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By: Daisy

Daisy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:51:00 +0000

A wise mentor once told me, “Quit beating yourself up for being human.” Let the toil and trouble go (oops, wrong Shakespeare again)…focus on the good.

By: Babyamore (Trish)

Babyamore (Trish) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:57:49 +0000

I am so sorry for your friend – I was wondering how she went. My heart goes out to her.
I have been there on the receiving end of such news (my IVF cycle big fat negative) and it sucks.I would give up my presents too for the news that one of my friends struggling to get pregnant …is. We sat in a room yesterday @ pregnancy loss support group … with other mothers who had lost babies – two announcing they were newly pregnant, another didn’t but she had told me she was just pregnant already, then the last mum not yet blessed since 2004.
Especially tomorrow is 3 yrs exactly a since her little man ~Riley~ flew to heaven .She is still waiting for her living bundle of joy .I could have cried for her too.

I have those days when I feel like I am way too negative and I yell a lot at my older boy. We are human -not super mums and I agree with others focus on the positives and the fact you made it to bed.
This is a pearler by Tracey.
Don’t be too hard on yourself (says me who canes herself daily for all perceived parenting inadequacies). Tick off the positives rather than the negatives. There will be more of them than you realise

By: D.Paul

D.Paul — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:20:58 +0000

Yes, we definitely spoke about that. It’s probably the biggest drawback to my job, with folks yelling at me a close second.

Well, I could go all nouveau and say Ethan Hawke’s, but you know what, he’s hit or miss for me. I, too, would have to go with pre-crazy Mel’s Hamlet. It just had that raw intesity he was so very good at bringing to the screen. Dang, I miss that.

And as much as I love me some Kenny B, his was too indulgent for me. Though I do enjoy Miss Kate. And Larry Olivier, well, always a treat to watch, but not as engaging for me.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:29:20 +0000

Then again, I may do the same thing. It’s been 10 years since I’ve seen it. But it just struck me that she did “mad” well.

By: Miscellaneous-Mum

Miscellaneous-Mum — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:03:13 +0000

Yes, I vaguely remember Mel’s was rearranged….Janet, guess what, I’ve got an idea for what I want for Xmas now – Mel’s Hamlet on DVD. YEAH!!

HBC as ophelia used to strike me as a performance of ‘ticks’ and jitters. Maybe if I watch it again, I’ll rethink that opinion

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:06:11 +0000

Darling, if Buddhism for Mothers is making you concentrate on the negative, i say, out, out damned spotted book! Oh, sorry, wrong Shakespeare. But really, I agree with both Tracey and D Paul, I regularly think I’m the world’s worst mother, but then I look at my children and they’re happy and smiling and learning and growing, so I must be doing more things right than wrong. And next time hubby asks what you want, tell him a pedicure. Seriously. A professional full-out, foot massage, sea salt treatment, lovely shade of polish pedicure. After all, it’s summer where you are, right? It also means a nice hour to yourself.
And I like Mel Gibson’s best, even though he rearranged the scenes, so I had to do some scrambling so my theatre students could follow along. But Helena Bonham Carter was the best Ophelia ever. Wear your rue with a difference indeed.

By: Miscellaneous-Mum

Miscellaneous-Mum — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:32:07 +0000

[hugs] back T

D.Paul – Yes, you’d hear/see some pretty crap stuff too. I think we talked about this briefly before via email?

I liked Mel Gibson’s the best. Ken Branagh’s just felt like an academic exercise to me, although it has its moments. Kate Winslet was a good ophelia. Lawrence Olivier’s is good too, but he always rubbed me the wrong way as an actor.
What about you?

By: D.Paul

D.Paul — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:55:47 +0000

Also, I wanted to ask which film Hamlet you prefer…

By: D.Paul

D.Paul — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:58:06 +0000

I try to focus on the positives, but that never seems to work as well as I’d like, since I get a front-row seat to all the horrible things that go on in the world on a daily basis, what with working for a newspaper and all. Sometimes, I grit my teeth and just roll through the malaise, and other times I lie in bed, with all the lights off, listening to The Cure or Jeff Buckley, thinking about all of the horrible things I’m feeling, crushed beneath the weight of everything I’ve ever done wrong in my life.

And I drink a lot of cranberry juice. I don’t know, but fugue states call for cranberry juice.

But the good thing to remember is that we are, none of us, as horrible as we may think, I guess. And that’s about as Hallmark as I’m going to get.