Collecting Beanies

Here's a Hidden Mickey, or perhaps a not-so-Hidden Mickey.  We went a local coffee shop today, and there we started writing Day One of the Summer Xtreme skits.  These are bigger, and require more attention and more of a creative process than just me.  I had Camille and Chris with me for this one, and Camille kept looking up at me and started laughing.  I had no idea why until she pointed out the two wreaths on the door behind.  So we snapped the picture, a Hidden Mickey.  Day One is done, believe it or not, and I feel pretty good about it, especially a fictitious game that we developed, something similar to a Pokemon game, but instead of collecting little creatures, the player collects Beanies - basically just baked beans with a personality or power.  Yes, this is a Nerdo thing during the skit.  He's collected quite a few of them, including these guys:

Electro-Beanie

Very Berry Beanie

Ghost Beanie

We're going to do more with these.  It was a fun little idea.  Anyway, we got a big weight off the shoulders with the first skit, which is always the weightiest because the first words are the most difficult to move into place.  But we'll continue our Coffee Shop Tour with another visit either tomorrow or the next day, as we move on to the second skit.  Maddie will be with us for that one, as she likes visiting these places.  I asked her where she wanted to go, and she mentioned Inman Perk, so be it!

The rest of the day was somewhat predictable with work, heat, air conditioner condensation leaks, and then sitting down to watch "Loki" and "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody."  There was an episode we watched that we marveled at - there is no way that would air today, given the atmosphere of the world.  I won't get into specifics, but how great it was to go back in time for a bit with this fun show.  Simple humor, and of course a lot of jokes we're writing down for future reference at KidPak!

We read tonight, and we said our prayers.  Mom's been under the weather, mostly tired, and perhaps just a reaction to something she ate this weekend or just an overtaxed system.  Or a legitimate virus.  The good news is that she's a lot better today than she was yesterday.  We got to sleep on time, and got ready for another day to tackle tomorrow beneath this oppressive heat dome.  Making the best of it!  At least the AC works!