| Saturday February 22nd 2003 Once again the firewall at work has rendered Geocities inaccessible. I'm really scratching my head over this; it seems to change its mind every six months or so. Looks like I'll be returning to infrequent updates, but possibly more frequent checking of my Yahoo mail account. LA is out of (her) town this weekend, else who knows - I might have made it five weekend visits in a row. Under the circumstances, she hasn't been able to call me today. I only ever feel lonely now when I don't hear her voice; I think this will only be the third time since Labour Day that we haven't talked at least once. I had an excellent review of 'The Hours' written up (modest aren't I?), but I don't feel up to copying it out right now. Just understand, it was a considerably better movie than I expected and had me churning it through my mind several times over, digesting the main themes and messages. Essentially it's a story about happiness, and accepting life for what it is. That's something we can all stand to be reminded of once in a while. I have LA's aqua lamp in my living room now; sort of the 'first front' of the eventual move, and a promise of things to come. It's not the sort of thing I would have thought to buy for myself, but now I think it's kind of cool. If you haven't seen one before - it's a tall moulded plastic tube with bubbles rising up the center, with little plastic fish floating in it, and there's a light underneath that keeps changing the water's colour. Kind of funky, and it sets a nice mood. I've definitely been too addicted to video games lately. I've definitely been making too many excuses not to work on my writing. I just felt like pointing that out to myself for the thousandth time. I'd love to say that's it, I'm going to turn things around tomorrow, but I won't for fear of making a hypocrite of myself and this way there's no pressure. I bought my RRSPs for this year today, and asked enough questions in the process to feel like I knew a thing or two about what I was talking about. Still need to pick up this year's tax forms, so I can see how complicated they are for a separated man such as myself. I've never paid anyone to do my taxes for me before, and I'm not keen to start now. |