Do the mime with boobs again, Ivan!

Tonight's BBQ was pretty cool. Eric picked me up early, and I wished him a happy birthday. We spent most of the ride discussing my creative hearing ("friends" for "family") / typing ("McAgree" for "McAfee"), fans and heat, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA (not my thing!), bad driving, shiny new digicams, avoidance, and it being MY fault that the bridge traffic was backed up. Got to church and talked to a few people (Jen, Karen and a friend, Auntie Beatrice, Pastor John, Mike K., Phil, Grace, Dylan, Emily and her friends, Danielle and her cousins) before things REALLY heated up - Christon and Jon were comparing various lists and tweaking them. (people were surprised that there were seating arrangements, and Jon wanted to see how many people would be at Daniel next year) Ivan, Sam, and Joey discussed a transgender teacher that Jon had known "when he was a man" - Sam was fine with "she" and "her," and said that this teacher was actually quite open! ("He used to be known as Lawrence, but is now Francesca... Asian Studies has different chicks!") Had salad, pasta salad with capers, pickles, salmon / chicken / beef burgers, smokies, bread, and more for dinner. Jeremy wasn't there (Jon later said that his parents are in town), so I'll ask him that question at turducken night tomorrow instead!

Joey said that driving Melia's van was interesting, and he had to use the fob thing to get inside the parking garage, haha. Asked Andrea about Facebook - turns out that she deactivated her account earlier in the year. Christon told Sarah about the interesting Night Market finds, a bunch of people were still playing Charades for a long time after the games ended, and Ivan's mime for "housewife" was the BEST! (he was cooking, then cleaning, then motioning like he had boobs - due to our dinner discussion, we thought he meant a transgendered person!) Raymond and I discussed Wordscraper, and I told him how to swap tiles: seems he thought we'd just switch tiles by pressing the appropriate button! Hahaha, no... would be interesting if it actually happened, however! (STANDARD BOARD next time - but this is the closest game it's ever been!) Too bad he can't make it tomorrow because of the Benjamin sleepover and famine later... Tony is bringing his brother, though. I told Stanley that Facebook was going to force everyone to use the new layout, which he called ugly - he can't find anything! (Eric says it switched on him while he was viewing someone's profile page)

After I casually mentioned to Emily that it was White Guy's birthday, we all sang it for him when we got him out of the kitchen! Deb didn't know Jon and I were siblings, heh - we should totally get together for Timothy's frozen yogurt sometime! Discussed Steph with Darren and Cindy - her updates are sweet, man. (I heard later that there's some Tuesday dinner with salmon, and that Steph's coming home in early October for a weekend) Learned that John and Sharon are expecting their first child, yay! Discussed turducken, Nathan, Tony, Sonny, Chris, Holly not changing her name ("technically she's still a Ho"), basketball, hockey, the Canucks, Ivan, Janette, Jason L., Dianne, Eric going to turducken, David, Mike Ho injuring his back, and other things on the way home. Good times, with more tomorrow!