Birthdayparty update
I had a great party and I was greatly worn out by the proceedings.
After days of shopping and cleaning and doing all sorts of things I ran out of energy and time so I didn't get to do most of what I had planned for the food. That was disappointing but inevitable, I just don't have the energy I used to have when I was all healthy and stuff.
I also spend a massive amaunt of money but now my mother's inheritance is finally sorted that isn't an issue luckily. Not that it is any great amaunt but it's a bit bigger than 200E at least. For me spending 200E on a one day event is extremely frivolous. But regardless I will try to control any spending at the moment to make up for basically being silly. At least I could eat for a week aftwards from left overs.
My camera batteries were empty and I didn't recharge them in time. But even if I has I was too busy to make pics. My uncle from Eschede came along unexpectedly (with his son and his girlfriend) and he had a video camera under my nose from the moment he stepped inside, he's not too good with putting things on discs and sending it round though so while the food and my mountain of chicken may have been recorded the chance of me getting to show it off is slim.
My livingroom was filled to the brim with people and a few little ones you had to be careful not to step on. My pies were demolished so I really need to remember I need at least three next time. The dinner table was being haunted even before I set the last food down and I think the picturesque part lasted about 5 sec before everyone dove in. Then there was much silence and a long time of eating. My mountain of chicken seemed a lot at first but with a few big eating cousins and men it was a good things there was so much.
While I found my chicken has turned out a bit bland it was still seasoned well enough and I got a lot of compliments about the sauces and pastes I had made for on the bread. You can tell when people are enjoying the food and that was very nice but overall the atmosphere was also very cosy, there was laughing and chatter. I like giving them things to eat they never had before, it always adds to the fun.
I will be inviting more people in the future, at the very least because I still have a zillion recipes I want people to try.
(the cat is eying me...must write fast before he descends on my lap)
My cousin's daughter of almost four sadly caught the flu so they had to go home early, before dinner. But at least we all got to see her and her cute little brother for a bit. He's at that age where (cat closing in *hurries) everything amuses him. My little cousin who is about ten got the kids after her mostly, they look for kids to play with. But she is a good sport and helped them color..ehm helped Kira color and helped little Cas from getting the pencils and coloring my wallpaper.
She brought me some of her homemade artwork, she arranges plastic beads that then get ironed to stick together. I have hung it up in the kitchen, it's really nice to have something that a kid made for you I think. Looking at it makes me happy, she has always been more fond of me than I had reason to expect. I played a lot more with her older sister and didn't attend as many of the gatherings when she was younger because of my illness. She kept asking after me and giving me drawings and things though.
I sort of ran out of places to sit so her older sister (16) sat on her father's lap. Which I find kind of illogical because she is fully grown and tall, while her little sister is a slight 10 year old who had a chair to herself. Suffice it to say my uncles legs suffered the effects, but I guess he is used to that, parenthood is made up out of suffering. He's a teacher too so suffering at the hands of kids is 99% of his life...no wonder he's grey and balding.
My uncle from Enschede slept over at another aunt and uncle (one day I will have to show you a familytree or something, my mother had 5 brothers=quite a few cousins) so only my cousin and his girlfriend slept over. She is nice but a bit more quiet than I am used to, so it's hard to get a really enthusiastic conversation going. She and my cousin do seem to make a good pair though. They do a lot together and like the same things. I see that a lot in my family, people who find each other kind of late in life compared to most others and then they usually end up long term and married. My cousin was also quite amused because people kept telling him he'd never find a girl if he didn't get off his ass to find one. But she actually came to find him, they had met at friends and then she just showed up on his doorstep to bring him along to do something.
Now he's trying to convince me he dominates her cat (she does what he says)...but I know better. That cat will do what it takes to get him on her side and then he will be her slave, all the while thinking she is doing what he wants. Not that he is not fond of cats, he always gets up to open doors for mine and things but he is used to dogs and grumbling about cats doing whatever they want. It's all talk.*smirkle*
At least I am fully aware and open about me being a sucker for all cats. The kitten mommycat brought over last year has returned to my yard and looks at me with friendly eyes before I give him his food. He's still not tame but he seems to have made friends with both my Mickey and with visiting cat Speedy who was rather mean to him last summer. When I had everyone over here the cats were amazed and actually sat outside on the windowsill to look in at all the people. Mommycat lets me pet her now and has equal or more destructive power than Speedy, she wants to eat my babygrassplants...I want to make them grow big and strong.
I've seen her with a big black and white cat in my yard now. His eyes look familiar, maybe in 63 days there will be young. Because I can pet her elaborately now she may let me closer to her kittens this time and prevent any going as ferrel as last years one is. Mickey seems okay with all cats in the yard except one, which may belong to someone other than the rest of the cats. When he sees her through the window he races to get outside, he has never done that with any of the other cats, even the ones he didn't know. (he is getting antsy to get on my lap now, time to sign off)
See when I start talking/writing any thread of cohesiveness goes out the window. Thank god for lj cut.
