Almost forgot...

I am officially a size smaller. Had to go buy new jeans because the ones I had would start sliding down as I walked -- ostensibly bad in a work environment. So, yeah. Go me. :) About damn time. *grin*

Supersonic, baby!

So Alisdair comes home today and shows me this piece of paper with something stapled to it, grinning at me. It takes me a moment to piece together what it is, when suddenly I realize that it's a pair of tickets to something. Turns out he won the drawing his school library had for the Seattle Sonics "Read to Achieve" program. The prize? Two tickets to tomorrow night's preseason game against the Phoenix Suns.

Now, this was met with mixed reactions, as Alisdair is happy to go but doesn't care all that much about basketball or the Sonics, while Will is a huge fan of both, and there are only two tickets. I've got a call in to the Sonics office to see what can be done about procuring an extra, but the Magic 8-Ball says "Unlikely." Even if I could get another ticket, the odds of it being in the same area are slim to none, AND they're pretty damn pricy--and I wasn't planning for one or two more tickets in the budget at the moment. I've prepped the kids accordingly, so that Alisdair and Daddy will get to go to the game and Will and I will go out to eat at his choice of place, then go do something fun. They seem content with this. Let's hope it lasts. :)

But yeah. Kudos to my kiddo for winning the tickets. I'm very happy for him.

OMG.

The D&D2 movie is So. Bad. Not bad in a train wreck sort of way, like the first one. It's not a "competing with Sean Connery in an orange diaper and suspenders" sort of bad. It's the "Dear God, it's not just my gaming group from college, it's my GAME!!!!" sort of way. I mean, really. The Gamers was a tongue-in-cheek take on a gaming session, with in-jokes and everything. This is played straight up serious. This is what every game turned into a movie would look like. This is something my son would worship and see it totally as The Bomb, now at 8 years old. My inner 8 year old sees the appeal, while my grownup wrestles for control of the remote to find something, anything else on.

Wow.

I'm probably going to get the DVD, just for my sons.

And then I'll hide while they watch it.

Or better yet, I'll give it to their dad. :)