Our Big Night

We modified our plans for dinner last night at the last minute.

We already had our big anniversary celebration over the weekend, but you can't just ignore the actual day. That would not be right!

Toting kids along (because in this day and age, they should be just as happy as we are that we're married another year!), we headed for Salsarita's. My fave! Quick, relatively cheap, and kid friendly.

However, after reading on a friend's blog that there was going to be a live band there that night, we saw evidence of the band's arrival. So we skipped down the road a bit and ate at McAlister's Deli. We've eaten there only once before... without kids. This time we ate outside, and because it rained earlier in the day, it wasn't so yucky hot.

I had my second Greek salad in a week.

And I noticed that Panera Bread's building has a sign on it that they'll soon be open. I see many more Greek salads in my near future. I'm very happy about that.

Then we slipped by Blockbuster and rented this:



I'm a huge Morgan Freeman fan. Not so much Jack Nicholson (although I loved the movie "As Good As It Gets". Nobody does OCD better than he did in that movie.)

Nicholson had the best line in The Bucket List, too.

By the time we generally see a movie, most everyone else in the country has already seen it, so I don't think I can give anything away. But just in case. You're warned.

When both men are in the hospital and Nicholson's character starts to experience terrible side effects of chemo, he says, "Somewhere, some lucky guy's having a heart attack."

Bruce and I almost cried we laughed so hard. Not that cancer, chemo or heart attacks are funny... but that line was.

Bruce's favorite line came from Freeman's character. During the opening narrative, he says, "You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."

I think that sounds really egotistical. But Bruce is Bruce and he can like what he chooses. I can't convince him of his warpedness.

Tomorrow we find out who Clay's third grade teacher will be. We'll find out who Spencer and Allison's teachers will be next Wednesday, after they've been screened on Monday.

I'll be praying in the next few weeks for the teachers at Clay's school. I've just heard through the grapevine that because of budget cuts, the school has lost three teachers (one in the third grade) who won't be replaced. It could be a rough year for the remaining teachers who will likely have much larger classrooms because of the loss.