Thanksgiving shop-a-thon while Walking The Line

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I don't like turkey or stuffing, I'm not a Cowboys fan and all of my family lives up in Canada. So it's kind of a weird day for me. It was nice not to have to work, especially since I've been working late a lot lately to meet some project deadlines.

Today Amy and I hit the mall about 11AM and managed to snag the absolute best parking spot at The Parks. It's nice to have a MINI to drive and park in the over crowded lots. I bought a set of sheets for 80% off and a slightly discounted pair of Vans for myself. I also managed to do some Christmas shopping for my parents. We had lunch at Chick-Fil-A to refuel for the afternoon. Amy bought clothes and clothes and shoes. We had to make a few trips out to the MINI to deposit bags in the boot and make our mall trolling a bit easier. Each time, drivers would troll us out to the MINI, thinking we were about to leave, only to curse us when we didn't get in the car and tuned to head back towards the mall. A sadistic pleasure.

After reaching the shopping saturation point, we headed to the AMC theatre to catch Walk The Line which we had both been wanting to see badly. I remember liking Johnny Cash way back when I was younger and before it was cool to like Johnny Cash because of his sudden re-emergence as a hip bad ass just after the turn of the century. Anyway, the movie was great but it will forever overshadowed by the previews. I can understadn why the theatre company thought it wise to put a trailer for a cowboy movie before a film about Johnny Cash showing at a theatre in Texas. However, when the cowboy movie is about two gay cowboys, and the theatre is in a very Baptist suburb of the Metroplex, and it's the day after Thanksgiving nd the theatre is packed with entire families from Grandma to grandkids, it probably isn't going to go over well, and it didn't. It was a classic scene. The crowd perking up and getting interested at the start of the Brokeback Mountain preview but then reacting in shock and horror as the sexual orientation of the cowboys became apparent. At the end of the trailr, the family patriarch in the row behind us turned to his familay and said sternly, "Well we're not going to see that one..." I couldn't help but bust out laughing.

Our shopping and movie was followed by some late evening Steak n Shake to cap a rather busy day.