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Saturday!  Maddie drove over to Team Edge practice this morning, and is certainly getting more comfortable behind the wheel.  Not comfortable is Mom, who has been struggling with this poison ivy that just lingers and lingers.  So annoying and uncomfortable - she suffered with this today, and has been suffering with it quite a bit the last few weeks.  I got my steps in towards the virtual moon walk there while watching some old "Tomorrowland" television episodes from our Walt Disney Treasures DVDs.  It's some old material, imagining what space travel would be like some day.  It's amazing to see what they got right, and what they could only guess at.  I actually have all but two of the Disney Treasures DVDs.  I would have had the last two if that Disney Movie Club hadn't messed up my order - I'm still steaming about that one, because I actually passed by the DVDs that I wanted at Best Buy but didn't get them there because I knew that the Disney Movie Club order was in place.  Only, they completely messed it up, and here I am without those two DVD sets that I really wanted.  I'm not bitter!  Okay, a little.

Ah, the Disney Movie Club.  That ended about two or three years ago, but for a while that was one of those companies that would send you eight CDs for a dollar and then you'd have to spend the rest of your life making sure you said "no thank you" to whatever CD they were offering you each month, and sure enough they were banking on those moments you'd forget and then you'd get billed for something you didn't ask for and maybe it'd be too much trouble to return.  Same idea with the Disney Movie Club.  There were some exclusive videos we picked up from them, mostly old Disney Channel material - but a lot of that is available elsewhere now, most notably on Disney Plus.  I remember not getting those DVDs I ordered, and then ordering a lithograph from them, thinking it would be the same size as the other Disney lithographs I have... only to discover it was basically a post card.  I'm not sure why we hung on with Disney Movie Club so long, but you can see why they went away.  We were pretty big Disney fans back in the day, so I suppose that was what kept us plugged in. But we generally bought all our new-release DVDs, and then eventually Blu-rays, all from the actual Disney Store, as they usually also had a lithograph with every purchase.  Now that's something I genuinely miss.  I loved those lithographs, and have a massive collection of them right now.  Most of them are framable and just gorgeous.  Ah, memory lane.  Remember getting something in the mail, a little card that you had to return to say NO?  And then that went to the paperless system where you had to remember once a month to go online and say NO? 

We'll have updates in a bit... on today.  I didn't get to talk about taekwondo, or spending the day with Nate, or the Braves losing to the Phillies because it rained, or yet another assassination attempt on our President, or some grocery shopping, Elvis music, Mandalorian stuff, a new Hawaiian shirt for Dad (a gift from Mom!), and oh wait:  rain.  Yes, we got rain!  It was raining a good bit today and that was a marvelous thing!  Updates coming soon...