You know the movies I’m talking about. They’re playing on a cable TV station with a million commercials, and you still opt to put them on for background noise. You could recite practically the entire script you’ve watched it so much, but you still love it. I love hearing about other people’s “background” movies. I feel like it tells me so much about them, and a little bit of a window into their lives. I’ve found that the movies that I listen to over and over again are usually the ones that I watched during the years of my life where I was really starting to come into my own as an adult. Maybe you’re the same 🙂

Good Will Hunting. Hands down my favorite movie to this day of all time. I love the writing. The quick banter and dialogue and deep character development. Robin Williams is brilliant. My Dad still texts me lines from this movie sometimes – it’s one of those loves that we’ll always share.

I am at my heart a planner. I like to be as prepared as possible for big changes and busy life seasons. My Januarys and Februarys for the last eleven years are my busiest months at work. Before I went to a reduced schedule, it was anticipated that at a very minimum, you would work from 8 in the morning until at least 7/8 at night. But most of the time, it was much later than that. Saturday work days at the office were the norm. Sundays spending at least a few hours working were typical. Now, with my reduced workload, I have less of those hours expectations, but it’s still busier than normal. Clients have immovable deadlines, and something, invariably, always goes wrong at some point during those months.

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