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Okay, sorry about that, everyone. Blogger was showing the images just fine for a day or two; they just stopped showing up altogether so I hosted them. (Thanks ImageShack!) The terrible jokes should make a little more sense now.

At the moment I'm engaged in a wonderful American pastime-I am procrastinating. I have homework to do for my Safety class (it's the safety cla-a-a-a-a-ass!!) and I really think I can find better things to do than answer questions about product liability. The class is half engineering, half law, and it's pretty interesting, but apparently not quite interesting enough.

Today we had another of those delightful weekend fun days that people with small children apparently aren't able to have (sorry Maury) so we have to enjoy them now. We went across town to see Pan's Labyrinth, because there was only one theater in town that was willing to show it. (Apparently reading while watching a movie isn't a popular thing in the South, The Passion of Christ notwithstanding.) There were only two showings of it during the day, and considering the rarity of theaters in town that were even showing the film, we figured it would be pretty empty, but it was packed. Those of you who know me know how much I hate people who talk in theaters, so crowded houses always make me a little apprehensive, but it was whisper-quiet in there. (Maybe your average ticketholder to a lush foreign film is a little bit more civilized than someone watching, say, Stomp the Yard or something.) Anyway, it was a good movie, not quite like anything we'd seen before. The director, Guillermo del Toro, also made another movie a few years ago, set in the same time period, called The Devil's Backbone. That one's recommended, too, if you've not seen it. Those of you who have fancy new Netflix subscriptions, for instance--there's one for you.

The theater just happened to be about a block from the dealership where I take my car for service (they wash it for you) so I dropped it off for an oil change. We walked to Macaroni Grill for lunch, bought our movie tickets, and then came back to get the car. (Oh, and I saw a Rolls-Royce parked in the parking lot of the Kinko's (!) next door to Macaroni Grill. Who drives a Rolls-Royce to Kinko's??) We drove over to the theater and had a little time before the movie started, so we stopped in at the video game store and finally had a chance to play with a Nintendo Wii! Neither of us had played on one of those yet, so we took some time to do so. It's fun! Then we saw the movie, hit Sam's Club and the grocery store and came home. (There was a gorgeous Dodge Viper parked in the handicap spot at Sam's. What are the odds of a person actually being able to contort his or her body to be able to fit into such a small car actually being handicapped in some way? Something seems fishy here.) After a brief but whirlwind cleanup effort of the house, we ate dinner and now here we are!

I want ice cream. While at the grocery store, I bought stuff to make a couple of batches of chocolate ice cream, but I forgot that it needs to be cooked first, and then you leave it in the fridge for a little while to cool before it's made into actual ice cream. So...even if I made the base right now, I couldn't have ice cream until tomorrow, at the earliest. Dang it. I want some ice cream...