Apparently I'm unable to write a steady blog this summer. It's not as if I'm overwhelmingly busy or anything, I guess I just don't have much inspiration right now. I figured since it's been 20 days since I last posted I would give you all a random update which is obviously all I'm able to do lately if you read through my last few posts.
Today is Keith's birthday so we've had a fun weekend. Yesterday his parents came over and watched Garrett so that we could go out and celebrate. You know "celebrating" might mean more to some than others. But to a married couple with a (soon-to-be) 3 year old, it simply means to spend time away from your child(ren). You can't get much more celebratory than the lack of whining at dinner coupled with nobody screaming "I lost my shoe!" in the car. And celebrate we did.
Let's see... First we went to the movies (the number 1 place where we simply cannot go with our child unless we're seeing something with talking animals or living inanimate objects). We saw "The Dark Knight" which was really good. It lives up to its name and is definitely a "dark" movie as far as superhero movies go, but it's not depressingly so. After the movie we really lived it up and made a stop at Toys R Us. Garrett's birthday party is next weekend and we had yet to buy him anything and we needed to get some presents so he didn't try to emancipate himself from us. Dinner was next on the agenda so of course we hit up our favorite restaurant, I'm sure you can all repeat after me by now, Texas Roadhouse. It was yummy, as always. We then rounded out this kick-butt night by heading to the place where all couples go on their dates-Walmart. Yes, we're lame, please don't feel the need to point that out to me. I can assure you that we did not buy any groceries, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief. However we did buy baby wipes, along with vitamins, a magazine, a t-shirt for Garrett, and picked up a prescription. We were living large, let me tell you.
Today for the actual event we met up with some friends for lunch at the Spaghetti Warehouse. They have a 3 and a half year old son so we commisserate with each other while our boys yell and drop food and attempt to empty the salt shakers. After lunch the birthday boys (the husband of our couple friend had a birthday 3 days ago) got to spend some kid-free time by checking out some gun shops (their choice, not ours, the women would have went to Target if given the choice). We contemplated what to do but decided that the best choice was to take our 2 maniacs to her house so they could destroy the other kid's room while she and I visited in relative peace. The boys actually played well together and I enjoyed the company of my friend. I believe Keith has had a good birthday (minus my cake fiasco this morning. Let's just say that the recipe that I used does not allow for a cake to be baked in 2 small, round pans and now, 12 hours later, my house still smells like slightly burnt cake, yum.)
So we move from celebrating Keith's birthday to celebrating Garrett's next weekend. We're partying a month early because my family will all be in town. I'm so excited to have them here for Garrett's birthday. It's the first party for him that they've been able to make it so I'm really happy that this is working out. This will actually be Garrett's first time to be around both sets of grandparents at the same time so it should be interesting. I've got the cake ordered, the party supplies waiting in the closet, and the gifts hidden. (Well, hidden better than they were earlier today. Garrett found them, drug them out and asked "Are these Garrett's?" I told him yes, but they were for his birthday so he had to wait to get them. Keith told him later that they were actually for his friend. I'm sure he's really confused, hopefully he'll forget he ever saw them until they're unwrapped on Friday. They've since been rehidden and I now have to rethink my usual hiding spot for gifts.)
The gifts were a debate this year. The past 2 birthdays I've just gone out and bought toys or clothes that Garrett needed. Obviously I know that no toys are actually "needed" but what boy should live his life without a mini basketball goal? I would classify that as a need. :) This year Keith wanted some input into the gifts and I know that his input will become more and more the older Garrett gets, which is completely fine with me. At first we planned to buy him one of those nice, wooden swingsets that will last for years and won't tip over when more than one child is swinging. Unfortunately when you buy one brand new you're basically buying a used car as far as the prices are concerned, so a brand new one is temporarily out of the question (we've since found a couple different options but none that would be here by Friday so we'll see...). We then went on to look at used ones for sale and some people think their swingsets are made from 24k gold apparently. I'm not paying $600 for a rotten piece of wood that probably wouldn't survive being moved 2 feet much less 50 miles. So we gave up that dream. We then thought about buying him one of those electric cars. But after looking at Toys R Us' inventory, that's not happening either. How do some of these families own those kinds of toys and not only do they own them, but they leave them to sit outside in the weather. You can't buy one for less than $300 and that just seems like an awful lot of money for a toy that my child will outgrow in a couple of years. But Daddy is still considering one for Christmas so we may end up with one despite my objections. I threw around the idea of buying him an easel because he really likes to color, but I couldn't find one so we settled on buying him a train set and a Spiderman action figure. I think he will really like those.
