"I made a special cake for you to ruin."
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exatronI had a great time over the weekend. An unexpectedly large portion of my family, plus a few of my sister's friends, celebrated my sister's birthday at her place.
This was the first time she had that many people over, and the first time my paternal grandparents, both of my uncles, my aunt who lives in the area, and my youngest cousin have visited her. She was a bit worried that my paternal grandmother would do her whole "That's cute, but not up to my standards" bit, but she behaved.
We also learned that my oldest cousin would be glad to hear that we're planning to go to his wedding since he was worried nobody would come. Getting our grandmother out to LA might be harder than we thought since she said she has back problems and thinks she'll be miserable on the plane.
My mom made the cake. Well, technically two, but she thought the first didn't turn out and made a new one after she got a really good deal on cake mix at the store.
Most of the afternoon was filled with loud conversation, including a few interesting stories about former teachers. My sister's favorite tale is about a substitute nicknamed "Feared the Worst" for being really clueless and using that phrase when writing about subbing for my sister's biology teacher on a typical lab day.
Her cats were in hiding for most of this. Emmy's a bad influence on the kitten, which used to be much more outgoing. The kitten (still no name) was entrenched behind the washing machine and laundry tub for a while, and started crying when we finally got her out of the laundry room and cut off her escape routes. She then decided to wedge herself between the wall and the side of the refrigerator. After we extracted her from that space, she hid behind the couch with Emmy.
I'm buying my sister's birthday present later this week since it would be kind of hard to buy Darkwing Duck on DVD before her birthday.
This was the first time she had that many people over, and the first time my paternal grandparents, both of my uncles, my aunt who lives in the area, and my youngest cousin have visited her. She was a bit worried that my paternal grandmother would do her whole "That's cute, but not up to my standards" bit, but she behaved.
We also learned that my oldest cousin would be glad to hear that we're planning to go to his wedding since he was worried nobody would come. Getting our grandmother out to LA might be harder than we thought since she said she has back problems and thinks she'll be miserable on the plane.
My mom made the cake. Well, technically two, but she thought the first didn't turn out and made a new one after she got a really good deal on cake mix at the store.
Most of the afternoon was filled with loud conversation, including a few interesting stories about former teachers. My sister's favorite tale is about a substitute nicknamed "Feared the Worst" for being really clueless and using that phrase when writing about subbing for my sister's biology teacher on a typical lab day.
Her cats were in hiding for most of this. Emmy's a bad influence on the kitten, which used to be much more outgoing. The kitten (still no name) was entrenched behind the washing machine and laundry tub for a while, and started crying when we finally got her out of the laundry room and cut off her escape routes. She then decided to wedge herself between the wall and the side of the refrigerator. After we extracted her from that space, she hid behind the couch with Emmy.
I'm buying my sister's birthday present later this week since it would be kind of hard to buy Darkwing Duck on DVD before her birthday.
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Date: 2006-08-29 07:11 pm (UTC)I suppose this would negate my comment that felines can't be bad influences on each other, were it not for the fact that I LIKE to think of cats as antisocial, so I would say Emmy is doing her job. ^ ^;;
Supposedly my DWD DVD shipped Sunday. I hope it gets here before the weekend :-D
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Date: 2006-08-29 07:18 pm (UTC)Some cats are more social than others, but I like to think Emmy's doing her job too. Not that she does much now that she's become a lump.
Cool. You need something to relax with over the weekend.