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energeticTopic: 30-Day Breakup Guide
Ok, after I had my mini-meltdown last night, I'm feeling ok and ready to go today. I have a HUGE (and by that I mean, very fun-filled) weekend planned...which I'll have to explain later...I know, cliffhanger!
However, I had a dream last night that I sent HIM a text. Now...I want to make it clear that my ex hasn't tried to contact me nor have I tried to contact him since the breakup. So in my dream I texted him asking him something like...why did you do this to me? He wrote back something that OF COURSE I don't remember. But in my dream I completely regretted sending the text. But I ended up sending him another text that said "sorry for texting you." And his response was something about how it was important that we talk or something.
Whatever. I am glad I got out any urge to contact him in my DREAM and not in real life.
So, moving on. Today's assignment was to go to a movie alone. Now, because of the exciting plans I have to today, I didn't think it would be fair to see a movie at 10 am. So I cheated a little and saw the movie last night.
Here's the deal. I go to movies alone more than I go to movies with people. In fact, I never went to the movies with my ex. So this was a perfectly fine assignment—the hard part was picking out the right movie because there isn't much out there right now.
I know it's difficult for most people to see a movie alone, but if you haven't done it, you really should! It has its perks...you get to see whatever you want, whenever you want, you can sit wherever you want...and there's no planning involved (and you don't have to share the popcorn).
After much thinking, I decided to see Letters to Juliet. It looked like a standard romantic comedy, but it takes place in Italy so I figured why not? The basic story is Sophie (played by Amanda Seyfried—the girl from Mean Girls whose boobs can tell if it's raining, when it's raining) and her fiance Victor planned a trip to Italy as a pre-wedding honeymoon. Sophie works at the New Yorker as a fact-checker, but she really really wants to be a writer (ah, dream big sweetheart) and Victor, who is a complete douche, is a chef and is opening his own restaurant.
So the trip to Italy results in them spending time apart—Victor goes off to wine auctions while Sophie does some sightseeing. She stumbles upon the courtyard of the fictional Juliet to find women gathered, writing letters and leaving them along the wall. Sophie discovers a group of women who call themselves the secretaries of Juliet...they reply all of the letters in the courtyard. The women ask Sophie to join them and she discovers a letter written 50 years ago, by a women searching for her lost love.
As you see in the previews, Sophie helps the woman search for him. Along the way, they come across many adventures...and drink lots of wine (no seriously, the shots of the Italian vineyards are worth the $9). In the beginning, it's a little slow, but it's really a good movie! If you have any interest in seeing it, go for it.
I was happy I picked this movie, not only because I ended up liking it, but because the theatre was all women. So at every romantic moment there were "aaawwwwww"s and at every kiss there were applause...it was nice to know I wasn't the only one in there hoping for her Romeo.
