Friends, family, and feasting

After a lazy morning spent doing not very much at all, I went over to Warren, Blue, and JBash's (and Kaia's) for brunch. As is pretty typical with me, I was one of the first people there. But all that meant, really, is I got more time to play with Kaia, so I see nothing wrong at all. In fact there were four children under the age of four, which put me in "little kids heaven" for a while, though I mostly played with Kaia. Brunch was plentiful and very nummy. Warren made omelettes and I brought over Farmer's Market scones, which are super-awesome.

After most of the people had left and there were just 10 or so of us left, we moved out onto the balcony to play Lunch Money. The game was raucous good fun, involving radioactive nuts, a horde of neighbourhood watch moms, and an industrial dishwasher. It was a "had to be there" thing, I think. I won in the end, but only at the expense of my lungs, since we had relocated to Warren's room midway through the game, and Warren's room is where the wild things cats live. Sorry, lungs. I promise I'll make it up to you, but not tomorrow, since I'm going to be at Ian's tomorrow.

Anyway. Left Warren's to have dinner with my dad, my step-mom, Marc, and my aunt from Edmonton who's in town on business. We went to Etoile des Indes, which was surprisingly tasty. The waiter decided to stay at our table as we were passing all the dishes around, reminding us what they all were and offering such helpful advice as "have the butter chicken with the naan, not the rice." It was kind of weird, but I suppose it was appreciated. He did leave when we all seemed to be ready to eat, I suppose. Dinner was fun and involved lots of good conversation.

After dinner, I went back with my aunt to her hotel room to chat. I showed her how to make MOO cards and tried and failed to show her how to use SendOutCards (there was a problem with her computer). She showed me her pictures from India, I showed her my pictures from Europe. It was lots of fun, and if I'm going to be sleep-deprived tomorrow, at least it was worth it. Speaking of sleep... time to get to it. G'night all.

From the department of "that should have been obvious"

Thought process this morning: "Hmm... my left arm is sore. Why the heck is my left arm sore? [pause] Oh, yeah. Holding Kaia for hours yesterday. That'd do it."

In unrelated news, I'm now preregistered for Pennsic. Now let's hope the universe cooperates in sending me there.

A day for spending money

So today I spent lots of money. First, as I mentioned earlier, I pre-registered for Pennsic. Now all I have to do is convince the universe (and my boss) to cooperate and let me go.

I also signed up for a SendOutCards distributor account, which means that as soon as I set things up, I'll be able to let people sample the system and maybe sign them up as customers (or distributors) under me. I'll post a link once everything's set up... soon, I promise.

Also this evening, went over to Ian's for him to cook me dinner. Spent some good time in conversation with him and Kyn. Marc came over just as I was leaving, unfortunately (cats make Julie not breathe), but for a few brief moments, I had both men in my life together at the same time. This makes me happy.

That's it for today. Nothing long and involved. One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to work the ergonomics of my work-desk properly and my shoulder will stop hurting. Yeah. That'll be the day.

G'night all.

Edited to add: It seems my nearly-full container of ice cream has disappeared from our freezer, which is truly odd since neither my mom nor my brother eat that flavour. I'm confused. And miffed. I was really looking forward to some ice cream.