All right that's pretty much it, I guess. I should have a better way to wrap this thing up but I'm tired. Garrett hasn't been sleeping well the past couple of nights because we both have colds and his always result in a bad cough. Saturday morning he was up at 5 am hacking up a lung which lead to him staying up for the rest of the day. Which meant that I was up for the rest of the day. I do NOT miss the newborn stage, that's for sure.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Date Night
Date night came to our town on Friday.
Our pastor has recently started preaching a series of messages on marriage. One of the requests that he has made of all the married couples in our church is that over the course of the 6 week series, we all go on 3-4 dates. Because that can sometimes be challenging for parents of small children (especially when you don’t have family close by), the church arranged for our nursery workers to be at the church every Friday night from 6-10pm and all we have to do is make our reservations a few days ahead of time and pay $10 per family. As soon as I heard our pastor mention this I was on board. We signed Garrett up and headed out for our date night on Friday.
When we dropped Garrett off, I took him in and Keith waited in the car. Garrett throws much more of a fit when Keith leaves him in the nursery compared to when I leave him. Where’s the love, Garrett? :) Actually I think he knows that Momma is pretty cold-hearted and isn’t going to be very sympathetic to his tears. When he’s been in the nursery for over 2 years now, he ought to be used to it. Thankfully the workers on Friday were the same wonderful women that he sees on Sunday. My favorite of the group saw that Garrett was trying to give me some problems during the drop-off so she immediately took him to see the fish, which meant that Garrett was thinking "Momma who?" because he loves looking at those fish. As I was signing him in I noticed something that I found quite humorous. On our nursery sign in sheet there is a column to fill in the location of the parent, this is mainly for church times to let the workers know if you’re in church or Sunday school-which Sunday school class-that kind of thing, just in case they need to find you. Well, obviously none of the date night couples were going to be at the church, so I planned to just write down my cell phone number, but I noticed for the children who had already been signed in that the parents had put the name of the local town where they would be. For some reason that just struck me as funny, like the nursery workers cared what town we all would be in and like that really gave them any idea of where exactly we were (they also wrote down their phone number though). I’m sure none of you are laughing, but I shared this with Keith when I got back in the car and we both got a good chuckle over it.
Keith and I headed to the next town over (about 25 minutes away). We had a little excitement on our drive. We had the joy of witnessing a wreck, it could have been bad, but thankfully it wasn’t. A pick-up truck pulling a horse trailer changed lanes directly into the side of a semi-truck! We think the pick-up truck driver was asleep because he was driving really slow and he ran into the end of the semi’s trailer so there was no way that he wouldn’t have seen that big 18-wheeler there beside him if he was awake and aware. I just sat there with my hands covering my mouth saying "oh my gosh, oh my gosh" over and over. The pick-up bounced off the semi and immediately pulled onto the shoulder of the road. I don’t think the semi driver even knew what happened because he didn’t even slow down and just kept going. It was crazy and seems to be typical anytime Keith and I go out like that. We’ve witnessed many strange accidents (one involving a Ford Ranger and a little car where the Ranger ended up driving backwards down the interstate for a short period of time before he drove (backwards) up an embankment.)
