For years, since I was a small child, I've watched the Oscars every year. I would drink ginger ale from my Mom's (and later, my own) crystal flutes, and eat Eli's cheesecake topped with cherries. I'd write my own list of winners and seal it and give it to my mom so I couldn't cheat. (One year I entered an HBO contest and won a Oscars Movie Lamp!)

I used to see a movie every week back then, now I'm lucky to get out once every 4-5 months for a movie. As a kid I was in acting and did local commercials, and was SO sure I'd be a famous actress or writer. I would practice my Oscar speeches in the mirror, and write tiny novels about HOW I'd get to be so famous, LOL!

A few years back when I got RSD, I tried to keep up and at 1st, I did. But the older I got the more running around I did for work and with hubby, etc.
But as HE loves movies too, I at least saw MOST of the nominated films.

Now, as a mom to a 2 year old, there are SO many I wish I'd seen. I saw only 1 nominated this year that I know of, "The Help" which I LOVED. It shows me that the pain really has affected a lot of my life that I haven't acknowledged. My friends are shocked that I am not getting the cheesecake ready, that I can only think of one film I've seen, etc.

I can blame it on my son, or I can be honest and say that I'm just too tired and often, in too much pain to go to the movies. That's one of my late New Year's Resolutions- to see more movies and get out more.

Anyway, is anyone else watching? Here on the East Coast of the US it starts at 8:30pm. I'm hoping they do some sort of nod to Whitney in the part where they acknowledge the stars who've passed.

Oh well, at least it's a way to pass the night! ;)