Just saw The Hours with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore & Meryl Streep - WOW !!!! It's a film that deserves an academy or six! Brilliantly acted, and with such an amazing story all woven together so beautifully. It's so hard to recognize Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, but there were moments of text that I thought I was listening to her in The Others.

Tommorrow we have a creek cleanup, so I'm going to head to bed with the thoughts of The Hours wandering through my mind.

WOW! After what seemed like three hours, I'm full. We just helped celebrate a birthday with a friend of ours and the venue was a Japanese Hibachi bar. The “show” was awesome, and the food unbelievably good

The Advocate has a very cute boy on the front of the February 4 edition, and he's a ballet dancer (Marcelo Gomes) … one can only wonder what that would be like *smirk*

Finally got my classes sorted out, and I'm enjoying Yoga. I managed to enrol in an English course (online) and I'm feeling really good about my workload for this semester. I've got a professor that I'm not thrilled with for one class, and he's already starting to show how pompous he can be - let's hope I survive.

I was appointed to the HOA Board this week, after one of the elected members decided to stand down. I'm still not overly happy with the treatment that I received at the annual meeting by some of the former board members, but thankfully a number of neighbors have been very supportive and now understand the issue with the previous board and myself - so I think it ended up being a good thing. Tomorrow we sort out the positions, and I'm hopeful that I will convince my fellow board members that I would serve as a great president - fingers crossed.

I figured that it was time to move my journal to “friend” status. Some of my future posts are not going to be made public given the content, and even though I'll post publicly every now and then, if you want the “dirt” you'll have to get listed as a friend. So shoot me a message to be added now!

Well I can't believe it. The college has cancelled the only techincal class I have left on my degree plan for this semester, and because of the late notice, I am having trouble getting into other classes. The degree program coordinator is working with me, but it's frustrating right now, as today classes start, and I currenlty only have 10 credit hours of classes and I'm meant to have at least 12. Looks like I'll be taking some basic courses, which will benefit me if I transfer.

Saw Catch Me If You Can today. It's the new Tom Hanks / Leo DiCapprio film. Have to say that I thought it was a little slow and repetative, though I was still feeling ill, so this may have had something to do with it. It was enjoyable, don't get me wrong - but it seemed to focus on the same storyline repeated 2-3 times. Frankly, I thought the most interesting part of the film was the ending “bits of information” which tells us what “Frank” is up to now, and what he has done since that film ended.

Enjoyed a coffee on the way home… tried the new Toffee Latte from Starbucks. I think I will stick to my normal coffee selection. It was nice to have a coffee