During our ride we tried to figure out where we should go to eat. We both love "Texas Roadhouse", but we also thought it might be nice to go someplace where we don’t go very often. I also didn’t want to go somewhere that would be crowded because I didn’t want to waste any of our precious date time waiting for a table. So the decision was made to go eat at "Spaghetti Warehouse". We’ve eaten there a couple of times, both with Garrett and both were fast and somewhat unenjoyable because he wasn’t cooperating, we thought we would go there so we could actually enjoy our food and take our time. They got us right in and seated, in a nice, secluded table too. Of course one of my first comments was that the table would have been nice if we had Garrett with us because he wouldn’t have disturbed anyone around us. Thankfully Keith and I didn’t make the agreement to not talk about our child while on our date. I’m assuming that most of you have probably watched atleast one sitcom where the couple goes out for dinner alone and determine not to talk about their children and then they have nothing else to talk about. Raising a child is currently our focus (among other things) so I would think it’s pretty natural to talk about your child a lot (with your spouse, I promise I try not to make every conversation that I have with everyone else about my child, atleast, I hope I don’t-there’s also the exception of the grandparents too, just in case my parents get on here saying that all I ever talk to them about is Garrett). However he wasn’t the focus of, nor the sole topic of our conversation at dinner.
We both got the lasagna and a side salad, had a wonderful time talking and people watching. After we ate we did a little shopping. We had debated over whether or not to go see a movie, but there weren’t any starting when we needed them to and I didn’t want to be late picking Garrett up, so we ruled out a movie for this week and decided on shopping instead. Our first stop was Garden Ridge. Yes, I know all you men out there are groaning, but Keith put on a good face and seemed to enjoy it. We went in to look at their patio furniture selection and we found what we wanted, we’ll see if we actually go back in the next 2 days before the sale ends-remember it’s taken us a good 4 years to finally break down and buy our TV, so it may be a while before patio furniture is purchased. Then we headed to Cavenders to spend the rest of our time (and money). As you know, Keith is 6’5" and can’t find pants that fit him just anywhere so he’s always bought them at Cavenders. We bought him several pair since he never takes the time to buy new ones and his current ones are looking terrible. He also got some other new clothes and tried to get me to buy a pair of cowboy boots. Hey, if they were giving those things away, I’d be first in line, but I have a hard time paying 50 bucks or more on boots that I will never wear and if I do wear them I’d feel goofy the whole time. I have no problem with other people wearing them and both Keith and Garrett have a pair and look cute in them, but they’re just not "me".
As Keith was trying on clothes, I stopped to do a quick check of my hair in one of their full length mirrors. My hair is very tempermental and, though it may start out the night looking lovely and straight with some body to it, it typically falls flat on it’s face after any exposure to the out-of-doors, or sunlight, or humidity, or...air, so I feel like I’m on constant watch of this hair of mine. Unfortunately I was too distracted to see my hair when I noticed that I was wearing my nursery sticker and had been all night!! What I failed to mention earlier is that during the check in process at our church nursery, the kids are given a wrist band and the parents are given a sticker with a number that matches the number on the wristband. It’s part of our security system that the parents turn in the sticker, the workers can match the numbers on the wristband and everyone goes home with the correct child. Obviously these aren’t typically checked with church members but it’s good to have systems like this in place in the case of a custody issue or something similar. During church hours it is very common for parents to wear their stickers on their shirt or the back of their hand, mostly just to keep track of it, and no one thinks anything of it because everyone else is doing the same thing. In my haste to leave the church unnoticed by Garrett, I had instinctively put my sticker on my shirt as I always do on Sundays and then completely forgot about it until I saw myself in that mirror in Cavenders. I was embarrassed and quickly removed it and then told Keith when he came out of the dressing room that I had been wearing my nursery sticker all night. He said "Yeah, I know" and I said "What??? Why in the world didn’t you point that out to me?" and he said "I thought you knew that you had stuck on your shirt. I mean, you’re the one that put it there, not me.". Ugh, men. :) Just kidding. Thankfully the stickers are small and blue and my shirt was blue so I really don’t think it was very noticeable, but I was still embarrassed to be running around outside of church like that.
