Ye Gods. Home on a Friday night!

[crim son]

I've rented a couple of movies including one horror/suspense film and am feeling sorry for myself right now. What should I watch first, The DaVinci Code, or Hard Candy (the suspense one)? Or should I just sit here and post all night like I've done the last two?

I need a life. I really, really do. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. WHAT is the world coming to?

You're staying home.......and I'm going out?!

Watch The DaVinci Code!

My husband gave it to me for my birthday! It is quite a lot different than the book...

But it has its own charms........I loved it!

I don't know the other movie......

I'm going to a party, so I won't be here to talk to you, alas....

:hug:

[crim son]

5. Before my marital discord, I NEVER went anywhere!

I'm glad you have a night out. I'll keep the place warm for you, okay?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Sounds like a plan, sweetie!

And enjoy the movie, whichever one you end up watching! :hug:

[cwydro]

2. I say the DaVinci Code

I want to see that too.

[crim son]

7. I haven't read the book

so I won't be disturbed by any way in which the movie deviates from the original story. You should rent it!

[cwydro]

10. You know, I haven't read it either

and I will rent it. Great idea! For tomorrow night.

And don't feel sorry for yourself crim...you're a great person and ain't nothin' wrong with a nice evening in...:hug:

[crim son]

11. Okay, I won't feel sorry for myself!

I've already had a change of heart.

[YDogg]

3. At least you're not in the middle of a parliamentary brawl.

:-)

[crim son]

4. Yeah, thank god for small favors, no?

:rofl:

[deucemagnet]

8. I vote for Hard Candy.

I really liked that movie. :hi:

[crim son]

9. Excellent. Glad to hear that because I will definitely watch

it too but maybe not tonight. My son wants to see the Code and being the wonderful mother I am, I'm indulging him.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. I'm staying home, too.

:hi:

[crim son]

17. I guess I'm in good company then.

Which is nice :7

[Deja Q]

13. I too am staying home...

I'm doing a mega Get Smart marathon tonight and eatin' pizza. :9 :D

[crim son]

18. I had pizza too.

Is Get Smart on cable? I haven't seen that in years and years.

[WhollyHeretic]

14. I've been sick all week so I'm resting up tonight

Tomorrow my son is going to spend the night with my sister and nephew so hopefully I'll be feeling well enough to go out with a few friends and maybe have some libations.

[crim son]

19. If you're not feeling one hundred percent, take it easy

on the libations, please. But I do hope you feel better.

[alarimer]

15. I am ALWAYS home on Friday nights

And Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays too.

Well nearly always anyway. Being alone on weeknights doesn't bother me so much but being alone on "date" nights nearly kills me sometimes.

[crim son]

20. That's exactly why I've made it a point to get out on Fridays

these past months. I think I'm giving up, but in a good way. You, I hope you find somebody to go out with on the next date night. :hi:

[alarimer]

38. Someone, anyone

Well maybe not anyone. No right-wingers. I am not THAT desperate.

[crim son]

40. There are some who can be converted.

In the summer I met a handsome man who was a republican. We had one "date" but I was not ready for any relationship. We met many times over the next couple of months, and we talked politics. He then moved away. To my surprise he was out and about the weekend before Thanksgiving. His greeting was, "Looking good. I guess you now wear perfume. I am not a republican any more." I gave him a hug and my hearty congratulations.

So, if the republican is intelligent and worth the trouble, you might try to effect a conversion!

[SPKrazy]

16. You Have A Life

it's just in transition

but have fun with your movies and kids, they will appreciate that and probably need it too.

relax and kick back

:loveya: :hug:

[crim son]

21. Hello my friend.

It's almost midnight but here I am! Got your message and will respond in the a.m. when I'm more awake. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

24. HI There!

I got yours too

:hug:

[crim son]

25. Good.

One of those nights. Perhaps a night for... ice cream? :P

[SPKrazy]

32. I'm Eating Some Chips And Salsa

and drinking an O'Doul's which I have recently come to like.

Ice Cream sounds good though

:P

[crim son]

35. I've heard that O'Douls isn't bad. My sisters all drank it

when they were pregnant.

I'm sad to say I poured a drink. I have pizza too. Decadence.

[SPKrazy]

37. Pizza, Ice Cream And

a drink

damned, you're having more fun than I am :(


Maybe it's the O'Doul's, it tastes like beer, then I sit there with the expectation of FEELING SOMETHING I guess. All I feel is THIRSTY because the chips were salty

:spray:

[crim son]

39. Well, with only one drink I won't feel anything either.

So we can just hang out, feeling nothing. I know... I wish.

[SPKrazy]

41. Make It A Really Big One

drink that is!

The dog in the picture is racked out next to me on the couch. 10 months old, obnoxious as all get out.

She can just hang out feeling nothing. Me, I can distract myself fairly well a lot of times, but well, you know!

