8/19: What I Accomplished Today

1. We won Puzzle Day. Hurray!

2. Went to see Ratatouille. This was a very cute movie, and we enjoyed it. Before the movie started, we had a little time, so we went into the arcade and played a little skeeball. We're both fairly good at skeeball and won several dozen tickets, but all of the prizes for the number of tickets we had were dumb, so we decided we'd give out tickets to some kid and go sit in the theater early.

This was more easily said than done. We decided we'd better give the tickets to a parent, rather than directly to a child, so that we didn't look creepy. The first child we saw with a parent was a twelve-year-old girl with her mother; we decided that was probably going to look creepy, too. Finally, we found a family of four small children with both parents present; we decided that would probably be our least-creepy-looking option, and the mother looked glad to have a few more tickets to even up ticket distribution among the kids. One of the sucky things about life in 2007 is that you can't just give perfectly innocent things to kids you don't know. Blech.

3. Came home and took a nap.

4. We watched WordPlay; this was also a fun movie. I worked on Pogo badges during the movie. (This wasn't on NetFlix, so we had the DVD with extras. Those were fun, too.)

5. BigFishGame is a Word Search thing, for heaven's sake.

I'm not really particularly tired, but Convocation is tomorrow, so I'd better try to get some sleep. I'll do big work on Arthur tomorrow.