After our shopping spree, and my embarrassing moment, we headed back to pick up Garrett. He was excited to see us and it appeared that he had a good time. There was a new lady in the room with them who we’ve seen a few times and she told us that we have the sweetest child, which was nice to hear but hard to believe. :) We plan on doing this atleast 3 more times while our church makes it available. I’m in hopes that there will be a good response and the church will do this on a monthly basis, or something like that. I was a walking advertisement this morning at church for the date night, asking people if they had participated, if they hadn’t then I told them that they really should and we enjoyed ourselves. Hopefully more people participate this Friday because I really think that date nights are important for every marriage. And I need to practice what I preach.
So if you haven’t been on a date lately, go! If you need a sitter, come join our church and sign up for date night. You won’t regret it.
Our pastor has recently started preaching a series of messages on marriage. One of the requests that he has made of all the married couples in our church is that over the course of the 6 week series, we all go on 3-4 dates. Because that can sometimes be challenging for parents of small children (especially when you don’t have family close by), the church arranged for our nursery workers to be at the church every Friday night from 6-10pm and all we have to do is make our reservations a few days ahead of time and pay $10 per family. As soon as I heard our pastor mention this I was on board. We signed Garrett up and headed out for our date night on Friday.
When we dropped Garrett off, I took him in and Keith waited in the car. Garrett throws much more of a fit when Keith leaves him in the nursery compared to when I leave him. Where’s the love, Garrett? :) Actually I think he knows that Momma is pretty cold-hearted and isn’t going to be very sympathetic to his tears. When he’s been in the nursery for over 2 years now, he ought to be used to it. Thankfully the workers on Friday were the same wonderful women that he sees on Sunday. My favorite of the group saw that Garrett was trying to give me some problems during the drop-off so she immediately took him to see the fish, which meant that Garrett was thinking "Momma who?" because he loves looking at those fish. As I was signing him in I noticed something that I found quite humorous. On our nursery sign in sheet there is a column to fill in the location of the parent, this is mainly for church times to let the workers know if you’re in church or Sunday school-which Sunday school class-that kind of thing, just in case they need to find you. Well, obviously none of the date night couples were going to be at the church, so I planned to just write down my cell phone number, but I noticed for the children who had already been signed in that the parents had put the name of the local town where they would be. For some reason that just struck me as funny, like the nursery workers cared what town we all would be in and like that really gave them any idea of where exactly we were (they also wrote down their phone number though). I’m sure none of you are laughing, but I shared this with Keith when I got back in the car and we both got a good chuckle over it.
Keith and I headed to the next town over (about 25 minutes away). We had a little excitement on our drive. We had the joy of witnessing a wreck, it could have been bad, but thankfully it wasn’t. A pick-up truck pulling a horse trailer changed lanes directly into the side of a semi-truck! We think the pick-up truck driver was asleep because he was driving really slow and he ran into the end of the semi’s trailer so there was no way that he wouldn’t have seen that big 18-wheeler there beside him if he was awake and aware. I just sat there with my hands covering my mouth saying "oh my gosh, oh my gosh" over and over. The pick-up bounced off the semi and immediately pulled onto the shoulder of the road. I don’t think the semi driver even knew what happened because he didn’t even slow down and just kept going. It was crazy and seems to be typical anytime Keith and I go out like that. We’ve witnessed many strange accidents (one involving a Ford Ranger and a little car where the Ranger ended up driving backwards down the interstate for a short period of time before he drove (backwards) up an embankment.)
