assigned seating.

i would start out by stating how terrible i am at blogging and how sorry i am for the massive gaps between blog posts. but those feelings should just be understood by now. there ought not be a need for me to state them, you know?

garrett and i have officially been in utah for a month now. that sort of blows my mind. i feel like we just got here and like we've been here for ages. how does that work? i never know.

anyways, garrett is loving his internship at Super Top Secret, gilly is loving this whole no humidity thing utah has going on and i am loving the food utah is feeding me.

jdawgs.

r&r bbq. i can't even.

i think we're all going to have a hard time saying goodbye to utah and this awesome summer. 

but that's deeply depressing to think about. so let's talk about something else. let's talk about the movies. 

garrett's dad came to utah for some days and we got to spend some time with him. unfortunately, he broke his collar bone about a week before he came to utah and that resulted in him being on some narcotics and not totally up for a ton of adventurous/outdoorsy/utah things. 

so we ended up going to the movies. a lot.

may i just make it known here that i almost NEVER go to the movies. it has to be a fantastic movie-one that i've been looking forward to seeing for a long time (Les Mis, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, etc) for me to actually be willing to pay the arm and leg required for theater viewing. if it's not life changing, it's going to be rented from Redbox for one dolla. can i get an amen? 

so, truth be told, when the discussion of going to a movie came up, i was a little weirded out. nothing earth shattering was out. so why go to a movie? but i kept these thoughts to myself since garrett's dad was willing to pay for our tickets. i mean..don't want to rock that boat, you know? we saw 4 movies in one week. i honestly don't think i've seen 4 movies in the theater in the last 2 years of my life. 

first was The Internship. a day later we saw The Lone Ranger. on the fourth we saw Despicable Me 2. and the next day we saw World War Z. 

and in each movie my mind was blown. not because of anything that had anything to do with the movies themselves, but apparently it's a thing to actually sit in the seats listed on your ticket??

uhmm..I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THERE WERE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS ON SAID TICKETS! it's a movie theater , not an airplane. so you can imagine my surprise when a family came barging into the theater asking us to move because we were in "their seats". i'm sorry. it seems i was here 10 minutes early and consequently got a really good seat. you are here 10 minutes late and are consequently asking to sit in my really good seat. how does that make sense to anyone? 

i just don't know. 

but we sat the rest of that movie with our heads hooked backwards like we were watching a rocket launch rather than a movie. and it was giving me an awesome double chin, i'm sure of it.

it wasn't just the first movie though. each one of them presented some "you're in our seats" issue. and i just need to know-has this always been a thing? am i that infrequent of a movie goer that i have never before run into such a common issue? or is this a new thing? 

either way, it's highly obnoxious. 

almost as obnoxious as the girl who sat behind us in Despicable Me and vocalized every one of her thoughts throughout the ENTIRE movie. 

"ohmagosh." "oh no!" "awwww" "ohmagosh.ohmagosh!!" 

(insert heinous and annoying laughter here)

i hate movie talkers.

i hate movie seat assignments.

and i  hate the way i don't know how to eat popcorn if it's not by the fistful. 

anyways.

i need to know. movie seat assignments-is this new? is it old? is it only enforced in Utah? have you ever been booted out of your well earned good seat because someone else had a ticket with that seat number on it?

tell me all your thoughts. because i seriously need to know.

love,

kate.

lyrics: but i'll stand my ground and i won't back down.