Thar's Gold On That There Asphalt!!
Well, maybe not gold, not in this instance anyway.
Yesterday afternoon both sons were off work and we tried to get ahold of their girlfriends last minute to go to the movies with us. Alas, the poor girlies missed out on a last minute date! We went to see Will Smith's "I Am Legend".
It was really good, but I had no idea it was a scary movie or I wouldn't have gone. I CUSSED out loud four different times in the movie when something jumped at me. I thought the old ticker was going to go at any minute.
I think I actually strained my shoulder by grabbing onto each boys shoulders as I sat in the middle.
Ohhh, and yeah, I did pick my feet up off the floor. You never know what scary thing is down there!! Wooooo.
After the movie we had to hurry home - IT WAS GETTING DARK!!! I saw a bit of shiny-shiny on the ground by the truck. So, looking carefully around to be sure no boogies were going to get me I grabbed that puppy up - it was a dime.
So, as you all know I've been collecting money WHERE-EVER I can find it since my Grampa H. taught me when I was knee-high to the proverbial grasshopper - We now can ascertain that I'm willing to risk being bit by the Boogie-Men to pick up a dime!
Man, was I glad to get home safe!
**I don't DO scary movies people and this here just proved my point. Of course both word police sons' first words out of their mouths when we got home was to tell Hubster "Dad, Mom cussed during the movie - FOUR TIMES!!!"
hahahhahaaaaaaaaa!
Hilarious.
I said it loud too where everyone could hear me*!! "OHHHHHHHH Shoot!" Or something like that!
*I'm kind of public safety minded that way - I was giving warning to the other citizens of the theatre to let's get the heck out'a here!!!
Anyway, I'm taking my dime**to the challenge.
$20 CHALLENGE
$015.32 balance
+000.10 The Risk Queen Salvaged
_______
$015.42 Jan MTD
2008 Challenge Total $15.42
Cumulative Challenge Total $544.03
**Effectively bringing down the cost of going to the movie by 10 cents. Matinee costs yesterday were $5.00 - I bought for myself and CashHappySon, so only $4.90 for me this time. FrugalSon paid his own way. We also got the DREADED fast food yesterday - but with FrugalSon's employee discount it was only $3.27 for all three of us to each have a burger & fries, w/water to drink from home!
Soooo, check that asphalt people. There's gold and silver and folding money to be found out there! But, do watch for the night boogies. And light up the dark!!
You can read the book it is based on here:
http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Legend-Richard-Matheson/dp/076531...
Or light up your dark-night here:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Marley/dp/079359412X/ref=sr_1...
How about you - do you nightmare from scary movies? I don't, but I don't like them.
Do you pick up money when you find it on the ground?
January 16th, 2008 at 05:50 pm 1200505800
January 16th, 2008 at 05:54 pm 1200506057
You would have spoken to the girl in the video store earlier, RIGHT????????
January 16th, 2008 at 06:31 pm 1200508292
As for the girl in the video store... uh, no. Too shy to do that.
January 18th, 2008 at 06:02 am 1200636179
I saw I Am Legend in IMAX. It took me a couple of days before my BP went down.
SPOILER ALERT - I Am Legend
I'm still trying to figure out how he got enough electricity to run his basement lab. (sweet, sweet medical equipment there, a propane generator ain't gonna cut it)
How he got clean water from the bathtub tap to wash the dog.
How if they were vampire zombies with elevated body temperatures that a couple of good winters wouldn't just kill 'em off.
How after all the bridges around Manhattan (Island) were blown up and stayed destroyed for at least 3 years creating a quarantined area, that the nearly last woman in the world could rescue Will Smith by DRIVING.
Oh yes, and leave by DRIVING out....
Okay, I'll take off my Vulcan ears now.