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Brick (2005)

It's a good thing I wrote that review when I did, because the two of us decided to go see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie early that evening (the 6:20 showing at the big Lakewood theater). Now I'm only three movie reviews beind: Cars, Nacho Libré, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

On the way to the theater we drove down 6th Ave, and as we passed a pedestrian walking in the rain Carrie suddenly said, "That's Gena!"

So we pulled over and offered her a ride, which she gratefully accepted. After driving her to her house (which is in the opposite direction of the theater), we made it into our seats with about two minutes to go before showtime.

After the movie (which is really, really long, by the way), we were both very hungry because we hadn't eaten dinner beforehand, and here it was almost 10:00 at night. So we stopped by a drugstore and I got some macaroni and milk, and then I made an absolutely monstroustly huge batch of homemade Macaroni & Cheese (from scratch, of course), of which I ate much too much. I woke up in the morning with a bit of a stummy ache. Whoops!

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• A purple or red shower curtain liner
• A smallish ice tea container, the kind that has a spout towards the bottom of it
• A badminton set

I went first to Fred Meyer because I also had some checks to deposit at the bonk there. I located a badminton set for $14.95, but no red or purple shower curtain liners, and only some cheap-ish looking iced tea container things. I put the badminton set back and decided to just get everything at Target.

Target was out of iced tea container things. Target had no red or purple shower curtain liners. This made three place (including K-Mart) that did not have any red or purple shower curtain liners! Do they not make them anymore!? I called Carrie at the store to tell her that red and/or purple shower curtain liners apparently do not exist any more, and we settled on a tan one instead. Also, the cheapest badminton set at Target was almost #30.

I got the shower curtain liner and headed back to Fred Meyer for the badminton set and the iced tea container thing. Sheesh!

I also cleaned the bathroom pretty thoroughly (scrubbing and mopping and all that kind of thing) on Monday.

• Brandy
• Carly
• Laura
• Melissa
• Travis
• Gena
• Viki
• Leilani
• Viki's sister
• Viki's niece
• Steph
• Aaigh! I can't remember the last pareson. If it was you, I apologize very much.

Fisher Plaza (where KOMO 4 is based) has been much renovated since last I was there and now looks really nice.

At any rate, we went through the metal detector and down the huge freight elevator thing and eventually all the ladies were taken into the sound stage before the men, so Travis, Carrie's Dad, and I all had to sit way in the back while the lovely ladies were in the front.

The lead tech/audience wrangler guy asked for six volunteers for a competition, and after five other people (whom we didn't know) volunteered, Carly and Brandy loudly volunteered me. He ushered the six of us backstage and said that it was going to be a dance competition, which is what I expected; Carrie was in (and won) one of these a few years ago. She won a book that she sold online for $8.

All of the other people seemed terrified/embarrassed, so I went first and did my Bill Cosby dance. Everybody else just kinda generically swung limbs around (though one guy did shake his booty a little bit), but none of them really committed to it like I did, so of course when the audience was asked to cheer for the winner they cheered the loudest for me (and actually the side of the audience in which my wife and friends weren't sitting was just as loud... if not louder).

Anyway, the show was about sleeping problems, and both Steph and Carly asked pre-chosen questions. Meh, it was just an average Northwest Afternoon show. Afterwards we were ushered back into the freight elevator and as I was leaving a tech girl shoved some "free potato bites at Pizza Hut" coupons into my hand for being in the dance competition. Gee, thanks. That sucks.

So we all went back to the lobby and broke off into our little groups. Carrie's dad treated us to lunch at the Red Robin by the Sea-Tac Mall (or whatever the heck it's called nowadays), which was very nice of him. Then we drove him home, and I drove Carrie directly to the store and then got some coffee (which I would only accept if Lawrence made) for her.

I honestly remember very little of the rest of the afternoon, other than I ran a load of dishes.

I picked Carrie up around 5:00 and we made a snack tray with such things as carrots, spicy pickled green beans (very yum), string cheese, marinated tofu, and baby bells. We snacked while we played Mario Kart.

Lena's birthday party was that evening at 7:00, but around 6:00 we called Linnea to ask if it was okay if we came over early to help if they needed it. She seemed to welcome that idea, so we went and picked up Lawrence from Starbucks and drove to the Tarbets' house where Lena had her 4th birthday party. It was a lot of fun, even though there were some four-year-old attitude problems. A tonne of the Bead Babes were there, and we walked up the alley to Christine's house and got to see the inside of it (first time for me).

Eventually the party died down and it was just the Harrisses, the Tarbets, the Goukers, and Lawrence & Christine. Carrie demanded that Jay build a fire in their little outdoor fireplace pit thingy, and Jay made s'mores with it.

We left around 11:00 and took Lawrence back to his place before coming home and going to bed.