I Make Them Good Girls...Go Register...

Today Lynette and I got the fifth funnest part of a wedding process done and out of the way.

It started with picking up her mom who just wanted to go shopping to look at new curtains and curtain rods. She needs those because when Lynette's brother Danny moves to Idaho then her parents are moving into his house in McClouth.

So we went to the Burlington Coat Factory at the Great Mall of the Plains. That is a broke ass mall. A whole wall of it has been taken over by a church. That is a very long church. Yet it was not all a waste...I FOUND SOME VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY! (Holla Simien!)

There is an old fashion arcade called Game Zone ran by a man either from the Middle East or Southern Asia (Pakistan/India). I played a first person shooter called Area 51. It was fun. I played through 2 dollars worth of tokens and left. I went to a book store that only had 1 comic book in it, so not REALLY a book store. Then I found a Game Stop. heaven. Played a short demo of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (which the Ice Age came after the dinosaurs died off...but fucking Hollywood capitalistic pigs needed to round off their trilogy, right? and kids are stupid misleadable creatures anyways, huh?) video game on XBox 360 (an inferior system). Then played the new Wii Sports Resort game. It is awesome. If only I could have played any of the Wii Remote only games. The way the store had it set up I could only play the Jet Ski, Bicycling, and Archery games which require nunchuk action. It was still so fun.

But let's be serious, I cannot wait until Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 based on the Civil War summer megacrossover event comes out. Playing that on the Wii is gonna rock my face off. Flinging that spider-web out with real webslinging arm motions is gonna be so awesome. giddy.
Aww, but I majorly digress...

Then we went to Shawnee Mission Parkway and killed all 3 birds with one stone. First lunch at IHOP. Good food, crappy waitress. I hate when the waitress/waiter is all over you at the first of your visit, but then when you want to leave or need a refill, they fell into a crack in the floor in the back and cannot be found.

Then to Bed Bath & Beyond. Where I found I loved that trigger gun. We waited for a long time to get helped and then the signing up process takes lots of writing and typing, and then the poor girl that got stuck helping us (nobody wanted to help us sign up or leave...which was annoying) could not get the trigger gun to work. Finally a guy got it to work and we scanned like 150 items. She said we should sign 400 items (twice as many items as guest you are inviting), but that just seemed incredibly ridiculous.

Then we went to Target. Target is much easier to register at. In retrospect, I wish I would have went to 1) a different Target, because that one has a sucky DVD selection, hello Batman: The Animated Series - The Complete Series (Batman: TAS to true fans) was not there and 2)went down the toy aisle. Shoot. I did get all this kiddy bathroom stuff: Monkeys! for the bathroom that is yet to be built downstairs at Lynette's house (my future house). At Target I was just scanning stuff. Mostly as an inside joke to my guy friends who will look at the registry and say, "Tone Bone picked that one out."

Did I mention I controlled the trigger gun at both places? I did. It is fun.

Then to Home Depot for some house stuff. Home Depot is not a good place to register because you have to hand write the crap down. I figured I had hogged the trigger gun, so I did the gentleman-ly thing and shared. Took turns, ya know? Lynette got the pen and clipboard. It was only fair and I am a just man.

And an ass.

Oh, and did I mention that Lynette got her WEDDING DRESS picked out. Some store at the capitalist wasteland known as the Great Mall of the Plains. She feels really relieved.

Actually doing something and having it completed for the wedding is very therapeutic and a big relief of wedding plan stress.

Crossing my fingers for that $1600 television...