Things To Do For Two

One of our favorite movies to watch together is Dan in Real Life. It stars Steve Carell as Dan, a writer who is trying to raise his three daughters alone after the death of his wife. This is not, however, a movie review.

After seeing the movie a few times I started paying attention to the soundtrack. The songs compliment the movie perfectly while standing on their own as good music. I found it on iTunes not long after and it has since become one of our favorite pieces of music.

Up until now I’ve only had the digital version of the soundtrack on my laptop. I don’t like using an FM transmitter for my iPod in the car, and burned CD’s don’t play well at all in it either, so we were anxious to get it on CD. The problem was, the local Best Buy and Future Shop never seemed to carry it. So after months of looking every time we went shopping, and telling Susan many times to “just buy it online” I finally decided to order it through Amazon as a surprise for her.

Later that day we were picking out some music for the car as we were heading out on a day trip (more on that later…) when somehow the Dan in Real Life soundtrack got brought up. Then came the crushing blow to my “I’m such a good husband” ego when Susan proceeded to tell me she had JUST ordered it online from Chapters with some books she bought. Yup, after months of searching brick and mortar stores, we both ordered the same CD on the same day!

So now my surprise has been ruined, my soul has been crushed, but we have two copies of one of our favorite CD’s. One arrived yesterday, and the other is still on the way. Let’s just say I’m glad I didn’t pay for gift wrapping.

And that, my friends, is the story of the Dan in Real Life Incident.