During our ride we tried to figure out where we should go to eat. We both love "Texas Roadhouse", but we also thought it might be nice to go someplace where we don’t go very often. I also didn’t want to go somewhere that would be crowded because I didn’t want to waste any of our precious date time waiting for a table. So the decision was made to go eat at "Spaghetti Warehouse". We’ve eaten there a couple of times, both with Garrett and both were fast and somewhat unenjoyable because he wasn’t cooperating, we thought we would go there so we could actually enjoy our food and take our time. They got us right in and seated, in a nice, secluded table too. Of course one of my first comments was that the table would have been nice if we had Garrett with us because he wouldn’t have disturbed anyone around us. Thankfully Keith and I didn’t make the agreement to not talk about our child while on our date. I’m assuming that most of you have probably watched atleast one sitcom where the couple goes out for dinner alone and determine not to talk about their children and then they have nothing else to talk about. Raising a child is currently our focus (among other things) so I would think it’s pretty natural to talk about your child a lot (with your spouse, I promise I try not to make every conversation that I have with everyone else about my child, atleast, I hope I don’t-there’s also the exception of the grandparents too, just in case my parents get on here saying that all I ever talk to them about is Garrett). However he wasn’t the focus of, nor the sole topic of our conversation at dinner.
We both got the lasagna and a side salad, had a wonderful time talking and people watching. After we ate we did a little shopping. We had debated over whether or not to go see a movie, but there weren’t any starting when we needed them to and I didn’t want to be late picking Garrett up, so we ruled out a movie for this week and decided on shopping instead. Our first stop was Garden Ridge. Yes, I know all you men out there are groaning, but Keith put on a good face and seemed to enjoy it. We went in to look at their patio furniture selection and we found what we wanted, we’ll see if we actually go back in the next 2 days before the sale ends-remember it’s taken us a good 4 years to finally break down and buy our TV, so it may be a while before patio furniture is purchased. Then we headed to Cavenders to spend the rest of our time (and money). As you know, Keith is 6’5" and can’t find pants that fit him just anywhere so he’s always bought them at Cavenders. We bought him several pair since he never takes the time to buy new ones and his current ones are looking terrible. He also got some other new clothes and tried to get me to buy a pair of cowboy boots. Hey, if they were giving those things away, I’d be first in line, but I have a hard time paying 50 bucks or more on boots that I will never wear and if I do wear them I’d feel goofy the whole time. I have no problem with other people wearing them and both Keith and Garrett have a pair and look cute in them, but they’re just not "me".
As Keith was trying on clothes, I stopped to do a quick check of my hair in one of their full length mirrors. My hair is very tempermental and, though it may start out the night looking lovely and straight with some body to it, it typically falls flat on it’s face after any exposure to the out-of-doors, or sunlight, or humidity, or...air, so I feel like I’m on constant watch of this hair of mine. Unfortunately I was too distracted to see my hair when I noticed that I was wearing my nursery sticker and had been all night!! What I failed to mention earlier is that during the check in process at our church nursery, the kids are given a wrist band and the parents are given a sticker with a number that matches the number on the wristband. It’s part of our security system that the parents turn in the sticker, the workers can match the numbers on the wristband and everyone goes home with the correct child. Obviously these aren’t typically checked with church members but it’s good to have systems like this in place in the case of a custody issue or something similar. During church hours it is very common for parents to wear their stickers on their shirt or the back of their hand, mostly just to keep track of it, and no one thinks anything of it because everyone else is doing the same thing. In my haste to leave the church unnoticed by Garrett, I had instinctively put my sticker on my shirt as I always do on Sundays and then completely forgot about it until I saw myself in that mirror in Cavenders. I was embarrassed and quickly removed it and then told Keith when he came out of the dressing room that I had been wearing my nursery sticker all night. He said "Yeah, I know" and I said "What??? Why in the world didn’t you point that out to me?" and he said "I thought you knew that you had stuck on your shirt. I mean, you’re the one that put it there, not me.". Ugh, men. :) Just kidding. Thankfully the stickers are small and blue and my shirt was blue so I really don’t think it was very noticeable, but I was still embarrassed to be running around outside of church like that.
