Weekend Review

Jose and I went to see "The Lion King" today at the TCC Music Hall. With Barbara, her mother, her mother's 3 sisters, and assorted children (we bought the tickets months ago, but I still would have gone anyway). It was a fantastic show! Wow! The music was great, it was funny, and oh my, the colors! What a beautiful looking show! The costumes were so colorful and the background lighting was exquisite. It was an experience that just made you feel good inside and happy to be alive. It's a show full of energy and magic......I highly recommend it! Of course Jose didn't like it......too ethnic for him and too few white men in the production. But he was the only one out of all of us who didn't like it. That man puts so many limitations on himself......he exasperates me sometimes. I continue to question why I stay with him. He limits me also. How do you leave someone after 6 and a half years, especially when at one time, I thought he was the greatest thing that had ever happened to me? I know I am still holding onto what USED to be, but I can't seem to relinquish that idea. I am unable to flourish in his presence now. I am still hoping that someday things will be like they used to be. Someone on TV last night was saying that people do not want to be unhappy and that accounts for the high divorce rate. That instead of riding out the hard times and living unhappily for a period of time, we just get divorced instead. There is some truth to that. It's hard to live in an unhappy state......I personally want to run from that. But how long is too long to live unhappily? 6 months? 1 year? 2 years? 5 years? I don't have the answers, but I am one to try and stick it out and be unhappy for awhile. How long can I go before losing my mind? How long can I stick it out? That remains to be seen.......It's hard to remember when I started being unhappy. It's probably going on 1 year.....it could be longer than that, but at least 1 year that I've been mostly unhappy. Before that, there were short periods of unhappiness, but nothing that lasted this long. And to be honest, there have been short periods of happiness in this last year. I will continue to ride it out awhile longer...........

Has anyone seen the new version of Wes Craven's, "The Hills Have Eyes"? Well, if you like horror movies, then this is your bag! It is one of the most graphically and shockingly violent movies I have ever seen. People die in this movie that don't normally die in movies and they die very violently. It is almost over the top and left me feeling a bit sickened, but in spite of that, I have to give the movie a thumbs up. It was good and my interest never wandered. I remember seeing the original many years ago and I don't think I cared for that. Be forewarned: it is extremely violent and very graphic, like nothing you've seen before. I also watched Speed 2 this weekend......certainly not a great movie, but decent entertainment. I only bring it up because of one thing: Jason Patric. Is he hot in this movie or what?! I think I developed a crush while watching this flick! He is so dreamy! I want him to be my daddy!!! Scrumptious!