all there is to know about the crying game

The new house has wires in it now. No power... but wires that will run power, and cable and internet and phone signals and things like that. Having spent the last few months writing safety programs for construction workers, I felt like an outlaw sneaking around in an unfinished house without a hardhat or permission. But it's interesting to walk around inside this frame and know that it's eventually going to be the frame around our lives. Literally, it's just wood and nails and wires... but as we walk through it holding hands, that's just not what we see.

Our bathtub has been installed, one of the main reasons we wanted this house. It's big enough to fit us both in there together and it has bubble jets. When we looked at the tub, currently filled with wood shavings and a little bit of snow, I could imagine us in it.

We went for a walk again this afternoon. It was cold but the sun was out, which makes a nice change from the steel grey skies we've been seeing for the last several weeks. We stopped on the way home to pick up sandwiches and a movie. Usually I just pretend I'm helping choose what movie we're going to see because most of the time I fall asleep anyway. Shawn picked Superman Returns - which makes me wonder what Christopher Reeves' wife thinks of that movie. I'm sure she didn't think of him as Superman, exactly, but somehow it seems wrong that things like that carry on happening even when someone so central and important to the whole thing is gone.

It says on the disc jacket that Marlon Brando is in this movie, appearing as archived footage. Even though Shawn used to work with editing equipment all the time and I've seen how that kind of thing is done, I still don't really understand it. Like... how was it possible to finish The Crow without Brandon Lee? Even though there's a digital explanation I still have trouble with it. It makes life seem more abstract and indefinable.

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