A weekend in review

Friday
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Dinner at my MIL's with DW, my BIL, a cousin and her husband. This was for Roshashana (one of many spellings) and is meant to start the year off right by dropping the past and looking forward to the sweetness of the new year. It is one of many gatherings during the year where we have the opportunity to celebrate and honour the Jewish traditions. As a non-Jew married to a Jewish person, and likewise for our cousin's husband, it is good and important that we are part of the tradition even though we may not share the actual belief. We are part of it by extension of our decision to marry into the family and faith. While I personally wish DW would participate more, and thereby I can too, I do not push her because I more than anyone understands the choices one must make with regards to faith. Oh, btw, dinner was excellent as always because mum makes a mean brisket. The conversations are always fun too as we play catch up and we discuss the everyday stuff that we like to chat about. We do not get to see these cousins as often as we like so I hope we change that in the coming year.

Saturday
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Adult gaming night. Always titillating to people when we say that phrase but it really is to be taken at its literal meaning; a night where games are played only by adults. This was the largest one we have had yet that we were involved in. We had four people from Whitby (PS and MS plus Skibum and his wife), six from Ajax (English and his wife, Redsometimes and her husband and Reddlion and his wife), one from Newmarket (DoubleD's wife), two from BF Everett (famine and his wife); yep, fifteen people in all. Lots of good food was brought in ranging from a bucket of the Colonel's favourite to a great guacamole dip to a spicy chicken wrap buffet to chili to a lemon meringue pie and bite-sized chocolate muffins. Not much was left at the end of all of that, unfortunately. We played lots of Liar's Dice, a crowd favourite, some Dirty Minds (a little too easy for sick thinkers like ourselves) and some Cranium with teams of three. In Cranium, I was teamed with Redsometimes and English's wife; that team-up plus some nice dice rolling and we seriously kicked ass. I must lodge a formal protest in print though. As the other players get to decide what question we get to win the game with , they all ganged up and refused to let me Sensosketch (drawing blind) or Sculpturade (sculpt with purple play-doh like substance). I have a slight knack and my teammates got it everytime in less than half the timer. Anyhow, it was not even a close contest on that one. More food and drink and people started to filer out into the night. We will definitely have to do this more often. It is such a release to be speaking to intelligent, fun human beings unlike the daily grind during the work week. When everyone left, we found ourselves still wide awake and tried to watch a DVD. That last all of ten minutes and we finally woke up, trundled off to bed and slept in.

Sunday
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MTL_froggie was in town with two of my three kids so they were dropping in before they headed home. DW and I did a little cleaning up and they arrived around 1PM. I really was not in a mood to run around the place and DW did not have the middle ingredients for lunch indoors so we split the two. We ordered in some panzerottos and wings from Panzerottopizza.com (co-company with The Wing Machine) and we did veggies and dips and such. While we were eating this, we watched Ghostbusters 1 & 2. Let me say that there really are some movies that no matter how many times you see them, they will always be enjoyable. Bill Murray is definitely one of the comic geniuses of all time. This along with Stripes, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and Caddyshack simply shows what delivery, timing and a pliable face can do to the funny bone. At the time of this writing, the pond folks have headed off and I am going to get to work on some stuff I have to do in the Sanctum Sanctorum (i.e. basement). The LB is on his way down from the capitol city via bus and I will be picking him up from STC around 7PM. He's got an appointment tomorrow in Barrie that I am going with him to; more on that later.

Well, enjoy what is left of the weekend. The summer is officially over and things are changing quickly. Brrrrrr.

Ciao.