Sweet Home Alabama

I am chick flick mad.  You may be surprised to know I love Sci-Fi as well.  Not Star Trek Sci-Fi - more shows like Under The Dome and Arrow (actually, does Arrow count as Sci-fi?  And if I'm really honest I watch it to look at Stephen Amell, I meant who wouldn't?  I always say, Arrow, so bad it is good...).  But I digress...

Back to my love of chick flicks.  I like the fact the story lines are so easy to read.  I like tuning out for 2 hours and not thinking about anything other than what is playing out on the screen in front of me (yes, I know, I know what is going to happen but I don't have to THINK about it). 

Which brings me to one of my favourite movies, that I watched for about the 23rd time on Saturday night, Sweet Home Alabama.  I came to realise a long time ago that I like the movie because of the fact it reminds me of me when I was younger (that and Josh Lucas is damn hot).  I'd left a small town to move to the big smoke (and left behind my first true love, well it had been over for years but you know teenagers, but that's where that similarity ends) and I got a bit ahead of myself..  I wasn't as obnoxious as Melanie (Reece Witherspoon) or at least I don't think I was (there is probably lots of people who will have a different opinion to that though!!) but I didn't go back to my home town and visit my parents or family enough, I didn't call them enough - I wasn't there enough...  I want to reach through the TV and slap her, then I realised I can't because I was I was her when I was in my late teens to my early 20's...

So the moral of this blog is - always be present, always make an effort to see or talk to your parents and family - even if it is just a phone call regularly...  If you live close by, call in - even for 10 minutes, just don't think you'll do it tomorrow.  Tomorrow never comes soon enough.  And, it may be too late.