Ever wonder what Harry Potter would be like drunk? Well, come watch me play "Harry Potter" on our new Gamecube thingy. Watch as Harry the Alcoholic runs into walls! Watch as Harry the Alcoholic runs into people! Watch as Harry the Alcoholic runs into furniture! Some of you may know about the 17-F-er OSU game...well I put that to shame in a matter of a couple hours. But I am determined to figure this game out, no matter how long it takes. I'm just glad we forgot to buy a memory card.

Obviously I'm not a whiz with the video games - at least not the story-type games. Give me a puzzle game, I'm good to go, though. Just makes me think of the good old days, when Nintendo first came out. For a while, all we had was Mario, Duck Hunt and a track & field thing with a mat that you ran in place on. Then there was Tetris, and my beloved Bubble Bobble. That game kicked ass!

I really took a trip down toy memory lane when I read MB's blog. She mentioned FashionPlates and Lite Brite, and I was gone. Kids were so much more easily amused when I was little...slap a few pieces of plastic with raised pictures on them in a slot, put a piece of paper over it, rub the crayon over it and Voila! You're a fashion designer! For those of you too young or old to know of the FashionPlates, or for those of you of the wrong gender, I'll explain. There were tons of plastic "plates" with a different third of an outfit on it - I think that's how it went anyway, maybe it was halves. Anyway, you mix and match the pieces to create an outfit, and put the pieces into the holder. Like I said before, the outfits are raised up so that when you put the paper on top and rub the big crayon over it, you ended up with a picture of your new fashion design. Then you could color it in.

So compare nice simple toys like that to today's toys, and there's no comparison. Ours were better.

Back to the present. It started snowing while we were at dinner. I was not happy. We went and priced our new toy at Wal-Mart, and then went to Meijer, where we bought our new toy. After we left Meijer, I realized we should have bought more juice, so we decided to stop at Kroger. As I was turning onto a little side road to go to Kroger, we had some major fishtailing and almost hit another car. Not fun. But we got our juice and made the trip home safely with no other near misses.

BTW, I want everyone to know that I am highly upset because Meijer (or at least Findlay's Meijer) no longer has the Meijer-brand lotion tissues. The other brands suck - one uses too much lotion and leaves your face and hands greasy, another one doesn't even feel like there's any lotion in it. Meijer's was just right. How Goldilocks. Doesn't Meijer care about people with evil colds that cause sore noses?? Perhaps I'll ask Dave to check BG's Meijer on Monday. I'm in crisis!

Well, enough rambling. I've got to go scoop the poop before Sugar flings something out for me.

*BURN UPDATE* Still a pink line. I'm seriously wondering if it's going to scar. How stupid would that be?