is one of the best movies of all time.
I just needed to get that off my chest.
I watch the whole thing every time for that very last moment.
The moment in the elevator of the Empire State Building.
I wait with baited or bated...hmm...its bated...breath as I shoot mean and nasty comments at the New York traffic jam and then as she finally gets there and they miss by moments as the elevator doors open and close.
Then wait, what's this...Jonah has left his backapck.
They meet and then its the moment.
They take hands and go into the elevator and live happily ever after.
Its perfect.
And totally real. Stuff like that happens all the time.
Right?
Right.
I even remember the first time I saw it.
It was at Crowne Center Plaza in Kansas City on a lovely summer night.
I went with my friend Ashley, we were both living there for the summer slaving away at internships and needed a cheap source of weekend entertainment.
(We needed cheap because we both spent way more than we should have that summer on clothes. Its not good for two girls who grew up in towns without malls to all of the sudden be thrust into a world surrounded by fantastic shopping and who had no real obligations other than needing gas money to get to the shopping and food to sustain the shopping...but as often happens, I digress...)
The movies were played outside on a HUGE screen and it was totally free.
We took a blanket, popcorn mixed with m&ms and stopped at Quik Trip for cherry cokes, and we were ready to enjoy a nice movie in our t-shirts and jean shorts.
While all around us, couples were gathering with their wine and cheese and making a fancy, quaint date night out of it all.
Ahh...memories.
Somebody should do that here, in Newton - show movies on the side of a building I mean.
It would be great.
Insert Lindsay shrugging her shoulders and tipping her head to one side then saying, "Well, I would go."
And we (well at least I) fell in love with Sleepless in Seattle.
And it just so happens that the next week they played the film that is constantly talked about in Sleepless In Seattle - An Affair to Remember - talk about love.
Oh man, oh man, don't even get me started on old movies.
Let's just leave it at man, oh man.
Happy Monday.