Here Comes the Sun...

I felt a little better today, in large part due to the return of the sun to Grand Rapids. But even as I sat in a meeting this afternoon gazing out at the sun sparkling off the sem pond and the snow I thought, "Oh, it's so beautiful. When I get home I should take Mel--". Then I blinked back tears while trying to follow along with the meeting.

I have those starts of realization at least once a day. And all the things I used to do to get through hard times are gone: Take Meli for a walk. Go hiking with Meli. Cry into Meli's fur. So I stumble around the house not quite sure what to do with myself. My temptation is to replace the above coping skills with these: drink more gluten-free beer. watch more television. rent another movie. surf the net for old clips of The Colbert Report.

Not the healthiest choices. But they do allow me to tell you the following:

• Redbridge is the best of the gluten free beers I have tried.
• Waitress is a horrible movie and if you see someone with it at the video store you should slap it out of their hands.
• Ugly Betty is uneven--the story about her is okay but the back story about the family business is comic-book-esque and silly. I watched the first few episodes on DVD. The pilot was like a junior version of The Devil Wears Prada without Meryl Streep and Meryl Streep owned that movie.
  
• Nofactzone.net is the best Colbert site on the web. They are also covering the writers' strike well right now.
• Indecision 2004 Disc 3 covers Election Night 2004, the night when many states banned gay marriage. Kentucky banned it by by 92%, leading Jon Stewart to say, "Yeah, in Kentucky now you can't even look at a dude."
  

All of this: a word to the wise, people.