Lost in Austen - YUM!

 What fun!  Check out the sexy Elliot Cowan as the romantic Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, in this movie about a modern girl who time travels into the novel, trading places with the character, Elizabeth Bennett.  Wouldn't it be nice if all men wore the hair and costumes of Mr. Darcy at least one day a year!  Gorgeous!  More later.
 Meanwhile, check out this video in my custom video player at the top of the page or at the link below to see the most romantic scenes from this movie!  Yum!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYmXrRSGmk

Valentine's Day!

 Valentine's Day was a cute movie that showed several types of romantic relationships.  Like, the main stars, Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner realizing they really loved their best friends, each other.  And, the parallel stories of a young couple and the older couple who both discover hurtful secrets in each of their relationships and then come to the realization that love means accepting the bad with the good.  I like that lesson.  Let's us all off the hook!  It is a good concept for us to use with ourselves, too.  We tend to "accumulate" guilt about mistakes we make, bad decisions, wrong roads taken, etc. and we feel worse and worse as we realize more and more that we have screwed up.  It is not good for us to beat up on ourselves and as hard as it is, we need to accept the bad with the good and love ourselves, and everyone else, anyway.  I feel better already!   There is really no other way to get over the things you cannot change that pull you down, but, to accept that we make mistakes and we just have to learn our lessons and move on.  Each day is a new day.   Try drawing a picture to represent your mistakes, negative thoughts, or whatever holds you back, then erase it, white it out, or throw it away and imagine you are starting fresh.  Have positive thoughts and outlook, smile and embrace the joy of the day!  Be Happy!

Enchanted and other Fairy Tales

 I LOVE the movie Enchanted and I know I am not the only woman who does.  It seems to appeal to many  women for some reason.  I watched it again today, crying through the last half and loving the sweet fairy tale ending.  I really thought I was way beyond liking fairy tales, but apparently not.  I love anything that applies the most idealistic, anything-is-possible kind of attitude to everyday life  and ordinary people because I have always believed ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.  I think it comes with being a babyboomer.  The fifties kind of instilled that idealism in most of us and then, coming of age during the 60's and 70's and being a hippie, a freak, believing in the highest ideals, that idealistic nature became a dominating characteristic for me.  As an example, I used to pick up anyone hitchhiking, one time even giving a man my only dollar.  Coulda been killed!  Won't go into some of those wild stories, but, it kind of stays with you, or at least it did with me, that desire to spread the love and see the best in people if you can and never settle.   I have seen that kind of idealism still evident in many babyboomers. 

Enchanted is what we idealistic freaks want to believe-that everyone is really good, deserving of happiness, (except the evil queen!)  and good conquers all!  True love exists!  The sweet heroine convinces everyone she meets to believe in love and happiness, ever-after, in spite of their real-world cynicism, as she dances and sings about true love, spreading joy wherever she goes.   You find yourself hoping she can prove that life really can be that joyful and happy if we just CHOOSE to believe in it.  And Patrick Dempsey's girlfriend is happy to go to the fairy tale land of Andalasia because even though she has pretended to be practical about love while she was dating Patrick, under it all, she is really a deep romantic (like most of us?) who is impressed by the way the fairy tale prince knows his heart and wants to commit to her forever!  Who wouldn't want to know you are really loved without reservation.  This movie makes me cry and I wonder if it is for the sweet sentiment of it or for the fairy tale ending not evident in real life.  In any case I am ready to watch it again!  You can watch the dance at the ball where she realizes who her true love really is or, the movie trailer on the video player above.  Amy Adams conveys all the love and emotion she feels for Patrick Dempsey as she gazes into his eyes as they dance.  I watch it over and over!