After our shopping spree, and my embarrassing moment, we headed back to pick up Garrett. He was excited to see us and it appeared that he had a good time. There was a new lady in the room with them who we’ve seen a few times and she told us that we have the sweetest child, which was nice to hear but hard to believe. :) We plan on doing this atleast 3 more times while our church makes it available. I’m in hopes that there will be a good response and the church will do this on a monthly basis, or something like that. I was a walking advertisement this morning at church for the date night, asking people if they had participated, if they hadn’t then I told them that they really should and we enjoyed ourselves. Hopefully more people participate this Friday because I really think that date nights are important for every marriage. And I need to practice what I preach.
So if you haven’t been on a date lately, go! If you need a sitter, come join our church and sign up for date night. You won’t regret it.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Date Night
Today, Keith and I were able to do something that we haven't done in over 6 months. Go on a date. Yes, I know we are totally lame (is that still "in"?) for not having gone sooner but time just gets away from you! Keith's parents came up to watch Garrett and we headed out around 10:30 this morning. Yes, we're also that lame couple that goes on dates during the day, but it works better for Keith's parents to come in the morning and leave in the evening and it's also easier for us to not be in the midst of all the other Saturday night daters.
Since the movie we picked started at 11:30, we were able to get $5 tickets! That's practically unheard of, but at our local AMC theater, if you go to a movie that starts before noon, your tickets are only $5. We didn't feel so bad about buying that $5 popcorn and those $4 drinks after that. The movie we went to see was "I am Legend". Trust me when I say that a lot of time and research went into our movie choice. Considering the fact that we obviously haven't seen a movie in the theater in a long time, and while I hope we go again sooner, it may still be awhile before we get back there, so our choice had to be a good one. We narrowed it down to three different movies. "I am Legend", "National Treasure 2" and "P.S. I Love You". Ok, I'll admit that the last one was my choice, so that was the first one to be eliminated. Our decision amongst the last two was simply based on which one would probably be the best to watch on the big screen. I liked the first "National Treasure", but it was one that we rented and watched at home, so I didn't feel that it was one that needed to be seen on the big screen. So that left us with "I am Legend".
A little info on this movie (you can read it in any movie synopsis so I promise I'm not giving anything away). Will Smith is the main character who is a scientist searching for the cure for this virus that has spread by the millions, wiping out cities. Initially this virus was supposed to have been the cure for cancer, but apparently it mutated or something (that part wasn't really explained that I can remember). He's basically all alone, just him and his dog. Parts of it reminded me of "Castaway" because he talks to his dog like he would a person (which is better than a volleyball, but still...). At one point he turns to his dog and says "Now, you'd better tell me if you're planning a surprise birthday party for me tonight. You know I don't like surprises and I promise I'll act surprised." It was pretty funny. The movie has some scary/gruesome scenes so if you're not into that, you shouldn't go see it. I also didn't like some scenes where they were using a handheld camera. I didn't see where it was necessary because there wasn't any movement on the part of the characters, but the camera is moving around like crazy and it made me a little dizzy to watch. Thankfully that wasn't the case for the entire movie. All in all, I would say it was a good choice and worthy of our first date in the past 6 months. I might even buy it when it comes out on DVD. If any of you have seen it, I would love to hear your thoughts.
After the movie, we went and ate at our favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. Their steaks are consistently the best around, for the price. If we had a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse really close, we probably would have considered going there, but we also wanted to get some shopping in before getting back home so the Roadhouse is a very good second choice. We then headed over to Best Buy. We're in the market for a new TV (and have been for a while), so we wanted to check them out (we didn't buy anything). Then we went next door to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Honestly I didn't plan to be in there but for maybe 10 minutes, just long enough to check out their curtain selection. However, I didn't take into account that my husband hadn't been there in a long time, and honestly, he enjoys looking at that kind of stuff. What was supposed to have been a quick scan of curtains, turned into us buying new sheets, pillows, shower curtain, and towels. They were all things we were needing, just not what I was planning on buying today. Keith picked out the sheets and pillows and I chose the rest. He actually did great on the sheets. What was a $150 set of king sized sheets, rang up to be $25, so I was pretty happy. I love a good deal! After a quick swing by Kirklands to look at some home decor stuff, we headed home. It was very nice to be able to do all of this without Garrett and he had a good time here at home with his grandparents.
