Sex and the City

When Sex and the City was on the air, I never watched it. For one thing, I never had HBO until Husband and I moved in together and we splurged on the expensive digital cable package. We’ve since dropped it down to the basic since we’re being more financially responsible since purchasing a home. We also found that we were too busy to watch the 500 channels we had available. By the time we did get HBO, the series was almost over so there was no point in watching it then.

However; thanks to the wonderful invention that is Netflix, I spent the winter of…2006 I think? catching up. I loved the story lines and the friendship Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha shared and my love of flirtinis began. To be honest, I never thought myself to be a “Carrie” or a “Charlotte”. I really don’t identify closely with any of the characters as many viewers did. Truthfully I think I have a little of them all in me.

Somehow I’ve been able to stay away from spoilers about the movie prior to seeing it this past weekend. Thank my lucky stars! My Google Reader was exploding with posts about seeing the moive but I just starred them and saved them for later. My plans to see it fell through about 3 times. I saved it to see with a good girlfriend; however, things came up – she got engaged and delved head first into wedding planning. Come to think of it, it’s a bit ironic, no?

After an evening of venting and being on the verge of tears, my wonderful husband offered to take me. Keep in mind that we are a couple who love to keep “movie scores.” We both keep mental tallies on how many “chick flicks” I drag him to and how many blood and guts movies he has me see. The fact that Husband just offered, without blinking, to take me to see SATC was huge and I am grateful he took me. While I would hav eloved to have seen this with my girlfriend, I began to feel cast aside and I’ve been working hard the past few weeks – DAMNIT I DESERVED IT!

So I haven’t decided  if I’m going to tell the friend I’ve seen it or not. I’d love to see it again anyway. But as my husband pointed out, “you know what happens when you lie.”* Then again, maybe she won’t mind seeing it with me as she has been pretty flaky.

(But I love her just the same)

(For the record while I love Big, I think what he did in the movie was a total cop out. He’s a “big” man, he could have handled it way different. Didn’t like that. Loved the Steve/Miranda story line – that reunion made me more happpier inside than the Big/Carrie fiasco.)

*a node to what happened between Carrie and Miranda.