"We don't NEED a man! ... Isabel, MSN Mike since he knows how to work the church sound system!"
Man, I am on such a sugar high from too much candy...
Vivian S. picked me up at 5:45, and we were off to church. Her family's going on a two-week vacation to Edmonton, Toronto, and Israel since they want to follow the soccer World Cup this summer: lucky! She was in Mexico over the Christmas holidays, and saw an Ontario license plate: that's some road trip! However, the driver of that SUV had backed into a parking space, not realizing that there was a pole blocking it off. Way to ruin your vacation and your brand-new vehicle's back windshield! We saw this car with a Utah license plate, which is also some road trip! Listened to a variety of stations (including some band that her sister's obsessed with right now) while discussing her crazy "4 in 3" exam schedule: she will LOVE Reading Week and sleeping in!
Got to church and met Steph and Chrystal in the kitchen... we thought Chalaine would be there, but she didn't show up. (Janette's response had to do with spending 'quality time' correcting grammar, explaining run-on sentences, and reviewing misplaced modifiers... yay for tutoring, NOT!) Vivian and Karen were bringing the pizza, and showed up a little later: we knew Cindy and Isabel would be late, though! We had one veggie plate with good dip, Cheetos, an assortment of gummy candy, Clodhoppers, two pizzas (one with potato on it), popcorn, kettlecorn, fruit punch, and some free candygrams that my sister got from work. Steph gave us all mini Britney Spears Valentine's Day cards - no wonder they were all on clearance since they're from 2001, haha! Talked about Vivian's French students, quizzes, what Christon told Karen about Sunday night, the amazing (im)balance of our food, what we'd done today, and other such stuff. Auntie Rebecca said that they'd just have prayer meeting in the library, even after we said that we were done soon! So we joked amongst ourselves that Auntie Rebecca COULD just see George Clooney after we started the movie downstairs and be okay with whatever we said... Hunter and his guy friends would just have to take one look at Catherine Zeta-Jones, and do the same, haha!
Steph brought up certain misguided maternal thinking: "You know what? My mom got MAD at me when I said that Christon didn't like me! 'Oh, I saw him get really close to you when he talks to you, so he must like you!' 'Mom, have you seen the way he talks to Sheena or Karen? He does it to everyone!' 'DON'T DENY IT! HMPH!' Man, we can't win!" Then she remembered that Mom and Dave's mom (Auntie Grace) liked to spy on the English service from the balcony during their Sunday School: I'd feel disrespected if I were the teacher! I remember those days... "So does *insert male name here* like you? No?! But you sat by each other in service!!!" That doesn't mean anything, so I learned to be very careful about who I sat by / what I did! Vivian L. said that we all did it unconsciously, which is true... but at least I don't go up to the people involved and ask awkward questions like that! o_O
We wondered what the single guys were doing at Nathan's, which reminded my sister about what else Mom got mad at her for: "You should invite the guys to your gathering, you know! Why not? You can get together!" ... does your daughter look like a church dating service to you?! UGH. The girls figured that they were the last ones left, while I (as the most senior by a few years) said that I was probably THE only one left of my generation. Steph reminded me that there WAS another one who had the same name: oh, right. That caused me to tell them about how my mom had thought she was still living with her parents: uh, they're dead and have been for some time? Then we discussed her testimony: escaping Vietnam by boat, having her brother / sister fall into the water, and other such dramatic stuff? Yeah, that is definitely something you'd remember hearing as a young kid! After that, we got into poisoning: anything can be a poison in the right doses! Arsenic, very little; hickory sticks, one large bag; water, a LOT!
