Had a girls' night with the SSLP last night, and we actually got away from our houses and walked around in society like grown people! We ended up shopping a wee bit, which is totally out of character for us. But we preceded the dread shopping with a curbside beer and chocolate eclair. The beer liquored us up and got us all relaxed for the event, and the eclair gave us a realistic size gauge. More for me than for her - she possesses this thing called "self-discipline." She also has one of those fellas around to keep her woman parts satisfied and doesn't rely on sweets to replace that satisfaction because she's a stronger person than I am in that regard. SELF-DISCIPLINE.

Anyhoosies, in honor of the triple-digit temperatures that are settling in, the word of the day is SUNDRESS. The other word of the day is TUBETOP.

Then, after our three-hour tour, we went home with some choice Messican food and watched Pineapple Express.

This was my second try at Pineapple - the first effort failed due to some bedtime distractions. The parts I remembered (albeit out of context) were unsavory so I didn't feel compelled to watch it again. However, the SSLP was not amenable to that because she has a married-woman-love-jones for James Franco.

I have to say I'm glad that she's one of the chosen people who get to tell me what to do, because I laughed my little bubble butt off. Everything was so funny and off-key and unexpected. The men, all of them, were soooo lovably gay. And I mean that they were all indescribably feminine in the way they talked and related to each other, even the villains of the piece (the interesting ones - the assassins hunting down the two main characters). And I liked that they all fought the way peace-loving stoners would when confronted for the first time with life-or-death choices - meaning, they fought really badly. When they won fights it was purely accidental. I think my favorite part was when Seth Rogen threatened Danny McBride with a cactus to get him to spill everything he knew. HYSterical. Oddly, though, a disappointing and unfunny gag reel.

But who cares about gag reels when James Franco is blazin' hot?