"Daddy, can we do something together?" Let history show this may become the most expensive sentence since "No, honey, it wasn't me."

I took my daughter to Arrowhead Towne Center today and outside of a chocolate chip cookie (for her) and a thoroughly unnecessary cookie sandwich for me (which I blame on my co-workers who dragged me kicking and screaming to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch) I was doing quite well financially.

Until we found the Build-A-Bear workshop, where I spent the GNP of Bolivia on a WWF-sponsored snow leopard. But that was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the hell that is coming behind the large plywood advertisement.

Sephora is coming to Glendale. The same Sephora at whose altar in Scottsdale my wife worships. The same Sephora I was forced to visit in Barcelona - halfway around the globe. (In reality, I pointed it out in a blatant and futile effort to score some brownie points.)

Sephora, home of the $1,833,938,923,928,194 lipstick tube, is coming to the Arrowhead Towne Center next spring. And so, my marketing has devolved into outright pleading ...

Please buy a home, one of my listings or otherwise ... I guarantee 99 percent of the proceeds will be donated to Sephora come April.

(c) Jonathan Dalton, 2006 / Jonathan Dalton's Arizona Homes