turkey lurkey
i suppose i can say i had a pretty productive extended holiday weekend. i never really do much on thanksgiving as it is, i have been gone from my family for so many years on this day that it has lost all family importance with me.
cory cooked a nice ham, brussel sprouts, yams/sweet potatoes, cranberry jelled sauce (with ridges from the can, YUM!), mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie for dessert. it was good! the small ham lasted us for several left over periods. i also was reminded how much i love baked sweet potatoes and that i should get them and eat them more often.
friday blew chunks. i don't think i did a damn thing. oh yeah, i did see Chicken Little at the theatres.. it was cute. it was also cute listening to the kids in the audience giggling and laughing at simple things that i take for granted. it made me chuckle. (please see rant on the lower portion of the page regarding movie theatre audiences these days)
saturday was probably my most productive day of the whole vacation, however, this is not due to the fact that I hung out with hrhmsh . in fact he took us to see Harry Potter. i hadn't seen any of them so this was i suppose my virginal experience. we get to the mall and its the busiest i have ever seen a mall. there was not a parking spot in sight. the queue lines for people waiting for parking spots were coming all the way out of the parking garage, out the exits, around the corner, and jamming up in the main streets! hrhmsh requested "covered parking" but that was quickly disputed and i won so we drove off about 1.5 miles to an adjacent parking lot with a giant sign stating
"PARKING FOR REI CUSTOMERS ONLY, ALL OTHER VEHICLES WILL BE TOWED".
we parked and walked briskly (hrhmsh skipped) to the theatre. i have the worst fear about getting to a movie theater late. i think its because i always make fun of the idiots that come in and can't find a seat AS THE MOVIE IS STARTING. unfortunately this day, WE WERE THE IDIOTS!
so we get into the theater and it is fucking packed. we head up to the nosebleed section and i spot two seats in between a fat family and a skinny family. i lean over to ask the fat family "are those two seats taken" an in so doing, i smash the fat kid's fat foot, trip over the fat mom's thigh, and pretty much land in the fat dad's gut area. to catch my fall, i grabbed the back of the seats of the row in front pulling out all the 80's big hair one lady had. the seats were free but now i was almost to embarrassed to sit there. the fat family's dad says as i trip over his offspring "well EXCUSE us". i wanted to say.. "no, thank you for catch my fall with your family's lard rolls" but i clenched my tongue. hrhmsh chuckled and then shuffled his ass into the seat i had reserved. keep in mind, i have NO DESIRE to even see Harry Potter. the sacrifices i make for you, hrhmsh!
MOVIE THEATER RANT PORTION:
the movie begins and no sooner had the opening scene began and i felt someone kicking the back of my seat. not a gentle nudge, an all out kick the back of my seat kick. occasionally i see hrhmsh pop forward as his seat is kicked in the same manner. i turn around after about the 3rd kick to see who is doing it. it is a fucking 4 year old sitting on his dad's lap! i make a comment to hrhmsh and receive notification that he too is experiencing the kicking motion.
the kicking resided for a small portion of the movie but continued threw completion of this long ass movie.
RANT 1: IF YOU BRING KIDS TO A MOVIE THEATER, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO HOW THEY ARE AFFECTING OTHER PEOPLE. I DON'T CARE IF THEY ARE A KID!
apparently the family behind us (they have i swear 6 or 7 children) has ADHD. next i hear a fucking plastic nacho container being kicked to and fro, similar to a hackey sack. this action continues for the majority of the movie. instead of picking up the god damn nacho container... the parents just let their kids kick it around. it was loud too, i think everyone was annoyed.
RANT 2: IF YOU HAVE KIDS, KEEP AND EYE ON WHAT THEY ARE DOING. I DON'T CARE IF THEY ARE KIDS!
my final straw was listening to the fat family pass around zip lock bags of candy and lard that they "sneaked" in to the theater with them because they are too cheap to just by a single bag of popcorn and a soda at the concession stand. i am surprised that i did not hear a soda can being opened.
RANT 3: IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR YOUR KIDS, DON'T SMUGGLE FOOD INTO A THEATER.
so judging from my rants, the movie scene has been less than desirable and on the decline the past few months. at another movie i had a group of teenage girls talking on their cell phones the entire time. it was fucking ridiculous. they got yelled at and i think they eventually left.
END OF RANT SECTION...
saturday night, hrhmsh called me up to inform me that we were going out to the bars. it's been a while since i have been out to the bars but i thought i would give it a shot and try and socialize. perhaps the highlight of the evening was hearing this come directly out of hrhmsh's mouth after a few beers.
He is talking to said guy named Ryan.
'oh god, I have met so many Ryans.. is it a prerequisite to be gay and be named Ryan. i mean for god's sake, that's like naming your lesbian daughter "Pat".. she's bound to turn out a lesbo if you name her that.'
ryan gave him the "pshaw" look and quickly jetted. proud of his accomplishment, hrhmsh downed another beer.
as ryan left the bar, he grabbed hrhmsh's ass. hrhmsh looked at me and said "i guess he didn't take that comment too personally". nope, i guess not. its because you are soooo hot hrhmsh.
after the bar we went to go eat at some dive restaurant in SE portland. apparently there was a prerequisite that you had to be completely baked out of your mind to get in the door because everyone was high as a kite there. it seemed like something i would see in a movie. this didn't affect hrhmsh, he chowed down just the same as he always does. *** text update*** hrhmsh's ass just exploded from the dive food we consumed last night! gee i hope mine is next!