Was Da Vinci Code good? I really liked the book. So you felt religious for a while? LOL

:7

[crim son]

42. I didn't read the book because - ahem - I don't read too much

popular fiction, but I did enjoy the movie. And hey, I was raised as a Catholic. As somebody in the movie observes, "That doesn't mean very much."

Something creepy, though. Just now I was thinking about spiritual matters, it happens often, and about Catholocism in particular. Then I reached into my pocket to get a business card I thought was there. No card. Instead.... a small metal cross. (insert spooky music here) :eyes:

[SPKrazy]

43. OoooohWooooooh Oooooh! (creepy music)

I was raised a Frisbeeterian, I mean Presbyterian, really because it was about the only non-mormon church in Utah where I grew up.

I don't know what I am now. I believe in something, but not any dogma. I attend an Episcopal church mainly because that is where my wife wanted us to go.

man, I wonder why there was a small metal cross there?

I kind of think the Da Vinci code story is as probable as any other story about Jesus, I mean, if he was a man, a Jew, living at the time he lived, it would have been unusual for him to have been single and have been able to "fit in" to society. Marriage usually came with kids then.

But who knows. I sure don't. I don't read a lot of fiction either. I read that a few years ago. I like reading about politics. Usually if it is fiction it is a thriller or spy type novel.

a cross in your pocket where a business card used to be

:shrug:

[crim son]

45. It sounds odder than it is.

My mother-in-law, the rabid Catholic who hates me, regularly sends my kids the cheap crucifixes and rosaries that she gets when she donates to Catholic charities. It looks like one of those trinkets somehow made its way into a sweater I haven't worn in two years but put on tonight because it's cold.

My father's family is Presbyterian. My father's aunt did not allow my mother, a Catholic, to enter her house for many years after she and my father were married.

Anyhow, like you I have my beliefs but have discarded the dogma. It is perfectly possible that Jesus had a child. I have in fact brought up this possibility, plus the possibility that he had a brother, to my MIL just to freak her out. :evilgrin:

[SPKrazy]

47. Bwahhhaaaaahhaaaaa!

It is kind of fun to freak out MIL's isn't it?

Like I was on her computer down in Louisiana on DU. She'll have to scrub her hard drive to get all that nasty DU stuff off her conservative computer! LOL

I also found the Dixie Chicks video on Youtube, "Not ready to make right" and played it for her and she said "oh I don't listen to that", then I asked her why (innocently but not innocently) and she said "because I choose not to"

I also forward some of the more radical lefty kind of things, videos, etc. to her (along with other people that might appreciate them)

But I only recently found out that she doesn't even read them :grr: so I quit. Actually if she weren't so conservative, she'd be pretty cool. I don't have a clue why she is conservative. She is a feminist, she isn't religious, she isn't pro life, she just loves Bush (GW that is)

:crazy:

[crim son]

48. I suspect you wouldn't torture your MIL

if she hadn't tortured you somehow, in the first place. My MIL has told my kids from early on that I'm going to hell (though she's sweet as pecan pie to my face). That is but the tip of the iceberg of crap I've endured with a smile for almost two decades. At Thanksgiving the subject somehow turned to homosexuality and I launched my defense. I was cut off with a "We don't talk about that stuff here." Normally I'd back down but this time I did not :) Later my husband mentioned the episode and I told him that I suddenly feel much more free to say what I really think. I do! The ONE benefit of the divorce!

[SPKrazy]

49. Freedom to Speak

good for you for not backing down.

I think that whatever snapped in my psyche this past summer, gave me permission to not care what was thought by my wife, or her family. Some of that slips back from time to time and I clam up.

[crim son]

50. That's called "being civilized."

Sometimes it's required.

[SPKrazy]

53. Yes, Civilized, Okay

maybe required, maybe just something that people that are civilized think is required.

but yeah, if I went and said what I think, or did what I wanted to all the time, I'd be, well, someone else for sure, but not civilized or very fair.

O8)

and I'm just an angel! ;-)

[WCGreen]

22. We just got done with the Da Vinci Code....

Pretty good movie...

[crim son]

23. Yes. I didn't expect much because there has been a fair

amount of criticism. I was pleasantly surprised! Not only that, it almost made me feel religious. For a fraction of a second.

[crispini]

26. Dude, Friday is the best TV night on the planet!

Battlestar Galactica and Dr. Who.... who the hell wants to go out?! :bounce:

[crim son]

28. Dudette :)

No cable here. Therefore, it's the worst night on television, unless you like "Numbers." :rofl:

[crispini]

30. Ooo. My condolences.

My dear friend downloads BSG off of Usenet. Does that win the geek prize or what? :rofl:

[crim son]

33. Your friend is surely a contender, lol! n/t

[RevolutionaryActs]

27. I have a beef with you!

You were the one who turned me onto Absolute Ruby Red Vodka. Now I'm addicted, damn you. :P

[crim son]

29. Oh, naughty, naughty me!

I feel so terribly guilty :) It's good stuff, isn't it? So good in fact that I'm heading into the kitchen to pour myself a wee drop.

