Am I lonely ??

I know this sounds like a question I should be asking myself, but let throw a few ideas out and see if they stick, maybe typing them out will clear things up.

Friends?? NOPE .... yes I've got them, a small circle, but do I have enough?? I think the real question is why isn't my circle any bigger? What happened to my high school friends? What about college people?? Work friends??

Well, let me tell you, I'm pretty happy when it comes to my friendships, the circle has proven to be a little loose, everybody is a married with children. That really throws a curve when planning anything, and it's just easier to do things by myself. Sure I'd love to be a Father's, hanging out, drinking bear, and taking my cheese OFF the pizza because it's OOOhh soo good that way:), but I realize I'm not 25 anymore and things do change over time. I've also said I'd go to the wall for my friends, and that might be even more true now that I'm the single guy and they've got kids.

As for high school friends, I was a bit of a floater, always running around taking photos and making good with everybody, but making very few friends I would hang out with after high school was over. I also spent most of my free time outside of school playing tennis with Cathy and Sean , working at A&P, and pretty much keeping to myself. I know some people would think of me as anything but quiet, but that was the truth until I started working at the Markham Economist and Sun as a freelance photographer, and when I went to college I really had some fun for a while:)

In college, other than the first few months of fun, I spent my time learning at and driving to and from school, it wasn't a social thing for me, I had my girlfriends in College, a few drunken nights, but I was more interested in dating outside of school ..... 22 minutes from Ballantrae to 404 and Finch .... but that's another story. It just works out that I never put myself out there to make long term friendships.

As for work, other than Ray, a 60+ year old guy and his kids, everybody I work with on nights could be considered "interesting", even a little antisocial, and pretty quiet, but for some reason Ray and I just get along. I've also got other friends, but none I hang around with on an even semi regular basis, and a few that I've lost touch with after being on nights for years.

NOW the real reason for this post, every now and then I get a little melancholy , a little blue, but it has little to do with friendships, it's more to do with being single and maybe even a little about not having children. Now let me tell you this "feeling" is very rare, but I felt it today. After dropping out of camping because of the weather I decided to head to Port Perry late in the day and caught myself just sitting in my car listening to the Sirius and flipping the stations, I ended up on the "Sirius Love" music channel, and that's when my melancholy set it. It's really hard to sit by the lake with the sun slowly going down beside you watching beautiful loving families playing by the lake. Boy o boy can that make you blue!

I'm sure the mood will pass quickly, but just every now a then, Goo, would like a wife and kids.

Yep, I said it:)

Goo

I sure do hope the mood passes quickly, or I'll never hear the end of it.

This just could be the movie of the year

YES, I just said it, and before I tell you what it is, I want to tell you a story. It's a story of a group of soldiers during the second world war, very well trained, very driven, and ordered by their commander to kill and scalp 100 Nazi's EACH! what makes this story more interesting is that all of the elite soldiers are Jewish. Sure this is a bit of a fantasy since a huge % of Jewish people were wiped out by that Hitler guy, but what person in their right mind wouldn't want to see some retribution, and a better end than we got(which means lots of people saved from that maniac and his friends)?

OK so The movie I'm talking about is from director Quentin Tarantino, and it's called

Inglourious Basterds

.........................92% ........................YEP .............................92 ..........%

Now if it wasn't for a slightly long run time, due to some very "talky" parts(as is typical in a Q.T. movie), it would have rated a point or 2 higher.

So you know the basics of the story and what I'll say is Brad PItt is really overacting here, but it's perfect for the role, Eli Roth is great, but Diane Kruger is let down in a role that could have been better ended up being more of a throw away than anything else.

To be honest though, this is a movie made for 2 people, and they are Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus, a "Jew" that changes her identity after a run in with Col. Hans Landa early in the movie, that is next seen running a theatre in France, she is Enthralling, captivating, motivated, and pretty hot to boot. The second person is Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa, and he's the reason to see this movie, sure the movie is well scripted, well acted and a hell of a lot of fun, but Cristoph Waltz adds so much to this movie that anybody else cast is his role would have been a HUUUUUgge Disappointment, he funny, bright, engaging, and charismatic as a "Jew Sniffer", hired by Hitler to hunt down all of the Jews left hiding in Nazi occupied France.

Fantastic, check it out, and don't be suprised if you come out thinking that this is Q.T's best flick EVER, I'm certainly thinking that.

Goo

Finally good news ... An old (er) lady gets deported!

OK, that may sound really cold, but a small victory, over these people that decide they don't need to follow proper procedures to become a citizen, is still a victory.

I'll make this short and simple, She came to Canada and simply overstayed her visitors visa, and after multiple attempts to win a reprieve she didn't get one:)

Now don't think me completely cold hearted when I tell you she's also blind .....oy vey(sp?)

I know, "Goo, how could you do that to a old blind lady"?? Well let me tell you it's not simply the fact that she overstayed her visitors visa, it's also the fact that, from what I can tell, she knowingly overstayed her welcome, it was years before she attempted to become a citizen, you also have to factor the draw she will be on Canada's services, while offering little in return, remember she's a 69 year old woman.

What's you opinion, am I cold hearted?

Goo