super and not so...

So Mary Beth and I are going out yesterday afternoon and stuff and uh, I start my car and it's all shaking with check engine light on and smelling like burning oil. I dropped it off at a repair shop for it to be ready today. That wasn't a nice cap to my nice day off anyway. Well it was back to work for one day today. Afterwards I picked my car back up (drove the wife's to work). Then we went off on an adventure! Super Mario All-Stars came out while my Wii was broke. It was all "limited edition" but those fuckers were pretty serious this time 'cuz only a couple months later after I saw it in stores it's all gone! Can't get it online without spending too much. I had gone back to the Sears we got our washer at 'cuz I saw it when we bought that, but it wasn't there anymore. Later, the internet told me that two other Sears stores had it in stock. So our adventure first took us out to the Sears in Raleigh. Turns out it's going out of business and "everything must go". It was no longer there. Then we went to the Sears in the "Hickory Ridge Mall" and things were much calmer there. Luck was with me! They had one left on the bottom shelf behind some other games. I'm pumped I was able to track it down at retail price instead of bein' all jacked up! And it's lame too 'cuz it's not like it's got stuff that isn't available elsewhere, really (though that version of "The Lost Levels" is pretty great 'cuz you can keep continuing indefinitely. That's the only way I was able to beat it on Jacques's SNES. I can't get too far on the original version on my virtual console playing it straight). And this Super Mario History 1985-2010 cd is sweet, though a little bit of a disappointment (only one song from each game and this whole thing ignores all the GameBoy games like they didn't exist! I guess they wanted 25 minutes for the 25th anniversary? They could have done better, though. I do enjoy it though). The booklet that comes with it is a little disappointing too as it also ignores the GameBoy stuff. I guess they're non-canon? Bullshit, I say! Doesn't mention any of the other non"Super" Mario games (I know his trademark was slapped on all kindsa stuff, but the RPG/Paper Mario stuff is all true fuckin' Mario shit!) Okay, I'm getting a bit out-there nerdy so I should stop. To make matters worse, I came home to a package in the mail: Super Mario Galaxy 2. Getting my Wii back got me excited! Can't help it! A few other points on our adventure: got some cheap shirts and both Sears we went to (I'm like, addicted to that tie-and-shirt-in-a-box deal that's cheaper than the damn shirts are to begin with). Also went to this place called I Luv Lasagna. It was pretty good for exterior appearances of cheesiness. Mary Beth got turkey necks (yum!) and I got a lasagna burger (good, but disappointing as the name was misleading: really a sloppy joe, a good sloppy joe but nothing the name "lasagna burger" evokes). And Winchester Market is always a treat to visit. I should do homework, but it's hard to get out of my excited-for-videogames mood! Must come down.