Fine Steaks and a Movie with Aaron & Holly ... Oh, and a Box of M&M's

Fine Steaks and a Movie with Aaron & Holly … Oh, and a Box of M&M’s

Aaron and I went to dinner at Houston’s steakhouse with Holly tonight and then saw the new Angelina Joli film Salt at the Palace Theater in the Country Club Plaza. It was a great time, Holly looked fantastic, and it was nice to get out of the office and just hang out. (Side note: It so drives me nuts that I ended that sentence in a preposition but I know it is colloquially.)

The only downside is I had a box of M&M’s. Remember that whole we get closer-or-further-away-from-our-goals-one-choice-at-a-time-thing I was telling you about earlier? Yeah, that moved me further away from my goals. But they were tasty. (Aaron had Junior Mints and Holly had Reece’s Pieces). But the truth is … I wanted them and was glad the peer pressure gave me an excuse to give into the temptation! God bless old friends.

The movie was good. As Aaron said, you sometimes forget that Angelina Joli is an actress with an actual job, and that she is good at it. We hope she doesn’t turn into Tom Cruise, who no one we know can watch anymore because he can’t become the character (his insane behavior is always present when he’s on screen; you can’t get it out of your mind).

As we came out of the movie theater, here was the view from the over-the-street walkway, which I liked:

We passed the Country Club Plaza Brooks Brothers but they were closed, unfortunately:

We passed the American Century Investment mutual fund towers. For those of you who recognize the name, they manage more than $1 trillion in mutual fund assets. The odds are good you have some money with them, or at least someone you know does.

On the way back to the car, we passed Halls department store. (Yes, we stopped by Halls to look at Creed, Bond, and another fragrance house before meeting Holly for dinner … you know us well.)