iPhone shadow portrait of Margie and I approaching the movie theatre; Kalib and cousin Gracie, cooking eggs down in the Navajo Nation
Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 11:53AM 
Sometimes, no matter what one is working on, the soul begins to feel overwhelmed and kind of dead from hours and hours and days and days and weeks and weeks and months and months and years and years of time spent sitting where I sit right now, peering into a computer screen.
It happened last night. My soul became overwhelmed to the point that I simply could do it no longer.
The only thing that I could think of was to go to a movie. But I did not want to drive to Anchorage, the new theatre they are building in Wasilla looks complete but is not yet open, the older theatre here is tiny and sticky and awful and one can get proselyted there and it is no place to go for an enjoyable evening of relaxation.
I checked online to see what was playing in Eagle River, but the indication was that the Eagle River threatre was closed for some reason.
So I did not know what to do. I just did not want to drive all the way to Anchorage, where we still have another free movie coming at Century 16 - thanks to Melanie.
But then Margie argued that we could just drive to the very edge of Anchorage - the close edge - where stands the new Tikahtnu Stadium 16 theatres and pay for the movie ourselves. We would not really have to drive into Anchorage at all. It is not that hard of a trip just to drive to the edge of Anchorage if you do not then venture in to the wild and wooly city.
So that is what we did. Without even checking to see what was playing and at what time, we just got in the car and drove. We left Wasilla about 7:20 PM and arrived at the theatre about 8:00 PM - right between the main showing times.
So we bought tickets for the 9:15 pm showing of Lincoln Lawyer, and then went walking into the nearby new mall, which neither of us had explored, found a place called PHO Saigon, and went in. We ordered an appetizer of 3 spring rolls and one noodle plate, which we shared between us.
I didn't take any pictures, because I had left my camera hidden in the car, but the food...
I'm going back!
Really good.
Then, a few minutes before nine, as we walked back to the theatre and on the wall I saw us, just like this.
And me, without my camera! Then I remembered that my iPhone has a perfectly decent little camera and so I did the self-portrait.
We enjoyed the movie, too. We ate too much popcorn - especially after PHO Saigon.
This morning, I was awakened to the sound of text messages coming into my iPhone. Lavina was sending me pictures and a movie from Shonto, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation of Kalib teaching cousin Gracie how to break and cook eggs.
So here they are, and I am pretty sure that is Elias looking on.
I then got out of bed and came into the kitchen wanting eggs, but Margie already had steel-cut oatmeal cooking and it was just about done.
So I ate it and it was good.
I still have a hankering for eggs. Maybe for lunch.
;)
