Hi gang!

I don't know what day or time it is...what a weekend!

My niece's afternoon birthday gathering was very nice...her brother J (19) who'd been in Hawaii and wasn't due back until Jan 23 showed up and surprised us.


(I think I might have posted that earlier...sorry folks, I have a few fewer brain cells today than I did yesterday )

Came home, got ready.

Bit of tension as for weeks CJ's been saying stuff like...I hope MJ doesn't expect us to have a party here after the bar...what did you tell her? ....what did you say to H about coming here...

I finally asked him if he'd like me to call them and say flat out there is no chance we're coming back here? He said he wanted to play it by ear...grrrr

So we are 2 hours into the evening at the karaoke bar and he says to me...you can tell MJ we can party at our house later!!! (trust a few beers to make a party look more inviting).

CJ and MJ sang some songs, not me this time. But I danced a lot with the girls and with CJ. We even did some body contact shakin' it to the floor kinda stuff ...It was fun.

CJ's niece was there...the one who does hair...and she's always so supportive of US, she was REALLY shaken up last year. She says to CJ..."look at your wife! she's gorgeous! you guys are perfect together...the way you dance, I'll bet you have amazing sex!".... (Yes she'd had a couple of beers too and had prefaced it with...I know you're my aunt and uncle but...)

WHAT could I say .."Yeah, M, well looks can be deceiving!" I just let the crooning of the current karaoke king catch my attention....

So of course about a dozen of us came back here. CJ played CJ (computer jockey) and we rocked on until....MJ's cab got here around 7:30 a.m.

Now how did CJ come to get his Christmas gift early?

Well we had the tunes cranked so loud that one of my blue vases (a antique one my Mom gave me ) bounced to the edge of the speaker and dropped off...along with a few other items. The vase shattered into CJ's comforter which was lying folded there.

This comforter is at least 13 years old. The last time I washed it I saw that it was literally falling apart. CJ starts most nights out on the couch. His snoring is such that I cannot sleep in bed if he's already there...but he can sneak in later once I'm out.

So I searched and found a beautiful soft-touch queen size, the same red as CJ's wall!. So when he said he'd just use my little blankets (you know the fleece throws that are barely 5 feet long?) I said, no, I'd give him his gift.

So I set it all up and put him to bed and he says he loves it! He's lying in it right now.

Seeing as how I didn't get up until 4 p.m. today I thought I'd best do something to keep me awake for a while!

Okay time to unload the dishwasher and reload it....any idea how long it takes to de-smoke a house? Keep in mind that it's Canada and winter....

It was worth it!

Shiny