A night out with Grandma

"I could start a blog. I have thoughts!" ~Julie... not the Childs one. The other one.

Being homeless and far away from friends can do funny things to a college student on a Saturday night... like make them write in their blog after months and months of writing nothing. :)

Actually, this blog post was more inspired by the events of this evening. Tonight I went with my sister Kristen, my mom, and my grandma to see the movie Julie & Julia. It was adorable. Were I a feminist, I might have only criticized the dependence that the strong feminine characters in the movie had upon their husbands, but the hopeless romantic in me loved how sweet and caring their husbands were and how supportive they were of their wives (even sometimes when they didn't exactly deserve it) in a world where that is not always--or even usually--the case.



Anyways, it was especially fun to see it with my wonderful grandma. Sometimes I just can't get enough of her. :) She always makes me smile, and I like that she laughs at my lame jokes. I really like helping her steady herself as she walks briskly everywhere she goes (notice that I did NOT split the infinitive, in honor of Grandma), and I like that she is so intelligent and fun to have a conversation with. She definitely has gumption.

Now, an update on my incredibly riveting Saturday night: I am sitting in my kitchen and my mom is yelling the incredible things she is learning for her new job at me from her bedroom. She is currently listing off her recently discovered fact that the skin has six (and, yes. It was only six, I did submit the possibility that there might be more and was rebuffed) functions: "Protection, *dramatic pause to check if I was listening* Sensation, Thermo-regulation (*motherly explaney voice* that means body temperature), Metabolism (symthesizes vitamin D), Body Image (with regard to the skin's appearance), and Immune Processing."

I also learned that "Ichtheosis" (sp?) is apparently dry, thick, scaly skin.

...Yum..?

See? Look. Unless you are a dermatologist or something, you probably learned something today like me. Oh the wisdom of mothers...

I'm so happy everybody who reads this blog (blog reader count= 0) gets the privilege of learning something so great and ordinary about my everyday life. Perhaps I'll twitter about it.

NOT.

Thank you joke from the '90s.

:)

p.s. does it feel, to anybody else, like everybody else in the world seems to be in love just at the times when you most want to be?