Such a good feeling

So it is a little over two weeks until I start my new job. I spoke to my boss on the phone today and she sounded so excited to have me back at Mainland Manor. I'll admit before today I was a little nervous about starting up again and hoping I would remember all of the things I knew last year, but now I am just excited!!!! Having this time off was fun when everyone was home with me, but now that people have gone back to school or started work I will admit it has gotten a little dull. I'm sure in a few months I will be begging for a few days of dullness, but right now I am so ready to rock and start things up.
While things have been a little slow this past month they have also been pretty amazing. My personal life is in a really good place for the first time in a really long time and I feel so much closer to my family since I've been spending a lot of time with them recently. I think my relationship with my Dad has gotten a lot closer over the past few weeks. He is one of the funniest people I know and I think I get my sense of humor from him. The two of us have been having lots of little adventures the past few weeks since we are the only ones home during the day. Trips to the supermarket are never boring when we are involved! Cooking is one of the things I have been focusing on a lot while I've been off. It started out as a way to take some of the burden off Mag and keeping Jack and I from starving, but it turned into a really fun project. I so far have made a few really good dinners and I am working on building a small collection of meals that I am good at so one day I will be able to cook for myself or my own family.
In other news, next week is Mag's birthday and we ordered her a Coach bag. She has always said she wanted one but has never been willing to get it for herself. We ordered a basic black leather one and I really hope she likes it! I think she will be very surprised!!!
In conclusion, I mentioned in a previous blog that I was starting Netflix and it has gone really well so far. Having a movie to watch every few days has been a nice way to pass the time. I've also been going to movies quite a bit recently. Since I've seen a few I figured I would give my opinions on them so anyone who reads this will know if certain films are worth going to see/ renting....
I saw Slumdog Millionaire and it was amazing!!!! Definitely worth paying to go see and I really hope it wins best picture because it is a very unique film! I also saw Valkyrie which was very good as well. Since Tom Cruise had been kind of sucking recently he definitely redeemed himself in my opinion. As far as my Netflix movies I've seen Stop Loss, Stepbrothers, and American Teen. Stop Loss was an MTV documentary and was very good and definitely worth a rental. Step Brothers was a total waste of a rental because the only funny parts were on the commercials, while I do love Will Ferrel and his song at the end I don't think I would sit through it again. American Teen was a random documentary I came across during the trailers for Stop Loss so I rented it. It was about a group of teens in Indiana. It was kinda similar to an episode of True Life on MTV and it was pretty good. I would say worth a rental if you like True Life. So these are my movie reviews....more to come later = )