Tsotsi, sore throats, crazy vines, non-communicating bosses, yoga retreats, clocks

B and I went to the movie last night down in Del Mar. It's amazing we actually left the house. We can be such hermits. After an insanely good dinner of Spring Rolls with peanut sauce, we saw the winner of "Best Foreign Film" called "Tsotsi" which means thug in Africaans. It is a movie out of South Africa and is exceedingly good. I highly recommend it. I love movies that present characters that are on the fringes of society, that do awful things, yet we end up caring for in the end. It makes you think about being so quick to judge people upon one aspect of their life. I wonder if you could dissect people to determine the % of good and the % of bad, what the overall average would be. I would reckon somewhere around 65 % good. What do you think? Anyways, I love complex movies like this, and like "Crash." These are movies that transcend the typical battle of "good and evil" which so much of Hollywood depends on. I can't stand the presentation of one dimentional characters as it is not the way it is. Everyone has a good and bad side. Anyway, I really enjoyed it.

It is so beautiful today, but I think I may be coming down with something. I have a sore throat and have a limited store of energy. Saturday morning housework has kept me busy the last couple of hours and now the man is at the library doing school work. I think I am going to attempt to get some of the wild plants back under control... Wish me luck! Will probably wipe me out, but a gal's gotta do what a gal's gotta do.

Work was slow yesterday, didn't make much money at all. Boo. Thursday was fair though. Too bad I broke a cork, not suprising though as the owner of the restaurant almost broke the next bottle's cork, it was so brittle. Believe me, I have lots of experience opening wine bottles (lush that I am) but this one just disintegrated. Too bad it was a 74 dollar bottle of wine, but K wasn't mad so, whew!

I still need another job as my other boss (well I guess former) is incommunicado. Doesn't return my emails asking if he wants me to come into work. Seems silly and sooooooooooo unprofessional. Whatever, as long as he gives me the rest of the money he owes me. I am over that place. Done. I need to go in and get a couple of things but how lame is that? Used to just tell me like a second before I am supposed to work, "Oh, I don't need you today, see you Monday" or something of the like. This is not the way to run a business, nor the way to keep employees. Oh well, it was the most boring job in the world anyway. So, I do need another little part time job for a while until I get this Masters done. Not long now, but I still have the spring and summer where I need to find more work so I can continue paying rent!

One thing that I am super stoked about is that there is going to be a yoga retreat in Idyllwild and I get to go gratis! A woman from yoga is helping out Alison with a yoga retreat in June and I am going to help out in the kitchen. I've always wanted to get to know Alison better but have never had the opportunity. The fellow Washingtonian seems very interesting and her humility is evident. I am very much looking forward to it, I have never been on a yoga retreat before as they have always been out of my financial reach, actually this one is very reasonable which is cool, only 175 for the whole weekend, that is cheaper than I've ever seen. I can't wait til I am teaching and pulling down a decent income. Thank God for B, he pays for so much, without him I would be living on Top Ramen~ San Diego is so hard financially unless you have a career niche, or you work in some lucrative field.

Trying to think of possible future destinations to live, it wouldn't be for awhile, but B and I are getting tired of the traffic and cost of living here. Hmmmm, it is so hard to figure this out for us. We know we want to be somewhere with plenty of opportunity for outdoor exploration, I would appreciate a good yoga teacher, however not sure this will be possible. I also crave a lower cost of living as I want to buy a house eventually.

I asked B the other night what would be the one thing he wanted to do sometime in life, he said "Have a kid." Lucky he can have a kid at any age, I however, need to get cracking. Getting up there and not even hitched yet. Wha la- my insecurities on my sleeve.

Happy Saturday...