It’s your one way ticket to midnite…

We were driving home Saturday night and my son just about jumped out of his seat.

“Look, mommy, they have a TV outside!”

He had just seen his first drive-in theater. We all agreed that sometime we would make the trip to see a movie. I think it’s kinda sad that we’ll have to drive over two hours just to go see a movie.

When I was a lad, of course, the drive in was all the rage. It was cheap – they had dollar night at ours, plus you could pay one price for your car and as many people as you could cram inside. You could bring your own refreshments. And it was usually a double feature (something my kids have no concept about, having never been to one)

I also remember long ago taking my girlfriend / now wife to the drive in to see “Flashdance.” I wanted to do.. things and she wanted badly to see the movie, since it was filmed in and around Pittsburgh where she grew up. I don’t remember what the second feature was.

just keeping you on your toes

I was reading something on the computer and sensed a disturbance in the force. I looked down, and sure enough, the baby is crawling like GI Joe, heading for the glowing red power switch on the surge protector, the one that shuts down everything on this side of the desk.

Again.

Random nonsense

To push depresso-post out of the way, here are a few random observations from this weekend:

  • Dora on Telemundo does not try and teach the kids English.
  • Dora on Telemundo only speaks spanish, but not even in Dora’s voice
  • My four year old will insist repeatedly that you “change her voice back” in spite of your explanation that he is watching Dora on Telemundo
  • This gets old
  • But the “We did it” song actually sounds pretty good in spanish.
  • It’s raining, again.
  • Our children aren’t the only ones who act up in church.
  • we were in the back, which is the “crying room” I guess, windows let you see and PA lets you hear but you don’t disturb the folks who are inside
  • I laughed when somebody else was chasing their running child across the room during a solemn moment in mass.
  • I am going to hell.
  • I rented a video game for my seven year old.
  • Seven year olds are gifted at video games, but not complicated ones
  • Star Trek Elite whatever is too complicated and he keeps asking for me to help.
  • I am always asked to referee between the kids. Now it is Star Trek vs. Sponge Bob. Play a video game or watch a movie?
  • Thanks everyone for their support in my Depressopost, sometimes I just kinda do that. I’m getting back to denial quickly so things should be back to normal soon.
  • I rented “Forgotten” and “The Terminal,” in addition to Spongebob, so I may have more movies to add to my list. Now I need to get a bottle of wine and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s and my evening will be perfect. But I have to wait till the kids go to bed, first (they’ll try and sneak into the room to watch “scary movies” if they aren’t actually asleep before I push play.”
  • Don’t you hate bullet lists that substitute for actual blog entries? Me too.