"Bring your own dishes if you want to have dinner at my place!"

I finished the last post just in time for soup, which was really NOT THIN and had KICK to it. As Isabel said, the cinnamon was a good addition, but there may have been a bit much by the end! Ray was in his room on the phone with his girlfriend, so missed out on the acorn squash stuffed with rice and sausage - Tony had added sausage oil to the rice! (he'd done a LOT of chopping for the yam fries, too) We discussed church stuff, the turducken story where Jon and Ray had a bunch of people over and tried to cook it (Jeremy came home from Kelowna and mentioned that the oven was 100 degrees OFF!), Vanessa, Christon, Committee, beer (chocolate porter), yam fries, spaghetti squash, recipes, Stanley being a trouper, our respective ages, Sam and his brother / growing up fast (kinda like Jeremy and his brother), Regent, friends, and more. Someone asked where Eric was, so Jon told him that he was sleepy. Thank goodness Tony doesn't work overnight on Saturdays now, since he HATED being really tired for service - Eric's been working long hours too. We accidentally finished the acorn squash (8 sides for 10 people), so Ray had to make do with soup / spaghetti sauce / cheap aioli / apple pie. At least we rehashed the "Julie S." factor in doing the dishes! ("Where's the sponge?! Right in front of me? OH!") Tony said that he could have dinner at his place for us - we just had to bring everything (cutlery / rugs / dishes / chairs) ourselves! Haha, then he changed his mind on the cutlery and plates!

At one point, John told Ray to cut his nails - the response he got was "Am I going out with you? Are you my mother? NO!" Haha, reminds me of things that used to happen in the past! Stanley poured some Sprite in his soup, and Tony assured me that the apple pie was going to look way worse than the shifted version as presented because I'd been traveling with it in my knapsack all day. Isabel and Stanley said the chocolate beer tasted good, and Jon warned Isabel not to be at another gathering where it was served - THE CHOCOLATE WILL GET HER HOOKED! Discussed Regent booksales, 150-year-old Bibles, philosophy, comedy, FAMILY GUY, FUTURAMA, BC CHRISTIAN NEWS, THE SIMPSONS, David Letterman, Al Gore, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, THE OFFICE, THE DAILY SHOW, THE COLBERT REPORT, Barack Obama, Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton (?), Isabel as "Isabella," the "diet Coke and Mentos" Youtube video, dead presidents, Lewis Black, cleanliness, and more. Quite a good time out! On the way home, I thought the green light of a traffic signal ahead of us was moving up and down, a building was some barbed wire between streetlights (this from 100 feet away), and was generally hyper. My brother said this only underscored his earlier point about how his "drunken" state was better than my sober state! AIYA - I'd told Christon that I could just feel the LOVE, heh.