the phantom menace!

so today's the day a big thing happened in msg's life, almost 10 years before i met him. a new star wars movie came out! don't tell him, but it wasn't that big a deal for me, since i'm more of a star trek girl than a star wars one. i was a bright-eyed teen at the time and way more excited for the finale of deep space nine than a sequel to some movies i liked pretty well but the last of which came out before i was even born.

also, i thought it had a way dumb title. "the phantom menace?" are you kidding me? i was like, why didn't they just straight up call it "the not-very-exciting movie"?

but ...

it's a big deal for me now, because it was a big deal for him. (and i guess also because i'm more into star wars now than i was back then.)

and these days, it's a thing i can think of where i was at the time and how i felt about it, and i can talk to him about that and he can talk to me about where he was and how he felt about it, and we can sorta tie our lives together back before we ever met. like the fact that when tpm came out and it was the first star wars movie i saw in the theater, i was the same age he was when the last star wars movie before tpm came out.

anyway, happy birthday, phantom menace! here's hoping it's a great one for you!

xoxo,
claire