Yeah, a good movie was seen by Carol: "Amelia" with Hillary Swank and Richard Geer. I think the first part of it was a little slow moving, but it really turned interesting and ended AOK.
And the new Meryl Streep movie with Steve Martin and Alec (?) looks good.

OK so I haven't written on this blog for a month so here goes. I am planning on going to Thailand and will be up dating this blog, so you can check in with this when I am gone and then you can see what I am up to, which will probably be not too much. Carol

Good news, movie fans. Looks like several new movies coming out this fall will actually be watchable. Meryl Streep and Steve Martin have one coming out, as well as a Nicholas Cage end of the world deal. Those looked OK. Sandra Bullock had one about adopting a homeless boy that might be OK. Also, Jud Law is in a new movie as Watson in "Sherlock" and Hillary Swank will play Amelia Earhart. Looking forward to seeing these.

Yeah! I went to the movies this afternoon. I saw "The Informer" with Matt Damon. Great movie. It is based on a true story of a guy who "blows the whistle" on food giant ADM, who was guilty of price fixing. But in the mean time, the individuals involved were not without fault.
But the best part of the movie, besides it being funny, was the character development of the may character, Mark Whiteker, played by Matt Damon.
Recommended for sure.

I just finished ANOTHER really good book. It is "Await Your Reply" by Dan Chaon. It is about identity theft, and while that is the plot, it is really about people. As usual, I like a book with good character development. Boy, does this one have that, plus a "keep you guessing until the last page" plot. It is actually three inter woven stories.

And the other interesting thing to me was the setting. The base is western Nebraska, where I used to live. It was a bit of memory lane to talk about some of those old places.

Other than that, it is turned into a new season, fall. And it seems to be happening overnight.

I just finished reading a really good book by E.L. Doctorow. "Homer and Langley" It is about two brother, one who was gassed in the trenches in WWI and one who is blind. It tells about their lives with the background of the 20th century.
I like the place were they tell about banks buying out other banks. They say the banks become new banks and never improve.

I feel like this is new years eve. I have been thinking about all the things that have happened in the last year. I became a grand mother to two teenagers and a baby.
I traveled to Boston. I am going to Thailand.
I get to help do day care for my little Evelyn.
I have my health including my eyesight and my hearing.
I have friends and family who love me.
I have old friends and new friends.
I have plenty of money for my needs and some for my wants.
Somethings have made me sad. The worst was seeing a dog being given away at a garage sale because the owners were losing their house.
Last week, I tried to help the dog catcher catch a dog who was scared and running around because the owner had dumped her out.

So these are the things are not so good. I have closed three banks in the last year: my insurance agent has retired: my car dealership has closed and three people I know have lost jobs there.

I was almost struck by lightening and my plants got hailed on. I had to go to the dentist and I hated it. My car needs some work on it and my doctor is no longer seeing patients.

I think my good list is so much better and LONGER than the changes list.

Besides, except for the lightening and hail, all these things are changes for me and we had a minister who always said, "change is a chance for growth" even though I hated it when he said that.