500 days

I'm feel like I'm kind of burnt out! It's cold. It breaks freezing temps. It snows. It melts. I get excited for spring and then it snows again. It's almost as nauseating as a roller coaster and I've had enough. Even the kids are so stuck in their routines that they can't see what's happening. I took Ty and some friends on, what I thought, would be a fun excursion and after the wildlife museum, the geology museum, a run around the indoor track, and a stop at great harvest for some pumpkin chocolate chip bread the boys said to me, "When can we go play? This, is just hanging out with you, mom, we want to go home and play." Is it cabin fever?



I'm ready for a change of season. A transition or something.

So, I watched a movie called 500 days of summer. I know, it's been out for a while now and I've wanted to see it but . . . who has time, right. Anyway, it's about a guy who, kind of, has settled in his professional life but has high expectations for romance and love and finding "the one" and such. He chronicles his life with Summer, who he believes, is "the one" by showing the viewer different situations from the 500 days that they are in each other's lives. I'm not really giving away anything here, the narrator tells you immediately that this movie is not a love story.


She's not the one. But, she is the one who helps him realize that he's capable of more and reminds him that his romantic ideals are not crap even though her rejection of him makes diarrhea out of the "soul mate" fuel he fed his future with prior to meeting her. Professionally, he writes sappy, lovely greeting cards driven by the inspiration of a happy heart followed by "I understand the misery" type cards in the aftermath of the break-up. And later, she has to remind him the loves really does exist after she took it away from him.

Man, he was miserable for a while. Soul-sucked and drained.

Kind of like how I feel these days. I need sunshine. I need spring.

On day 500 the misery ends and new "prospects" begin.

I need some new prospects. Warm weather. Running shorts. Sweat that doesn't freeze.