Me and Tara Reid, we know how to put it down
Happy New Year!And Boldog új évet! Courtesy of MS Word Clip Art, that's Happy New Year in Hungarian, of course. Huge bulldogs all around, sweet. So, New Year's was fun. The 31st is my friend K's birthday so they usually have a combination party thing. We ate and played games and banged pots and pans outside at midnight. Yes cutting edge, yes dangerous, yes out of control, but we all escaped with our lives, believe it or not. A friend of mine went to a Valenzuelan party at which everyone got a cup of 12 grapes and everybody popped one grape per second into their mouth for the last twelve seconds of the year. Hmmm….this would seem to put a bit of a damper on the New Year’s Kiss, not to mention the New Year’s Countdown Out Loud Together...not sure how that all turned out...
Over the holidays, one of my cute, athletic, smart, and funny nephews took up - yes -CROCHETING. What a renaissance man he is. We got him a plastic needle (OK, mine's plastic too) -- "Mr.Blue" -- and he learned amazingly quickly. Mr. Blue goes in the door, etc., Mr. Blue goes out the door, Mr. Blue’s legs go over the top of the door frame, Mr. Blue should be in Cirque de Soleil, Mr. Blue goes in the door again. Or whatever. Anyway, I’m faster than he is. Of course, if that should change, I’ll have to off him. Um, he’s SEVEN. That would be embarrassing.
posted by Happy Birthday! at 4:17 PM
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My ex, the Marine Sergeant, crochets better than I do. That always freaks me out. Knit 1, purl 1. load warhead 2...
Oh, and my little brother could whoop my ass at poker by the time he was six....
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Needle to the eye if he gets faster than you! (In my best Gump voice) That's all I'm going to say about that!
Happy new year to you! Glad you had fun. We did the pots and pans thing too and yes, that's is just out of control!
Lois Lane
If you think about it, that grape thing is probably not the smartest tradition of all time. I foresee multiple choking deaths. Why not just get drunk, swallow 4 chicken bones, and do jumping jacks?
Dr. R: :-)! No wonder he kept asking more and more questions about mommy and daddy that didn’t make any sense. And Anna, wow, a knitting Marine Sergeant. That’s kinda sexy...I think. Lois, a needle to the eye, great tip, thanks. Erik: That’s a TERRIBLE idea. Maybe I wasn’t drunk enough, but that was NOT fun.
Hmmm. Wait till you're forty, then you go and stand around snacking and talking with other adults while your boys all play X-box and the girls hole up in a bedroom and talk about boys (or who knows what). I'd have paid money to have even one grape, or half a chicken bone.
Roxy, this has nothing to do with what's going on here. I am curious, for research reasons only, which one of your dashing brothers is part of the Ambiguously Gay Duo? LMFAO!
Lois Lane
The grape thing and the crocheting both seem pretty odd.
Ha! The AG duo is outed! Whatever you do, DON'T let him know that I showed you that picture! These crimefighters have to keep their identity a secret, of course. But if you promise not to tell, I'll confess that one half of the famous twosome is none other than Erik, Mr. Not Totally Inept himself!
Crocheting!? ODD@?! Mr. Underhill, you wouldn't say that if you could see the thousands of beautiful scarves I have crocheted! Each one, which would put you back at least $75 in the retail context, I possess for the small fee of $8 of yarn and merely 3000 hours of labor! And there is only one to date, but still! Hmph!
LMAO @ Erik! Damn sexy in tights ;)
Secret's safe with me!
Lois Lane
It efinitely seems like an odd little kid activity. Why can't he build a time machine like a normal kid?
Ha, he's already built 3 time machines. But yeah, I can see that it would be weird if that's ALL he did - but that's why I said he was cute, athletic, smart, and funny -- really, he does soccer, football, basketball, skateboarding, computer games, computer games, computer games, reads Archie comics, rides his bike, plays hockey, and all sorts of other mostly normal stuff. He's extremely athletic, and he's way ahead of his age group in his reading level, so it makes it that much more funny and cool to me that he CROCHETS. (Oh yeah, and although he's only 7, he figured out the other day that putting "naked people" in Google would yield (to him) hilarious results.
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