How are you this evening, Rev?

[RevolutionaryActs]

31. As well you should!

I'm great!... since I've had a few. :rofl:

[crim son]

34. I just went into the kitchen and made a drink. Then I grabbed

a piece of leftover pizza and covered it in pickled jalapeno peppers. I will soon be as cheerful as you are!

[RevolutionaryActs]

36. Yummy!

:9

[Madrone]

44. What?

You mean that's not normal? :shrug:

It's where I always am on a Friday night.

[crim son]

46. Me too, for sixteen years.

But my marriage has collapsed and for a while it seemed necessary to go out and reassure myself that I was still a woman. I am! I also wanted to reassure myself that I am still young, but that wasn't a terrific success :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

51. Young Is As Young Does?

I got laughed at tonight on a thread by leftymom who said at least she now knew she wasn't the oldest person at school if I decided to start a PhD program next year.

And then, RevAct04 gave me a link to a picture of her legs and I was woo hooing that and later she tells me she's 20 y/o. Now I feel like a perv. Nah, not too much of a perv!

:evilgrin:

[crim son]

52. Twenty is legal!

I told you she was dangerous :)

Okay, how ancient are you?

[SPKrazy]

54. Well She Is Dangerous

I'm 45

I don't feel 45, and my body doesn't feel 45 anymore, except when it is cold outside. Like now.

:P

[crim son]

55. Working out really helps keep one limber.

Or so I hear! I walked all summer but my arthritis is flaring badly this fall so I'm somewhat less mobile and can't overuse my legs.

Forty-five is what I thought. You know, thereabouts.

[SPKrazy]

56. So, Spill

how old are you? Or is it only okay to ask a guy their age? LOL

[crim son]

57. I'm always posting it. I'm forty-three.

And the stress of the last year is causing me to look every one of those years :cry:

[SPKrazy]

58. This Is Kind Of Strange-Or Maybe Not

people have told me I look younger, have more energy, and am more real since I, well I guess I made some kind of a decision last summer regarding my marriage.

I don't feel that way, but it isn't just one person who's told me that.

Now, as time goes on the way I feel right now, I can't imagine that I won't and don't look every bit of 45.

But as bad as I feel sometimes, I do feel like something has shifted in my psyche and it is something that needed to shift badly.

:hug:

I think things will pick up for you when some things get finalized for you

[crim son]

59. One of my good friends went through a divorce a year ago.

She is one year younger than I am. Anyway, I watched her age over the space of two years, as she dealt with the heartbreak. It was remarkable. Before this stuff happened to me, I was regularly pegged as being in my mid-thirties and I consciously thought that I was not going to allow heartbreak to ruin my face or body. But one has little control over these things. Well, what the hell? I never had particularly good luck with men when I was young and pretty. It can't be much worse now :P

[SPKrazy]

60. You Always Make Me Laugh

I bet you will have better luck than you have before because you have made some great realizations in your debacle of the divorce. For one you know that there is something called love that you've felt, and you know you weren't getting it in your marriage.

I bet also that you aren't as "old" looking as you make yourself out to be. Using your kids as a gauge of what you might look like, I'd say you must be an attractive woman. So if you didn't have good luck before, and now you have experience on your side; you were young and pretty, and now you are a little older (not old by any stretch) and you are pretty, then you should have the odds on your side!

:woohoo:


:pals:

[crim son]

61. Here I am in July, wasted.

I try not to have my picture taken because I hate the way I look in them. For instance, I usually have my eyes open. Sorry the pic is so big.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5900252&mesg_id=5900569

[SPKrazy]

62. Wow, You Don't Look Old At All

you are a beautiful woman!



:loveya:

edited to say you do look wasted! lol

[crim son]

63. Yes, I'm a goddess.

:eyes: That's why the love of my life chose a fifty-three year old, grey haired, physically abusive woman who regularly reviled and insulted him, instead of me.

You detect a note of self pity? Hell yeah you do!

[SPKrazy]

64. Well He's A Frickin' Fool

if that's what he chose

hell yeah he is!

roll your eyes

U B Hawt! He B Fool! Goddess? Maybe.

sounds like he must need something from that abusive relationship, I don't know, it's impossible to characterize what he does or doesn't need without ever having laid eyes on him,

but you are a lovely woman, and that's obvious to anyone with eyes.

:hug:

[crim son]

65. Thanks.

There is in fact a very good reason why he chose the abusive woman. I know a bit about how he grew up, and we discussed it. However he said he was "changing." Snort.

[SPKrazy]

66. I'm Sorry My Friend

I know it hurts you

and makes you mad

and all of that

bottom line

he's made a mistake, will he realize it?

:hug:

[crim son]

67. No. He always loved this woman.

I was a way to make her jealous. Live and learn!

[SPKrazy]

68. Live And Learn

Well, I guess that's what we do eh?

Just sorry it had to be you that was used for that!

:hug: