Sunny 9 for 2005 October 6

Somebody shut me up because here I go again.

First off, I have completed the highly recommended Alias Grace. Superb! A must read murder mystery with a twist. I love Margaret Atwood's writing style even more now. She really is a fantastic writer.

Secondly, Aaron and I watched Sahara last night. I folded clothes while watching it so I do not feel it was a complete waste of time. Very lame and cheesy, but I have seen worse, and at least it was clean.

And finally, a confession. I like to read MSN Entertainment online. It keeps me up to date with celebrities' lives. And I like to see what they are wearing and such. You need not tell me I am shallow, I already know. I am not really surprised to find out Katie Holmes is pregnant. With Tom Cruise's offspring I am not yet sure b/c I thought he was impotent. This new Hollywood trend is starting to bug me. Everyone get pregnant, anybody who is anyone has a child. Well bull crap. Madonna, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Tom and Katie, and much more. So it is not ok for 15 year olds to have babies out of wedlock, but it is fine and dandy for them? What because they have money? Well, that is a good point, but still. This whole baby having craze is nice, but is it really? I mean I love seeing children being relished and treated as a blessing. That is what I believe. But Hollywood is making it out to be a bandwagon. It doesn't matter if you are married or not. Or it is ok, we'll just get married when I'm huge before the baby comes. I mean how many of them really raise their own child? I really wonder how many times they get up at night with the baby and how many times the nanny does it? I am not trying to be judgmental, I am just saying that having children is HARD. What kind of human beings are being sent out into the world ill-equipped b/c they never really had a mom or dad around. I am not saying that everyone in Hollywood is a bad parent, b/c I don't know everything. I am just saying it cannot be healthy for a child to not have stability in their life and being dragged about the world whenever their mummy and daddy has to make a movie.

Ok, done bashing on Hollywood for a while. I don't want to come off to brash, I'm just being a child-advocate which is very badly needed in this world.

Lily is taking her nap still after 3 hours and 15 minutes of silence bliss. Not only that, the past 10 days she has not woken me up before 8:00 yet. In fact I wake up on my own. Am I lucky or what? I don't even have a clue what time she really wakes up, b/c I am asleep, but she quietly plays in her crib with her lamb until I come get her. No screams or anything.

How long will this last? I don't know, but I say I darn-well deserve it. My body is replenishing itself from waking up every 3 hours until she was 9 months old. This way, when the second one comes along, I will have a nice store of sleep energy so I don't neglect them. For some reason my body like at least 8 hours of sleep, preferably 8 1/2-9 hours.