Let's have creamy kimchi bubble tea while we wash the dog in Pho broth!
Got to the usual intersection way earlier than I thought... thank goodness I brought my one library book! Eric apologized for being late since he'd received a meeting notification one minute after the meeting started in the last hour - thank goodness he didn't joke that THIS was my fault, because he blamed almost everything else on me! (traffic, stupid cars, his car not starting in the sailing club parking lot, the bright sunlight reflections, etc.) I got mine back by playfully hitting him a few times, which he's used to. We discussed K, dancing, Surrey, possible arguments, etc. Hahaha, gotta love Diven!
We finally located everyone after phone calls to Jeremy and Andrea, and talking about Dallas being everywhere in the past year / other stuff. It was an interesting barbecue, what with our mocking Jen since we mentioned needing smoke ("you can smoke a cigarette and then we'll have some!"), and then thinking we needed her cigarette lighter for the grill just a few minutes later. Jeremy mentioned that he'd used his pipe lighter for a similar small grill, but Eric luckily found one more suited to the job of lighting flames. "If I were master of the flames, they wouldn't be going like THIS! *gestures to fire springing up from charcoal* I think they're master of ME!" We had chips, burgers, blackberries, veggie skewers, mini-watermelon slices, etc. Jer had brought some blueberry beverage, which made us wonder about the market for such things - could blueberry iced green tea REALLY be the best new blueberry beverage of 2005?! I told them that I was mutilating my hamburger bun while trying to eat a tall burger, and Eric heard "mutilated BUM"... I don't *think* I sustained any splinters there from sitting on the bench! He is CRAZY! (which is also not my fault...)
Jen and I wanted to try Jeremy's homebrewed Scottish ale - apparently, so many things went wrong when brewing that batch that he was surprised when we said it tasted good! (came from the keg!) We were worried about the "redneck police ATV patrols" since we were technically breaking the law by consuming alcohol at the beach, but they weren't at the park - besides, other people had beer AND red wine! ("they MUST be Greek, haha!") They came roaring around when it started to get dark, but just looked like they were having a good time since they didn't actually stop anyone from drinking! Just in case, Jeremy stashed the two empty beer bottles in his bag. At some point, Jeremy decided to "infuse" the ale with the blueberry drink - that actually tasted good with the right amount, and he figured he needed to tell Derek (the new brewmaster at Dix) about it, haha. We heard a constantly barking dog, and we figured that meant the owners were just as annoying - Jen wanted to shoot it, and not just because it wasn't a wiener dog like hers! Jeremy told us about a dog that he and his family had had - it had barked about three times a year, which we found funny.
Chuck asked me how my week was, and I gave him no opportunity for teasing - maybe I should have, haha. Discussed Erin, Derek, and Darren for a bit - there's Ireland in the future! Jeremy somehow broke off the lid that went with the squeezable ketchup, which reminded him of a story involving the old ketchup bottles that you had to hit on the bottom. Seems his dad was at a restaurant and wanted ketchup - the only problem was that the last person to use the bottle had just replaced the lid on the bottle without bothering to screw it on. So he gets all dramatic with the bottle, shaking it behind him - ketchup got ALL OVER this couple sitting behind him! Jer's not sure whether his dad gave them money for their clothes, but it would suck if they'd been wearing new / fancy items! This reminded Andrea of a story about her siracha (Thai peppers and such) jar - she and her mom had been having a disagreement one day, and Andrea just said: "Fine, I think I'll just EAT now and talk to you later!" The jar's lid was old, so they didn't bother screwing it on properly most of the time - one litre of the stuff went FLYING all over the place (window / ceiling / floor), and her mom was NOT impressed!
