New Year's Way
Stay out of the fray. A battle avoided is a battle won about now, and those who hold themselves in reserve will be in a better position to move when the rest are played out. If there is another lesson here, it is to look at yourself and ask where your own anger lies that might push you into rash actions. When you understand that, you may find the one roiling the waves is you - and that's easily fixed.
The first day of this potentially stellar year was just the ticket. I did not speak to a soul - apart from a brief "hi" to one of my friends as I slunk out of his house first thing this morning - and set a new couch potato record by watching five movies, one after the other and only briefly interrupted by hydration and food breaks. It was bliss! I laughed, I cried, I was completely and utterly immersed in the celluloid world ... and better yet, all of the films proved excellent choices.
The day started with a great arthouse flick called Eating Out, which was packed with the most scrumptious looking gay boys I have seen for a while (cue lazy and hopeless fantasising) which was followed swiftly with Me, You and Everyone we Know - cute and quirky, if a little slow. Then it was onto Match Point, a sexy little drama starring the frustrating but delectable Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson (that woman would make any man go weak at the knees, I suspect). Next it was Hard Candy, my least favourite of the day's choices but still a fairly slick number with cute-but-psychotic teenager plotline and a bit of attempted castration to boot - a bit sick and twisted and slightly tedious in places, all up. And finally, the tears flowed during In America, a gorgeous tale about a gorgeous family of Irish migrants who end up in New York and charm the knickers off all their psychotic neighbours. Delightful.
The best part of all was that I did this all blessedly, quietly, peacefully alone, eating food I liked, taking up all the room on the sofa and being completely in charge of the remote control. I have enjoyed the past few days of hermitude far, far too much but have really found it the best way to re-group, reassess, and charge up for the crazy second half of the week that looms terribly close. In fact, I don't really care if I don't see anyone tomorrow either!