late last night and the morning after
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wiredferret-style, since it got a bit long and summarizes well.)
Small quantities of white stuff fell down and were played in
Fun and unexpected things around Gameworks
Large quantities of white stuff fell down and were played in
Yummy breakfast
Still not well so I'm hanging about at home
Between 6 and 6:30 there was a storm of snowballs. Just wee ones, not even the size of a large pea. They bounced merrily off my hands and stuck in my hair when I leaned out over the balcony, and they ran off the roof opposite in a steady rush, creating a big pile of them in front of the cheap pizza place. People threw them at each other. Far too many people carefully sighted on the street scene and then took flash photos. The cats were freaked out. I was happy.
I ended up getting a ride to Gameworks withle_merle, who had decided to validate the principle of Ladies' Night by giving Gameworks some money to go there with girls. By the time we got there, it was a little too late to go have a real dinner, but we still had about half an hour, so we went up to Subway rather than brave the overpriced and, by all accounts, dreadful Gameworks refreshments.
We got our food and started wandering back down to GW, but I was distracted by some filler flowers sitting in a bucket outside the florist's kiosk. Nobody uses baby's breath any more, they use these things, and I'd seen them but didn't know what they were. That's not an appropriate situation, so after token encouragement I asked the florist about them. They're waxflowers. They come in pink and white, and they are similar to the smaller, white-only riceflower, which he didn't have but he claimed looked like rice. (!) Also, he considers baby's breath to be "shit", and he does mean shit.
He grabbed a few stems of the waxflowers and told us to wait a minute. I attempted to silently convey amusement, pleasure, and "ack, what do I do now?" tole_merle using only a facial expression. I'm really not sure what the polite thing to do is when a visibly queer, gravelly-voiced florist guy with an unlit cigarette in his mouth is ripping waxflowers limb from limb to make one a free bouquet, especially when his bleached-haired, even more obviously gay colleague is making bitchy comments to him in an undertone. I just don't know. I chose to stand there awkwardly and admire some other flowers while nibbling at my chicken caesar wrap.
Eventually he added some tulips and finished the bouquet. He handed it to me, but then took it back, and the assumption we'd all been waiting for came to pass: he gave the flowers tole_merle to give to me. "That way you'll get some tonight," he said. I suppose Betan earrings wouldn't have solved that one. T-shirts, maybe?
It's harder to eat when carrying flowers. We waited outside Gameworks until found bylithera and her friend Tim (right?). I threw out the rest of my food and we went inside. The plan was to play DDR with lithera, but the peril of free play is that I have to keep continuing on whatever game I choose, so I got sucked into playing Brave Firefighters until the end. By that time, she'd played DDR and gone, so we wandered around looking for her. (Readers may assume that I have le_merle in tow at all times.) I found Propcycle before I found Kat, though, and then there was Arkanoid, and that bitey dinosaur game...
In fact, I was playing on the bitey dino game (Savage something-or-other) when who should appear buthattifattener! Yay! He had been to an aikido class in Bellevue and GW was on his way home. He went off to explore the place while we finished biting stuff, then we had to mount a search for him. Saw lithera along the way, but chose not to stop Wim-hunting for the moment. (Bad choice. We couldn't find her at all later, and I at least wanted to say good night.) We discovered Wim near Propcycle and persuaded him to give it a try.
Then he needed to look for his friends, whom we found at Virtua Fighter 3. Very cute friends they are, too. They left shortly after we found them; it was probably about 10:30. We all three tried to search for Kat then; despite unintentionally splitting up, our search was fruitless. I was suddenly tired, so we set out for home.
It had been snowing all evening, but it picked up a lot then. By the time we were (at my perhaps unwise suggestion) crawling along Eastlake and seeing stopped buses on both sides of the road, the snow looked like largish pieces of torn Kleenex, and it was clearly hard to drive in. We made it to my place all right, though, and Josh elected to drive home rather than crash on either of my couches.
Wim and I decided to go for a short walk in the snow, which turned out to be basically across the street and onto the roof of House of Carpe. I made a snow angel and ate many handfuls of delicious frozen water. There were cats sitting in the window of the apartment building across the alley, so I threw snowballs at their building to amuse them. Once I accidentally hit their window, which roused their human to come examine us, but mostly it was just cats looking very alert and following the snowballs with their eyes. When I stopped throwing them and we started to go inside because my hands were cold, the more active of the two cats was pawing and sniffing at the window, trying to get to the bit of snow that had lodged in the outside sill.
We got to sleep eventually. I woke up feeling pretty crampy, so I called in sick to work. Only one person was there anyway, so I doubt it's a problem.hattifattener was really sleepy, but I was awake, as so often happens. I brought him a painkiller for his headache and took one myself, and we lounged in bed until we got hungry. At that point, I got up and made drop biscuits while my lazy boyfriend stayed curled up and cozy. I dragged him out to make the omelettes, though. It was a good breakfast.