Chuck tried sitting in Andrea's folding chair, but it was too big for him - Eric did the same, and his legs were too long for the thing! It was just right for Jen and Andrea, though... Jeremy and I just stayed on the bench and watched this with amusement. We asked Eric where he'd gotten the huge burgers - Alistair's mom had made them and put them in the freezer, but hadn't had time to give him the recipe, so had given him some instead. He'd been told to brush olive oil on them before grilling, so that was a bit of artistry. The mosquitoes were starting to bug us just after Jen, Andrea, and I went to the washrooms - we talked about Korey and sappy Facebook messages. Andrea had teasingly asked who his friend was in his previous picture, so he replied to say that I was the only one that I loved. So then Andrea had replied that I was a great person, and he'd agreed. Must have more girl get-togethers so we can talk about relationships and such, haha.
We decided to make arrangements with Jon (doing work at Nathan's and hopefully NOT falling asleep!) since he thought we were going to Jen's later, but that had been backup in case it rained. Jeremy put him on speaker phone (he could hear the "mayhem" caused by a screaming child nearby) while we offered various suggestions. No Calhoun's since it was noisy (can't carry on a conversation!) and not really a coffee place, no Artigiano's since it was closed, no Dragon Ball since everyone goes there... we finally settled on Bean Bros. Café. Andrea and Chuck played football for a while in the near-dark: for some reason, their affection made me want the same thing! Oh well, I'll see what happens with that later! At the coffee place, three of us ordered weaker matcha lattes than Blenz makes - we discussed Viva Java (Andrea almost worked for Arnie), Starbucks (rhymes with "sucks"), Tim Horton's, news / ad / media coverage (24 has LOTS of ads and no real international stuff), La Casa Gelato flavors making "good" bubble tea stuff (creamy kimchi, anyone? Jon would go out of business really fast if he tried that - "why doesn't anyone like what I do?!"), ginger snaps, Chuck's work at St. Paul's ("obstetrics usually happy" is NOT "psychiatric..." / things going really wrong when you deliver babies / accident rates at New Westminster's Columbian), the printing press and typos, Ty and Bible misprints, and famous Bible errors. Jon and Jeremy had a beer snob discussion related to storing stuff in dark places (it gets moved!), but Jen got really bored with it. She didn't have a topic to discuss, so silence isn't great when in a group of seven people! Jon said that he'd come over more often if she washed her dog in Pho / beef broth! Jen and Andrea were NOT impressed, and discussed dog diets and care - no one else understood it. (Eric would, but he was busy reading the paper - INTROVERTS UNITE!)
Jeremy was comparing hydro bills for power consumption purposes, and figured that Darryl had a LOT of computers. He's trying to make his condo more energy-efficient... maybe solar panels like the ones for his uncle's pool? Haha. (let's capture wasps in jars too, while we're at it) We'd been discussing the civic strike earlier, and Andrea noted that some people were really mean when they saw people dumping stuff in garbage cans since that was disrupting their "statement" to the city. Someone was taped in the act of littering his orange peels on the ground in a quest to make a statement - we have no idea what that would be! Discussed private / city pickup, apartments, libraries, Karen and Vivian being technically able to throw their garbage across the street since they live on Boundary, people cutting locks on big garbage bins and cramming their stuff inside to overflowing, strikers wanting to get back to work, etc. After a while of reading newspapers and such, I took out my ENDINGS book and read that for a bit. Jeremy asked what I was reading, so I showed him a section on the first electric chair execution - THAT had been so bungled! He'd heard about it... I'd let him borrow the book, but it was from the Richmond library! (the Vancouver libraries being closed is a bad thing about this strike because you can't use the free Internet access and sit down for an hour a day to work, according to Jon) Maybe I'll buy him the FINAL EXITS book next week, too... he'll be amused, at the very least! (Cordia LOVED it when I gave it to her!)
On the way home, Jon was mentioning his "anniversary" to Harmony - methinks someone doesn't know the definition of an ANNIVERSARY! Apparently, she would have said yes if he'd asked her out last June - he was a little late on that one, as usual. He was joking that he didn't know who she was or what she might do to him, haha. (same with me and K, heh) He told her that grapes and candy do NOT constitute a meal, since candy is definitely not one of the four food groups! We talked about potato chips not being a real source of vegetables, her sleep issues, cougar noises, jokes about cougar action (not sure I'll talk to mine tonight since he seems BUSY), and other such stuff. Of course, Eric and Jon both had to make cougar noises at me well before they dropped me off. I'll get them at some point, just not before Esther's baptism on Sunday! (I've only seen her maybe once every two months, always post-Resonate... of course I'm not going to the baptism since I don't know her!)
