1019 a day with ching

Ching and I spent some time together today to just talk. We included breakfast in our plans as I haven’t had anything other than cereal for the past several months. I was looking forward to eggs, bacon, and pancakes (soaking in maple syrup). It must be all those IHOP commercials.

We ended up at Denny’s, one of our old hang-outs. I ordered the Lumberjack Slam and she got the All-American Slam. But I waited for the inevitable substitutions. Sure enough, she subbed some of the items for other stuff.

It reminded me of the time we were out late but she had a craving for a chocolate sundae. The place we stopped at didn’t have it, but they did have banana splits. So she ordered a banana split but asked them to hold the banana. Also, could they change the scoops of strawberry and chocolate ice creams to vanilla ice cream? And instead of the strawberry and pineapple syrups, could they just make it all chocolate syrup? Can you believe that they actually did it?

After breakfast (brunch?) we headed to the Town Center and caught a matinee of “W”. It was an interesting story of the life of George W. Bush, as told by Oliver Stone. The portrayal by Thandie Newton of Condoleezza Rice was uncanny, and there was a moment when Josh Brolin looked in a mirror, and I thought I saw James Brolin looking back.

When the movie was over, I wheeled into a restroom (the movie was over two hours). I must have been taking a long time because she was organizing a search and rescue team when I came out.

We adjourned to a nearby Starbucks for some liquid refreshment. As we were sitting at a table on the patio, Ching told me that a guy was staring at her. “Quick,” she said, “act like we’re married.”

My response was “I’m already not touching you. Do you want me to ignore you too?” She just laughed and said that maybe she should be appreciative that someone was looking at her. The alternative would be that no one would pay any attention to her. She asked me what it was like.

We called it a day around 4pm.