The Adventures of Mrs.Movie Snob

A crazy thing happened on my 30th birthday - I had my first unexplained pain. I'm serious. It was amazing. Like my body was trying to tell me "You're OFFICIALLY not a kid anymore." I know I'm not old...far from it. And, generally, I'm in good health and feel pretty good. But, after 30+ years of use even the most efficient  machine is going to show some wear and tear. It will need some special maintenance and extra love. Geez, I sound like a used car. Matt and I were discussing this the other night. He turned to me as we were watching television and said, "have you noticed it's harder to get comfortable?" Yes, I have. Those positions that used to bring me such lazy joy now seem like they are designed to kill me. My favorite sleep position, for example, used to be laying on my tummy with my hands under the pillow. Today, my arms go to sleep and I wake up with pins and needles. Not to mention a "crick" in my neck. lol Oh, the "cri...

Today, I made the mistake of googling "Austin, Tx. forecast." 67 degrees in January. That's kind of a hard pill to swallow as I stare out my window onto an endlessly white landscape....correction: a dim and endlessly white landscape. Yep, it's 4:40 and we're losing the sun for the day. Someone tell me how I'm supposed to stay motivated to do anything? (Someone tell me how I'm supposed to keep my plants alive?!) Today, I am S.A.D. Luckily, it's supposed to be sunny for the rest of the week. We could all use a little Vitamin D. The girl staring back at me in the mirror is a little less Mexican than she used to be. lol And, I almost lose poor Matthew when we go outside. (jk) Somehow, Isabel seems to be completely unfazed by the drop in temperature. She's a bit confused as to why she has to put on another set of clothes before we leave but that's about it. She's still itching to get outside any chance she gets. I think there's a lesson ...

A few days ago, I glanced out our front window to find Matt shoveling the driveway. The mother in me immediately noticed he wasn't wearing a hat. So, being the good wife that I am, I bundled myself up and took it to him. "No thanks." he said flatly. "But it's freezing!" I cried. "I'm good." Wtf? A few minutes later, he came in, "You know, it's really not that bad out today." "It's 18 degrees." I informed him. "Really?!" And with that, we realized something extraordinary. We are adapting to the winter. This is quite the contrast to our first winter in Ottawa. Around mid-November, when the temperature here is comparable to a typical Austin, Tx. winter day, 2009 found us in hats, gloves, long johns - the full get-up. We got many funny looks. Our friends warnings - "This is nothing!" - were met with scoffs. Surely, it couldn't get that much colder. Right? For the record, it does and we...