Friday night I made dinner for six. Aryn and her lovely British (but been here a while, but has an awesome lingering accent) Liz, arrived from Van. shortly after Kathy, Kerry and Bill (Warner from Prince George) arrived. And what a totally lovely evening. I set two tables up in the kitchen and we all fit comfortably around. Curried chicken, rice and caesar salad and plenty of wine. And....
Speaking of wine....we all filled our glasses, filled our plates and we were about to start eating when Kerry, bless his heart, winged his glass of wine. And holy moly! it went EVERYWHERE!!! But most importantly it ended up all over poor Liz's white tank top! And all over the floor and wall and table and....everywhere!! Liz was an amazingly good sport about it all and poor Kerry got down on his knees, walking cast and all, and between Liz, Aryn and Kerry it was clean in no time, except for poor Liz's bazoom! But like I said, she was a totally good sport about it.
The next morning it was clear that there would be no boating that day. The weather was awful! I took the girls down to Cora's for a delicious, but too huge, breakfast. Mmmmmm...then we headed down to the game store. I know my sister has three crokinole boards but she wasn't home so I bought one. More about that later. Dammit. We also picked up yahtzee and two more card packs for that insanely inappropriate game 'crimes against humanity'. We stopped at the liquor store and loaded up, went home and drank and played games.
Then we ordered a whack of Chinese food. Soooo good. After dinner we were going to play Crokinole and set the board up etc, only to discover that the pegs were put on wrong!!! Totally in the wrong place, even according to the picture on the outside of the box! So back it must go:( We played another round of yahtzee instead. Earlier we played Crimes against Humanity and laughed ourselves sick. What an awful game that is!!! Hahahaha...
Today we ate leftovers, drank coffee, visited, sat on the deck, but only for a while. Due to the power outages and wind storm in Van, they were anxious to get home and check things out. I think poor Liz maybe needed a break from our crazy loud filterless family. We can be pretty exhausting to be around. But, on the other hand, she wasn't a shrinking violet!!! I really enjoyed her and when she comes up to Kamloops for work I hope she will call.
I have put three pics of things I am getting rid of. The kids convinced me (Tanya) to put the things in a box and thrift store. Aryn came down to the hell hole and helped me pick stuff. I would hate to have them have to do all the go through activities should I kick off any time soon. You never know!!! Oh it was just so good to have them all here. We had so much fun! April said, as she was leaving that she a had a lot of fun this weekend. What more could you want! TTYL
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| MY KEY HOLDER...HAD IT FOREVER BUT ITS TOO BIG FOR THIS HOUSE |
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| OOPS! PUT TWO ON HERE |
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| BEAUTIFUL GLASS, BUT DON'T HAVE A DESK ANYMORE |
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| AN UNUSED LEATHER JOURNAL OR SCHEDULER- I AM NEVER GOING TO USE IT |
Your key holder would look good in my kitchen to hang those aprons on! Remember, I was looking for something at Winners? You have to save it for me! lol!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha! That's awesome Helen! You've inspired me to purge my stuff too... Well that and I am letting Alethea move into our master bedroom (aka TV room) to rent and I have to move out 10 years worth of hoarding! So I've done some research for my crap (I'm not a garage sale kinda girl either!) and I found Dress for Success for my interview appropriate clothing and accessories and a school for all the craft junk I'll never actually do and for all the old books too! It feels so good to get rid of stuff! I think it's also great that Cookie saw the key holder/ apron hanger! That right there makes what you are doing all worth it! Gosh I wish I was there for you guys playing Crimes Against Humanity!
ReplyDeleteand I will get rid of the one I am currently using and other stuff too! lol
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