Happy Birthday To You...

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, Dear Heather
Happy Birthday ...To...You....

What's funny is that I remember starting one of my independent blogs, via iWeb, on my Sister's Birthday as well. For some reason my life cycle starts in the fall. I don't really feel like New Years, Spring, or anything that symbolizes "life starting" as the beginning of my year. It takes an entire year to die for me to feel like "2008: I'm ready for you!"

I supposed it could be the fact that our academic lives are geared to start off like that. Daylight Saving's Time and the leaves changing means that it's time to start the year. Bright eyed and bushy tailed. So here I go... one more year in the books...

"I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything..." ~Choke

It's rare in a person's life when they read a book that has only a cult following, and a couple years a later they turn it into a major motion picture. I mean, sure, we've all watched movies and had some arrogant friend spout off about how the book was better. Or, we've had our Davinci Code and Harry Potter experiences when everyone in the world is telling us to "READ THE BOOKS" before the movies come out and ruin them. But, to read a book and love it, never expecting to really see it on the big screen, then all of a sudden you walk out of a theatre and BOOM, your life's inspiration on a movie board....it's really quite a feeling...

Choke came out on Friday. My favorite book I've read is a Movie. This book came to me at a really low place in my life, and the sarcasm and satyr just really hit home. A lot of people don't agree with me, a lot of people thought it was waste of time.... but at the time I read it... I needed it....

Jason said he'd come into down and see the movie with me, but I think that I should enjoy the movie like I enjoyed the book: Alone. I read the book in about 40 hours in the summer of 2006 and loved it. It'd be a shame if I hated the movie and hyped it up just to look over at my guest and apologize for wasting their money. We'll see how the week goes....

Cynthia and Jason made blogs this past week. They both share the same love/hate with blogging. I've only tried to bring out the love in it, with them... both of them have things to vent and blogging is really the best way... I like it because I lay everything out there and if my friends care, they can read it. If they don't...well then I don't care....

Happy Birthday, Heather. Sorry I didn't see you today... or yesterday.....