So A. wanted to have a Father/Son day today. I asked him what he wanted to do, and we decided to go catch The Fantastic Four at Parkside. Problem is that Parkside is currently having a promotion where you get a free drink and popcorn with a ticket purchase (ends today). The place was a mad house. The movie we wanted to see was sold out, so we decided to see War of the Worlds instead. After getting our tickets we got in line for snacks. And waited a lot more! We finally got our snacks and got in the movie during the trailers. Of course the only seats left were in the very front row.

Now, I know I have motion sickness issues and I that it was probably going to make me ill, but this is for my son. I figured I’d tough it out. Turns out the apple didn’t fall far from the tree on that one. He started feeling really bad. At first I thought it might be the popcorn, nachos and candy but once all that was gone he kept getting progressively worse. Finally I asked him if he wanted to leave. “But you’d have wasted all that money!” he says.

God, I love my kid. He was going to sit there and suffer because he didn’t want my money to be wasted.

I assured him it was ok, and we cut out. Caught about an hour of the movie.

What we saw was pretty good, though.

Now we’re home, and after laying down for just a few minutes he’s already feeling better. So yeah…no more front row seating for him.

And now, a small rant…

I really don’t think it’s fair that movie theaters charge the same price for tickets in that section. Let’s face it. They suck. It’s VERY hard to enjoy a movie when you’re sitting there, and you’re usually sore and nauseous afterward. They should have two-tiered seating and charge less to sit in that section. That way you’d know before you decided to purchase your tickets whether or not you have to sit in the suck ass section and you wouldn’t get ripped off.

Of course, it would also be nice if they just had assigned seating.

Tell you what, big movie chains…You want my business? Give me more incentive to get out of the house. Assigned seating. Age restricted theaters. Enforced “silence is golden” rules. Make it so that it’s not more appealing for me to stay at home.

And here’s the kicker – You can charge more for it. Premium services, baby! I’d pay it!

Just my two cents.

So now A. and J. are playing video games. The Father/Son day was cut short.

Ah well.

Text of a complaint letter that is going in the mail tomorrow.

There has been a hurricane casualty. The gazebo was destroyed overnight.

I should have taken it down. I’m an idiot.

This blows.

Your current weight | 279.8 lbs
Weight change since your last recorded weight | -3.8 lbs
Total weight change to date | -139.4 lbs

First week back on plan full time got me some good results, even if I fell off the wagon for holidays and sickness. Good times.

Cross posted to alt_diet

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program…

The most disturbing thing about iTunes transitioning from Enigma to Enomine is that “Der Herr ist mein Hirte” sounds like an Enigma song in the beginning, only to have the tranquility train wrecked by angsty German poetry.

Brain hurty now.

Day two of feeling like utter and complete shit. The throat isn’t hurting as bad as it was yesterday, but swallowing still isn’t fun. I think I got all of an hours worth of sleep last night, which is especially surprising when you consider the fact that I took two Tylenol Cold Nighttime formula. I’m having a hard time keeping my eyes open, and to top it all off I just got virtually “yelled” at by my stressed out co-worker while trying to help her.

Oh, and there is a potential Hurricane on tap for the weekend.

This week = Fired.

Two years ago today I started a new life in the oldest city in America. There is a certain bit of poetic beauty in that, I suppose.

Happy Anniversary, netgoth. Here’s to many, many more. Until Starlight’s End.

Do I look the same to you? ‘Cause I don’t feel so.
You know everything must change as time goes by.
Though it feels like yesterday when we first met.
I feel I’m sinking deeper.
Do you look the same to me? Well, I don’t think so.
You know everything must change as time goes by.
Like the flowers that dry, locking inside
forever their beauty.
And they said this feeling fades,
it gets stronger everyday.
And they said that beauty fades.
You’re more beautiful than ever.
They said we’d drift away,
we’re still standing here.
And it feels like everyday is our anniversary.
Well, I stumble through the dark and light a candle
and the path the wax will take, no one can know.
And you said it looked like snow or maybe clouds,
and I think it looks like heaven.
So we make it into a ring and make a mold.
And we welt above the flames the whitest gold.
When hot and cold collide what’s left in place
is forever and ever.
Some say things worth having take some time.
As they get older they get better.

– Voltaire, “Anniversary”

Hellooooo weekend!

Personal note to netgoth : I have a few stops to make on the way home, so I won’t be there in an hour. Just didn’t want you to worry.

Thanks for putting up with my insanity, gang. I’ll post something of significance later. Maybe explain, as much as I can within the confines of professionalism (Hi, Boss!), why I was so frazzled later.