Today was my great-grandmother's 90th birthday. Longevity seems to run in the family, her mother lived to be 103. Everyone from that side of the family got together at my great-aunt's house and I got to see cousins I haven't seen in years. My great-uncle and 2 of my cousins who moved to Pennsylvania quite a few years ago and my cousins from Malden whom I haven't seen since their high school graduations. We took numerous group pictures such as all the children, then all the grand and great-grandchildren (that was a huge group). I think she's even a great-great-grandmother now. She suffers from dementia, but she's doing pretty well. She repeats herself a lot, but she doesn't forget big things yet. She's in good spirits and jokes about it even. She even has a boyfriend at the assisted-living complex she lives in. At Christmas she told my grandmother that he could be her "next step-father." So we had a good time catching up with everyone and celebrating such an auspicious milestone.
Later, I went to see Yes Man with Wig. The Showcase Cinemas in Revere has "Director's Hall" theaters now which cost, like, $2 more. I had movie passes but still had to pay the difference and we weren't going to wait an hour for the later show that was in a regular theater. But it's worth the 2 extra bucks cuz the seats are more comfortable and they recline slightly, there's stadium seating but that's everywhere nowadays, but the kicker is the ushers show you to your seat and will actually go fetch concessions for you so you don't miss any previews or the movie. We didn't have to take advantage of this service but it's good to know for future excursions.
Yes Man is beyond hysterical. Go see it and you will not be disappointed. One of Jim Carrey's best works, and the scene where he bungee jumps, he really bungee jumped. I saw it on the Comedy Central's Reel Comedy. I think he also really learned to play guitar and Korean (at least the sentences he said in the movie) cuz the scene where he's talking Luis Guzman down off the ledge it looks like he's really playing and I can tell fake-playing. But yeah, funniest movie since I saw Pineapple Express. Which is coming to DVD next week woot.
Tomorrow I'm just staying in and finishing cleaning this shithole. I started Saturday and it already starts to look better but I got a ton of stuff to go through and reorganize and get rid of some stuff and finish dusting. So that's going to be exciting. I'll probably watch more Mary Tyler Moore season 1 while I do it. I ordered Houe and Mary Tyler Moore from Columbia House. It was $9.95 for both and I also got 1000 points from MyPoints. And I have 2 years to buy the 4 required regular price DVDs so it's not too bad. I did Columbia House for CDs years ago so it's cool. I'm gonna get some TV series boxsets I've been wanting for a long time, even though I shouldn't, I have so much shit already which is why I gotta clean out my room. But it's the packrat collector in me, I can't help it.
But that's all for tomorrow. Wig'll be working and Flav'll be out West and Gahm's in Maine with the gang cuz the Monkey's brother is back from Germany where he's stationed at a military base. Wig would've gone too but the Monkeys (Dave and Mikey) both work at QuickPhone too and all 3 of them couldn't have the days off. But Wig is taking advantage of this by sucking up a ton more hours and get even more money.
So that's all for now. If somthing interesting happens at all while I'm cleaning I'll update tomorrow.
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