I've been spending a lot of time at work lately . . . retreat. It's over now, I just got back from the wrap-up. It was good!

I had gone up yesterday with jf to deliver the poster. I really enjoy taking the ferry, even when the weather's bad.

Anyway, after the ferry ride home, I went straight to Uwajimaya for groceries. Eggs, bacon, stuff for arrozcaldo, pan de sal, all kinds of things. When I got home, I shoved the laundry into my room and started cleaning the kitchen and prepping the arrozcaldo. The cowsins started arriving, bringing with them cheap beer. I had told them to bring whatever they wanted because I would only provide arrozcaldo. Apparently, no one wanted dessert, because they all brought beer. I will be more explicit next time.

I started the arrozcaldo, and then chopped a cucumber as an appetizer. Cowsin R showed up with some cheezy bread and a pizza from Papa Murphy's. That was good, because my arrozcaldo was a little behind schedule.

Here's who showed: lm, mr, c, md, r, k, a, h, t, and of course ading h.

Somebody allowed mr to be the 'cdj.' It is a form of entertainment to ask mr to put in a movie, but it's almost guaranteed that he'll never put in a movie. Actually, over the course of the party, there were a couple of instances where something awful was put into the dvd player, and I had to tell my cousins "you are really watching something awful." Somebody would say "I just want to watch a little bit" and then the entire room would watch it absorbedly with a train wreck mentality; you know you're going to see something awful, but you can't look away.

We all ate arrozcaldo; forgot to put salt. They put toyo or patis at the table.

I toasted with 99apples, I just said "merry christmas!" Then brown elephant happened; I was surprised that it was still maddening even without the adults, although to a lesser degree. Some gifts were: sushi playing cards and air freshener, crabbits, napolean dynamite thong panty with old school tube socks, lm picture bobble head, electronic battleship, spiderman aerosol web, george foreman play dough grill, cat launcher, value village big neglegee, vhs porn, Mary Kate + Ashley video, douche. After that, I served vanilla ice cream.

After brown elephant was maddening filipino cranium. After that, karaoke came out and lights went down. I served warm pan de sal and triscuits with cheddar, and we sang loud well past one. Did r sing?

This morning I woke up to gross sink puke; I washed it out. When major appliances in my house drain, the downstairs sink often overflows. Because it drains so slowly, the debris ends up all in the basin of the sink. Gross sink puke.

Then I did my laundry, and the sink started puking again, and this time, it didn't drain at all. The laundry water had nowhere to go but on the floor in the laundry closet. I used the fancy paper towels to mop it up. I was about to put it away, when it fell into the toilet, I just used the whole roll. I spent a lot of the morning trying to bail out the sink so it would stop overflowing.

Then I took a nap. I'm going to try for more laundry now. I hope that drano did its job!

Hmph. Too tired/lazy to edit/rewrite my post. You figure it out.