Back in the Saddle

Hi friends,

I took an unintentional hiatus from writing last month, along with a longer unintentional hiatus from movie-watching.  I'm not happy about this slow-down and of course the perfectionist still lurking within me is very annoyed about breaking my post-per-month writing streak, especially relatively late in the year.  

As always, there are multiple contributing factors.  The first and most obvious is that the weekend coverage I've become so reliant on for quality solo time became less consistent, with our first beloved babysitter graduating from grad school and our second successfully landing a full-time job sooner than expected, followed by a few possibilities for coverage that fell through.  

Another is that my oldest child also started Kindergarten this year, which has been a huge and thankfully very positive transition, yet still huge.  

Then, on the first day I finally regained weekend coverage, it had been long enough since I had time to myself that it took me a little bit to mentally reorganize around how I'd like to use that time then commit to what to do with it.  I considered writing, but didn't have much to say given the unintentional movie break. Ultimately I settled into a really pleasant low-effort creative activity instead.

But today, I'm taking the bull squarely by the horns.  I will shortly disembark to watch:

It's almost three hours long.  It has some not-my-favorite and outright problematic men in it.  I am therefore somewhat ambivalent about this choice, and I recognize I may deeply regret this decision.  But here we go.

Wish me luck, I guess?

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