We finally located everyone after phone calls to Jeremy and Andrea, and talking about Dallas being everywhere in the past year / other stuff. It was an interesting barbecue, what with our mocking Jen since we mentioned needing smoke ("you can smoke a cigarette and then we'll have some!"), and then thinking we needed her cigarette lighter for the grill just a few minutes later. Jeremy mentioned that he'd used his pipe lighter for a similar small grill, but Eric luckily found one more suited to the job of lighting flames. "If I were master of the flames, they wouldn't be going like THIS! *gestures to fire springing up from charcoal* I think they're master of ME!" We had chips, burgers, blackberries, veggie skewers, mini-watermelon slices, etc. Jer had brought some blueberry beverage, which made us wonder about the market for such things - could blueberry iced green tea REALLY be the best new blueberry beverage of 2005?! I told them that I was mutilating my hamburger bun while trying to eat a tall burger, and Eric heard "mutilated BUM"... I don't *think* I sustained any splinters there from sitting on the bench! He is CRAZY! (which is also not my fault...)
Jen and I wanted to try Jeremy's homebrewed Scottish ale - apparently, so many things went wrong when brewing that batch that he was surprised when we said it tasted good! (came from the keg!) We were worried about the "redneck police ATV patrols" since we were technically breaking the law by consuming alcohol at the beach, but they weren't at the park - besides, other people had beer AND red wine! ("they MUST be Greek, haha!") They came roaring around when it started to get dark, but just looked like they were having a good time since they didn't actually stop anyone from drinking! Just in case, Jeremy stashed the two empty beer bottles in his bag. At some point, Jeremy decided to "infuse" the ale with the blueberry drink - that actually tasted good with the right amount, and he figured he needed to tell Derek (the new brewmaster at Dix) about it, haha. We heard a constantly barking dog, and we figured that meant the owners were just as annoying - Jen wanted to shoot it, and not just because it wasn't a wiener dog like hers! Jeremy told us about a dog that he and his family had had - it had barked about three times a year, which we found funny.
Chuck asked me how my week was, and I gave him no opportunity for teasing - maybe I should have, haha. Discussed Erin, Derek, and Darren for a bit - there's Ireland in the future! Jeremy somehow broke off the lid that went with the squeezable ketchup, which reminded him of a story involving the old ketchup bottles that you had to hit on the bottom. Seems his dad was at a restaurant and wanted ketchup - the only problem was that the last person to use the bottle had just replaced the lid on the bottle without bothering to screw it on. So he gets all dramatic with the bottle, shaking it behind him - ketchup got ALL OVER this couple sitting behind him! Jer's not sure whether his dad gave them money for their clothes, but it would suck if they'd been wearing new / fancy items! This reminded Andrea of a story about her siracha (Thai peppers and such) jar - she and her mom had been having a disagreement one day, and Andrea just said: "Fine, I think I'll just EAT now and talk to you later!" The jar's lid was old, so they didn't bother screwing it on properly most of the time - one litre of the stuff went FLYING all over the place (window / ceiling / floor), and her mom was NOT impressed!
Chuck tried sitting in Andrea's folding chair, but it was too big for him - Eric did the same, and his legs were too long for the thing! It was just right for Jen and Andrea, though... Jeremy and I just stayed on the bench and watched this with amusement. We asked Eric where he'd gotten the huge burgers - Alistair's mom had made them and put them in the freezer, but hadn't had time to give him the recipe, so had given him some instead. He'd been told to brush olive oil on them before grilling, so that was a bit of artistry. The mosquitoes were starting to bug us just after Jen, Andrea, and I went to the washrooms - we talked about Korey and sappy Facebook messages. Andrea had teasingly asked who his friend was in his previous picture, so he replied to say that I was the only one that I loved. So then Andrea had replied that I was a great person, and he'd agreed. Must have more girl get-togethers so we can talk about relationships and such, haha.
