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tvordljI have a cold. Stuffy head, watery eyes mainly. A bit of a scratchy throat. It's just a cold though, nothing worse and knock on wood, it'll just stay that way.
My days are all off this week. I think because we had two days off, i kept thinking that Sunday was Monday and i've been off a day all week. I'm still not entirely convinced today isn't Wednesday. Sunday i went to the gym, then met a friend for coffee and presents and then we went out later on to a movie. We saw It's Complicated which Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin and it was really good! It was quite funny with lots of laughs yet it wasn't a stupid silly comedy. It was about a divorced couple, Jane and Jake, who have an affair with each other after 10 years apart. They share three adult children, the last of whom is just leaving the nest. Jake has already remarried and has a step son and his young wife wants more kids so they're going through fertility treatments. Jane owns a successful bakery and she's going to get an addition put on her house for a large kitchen and fancy bedroom over it. The architect for that is Steve Martin and he's getting over a recent divorce.
They really like each other but this affair with her ex, which she knows is wrong, is occupying her more. The sex is better than it used to be, the sneaking around is exciting and yet this new man in her life, Steve Martin, seems to be "the one" and he is falling for her, not knowing about the affair. The comedy isn't silly or juvenile, it's very grown up, the situations, the jokes, the writing and the acting are all perfect. Even the three people cast as the grown up children are quite good as is the fiance of the older daughter who gets caught in the middle. In fact, that character, Harley, is one of the funnier ones. You don't often see Meryl in a movie where she gets to play comedy, though she's done so earlier this year as well in Julie and Julia. That was overshadowed by her impersonaltion of Julia Childs, however. In this, she's a middle aged woman, worried about her aging looks, hanging out with her female friends, clucking over her kids and tolerating her ex. The affair comes out of nowhere, and seems to be more about "what if" than a "go forward" thing. Jake is the past, we can all see that, and Jane needs to find a way to look to the future.
My days are all off this week. I think because we had two days off, i kept thinking that Sunday was Monday and i've been off a day all week. I'm still not entirely convinced today isn't Wednesday. Sunday i went to the gym, then met a friend for coffee and presents and then we went out later on to a movie. We saw It's Complicated which Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin and it was really good! It was quite funny with lots of laughs yet it wasn't a stupid silly comedy. It was about a divorced couple, Jane and Jake, who have an affair with each other after 10 years apart. They share three adult children, the last of whom is just leaving the nest. Jake has already remarried and has a step son and his young wife wants more kids so they're going through fertility treatments. Jane owns a successful bakery and she's going to get an addition put on her house for a large kitchen and fancy bedroom over it. The architect for that is Steve Martin and he's getting over a recent divorce.
They really like each other but this affair with her ex, which she knows is wrong, is occupying her more. The sex is better than it used to be, the sneaking around is exciting and yet this new man in her life, Steve Martin, seems to be "the one" and he is falling for her, not knowing about the affair. The comedy isn't silly or juvenile, it's very grown up, the situations, the jokes, the writing and the acting are all perfect. Even the three people cast as the grown up children are quite good as is the fiance of the older daughter who gets caught in the middle. In fact, that character, Harley, is one of the funnier ones. You don't often see Meryl in a movie where she gets to play comedy, though she's done so earlier this year as well in Julie and Julia. That was overshadowed by her impersonaltion of Julia Childs, however. In this, she's a middle aged woman, worried about her aging looks, hanging out with her female friends, clucking over her kids and tolerating her ex. The affair comes out of nowhere, and seems to be more about "what if" than a "go forward" thing. Jake is the past, we can all see that, and Jane needs to find a way to look to the future.
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