VH and I haven’t been out together, child-free, since… um… what year is this?
OK, that’s not entirely true. I seem to recall having a sitter one night around mid-February, but with all of the martinis he kept ordering for me under the “get her drunk and maybe she’ll forget everything that’s had her pissed off for months now” theory, I don’t really recall much of that night.
So. We’re going out tomorrow night, courtesy of the Ft. Leavenworth MWR program’s “Parents’ Night Out”, and I’m so excited.
Yes, I’m due for an evening of “me time” sometime soon — as mentioned in the previous entry — but even as hard as that is to get, it still comes more easily than couple time.
Now, we’ve just got to figure out what on earth two married people are supposed to do together when they’ve both got to be sober enough to drive onto a military base at the end of the evening to pick their kid up.
We’re thinking something along the lines of dinner and a movie. Traditional, solid, Kansas-type fare. Problem is, we have no idea what movies are good. The last time we saw one together was, um, what’s the name of the flick in which Eddie Murphy talks to animals? No, don’t tell me. Since I slept through it, I don’t want to know: that way, whenever I run across it on cable TV, I won’t sit there saying “Oh, I’ve already seen that.”
Anyway, we’ve agreed to let you pick what we’ll be seeing tomorrow night based on the movies playing nearby.
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Just remember: I will hold you accountable for whether the night was enjoyable.
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October 25, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I must go out even less than you. I haven’t heard of but one of these movies. I’ve just been watching “Firefly,” the canceled Fox TV series. It was good.
Hope y’all have fun, whatever you do.
October 25, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I’ve been watching that on DVD, too. The DVD version ticks me off, though. There’s no such thing as rewinding to catch the last 10 seconds. I have to start at the beginning of the ‘chapter’ instead. I hate that!
October 25, 2007 at 9:05 pm
hell, only thing I’ve seen recently was “Michael Clayton” starring Clooney of all people. It was actually pretty damn good. Of course it was on that “Organic” date last Friday I mentioned so I think anything would’ve been good. I do recall it being a nice little lawyer twist-a-plot though. And zero courtroom scenes.
I haven’t heard of most of those, sorry.
SO yeah, I’m gonna go for getting all kinds of blotto.
October 25, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I’d go see the re-release of Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D – aren’t there any better choices at the multiplex?
October 25, 2007 at 9:55 pm
looking forward to Enchanted at the theatre, but we’ll probably go to the just-after-church matinee with the kids…
October 26, 2007 at 9:47 am
My vote was for “30 Days of Night”. I saw the previews for it and was like WOWZA!! If you do go see it you HAVE to tell me how it was. ^__^
October 26, 2007 at 9:57 am
Time together? With NO kid? *Splendid*.
Myself, I’d vote for drinks — because you can. *wry grin* But no matter how it plays out, I shall hope to hear about a wonderful evening…
October 26, 2007 at 12:31 pm
nk no like movies. nk like carne asada with margaritas for Mrs. nk and Dos Equis for him, with a 12-piece mariachi band playing loud enough to bring the walls down. Is there a Lalo’s by you?
October 26, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I vote for none of the above. Go back home, play naked Twister for awhile, have a nosh, go pick up kids, make people wonder why you are smiling that way…
October 26, 2007 at 8:47 pm
“There’s no such thing as rewinding to catch the last 10 seconds. I have to start at the beginning of the ‘chapter’ instead. I hate that!”
Forget the movie, buy a better DVD player, ours rewinds frame-by-frame to “REALLY fast.”
October 26, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I didn’t choose anything, I’ve only heard of one of those movies and I have no idea about the rest.
October 26, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I have not seen any movie in a theatre since “Master and Commander,” which I saw with my ex-step-daughter. It needed about 30 minutes of editing.
During my short, disasterous, and expensive experiment with marriage, we had an au pair, so we could often go out. I would tell stories, maybe, if I had my own blog. (Well, I do, but I don’t write much on it.)
She liked seeing Woody Allen movies, which generally bored me. The two that I liked, she did not. So we generally decided that just dinner was the better idea.
At the last dinner, she was pondering the difference between a (now this was a while ago, so one should apply a inflation adjustment) $40 bottle of wine and a $50 bottle. (Or whatever.) I told her that once you were spending that much on wine, another 25% did not matter. It actually was a good dinner, with good service and good wine. That it ended with her telling me that she was sleeping with her boss did not really detract from the meal, although it somewhat made the evening less than wonderful.
That, the expense of the divorce, and her suggestion that I was a cheap bastard for not giving her more, kind of cured me of women.
October 28, 2007 at 9:25 am
…so, here it is, Sunday morning, and nary a post since this one.
Whadja do?? (If you can tell.)
Or, more importantly, did you two have fun?
October 31, 2007 at 10:29 am
Leelu, I sprained my wrist within moments after dropping our son off. Been in pain (or lala land) ever since.