Happy Monday

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Movie laughs

My sister and I were watching this movie the other night called I Can't Think Straight. It is a lovely independent lesbian film. It is about an Indian woman who falls in love with a Middle Eastern women. The women were beautiful and it was a great storyline also. I love when movies mix cultural differences with the whole "coming out" experience. The reason I am bringing this up because there was this one part in the movie that i couldn't stop laughing at. It was so hilarious that i had to keep rewinding it to play it over and over again. I guess I needed a good laugh. So anyway the Indian daughter has just told her mom she is gay and the mom is freaking out. In walks dad.......he asks what the problem is. Mom is still freaking out she can't say anything. The daughter turns to her dad and says......i am gay. The dad then says......"but I have only been gone 2 hours!" It was just so funny but I guess maybe you have to see it to find the humor in it.

On a side note to this I find it interesting that it was the dad who handled the news much better than the mom. In my personal case it was the same. My dad was always hard on me and more than anything I never wanted to let my parents down....especially my dad. When I came out i told my mom a couple months before my dad and although she didn't freak out it bothered her. I was so scared to tell my dad but when I did he said he already knew. He wasn't stupid, he picks up on things. My dad has seemed to accept me being a lesbian but my mom still thinks it is a phase. I am still surprised at that. After this last breakup my mom even said now maybe i can forget all this non sense. I know she just wants whats best for me. And my mom was very happy when i was with Lisa. She really liked her. I just wish she could understand that this is who I am...the way i was made and it is not a phase.

Quote for today

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Had a good laugh last night. I told my son that he needed to wear green tomorrow to school since he is part Irish. He looked at me and his mouth fell open. He looked at me and said...."I'm part Irish?" I told him I was so then of course he was too. And then I proceeded to tell him he had German in him, with which he made sure we didn't have anything to do with the Natzis. I assured him we didn't...lol. He was just so shocked to find out he had such mixed blood. After the initial shock wore off he was feeling pretty cool that he was part of all these different cultures and was looking forward to telling all of his friends at school today. I love these moments with my son.

Absent

I know I have been away from blogging for about a year now. Life has definitely been busy in the past year. I had a wonderful relationship with Lisa who I thought was the one for me. I have many great memories that I will treasure forever. But like most things in my life that ended suddenly and without warning. So, my life was turned upside down and now I am trying to get back on track. I wish I could turn back time and change mistakes I made or do anything I could to have saved my relationship but unfortunately all I can do is move forward. So my blogs to come will be about my life moving forward and I am going to try not to dwell much on the past. I would like my blog to be about the good things going on in my life and discuss things important to me. Lets have some fun.

Lets try this again

I have been tossing the idea around in my head to start blogging again. I guess I will give it a try again.

Lovely Weekend

Lets bring everyone up to current time. In my last post I was about to go on a trip with Lisa. Well, we did and we had a very lovely time. As a result of the trip we decided to give dating a try. Well, it has been a month and it is going well. I got some money back from my taxes and I decided to show Lisa a good time in the City Saturday night. I got us a room at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. I made dinner reservations at Bin 36. Dinner was wonderful. The food was great and the wine flights were pretty good too. It seemed to be the perfect restaurant for Lisa and I. We then went and saw "Rubbed" the musical. It was pretty funny. After stopping at starbucks for some coffee we headed back to our room on the 33rd floor of the Hyatt. The room was very lovely. When we got back to our room I gave Lisa a card and gift. I bought her a pink saphire and diamond ring. She loves rings and it seemed like the perfect gift. After sleeping in today we went for brunch at Bar louie and now we are back at her place. It was so nice to get away......even if it was for just 24hours.