Lucas: You know I'm thinking about getting back into
performing. That Pied Piper incident in
third grade when I had a wedgie the whole time and then I finally had to do something
about it, and everyone in the audience saw me excavate my underwear was pretty
traumatic. Maybe I'll start with a
dramatic reading of "never ever ever getting back together."
Me: The only performing I'll be doing is wedding
ceremonies.
Zach: Then I hope your monologue is better than
"never ever ever getting back together." Actually, Tiffany, you probably shouldn't use
that during the ceremony.
I spent a lot of time focusing
on work and those stories are either dull, or probably not appropriate for
here. However, Shana did send me a Pep
Talk that you all really should experience:
Lucas: You know why I like sugar in tea? One, it tastes good. Two, it has good homogenous properties. Way
better than honey.
Zach: But honey is better for you.
Lucas: That isn't on my list.
On Friday, Becky called me back
to say, "This is great! I totally
wanted to hang out with someone but I couldn't think of ANYONE that wouldn't
already have plans this late on a Friday.
I didn't think of you at all. Of
course YOU would be free!" And I
was, home on a Friday, snuggling with Percy who wasn't feeling well from his
shot earlier in the day.
Me: I'm so glad you could come
over. And that you're wearing sweats
because I actually changed into pajamas when I heard you were coming over.
Becky: I was so excited about
coming over I almost left the house with my shower cap on. Jared had to ask me if I was forgetting
something.
Me: Pick out whatever you want,
I'll watch anything.
Becky: Star Wars?
Me: Don't make me ask you to
leave.
Becky: Ooh! Let's watch A Walk
in the Clouds. It's one of my FAVORITES.
Me: I really like that your
favorite movie has Keanu Reeves in it.
Me: My sister was calling Percy, "Little
Nose." I think that would have been
his Indian name.
Lucas: Did you know that when the Pilgrims came,
they were talking to this Indian Chief and he said he would trade them drinking
water for their beans. The Pilgrims
agreed, and handed the vegetables over, and the Chief yelled, "Hey
Drinking Water, come over here and meet your new parents."
Percy was chewing on a chair, so we sprayed it with the
no chew stuff. We barely finished
spraying, when he went back to chewing.
Me: You son of a b*tch.
Zach: That is quite the factual statement.
Lucas introduced me to a civil war myth that I had never
heard of before. The story goes (and
I've included a link for more details) that a soldier had been hit with a
bullet through his left testicle, and then traveled further into a girl getting
her preggers. My first response was Man!
That chick was pretty quick on her feet with the lies to cover up being with
child and without husband. I mean she
convinced newspapers! That's
fantastic. Way to go, Lady. Way. To. Go.
We did some shopping at the
outlet malls on Saturday, followed by a viewing of "Eddie and the Cruisers
Part II." (Obviously, an Oscar
worthy movie weekend.) Sunday, was more
concentrated on chores, reading the page to screen HP book, and running Percy
around at the park. Oh, and doing our
jobs as best groupies ever at Chop Suey watching Luke's band, Allium.
We were talking about how to gain mass/muscle etc. We naturally called in some help from Roy
Boy. In the meantime, Lucas was talking
about how that might bring in the ladies.
Dawne was telling him that he was just as good looking as Zach and
Derek.
Luke: but I'm your son! Really, I have a face made for
radio.
In previous car shopping moments, I've always put an
emphasis on how it would drive in the snow.
For example, a mustang, despite its convertible properties, is rear
wheel drive, so I would never even considerate.
(Maybe this specific example is from driving to skiing class in Laura's
mustang and essentially sliding in and out of the parking lot. This go around, when faced between the option
of the all-terrain Jeep Wrangler and teeny Fiat that sees speed bumps as a
challenge, I went with the Fiat. I have
genuinely been excited about the opportunity of a good old fashion Seattle snow
that equals a sum total of a 1/2 an inch when I can call in and say, Sorry!
Stella doesn't do snow - and then get to work from home for a week. I thought it would happen when we had a those
long weeks of 20 degree weather... but noooooo we got SUNSHINE like we were
living on the east coast or something.
And now we're back to dark, raining and 45 degrees, so I gave up and got
a car wash. Maybe one day...
Have a good week kids!
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