Our daughter is 26 years old and for the past six years she has lived in Austin. We knew this vagabond lifestyle would take us mostly away from her. We manage to spend the holidays together - this past year we rented a condo in Austin for November, December and part of January.
Currently, she's packing up to head for three years in Connecticut. I'm very excited to be going for a 'let's get packed' trip to Austin beginning on Wednesday. I'll be there a week, and it will be the first time in two years that I will get to spend some extended time with her. As a mother of an adult daughter, this is golden time. AND, I get her all to myself because Drake is staying in Logan.
I'm so glad I'm no longer the most embarrassing woman in the room. I'm so pleased that my IQ has risen by at least 100 points. I'm so thrilled that my wardrobe choices will not be critiqued and found wanting. I'm absolutely giddy about not having to do the 'mom' crap of monitoring her health, her state of warmth or chill, and her clothing, shoe, or jacket choices.
It just doesn't bet better than this......
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Baa, Baa, Baa
I'm personally ashamed that it took me almost six weeks to find the bargain movie theater. I discovered that if you ask for movie theaters using 84321 as your location, Fandango only gives you the expensive ones - cripes, I paid $10 a ticket to see "Brave"! However, I wanted to see "The New Exotic Marigold Hotel", and it directed me to the Cinema 5 in North Logan where tickets cost $4 per person (Senior Ticket). The seats are little sprung, but it's clean. Incidentally, excellent movie with some terrific British character actors, plus Judi Dench (just diagnosed with Altzheimers - and doesn't that just suck), and the guy who played in Slumdog Millionaire.
I was really excited to find this theater, not only for the cheap ticket, but it's also the only theater playing some independent films. The one I was eager to see, Moonrise Kingdom, has gotten some excellent reviews, has some good actors, and the only place it's playing within a 75 mile radius is the Cinema 5. We went over on Saturday, chatting with some people we met in the parking lot who are also driving a car with a Texas license plates. They identified themselves as Texans - ones with Austrialian accents - hey, we Texans are a pretty flexible lot.
OK, sorry, on to the point of this blog: We pay our $$, sit down, and all the commercials are with perfect sound. Then the previews started (almost as good as having a cartoon), and the sound was screwed up. Drake went out and reported it. The kids on site futzed around with it, but it didn't really improve at all. The movie starts with the screwed up sound. There's about 100 people attending the movie, and exactly six of us got up and asked for our money back. What's up with that? It was like a nobrainer to us. Turns out there was a blown speaker, so it wasn't going to get fixed. 94 sheep just sat there.
And the moral is: Sheep get fleeced.
I was really excited to find this theater, not only for the cheap ticket, but it's also the only theater playing some independent films. The one I was eager to see, Moonrise Kingdom, has gotten some excellent reviews, has some good actors, and the only place it's playing within a 75 mile radius is the Cinema 5. We went over on Saturday, chatting with some people we met in the parking lot who are also driving a car with a Texas license plates. They identified themselves as Texans - ones with Austrialian accents - hey, we Texans are a pretty flexible lot.
OK, sorry, on to the point of this blog: We pay our $$, sit down, and all the commercials are with perfect sound. Then the previews started (almost as good as having a cartoon), and the sound was screwed up. Drake went out and reported it. The kids on site futzed around with it, but it didn't really improve at all. The movie starts with the screwed up sound. There's about 100 people attending the movie, and exactly six of us got up and asked for our money back. What's up with that? It was like a nobrainer to us. Turns out there was a blown speaker, so it wasn't going to get fixed. 94 sheep just sat there.
And the moral is: Sheep get fleeced.
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