Joy's Reverie: March 2009

One of the funny things about northeast Ohio is that no matter where you go you can always start up a conversation with people by just mentioning the weather. One of the reasons is we have crazy weather here. One day we can have a incredible day of sunshine and warm weather (relatively speaking) the next it can be horribly cold and gray. Case in point was last week Friday I went out with my sister to keep her company while she went grocery shopping. It was warm enough for me to get away with just wearing a long sleeve shirt and and hoodie. Everyone one else was out in shorts and tees. It was so nice to be out and to not be freezing that I even walked home from my sisters place. Something I haven't done in awhile. The extent of my going out is running from the house to the car and from the car to wherever I'm going. It's been so bad. I haven't wanted to go anywhere. I feel like a bear, big, fluffy and just wanting to stay in the cave and hibernate. Believe me 68 felt great after the temps we have been having around here. Tuesday was 17. Yeah that's 17. Brrrrr, On Saturday the day though not too bad was definitely cooler at 53 which dropped to 43 by the afternoon but rose to 55 again in the evening after the the sun set. Like I said we have crazy weather here. Today is as gray as it comes and rainy. And though it really isn't that cold temperature wise, it's hovering right above freezing so the rain doesn't turn to snow, it almost seems colder because it's wet.

When you have days like we had on Friday around here you have to take advantage of it and take advantage of it we did. Dad pulled out the grill and that night we had steak, yum! To my dad grilling steak is a art form. He goes out and selects the perfect steaks. Nice marbling and thick. Then he seasons it so wonderfully that even now my mouth is watering. He starts with garlic and uno seasoning. Then finishes with parmesan cheese... mmmmm. Accompanied by a baked potato and a nice salad, it doesn't get much better then that. As you can tell it doesn't take much to make me happy.

Yesterday was another day of just spending time with my family. We drove out to Erie PA which is about a hour away from us. You know it's strange how I have no problem driving a hour here to go to somewhere. 30 min away, no prob. An hour, what's that? Nothing. But having to drive a hour in Hawaii is crazy long! I guess it's all relative. Though part of it might be that where we live doesn't have bad traffic on the highways. It's all pretty much clear sailing the whole way. That really helps. So we just kinda cruised all afternoon and ended up at the dollar theater. We watched two movies and even with my large family we got in paying less then what it would cost you to watch it in the regular theater. Who cares that the movies were already out of the other theaters. We hadn't seen them and I throughly enjoyed them. We watched Bedtime Stories which was hilarious and Inkheart which was very good. Both had such interesting plots, very original. It's just funny that they both came out around the same time. Because they are different in their stories lines but yet there are similarities. Such as stories coming to life.

My family does something that must drive people nuts when they go to the movies with any of us. And especially the poor theater workers. We like to stay to the very end. We enjoy to watch the credits. One reason is that is some movies will place little things at the very end (Iron Man, X-Men: The Last Stand, etc). Another reason is that we enjoy looking at the names of people who crewed the movie. I have always found names to be fascinating and sometimes extremely funny. The one that took the prize yesterday will probably be a favorite of mine from now on. Are you ready for it, the name was "Fuzzy Goat". I love it! Isn't it great. What a unfortunate name. Poor guy!