Let's NOT make out to Christian music, thanks!

While I was at Jeremy's, I shortened his name more than I have in the past two months or so! Hahaha. YAY and WHEE! (I said that a lot at Jeremy's - maybe it was the beer, hahaha)

After the family meeting, Jon had another meeting to attend; first, he bugged Vivian about coming to Eric's pseudo-birthday, and then let Eric use his phone to call Jeremy to see what he'd bought already for food. Jeremy thought the double zero and the "meat" as "meet" on the Pho Hoa menu was pretty funny, and reiterated that. Eric and I left after talking to Vivian and Karen about the Committee meeting - they hope it's not next Monday so Viv can make it to my birthday thing! Dylan had better not discuss that stuff during the event, har har. We went to Safeway to pick up some more taco shells and sour cream - the trip was ultimately pointless since we didn't use either of those items. Discussed change and such in the car, and we were discussing it briefly at Jeremy's, but he figured that he shouldn't divulge stuff - good call. Apparently, K's also called other people's moms "Mom" - not just mine or Eric's! Maybe Allison's mom, although Eric wouldn't know since he didn't spend much time with her! He knows that I haven't actually talked to her this weekend, so maybe after I finish these posts that I'm so behind on. :P At least he didn't blame THAT on everything being my fault - unlike his hands smelling like garlic after making Alistair's mom's burgers yesterday! (he knows when to stop unlike SOME people, which I certainly appreciate!) I accidentally told him that my mom recommended garlic for that - I meant LEMON, and Eric teased me about that. (Jeremy just recommended rubbing his hands on stainless steel... I smelled Eric's hands afterwards and they just smelled like soap!)

When we got to Jeremy's, we wondered what his buzzer number was. I couldn't remember what it was, and the only thing we both recalled was that it definitely did not correspond to his apartment number! A quick phone call to Jeremy later, we pressed the correct number and were let in. (38, 6, 217?) Jer was juggling phone calls and had JUST finished a phone call to his parents when we got to his apartment! Good thing Eric was leading me, because I wouldn't really remember how to get there despite having been there a few times before! (like the time Dallas had to guide me with the DURIAN!) We discussed soft spots on tomatoes, Safeway's "sale prices" being like regular prices at Donald's Market, his salad spinner, Darryl's old cheese grater not being clean (ew!), magnetic thing for knives and such, his 20-litre beer keg, his CO2 tank (good for flat pop too!), the fridge shelves being on top of the fridge, cooking for two not much more than cooking for one, Ray's WARHAMMER stuff, painting, Linux, background music being Chris Tomlin (half the stuff we sing is from him!), and Weird Al satire. Jeremy's mom had arranged his CDs in alphabetical order, but the Crystal Method isn't supposed to be under T!

Jon arrived when we were listening to BAD HAIR DAY and laughing over the funny lyrics. Jeremy commented that there was a Weird Al song where it SOUNDED like a Nine Inch Nails tune, but it was really an original. (he'd met Weird Al once courtesy of standing around outside for 90 minutes after a concert) Then he brought up the really fast polka version of Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, and played it for us - his tape machine worked, yay! The original version sounds really slow next to the polka, that's for sure! (ALAPALOOZA - the first secular tape he bought ... so annoying to cue up songs on a tape - no NEXT TRACK button!) A while later, Jon tried to pour beer from the keg in the fridge - that only spilled some, and made the kitchen smell like beer! We tried calling Nathan multiple times, but figured he was sleeping. Eric texted Vivian to see whether she was coming - when he mentioned using abbreviations like "u" for "you," I had to say: "Ew, gross!" He thinks it's gross, too - but the AutoComplete menu and T9 doesn't make things easy!

We tried figuring out how to make salad dressing - apple cider vinegar and olive oil could work, but SOMEONE added blueberries / maple syrup / beer / who knows what else to a version of homemade stuff. When Nathan showed up later, I was the closest one to the apartment phone (no dial tone), so yelled a question to Jeremy about which number I should press to let him in. After he got lost and then finally found us, we found that he had a "Happy Birthday, White Guy #1" ice cream cake, which the guest of honor couldn't even EAT! The Dairy Queen clerks were white girls, but they were laughing over the inscription and not giving him any dirty looks. We're used to Eric not eating sugar, so just gave him some leftover blueberries instead when it came time to have dessert. Turns out Jeremy's a bit lactose-intolerant... his throat closes and such, and so he only had a little piece. Vivian also got lost while trying to find the apartment, so Eric said that he'd show her up. She gave him a Bailey's mug, which was nice of her even if he can't drink any alcohol.

