Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Men are from Mars

I just watched this movie all by myself. Cried almost the whole way through the last half of the movie. What a movie. About so many things all at once.

You should watch it; read it. It's good. Makes you think about things differently and for me, made me take a look at how I handle things. --- Plus as a bonus, there were tons of scenes of Greece (a Greek island) in the movie. Brings back such memories for me. When I was little, I remember swimming in the ocean, both at the beaches and also by cliffs. I remember jumping off cliffs with my then gymnastics teacher watching my sister and I. There was this cove/cliff that we'd go to, the water was a deep bluish green and we'd climb down the rocks (my God looking back, I'm sure that was dangerous) and jump from a height that we felt safe with. I'm so digressing from the movie here but one time, we were at that place and my babysitter/gymnastics teacher let me use her mask. I remember she said to me to be careful, it was expensive, not to drop it in the water. --A couple of minutes later, I had taken it off my head, treading water, I needed to rinse it out so I held it in my right hand with my arm down by my side and I swished upward to clean it off and I let it go from my hand. It started to float down and when I looked down, it was deep, there was no sand anywhere near, only rocks. My heart stopped. I instinctively dove down and grabbed it tight before the weight of the mask made it sink further. That memory is engrained in my head. I think of that memory when I see the beaches or white buildings on a Greek island. We were so little yet we were doing things lots of other kids our ages had never done, and it was all normal for us. I guess that's what being a military brat gets you. Experiences that shape and mold your life.

Back to the movie-check it out. It's good. My husband would never have watched it. He just called, I told him I watched it, he said, "I've never heard of it". Exactly. Ten points for me. Ha. If men were open enough to watch a movie that didn't have blood guts and hyper violence in it, they might just enjoy movies that make you think and feel. Sorry to stereotype but seriously, he would have fallen asleep and I was riveted to the screen. Hence the title, Men are from Mars....

Bladau

Jenn