I am back from the hole I've been living in.

I can dive deeper into this topic at a later date, but for now, so as not to prolong my absence any more, I will report that my surgery went well. My stay/recovery in the hospital went...not so well. In fact, it was pretty miserable. But, nearly 6 weeks later, I have come out of the pain, depression and exhaustion this whole experience has caused me. While I am still trying to climb the ladder back to 100% recovery, I am doing much better than I was before. I'm still experiencing pain in my ribs and back, but I don't scream and cry every time I laugh or hiccup anymore. Coughing and sneezing still hurts, and surprisingly coughing hurts the worst these days. I am still pretty convinced that I have a broken rib somewhere in here, even though they assured me at my follow-up appointment that I did not. Here's to one day swimming, running and sleeping in a chair. More later.

Needless to say, I've had a lot of time to catch up on movies and books. I'm currently reading "Eat, Pray, Love" and I adore it! I can't wait to see the movie! I need to catch up on my Netflix list, but I have been frequenting the theaters lately. I saw Ramona and Beezus with Alex the other day, and it was ADORABLE. I'll probably go see it again with my mom. I wouldn't recommend this movie to any of my film school friends, 'cause they'd probably laugh at me, but to everyone else, I'd give it a two thumbs up! It made me laugh, it made me cry, it's everything I want in a movie. And it helped that everyone in the movie was SO freakin' cute!! Ramona was cast perfectly :) Some might recognize the ADORABLE Joey King from Quarantine, (also starring my "celebrity twin" Jennifer Carpenter), haha.

Yesterday I went to see a double feature with Momz and Alex. First, we saw Salt. WOW! I liked it so much. Angelina is such a BA, and this movie kept me thinking and second-guessing myself the entire time. I don't want to give anything away for those who haven't seen it, but there is a reason why, when I think "tough female lead in an action/adventure movie", I think Angelina Jolie. Then we saw The Kids Are All Right. This film was refreshing and original, funny and endearing, Mark Ruffalo is a hottie, but I still can't decide whether or not I'm completely satisfied with the ending. (For the record, Alex wasn't satisfied with the ending of Salt either, but I was okay with that one, haha).