Jon and I borrowed Jeremy's Linux computer for a bit - we had to do stuff like check up on the Fringe Festival, search bands on Allmusic, write email, look stuff up on a Dutch Wikipedia page / Google, etc. I accidentally created new white space on the screen since I wasn't used to the setup, but it's all good since I'm sure he didn't mind. All his email from a bunch of different addresses goes to one central inbox, and I saw that he HAD found my Evite despite searching by my name earlier! Later on, I took a catnap on Jeremy's bed - it's pretty high up because of a thick mattress! Jon laid on the bed while talking to Harmony later - I could tell it was her because of the falsetto and other such nonsense. She would NOT greet me with "Hi Cougar!" like he tried making us believe; Jeremy said something about a cougar on the prowl, and I half-jokingly told HIM not to start with that teasing reference either! (although I wouldn't MIND a LOT) Vivian didn't know that K was younger than I, and discussed the Walkathon and such with us - Lanie is sporty and wanted to jog, while J-Mak wimped out on a walk. EXERCISE! She walked into Jeremy's room later and saw a picture of the Linux penguin in a frame next to the bed - no clue why he has that instead of more family pictures! A picture covers a hole in the closet door - not Darryl's fault, but his own. Don't move closet doors and bang them against walls, haha.

The bulgogi beef turned out well for being fried - the guys also wanted to put kimchi in the tacos, which I kinda did while thinking of K for the first time in hours. ("he'd think this was revolting, hahaha") Vivian just thought it was really disgusting - at least it wasn't durian! (Jon ordered soursop at the restaurant - yay for no durian again!) We put on some more background music and tried recognizing all the songs in the Alternative Polkas - they're old and remind us of years gone by! Then someone decided to put in Gustav Holst's THE PLANETS, which I remember playing in Band years ago. Nathan recognized some of it, and Jon commented that these pieces were used in movies and such. Vivian and Jeremy were busy arranging an "E" out of 26 of Jeremy's 500 tealight candles - he got 100 for 69 cents at EQ3, and took advantage of the discount! (Some girl there racks up a lot of sales in two weeks to be the best in a month! Bed slats and labels, oh my!) I remember that K thought Veronica gave Eric 26 loonies for losing weight last week - it would be dangerous if Diven lost 26 pounds, believe me! That was his AGE, dude! Hahaha.

Jon commented that I was pretty red from almost a pint of homebrewed Scotch ale, plus a couple sips of the communal Malka porter. Jeremy loved the oil slick that was forming on the communal pint glass, and seemed amused by my face getting really red. Jon thought I needed another glass of beer, but I certainly didn't think so... I told him that he could see me doing that at my birthday thing, but he shouldn't buy any since he's abstaining from buying restaurant beer which he ALMOST forgot about! Eric wondered whether I could even handle the one pint I did have - you KNOW it! Let's just say that Thursday night was brought up yet AGAIN, this time in the context of drinking three beers and some of K's whiskey - I'm going to kill those people, haha. One of the highlights of going to Jeremy's IS the beer - heck, I'm not gonna lie!

Jon mentioned the hypothetical Christian band that he and Jeremy are going to start, along with the equally hypothetical brewery Raw Dog Brewing. It's called Panties on Hoops (he explained that to Vivian, who didn't seem too impressed), and the first album might be called CHRISTIAN MUSIC TO MAKE OUT TO. Apparently, Nathan caught two of his friends cuddling to I COULD SING OF YOUR LOVE FOREVER - that is just so WRONG! Jon said that other songs could be of the "Jesus is my girlfriend" persuasion - to corner the Davie St. market, they could just change it to "Jesus is my boyfriend." EW! Haha. The guys were discussing this at Jeremy's jazz gig on Saturday night - apparently, enough people came to make it worth playing. Too bad I couldn't, but it seemed like a fun time. He wanted to play cards / Uno, but they instead concentrated on picking up marbles with chopsticks. Discussed fork and spoon usage in Thai / Southeast Asian restaurants, and wrong usage of your knife and fork. It's okay to use the fork as a knife at home, but perhaps not while you're out! Then they discussed Sigma and other letter formations - that was when I had my nap, haha. Eric could tell I was tired because I was lying on the couch with my head on the armrest; later, I leaned my head on the sofa armrest, propping it up with my arm. Yeah, Jer was sitting in the sofa at the time, but it was fine. I know he wouldn't do anything to me!

Jeremy mentioned that he'd been stuck in Richmond with Darryl's friends a while back, and he couldn't leave because Darryl was his ride! We jokingly said that Darryl could still have lived in the apartment instead of moving to Burnaby, but that would have been very awkward! ("My wife's going to stay here too!" "Um...") Then we got onto how some people move in with their parents when they get married - it's not funny business anymore after that! I told Jeremy that my grandma had accompanied our parents on THEIR honeymoon - maybe not as a chaperone, but she's afraid in foreign cities. THAT had to have been awkward, even if she was in another room! (Vivian, Karen, Steph, and I all thought that was a JAW-DROPPING revelation on the cruise!) Nathan left early because he needed rest for his Trinity job in Langley (life / career / college advisor!), and Vivian followed suit quite a while later - we discussed her dad watching TV, her cleaning the house, Karen sweeping the floor, the liquor store at Kingsgate Mall, etc. Eric said he'd escort her out; when he got back, Jeremy asked if he'd kissed her goodnight. Diven said no, and Jeremy said that he'd asked just to see if he'd turn red. Hahaha, good idea even though he didn't! It would have been interesting if he HAD, haha. A few minutes later (with Ray STILL not home yet), we left as well. Didn't really discuss much on the ride home, although K had called Eric. Definitely good times, and something I'd do again!