If you can't make cookies, you should race cars.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was really enjoyable. Tonight we're going to watch Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, mostly for Saren's benefit. She has seen the original trilogy, so now it's time to scar her forever with the 'new' one. Also, Steph has only seen Episodes 1 and 2 (and 4, 5, and 6, of course) so when we get #3 later this week, it will be new to her, as well.

After that, we've got several Christmasy movies lined up in our Netflix queue.
Speaking of Christmas movies - why do so many of them suck? The exceptions that I can think of are: A Christmas Story, Die Hard, Gremlins, The Nightmare Before Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Oh, and bits of Home Alone.

Every other xmas movie seems to be blah. Or maybe "Bah". Heh.

Speaking of blah xmas stories, it's time to state the story of the first xmas as told by our advent calendar thus far. I'm going to restate the first three sentences (go word count!) and the fourth sentence as well, so we can see how the story is progressing.

In the days when Herod was king of Judea, Mary was visited by an angel. The angel said, "You shall bear a son and call Him Jesus." In those days, everyone went to the city of his ancestors to be taxed. Joseph had to go to Bethlehem, the city of David.

Hmm. You know, I realize we're only four days into the story, and they're still establishing characters and whatnot, but ...I really hope this tale gets a little more exciting.

Of course, I can't really knock the tellers of this story very hard, since I haven't worked on my Nano story AT ALL since the end of November. It's still sitting in the floppy drive, at 26,899 words. Lame, P@. Lame.

Um. Damn. I had something else to say, but I've now forgotten what it was.