Pillowfights and the Un-welcome
Angela arrived today. Flew in on a big jet plane.
We ran a few errands and came home to a house full of Africans who were rapidly spiralling out of control.
Marc was downstairs trying to make pizza with Dave; Natalie and Charmain were upstairs in Marc's bed having a pillowfight with Tom.
South Africa had just beaten Australia in tri-nation rugby (SA, Oz + Kiwi) and the Africans were jubilant and boisterous.
Later, we went to a party...but we got thrown out because, um, certain members of our party were obnoxious and loud. Not me, of course. I'm an angel! Oh, Angela's an angel, too. :)
We came back to my flat and were having a good time - and one of my upstairs neighbors yelled at us for being loud. At 2215.
Okay, fair enough, she was trying to sleep, but who goes to bed at quarter past ten at night? The sun is still almost up, for Christ's sake.
Natalie and Charmain attempt an early assault on Tom...and it goes horribly awry. Tom takes the upper hand.
Natalie, Charmain and Tom take a brief rest between rounds.
Even as Natalie and Charmain are celebrating their early victory, cracks in the alliance are beginning to show.
Tom realises that sometimes the losers are winners and dances the dance of the vanquished, celebrating with Charmain.
Natalie charges in with a surprise comeback, betraying her previous sister in arms...
and emerges as a clear winner!
Comments
Charming! I miss being in Edinburgh in August.
Someday we'll get together and make butter from scratch.
Posted by: Rachael | August 21, 2005 6:36 PM
Hey, i looked at tickets to heathrow, round trip, if we really shop around/plan ahead we can find them for about $200 from BWI!
Posted by: Mendon | August 23, 2005 4:21 AM
This is great! Normally I have to give my credit card information and pay a monthly fee to access a website like this.
Posted by: Basil Valentine | August 23, 2005 3:16 PM
Oh! pillow fights, parties, oh! what wonderful memories of my past this revives oh!
Posted by: Rahmat | August 23, 2005 11:57 PM
does anybody else check the blogs (besides kristen) via the last modified button link (yes, you can bookmark the page after clicking "last modified" and then you will always know which was the most recently updated and then you can work backword from the most recent until you hit one you're familiar with.
Posted by: Mendon | September 1, 2005 11:10 PM
What? where? How?
Posted by: ma | September 2, 2005 12:10 AM
Oh! It's great. Across the top of the blogs page are the links Name, Last modified, Size, & Description. If you click on Last modified, the blogs are listed (you've guessed) in order of when they were last modified. I bookmarked the page like that, and it allows me to be that much lazier. : )
Posted by: Kristen | September 2, 2005 4:03 AM
I do.
Posted by: Mara | September 2, 2005 7:21 AM
I used that to see who has been updated, but it is much easier if you sort on it. It would have never, ever occured to me to click on it.
Posted by: Ma | September 2, 2005 1:12 PM