My head still hurts now, though I don't seem to be crampish any more (hello, uterus, any time now, okay?). I'm staying home anyway. I considered going out to buy a game of Fluxx, but it looks like turnout is going to be small for game-playing tonight anyway. Maybe I should change it to tomorrow, I don't know. Okay, that's long enough for one post.
wiredferret-style, since it got a bit long and summarizes well.)Small quantities of white stuff fell down and were played in
Fun and unexpected things around Gameworks
Large quantities of white stuff fell down and were played in
Yummy breakfast
Still not well so I'm hanging about at home
Between 6 and 6:30 there was a storm of snowballs. Just wee ones, not even the size of a large pea. They bounced merrily off my hands and stuck in my hair when I leaned out over the balcony, and they ran off the roof opposite in a steady rush, creating a big pile of them in front of the cheap pizza place. People threw them at each other. Far too many people carefully sighted on the street scene and then took flash photos. The cats were freaked out. I was happy.
I ended up getting a ride to Gameworks with
le_merle, who had decided to validate the principle of Ladies' Night by giving Gameworks some money to go there with girls. By the time we got there, it was a little too late to go have a real dinner, but we still had about half an hour, so we went up to Subway rather than brave the overpriced and, by all accounts, dreadful Gameworks refreshments. We got our food and started wandering back down to GW, but I was distracted by some filler flowers sitting in a bucket outside the florist's kiosk. Nobody uses baby's breath any more, they use these things, and I'd seen them but didn't know what they were. That's not an appropriate situation, so after token encouragement I asked the florist about them. They're waxflowers. They come in pink and white, and they are similar to the smaller, white-only riceflower, which he didn't have but he claimed looked like rice. (!) Also, he considers baby's breath to be "shit", and he does mean shit.
He grabbed a few stems of the waxflowers and told us to wait a minute. I attempted to silently convey amusement, pleasure, and "ack, what do I do now?" to
le_merle using only a facial expression. I'm really not sure what the polite thing to do is when a visibly queer, gravelly-voiced florist guy with an unlit cigarette in his mouth is ripping waxflowers limb from limb to make one a free bouquet, especially when his bleached-haired, even more obviously gay colleague is making bitchy comments to him in an undertone. I just don't know. I chose to stand there awkwardly and admire some other flowers while nibbling at my chicken caesar wrap.Eventually he added some tulips and finished the bouquet. He handed it to me, but then took it back, and the assumption we'd all been waiting for came to pass: he gave the flowers to
le_merle to give to me. "That way you'll get some tonight," he said. I suppose Betan earrings wouldn't have solved that one. T-shirts, maybe?It's harder to eat when carrying flowers. We waited outside Gameworks until found by
lithera and her friend Tim (right?). I threw out the rest of my food and we went inside. The plan was to play DDR with lithera, but the peril of free play is that I have to keep continuing on whatever game I choose, so I got sucked into playing Brave Firefighters until the end. By that time, she'd played DDR and gone, so we wandered around looking for her. (Readers may assume that I have le_merle in tow at all times.) I found Propcycle before I found Kat, though, and then there was Arkanoid, and that bitey dinosaur game...In fact, I was playing on the bitey dino game (Savage something-or-other) when who should appear but
hattifattener! Yay! He had been to an aikido class in Bellevue and GW was on his way home. He went off to explore the place while we finished biting stuff, then we had to mount a search for him. Saw lithera along the way, but chose not to stop Wim-hunting for the moment. (Bad choice. We couldn't find her at all later, and I at least wanted to say good night.) We discovered Wim near Propcycle and persuaded him to give it a try.Then he needed to look for his friends, whom we found at Virtua Fighter 3. Very cute friends they are, too. They left shortly after we found them; it was probably about 10:30. We all three tried to search for Kat then; despite unintentionally splitting up, our search was fruitless. I was suddenly tired, so we set out for home.
It had been snowing all evening, but it picked up a lot then. By the time we were (at my perhaps unwise suggestion) crawling along Eastlake and seeing stopped buses on both sides of the road, the snow looked like largish pieces of torn Kleenex, and it was clearly hard to drive in. We made it to my place all right, though, and Josh elected to drive home rather than crash on either of my couches.
Wim and I decided to go for a short walk in the snow, which turned out to be basically across the street and onto the roof of House of Carpe. I made a snow angel and ate many handfuls of delicious frozen water. There were cats sitting in the window of the apartment building across the alley, so I threw snowballs at their building to amuse them. Once I accidentally hit their window, which roused their human to come examine us, but mostly it was just cats looking very alert and following the snowballs with their eyes. When I stopped throwing them and we started to go inside because my hands were cold, the more active of the two cats was pawing and sniffing at the window, trying to get to the bit of snow that had lodged in the outside sill.
We got to sleep eventually. I woke up feeling pretty crampy, so I called in sick to work. Only one person was there anyway, so I doubt it's a problem.
hattifattener was really sleepy, but I was awake, as so often happens. I brought him a painkiller for his headache and took one myself, and we lounged in bed until we got hungry. At that point, I got up and made drop biscuits while my lazy boyfriend stayed curled up and cozy. I dragged him out to make the omelettes, though. It was a good breakfast.My head still hurts now, though I don't seem to be crampish any more (hello, uterus, any time now, okay?). I'm staying home anyway. I considered going out to buy a game of Fluxx, but it looks like turnout is going to be small for game-playing tonight anyway. Maybe I should change it to tomorrow, I don't know. Okay, that's long enough for one post.
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Date: 2002-03-13 03:06 pm (UTC)(I had actually forgotten that such a game existed - I'm glad it's still there).
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Date: 2002-03-13 04:22 pm (UTC)Brave Firefighters is very silly, isn't it?
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