Thirty plus years in the field of mental health/social services has influenced the way I spend by time off. I love my job, but as much as possible, I leave work at work. My family knows that I don't watch movies with social service-y plots – no addiction, child abuse, depressing themes, no loud family dysfunction thinly veiled as comedy. Examples of my kind of quirky movie include Elizabethtown (thank you, Sandy), the British film Room to Rent and Woody (on Prozac) Allen's Everyone Says I Love You. Contrary to usual practice this weekend we watched Thomas McCarthy's the Visitor. Although immigration issues are the central theme, it includes an uplifting story of friendship.
My other exception was a mild deviation from my New Year's resolution to give up table salt. Three weeks past my cold turkey abandonment of my favourite flavour on earth, it's been unexpectedly easy. I splurged, though, with a salty snack:
How do you eat your Chex Mix? I exhibit my best OCD behaviour, saving the best for last, segregating the wheat Chex until the end.
Life's a Stitch 
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