Why I don't like Shopping in the Afternoon with Children

General rave and gripe under the cut, but here's the good thing from the other day just so I can feel pleased about something I've done lately:

This is a "Blue Meerca", a Neopet, if you don't know of such things:


and this is the cake I decorated for N2D's b'day last weekend:


Not bad, eh? I felt good about it, anyway, and the kids loved it!

( Now for the crap, if you can be bothered (mind you it's kinda funny in hindsight) )