So for our date night, we drove to Austin and went to see "The Adjustment Bureau" at an Alamo Drafthouse. If you don't have one of these in your area, it is a movie theater that serves a full pub/restaurant menu with beverages, desserts, etc. It is worth the hour drive to do once in awhile.
It is only the second time I have left the baby with anyone other than family since Chad's deployment started, and I think only the third time ever!! I picked one of my sweetest, most respectful students who lives just a few minutes away as a sitter. It was hard coming home from work and leaving almost instantly after not seeing her all day. But I sucked it up and we left for the movie after giving the babysitter the quick run through of the house, etc.
We went to see the new Matt Damon film, "The Adjustment Bureau". The trailers made it look like an action packed thriller. Based on the trailers, we were a little disappointed with the movie, but we shared a pitcher of our favorite beer, appetizers, and individual pizzas.
The movie story line had so much potential. The idea of a group of people that play with our lives, create our paths and have to play with the ripples changes create. I was hoping for something a little more on the line of "The Butterfly Effect" with more action. What we got was more of a romance based on a thinly veiled religious themed movie. Basically, the "Chairman" had a plan for David Norris' life that involved him becoming President of the U.S. and if he fell in love with Elise, he wouldn't take that path.
I would have preferred if the story had told more about the importance of his becoming president and the doom for our country if he didn't. The story hinted at opposing pathways for Elise as well, but left much of it pretty vague. There is a good vague which leaves things open to the audience's imagination, which is often able to go darker and creepier than when the story is completely revealed. A good vague hint at something scary or eerie is like a good evening gown, it shows enough to capture your interest, but leaves enough to the imagination to allow you to take it as far as your mind can. The best part of the movie was when David Norris decides to run his own life using the Bureau's techniques. But it could have been more detailed, longer and more adrenaline packed. The end of the movie left the entire story open. It didn't even hint at what might happen. I felt a little let down to have invested so much time in this story and walk out not feeling any closure for the characters.
I did like some of the questions the movie posed, is there some bigger plan for our lives? and is there one love that fills the broken places within us so well we are content to just live in their love?
At one moment when the bureau was playing with little details of the characters' lives, I leaned over and whispered to Chad, "someone pushed my mom down the stairs so we would meet." She had planned to visit the weekend I met him, but fell down the stairs and shattered her ankle, keeping her from traveling for six weeks. Obviously, I wish she hadn't hurt herself, but she is fine now, no residual pain or even stiffness, but I am so glad Chad and I met.
The other thing was that idea one person could love another and be the person who fills the empty places in the other's soul. We both felt that idea was very true. We aren't a perfect couple, but the way we love each other is so crazy amazing. He just makes me feel whole, ok, right. Even when he is being a schmuck or I am being cranky, we get each other and care for each other in a way that feels like puzzle pieces coming together. I did like the romance of the movie, the celestial Romeo & Juliet, two people fighting to be together when the universe is invested in keeping them apart.
After the movie, we strolled around the shopping center. We went into the Dollar Tree and bought some silly random stuff. Very first date-ish. Then we went to our favorite restaurant Silver and Stone for dessert and port. We sat and chatted and just took our time talking before heading home. It was a nice evening and much needed. I can tell how much good it did for us by how we've been texting silly things back and forth all day, by how he kissed me good-bye this morning before going to get his boys.
Maybe we need another date before he leaves?? Mmm, at least maybe we will at least take Lil Bit to daycare one day when it is just us the last bit before he leaves.
It is only the second time I have left the baby with anyone other than family since Chad's deployment started, and I think only the third time ever!! I picked one of my sweetest, most respectful students who lives just a few minutes away as a sitter. It was hard coming home from work and leaving almost instantly after not seeing her all day. But I sucked it up and we left for the movie after giving the babysitter the quick run through of the house, etc.
We went to see the new Matt Damon film, "The Adjustment Bureau". The trailers made it look like an action packed thriller. Based on the trailers, we were a little disappointed with the movie, but we shared a pitcher of our favorite beer, appetizers, and individual pizzas.
The movie story line had so much potential. The idea of a group of people that play with our lives, create our paths and have to play with the ripples changes create. I was hoping for something a little more on the line of "The Butterfly Effect" with more action. What we got was more of a romance based on a thinly veiled religious themed movie. Basically, the "Chairman" had a plan for David Norris' life that involved him becoming President of the U.S. and if he fell in love with Elise, he wouldn't take that path.
I would have preferred if the story had told more about the importance of his becoming president and the doom for our country if he didn't. The story hinted at opposing pathways for Elise as well, but left much of it pretty vague. There is a good vague which leaves things open to the audience's imagination, which is often able to go darker and creepier than when the story is completely revealed. A good vague hint at something scary or eerie is like a good evening gown, it shows enough to capture your interest, but leaves enough to the imagination to allow you to take it as far as your mind can. The best part of the movie was when David Norris decides to run his own life using the Bureau's techniques. But it could have been more detailed, longer and more adrenaline packed. The end of the movie left the entire story open. It didn't even hint at what might happen. I felt a little let down to have invested so much time in this story and walk out not feeling any closure for the characters.
I did like some of the questions the movie posed, is there some bigger plan for our lives? and is there one love that fills the broken places within us so well we are content to just live in their love?
At one moment when the bureau was playing with little details of the characters' lives, I leaned over and whispered to Chad, "someone pushed my mom down the stairs so we would meet." She had planned to visit the weekend I met him, but fell down the stairs and shattered her ankle, keeping her from traveling for six weeks. Obviously, I wish she hadn't hurt herself, but she is fine now, no residual pain or even stiffness, but I am so glad Chad and I met.
The other thing was that idea one person could love another and be the person who fills the empty places in the other's soul. We both felt that idea was very true. We aren't a perfect couple, but the way we love each other is so crazy amazing. He just makes me feel whole, ok, right. Even when he is being a schmuck or I am being cranky, we get each other and care for each other in a way that feels like puzzle pieces coming together. I did like the romance of the movie, the celestial Romeo & Juliet, two people fighting to be together when the universe is invested in keeping them apart.
After the movie, we strolled around the shopping center. We went into the Dollar Tree and bought some silly random stuff. Very first date-ish. Then we went to our favorite restaurant Silver and Stone for dessert and port. We sat and chatted and just took our time talking before heading home. It was a nice evening and much needed. I can tell how much good it did for us by how we've been texting silly things back and forth all day, by how he kissed me good-bye this morning before going to get his boys.
Maybe we need another date before he leaves?? Mmm, at least maybe we will at least take Lil Bit to daycare one day when it is just us the last bit before he leaves.
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