Delilah Takes on Love Actually

So, I know it's been a really long time. I'm sorry *remorseful hoping face*.  I'll try to be better, I promise!

As Robyn has already told you, I spent a lovely weekend with her at her parents' house this weekend.  It was super great actually getting to see her for real, and not just on a computer screen.  We had an awesome time at the Avett Brothers concert and I learned that football isn't impossible to understand!

Saturday night, Robyn, her mom, and I got our chick flicks on and watched The Proposal and Love Actually.  I have somehow managed to never watch Love Actually even though about 8 bajillion people have told me I need to see it.  This is even more unbelievable because Liza absolutely adores Alan Rickman.  I seriously don't know how I'd never seen it before.

It's a fantastic movie. I will now become one of those eight bajillion people to tell you to go watch it if you haven't already.  There are a lot of interwoven stories, and they are all touching.  **Warning: Here Be Spoilers**  Probably one of my favorites would be the story line of Billy Mack, the aged rocker who tries to stage a comeback with a dubious Christmas remake of the song "Love is All Around".  He succeeds in having the #1 Christmas single (which is a big deal in the UK, where the story is set) and gets invited to Elton John's party.  He goes off to this party, but then goes to his fat and alone manager's flat.  His manager is shocked that he isn't at Elton's.  Billy then tells his manager that they've been together through everything, are good friends, and that the manager is the love of his life.  He doesn't want his best friend spending Christmas alone, Billy wants to spend it with him.  I wanted to cry.  I wish I had a video of the moment, but Youtube doesn't have it.

This part really made me think.  I feel truly blessed that I have such good friends like Liza and Robyn.  I believe that a person's friends reflect on that person, and I am not ashamed to look in the mirror.  We are really close, and are similar in all the ways that matter and different enough to make life fun.  They are the loves of my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way.