Later, we TRIED getting the church sound system to work for us on Isabel's DVD. We found the instructions and followed them, but that resulted in much frustration. At first, we thought that we wouldn't need a man... but then we started thinking about which unattached males would know how to work the sound system intricacies. Steph joked that she'd interrupt Citrus and Danielle, while I privately thought of calling someone who will remain nameless... only problem was that I couldn't remember his number! After at least 15 minutes of fiddling around with stuff, Isabel asked Karen if the computer had Internet access. It did, so she went on MSN and messaged Mike after she'd tried calling his cell phone - she wouldn't call his house phone because it would get forwarded to Uncle Johnny's cell phone! Not good, in this case... I remember the time Joey got a message from him about piano tuning! His response after she told him that a phone call would be easier: "YOU CALL ME. I'm HOLDING my phone! Here's the number!" (haha, I can imagine his tone of voice were he to say that too!) Finally with clear instructions, the DVD worked with sound and audio... we'll definitely need to thank Mike when we see him next! :D
The movie was pretty quirky: George Clooney is this matrimonial divorce lawyer who falls in love with one of his client's exes, who marries people and then moves out for their wealth. Ripping up pre-nups and such, oh my! That kind of ending would never happen in real life, but the suspension of disbelief was there in a way. Afterwards, Chrystal found the sound system key under the keyboard because Steph and Viv had spent 10 minutes searching for it... nobody wanted to get yelled at / get in BIG trouble! ("See?! This is why we only use it on Sundays!") Then we unsuccessfully tried to get Cindy to take the double chocolate ice cream home because she thought Steph was lucky to have four tubs of other ice cream at home! Steph wouldn't take it home because Mom might actually yell at her, strange as it sounds... I can imagine it, though! ("WHY did you take ANOTHER thing of ice cream HOME?! THERE'S NO ROOM!!!") She finally decided to ding Daniel Fellowship for it if it gets used for Resonate: people WILL eat it otherwise! We divided up the leftover food among us, with Vivian L. taking a lot for the kids / students.
On the way home, Steph told me that the restaurant for tomorrow's dinner at 7:30 is in between Alleluia Café and Tsim Chai, near Save-On. We've been to Paterson before (after that salmon run bus tour), but I know Moutai much better than the other. Ah well, my parents want something a bit classier (but still cheap) for my sister's birthday dinner! On Sunday, there's yet another lunch at the Trocadero Greek place near church paid for by Uncle Sam's mom. Sister and I will just order small appetizer-type stuff like salads, since we get a LOT of main course stuff from the old ladies! The last time we went there, Grandma gave away like 75% of her meal to the four of us (me / Jon / Steph / Jeremy), so it's not worth having a main dish yourself WITH that since you'd get SO FULL on it! Then my sister said that our parents want to take a vacation from Monday to Thursday, but they don't know where... sweet! I don't HAVE to, but I could stay there and maybe spend time with Grandma outside the townhouse: she'll do the safety-deposit box thing, for sure. Nobody would bother me, since Jon's also gone - she'll forget at least once, haha. Maybe after Monday's show... we'll see.
Vivian S. picked me up at 5:45, and we were off to church. Her family's going on a two-week vacation to Edmonton, Toronto, and Israel since they want to follow the soccer World Cup this summer: lucky! She was in Mexico over the Christmas holidays, and saw an Ontario license plate: that's some road trip! However, the driver of that SUV had backed into a parking space, not realizing that there was a pole blocking it off. Way to ruin your vacation and your brand-new vehicle's back windshield! We saw this car with a Utah license plate, which is also some road trip! Listened to a variety of stations (including some band that her sister's obsessed with right now) while discussing her crazy "4 in 3" exam schedule: she will LOVE Reading Week and sleeping in!
Got to church and met Steph and Chrystal in the kitchen... we thought Chalaine would be there, but she didn't show up. (Janette's response had to do with spending 'quality time' correcting grammar, explaining run-on sentences, and reviewing misplaced modifiers... yay for tutoring, NOT!) Vivian and Karen were bringing the pizza, and showed up a little later: we knew Cindy and Isabel would be late, though! We had one veggie plate with good dip, Cheetos, an assortment of gummy candy, Clodhoppers, two pizzas (one with potato on it), popcorn, kettlecorn, fruit punch, and some free candygrams that my sister got from work. Steph gave us all mini Britney Spears Valentine's Day cards - no wonder they were all on clearance since they're from 2001, haha! Talked about Vivian's French students, quizzes, what Christon told Karen about Sunday night, the amazing (im)balance of our food, what we'd done today, and other such stuff. Auntie Rebecca said that they'd just have prayer meeting in the library, even after we said that we were done soon! So we joked amongst ourselves that Auntie Rebecca COULD just see George Clooney after we started the movie downstairs and be okay with whatever we said... Hunter and his guy friends would just have to take one look at Catherine Zeta-Jones, and do the same, haha!
