It was great to go out with my friend Melissa for fabulous Indian food today at Taj in Fairfield, CT.
I used to do lunch with friends in Portland, Maine, especially the excellent German restaurant Schulte and Herr.
There something nice and a bit mellower about just having lunch with someone. And it’s even often cheaper.
Where do you like to go for lunch?
Great HBO documentary on the wrestling legend. 300 travel days a year around the world sounds absolutely exhausting.
I wonder if he would have lived longer if his gigantism was treated.
I do know he made a lot of people smile. And that he was just undeniably big.
And I know I liked him as a kid.
I hope with Bill Simmons as executive producer HBO makes more great documentaries like this. Simmons and his team did a great job with the 30 for 30 series on ESPN.
It’s fun to just read a romance novel. It is especially good to read between calls at work. And you usually know they will survive their minor peril and live happily ever after. Sometimes with sexy results.
There is a reason they are so popular. Not everything needs to be highfalutin.
I saw a post from my friend Allie Munier on Facebook about 4 movies that define me.
As usual I want to do more.
I have a Three Good Things Post that usually averages around 10-12.
Those are the five I put in my Facebook post. (Actually skipped Empire at first but it didn’t seem right)
There is other stuff I could think about like Young Frankenstein, Dr. Strangelove, Rear Window, Vertigo and Intolerance but I think those five work.
I’m reading Marya Hornbacher’s excellent and visceral “Madness: A Bipolar Life” again. I’m glad I have relative sanity.
Five years ago at this time after my dad died I was in a major media that involved a hospitalization. And after a long depression. Which is common after manias, often the body has to recover.
I was also in the hospital three years ago with a more minor mania, that involved a shorter recovery.
Late March and early April is a weird time for me.
I am a bit down now, but I am doing okay. Better than last week, if pretty tired.
I’m glad I didn’t have everything Marya Hornbacher went through like a major eating disorder, alcoholism, not taking medications regularly, a brother dying, book tours and a divorce.
And it’s amazing how long bipolar disorder can be undiagnosed. Hornbacher was clearly manic many times but proscribed Prozac while in the hospital for an eating disorder because those with an eating disorder are always depressed.
I do feel like I need to be gentle with myself. Having two adorable kitties next to me in the bed helps. Lenny and Squiggy are super lovey to me.
And taking my medications. Seeing my psychiatrist and now having a good therapist again.
I appreciate my relative sanity. And my stability.
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