Today, Mike and I spent 6.5 hours Ohiofying our cars. First to the license agency, for a car inspection. Then to the title office to switch the titles. Then back to the license agency to get our license plates. Then all the way across the city to the DMV. Then "down the street" (which in Ohio-speak apparently means 20 minutes away) to the Social Security office to get a replacement SS card, because mine was laminated (my Mom did it when I was born and I've gone 24 years without any problems). Then back to the DMV to actually get my license. Uuuuuggh.

There were good things that came out of it, though. For one, I won't have to go back to a DMV for 3 years, knock on wood. We learned that we don't have to do state inspections every year, which is awesome. And, best of all, my new license plate is awesome. It's... wait for it... EWW 2009. I love it, it makes me sound like I have an irrational, casual hatred for the year 2009. Mike's is EWW 2008-- yeah, okay, but not as cool as mine.

For dinner tonight, we made tomatillo salsa. Apart from it being way way too spicy, it was good. I think if we tone down the jalapeno we will have a very delicious Texas-alternative on our hands. Who needs Mexican restaurants, I can be a Mexican restaurant.

And now, the long awaited videos of us torturing Bean with the banister in our new townhome. Keep in mind, just like Katherine's grape video, it doesn't truly capture the struggle there was when he first confronted the problem. It took him about 5 minutes, now it takes maybe 30 seconds. But you get the idea.