One chapter that especially made me think is called 'good causes.' I can't really explain it well, but the gist is about us as a race claiming to always be "okay!" And that this is just not true, heres a passage that really got me:


"Being with Julie and Doug today made me think about the idea that everything is okay. That idea is nothing but cruel in its untruth. Okayness is a thin scab that rips off every once in a while and exposes a river of blood and infection, an inroad to the whole body. We live in reasonable peace, accomplishing things and doing what we're told, and expecting that if we behave, we will be rewarded; that for living quietly and industriously , for donating to Easter Seals and letting people merge in front of us on the highway, we will be given good things, good lives. And then something happens to us; we get that phone call or that feeling or that doctor's report, and everything changes."


I highly recommend this purchase.



*peace

The Switch

Last night some dear friends of mine accompanied me to the 5 star establishment known as Georgia Square Value Cinema 5. And by value they mean, you only paid $2 so we haven't mopped the floor since 1996. So after purchasing our tickets, evading th e creepy man buying M&Ms, and finding our way through the endless rows of seats (NOT!) we sat down to one of my favorite parts of going to the theater-- PREVIEWS! But this blog is not about how much I love previews, its about what we saw!

We saw the not so new movie with Jason Bateman and Jennifer Anniston: "The Switch." Quick plot recap (as explained to creepy M&M man): Jason and Jenn are BFF. Jenn decides she wants to enter the world of motherhood via sperm donation. Jason gets drunk and ends up "high-jacking her pregnancy" with his own "donation." The product is the cutest child possible, Sebastian. Hes a neurotic, paranoid, hypochondriac. The film consists of constant comedic situations and a heart warming ending! This is definitely a go-see! Or, if you aren't lucky enough to have your own Value Cinema... a go-rent!

"Life is in session!" - Jenn


"Did you just use my name as a verb?" --Jason

"I'm going to take the dead lice to watch TV!" -- Sebastian

"I've had my battles with hypochondria."

"What's that?"
"Its when you think you have diseases you don't really have."
"Oh my God, I have that!"




you really should see it

*peace