Eleven Years
Jun. 5th, 2016 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneSaturday was our 11th anniversary. I was so very lucky to meet Russet, though it was she that found me via an on-line dating site that is no more. There have been many ups and downs, and it's a certainty that there will be more, and it's frustrating having moved from Phoenix to rural New Mexico, but overall I certainly can't complain.
Yesterday afternoon we drove up to Ruidoso for dinner and a movie. The restaurant that Russet picked was chosen for one specific feature: they had a bacon-wrapped date appetizer – a dozen to the order! The rest of the things on offer also looked quite good, your basic surf and turf bar and grill. And the dates did not disappoint – in fact, I'd rate them as the best tasting non-dessert that we had. I was quite pleased that they had crème brule on offer, and even more pleased when the waiter explained that the kitchen warmed up the custard in the microwave before the brule torching, so I was able to avoid that atrocity. Russet had their massive chocolate cake that was also quite good, though so big that she only ate a third of it or so. And as we didn't have an ice chest with us, though we had two 50 lb dogs with us, it was not possible to bring the remaining home. Fortunately I made chocolate mousse in chocolate shells yesterday afternoon, so plenty of chocolate is still available to us.
We went and saw the new X-Men Apocalypse movie and quite enjoyed it. I am of two minds when it comes to the X-Men movies. I was a huge fan of the comic in the '80s and '90s, then I drifted away from collecting, and I think the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen series are amazingly wonderful and a pretty faithful interpretation of the comics. I was disappointed when they didn't do an X-3 movie after Professor X was killed then reincarnated, and you saw Magneto regaining his power. Oh, well. I did just see Stewart is listed as in an 'untitled Wolverine sequel' (due March '17), so there is hope yet.
The McAvoy/Fassbender X-Men? Well, I'm less keen on them than the Patrick/Ian ones, but they're still lots of fun and reinterpret the characters in interesting ways. So a definite plus, and I know I'll be buying it when it comes out on DVD.
Yesterday afternoon we drove up to Ruidoso for dinner and a movie. The restaurant that Russet picked was chosen for one specific feature: they had a bacon-wrapped date appetizer – a dozen to the order! The rest of the things on offer also looked quite good, your basic surf and turf bar and grill. And the dates did not disappoint – in fact, I'd rate them as the best tasting non-dessert that we had. I was quite pleased that they had crème brule on offer, and even more pleased when the waiter explained that the kitchen warmed up the custard in the microwave before the brule torching, so I was able to avoid that atrocity. Russet had their massive chocolate cake that was also quite good, though so big that she only ate a third of it or so. And as we didn't have an ice chest with us, though we had two 50 lb dogs with us, it was not possible to bring the remaining home. Fortunately I made chocolate mousse in chocolate shells yesterday afternoon, so plenty of chocolate is still available to us.
We went and saw the new X-Men Apocalypse movie and quite enjoyed it. I am of two minds when it comes to the X-Men movies. I was a huge fan of the comic in the '80s and '90s, then I drifted away from collecting, and I think the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen series are amazingly wonderful and a pretty faithful interpretation of the comics. I was disappointed when they didn't do an X-3 movie after Professor X was killed then reincarnated, and you saw Magneto regaining his power. Oh, well. I did just see Stewart is listed as in an 'untitled Wolverine sequel' (due March '17), so there is hope yet.
The McAvoy/Fassbender X-Men? Well, I'm less keen on them than the Patrick/Ian ones, but they're still lots of fun and reinterpret the characters in interesting ways. So a definite plus, and I know I'll be buying it when it comes out on DVD.
