mellicious | A Gathering of Two

I mentioned in the last entry that it was very very slow at work Wednesday night. People who don't normally stop to talk were asking me what we were doing for Thanksgiving. I kept saying, "Oh, we're just having lunch & then going to a movie." A couple of people - ones who don't really know us - seemed to think that sounded like we don't have any family or something and thus it was something sad. (They didn't say that, of course, I just got that feeling from the way they replied.) In fact we don't have any family who is local, any more, and we're prevented from going very far by the fact that we usually end up working on Wednesday night just like we did this year - but the truth is that we like it that way. We still do the family thing at Christmas - and we did the family thing for years at Thanksgiving, too, but we're stopped - and we both agree that we really don't miss it. Christmas and Thanksgiving are too close together and it's too much stress. We do a meal that's a little more fancy than what we normally do, and we go to a movie. There's always some good movie or other to see, and we think it's pretty perfect, really.

So this year it was Knives Out. If you don't know about it already and you like mystery-type stuff, you need to go see it. It's very good. Plus, it has Chris Evans and Toni Colette and various other actors we like, and Daniel Craig doing a variation on that crazy accent he did in Logan Lucky and showing off his hammy side again. Lots of fun.

(I'm going to have to do a movie catch-up post - but not today.)