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A Nice Evening
Aug. 4th, 2013 04:37 amWe had a different sort of evening at home than we normally have. That is, we had an evening at home. My wife and our youngest daughter, who lives with her boyfriend's parents, had walked up the street for a baby shower at the home of a childhood best friend and afterward walked back to our place where our daughter had parked her car.
Her Nurseliness had made sure that this was one of her days off, so that they could attend; she's actually been taking some days off in the interest of possibly surviving until retirement. Work has gotten even more difficult recently because the new Nurse Manager, who took over the scheduling, doesn't have a clue and they end up working short on a unit where the accuities were always high to begin with.
Our youngest is the mother of identical twin girls who are now about 18 months old and between having the girls to take care of and working full time, we don't see her as often as we'd like. But because the little girls were in the care of their other grandmother for the evening, Sarah was able to stay for dinner and a movie.
It wasn't a big deal--I picked up pizza and wings at the neighborhood pizzeria, the one that says, "We treat you like family"--and we watched a movie that my grandson and I really like, Julie Taymore's Across the Universe. It features some 40 Beatles songs, the characters take the names of the people in them, like Maxwell Silverhammer, Sadie, and Jude, and the story plays out against the backdrop of events in the 1960s.
It's sort of a cult piece, a love story that's at once quirky and heartwarming and maybe sort of cool, if you happened to have lived through it in real life. My wife commented that it's sort of like a history lesson but more real and a lot more fun. And our grandson actually loves the Beatles, weird little kid that he is. Cut him some slack, I guess, considering the household where he's grown up, LOL.
Anyway, we had the pizza and wings and the movie and a rare evening together. My son and his GF didn't attend, maybe because he was scheduled to drive out of town at 2 AM or because they're still under the illusion that they can have kids and still have their own lives. But it was, for the rest of us, a nice evening...
LPK
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8.4.2013
Her Nurseliness had made sure that this was one of her days off, so that they could attend; she's actually been taking some days off in the interest of possibly surviving until retirement. Work has gotten even more difficult recently because the new Nurse Manager, who took over the scheduling, doesn't have a clue and they end up working short on a unit where the accuities were always high to begin with.
Our youngest is the mother of identical twin girls who are now about 18 months old and between having the girls to take care of and working full time, we don't see her as often as we'd like. But because the little girls were in the care of their other grandmother for the evening, Sarah was able to stay for dinner and a movie.
It wasn't a big deal--I picked up pizza and wings at the neighborhood pizzeria, the one that says, "We treat you like family"--and we watched a movie that my grandson and I really like, Julie Taymore's Across the Universe. It features some 40 Beatles songs, the characters take the names of the people in them, like Maxwell Silverhammer, Sadie, and Jude, and the story plays out against the backdrop of events in the 1960s.
It's sort of a cult piece, a love story that's at once quirky and heartwarming and maybe sort of cool, if you happened to have lived through it in real life. My wife commented that it's sort of like a history lesson but more real and a lot more fun. And our grandson actually loves the Beatles, weird little kid that he is. Cut him some slack, I guess, considering the household where he's grown up, LOL.
Anyway, we had the pizza and wings and the movie and a rare evening together. My son and his GF didn't attend, maybe because he was scheduled to drive out of town at 2 AM or because they're still under the illusion that they can have kids and still have their own lives. But it was, for the rest of us, a nice evening...
LPK
LiveJournal
8.4.2013
