Another one bites the dust

Years ago we had a local movie rental place that lasted maybe 2 years and then closed shop and that was it.

Then 5+ years (not sure on the exact time frame)ago Movie Gallery moved into our small local area. Perfect. You could go in, sign up (just by showing an id) and you could rent movies, games, equipment, etc. When hubby and I first started "dating" this was our date night. I would rent a couple of movies and we would proceed to fall asleep in front of the tv.

There were always good selections of the new releases and they were reasonably priced. Plus, there was a good children's section as well as classic movies.

We continued to use our membership as money became tight because we could get a movie, some snacks and have a fun night curled up on the couch watching a movie.

Now, it is closing. Another victim of the financial instability that our state is in, and probably those renting movies by mail memberships.

Of couse, there is another "big chain" movie place about 10 miles from here but to sign up for a membership, they want electric bills, telephone bills, driver's license, ss# and credit card number. Someone had sent me a gift card to the place a few years ago and I went in to check it out and to see about a membership. I didn't get it and I still actually have the gift card.

I know that it isn't just movie rental places. Every place you go there are empty store fronts and going out of business sales. Its sad to see.

I truly hope our state and country economy can turn around.

Feel Good Friday

After a week of questioning 80% of the decisions that I have made in the past few years it was hard to find something that would have made me smile. Sometimes you have to dig for things and other times they just happen to leap right at you.

My feel good Friday story is just something small that happened that made me laugh out loud.

Em's been working on putting 2 word sentences together. She don't have a lot of them yet, but she is working on that. Her favorite one is "Hi baby." She normally does this while she is looking at herself in the mirror or at her reflection in a window.

She waves, smiles and says "hi baby."

Her father has a "ritual" when he comes home at night. He opens the front door just a crack and then knocks. Em runs to the door. Sometimes she opens it and sometimes she slams it shut.

The other night he came home, cracked the door and knocked. Em ran to the door like she normally does. Swung it open as far as she could and yelled "hi baby." It was just extremely funny at the time.

It never fails, this little one can make me smile.

Sleep

I remember what that use to be. I was a great sleeper. Not so much now. Another night where I have been awake since 3 a.m. I lay in bed listening to the hubby snoring and the kiddo snoring and yet my eyes are wide open hoping that it is daylight soon so I can get out of bed and not feel guilty about being up so soon.

I ask myself what wakes me up or keeps me up? Why always around 3 a.m.? When I was pregnant with Em it was 4 a.m. pretty much every morning. That seems to be the time she would wake up and give me a few kicks and body checks into my bladder.

Is it the cats that wake me up?? The kitten runs through here like a madman tormenting my other male cat and all you hear are yowls as he is either biting his tail or his ear.

Is it stress?? That one I am leaning completely towards as I am sure that plays a big part of it.

Ahhhhhhhhh, sleep.