I'm back! I survived my trip out west. And had a lovely time, too- all that fresh mountain air did me good. But I'm glad to be back in my crummy NYC apartment with my tooty dog. There's no place like home!

For our last night out west, we decided to take it easy and go see a movie. M and his Dad went to see "Star Trek", and M's Mom and I went to see "The Proposal", because there is NO WAY I was going to go see "Star Trek". Science fiction creeps me out. I had read all the reviews of "The Proposal", so I knew I was in for a mediocre movie with good stars- and I love Ryan Reynolds, he's so cute. What I did not know I was in for was seeing a movie that was filmed in a town where I used to work- Rockport, MA. All those scenes in "downtown Sitka, Alaska" were filmed in Rockport, right on Bearskin Neck where I spent many a summer lunch hour. During the first scene filmed there, I nudged my FMIL (I almost have in-laws! weird!) and showed her the building where I used to work. Wow, that's neat, I thought, seeing the old haunts in a movie. THEN, later in the movie, they're "downtown", and Sandra Bullock needs to go to a internet cafe- so they walk up to the building where I used to work, go up the steps, open the door, and Sandra Bullock sits down at the VERY DESK where I used to work. Ok, not the very desk, but the very spot- she was looking out the same windows I looked out of for two years, she could see Ryan Reynolds over at the same ice cream shop across the street I was always staring at. How freaky is that?? I was in shock for the rest of the movie (I didn't miss much, the script is pretty lousy). What are the chances of that, going to a movie and finding out your life is in the movie? Sandra Bullock, lucky enough to be in the presence of a place MissPinkKate used to work her magic. I bet it inspired her.