Am I the only one who bawled when Meredith poured her mom’s ashes down the drain of the surgical sink in Grey’s Anatomy this week?  Maybe it’s because I had a bad evening before I watched it and was emotionally unstable. Or maybe it’s because my two brothers-in-law who have passed away were both cremated and their ashes have still not been “laid to rest” (it’s been 6 and 2 years respectively) and I feel this is unhealthy and keeping the family from having closure. Not in a big way, but I think it would help to finally close the lid on that box.  We’ll always grieve for them but something about putting your loved-one’s body to rest in the ground or sprinkling their ashes somewhere is healing.  So I got that.  And it made me cry.

Also, in case anyone cares about my opinion, I saw “Gone Baby Gone” this week and it was quite good.  I was a bit skeptical at the beginning (it seemed like it was going to end at about the half way point – enough that I actually looked at my watch and thought This can’t actually be ending after one hour, can it???)but once I understood where the story was going I really enjoyed it. Not in the “happily ever after” sense because it definitely isn’t that kind of movie. But it made me think about right and wrong and the the fact that they are rarely as simple as some would have us believe.  Yeah, I always like writing about the gray areas in life.  I guess that’s just me.  Ben Affleck did a phenomenal job writing the screenplay and Casey Affleck was great as the main character.