the movie Back to the Future for our date night. It was safe and fun, and the trilogy aspect gave way to excuses for future dates.Well future dates did happen, and we certainly had have our share of movie nights since then, but for some reason the remaining installments of the original series were left unwatched. We always talked about watching them when we thought about movie choices and options, but they just seemed to slip through the cracks.
Well, finally, after a year, we finished what we started. This Sunday marked the joyous occasion. Marty dressed as Clint Eastwood and Dr. Brown figured out how to make an 1880s steam train fly. We did manage to find two additional gaps in the crazy storyline, but it was a mile marker we were happy to reach. It just seemed to bring closure to something we'd kept open for so long, even when we didn't have a strong reason why.
Do you ever celebrate silly milestones or victory in unimportant contests?
6 comments:
watching a trilogy like that in a short time frame felt too much like watching the same movie three times in a row!
every time i drove to or from college (~600 miles), i would try to compete against my best total time and beat it. several speeding tickets later, i decided it wasn't worth the "record."
when my cousin joseph lived with us for a summer, we used to time ourselves in cleaning up the kitchen after supper. we hated spending all night in there, so we tried to do it as quickly as we could. cleaning entailed emptying the dishwasher, reloading it, cleaning whatever other dishes wouldn't fit, washing the counters, washing the tables, etc. i think we had to sweep too, but our record for everything but sweeping was 45 seconds!
i bet your mom liked that game! better than the let's-see-how-close-to-the-trashcan-we-can-throw-leftovers, or something like that. did she get to do a final kitchen inspection?
oh, of course. if mama wasn't happy, no one was happy. mike and i used to see how much dish soap we could load into the sink at one time. we had bubbles flying everywhere.
Oh, I'm afraid you just had to make me do it...what about the time you and your cousin Jason had a contest to see who could pee up the wall the highest? Champion on pee mountain for sure!!!
wow, high peeing, huh? i love to celebrate milestones, silly or not. i think any excuse to include more celebration in life is a good thing.
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