While I'm on the subject of movies, we watched "Mr Brooks" last night. I wouldn't recommend it. Others might like it, but I found it very weird and disturbing. The next movie in our Blockbuster queue is "Evan Almighty". If you've seen it, is it worth our time?
Since the movie we picked started at 11:30, we were able to get $5 tickets! That's practically unheard of, but at our local AMC theater, if you go to a movie that starts before noon, your tickets are only $5. We didn't feel so bad about buying that $5 popcorn and those $4 drinks after that. The movie we went to see was "I am Legend". Trust me when I say that a lot of time and research went into our movie choice. Considering the fact that we obviously haven't seen a movie in the theater in a long time, and while I hope we go again sooner, it may still be awhile before we get back there, so our choice had to be a good one. We narrowed it down to three different movies. "I am Legend", "National Treasure 2" and "P.S. I Love You". Ok, I'll admit that the last one was my choice, so that was the first one to be eliminated. Our decision amongst the last two was simply based on which one would probably be the best to watch on the big screen. I liked the first "National Treasure", but it was one that we rented and watched at home, so I didn't feel that it was one that needed to be seen on the big screen. So that left us with "I am Legend".
A little info on this movie (you can read it in any movie synopsis so I promise I'm not giving anything away). Will Smith is the main character who is a scientist searching for the cure for this virus that has spread by the millions, wiping out cities. Initially this virus was supposed to have been the cure for cancer, but apparently it mutated or something (that part wasn't really explained that I can remember). He's basically all alone, just him and his dog. Parts of it reminded me of "Castaway" because he talks to his dog like he would a person (which is better than a volleyball, but still...). At one point he turns to his dog and says "Now, you'd better tell me if you're planning a surprise birthday party for me tonight. You know I don't like surprises and I promise I'll act surprised." It was pretty funny. The movie has some scary/gruesome scenes so if you're not into that, you shouldn't go see it. I also didn't like some scenes where they were using a handheld camera. I didn't see where it was necessary because there wasn't any movement on the part of the characters, but the camera is moving around like crazy and it made me a little dizzy to watch. Thankfully that wasn't the case for the entire movie. All in all, I would say it was a good choice and worthy of our first date in the past 6 months. I might even buy it when it comes out on DVD. If any of you have seen it, I would love to hear your thoughts.
After the movie, we went and ate at our favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. Their steaks are consistently the best around, for the price. If we had a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse really close, we probably would have considered going there, but we also wanted to get some shopping in before getting back home so the Roadhouse is a very good second choice. We then headed over to Best Buy. We're in the market for a new TV (and have been for a while), so we wanted to check them out (we didn't buy anything). Then we went next door to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Honestly I didn't plan to be in there but for maybe 10 minutes, just long enough to check out their curtain selection. However, I didn't take into account that my husband hadn't been there in a long time, and honestly, he enjoys looking at that kind of stuff. What was supposed to have been a quick scan of curtains, turned into us buying new sheets, pillows, shower curtain, and towels. They were all things we were needing, just not what I was planning on buying today. Keith picked out the sheets and pillows and I chose the rest. He actually did great on the sheets. What was a $150 set of king sized sheets, rang up to be $25, so I was pretty happy. I love a good deal! After a quick swing by Kirklands to look at some home decor stuff, we headed home. It was very nice to be able to do all of this without Garrett and he had a good time here at home with his grandparents.
While I'm on the subject of movies, we watched "Mr Brooks" last night. I wouldn't recommend it. Others might like it, but I found it very weird and disturbing. The next movie in our Blockbuster queue is "Evan Almighty". If you've seen it, is it worth our time?
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