11.15.05

Category: dribblings

okay i’m sorry, but Chili Con Cagney and Lacey is cracking me up. i hate it when i laugh at my own joke. it’s so uncool. i’m leaving it up there.

i think that laura and i (sometimes liz, but not so much anymore since she’s become a working girl/stoodent) are the Lucy and Ethel of volunteer work.

guess who’s Ethel?

not the tall one.

anyhoo. laura asked me to help her out with some kind of Harry Potter thing for kids that the paper and some other companies were sponsoring. she was in charge of helping kids make origami owls. she knows i’m an origami master and so she asked and i said, “oh all right.” and she said that she was going to wear a witch hat and so she’d be some kind of Hogwart Professor and since i already have a HP outfit from some halloweens ago that i should wear that.

oh good.

so then she said that i didn’t have to dress up or even help if i didn’t want to and i said that you never leave a man behind. because that’s our thing. everyone knows a good soldier never leaves a man behind. there’s a hilarious story behind this, but i’ll let laura tell it.

SO. tonight was the big event and lemme just say, origami owls (hell, origami anything) are way too complicated for kids. so we ended up making them and let the kids decorate them. when we were finished our hands were sore and dry.

it was a pretty great turn out and i think all the kids had a great time. there was a magician. and they had HP video games you could play and they showed all three of the movies on three big screens. how cool is that?

i left around 7:30pm, and i was going home to eat food. but then i thought that since tonight was Bowling Night and i had only missed 30 minutes of it that maybe i should swing by and see everyone and maybe squeeze in one game, if i don’t go home and eat that is.

but see, i was still in my HP outfit.

so it’s either go home and eat.

or walk into the bowling alley dressed as Harry Potter.

i’m sure you know what i chose.

when i walked in there was a little girl coming out of the game room and she was all, “GASP!” and her face lit up and i smiled because she was so shocked and cute. and then i turned the corner and hear, “hahahaha jaimie! you lose a bet or something?”

i only bowled an 87 or something lame like that. i think it’s ‘cos i only drank Dr Pepper. i didn’t want to drink the beer on an empty stomach. bowling alley beer is awesome.

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the other day Kelly Fish made this candy stuff called Tree Bark. it’s saltines and chocolate and other secret ingredients and it is so good. kelly, you should make some more of that stuff. or maybe go and post the recipe to the message board. because a piece of that stuff is the perfect last bite of a meal.

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