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Me: I need to run to the store to pick up a few things to last until I get my unemployment check on Wednesday.

Her: Do you need to borrow some money?

Me: [Thinking about what I need to buy…bananas, deli meat, bread, milk, etc.] I don’t think so, it shouldn’t be more than $20.

Her: Oh you need more than $20!

…later….

Grocery total, without even trying: $20.08

I’m the grocery psychic!

I have to tell you, this is the first time I’ve been sitting at home when some big news thing has happened, and it’s just freaky to be able to watch CNN instead of waiting for the wire services and the CNN site to update. It’s so silly, I’m so used to just relying on the web for my news, that even after I got the email that someone had been arrested, it didn’t occur to me to put the television on until one of my friends said she was watching. Duh! The television!

Of course now I’m getting a little tired of listening to the talking heads speculate about stuff. Live pictures of an Exxon station. I mean if this turns out to be nothing (which I actually don’t believe will happen…I think this person was involved somehow) then CNN gave a LOT of advertising time to Exxon.

Oh, and people, buy a digital camera. Let’s not rely on a Poloroid camera to take pictures of breaking news outside your car dealership. (But it was interesting to see the CNN cameraman trying to get a good shot of a blurry Poloroid photo. “Okay, that blob over there is a policeman…”

Okay, I’ve gotta turn this off for a while and get some work done.

One of the new links I added to my blogroll today is yet another Jodi [sic] on the internet. I’ll have to check her passport, but I think she’s from some other major city on the east coast. Now if she wanders back over here, she’ll see that I fixed the name of her blog as it appears in my list. Sheesh. Some people and their petty demands for accuracy.

I wish it wasn’t so windy. It’s just a gorgeous sunny day, with those nice puffy white clouds on blue blue blue sky. And the wind is enough to drive you back inside. I hate that…it’s bad enough that there aren’t many “warm” days left, but to have the wind bully its way in to take a Sunday away is just unforgivable.

I was going to suggest to Jr. that we head out to the playground, but those tend to be pretty open. Lucky for us he enjoys our swingset, which is within spitting distance of the nice warm house, and also has trees blocking at least a little of the wind.

Oh, and before I forget, Congrats to JPL for his soccer team’s undefeated season! Woo hoo!

Finally! Jonah finally arrived at my local theater, a mere two weeks after it opened “nationally”. It was a very very cute movie, well done, with awesome animation, and great music. I personally loved the story but I can see that some people not interested in seeing a Bible story animated for the big screen might avoid it. I think they’ll be missing out, but that’s not my problem.

Personally, I’m just sorry that my least favorite Veggie, Archibald, was the “star” but truly he did share the screen with Larry enough to make up for it. Plus, his travelling buddy Khalil stole the whole movie. In the car on the way home the 3 kids (11, 10, and 4) were quoting a LOT of his lines. Hell, the 4-year-old quoted a whole section of the movie…I didn’t think he normally memorized dialog until he had seen something at least twice, but there you go. If you saw the movie, he did Jonah’s speech when Khalil snacks on the tree….

Anyway, it’s definitely worth a look, and I was happy to see quite a few families in the theater… not a bad afternoon, given that we only had to pay the matinee rate. And boy, am I glad I already own the soundtrack…we’ve listened to it like 4 times since 6pm yesterday.