"Let's put a pin in this conversation. Poke! There, and we are not coming back to it until it's resolved."

Empire Theaters somehow heard about our situation, (who knows really what they heard- let's not ask for the sob story) and they donated tickets for us all to go see Bolt! Tickets for all the children, even the twenty year old ones. :D The movie was very fun, and thankfully the humour was such that I didn't have to feel protectively embarrassed for the small ones at all. So either I'm really hardened to sketchiness, I wasn't very observant, or it was actually a clean kids' movie!

Let me see; the animation was shiny, the music was fun, when I noticed it, and the story, though generic let's-introduce-the-children-to-betrayal-and-deception-at-age-four, was enjoyable. And the characters were lovely. As is my tradition, I wasn't that crazy about the main heartwarming characters, but there were oodles of other marvelous people. *rubs hands together* Rhino the hamster, you know you are made of awesome. :D But not as much awesome as Mittens the cat. Offering pigeons your protection... *chortles*

Oh, and then Fraulein and I dared the mall, and I bought a root beer float and some jeans. At different stores. (Yes, I know that is a shock to you.) And I swear, I give off some kind of meek'n'harmless'n'invisible vibe, because I stood there for five minutes in front of AW and watched them fill straws, quietly seething, and they just filled the straws, and looked at me, and filled the straws, and looked at me, and put away the straws, and chatted about breaks, and totally neglected to ask me if I wanted anything. Only pure a steely resolve to not go back to my seat empty handed retained that $3.79 for the coffers of AW.

And then we walked back to the Janeway and watched Gid breathe for a couple of hours. As I'm writing this, Fraulein and Mommy have ventured out to purchase some Pizza, Daddy's reading, Gid's breathing, and I'm, uh, writing. Good times being coherent, eh?

Fraulein and I watched another movie last night, which was the new Pride and Prejudice. The one with Keira Knightly, that is only 2.5 hours long, I mean. We decided that it is a good movie, though not quite as good as the six hour BBC version, and rather interestingly americanized. I mean, all the people walking around in disheveled undergarments, bubbling over with emotional protestations, (while sober)? Not terribly British, donchaknow. And it even looks like it's set in colonial America for much of the movie. Intentional? Really? You think? But as I said, we both think it was a good movie. :D