The Holtonian

There and Back again... a holton's story

Thanks has been given. We had a good time in old St. Louey and I'll touch on some of the high notes. Wifey has bugged me about ice skating outside for the past two years, so I took her out thansgiving day to the Steinberg Ice Rink in Forest Park. Unfortunately for my wife she has been indoctrinated by one too many crappy romatic comedy and or romatic sappy movies where the couple goes to Rockefeller Plaza and fall in love ice skating and end up shagging and live happily ever after. Needless to say the only thing that happened after our ice skating was wifey complaining of her shins hurting and "this wasn't very romantic and its too physically demanding to be fun." Well there you have it, she's not a Nancy Kerrigan. We also went and saw Master and Commader and I can honestly say it Mastered my cynicism and Commaded my attention. It was a really good movie with good dialogue that reminded me of my days on the sea and didn't have any of that gushy love crap that gets in the way of good honest sailing. I also saw for the first time Rudy, which I'm sad to say could not squash my cynicism. I kept thinking of Rudy saying, "Its our time out here at Notre Dame, they've had their time out there, but its our time down here." And also I kept thinking, "Come on mr Frodo I'm open, throw me the ball... I don't wan the ring, I just want to play mr. Frodo." But I can say its a good movie, cheesey, but good and it has a good message of not quiting which people like me need to take to heart or die quitting.

Other than those things we shopped, we ate, we drank, we slept, we drove forever in a car, we talked, we watched football, the typical holiday things. Thats all i have to say about that. I can honestly say I'm a little disappointed in my trip though. Every time i go home to St. Louis i expect to see someone i know from high school or grade school or someone i grew up with. Not once since I left that town four years ago have i ever really run into someone i know. I mean i realize i spent most of my highschool in my room playing video games but i did meet a few people along the way. I think the problem is that I haven't seen any one from high school in at least four years and if I saw them in front of me they'd probably be so different I wouldn't recognize them anyway. I think one time i thought i saw one of my ex-girlfriends at the movies a few years ago and ducked into the mens room till the coast was clear but other than that I've never run into anyone i wanted to see. Oh well. I'll always have the shire, right mr. frodo.