four meals out this week!

Monday was with my first niece and her man, right?

Tina Tuesday found me with Sandy, Marcia, and Kathy, having supper.

Nope, we were not at MSG!

That's supposed to be our Monday meetup, right?

We decided to skip that, but still wanted to have dinner together, so we met at Seasons of Japan.

Pricier than I'd expected, but it was definitely right place, right time!

This 2007 penny magically greeted me on the floor by the drink stand!

Thursday found me dining out again, this time with mi amiga, Carolyn.

We got together to see a movie first and ran into a snafu, yet again, but different this time.

The movie of interest was on its last screening, so there would not be a make-up date.

Trey made it right, and Tom gave us free cameo specials!

(See elsewhere about the great film!)

We dined at Longhorn, as she wanted their potato soup.

Fine by me!

Then, with me having missed last week's S&K Friday Fiesta, I wanted to be sure to catch it this time!

Smitty must have wanted to make sure, too.

He texted me the location and earlier time about 2 PM!

Spanky's at Mall Boulevarde was the designated spot, with 5 PM as the time.

That worked for me!

I wanted to try out their Spinach & Artichoke Dip as my meal... and I made sure to bring plenty of Lactaid, too.

It was pretty good, but I'm glad Jimmy gave me a slice of his Pepperoni Pizza and Tony gave me some of his Spuds!

No Robin at this gathering, but Addison was there with Sean again, so I made sure to properly introduce myself this time.

He won't be there next week, nor Addison.

How do I know?

Mary was getting a head count for Miyabi's, which is Smitty's choice for his 66th birthday dinner.

Fancy, fancy!!!

I'll need to be sure to set money aside for that.

Now, I'm using some Stella cash to see a musical!!!

Woohoo!!!

may need to rethink thursday movies...

Rather, Carolyn and I may need to make other plans regarding movies at AMC on this day of the week. 

Remember the snafu we had a couple of weeks ago?

Tom had made it all better for us that time.

Now, Trey was the manager who had to right the wrong.

I'm glad I'd already reserved my ticket online, so the folks at AMC felt obliged to make it right!

It was regarding that 4th movie, the Indian one.

"Maa Inti Bangaaram" - aka "The Jewel Of Our Family" - had only been screening at 10 PM, so neither of us had seen it.

Now on it's final day, the time had been moved up to 3 PM - hooray!

So, I got my ticket and contacted  her and we gleefully met up there... only to find the assigned screening room had a worker in it who was running late... so they had canceled the movie.

No, no, no, that would not do!

So Trey assured us the room would be up and the movie on at 4:30, just for us two old ladies who were regulars at AMC 11.

i thank You, God!

That movie was so awesome, with a young woman who'd run away from a foster home and into the clutches of a control freak man who lived in the woods and taught her how to fight like a ninja.

She eventually escaped him by having him arrested and in prison he'd stayed, leaving her to build a new life with the man she married.

Now, he is going to bring her to his family, as his little sister is getting married and wants them both to come... only the nutjob in jail has found out she lives and he escapes so he can wreak havoc on this genteel family.

Truly awesome movie!!!

"Lucky Strike", seen on Tina Tuesday (along with the latest from Illumination", was an excellent WWII movie that featured sons of famous actors.

It also had an ending that I didn't see coming - I really liked that!!!

In fact, that ending elevated the movie into one I'd gladly see again.

I'll have to wait until it hits Peacock, though, as it's gone after a week.

As for "Minions & Monsters", I'm done with that after one screening.

I like the little yellow guys, I do, but without Gru they get a bit tiresome.

I'm glad someone decided to add Gru to the credits, or I wouldn't have hung around to watch those.

So, that's three... and the fourth on this A*List was another viewing of "Toy Story 5", seen last Saturday, as I've already mentioned.

Now, I'm off to meet Carolyn for dinner!