“Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo; so long ago when there was nothing but our love. No politics, no plotting, no war.” - Padmé, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
Date night. Oh, how I loves the date night. As you can probably tell from this overall blog, I really love homeschooling with Padawan Learner. He’s a great kid, a great person really, and we get along well. But one truth of homeschooling is that there will be times when you look at your kid and say, “Wow, you’re just always here, aren’t you?” That’s when a date night is in order. Some grown-up time with the main squeeze. A little flirting. A great meal with candles, low lights and not a children’s menu to be had.
Last Friday night Dad Windu and I had a date night – a date overnight, to be specific. Padawan Learner spent the night at his good buddy M’s house, and DW and I made a night of it. I got dressed up in a long, slim black skirt with a slit up the back, a form fitting dark brown ribbed turtleneck, jewelry (I know!), and my tall, tall, high-heeled black boots. The ones that make DW putty.in.my.hands.
After dinner at a gastro pub that we’ve been wanting to try, we decided to canoodle in a movie theater while watching a movie. Neither of us are horror fans and I don’t enjoy action flicks anymore than he likes chickflicks, so we settled on a comedy. Sex Drive and Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist were the only ones playing and the previews were funny for both, so we chose to go to the earlier one.
Time is a very poor reason to pick a movie. Guess which one was earliest. Yeah. About 25 minutes into it, we both were thinking that we should have gone to Nick & Norah’s. But…it had Seth Green, as an sarcastic Amish auto mechanic! Shouldn’t that have made it funny? Well, not so much. I likened it to American Pie, only way, way, way worse and without any plot, lovable-despite-myself characters or surprisingly funny moments.
But we found a few ways to drive the very poor movie choice from our minds once we got home. Bow chika bow bow. Oh, how I loves the date (over)night.
