The Escalating Cost of Entertainment

What the….it’s Monday AGAIN? Curses upon whoever invented the calendar. Can’t we skip Monday every once in a while, and just repeat Saturday? I wouldn’t mind another Saturday, although I’m a little Harry Pottered out after seeing HP6 TWICE in a 2 day stretch. There are very few movies I am willing to pay $10.00 to see in a theater where my shoes stick to the floor, and Harry Potter is one of them*. But, I will admit that the movie was a little boring the second time around(gasp!). Seeing as HP earned $10 Zillion dollars over the weekend, I kinda want my $10.00 back, or at least a discount on next years’ ticket. Harry can keep the $13.50 I paid to see it on Friday night – that was TOTALLY worth it. (long live the Arclight, where you can reserve your seats ahead of time, thus skipping over the “is that seat saved?” routine – totally worth the extra $3.50)

Lyla is back in quarantine again, which means the Huz and I are as well. We gave ourselves a little “break” (not sure we were really supposed to, but it was HARRY!) over the weekend, but now we’re down to the wire, so back into our hole we go! We meet with Dr. Starns (her surgeon) next Monday(located at the beginning of the week AGAIN), and will be able to schedule her surgery that day, as well. Craaaaaaap. I really do think the calendar is jacked up (and not just because each week starts with Monday). There must be a month or two missing somewhere – how is it possible that Lyla is already 5 months old? When they told us that she’d have her surgery at 6 months old, it sounded like an eternity away. Why is it here already? WHY? Next thing I know she’ll be asking me for $10.00 to go see a movie. Yeah right – we all know we’re going to have to apply for a small loan every time we want to go see a movie in another few years. Soon people are going to check and see if a $10 bill is heads up before picking one up on the street.

I’ve recently become a fan of the Food section in the LA Times. Especially the SOS column, where people can write in and get recipes for famous dishes from restaurants all over the country – brilliant! This has inspired me to try taking a culinary tour of LA one of these years. The Huz and I are tired of the same old restaurants, but aren’t brave enough to try new places on our own. Someday soon you’ll be dazzled by my totally amazing, off-the-beaten path restaurant recommendations. But, in the meantime, I’ll be borrowing recipe ideas from someone else’s kitchen, courtesy of the LA Times.

*The fact that Laura Parker and I saw Speed EVERY WEEKEND while it was in theaters is beside the point. We were in 9th grade, and movie tickets were only $8.00!!! A completely different situation. And besides, Keanu was lookin mighty fine in those days. Especially to a 14 year old.