Friday
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Jeff and I treated ourselves to an early movie yesterday. We saw Flight and at 12:30 pm we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. Admission certainly eats through most of a twenty dollar bill and as much as I love popcorn I resisted. Because you are a captive audience the prices for popcorn, candy and soda are high and most people succumb. Who doesn't love popcorn and a movie? I, thinking ahead, put some cheese crackers in my purse and Jeff and I had a mid-movie snack.
The movie was very good but all the drinking and drug use is pretty hard to watch especially when you realize that this man is going to get in a plane and fly. As a pilot and a son of an alcoholic, I know the movie touched Jeff deeply. In an interview that I read, Denzel said that his wife didn't like the drunk scene - and neither did we. I don't know if you can fake being drunk or that was the real thing. Denzel was great as always and perhaps he'll get an Oscar nod in the spring.
So here we are on Friday, Black Friday at that. Yesterday morning I went through all the ads and found nothing even remotely enticing enough to get me out of bed at 4:00 in the morning. I guess I'm stuck paying the sleeper in prices. Or perhaps Amazon will put some wanted items on sale this weekend. Isn't there some kind of Monday online sale that rivals Black Friday? I thought there was but they should rethink it - because on Monday we're all at the office - and while it does go on - shopping isn't what we're there for.
Today's plans are soft (as our sons would say) which means we could flop around in several directions. The plane is free until later this afternoon but I hate taking the plane out knowing that the clock is ticking. Somehow takes some of the fun out of the ride for me. The plane is, however, available all day tomorrow and if it's beautiful, we may go out for a spin. It's been a while since I've been up in the plane and it's good for me to go up regularly so that I don't forget how beautiful it is up there.
We're planning on going up at night probably on my birthday - December 17th in case any of you want to jot that down - to fly over the city and admire Christmas lights from the sky. Doing that will be a first for me and I'm sure it will be spectacular.
Basically, I have no idea what we're doing for the next 3 days. It's tempting to stay home and read or write (I've written another 50 pages or so on Wilma). I know one thing that I'm NOT going to do today is go to a store. Let me clarify that. I mean certain stores that sell high ticket items such as tv's, computers etc. which all make great gifts particularly when they are on sale. Lucky for me the family is all set electronic wise, one of the benefits of being related to so many computer guys!
Enjoy your Friday whether you're going to loaf around or put on your sneakers and fight the crowds. Just don't forget to go home and eat the leftovers!
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