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Boomshine is a pretty simple game where you click on the screen to create a small explosion. The goal is to create chain reactions to blow up a certain amount of targets. It gets progressively harder. I got to level 12 and gave up after getting 54 of the 55 required numerous times.

For those of you who visit here for movie reviews: hang in there, my next post will have one.

For the rest of you who could care less about my movie reviews: lucky for you, today is another day without one!

This weekend was a sleepy one. I think after doing the Carlsbad drive on Thursday, along with going out to Fullerton the same day, and then deciding to go to Laguna Niguel the next day, I tired myself out. Yes, I'm a driving wuss. It was all worth it anyway.

Friday Ric and I each drove straight from work to hang out with the Andersons. Baby Emily let me hold her only so long as she was sleeping and was completely unaware that I wasn't her mom. As soon as she woke up and figured out that we'd pulled a switcheroo on her, she'd cry like crazy. Apparently mom's the only one who can stop her cries. Dad, hmm, well he just messes with her mind a bit too much, so she gets confused and keeps on crying. We all barbecued kabobs, ate bruschetta, and ate brownies, and then we settled in to watch Casino Royale. A fun night.

Saturday Ric and I both slept in for a while. I went over to do laundry at my parents' place. My dad is getting oooold. Each time I go over there, I wonder more and more how long he'll be able to function by himself all day. He's attempting to paint my parents' house right now, and it's not looking good. Meanwhile, he sleeps about 75% of the waking day away. I watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with my sister and then we went out to a few stores to kill the night away. I finally used my Borders giftcards and bought myself CDs for learning Italian, a nice hardback of The Count of Monte Cristo, and Goonies on DVD (although it was a toss-up between that and The Incredible Mr. Limpet). We had coffee at Starbucks after that and talked a lot about how old my dad is. :)

Sunday, we both weren't feeling well, so we slept in instead of going to church. After a failed attempt to go run at the track because there was a game going on, I watched some tv and then headed over with Ric to his parents' house for the afternoon/evening. Ric did laundry and I spent a good while cleaning the inside and outside of my car. It looked beautiful when I was through with it, but I'm sure I'll have it looking like a mess in no-time, even though I do try to be neat. We reverted back to watching Arrested Development later on in the night, but before that I watched some of Discovery's new one, Planet Earth. If you haven't checked it out, you should, because it looks incredible. Just get over the fact that the narrator is a bit self-congratulatory ("for the first time caught on fim with our amazing camera" sounds a bit too much like "the only channel that brings you Doppler weather!"), and the rest is awesome.

Tonight: all the cleaning I didn't do over the weekend.

Anyone interested in doing another podcast episode using TalkShoe? I don't know how the quality is, but it looks easy to do.