A Tuesday in July, et cetera
Our date on Tuesday started by us waking up and talking about plans. Luckily, we both basically agreed on the major details: thai food, mccoys, lots of friends for dinner. I wanted to see La Vie En Rose as well, which kyle consented to and knew about before morning, but I doubt it was exactly in his set of plans. Oh well, though, it was still great.
After we got around and let the dog out and all of those fine things that people do when its morning, we headed for
Midtown for the thai noodle house, Lulu’s, that i’ve been meaning to go to for years now. It was completely delicious. I’m not even kidding. It’s pretty fairly priced, especially for Thai food. And the atmosphere is really cute. Picture a Zen Zero which isn’t trying as hard. It’s like a fun little bar with Thai food. And the food was good too. My only complaints are that my food wasn’t spicy which was really a function of the thing I ordered which was absolutely delicious… and that you can’t subsistute for Tofu on the lunch menu unless it already is a vegetarian/tofu meal. So that was a bummer… but it’s only about 27 cents you save on the lunch menu so that wouldn’t be too big of a deal…. of course i ended up ordering something 3 dollars more expensive on the regular food menu. Everyone in Kansas City should eat at Lulu’s. You’ll love it like you love Thai food. I promise.
After Lunch, we went to McCoys for some 2 dollar pints. I’m addicted to their Ginger Shandy, literally, the first time I had a sip I said “Welp, if I’m not an alcoholic this is going to do it to me.” 
It’s brewed in house. and they brew it with Ginger and Lemonade, which I think makes it completely fantastic. Especially in the summer. It’s basically the blush wine of beers and even though it seems girly, it’s a good beer so you don’t feel bad drinking it. And did I mention the lemonade in it? Cos if I didn’t… let me stress it. Yum. We had a good time at McCoys for a few drinks before the movie. Kyle had to have a few drinks cos I promised him that he could have some since I was making him read a movie that was in French no less. I don’t think he ended up minding the movie too much… but it prolly helped that he wasn’t dreading it quite as badly.
The movie, La Vie En Rose, was amazing, I thought. Mostly, I liked everything that made the movie come together. I think the acting was great, especially the woman who played Edith Piaf, Marion Cotillard. It’s probably pretty easy to play a diva who wants everything her way like Edith Piaf was portrayed… but the acting in the scenes when she was upset just seemed very sincere. The writing/directing was done by the same fella and it was also pretty impressive. They oscillated between the story of her life and the end of her life throughout the movie and it was really well done. Especially when it all came together in the final scene… with my favorite Edith Piaf song, no less. It was awesome. It’s interesting to me how directors put biographies together. Esp when it’s not an autobiography or based on one or anything. I think the way we tell stories about others says so much about ourself or just society in general. The movie made me think a lot about why he portrayed her in the way that he did and what commentary he was making on her life and lives in general. The movie was pretty good though and I’m glad I went to see it. Prolly could’ve stood to cut about 20 minutes, but I don’t really know where the minutes would come from… so I get not cutting them.
After the movie, we went shopping at World Market for ingredients for Thai food then
we had our KC friends over for dinner. Nick and Jessica, Chris and Kristin, Banks and Big Papa, Phil and Rachel. Plus the two of us. It was a good quadruple-date plus Banks and Big Papa. Lol. I made Pad Thai with vermicelli noodles, egg, bean
sprouts and fried tofu plus we had seafood cold spring rolls which were a big hit according to everyone. Kyle grilled asparagus which is our new favorite thing and we tossed some sweet chili garlic sauce on it for a thai-kick since they don’t actually eat asparagus in thailand as far as we know. Yummy. And there was white rice. Of course. But I don’t know how much that matters. Rice is rice. There was a Sheridan’s run at Kristin’s request after dinner and then lots of drinking and poker and All-Star Game watching! Yay!
Next week I want to do a sushi night with my washburn debate friends but it might have to wait another paycheck before it happens… We’ll see how it goes.
Today, we golfed. At the driving range. Kyle’s so awesome. Even when I suck at golf and can’t hit the ball let alone hit it far, he’s really nice and patient and just gives me advice. And then I get better at golfing and everything is wonderful and I’m so happy to have such a great boyfriend.