Mmmmmooooooooooooo!

Last night was CWS night with our very good friends David and Diana.  What is CWS, you ask??  It's our oh-so-imaginative name for "dinner and a movie night" in our little group of 4.  After all, why be like everyone else and have just plain ol' boring "dinner and a movie night" - ours has a NAME!  We had been meeting for food and a flick rather sporadically for quite a while, but last year, it was suggested that we make this a monthly happening.  Since Bruce and I happen to like David and Diana a lot, we thought this was a great idea!  So now there's a ritual - if there's a movie in theaters that we want to check out, we'll go to the Warren, sit in the balcony and have dinner and drinks while we watch the show.  (The Warren Theater is probably the most amazing theater-going experience available in central Oklahoma, so if you get the chance - GO FOR IT!)  However, since a lot of what's coming out these days is drivel, our monthly get-together usually entails dinner at one of our homes, and selecting a previously-released film.  During our first at-home movie night, we found ourselves standing around in the kitchen eating dessert, rather than sitting at the table like civilized folk.  Since dessert that evening was a particularly delicious chocolate cake, every couple of minutes you'd hear "mmmmmmmmm" from one of us, in the middle of all the cross-talk and simultaneous conversations.  Between bites, Bruce mentioned that it wouldn't be too off-the-wall for us to actually go to the table to eat our dessert, like normal people.  I replied, with a mouthful of wonderful chocolate-y goodness, that we probably shouldn't bother since we usually ended up gathered around whatever area the food was laid out in, and simply grazing.  David commented (while scraping the last of the frosting from his plate) that "grazing" was probably an appropriate word, since we sounded rather like cows anyway.  And then I said those immortal words - "That's us - cows with SILVERWARE!"  By this time, we were all laughing hysterically (chalk it up to a very late night and extreme loopy-ness, which made every comment funnier than the last), and once I put forth this little pearl of wisdom, that was it - stick a fork in us, we were DONE!  And just like that, CWS was born!

If you happen to notice the less-than-smiley looks on our faces, it's because our photographer (our neighbor Jackie, below) was having a difficult time working the camera-phone.  And she wasn't too happy when we laughed hysterically at her continuing efforts to get a decent photo!  Seriously, though, we do appreciate that she took the time to come and help us out - we're also pretty thrilled with the comic relief she provided for us! <ggg>

Here's a suggestion for you - if you have good friends that you don't see as often as you'd like, change that.  You'll never regret the time you spent developing those relationships more, and when you're 90 years old, rocking on your front porch and watching the neighborhood kids play, you'll have some great memories to recall.  Mmmmooooooooooo!

Until next time, be blessed!