Recap: Chocolates

Thank you, Kate, for the the book!

Kate and I went to Valleyfair today...with the proposed purpose of buying cloth and the actual act of wandering around...mall and Santana Row. I spent about ten minutes in the teen cloth section before I turned to Kate and said "Okay, let's go."
KATE was telling me to relax, that was how I knew I am not destined to be a great shopper. I think I have something against the people who work in malls. Or it may be the simply fact that I find them creepy and overly friendly (sure they're trying to sell you things but really...I prefer to remain unnoticed.)

Ah yes, speaking of salesmen (and women) we went in this soap/perfume/lotion shoppe (you know the type) so Kate can see if she can pick something out for her grandmother, and this girl handed us two samples of lip gloss to try. On a what looked like a mini-spatula. Considering the way we're dressed (Kate in her usual brilliance of gray and black, and me in an over-sized sweater and cargo-pants), that girl must've been very, very desperate. Even Kate wasn't intimidating enough to avoid the breath-refreshening lip gloss.
Sorry, Kate, but I found that hilarious still.

Watched CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY...Mr. Wonka wasn't that bad. He was freaky, yes, in the sense that you feel like his brain is permanently on a different (and possibly crooked) track than everyone else. However, there was nothing freakier than the little working people that he hired that danced around to modern sound-effects, moves, and costumes. Hugely disturbing. I laughed through most of it. I like the implied bit about the power of the imagination though, and the plot is good.

Geekiness of the day: sat in the back of a book store and read an atlas. Still planning to do lots of traveling one day, oh yes. Will start making a list of places I want to go and plan to get a decent job...if only so I can earn enough to go traveling. Wales also sounds interesting.