Steph brought up certain misguided maternal thinking: "You know what? My mom got MAD at me when I said that Christon didn't like me! 'Oh, I saw him get really close to you when he talks to you, so he must like you!' 'Mom, have you seen the way he talks to Sheena or Karen? He does it to everyone!' 'DON'T DENY IT! HMPH!' Man, we can't win!" Then she remembered that Mom and Dave's mom (Auntie Grace) liked to spy on the English service from the balcony during their Sunday School: I'd feel disrespected if I were the teacher! I remember those days... "So does *insert male name here* like you? No?! But you sat by each other in service!!!" That doesn't mean anything, so I learned to be very careful about who I sat by / what I did! Vivian L. said that we all did it unconsciously, which is true... but at least I don't go up to the people involved and ask awkward questions like that! o_O
We wondered what the single guys were doing at Nathan's, which reminded my sister about what else Mom got mad at her for: "You should invite the guys to your gathering, you know! Why not? You can get together!" ... does your daughter look like a church dating service to you?! UGH. The girls figured that they were the last ones left, while I (as the most senior by a few years) said that I was probably THE only one left of my generation. Steph reminded me that there WAS another one who had the same name: oh, right. That caused me to tell them about how my mom had thought she was still living with her parents: uh, they're dead and have been for some time? Then we discussed her testimony: escaping Vietnam by boat, having her brother / sister fall into the water, and other such dramatic stuff? Yeah, that is definitely something you'd remember hearing as a young kid! After that, we got into poisoning: anything can be a poison in the right doses! Arsenic, very little; hickory sticks, one large bag; water, a LOT!
Later, we TRIED getting the church sound system to work for us on Isabel's DVD. We found the instructions and followed them, but that resulted in much frustration. At first, we thought that we wouldn't need a man... but then we started thinking about which unattached males would know how to work the sound system intricacies. Steph joked that she'd interrupt Citrus and Danielle, while I privately thought of calling someone who will remain nameless... only problem was that I couldn't remember his number! After at least 15 minutes of fiddling around with stuff, Isabel asked Karen if the computer had Internet access. It did, so she went on MSN and messaged Mike after she'd tried calling his cell phone - she wouldn't call his house phone because it would get forwarded to Uncle Johnny's cell phone! Not good, in this case... I remember the time Joey got a message from him about piano tuning! His response after she told him that a phone call would be easier: "YOU CALL ME. I'm HOLDING my phone! Here's the number!" (haha, I can imagine his tone of voice were he to say that too!) Finally with clear instructions, the DVD worked with sound and audio... we'll definitely need to thank Mike when we see him next! :D
The movie was pretty quirky: George Clooney is this matrimonial divorce lawyer who falls in love with one of his client's exes, who marries people and then moves out for their wealth. Ripping up pre-nups and such, oh my! That kind of ending would never happen in real life, but the suspension of disbelief was there in a way. Afterwards, Chrystal found the sound system key under the keyboard because Steph and Viv had spent 10 minutes searching for it... nobody wanted to get yelled at / get in BIG trouble! ("See?! This is why we only use it on Sundays!") Then we unsuccessfully tried to get Cindy to take the double chocolate ice cream home because she thought Steph was lucky to have four tubs of other ice cream at home! Steph wouldn't take it home because Mom might actually yell at her, strange as it sounds... I can imagine it, though! ("WHY did you take ANOTHER thing of ice cream HOME?! THERE'S NO ROOM!!!") She finally decided to ding Daniel Fellowship for it if it gets used for Resonate: people WILL eat it otherwise! We divided up the leftover food among us, with Vivian L. taking a lot for the kids / students.
On the way home, Steph told me that the restaurant for tomorrow's dinner at 7:30 is in between Alleluia Café and Tsim Chai, near Save-On. We've been to Paterson before (after that salmon run bus tour), but I know Moutai much better than the other. Ah well, my parents want something a bit classier (but still cheap) for my sister's birthday dinner! On Sunday, there's yet another lunch at the Trocadero Greek place near church paid for by Uncle Sam's mom. Sister and I will just order small appetizer-type stuff like salads, since we get a LOT of main course stuff from the old ladies! The last time we went there, Grandma gave away like 75% of her meal to the four of us (me / Jon / Steph / Jeremy), so it's not worth having a main dish yourself WITH that since you'd get SO FULL on it! Then my sister said that our parents want to take a vacation from Monday to Thursday, but they don't know where... sweet! I don't HAVE to, but I could stay there and maybe spend time with Grandma outside the townhouse: she'll do the safety-deposit box thing, for sure. Nobody would bother me, since Jon's also gone - she'll forget at least once, haha. Maybe after Monday's show... we'll see.
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