~Iflie
After days of shopping and cleaning and doing all sorts of things I ran out of energy and time so I didn't get to do most of what I had planned for the food. That was disappointing but inevitable, I just don't have the energy I used to have when I was all healthy and stuff.
I also spend a massive amaunt of money but now my mother's inheritance is finally sorted that isn't an issue luckily. Not that it is any great amaunt but it's a bit bigger than 200E at least. For me spending 200E on a one day event is extremely frivolous. But regardless I will try to control any spending at the moment to make up for basically being silly. At least I could eat for a week aftwards from left overs.
My camera batteries were empty and I didn't recharge them in time. But even if I has I was too busy to make pics. My uncle from Eschede came along unexpectedly (with his son and his girlfriend) and he had a video camera under my nose from the moment he stepped inside, he's not too good with putting things on discs and sending it round though so while the food and my mountain of chicken may have been recorded the chance of me getting to show it off is slim.
My livingroom was filled to the brim with people and a few little ones you had to be careful not to step on. My pies were demolished so I really need to remember I need at least three next time. The dinner table was being haunted even before I set the last food down and I think the picturesque part lasted about 5 sec before everyone dove in. Then there was much silence and a long time of eating. My mountain of chicken seemed a lot at first but with a few big eating cousins and men it was a good things there was so much.
While I found my chicken has turned out a bit bland it was still seasoned well enough and I got a lot of compliments about the sauces and pastes I had made for on the bread. You can tell when people are enjoying the food and that was very nice but overall the atmosphere was also very cosy, there was laughing and chatter. I like giving them things to eat they never had before, it always adds to the fun.
I will be inviting more people in the future, at the very least because I still have a zillion recipes I want people to try.
(the cat is eying me...must write fast before he descends on my lap)
My cousin's daughter of almost four sadly caught the flu so they had to go home early, before dinner. But at least we all got to see her and her cute little brother for a bit. He's at that age where (cat closing in *hurries) everything amuses him. My little cousin who is about ten got the kids after her mostly, they look for kids to play with. But she is a good sport and helped them color..ehm helped Kira color and helped little Cas from getting the pencils and coloring my wallpaper.
She brought me some of her homemade artwork, she arranges plastic beads that then get ironed to stick together. I have hung it up in the kitchen, it's really nice to have something that a kid made for you I think. Looking at it makes me happy, she has always been more fond of me than I had reason to expect. I played a lot more with her older sister and didn't attend as many of the gatherings when she was younger because of my illness. She kept asking after me and giving me drawings and things though.
I sort of ran out of places to sit so her older sister (16) sat on her father's lap. Which I find kind of illogical because she is fully grown and tall, while her little sister is a slight 10 year old who had a chair to herself. Suffice it to say my uncles legs suffered the effects, but I guess he is used to that, parenthood is made up out of suffering. He's a teacher too so suffering at the hands of kids is 99% of his life...no wonder he's grey and balding.
My uncle from Enschede slept over at another aunt and uncle (one day I will have to show you a familytree or something, my mother had 5 brothers=quite a few cousins) so only my cousin and his girlfriend slept over. She is nice but a bit more quiet than I am used to, so it's hard to get a really enthusiastic conversation going. She and my cousin do seem to make a good pair though. They do a lot together and like the same things. I see that a lot in my family, people who find each other kind of late in life compared to most others and then they usually end up long term and married. My cousin was also quite amused because people kept telling him he'd never find a girl if he didn't get off his ass to find one. But she actually came to find him, they had met at friends and then she just showed up on his doorstep to bring him along to do something.
Now he's trying to convince me he dominates her cat (she does what he says)...but I know better. That cat will do what it takes to get him on her side and then he will be her slave, all the while thinking she is doing what he wants. Not that he is not fond of cats, he always gets up to open doors for mine and things but he is used to dogs and grumbling about cats doing whatever they want. It's all talk.*smirkle*
At least I am fully aware and open about me being a sucker for all cats. The kitten mommycat brought over last year has returned to my yard and looks at me with friendly eyes before I give him his food. He's still not tame but he seems to have made friends with both my Mickey and with visiting cat Speedy who was rather mean to him last summer. When I had everyone over here the cats were amazed and actually sat outside on the windowsill to look in at all the people. Mommycat lets me pet her now and has equal or more destructive power than Speedy, she wants to eat my babygrassplants...I want to make them grow big and strong.
I've seen her with a big black and white cat in my yard now. His eyes look familiar, maybe in 63 days there will be young. Because I can pet her elaborately now she may let me closer to her kittens this time and prevent any going as ferrel as last years one is. Mickey seems okay with all cats in the yard except one, which may belong to someone other than the rest of the cats. When he sees her through the window he races to get outside, he has never done that with any of the other cats, even the ones he didn't know. (he is getting antsy to get on my lap now, time to sign off)
See when I start talking/writing any thread of cohesiveness goes out the window. Thank god for lj cut.
~Iflie