{"id":1948,"date":"2009-02-14T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2009-02-14T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T22:04:00","slug":"tvini-and-the-horrible-terrible-no-good-very-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"Tvini and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Em decided not to go see Coraline, as it looked “spooky.” I, however, still wanted to see it, so I talked my friend into seeing it in 3D. We made arrangements to meet at the theater for the 1:45 show. Turtlegirl76<\/a> said she might be able to join us, but she got tied up and couldn’t make it.<\/p>\n

Of course, I didn’t know this until later, because one of the local megachurches had some big event ending at just the moment I was passing by. I got stopped by traffic cops three times at three separate exits and wound up arriving at the theater at 1:55. One look at the five minute line for tickets and it was clear that the Coraline boat had sailed.<\/p>\n

Universe: 1 Tvini: 0<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

There was a bloodmobile in front of the theater. Donate blood, get a free movie ticket. Well, why not? I hadn’t donated in a while, and I knew I still wanted to see Coraline at some point, so I queued up to give blood. Unfortunately, I was still so peeved about missing the show and standing up poor Illiane that my blood pressure registered as too high to donate. The coffee I chugged before heading out might have had something to do with it too. Yes, I’ll be seeing a doctor, just in case.<\/p>\n

Universe: 2 Tvini: 0<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

But I am known for making lemonade out of lemons! Ballantyne Village Theater<\/a> is showing all the Oscar-nominated shorts for this year. They’ve got one theater for animated, and one for live action. Ballantyne was right on 485 and I could make the 3:10 showing with no trouble. Well, no trouble if I’d gone the right way on I-485. Instead I wound up in Matthews. This is exactly the same boneheaded mistake I made when Turtlegirl and I went to go see Snakes on a Plane. I missed the show.<\/p>\n

Universe: 3 Tvini: 0<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

Fortunately at this point it tipped over from inconvenient and irritating into ridiculous, so I could laugh about it. I came home so that my family wouldn’t worry when Illiane called to ask what the heck happened, and then I went running because the weather was nice, and exercise releases endorphins, and apparently I need to watch my blood pressure anyway.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Universe, you win. But I’m ready for a rematch, anytime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Em decided not to go see Coraline, as it looked “spooky.” I, however, still wanted to see it, so I talked my friend into seeing it in 3D. We made arrangements to meet at the theater for the 1:45 show. Turtlegirl76 said she might be able to join us, but she got tied up and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}