Grandma's 90th birthday dinner, closed malls, weirdness, and BACK TO THE FUTURE

I almost forgot the tax documents on my way out, but it's a good thing I turned back home because I wasn't at the bus stop yet. This meant that I took a later bus than I thought I would, and then I was walking around Zellers and then the outside of Lansdowne Mall trying to find an accessible entrance since the mall was closed by then. My mom saw me from her car, and honked. I would have found Gingeri Restaurant EVENTUALLY (just one more entrance...), but she was like "Get in - you're already late!" At least I kept it reasonably polite, and thanked my dad for still doing my taxes. Jon termed the fact that Dad was doing my taxes as "awesome," which I agreed with.

Congratulated my grandma on her 90 years of life when she was finished ordering food, and told her to open the birthday card. She wondered who the Chinese writing was from, so I asked Jon: he HAD given the card to Cindy to write some stuff in it, as she'd told me on Friday. Grandma also seemed to like the bling on my red sweater - I was sending a subtle message to my parents, since I bought everything I wore MYSELF. Mom says that I have to let her know by next week about some dinner on Sunday night (I won't go), and by the beginning of April about looking after Grandma - I guess that works. Steph reinforced that I wouldn't have to see the parents, which is a bonus! Dad gave me some form that I have to get Auntie Ruby to sign, which is fine. Mom says that Alan Yu gave me a red envelope ($20), so I should thank him later - I KNOW THAT!

Discussed Steph's Tokyo pictures (THE BOOTY LOGO?!), Ceci, Angela and her much older husband, Myles eating real food again since his parents are now home, Brit, prospective trips, my eccentricity, Harmony's new job, my mom's new job right across the street from me (TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT!), Mom recording the gold medal hockey game in PUNJABI for Steph (?!), busing, parking, costs, Alexander Ovechkin's suspension, TMI, how I should go curling to just hang out (NO), courses, too many "jokes," and more. Had fried fish in tomato sauce, veggies, crab, and more. Steph says that not everyone else would laugh as much at dinner... not at MY EXPENSE! True, they tease Harmony about being a cougar, but still. Harmony wondered why Grandma would pay the $197.40 bill, but it's a Chinese cultural thing!

Later, Dad said he could drive me home, but I was good with transit. Jon and Harmony took the opportunity to tease me about sitting next to a certain person - um, we were separated by Eric! (Eric had been running late, after all...) Got home to a request by Andrew to proofread his term paper on fetal alcohol syndrome - sure thing! I can open the Word document as a Google document, thank goodness. Then again, I got home to a funny comment by a certain person about how my name should be "Leslie Renee Elizabeth Roxanna Shaniqua-Jo Ng the III, ESQUIRE." That would be SUCH a mouthful, although it would be hilarious to try making Mom pronounce the "black" name in that set, hahaha!


Trivia fact for Tuesday, Mar. 16: At what speed did Michael J. Fox (as Marty McFly) have to drive to activate the time machine in Doc Emmett Brown's DeLorean in the 1985 film Back To The Future? 88 miles per hour.