The Perfect Saturday Evening

Eric and Molly planned, shopped and cooked dinner for us. The menu: Baked Parmesan Salmon, green bean casserole, mixed veggies (broc/caul/zucc), and a boxed wild rice mix. The salmon was dipped in egg, then rolled in grated parmesan. They bought a little block and grated it here so it was a coarser size and it baked up deliciously crunchy. They had to roll Will's in cracker crumbs because he hates Parmesan. He grumbled a bit that he could smell it in the living room. It was a wonderful meal, even more delightful because Craig was here to share it.

Then we thought it would be fun to get a movie. By the time we drove to town, rented a movie, bought snacks, it was getting late. We are finally ready to put the movie in when the trouble begins. Our dvd player quit working awhile back, so we've been using the Playstation 2. But where is it? In Nick's room. Nick, of course, is not at home. Eric had to go find it and hook it up. He can't find the right connector. He finally finds it. It still doesn't work. After much muttering about how much he loves Nick and why does Nick always have to mess with things, he finally has to call the boy and ask what's going on. Nick tells him what to do and we get comfortable and start the movie. But the screen keeps turning completely blue for a few seconds at a time. We clean the disc and try again. Still problems. We turn it over to watch the wide screen side. Still problems. Through it all, Will is unfazed because he is focused on his Sudoku puzzle. That's his latest hobby. We finally give up and find a movie on TV. Within 15 minutes, everyone who isn't working on Sudoku is sound asleep. I woke up at 11:30, awakened Eric and Molly and told him to take her home! We were so lucky to turn our clocks back that night!

So Sunday, Will gets Nick to work on the PS2 problem. He discovers that the wrong connector is hooking it up. The dvd works just fine. The problem is, the movie (Melinda-Melinda) was so boring it was a total waste of time! But the point was, life is either a tragedy or a comedy, depending on your point of view. It showed basically the same story from those two perspectives. It was a promising premise, just not very well done. I didn't laugh until the final moment and didn't cry at all so obviously it wasn't successful as either a comedy or a tragedy!

If you don't know what Sudoku is, you'll have to request Will to get his nose out of it and do a write-up on this latest fascination!