I'm at my cousin's baby shower(opposite side of the family) and I'm really trying to keep t together but i really want to curl up in a ball and cry.
You know, my big sister could really beat the crap out of her. I mean, really really.
Dawn ,'Storyteller'
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sj - Jul 15, 2012 6:43:43 am PDT #17104 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
omnis_audis - Jul 15, 2012 7:12:55 am PDT #17105 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
{{{ SJ }}} I say find a corner and cry. Go sit in the car for more privacy. It really does help.
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BT, quite lovely day. Can't help but think the last thing and item 2 are related. t /snerk
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Flooring guys said they'd be here at 9. Not here yet. Damn it, I woke up early for this. On the plus side, lil bits of sun are poking thru the morning cloud cover, and I can see, in the summertime, they won't go in my bedroom windows for quite awhile. So no glaring sun first thing like I was worried about.
erikaj - Jul 15, 2012 7:57:16 am PDT #17106 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Personally, I think showers are THE WORST, at the risk of sounding like Miranda-Hobbes-Has-A-Terrible-Accident. But I do hate them(maybe Buffista ones would be cooler) but mostly, they're like feminism(and disability rights) never happened. Being the pathetic spinster who fumbles through all the childish games...good times.
sj - Jul 15, 2012 7:59:43 am PDT #17107 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It's mostly about my aunt. The shower isn't bad so far.
erikaj - Jul 15, 2012 8:02:48 am PDT #17108 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yeah, timing's kind of terrible for that one.Even if you aren't making toilet-paper wedding dresses.
billytea - Jul 15, 2012 8:08:02 am PDT #17109 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I love Richard Scarry. I remember being in the 2nd grade and hiding in corners in the school lunch room with the big Scarry books. I was too well-supervised in the 1st grade to get away with it.
I loved Richard Scarry as a child. We will have to get Ryan some books, once he's reading on his own at least. We picked up the DVDs in Shanghai airport. (Biyi, of course, had no idea why I was so excited to see them.) They've rapidly become Ryan's favourites.
sj - Jul 15, 2012 8:11:24 am PDT #17110 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It's a baby shower so I'm currently wearing a clothespin on my shirt. I hate shower games. There are so many presents here to open that games are really unnecessary.
billytea - Jul 15, 2012 8:11:37 am PDT #17111 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm sorry about your aunt, sj.
Zenkitty - Jul 15, 2012 8:17:06 am PDT #17112 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm with you, erika. I despise showers. Baby showers maybe even more than bridal showers. I'm happy to give a gift, but the forced festivities make me tired and irritable.
sj, I'm so sorry.
DebetEsse - Jul 15, 2012 8:19:12 am PDT #17113 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The games are a key part of the tradition, sj. Like how marriages aren't official until someone has done the Chicken Dance.
I'ma sit by Erika and Zen on my general feelings on showers, though. I hate them in general and specific, and I'm additionally pissy about them at the moment because I am obligated to go to Another Fucking Baby Shower on a weekend where I was going to be doing something much more fun (previously mentioned Perseid Road Trip). I hate that showers are exclusively female enterprises; I hate the stupid-ass games ("enforced fun" if every such a thing existed); I hate the twee-as-hell heteronormative/traditionalist assumptions. I hate the whole fucking thing.