7.04.07

so much fun.

Independence Day:
I awake early to discover, as per usual when I’m off, there is nothing on tv worth watching in the a.m. Maybe it’s not just when I’m off, maybe this is always the case. I find the same three workout/exercise infomercials on 100 different channels and feel terrible about my body. I resolve to get back to working on my fitness... tomorrow. The mom and I head to old navy so I can exchange some shorts and pick up a black zip hoodie I’ve been regretting not buying since the last time I was there. I find more new sheets at bed, bath & beyond and swear to myself that this will be my last set. We swing by bennigan’s for lunch and plot out our day. I’m still waiting to hear from G to find out what her day looks like, it’s almost noon and she’s not awake yet. I’m jealous of her life even more. My mom speaks of a barbecue at my uncle’s and we wonder if the weather will cooperate with us. When G and I finally get to strategizing about our day we opt for a later meet up so she can get something done with her day, for she just awoke. So I suck it up and offer to go to the picnic with my mother. Holidays really are all about doing things you really don’t want to do with family you really don’t want to see. I love my uncle and his girlfriend, and my aunt who are all rumored to be in attendance, I just dread making the small talk with the mass of cousins whom I have zip in common with. The whole time that I’m there I’m saying a quiet little prayer in my head that I somehow turned invisible and wouldn’t have to make with the chit chat. Shockingly enough, this does not work. I have a burger and not much else since everything on the menu pretty much involves mayonnaise in some way. We sit and enjoy the weather for two hours, my mother grows tired, and we head home. I text G to let her know I’ll be about 15 minutes later than expected since we left my uncle’s later than planned. She asks if it could be thirty minutes since she is running around like a crazy person trying to get ready. G and Lisa are the only two people I know who do not work, yet always seem to be running late. Too funny. I get home then turn around and leave again. We meet at the theater and try to decide between Transformers and Live Free or Die Hard! I tell her I don’t care I want to see both of them so she picks Die Hard.

G: I’d like to be able to say that I’ve seen the trilogy.
Me: But this is the fourth one.
G: What? Nooo.
Me: Yeah, the third one was called With a Vengeance.
G: Are you sure?
Me: I'm pretty sure since I own all three.
G: What was the third one about?
Me: (explaining the story)
G: Well, what was the second one about?
Me: (more with the explaining)
G: Huh, maybe I’ve only ever seen the first one.

So Die Hard it is. We purchase our tickets then decide to find a place to get one or several drinks and a snack. We try our luck at the Mexican place for chips and margaritas, sadly they are closed. I tell G that this is the second Mexican restaurant that I’ve seen closed today, obviously they are far more patriotic than your average bar & grill type establishments. So we trek back to our usual, Friday’s. We go there because it’s across the parking lot form the movie theater, we can drink and walk if necessary and not have to worry. Everything G wants they are out of, or tastes odd. She gets a free dessert out of this, which she finds disgusting. I opt to drink and drink only. I have two drinks and feel pretty tipsy. We close down the place and head for our movie. It was fast-paced, funny, over the top, and just all around awesome. G found some of the action sequences a bit hard to believe, I inform her that all the Die Hards are like that. I tell her that the only part that I found unbelievable was that John McClain, a cop, had a 401k. Other than that everything else was pretty much plausible. We said our goodbyes shortly after 1 a.m. and I came home and died.

*to be fair, justin long should be rocking that poster as well, he pretty much steals the entire movie away from bruce willis.