Blue Valentine

The play yesterday was depressing and dark. We woke up to a rainy, cloudy, uninviting day, perfect for a movie after my morning yoga class. Blue Valentine is another depressing and dark picture of a deteriorating marriage. Oops. Not what I needed on a dreary Saturday. But I do love going to the Charles theatre night or day, and the previews are often more interesting than the movie. I am trying to get to all the Oscar nominated movies before the Oscars. It was easy in Quito, where copies of all movies were out once they hit the movie screens. I saw everything while in Ecuador, of course all the movies were in Spanish, but that was fine with me. It is more difficult here in Baltimore, because many of the more obscure and foreign films will not get here unless they do win Oscars.

When I picked Maya up from Peabody (where she had a fairly good day despite her finger being in a splint and in pain), we all drove the interminable trip to Ikea to find furniture for Maya. We have been talking for a time about getting Tara's room to be Maya's, and choosing colours and decorating to Maya's taste. Ikea was entertaining, but Maya found only a few small items. The best part was the restaurant, where we ate dinner for $3.99 each, and then I spent more on food items in the grocery section than we did in the furniture part of the store. Smoked salmon and Swedish meatballs and pancakes will be on the menu at home in the next week.

Eric put the chairs and table together, and Maya reorganized her room, but then she came down to sleep with us, so I am wondering what else I need to do to get her in her room in her own bed.