Michael Day

This Friday was deemed "Michael Day". In other words, how we spent our evening was left completely up to him. His plans? Dinner at a local seafood restaurant and two movies back to back at the theater. His choices? Zombieland and Pandorum.

Due to a miscalculation on his part, though, we went to see the wrong movie first and would have had to stay up until an ungodly hour in order to watch the other one. So, to his complete and utter frustration, we only ended up watching Zombieland Friday night. (On the very quiet drive home, he confessed that this is why he never makes plans... because it is such a disappointment when they don't work out.)

Taking pity on him, I extended Michael Day a little bit into Saturday so that we could finish off his Day and see Pandorum.

Let me begin by making one thing very clear: I hate scary movies. Actually, I think the word hate does not quite cover it. Abhor. Despise. These words seem more fitting for my feelings about scary movies.

Mike, on the other hand, LOVES them.

As you can imagine, this presents a bit of a problem for us. Every time I leave town he watches every single scary movie from On Demand. If I go to bed early, he can often be found in the living room, catching up on the latest thriller.

I swore off scary movies only a few weeks after we got married. There was an unfortunate incident with a movie about a creepy little devil child that had me too afraid to go to the bathroom by myself. I was in my 20's. A grown woman. Afraid to use the bathroom alone. Yeah. Time to give up scary movies.

Since then I have decided that all that scary movies really do is put thoughts into our heads that should not be there. I'm worried enough as it is; I don't need a scary movie to make me worry about a psycho killer using my skin as a mask or the flu turning the human race into crazed cannibals.

Suffice to say, it was a pretty big deal that I agreed to go to these two movies.

Zombieland was no big deal. I don't really have a problem with zombie movies because they're.. so... well.. fake. And, Zombieland was more humorous than scary, really. We actually both rather enjoyed it. I might even recommend it to other people.

Pandorum, on the other hand, actually was a totally freakishly frightening movie. I hadn't really seen any previews for it, so I was going into the movie completely blind. I had no idea what it was going to be about.

However, only about 5 minutes after it started, I was completely aware of the fact that the last place I wanted to be right then was in that theater watching that dreadful movie.

But, I was a trooper. I'll admit, There were a few incidents where I closed my eyes and tried to take a nap. I probably told Mike how much I hated the movie at least 20 times. However, in the end, I gave it a chance. It was fairly interesting. I could have done without the satanic super creatures that were running around eating everyone, though.

Don't get me wrong. I still hate. abhor. despise. scary movies. In fact, I am at this very moment dreading the fact that Michael will be training in 29 Palms for the remainder of the month of October. This will be the THIRD October in a row that I will be spending alone. That means three years in a row where all those scary Halloween movie previews have been freaking me the f**k out during my (solo!) evening television viewing.

But, you know, it was Michael Day. And for Michael Day, I'll do anything for the man I love. Even the one thing that I absolutely abhor beyond belief.

*Btw, I really can't wait for "Sarah Day" to arrive. I wonder what I will plan?!