Date Night

Wow, another Saturday night out!! Actually I wanted to see one of the new movies that came out this week so I arrainged for our usual sitter to babysit tonight. The plan was for hubby and me to see "Zack and Miri Make A Porno" and laugh ourselves silly. We both have a love of Kevin Smith movies and have seen just about all of the ones he has made so far. However, we then decided to wait and see the movie when it came to the $3.00 theatre and spend the $20.00 on a video instead. Of course that still meant that we were going out, just not to a movie. Our first stop...the grocery store. One of the Hy-Vee grocery stores in town opened up a new gas station and they were running a 16 cent per gallon gas discount. The price of gas was $2.15 so with discount we would be getting $1.99 gas. Really sad when I'm excited to pay less than $2.00 per gallon of gas. Anyway, the only way to get the discount was with purchase from the grocery store. Thankfully there was no minimum amount so Jim and I ran in and grabbed a few no-perishable items like squash and baked beans for tomorrow's supper. The station was new enough that they actually read the store reciept and marked it with an X to prevent future use. The store we usually go to doesn't bother to look and Jim has on more than one occasion used an old reciept he keeps for such a purpose. After walking through the store we decided to go eat. It's no secret that Jim bleeds barbeque so off we went to Famous Dave's to satisfy that craving. the place was busy and our server was a little scattered but the food was great. We had fun people watching and reading the paper. Hey, we don't get to do that very often. Of particlular note were the individuals from two different motorcycle clubs. When we were walking in, Jim commented to me that he would want to be a part of the "X Winos" club but he would have to ask if he could still drink wine. I rolled my eyes. Later, a much larger group of Banditos sat down. As we were walking out Jim commented on the facial hair of the bikers and said he could do the biker thing too. I agreed with him that if it came to facial hair, he'd be ok but it might be a little bit more difficult to fit in when it came time to actually ride a motorcyle. For as many bikers inside there were suprisingly few bikes outside. We both had fun trying to figure out how they all got to the restaraunt. Somehow I don't see these big burly guys climbing out of a 4-door sedan. One of the Banditos bikes had a sticker on the windshield that said 1%ter. I'm not sure what that meant but again we had fun guessing what it could be. After eating, I wanted to go over to the Earnie November's store. Earnie November's is a place that sells used CD's and records and other odds and ends. It's been forever since I have gone browsing for cheap music. Sadly, with the age of digital downloads the used CD shop will soon be a favorite memory. There is something fun about flipping though CD after CD looking for something special that lights you on fire or brings back memories. One of our inside jokes is about Earnie November's selling more than just incense--if you know what I mean. Of course while we were there some 20-something was wandering around with his pal going on a spending spree and I swear the guy was looking for his next score. He did say he was looking to spend all of his paycheck. I was trying not to laugh as he was asking what he could buy for $7.00. I'm sure when the munchies hit he is going to regret buying the incense and t-shirts and wish he would have gone to the Qdoba restaraunt next door. Jim spent his time looking at the various records and DVD's while I went through the bargin bin--$5.00 each or three for $12.00. I was looking for something I could add to my ipod collection and also to pop in the CD player in the kitchen while I was cooking or doing dishes. I managed to find a CD by the group Asia that I had the cassette of a long long time ago so I was pretty excited. I wanted Alan Parsons Project since the kids actually like the band but no luck. I had to laugh because there was a section marked Metal A-Z and upon going through it found exactally 0 CD's by a metal or even close to a metal band. I was amazed by the huge number of Celine Deion and John Tesh CD's that were avaible. I'm sure there was a reason they were in the bargin bin but that is besides the point. I finally decided to get a greatist hits album by Don Henly (formally of the Eagles) and at that point the loving husband decided to disown me. He had already frowned upon my wanting the CD from the Family Values tour which was a collection of Metal and Alternative artists from the late 90's. I had my three CD's and I was ready to purchase. Good thing I had my purse with me because Jim had already told me he wasn't going to buy the CD's. We left the music store and headed over to the Best Buy where we picked up the movie "Iron Man" . Jim also wanted to go over to Scheels (sporting goods store) and look for a certain type of shotgun ammo for a hunting trip he is going on in a few weeks. While he went upstairs and looked at bullets, I wandered over to the shoe department and fell in love with a beautiful pair of brown shoes. I have been looking all over the place for a replacement to the shoes that I now have. They are getting quite worn out and it doesn't help that last year our dog tried to eat them (another reason why the dog went back to the breeder). I excitedly showed the pair of shoes to my loving husband telling him that if he loved me then this is what I wanted for Christmas. He looked quite confused and told me that if I wanted the shoes he'd get me a $75 gift card from the store and I could buy them myself. Our last stop before heading home was Dairy Queen for a yummy Blizzard. A sweet end to a sweet date.