A Surprise Date

Occasionally I am required to work on Saturdays.  While this is not an enjoyable activity, as the day is spent invigilating exams, it is not so tedious as to be too exhausting usually.  In fact I am normally done well before 3pm, so it isn't such a bad thing. 
I had to work this Saturday. And it was an interesting day.  First, I saw a car accident in the parking lot when I was looking out the window.  A young woman in a car had hit an SUV.  The damage wasn't that bad. But then she reversed her car and it pulled off the front "bra" of the car. 
Then I saw the strangest thing.  A young man took off his dishdasha (white dress for men) and opened the hood of his car and rubbed the engine with it.  Then he wiped down the inside of the hood.  Then he wiped down the engine again.  I thought that was terribly funny looking.  The next time I looked out he had 5 or 6 guys all standing around with him looking at the engine and pointing, but none of them doing anything.  It reminded me of several jokes I have heard.  Men and cars. Funny.

Finally, the exams that I was monitoring were on computers.  So of course we had to have complete computer failure.  One computer that the students were working on decided 9 minutes before the exam ended to crash. She was right at the end of the exam when the screen flickered and turned up the lovely blue complete memory failure message.  Nice.  So I had to stay after trying to ensure that the student shouldn't have to take the exam again.

So at last the work day was over and I went home.  I had about 10 minutes to wash my face and get ready because my hubby was taking me on a surprise weekend date.  We went to see a movie, just him and me.  It wasn't really worth it.  I mean, the first half of the movie was kind of fun and interesting, but at a certain point it stopped being all that interesting.  I liked the actors, and they had some pretty funny moments and definite range in their performances, but the movie was not good. We had gone to see "Season of the Witch".  It had such great potential to be so good, but it was almost as if they had changed writers half way through.  It stopped being any good.

But it was nice to spend a little time with my husband.  Afterward we went grocery shopping. We stopped to help an elderly man having trouble with his cart. It was nice.  I actually enjoyed walking around grocery shopping with my husband until we passed the display of olives.  The smell was so strong and overwhelming that it was like being punched in the gut.  I would think that I am allergic to olives, but I can have olive oil.  But that smell of those olives and the different meals that they had made with them was so strong that I almost lost my lunch right then.   It gave me physical shudders and Will took one look at me and asked if I was ok.  He thought I was going to be ill right there.  I just walked away until I was in a different section of the store.

We went home and I made myself some liver and onions.  Rae tried it and actually liked it.  Will can't stand liver so I was careful to run the fan and rinse the pan afterward so he didn't have to smell it.  I needed the iron.  I have been more anemic than usual.  I am having my levels checked again, as I think that my hormones are effecting my anemia. Not fun.

Anyway, It was a nice surprise date though the rest of the day wasn't great.  And the kids sure seemed happy that they could help us have a nice date too.  They were really hoping we had a good time.  They are such great kids.