Update 4/3 -
4/9
Hi Friend!
I sent 15
anonymous potato grams for Easter, and basically everyone knew it was my
immediately. At least I have *a*
reputation! The potatoes all said,
“Easter bunny, I am not. So here’s a potato.
Love you, Mean it.”
While Jackie
O was at St. Barts with a friend, Sean & Stacey took Morgan down to Florida
for a super fun concert and to see Bailey.
This was also Morgan’s first experience of “third-wheeling it” with her
parents. As a youngest myself, I can
attest, it’s pretty cool gig.
Birthday
Week! Months earlier, I had asked /
demanded that my co-workers get me Floof,
Sand and Dirt. Naturally, the day before
my birthday:
Me: I can’t
wait to get my floof tomorrow!
Joey: oh,
what if we didn’t get that for you but we got something better.
Me
(genuinely shocked): What?!! No, wait, Ryan definitely got me what I
wanted.
My actual
birthday was perfection. My co-workers
made it super special with lunch, a princess tort cake, playing Telestrations
after lunch, getting me balloons and exactly what I asked for. Oh and Corrinne got me the “Hot Dudes
Reading” book to which James said, “My wife has that calendar.” This was a
couple of hours before he decided it was good idea to eat some of the
Floof.
Joey: I was
going to put a gif on your wall saying Happy Birthday, Muggle but Nick said, “Don’t be insulting.” Then when we were getting balloons, we got
the sorting hat and I told the lady she could put any color balloons with it
but then Nick said, “Don’t be stupid.
She needs gold and burgundy, she’s a Gryffindor.”
After work,
I met up with some friends and family at Bushnell’s before heading over to do
an escape room in which we stole the mona lisa and then grabbed some
dinner. Oh and Jordan rode into
Bushnell’s with a Unicorn (which later would drive Percy crazy.) People didn’t think I could fit into my car,
but I showed them with a shove, a push, and a quick door slam exclaiming, “Who
wants to be on my escape room team now?”
The
following day we went to the park for Dawne’s birthday rolling deep with
friends and dogs followed by lunch at Norm’s (the dog bar) with more fun family
and dogs. Another perfectly awesome day!
On Sunday,
Kathi and Hendrik arrived from Germany!
They had been up for over 24 hours by the time they arrived so Kathi and
I took a walk around Kirkland to stay awake.
I knew she was sleepy because she couldn’t remember words, and she knows
all the words. Eventually, we headed
back because Jordan asked me to make Brookies for dinner the following
evening. I’m kind of sad I can’t
remember anything specifically hilarious – but it was really lovely seeing
Kathi and getting to spend so much time with her!!
Much love,
T O’B
Hi Friend!
Kathi and Hendrik were in town this week AND
I went home to NY for Easter. But before
all that, we kicked off the week with Passover at Nater's.
Jordan asked me to make brookies and bring
dessert so on Monday, I tried to go a Jewish bakery for some good traditional
cookies. And like a typical Catholic,
was genuinely surprised that the Jewish bakery was closed on Passover. It's cool, I went to another bakery and just
got cookies that looked like Jewish cookies.
By the way, Nater's house is amazing, and it was so lovely to spend the
holiday with the extended fam. Jordan
tried to test us all by having us tell the story of Passover and since I didn't
have to start, by the time it got to me I totally picked up that we were
telling the story of the Prince of Egypt.
Kathi and Hendrik asked me what the purpose
of the Unicorn in my living room was and I think my exact response was, "I
know this is a foreign concept for Germans, but it's just for fun."
I got to use my Amazon Prime "Magic
Trick" in that the German's went to sleep thinking that they didn't have
milk for their morning cereal, and I had Amazon magically deliver milk within
the hour while I was packing. Pretty
exciting! Also, while we were out on
Wednesday, the house was cleaned and Kathi got to see firsthand how someone
else dictates how long I can have Birthday cards out, and where things should
really go including re-packing their suitcases.
Far too soon, I was saying "Auf
Wiedersehen" and taking my pup to NY.
I got a little bit of sleep with the aid of some NyQuil which left me
pretty groggy when I landed. We got home
in an hour and then I went right to bed.
When I woke up, we all headed up to Maureen's cabin for some cards and
drinking by the fire. I brought two
bottles of wine, to which my Momela said, "just open a second bottle of
wine in case you don't like the first."
Which turned out to be quite accurate.
It was hard to finish it though without falling asleep and playing
Canasta.
