A Monday list

I'm tired but I feel like writing SOMETHING. So a list it is! How very Monday of me.

1. I watched the SAG Awards last night, or some of them. I clapped and cheered when The Office won. I miss The Office and all the other shows I watch. Of which there are about three. LOST comes back this week but it seems like it will be foreplay with no finish. Eight episodes?! Come ON. My one question watching those awards was Mickey Rooney. So. He's 87. He's been married to some hot ladies (8 times!). He's been in the movies since he was a kid. But he came out like he was the President Of Hollywood. Which, who am I to say, maybe he is. But when you stand to the left of the podium waiting for people to give you a standing ovation DON'T ACT ALL SURPRISED when they begrudingly get up and do it. And then he introduced his wife in the audience! He was PRESENTING AN AWARD. Ugh. I guess when you have been famous your entire life, you could kind of lose perspective on things.

2. For my mom's birthday I have bought my ticket to Vegas, our Cirque de Soliel tickets, made our hotel reservation. We are staying in a hotel that has tigers. In it. For some reason! Now I am broke! But it will be fun. I am looking forward to the day we spend at the Grand Canyon. I have my new camera, I will take a ton of pictures and be amazed by beauty. Then I will wander around Vegas and be amazed by access. I hadn't thought of a New Years resolution yet but now I have and I think it is HAVE MORE FUN. I want to do more things with the people I love. I have been giving more EVENTS as presents lately. I mean, who needs more crap?!? I would rather do SOMETHING with the people I love than give them A THING they don't need.

3. I've been thinking a lot about Heath Ledger. And, like Wendy said, I am not entirely sure WHY. He's just another actor, right? Just some movie star with a glamourous life that I did not know. I guess it is because he seemed sort of normal. He seemed to be a guy trying to live his life and do it the best way he could. And he was a talented guy who loved his daughter and had trouble sleeping... he was just having another day. Then he laid down and didn't get up. And that was that. Life is so short. You just don't know when your time will be up.

4. January. God, January. You really rip my heart out and make my brain hurt. Every year I forget how shitty you are and then you come back, even worse than before. Thank God you are almost done now. I will not miss you.

5. On the last day of January my pal Ellery will be twelve years old. I cannot believe it. As The Dude says, time is relentless. You can't stop it. And now my sweet little guy is 12. Happy Birthday, my sweetest.