We decided to make arrangements with Jon (doing work at Nathan's and hopefully NOT falling asleep!) since he thought we were going to Jen's later, but that had been backup in case it rained. Jeremy put him on speaker phone (he could hear the "mayhem" caused by a screaming child nearby) while we offered various suggestions. No Calhoun's since it was noisy (can't carry on a conversation!) and not really a coffee place, no Artigiano's since it was closed, no Dragon Ball since everyone goes there... we finally settled on Bean Bros. Café. Andrea and Chuck played football for a while in the near-dark: for some reason, their affection made me want the same thing! Oh well, I'll see what happens with that later! At the coffee place, three of us ordered weaker matcha lattes than Blenz makes - we discussed Viva Java (Andrea almost worked for Arnie), Starbucks (rhymes with "sucks"), Tim Horton's, news / ad / media coverage (24 has LOTS of ads and no real international stuff), La Casa Gelato flavors making "good" bubble tea stuff (creamy kimchi, anyone? Jon would go out of business really fast if he tried that - "why doesn't anyone like what I do?!"), ginger snaps, Chuck's work at St. Paul's ("obstetrics usually happy" is NOT "psychiatric..." / things going really wrong when you deliver babies / accident rates at New Westminster's Columbian), the printing press and typos, Ty and Bible misprints, and famous Bible errors. Jon and Jeremy had a beer snob discussion related to storing stuff in dark places (it gets moved!), but Jen got really bored with it. She didn't have a topic to discuss, so silence isn't great when in a group of seven people! Jon said that he'd come over more often if she washed her dog in Pho / beef broth! Jen and Andrea were NOT impressed, and discussed dog diets and care - no one else understood it. (Eric would, but he was busy reading the paper - INTROVERTS UNITE!)
Jeremy was comparing hydro bills for power consumption purposes, and figured that Darryl had a LOT of computers. He's trying to make his condo more energy-efficient... maybe solar panels like the ones for his uncle's pool? Haha. (let's capture wasps in jars too, while we're at it) We'd been discussing the civic strike earlier, and Andrea noted that some people were really mean when they saw people dumping stuff in garbage cans since that was disrupting their "statement" to the city. Someone was taped in the act of littering his orange peels on the ground in a quest to make a statement - we have no idea what that would be! Discussed private / city pickup, apartments, libraries, Karen and Vivian being technically able to throw their garbage across the street since they live on Boundary, people cutting locks on big garbage bins and cramming their stuff inside to overflowing, strikers wanting to get back to work, etc. After a while of reading newspapers and such, I took out my ENDINGS book and read that for a bit. Jeremy asked what I was reading, so I showed him a section on the first electric chair execution - THAT had been so bungled! He'd heard about it... I'd let him borrow the book, but it was from the Richmond library! (the Vancouver libraries being closed is a bad thing about this strike because you can't use the free Internet access and sit down for an hour a day to work, according to Jon) Maybe I'll buy him the FINAL EXITS book next week, too... he'll be amused, at the very least! (Cordia LOVED it when I gave it to her!)
On the way home, Jon was mentioning his "anniversary" to Harmony - methinks someone doesn't know the definition of an ANNIVERSARY! Apparently, she would have said yes if he'd asked her out last June - he was a little late on that one, as usual. He was joking that he didn't know who she was or what she might do to him, haha. (same with me and K, heh) He told her that grapes and candy do NOT constitute a meal, since candy is definitely not one of the four food groups! We talked about potato chips not being a real source of vegetables, her sleep issues, cougar noises, jokes about cougar action (not sure I'll talk to mine tonight since he seems BUSY), and other such stuff. Of course, Eric and Jon both had to make cougar noises at me well before they dropped me off. I'll get them at some point, just not before Esther's baptism on Sunday! (I've only seen her maybe once every two months, always post-Resonate... of course I'm not going to the baptism since I don't know her!)
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