Saturday, Maureen threw an egg decorating
party so that I could see all my friends and decorate like a boss. It was really nice to see Briana and Eva -
and their kids getting into the joy that is egg decorating. We did the tie trick again! Also, Sean and Stacey brought over a dozen
eggs that we thought were cooked, but learned were not, but only after we had
decorated half of them. That was fun for
Kevin to find on Easter! That evening
we had a little bonfire with Doreen and Jim too!
On Easter, after I found my basket from the
Easter Bunny, we went to mass at 11 (unlike Maureen's fam who had some altar
servers participating in the 8 am services.)
The whole day was pretty perfect, but I'll try to pull up some
highlights.
We facetimed with Bailey in Florida and I
even found 4 eggs with her during the egg hunt.
We also told stories around the table outside because it was gorgeous
out (and only rained for the 5 minutes that Sean had to grill the steak.) Sean told the story again about Bailey going
to the gym every Saturday night after the first time she saw naked guys on her
way to the gym to which Bailey yelled, "STOP TELLING THAT STORY." So
it was like she was really with us!
During dinner, Sean eloquently attempted to
prove that you could blow the shell off of a hardboiled egg. BTW dinner was amazing. And after dinner I wanted to take a nap, so I
mentioned to Jackie I could go for an iced coffee, and then she totally made me
one with a straw and everything making her, at least for those 15 minutes, my
favorite.
And then we finished up the night telling
embarrassing drunk/vomit stories that involve planes. I probably don't need to publically tell
these stories, but I will say that Stacey said Sean was super sick and throwing
up at every trash can on the way to the gate to which Frita commented (through
our laughter), "You were so embarrassing." Which was funnier because Sean doesn't do
anything to be embarrassed about and Frita never gets embarrassed.
Much love,
T O'B
Update 4/17
– 4/23
Hi Friend!
I’m watching
Nala and Casper for a month, so expect a lot more diversity in my puppy
photos. Including a snap of Nala and
Percy enjoying my birthday duck toy.
Ooooh! Speaking of which… My birthday present arrived! Super awesome Disney purses from my brother
and his fam. #hegetsme #hereallygetsme
A sample
came into the office of a very large bust of a Viking like dude that my
co-workers decided should set up camp right behind me in a very creepy,
micro-management kind of way. To be
honest, I liked it a lot more when they put the Halo sunglasses on him.
We did some
store checks, so I took that same opportunity to stop and get a Unicorn Frap (a
day late, but since the internet told me to, I had to.) It tasted like a skittle milk shake that
turned into a sour patch milk shake and it definitely made me want to spew
after 20%. I think if they had skipped
the milk part though, it would have been delightful. Maybe next time they decide to drive their
employees crazy, they’ll ask me first.
My pathetic
qualities win again! After almost a year
(almost 2 if we were going to be honest) of looking at a partially dry walled
wall, Becky and Jared came to my rescue!
They even let me help on the second day! Such a relief because I couldn’t get anyone
to come mud because it was already partially done – and now it’s all the way
done! Yayayayayay!
Much Love,
T O’B
Update 4/24 – 4/30
Hi Friend!
I watched three seasons of The Royals in three days, so
basically, I can’t be expected to have accomplished much other than that.
I finished sanding and painting the wall (okay “finished”
should probably be in quotations because I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to
beg Dawne to help me fix the edging when she’s back in town.)
Back in elementary school we all had that “double dog
dare” moment where we accepted the challenge when we really should have calmly
ignored the provocation. I know how
that’s how I ended up jumping in a pool fully clothed like a dumdum. As an adult, these dares still exist but now
we call them, “Hold My Beer” moments.
Well, that happened to me at work and I ended up cutting myself and
feeling sad. I didn’t have any fun
Band-Aids, I hurt myself opening a beer that was on my desk that didn’t even
taste good, and then I had to go to Bunko with an injured rolling hand. On the bright side I won $7.50 for the lowest
score!
I organized a big pack to go to the park on Saturday, 5
people, 5 dogs (okay, so I brought three of them.) This was a little more even than the 2
people, 4 dogs on Sunday with Ryan.
I also went to the Sounders game with Dr. Rach! It was raining and we were losing by 3 up
until like the last 5 minutes when they scored 3! Exhilarating! And also,
really fun to spend time with Dr. Rach.
I also tricked her into taking a picture while pregnant!
Ended the weekend with a dinner and grocery shopping with
Zacharoni!
Much Love,
T O’B
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