Thursday, January 13, 2005
Ghastly Birthday Party Themes and Other Fun
For those of you following along at home, Sophie turned two last Thursday. We have the t-shirt to prove it. Her birthday party theme was supposed to be snowmen, but then I got confused and bought a bear cake pan instead of the snowman cake pan. Polar bears...snowmen...practically the same thing. Last year, her birthday cake was decorated with 12 tiny vaguely penguin-shaped blobs, most of which looked like they had survived a nuclear reactor disaster and/or generations of enthusiastic inbreeding. This year, since a 3-D polar bear cake isn't disturbing enough on its own, we lopped off the head and let Sophie attack it with a fork.
Yes, we are depositing her birthday gift money directly into her therapy fund.
Notes From Various Lunch Breaks
- People who drive Lexus SUVs should avoid the total wanker move of holding up the drive-thru lane in order to agonize over the Dollar Menu. Just a hunch, but I bet you can afford to splurge. GET THE BIG MAC AND MOVE ALONG, FOR CHRISSAKE.
- A concept whose time has come and gone is that of the eatery that breaks into song while preparing customers' orders. The entire shopping center does not need to be alerted to the fact that my sweatpants-clad self is buying a vat-sized ice cream with various "mix-ins" at an ungodly early hour.
- I probably wouldn't go out to lunch so often if I didn't have a coworker with a propensity for totally inappropriate lunchtime conversations, such as her dog's digestive problems (ALL THE DAMN TIME). It's things like this that make me regret working with English speakers.
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