all you need is love...

i'm listening to the rain outside my window right now.  i love it.  there's something nostalgic about it. 

today was one of those blah days. you know the kind...not bad, not good, just blah. i didn't get much accomplished. i think i need to find a good place to go where i can get work done...a nice coffee shop with free internet. i don't do well with the whole working at home thing. i get too antsy.

i saw "across the universe" today. then i walked around downtown, before coming back home and watching more episodes of "grey's anatomy." i hate to sound pathetic, but there's something to say about good movies or television when you're going through a shitty time. huh, i just thought about reel angels as i was typing that. makes me believe in my own mission statement even more...escaping through the magic of movies. just had one of those "a-ha" moments :)

back to the movie...it really was amazing. brilliant, actually. i had a complete emotional experience throughout the course of the film and its wonderful characters. a brief summary, for those who don't know anything about it, goes like this: jude, a dock worker in liverpool, travels to america in the 1960s to find his estranged father. there he falls in love with an american teenager, lucy. when her brother (and jude's new best friend), max, is drafted to fight in the vietnam war, lucy becomes involved in peace activism, which ultimately tears her and jude apart. it's an original musical film, set to many beatles songs that defined that time period. it's a fictional, but beautiful love story. and i just would definitely recommend it to anyone that likes films like "big fish" and "moulin rouge."

as far as my blah day, i think we all need blah days every once in a while. i struggle with not feeling productive, but that's something i just need to let go of on occasion. note to self: learn to embrace blah days.