Update from the week of 8/5 – 8/11
Here’s something that no one will be saying to me today:
A bunch of the summer interns departed, leaving some
empty spaces. Particularly the space
where Jati used play video games while Matty worked away at a desk in the same
room. Often, Ranen would join Jati in
the playing of games, so after his departure, Matty discussed creating a "Jati
Doll" to take his place. Ranen
laughed at the whole idea, but almost screamed in fear, when he walked past the
room the next day and saw the Jati Doll.
Matty: The bubble wrap was just sitting there, he had
left one of his shirts, I HAD ALL THE MATERIALS!
Showing once again, you can leave the compound, but
you'll never leave our hearts.
In an attempt to be healthier, I've been going to Metro
Market a lot of lunch. I picked up this
little thing of Spanish Valencian Almonds for a good snack between meals. The
first three were DELICIOUS. I was on my
4th almond, when I tasted a "bad" almond. Indescribably, awful tasting almond. Ryan, my co-worker, and purchased a simiiar
container of almonds - only his were covered in sugar. I offered him some of mine and he immediately
said, "Yeah, I don't want any of your Russian Roulette Almonds."
On Wednesday, Dawne gave Diana's nephew a swimming
lesson. She announced to everyone that
she would be teaching someone to swim for an hour. 5 minutes into the lesson, someone let all
the dogs out of the yellow house. Dawne
got out of the pool and put them into the little blue house. Matty walked by the blue house and saw that
inconceivably, Percy had managed his way onto the counter in the kitchen, so he
picked him up and let the dogs out of the house. Dawne then got out of the pool and brought
them up to the yellow house. Ten minutes
later, thinking that Casper was finally learning how to ask to be let out,
Uncle Ray let all the dogs outside. In
every instance, the dogs ran straight into the pool and started to swim -
because nothing is more distracting and intimidating to a 10 year old learning
how to swim than a bunch of puppies lapping him.
On Wednesday evening, we all went to Marymoor to see Ten
Things I Hate about You. Becky joined
us, with a huge tub of popcorn AND wine within the most awesome packaging of
our time. Introducing the Wine Stack -
containing 4 glasses of wine, each with its one foil seal, stacked in a way
that you can just separate, peel, and enjoy your very own glass of wine on the
go!
Someone came over to my desk the other day while I was
looking at Facebook and I immediately said, "Could you hold on, I need to
finish this."
This same gentleman had time to make this video after our
company picnic:
Oh right, we went had the company picnic on Friday. I knew that we could bring dogs, but was
worried that if I brought the shaggy, ear flopping Percy into the public that
someone might call Animal Protective Services.
So, I brought him into PetCo - but I brought Nala with me in case they
had time for a twofer. They sadly
didn't, so I brought Nala home. When I
tried to pick Percy up, Casper and Nala INSISTED that they join me - apparently
they weren't happy about being left at home while Percy got to go on a
trip. They were ELATED to just drive to
and from the store. Weirdos.
It was also Percy’s 10 month birthday – how cute is this
guy?
I received an awesome video from my nieces. They made this music video for their friends
were in England for two weeks. Seems
appropriate.
The weekend was spent at the dog park, meeting folks for
meals, watching the rest of my family prepare for Gen Con and generally trying
to recover from a pretty hectic couple of weeks. Kristy Kreme, my friend from college, and her
mom were in town on Saturday. They got
to meet Percy, and I took them to a place I had never been to in Renton. As we were walking around, we bump into the
single person that I know who lives in Renton: Rollie. He and his wife admitted that we had
interrupted them as they were mid stalk/follow of a suspicious character. Sorry if you caused you to lose the scent
guys!
OH! And Nater made
the dean's list! That's exciting! Oh!
And I forgot to tell you: At the roast
last week, Neville's college buddy mocked Neville's unusual love of glow
sticks. Then, I kid you not, two hours
later, Neville broke out two boxes of glow sticks. The only thing that could have topped that
was some laser tag guns. Maybe at the
50th anniversary.
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