Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Horror Film Help

Hello kittens!! Halloween is fast approaching and it is one of my holidays next to Christmas. So that said, I need some help if anyone out there in the blogger world can possibly help me. A couple of years ago I saw a movie on TCM that I loved!
It was a very old film, I would guess from the 30's or early 40's. The storyline was this couple who bought a manor house located on a cliff in England. After they bought the house they learned that the previous occupant had killed herself or died of grief after her child died. I think the kid fell off the cliff but I can't remember. Anyway, the spirit of the woman haunted the house until the new owners figured out what happened and set the spirit free. For the time it was made, the special effects were great, and the story really sold the movie. I really would like to see it again, but I don't know what it was called and haven't been able to find it anywhere online. Help anyone?

Monday, October 18, 2010

Heartbreaker

Hello kittens! How have you all been during this gorgeous week that we've had here in central Ohio? I've enjoyed the weather, warm days with nice cool nights perfect for a hot apple cider with rum and snuggling under a blanket with a good book.
Last Monday was also National Coming Out Day. I made a post on Facebook about my support for all the issues affecting the Gay community. Then came Tuesday. I'm sitting at work when I check my Blackberry and find I have a text form my mother. It reads;
" Just how am I supposed to react to your anouncement on your facebook? Well this is how I feel very disgusted and I do not like it I do not support it. You were not raised that way. You are making me sick just thinking about it. And if you continue to be that way then you will have to get you a place to live because I'm thinking of disowning you I can not believe you. It's shameful. I do not want to talk to you until you straighten up."
I replied, "What are you talking about?"
To which she replied, "About opening up and saying you are a gay man."
Me, "Seriously? Disown me? You're being ridiculous."
Her, " No I am not you need to get that shit out of your mind now why did you post it it is sickening."
So when I came back from work I honored her request and warmed up a can of soup for dinner and spent the rest of the night in my room so I wouldn't shame her. Since then she's been talking to me, but only to make passive aggressive remarks. She told me I did nothing except "cause her heartache" and she looks at me with this mixture of hatred, shame, and disapointment.
Quite frankly, it pisses me off. I don't expect her to be all supportive and don rainbow themed clothes and march in a parade but I would like just a little support. Or if that's too much, then simply nothing. No acknowledgement, no dirty looks, no passive aggressive comments, just nothing.  I can handle "nothing" better than being told I'm sickening and there is something wrong with me.  So I have another chapter in the story of my uneasy relationship with my family. It's never been a great one, they don't understand me, think I'm weird because I read books and attend live theater and I'm a Democrat and they find me very strange and just don't understand me. I've grown accustomed to fact that I'm never going to have the great family relationship you see in movies or on tv or even in other families. I'm never going to have June Cleaver( RIP Barbara Billingsley) for a mother, or even a nice accepting woman for a mother. I can't change who she is, I can't make her give up her bigotry or her hatred, no matter how hard I try. I just can't do it.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Lost homojo

Good evening kittens! Over the past several weeks I've come to the conclusion that I need a new Fairy Princess. No, not to replace my old one but to supplement her. I love my Kristy to death, but we've been drifting apart for some time now. It's nothing major, we didn't have some huge fight, there wasn't some gross act of disrespect, we've just moved in different directions in our lives. She has gotten married to a wonderful man, she has a kid, a job. I'm happily single, no kids, but I do have a job!! Yay for that one! Our interests have shifted since we met five years ago. We no longer have the fun shopping trips together, making fun of poorly dressed people in the mall and ogling cute boys. We used to talk every day, no matter what, now days can pass with out a word from either camp. I'm interested in drinks at happy hour, Showtunes on a Sunday night, window shopping at the mall. While I love the child and husband that my Princess comes with, I find myself wishing that they weren't always around. I don't want to feel this way, but I can't help it. We've lost our homojo. That spark that made us "US" is gone. I don't know how to get it back, if we even can. I'm curious if any of you have had a similar experience? Have you had friendships drift apart? If so, did you get back the spark, or was it gone for good? Any advice?

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Sunday night tv

I'm very happy to have a good season of Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters on ABC.  Not every season of these shows is stellar, but this season is shaping up to make me very happy.