So last night didn’t end in spontaneous combustion on my part. It was close though - I was mad enough to spit nails.
Luckily I got to spend the evening with R and we had fun at Dave & Busters playing the cheapest games we could find. I found $40 in my paypal account so I took out half of that and then I found $20 in various pockets and purses - I wasn’t even looking, it was just there! To me this indicates I may be a speck careless with my money. So we got to have dinner and play $10 worth of games.
Then we went to see Shrek. R’s brother works at AMC and she called him to see if she could get a free ticket. Turns out we got TWO free tickets! I still have $20 bucks left!
The more time I spend with R the more time I want to spend with her. I feel like she’s my own daughter, but then I don’t have to do the parenting. Well, in a way, I do because her own parents aren’t exactly on the ball. Sometimes I wish I were her parent so then she could have some stability. I hate that she’s always feeling like her grandmother is going to kick her out for the slightest infraction and that her parents home is so….crazy. Her parents are…um, what do they call them….hoarders. Like the city sends a dumpster to their house for cleanup when the neighbors complain. That kind of hoarding. That’s why I hope she can get a scholarship to go away to school when she graduates.
Shrek 2 was funny by the way. I think I may have liked it more than the first! BTW, Meadow - audible sighing all over the audience every time Antonio Banderas spoke…my friend S and I were practically swooning. The animation was just beyond fantastic - I can’t believe the art has progessed so much since the first movie. Poor P had to go spend the evening with swooning, giggly girls!
Today I had to teach a class - we did origami boxes and I made $60. Doesn’t seem like much, but it’ll get me through the end of the month without touching savings. Yay! And then I attended what I thought was going to be an art show. Well, I guess it was, only there was a lot of performance pieces. Nothing against them, but I was expecting more visual art and conversation about visual art.
I have to make sure I contact the gallery about one of the pieces I saw 2 weeks ago. The only way I can describe it is it has sort of a spyglass perspective of Seussian inspired village buildings.
This evening was the D & T show. Very weird vibe. T is either attaching himself to me because he doesn’t know anyone else very well, or because he’s interested. Or because he just likes to hang around me. I get that a lot. When you’re a basically happy, funny, silver lining kind of person (except in regards to mailboxes) people naturally like to be around you. No bragging on my part, just forty years experience. BUT whenever I was talking to D, T would show up by my side. Geez Louise, what is he - 26? D was with some friends and I was hoping that a group of us would head for coffee tonight, but twas not to be so. Just as well, I need to get some writing done.