A couple things, and I'm going out of order.

I just watched Rachel Getting Married. Difficult, watching the dysfunctional family dramas especially revolving mother-daughter issues and completely justifiable mutual angst. This one is worth the tension in the pit of my stomach and the clenching of my jaw. Princess Diaries Hathaway, I must say, is blowing me away lately. In this and in Brokeback Mountain she does amazing things. And the script does amazing things. Hath plays a messed up drug addict who, at the age of 16, accidentally caused her baby brother's death. She plays all of it super well, especially the selfishness that is laced most heavily with self-loathing. And the selfishness almost clouds everything until she makes an assertion that is most accurate and astute, in my parental opinion, and which drives her mother to punch her in the mouth. It's a fantastic scene. I wanted to see Hathaway go full throttle UFC on the bitch, but the director took it in another direction. Which is probably a good thing.

I read a new Dennis Lehane yesterday, and it was awesome and I'm totally excited about it because Scorsese is gonna direct Leo in the film version and it's called Shutter Island so keep your eyes and ears open - I think it will be another master work. Lehane tends to translate very well into film.

I COOKED SO MUCH THIS WEEKEND. It felt good, too. Cooking is one of the things that keeps me rooted to the real world, makes me feel like I know how to use my hands and body productively.

The Menu:

Beef Stroganoff
Chili w/ ground beef
Beans (used the last of my stash for the chili - and may the gods bless my crockpot w/ eternal life and love)
Peach Freezer Jam
Homemade Mac and Cheese
Yellow Cupcakes w/ Scratch Chocolate Frosting (which I made last weekend for the little voice in my head and the munchkin alliance but I didn't actually try until this weekend so I'm counting them on this list and they were unbelievably good and I'm not patting myself on the back because I would say that about anyone's glorious cupcakes not just mine)

I was hungry. I'm actually still hungry.