Talk about a balance in my life between self-assertion and the need to relate to others: with this aspect perfecting at 5:00 am this morning, a great deal of yesterday was spent on the phone and/or online attempting to coordinate three of my friends so all four of us could go to the same movie at the same time in the same location - two Upper-East-Siders, one Hell's Kitchener and one Washington Heightser, each, of course, with her own ideas on whether the film would be sold out or not, whether buying tickets online and paying the surcharge is worth it or a waste of money, how soon we should get to the theater to buy the tickets if we decide to go that route, whether the window person would sell me senior tickets without the other seniors being there, how soon we should go back to the theater to start to wait in line in case there are crowds, whether we should eat before or after, whether we shouldn't eat at all but just have a cup of tea - a truly astonishing set of differing opinions, although maybe not too astonishing as we're all women of a certain age who have been living alone for close to a century, if you add all the years up, which makes it even more of a miracle that it all seems to have worked itself out.
God willing, Deo Volente and all that, in less than 30 minutes the four of us will start assembling in the Barnes & Noble on 86th Street, with or without tickets, with or without food (or knots) in our stomachs, and 30 minutes after that, assuming we all find each other ha ha, be making our way to Loews on 86th and Third for the 4 o'clock showing of Up in the Air.
With this kind of start to the new year, anything is possible, even surviving Pluto opposed to Saturn square Neptune, with Saturn squaring itself and sitting on Neptune at the same time.
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