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MyrnaLynne · 05-11-2008, 04:29 PM

to Podmom for the twisted ankle! Oy, these things happen when you least expect them. Well, they can wait on your hand and foot (while you prop up your foot) and they can treat you like a Queen for Mother's Day!

I had a great Mother's Day weekend (2-day event!). Yesterday we went out to lunch at a ginormous steak house (the one with the giant neon cactus and the herd of plastic cows out front). We brought MLette's BF along too (a hearty eater). It definitely wasn't fine dining - the service was positive sloppy (as in slopping his rice into her salad, and my potatoes all over the side of my plate etc) and their 'house' dressing was this toxic dayglow yellow stuff -

But I had a good steak and we had a good time, that's all that matters!

Last night I watched "August Rush" to see my Moonlight guy, although he has a small part. Did a very creditable Irish accent as Jon Rhys Myers big brother (well, bigger brother) although the part wasn't that big - when the band was playing, they hardly showed him at all! (And his big scene was in the deleted scenes - ahem). It was kind of a strange movie - very dreamy and 'magical' and long looong giant closeups of her face.. and his face.. and them playing music. A lot of big faces and playing music. LOL, Mr ML was funny, he said (of J Rhys Myers): "Is that guy supposed to be good looking?" I said, yes, he was considered good looking by many. (Not his type I guess! LOL!) He does have that enormous lip.

Anyway, it was long and draggy and.. well, 'nice movie' but not good movie, I don't think. And the mystical musical bond between children and parents - sorry, nice, but fantasy land. Oh, Bill Sadler played her father - always good to see the Sheriff, and he always turns in a good performance (mean mean selfish father - told her the baby died and gave it up for adoption! Bad Bad father!) Robin Williams was good too as the Fagin-type character. I think Freddy Highmore probably should have been nominated for his performance for that, but instead they nominated one of the weird songs (which didn't win).

Today we went to see 'Iron Man'!

Robert Downey Jr is so good, and I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was good too. Another story that took a long long time to get going, laying out who the guy is, and what led him to be Iron Man -and oy with the middle eastern war stuff! - but I thought it was a very cool movie. We saw coming attractions for a whole lot of movies that look totally awful, although I was wooing at the Indiana Jones preview! May 22 - I blush to admit I have it marked on my calendar already! LOL!

And my gosh, there's a scene where Shiaf LaBouf comes on a motorcycle, and they've made him look exactly like Marlon Brando (in that famous picture of him on the motorcycle). Very cool.

Crystalline thanks for the Mom Day wishes!

Oh, and Mr ML Jr got me an ORCHID plant!

Very cool with spotted leaves and a tall purple flower stalk and sort of purple and green striped and spotted and hairy flower (lady slipper orchid) - in fact, it's a whole lot like the orchid plant I had that I killed (ahem). Hope I do better with this one! Plus a really nice card - and a box of Junior mints! LOL! There has to be chocolate there sometime (I took them to the movie and ate them).

Mr ML doesn't think he should do anything for me for Mother's Day (I'm not his mother). We bought a pot of tulips and brought them over to the cemetery for his mother. sigh. She was a nice woman (she's been gone 22 years!) I never knew his dad; he was older than his mother and passed a few years before I met Mr ML. But I know he was a cool guy, from all the stories and pictures and from knowing his sons!

Oh, and the weather was GORGEOUS today. I bought another 2 boxes of flowers and finished planting the garden bed along the fence in front of the house - but the grapevine grows on that fence and it gets so big, you can't even see the flowers by the end of the summer.

Wen that's nice that you're so good at gifting - some people have the talent and others don't. Not sure about trying to one-up your brother with his children though. But they're lucky to have such a loving Aunt and that your are close.

Also meant to say it's really nice that you at least get along on the phone with your mother as far as chatting the night away! At least you get along by phone.

I baked cookies for my kids today - have to do some 'good Mother stuff' for Mother's Day, since they were so nice to me this weekend!

Oh, but my poor boss - I hope she doesn't lose her Mother over Mother's day. sigh. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.