I have been trying to think all day what I could write about, because there was nothing particularly significant today, and I finally decided the most interesting thing about today was.... [wait for it!].... the weather.
Yes, it was rainy and foggy this morning when I took the kids to school. Fog in February, in the morning. OK, I can deal. Then I came home, did some things around the house, and Alesia called and asked if I'd pick her up from school. Since it's cold and damp and I knew she wasn't feeling 100%, I got in the car for the 15 minute trip to her campus. I instantly felt like I was on the set of a bad horror movie.
1:20 in the afternoon and it's totally foggy. FOG everywhere. Very eerie.Felt like London, except everyone wasn't driving on the wrong side of the road.
By the time I went to get Michael from school at 4, it was just rainy. Then it stopped.
The kids and I were watching a movie after dinner and we noticed it was thundering and pouring rain. This is not typical February weather, even in Atlanta.
It's just weird.
I know, I know, the rest of the country is preparing for a blizzard and I shouldn't complain, but I feel like the whole wold is turning upside down.
Egypt has gone wacked, Jordan is starting to turn wacky, and any time the middle east goes bonkers it makes me nervous.
I am trying to focus on the positive. I've been getting some calls from recruiters - yay.
I've been working a lot on my juvenile adventure book - yay. I changed the main character to a teenaged girl, instead of a boy, and all of a sudden it started to click.
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. I saw that film in 1993 with my dad, and it remains one of my top 5 all-time favorite films. It's brilliant.
The phrase "groundhog day" has entered our lexicon now. I remember when I was in Kazakhstan for 3 weeks adopting Michael and all the Americans would gather in the hotel restaurant every night for dinner and to compare notes, we'd laugh about feeling like we were in groundhog day. Every day was pretty much the same - eat, visit orphanage, read a book, take a walk, get on the computer.The big variation was showering. You never knew when you might get enough hot water for a shower. That's why I cut all my hair off before going, to spare myself the anguish of worrying about it.
Groundhog Day [the movie] was one of the first films I ever showed Alesia and Michael. So much of the comedy is visual, language is not that important. I like the love story too - if you want to relive a little of the flim, the romantic parts, click here. I can't find on YouTube the funny sequence where he keeps ticking off Andie McDowell and she repeatedly slaps him. That was hysterical.
So watch Groundhog Day tomorrow is you're stuck inside in the blizzard. I'm sure it will be playing somewhere on a cable channel...
