Thanks for Nothin'

Ummm...yeah...

Thank you to that nice financial planning firm with a specialty in Special Needs Trusts for having a free, sensory-friendly showing of Disney's Brave a few weekends ago.  Sensory-friendly is a good thing for the kid, and free is definitely a good thing for her parents.  And the movie just happened to be fabulous.  And thank you to that same financial planning firm for having said showing in the biggest, most popular shopping mall in the entire region, that just happened to have a Disney store, ready and waiting for gullible unsuspecting parents, like myself, to lose their kids to magic mirrors that talk, and magic wands that don't make the magic mirrors talk, but kids don't know that and keep waving the damn things around until you pry them from their tight-fisted, grip-of-death hands and pick them up screaming to get them out of the store after being stuck in there for a good half an hour, absolutely dying for a latte at the Starbucks next door. 

Ahhhh...I could just smell it...  

And thank you to one of Sammi's little friends for the Toys R Us gift card for her birthday.  And thank you Toys R Us for an interesting shopping experience in the heat and dark as you bravely stayed open, chancing shoplifters and heat strokes, so people like us could buy Disney princess toys during the massive power outage after last week's storms.  And curse thank you again, Toys R Us for having such a horrific brilliant deal that gave us a free Merida wig (the heroine of Brave) for spending $30 on Disney stuff (for which we bought a Merida doll that sits on her horse, Angus - it was $29.99, and the nice people at Toys R Us said they wouldn't quibble over a penny.  Maybe it was just too hot to argue...).  And thank you, Steve, for noticing that deal, when I would have purposely avoided missed it.  (Don't worry, Steve, I won't post the photo of *you* wearing that wig - your secret's safe with me!)

And now, the one, the only, Samerida!!

And the crowd goes wild.