If you have no filters, JUST SHUT UP when the French people are around!
Last night's dinner with the Sos was pretty amusing! From wondering what took Jon so long to park the car by the gate to smiling over how we were Auntie Esther's "little friends" to laughing over a Sun Run time chip prank that Steph and her co-workers did on their big boss Max ("his hockey buddies were calling him up and wondering if he'd really TRAINED since his time was an hour and 53 minutes!") to shared bewilderment over Steph's co-worker Ken having no "filters".... it was GREAT! (Ken, to a woman whose Sun Run time was three minutes from his: "Oh, I guess we have different standards since mine ruled and yours didn't!" *facepalm* ) As for the CEO and CFO being here from Paris all week, the whole workplace was instructed NOT to make "French jokes / comments" like they normally do ("I'll blame it on the Frenchies!") - Steph said that they should tell Ken to just shut up ALL WEEK LONG! Speaking of FRIENDS, Lisa's boyfriend Dana doesn't get how he was introduced to some people as "Lisa's friend." We concluded that white people will never understand the "friend" thing - yes, they are dating so they're not FRIENDS technically! It's just being CHINESE!
We were also kinda worried for people who were seen puking near or at the Sun Run finish line because they overexerted themselves - my sister saw at least two pools of it! Lisa and Rachel's Incentive friend Gary got married to someone named Catherine over the weekend, so Steph was looking at pictures on Rachel's digicam. It was like an Incentive reunion for the younger set, hehe. (like Cleo and everyone else!) We discussed off-color remarks (Uncle Gabriel shouldn't have said something about "asses" with Shane and Stephen!), someone at the wedding who yelled that Popo (Grandma) was sleeping when the MC wanted to say something to her, and Steph's blunt Malaysian co-worker Stephen. This other girl named Amanda was called into the boss Max's office because she'd been on Facebook too much at work: "We know everyone surfs at the office, but your screen is visible to everyone, and you've been seen too much on certain sites!" So the next day, she'd put her tower flush to her monitor, thinking that would solve the problem... cue Stephen: "Hey, girl! [he calls everyone that] Don't you think it'll be too hard to work like that with the tower blocking the screen?!" The thing is that Jenny (the girl next to her) can still see Amanda's screen! So much for that "creative problem-solving," haha!
We discussed tapeworms, diarrhea (Mom: "Do you still HAVE it?!" complete with great facial expression!), reminiscing about the grad 2001 family dinner at Rossini's, police stuff (five days' notice for Steph when she leaves!), not being TOO GOOD or TOO BAD ("fly under the radar!"), Peru, tour bus bathrooms and excuses about circulation (they just don't want to empty it!), the rice shortage (Lisa was amazed!), and how Jon made Grandma drink one sip of red wine. Grannies gone wild, indeed! (we were also encouraging Mom to drink more wine even if she was warm and red already!) I remember the turbid water situation a couple years back, and Jon thought that people fighting over bottled water at Costco was awesome! While we were on the topic of vomiting, Steph brought up food poisoning stories: there was this time at a Korean BBQ place where the men insisted that the chicken was done, with various gastric consequences to Jon later! (you can rush beef or pork MAYBE, but not chicken!) Then I brought up the time we were at Lansdowne Mall after eating lunch at Knight & Day restaurant: my sister came up to me and mentioned that Jon had puked in an empty box at Coles! Can you imagine if the box had been full of books?! Yikes!
Jon wondered if wrestling would be suitable dinner entertainment, haha. At least we had organic bread and Peruvian organic coffee. Steph remarked on a blatant foul against LeBron James - you don't totally shove a player when he's going to the net! Mom said she saw Yao Ming, but he's in a suit - obviously he's a spectator since he's injured! Lisa, Rachel, and I concluded that Steph would still do her "baby voice" thing when she's 45 - her kids will be like "Why is she talking to Grandma like that?!" Rachel remembered how my dad used to think she was tam-leng (faking?) about being lactose-intolerant when she was in high school, so he made her drink a huge cup of milk every time she was over. That was NOT GOOD! (that reminded me of "excuses")
Then we discussed bo-lo bao (pineapple buns!), airport parking lots, how Grandma couldn't eat the cake since she'd taken her teeth out already, checking email, and other things. There was an ongoing joke about Rachel loving Perrier water (which really tastes gross), which went back to a Quebec school trip and a guy she liked. Then there was Auntie Esther mangling someone's last name beyond recognition, but she could always refer to "the lazy one" and people would know who she was talking about! Lisa wondered why our families didn't go camping together - my dad hates travel as it is, and my mom doesn't like the idea of it because of the bathroom situation! Talked about my parents' upcoming cruise - should be good times for Zion! (went home and talked to Karen about Dylan, Andrea, Jen, Rich, Teresa, Chung, Chuck, Grace, Chrystal, birthday speeches, emails, mistakes, "combination gifts" for December / January birthdays and Christmas, etc.)
