Money is the root of all evil. We decided to go on a little spending freeze for the next couple months. Get ourselves out of the hole and back on track to saving money and spending money! Our biggest downfall is eating out. Our challenge to ourselves is to go all month without eating out...unless it's a birthday dinner or a planned outing with friends/family. Yesterday we went to the grocery store early in the morning with the intention to eat lunch before going to see Predators. Before heading out for the movie I pulled out the big purse and stuffed an already popped minibag of popcorn, a package of red vines and a nalgene bottle of water. As I was pondering whether or not to put strawberries in my purse Zac asked me when I got so Mexican. I said "when you told me to stop spending money". Zac said let's be white again. Hehe...this time he did ask me to wait for the lights to go down before I pull out my bag of popcorn. He didn't like when at Eclipse I pulled out a baggie of licorice while waiting for the movie to start. He's convinced I'll get us kicked out.
I had told Zac earlier in the day of an experience of going to the movie theater in Juarez a long time ago. I was staying with my aunt for a month and we went to go see cliffhanger. I remember my aunt popping two big bags of popcorn and grabbing bananas, oranges and a few sodas and putting them all in her purse. Not knowing what movie theaters in Mexico were like I was certain that we wouldn't even make it in! Once in the theater I noticed everyone was pulling stuff out of big bags/purses. It was the norm there. And since the movie was subtitled everyone talked and made a bunch of noise.
Well I haven't gotten us kicked out yet but we'll see what happens next time.
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I skip the purse and stuff a diaper bag. I bring our own popcorn in little brown paper bags and then make sure we have full waterbottles. Neil thinks it's funny that I always manage to stuff the diaper bag but no one ever wonders/asks why we don't have a baby to go with it (although I guess that will change soon). But I have to agree with Zac about waiting for the lights to go down. I don't want to get kicked out.
I think my exact words were: "If you get us kicked out of Predators, I will never forgive you."
Later, I thought to myself that that was a bit too harsh, and what I should have said was: "If you get caught, I'll pretend like I have no idea who you are."
I hope you didnt remove your papers to make room for the treats.
Dave no need to worry. My birth certificate comes in a nifty credit card size and it's been in my purse since SB1070 passed. Plus, I have your mom's papers if the police don't believe me.
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