Y2 D215

Went to my grandmother's house yesterday. It's my dad's mom - the crazy racist, conspiracy theory lady. She is 81 years old and while she doesn't look it, she definitely acts it at times. I have learned to take her with a grain of salt, but man I don't always understand her. The cool thing was it was me, the kid, her, and my aunt. We had four generations sitting around the breakfast table yesterday. Made me actually a little nostalgic. The other interesting thing is when most people have four generations of family in a room, it's a crowded room. Not us. There were four of us. Period. Big family, woo.

We had breakfast and then decided to all go see a movie together. The sucky part was we went to a theater in a mall where X2 and I used to frequent and I believe she still frequents when she is in town. I kept having this nagging fear I was going to run into her around every corner even though I doubt she is in town given that it was Sunday and it's a holiday. Odds are she spent the holidays with her mother in a completely different state or her mother visited her. But it was still weird for me to be in stores that I have not been in since X2 and I were last in them together. I tried to push it out of my mind, but it was still tough.

We went and saw True Grit. Actually much better than the original. Jef Bridges is a better John Wayne than John Wayne was. Went back to the house after the movie and socialized for a little longer. By the time we got home it was 3 something. Ran a couple of errands then watched a little Always Sunny together. I have the kid hooked on the show now too. She has watched almost 2 full seasons with me and we are just about caught up with season six.

Made game hens for dinner. I did feel a little bad because I don't use my table as a table, so we had to eat in the front room off the ottomans. Here's this nice dinner and we are eating it like bums. Hell, I don't even have TV trays. Maybe that is something I should add to the list of 2011 purchases. I want to get a new shower curtain as well. TV trays and shower curtains - that's what my life has been reduced down to these days. Nice.

Watched a little more TV and went to bed. Now another full week because no more holidays for a while. This is going to be a long one...