Darn! I just made the stupidest Scrabble move ever! Yes, I could have put a Z (FROZE) on a triple-letter score, but put it somewhere else instead! CRAP, I BETTER WIN THAT GAME ANYHOW! Speaking of Scrabble, someone I know isn't into it anymore - that's all right, as I have plenty of other willing partners! ;) (Hey, I managed to install Flash on this guest account! Sweet! Wasn't able to do it last week, so yay for no more IE needed for Facebook Scrabble games!) Barb and I also played QUAD separately in back-to-back turns, which is pretty quirky! :D (got home to find K sleeping, and apparently having a nightmare about his mom - "what are you doing here?" indeed...)
We were also kinda worried for people who were seen puking near or at the Sun Run finish line because they overexerted themselves - my sister saw at least two pools of it! Lisa and Rachel's Incentive friend Gary got married to someone named Catherine over the weekend, so Steph was looking at pictures on Rachel's digicam. It was like an Incentive reunion for the younger set, hehe. (like Cleo and everyone else!) We discussed off-color remarks (Uncle Gabriel shouldn't have said something about "asses" with Shane and Stephen!), someone at the wedding who yelled that Popo (Grandma) was sleeping when the MC wanted to say something to her, and Steph's blunt Malaysian co-worker Stephen. This other girl named Amanda was called into the boss Max's office because she'd been on Facebook too much at work: "We know everyone surfs at the office, but your screen is visible to everyone, and you've been seen too much on certain sites!" So the next day, she'd put her tower flush to her monitor, thinking that would solve the problem... cue Stephen: "Hey, girl! [he calls everyone that] Don't you think it'll be too hard to work like that with the tower blocking the screen?!" The thing is that Jenny (the girl next to her) can still see Amanda's screen! So much for that "creative problem-solving," haha!
We discussed tapeworms, diarrhea (Mom: "Do you still HAVE it?!" complete with great facial expression!), reminiscing about the grad 2001 family dinner at Rossini's, police stuff (five days' notice for Steph when she leaves!), not being TOO GOOD or TOO BAD ("fly under the radar!"), Peru, tour bus bathrooms and excuses about circulation (they just don't want to empty it!), the rice shortage (Lisa was amazed!), and how Jon made Grandma drink one sip of red wine. Grannies gone wild, indeed! (we were also encouraging Mom to drink more wine even if she was warm and red already!) I remember the turbid water situation a couple years back, and Jon thought that people fighting over bottled water at Costco was awesome! While we were on the topic of vomiting, Steph brought up food poisoning stories: there was this time at a Korean BBQ place where the men insisted that the chicken was done, with various gastric consequences to Jon later! (you can rush beef or pork MAYBE, but not chicken!) Then I brought up the time we were at Lansdowne Mall after eating lunch at Knight & Day restaurant: my sister came up to me and mentioned that Jon had puked in an empty box at Coles! Can you imagine if the box had been full of books?! Yikes!
Jon wondered if wrestling would be suitable dinner entertainment, haha. At least we had organic bread and Peruvian organic coffee. Steph remarked on a blatant foul against LeBron James - you don't totally shove a player when he's going to the net! Mom said she saw Yao Ming, but he's in a suit - obviously he's a spectator since he's injured! Lisa, Rachel, and I concluded that Steph would still do her "baby voice" thing when she's 45 - her kids will be like "Why is she talking to Grandma like that?!" Rachel remembered how my dad used to think she was tam-leng (faking?) about being lactose-intolerant when she was in high school, so he made her drink a huge cup of milk every time she was over. That was NOT GOOD! (that reminded me of "excuses")
Then we discussed bo-lo bao (pineapple buns!), airport parking lots, how Grandma couldn't eat the cake since she'd taken her teeth out already, checking email, and other things. There was an ongoing joke about Rachel loving Perrier water (which really tastes gross), which went back to a Quebec school trip and a guy she liked. Then there was Auntie Esther mangling someone's last name beyond recognition, but she could always refer to "the lazy one" and people would know who she was talking about! Lisa wondered why our families didn't go camping together - my dad hates travel as it is, and my mom doesn't like the idea of it because of the bathroom situation! Talked about my parents' upcoming cruise - should be good times for Zion! (went home and talked to Karen about Dylan, Andrea, Jen, Rich, Teresa, Chung, Chuck, Grace, Chrystal, birthday speeches, emails, mistakes, "combination gifts" for December / January birthdays and Christmas, etc.)
Darn! I just made the stupidest Scrabble move ever! Yes, I could have put a Z (FROZE) on a triple-letter score, but put it somewhere else instead! CRAP, I BETTER WIN THAT GAME ANYHOW! Speaking of Scrabble, someone I know isn't into it anymore - that's all right, as I have plenty of other willing partners! ;) (Hey, I managed to install Flash on this guest account! Sweet! Wasn't able to do it last week, so yay for no more IE needed for Facebook Scrabble games!) Barb and I also played QUAD separately in back-to-back turns, which is pretty quirky! :D (got home to find K sleeping, and apparently having a nightmare about his mom - "what are you doing here?" indeed...)
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