Me Am Tired!
Apr. 5th, 2008 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuMe have marshmallow brain.
I'm very tired. I worked all week despite still recovering from this nasty cold (my lovely and talented wife is a week ahead of me and she's still not entirely over it). I was up late last night, then got up early this morning to drive two hours down to Eugene with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snippy to attend The Grandson's birthday party. We stopped at Oneson's place to pick up the proud parents and the grandkid to drive them to the pizza place where the party was being held.
It was...a party. Aside from immediate family I didn't know anyone there, though the maternal grandmother and a couple of other people looked vaguely familiar from earlier encounters. We ate pizza. We drank soft drinks. We cooed over the baby. Presents were unwrapped and displayed by the parents (The Grandson is only a year old, not yet old enough to have grasped the joy of unbridled greed). Cake--well, cupcakes, actually--were presented and distributed. The babies (Grandson had several peers present as well) engaged in the traditional rubbing cake and frosting over everything they could reach and even managed to eat a little of it. Lots of photos were taken.
Eventually all the children and their parents retired to the restaurant's playroom. Snippy and I remained in the reserved seating area to escape the noise (and the wearying presence of numerous strangers) and read for a while. We also rounded up the presents and moved them to the trunk of our car. Everyone returned eventually, and more cake and soda were consumed. The party broke up eventually and we drove the parents and child (and loot) back to their place.
Where we assembled our gift--a ride-on rocketship with buttons that light up and play entertaining recorded messages. (Fortunately, there are both volume control and on/off switches for the sound chips on the bottom of the vehicle.) Not that the kid had any interest in riding it--he much preferred playing with his toy cleaning kit* (mop, broom, dustpan & brush, soap dish, and cleaning supply bottles). Still, by the time we left he was having fun playing with the buttons on his rocketship...even if he still showed no interest in riding it.
snippy has been lusting after a Wii of her very own for over a year now. The kids have one, so we played with it for a while. Then Onesone found a local "for sale" listing on Craigslist (I believe) offering a Wii for $400. He called and offered $300. They settled on $350. So he and my lovely wife drove to a bank to get cash, then went and checked it out.
I stayed behind with the Grandkid and his mom. Grandson napped. I didn't nap, but I dozed--I was in no mood to go anywhere by then, except home. So I rested and waited for the Wii buying expedition to return so we could get the heck out of Dodge.
Oneson gave the Wii a thumbs up (it's in fine shape and everything works) so they bought it. As of tomorrow, when we set it up, Snippy will at last have her Wii.
The trip home was uneventful, though I was very glad to get here. Now I'm feeling braindead and tired. I look forward to SLEEP!
*His latest faddish interest is cleaning, so this was a great gift.
I'm very tired. I worked all week despite still recovering from this nasty cold (my lovely and talented wife is a week ahead of me and she's still not entirely over it). I was up late last night, then got up early this morning to drive two hours down to Eugene with
snippy to attend The Grandson's birthday party. We stopped at Oneson's place to pick up the proud parents and the grandkid to drive them to the pizza place where the party was being held.It was...a party. Aside from immediate family I didn't know anyone there, though the maternal grandmother and a couple of other people looked vaguely familiar from earlier encounters. We ate pizza. We drank soft drinks. We cooed over the baby. Presents were unwrapped and displayed by the parents (The Grandson is only a year old, not yet old enough to have grasped the joy of unbridled greed). Cake--well, cupcakes, actually--were presented and distributed. The babies (Grandson had several peers present as well) engaged in the traditional rubbing cake and frosting over everything they could reach and even managed to eat a little of it. Lots of photos were taken.
Eventually all the children and their parents retired to the restaurant's playroom. Snippy and I remained in the reserved seating area to escape the noise (and the wearying presence of numerous strangers) and read for a while. We also rounded up the presents and moved them to the trunk of our car. Everyone returned eventually, and more cake and soda were consumed. The party broke up eventually and we drove the parents and child (and loot) back to their place.
Where we assembled our gift--a ride-on rocketship with buttons that light up and play entertaining recorded messages. (Fortunately, there are both volume control and on/off switches for the sound chips on the bottom of the vehicle.) Not that the kid had any interest in riding it--he much preferred playing with his toy cleaning kit* (mop, broom, dustpan & brush, soap dish, and cleaning supply bottles). Still, by the time we left he was having fun playing with the buttons on his rocketship...even if he still showed no interest in riding it.
snippy has been lusting after a Wii of her very own for over a year now. The kids have one, so we played with it for a while. Then Onesone found a local "for sale" listing on Craigslist (I believe) offering a Wii for $400. He called and offered $300. They settled on $350. So he and my lovely wife drove to a bank to get cash, then went and checked it out. I stayed behind with the Grandkid and his mom. Grandson napped. I didn't nap, but I dozed--I was in no mood to go anywhere by then, except home. So I rested and waited for the Wii buying expedition to return so we could get the heck out of Dodge.
Oneson gave the Wii a thumbs up (it's in fine shape and everything works) so they bought it. As of tomorrow, when we set it up, Snippy will at last have her Wii.
The trip home was uneventful, though I was very glad to get here. Now I'm feeling braindead and tired. I look forward to SLEEP!
*His latest faddish interest is cleaning, so this was a great gift.
