Thanksgiving proved to be a very lovely day. Just the two of us. Or rather, four. Can't leave out the dogs. Last year the boyfriend had to work the Friday after but we still wanted to spend Thanksgiving with the family. So we slogged down the night before in gridlocked traffic, and then left at 4am that Friday to make it back to Bako in time for him to go to work.
Darn near killed him.
So this year, when we discovered he had to work Friday again (and possibly Saturday), we took a pass. It didn't go over well with the family, so to try and make it up to them I'm headed down with the dogs to spend the rest of the weekend and have a belated, quasi-Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night. The boyfriend will be flying solo. At least I can rest assured he won't get into any mischief. It's Bako after all - there's nothing to do here.
But before I leave, I'll share a little anecdote about our lives here in Bakersfield. The boyfriend has been begging me to write about this, because he thinks it's cute and charming. I promised I would, but I keep putting it off because I think it's pathetic. And despite the fact he never reads this blog and probably wouldn't be any the wiser, a promise is a promise, so here we go.
We have no friends here and we never go out. The boyfriend works such long hours that our weekday evenings usually consist of a couple of hours of TV and then early to bed. Boring doesn't even begin to describe it.
The boyfriend is a huge fan of "Judge Judy". For me, she's an acquired taste. Nevertheless, the DVR is set to record her and we play her back when there's nothing interesting to watch on TV, which is often.
Needless to say, we watch a lot of "Judge Judy".
One of my pet peeves about the show, which are many, is that they go to great lengths to imply that the show takes place in New York. The opening credits feature a montage of Manhattan and there's a New York state flag featured prominently behind the bench.
It's all a lie.
It's filmed in LA, a fact Judge Judy doesn't even really try to hide anymore. And the jig was really up a couple of years ago when a moderate earthquake hit during taping and video of Judge Judy diving under the bench went viral.
But whatever.
The aforementioned opening credits end as we zoom in on a statue of "Justice", a robed woman, blindfolded, holding the Scales of Justice. And right at the end, she reaches up and lifts her blindfold revealing... it's Judge Judy!
Kinda cute.
I pointed this out to the boyfriend and he didn't believe me so we rewound the tape and that's when we discovered...
The Flash.
For a millisecond, right before the end, there's a spark, a flash, a glimmer in Judge Judy's eye...
It's like the proverbial "green flash" at sunset. It's magical. And the boyfriend has now turned this into a parlor game, trying to freeze frame it at just the split second it happens to catch it. He thinks this is amusing, and interesting enough to write about.
And now I have.
Like I said, pathetic.
