I learned my lesson last night. I will never, ever go on a Saturday night to another PG-13-rated movie that is likely to attract large amounts of teenagers. There was a constant background buzz of conversation throughout the whole movie, and half of the kids were text-messaging on their cell phones. Groups of girls got up intermittently to go to the bathroom. I shushed the group to my right twice to no avail. I appeared to be the only one bothered by it, so finally I shoved a wad of Kleenex in my ear and that helped somewhat. I don't care if this makes me a crank. Never, never again. A friend once told me about an adults-only theater in a nearby town that shows new releases, and I'm going to ask her for the name in case we get a hankering for another evening movie, though usually we do the early matinee and hence avoid this sort of thing.

Oh, plus the movie ("The Fog") stunk. $19.50 down the drain.

I kept my Amex bill right around $200 this month. Woohoo! Lately it's been upwards of $400. I put a lot of home and dog expenses on it, though, so it's not all me. This month I bought two books from Amazon Marketplace and I purchased my credit scores through myfico.com. I think that was all I spent on myself.