Day with Dabey

It's really late and I'm wishing that I didn't have to work tomorrow morning.  On the bright side, we're going to see Coldplay tomorrow night so I just have to get through my shift.  Today was a good day.  We slept in together which is rare and we went on a "day date" which consisted of us driving around aimlessly for hours.  Well, it wasn't entirely aimless, I suppose.  Redfin is an iPhone app that allows you to view the houses that are on sale in your area.  As you drive it updates the location of the search.  Thus, we spent many hours driving around checking out what was on sale.   This does not mean we are actually house hunting.  We cannot afford to buy a house nor do we want to right now.  However, it does give us the chance to check out potential neighborhoods or house styles that we may consider some day in the future.  

At some point we ended up in Cambridge on Third St. which was right near where my mother grew up.  I couldn't remember exactly where so I called her and she directed us to her childhood home on 2nd St.- hey, I was close.  We parked and spent some time walking the streets that were her backyard and playground growing up.  Really, it's a great location.  My grandmother and my mom might not agree as  they actually had to live there but it really is ideal if you work in the city.  The Cambridgeside Galleria is right there too so we checked that out as well and got some late lunch/early dinner.  I'm assuming my mother took me there when I was little but if so I don't remember it.  It was cool to explore the mall though the amount of security was a bit unnerving and reminded me that malls are actually one of the top terrorist targets in the country.  

Not long after we left the skies opened and it began to downpour so we returned home.  Dave has been wanting me to watch the Batman movies forever and a while ago I mentioned that they were great movies to watch during a rainstorm.  He remembered and with the evening free we decided to see both movies again.  Honestly, I don't know what my deal was when I initially watched them.  I really liked them.  I think a lot of it had to do with the second one and where I was psychologically when I watched it.  Ironically, having watched it now knowing so much more about criminal psychology and serial killers made it less frightening in a way.

When I initially saw it back in 2007, I hadn't had my breakdown.  I spent my days blissfully suppressing what happened to me and ignorant of it's psychological ramifications.  A character like the joker disturbed me; I couldn't understand someone like that and it ate at me in a way I didn't appreciate.   Since my mental meltdown, I've spent countless hours studying criminals.  It doesn't disturbed me any less but I have a far better understanding now.  Also, I looked at from a writer's standpoint and making less emotional than the initial viewing.   I did enjoy it far better than I remembered this time around and it might just be that I was in a better mood when I watched it.  Either way, I think I would like to see the next one and it saddens me that the joker is probably not going to be in it.  In many ways, I hope he won't because Heath Ledger did play the role great and their attempt to change the actress who played Rachel really didn't work for me so I hope they don't do that with the joker.

I really should get to bed.  Stupid work.