Well, it’s Friday. The next to last day of 2005. Only three more days of vacation (boo!). This week has flown, but it’s been pretty good….except for the 2 times Hubby just had to go to work for a couple of hours. The man is such a workaholic. It drives me nuts…..and worse, it really gets to the kids.
We’ve visited friends and family and eaten way too much. One bunch of friends got us playing the country music version of one of those DVD trivia games. That was fun and dang, if country-music-hating Son didn’t answer more questions than red-necked Daughter. And get them right.
Yesterday we went to the mall for Son to exchange a couple of things that didn’t fit. He came home with gift cards because he didn’t want to stand in the lines again. Daughter used Christmas money to buy much coveted slippers that look like giant pink sneakers and a Fox racing t-shirt. I bought a new calendar (50% off), a new journal and a bottom of the bargain barrel yoga cd.
The cinema is right behind the mall, so we decided to see “Fun with Dick and Jane.” It was pretty good. The “special thanks” at the end (I won’t tell anything in case you see it) were hilarious. My only complaint was with the theater. We paid matinee admission prices but still it was $21 for 4 tickets. Add to that the $23 it cost for 2 large popcorns and 4 medium drinks. That’s $44 for the 4 of us to see a movie. Had we gone at night it would have added another $12-$15 to the admission cost. I’m not a cheapskate and this isn’t a rant about movie prices. It is a rant about service, value and standards of cleanliness. When I’m paying that much for my family to enjoy a movie that I could wait 2 months and rent at the video store for $2, is it too much to expect a clean bathroom? Not even clean, I’d have settled for something less than disgusting where my shoes didn’t have to be pried loose from the floor. I was so scarred by the experience that I couldn’t cook last night so we picked up pizza and rented a couple movies on the way home. The Bad News Bears was funny…just maybe not for the younger crowd. The new version has a lot of cussing and sexual humor.
Today is a work day. Putting up rods for the curtains my mom made Daughter, hauling stuff to the dump, hauling our old sofa and chair over the mountain to it’s new home with Hubby’s sister and maybe, just maybe starting on packing up the Christmas decorations. I normally do that on New Year’s Day, but this year we will be taking Son back to school and I go back to work the 2nd. If I don’t do it now, it will sit for another week…or 2.
I know what you mean about clean bathrooms, but in their defense the patrons aren’t much better. People leave their litter under their seats when they leave the theatre, and those poor kids have to clean it up between every show. People just don’t care when they don’t have to clean it up.
Comment by FTS — December 30, 2005 @ 6:13 pm
It’s difficult for me to pay to see those movies in the theatre too. I usually just wait till they come out on DVD and then I can enjoy them at my leisure. I also like to pause and replay sometimes and you can’t do that in the theatre. Besides …..we have Bose surround sound and there’s no crying kids and rude teenagers. Oh, and my bathroom is almost always clean
Comment by WashLady — January 1, 2006 @ 9:46 pm