My Life is a Screenplay

Or should I just pitch a reality show of my life to an agent?

Or am I being presumptuous to think that my life is THAT interesting?

Katie and I are about to get kickin' on our screenplay.  It is a funny look at three women going through mid-life crises and all three are handling their aging in very different ways.  Although our screenplay is not autobiographical, like all good writing, snippets of our lives peek in and out of the storyline.  These women ask  a lot of "what ifs" as they deal with the realities of aging and life choices.

Did I mention that I'm hitting the BIG four-oh in about three months?  For some reason, over the last couple of months, this aging thing is hitting me.  Hard.  I've got a pretty long list of things I wanted to accomplish by the time I hit forty, and let's just say, I've got a busy three months ahead if I actually get to everything on that list.  I'm not complaining--life is good and I'm happy with where I am.  It's just . . . 

But wait--didn't Oprah say that fifty is the new forty?  Can I get an extension?  Ten years?  

And, at what age do I have to cut my long locks into the "menopause bob"?  

and wear "sensible shoes"?  

and switch from Zumba to "Sit and Be Fit"?

   HELP!!!

Family Movie Night

We've just returned from "family movie night"--Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler.  Great movie.  Fun.  Clean (whew!).  Of course, now I watch all movies with an eye toward the writing, the dialogue, the story arc . . .

Did Katie mention that she and I are STOKED to get crackin' on our screenplay once again? Yeah, I think she's mentioned it.  It's been on the back burner for about a year now, and we are both at a place mentally where we really, really want to crank it into high gear and GO.  

We just ordered our software so that we can i-partner as we write--think about it . . . we can both be sitting in our own beds wearing our flannel pjs and reading glasses . . . surrounded by down pillows and high threadcount sheets and snoring hubbies and wine bottles . . . . sorry, that actually sounds really good right now with or without the screenwriting.  Okay, FOCUS (that was my word, right?).  So, we can work on the same document together while we're at different places.  Cool, huh?  

But, I'm sure we'll do most of our writing together because it's much 

more fun that way.  And, we love hanging out at our coffee shop which will someday be on tour as the place where it all began--I can dream, right?  Wait a minute, FOCUS . . .