An interesting thing happened last night (or a funny thing, depending on how you look at it). I have been cleaning my incredibly messy apartment the past few days because my parents are coming out this weekend, and will be staying in my apartment until Monday, when they will head up to Palm Springs for the week, before returning to my apartment the next weekend. I’m really excited about it, because I love my parents very much, and we’re also really good friends, and they’re my heroes. It’s just the way I was raised, being an only child, so I just love spending time with them. We’re all very alike and enjoy being together.
So anyway, I was cleaning off my desk and in particular I was organizing the pile of movie tickets that had accumulated on my desk. I save all my ticket stubs, and I place them all in one of those sticky-paper photo albums. So I was going through my tickets, and putting them in chronological order with the help of my Excel workbook that I use for cataloguing all the movies I’ve seen and the DVDs I own. I was having trouble with some of my ticket stubs, because the ones from my local Ultrastar Theater in El Centro had problems with the ink wearing off while in my wallet (where I used to display the most recent 16 stubs). I eventually stopped displaying them in my wallet for this very reason.
So I was going through, and struggling with trying to read the faded writing, and I came across one I couldn’t identify. I could read the date and time on the ticket but could not read the movie title. I checked my Excel sheet and I was shocked to find that I had no film listed for that date. After a few minutes I managed to decipher that it was the film Fearless, starring Jet Li, and I realized I had completely forgotten to log it on my computer. I was ecstatic because last year I set a new personal record by seeing 63 films in the theater. The addition of Fearless boosts that number to 64.
Yeah, Ginny laughed at how pathetic I am too. It’s ok, don’t feel bad. I’m happy, and that’s what matters. And Ginny thought it was cute… so ha!
The Love Pirate 
Collecting ticket stubs is an interesting hobby :-); I used to save sporting event tickets.
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And that was me BTW.
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Though I’m not as organized with it as you, I also collect my movie and concert ticket stubs (at least the ones that I don’t accidentally wash in the laundry). Mine for the last 5 or 6 years are in a coffee cup on my bookshelf.
-Bret
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