Oldies but Goodies

The plan was clear and in place.
My sister and I planned to have a joint birthday party for our parents. Something we had never done that would serve two purposes: Bringing family together and bringing the parents together.

The Evite was sent, the responses (though few) came in.. and we figured, though small, it would still be a nice event. Being a real cultural phenomenon, we knew that at least a few more people would show up than had rsvp'd. We invited 14 and 35 showed up. Not bad...

The day began with the expectation that one of our uncles would come over early to help barbeque the meat. Neither my sister or I have a lot of experience in this field so we were happy to have some help. We got up early prepared to get some things taken care before we get dressed for guest arrival. I ran downstairs to move my car out of the driveway so that my sister could start running errands. It was then, that I noticed, while she was talking to me about what needed to get done, there was a file of green glass next to my car. I heard nothing of what she said, but interrupted and asked her, "Do you see that?" She turned around and saw the giant hole in my drivers side window.. Smash and grab. Someone broke the window and snatched whatever they could get out of my car. After a call to the police, official police report and fingerprinting of my car, I collected myself and let go. This wasn't so bad. I still had my car..and I also still had the golf clubs that were in my trunk. All they got was a Maui tote bag with my old golf shoes, some clothes and another pair of shoes that needed repair. Apparently the robbers wanted my old golf shoes even less than I did. I found them in the middle of the street around the corner from my sister's hours. Tossed out of a car window in disgust and frustration I am sure.

As we welcomed Uncle Will into the backyard to set up the bbq and get started, we had a sinking feeling. When he volunteered to do the cooking, it seemed too good to be true. It was. Granted it was 100 degrees outside... but my uncle did NO cooking and all the drinking. He had 4 beers in the span of 1.5 hours. He lit the grill and proceeded to sit down with his Bud Light. He did not get our of his chair except to look for more ice.

Since I was having my crash course in grilling..while cleaning and cooking other items.. the panic..no, not panic. Just sheer frustration was kicking in. My sister spent 3 of the wee hours the morning before downloading "old school" music from iTunes. While we were working and cooking, we put on the ipod to stay in the party mood. Suddenly the music stopped. The ipod was frozen and the reset was not working... what is going on?

I worked on fixing the music while she washed dishes. I heard a scream and saw a fountain of water shooting the kitchen sink. What happened? My sister looked at me in disbelief...in her hand was the head of the faucet and water was soaking her from head to toe. I stifled my giggle and ran to turn of the water. While I mopped, she called the plumber only to find out they could not come out until 7pm... it was 11am when we called.

Okay..no worries. we can handle this.. Yes we can!

Cleaning up the kitchen, I decided to run the garbage disposal. Bad move. No movement and no sound. No garbage disposal either. It too decided to go on strike. Murphy's Law was in action full force.

For all the drama and trauma..the party turned out to be a wonderful event! Good food, good company... and hilarious karaoke. Many good ...and now funny memories will be our keepsake.

Truthtelling

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-R. Buckminster Fuller


SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ideally, you wouldn't even be reading
this. You'd be white-water rafting along the Franklin River in Tasmania, or
riding on "the train at the end of the world" in Tierra del Fuego, or
observing Golden Bamboo lemurs in the rainforest of southeastern
Madagascar. Ideally, Sagittarius, you'd be far away from any newspaper
that carries my column. You'd be taking a vacation from the Internet and
unable to access my horoscopes there. In fact, you'd be out of touch with
all media, period. But since you are reading this, you must not be doing
the ideal thing. So please do the next best thing: Flee as far as possible
from your usual haunts, your habitual influences, and your customary
comforts.
Rob Brezney

I should be doing all of those things...
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