All right, all right...the update didn't go as planned. You're stuck with the navy/gold/red color scheme for a little while longer, and the whole image idea didn't pan out. Why? I got a little sidetracked and ended up spending the day shopping with Cal.

Yes, I'm a bad person. I had fun, though, so I spit upon you.

The day began with a 45-minute arcade spree; Cal won both games of air hockey, but I walloped (yes, walloped) her at Skee-Ball. Childhood obsessions come in handy sometimes. I also found out that Crazy Taxi is a lot harder in an arcade than on a PlayStation.

The best part of the arcade was deciding what to do with the 29 tickets we won . ("Well, we could get one plastic helicopter and a Chinese fingertrap, or we could get a rubber ninja and split it.") I ended up scrawling a very cryptic note ("Use wisely, grasshopper. Love, Mary Lou and Bucky") and leaving the tickets and the note next to the change machine. When Cal gets her film developed, I promise I will share the photographic evidence of said message.

We then shopped and caught the 8:00 show of Radio at the cheap theater. Don't see Radio. We predicted several of the major plot points and laughed throughout the entire last half-hour.

Purchases Made:
Target
- Superman t-shirt: Cheesy, but necessary for survival. $8
Hy-Vee (warehouse sale)
- One dozen chocolate chip cookies: Listen to me salivate. $2.50
- 12 oz. bag oyster crackers: Filling and delicious. $.77
- Two Crunch bars: Future chocolate fixes. $.25 each
- One four-pack Mentos: Eh, they were cheap. $.50
- One box Dora the Explorer Fruit Snacks: Mmm, processed. $1
- One package of 200 flexible straws: I like straws. Yay plastic. $1
ShopKo
- One Alice in Wonderland purse: Ha, I'm such a corporate whore. $10
- One pharmaceutical eye patch: Arr, I scratched me cornea, matey. Scurvy glaucoma. $2
- One MedicAlert necklace: Fake and amusing. I now wear jewelry. $4

A rather nice day, if I may say so.