spoken for » night out http://spoken-for.org hmmm... what? Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:47:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 the Green Hornet http://spoken-for.org/archives/2011/01/22/3167/ http://spoken-for.org/archives/2011/01/22/3167/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:58:35 +0000 Val http://spoken-for.org/?p=3167 Got to get a few hours out of the house tonight and spent some time with my awesome sister-in-law. I felt like a total spaz ’cause I had to ask her to drive out of her way to pick me up. Steve’s truck is on the fritz so he’s been taking my vehicle to work. I’m not used to have to rely on people for rides, I either do it myself or I do without. My mother-in-law and other sister-in-law also drove in to watch my kiddos. Of course, I think that’s better, ’cause all their stuff is here and it’s easier for them to get K to sleep here than at their house.

My sister-in-law and I went first to dinner which actually turned out to be hilarious. We went to this place I had a pretty good coupon for, neither of us had heard of it before. Turned out to be this total guy place, like Hooters, only the waitresses dress even more skimpy. So here we are, two females in there, and she is like, “uhhh those people are staring at us…” But the food was good and it gave us jokes to last through the rest of the evening.

From there to the movie and we actually went in and watched it without popcorn or soda! Gasp! She cracks me up because she can eat like a bird at other times but can really put it away during the movies. I give her crap about it but we were both so stuffed this time, we actually managed some willpower. Good thing, too, cause it cost the two of us $25 total to see the movie…

The Green Hornet was my second movie in 3D and we loved it. I don’t know what the reviews said and we have friends that said they really didn’t like it at all, but my sil and I really liked it. Of course it’s not realistic and of course it’s goofy, but hey, it’s a night out to relax. I did really enjoy the humor, though, you know – the gas gun we’ve all seen in the commercials? That was great. And so funny to see/hear super heroes saying “we don’t know what we’re doing!” and acting like real people might do if suddenly thrown into extraordinary situations. Not like Batman, he’s always got it together. I loved how they worked Bruce Lee in, too, the original TV Kato. (At least original as far as I know!) I’d like to see some of the old series, actually. I heard a guy on the radio last week saying SyFy had a marathon of it but, of course, on one told me until the day after…

Well, we had fun. The next one will probably be the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie though I’ve promised Sarah she can go to that one and will probably take Elijah and some brothers, too.

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First it was to Applebee’s for dinner. I love Applebee’s. We had some good drinks, some good appetizers, and some good food. We weren’t able to finish it all! We ended there earlier than planned so from there, like the old fogies we are, we went to Wal-mart. Yes, I hate Wal-mart and I rarely go there anymore but, dang it, if I didn’t buy some toilet paper soon, we were going to be screwed at my house!

Then to the movie. The one we really wanted to go see together was The Other Boleyn Girl but that’s neither in mainstream theaters anymore (at least here) nor in the cheaper “expired” movies theater. So C picked Made of Honor because apparently, she loves Patrick Dempsey. Seeing the commercials for this movie, it’s not necessarily one I’d have wanted to see, but I rather enjoyed it. We had a lot of fun. Both of us decided it was predictable, but still pretty good.

From there, home, because, yes, we’re old and have to get to bed early. :P That and I had to get up at 6 this morning. But it was really nice having a night out and away even if it was “just” dinner and a movie. We’re watching that cheaper theater, hoping The Other Boleyn Girl will show up there soon.

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