Gingerbread, far too much sugar, and theatre people. Let the oddness commence!!
The weekend’s snow turned into rain, and there’s now a great huge puddle outside the back door. I expect some ducks will take up residence at any moment, blown off course from Lake Washington.
The gingerbread party was small because of the snow. When that much snow hits (and it was an unusually heavy snowfall, especially for the first of the season), roads close...and since the house was at the bottom of a hill, lots of people cancelled. I walked the 15 blocks and discovered that while my shoes may have been just fine for more southerly latitudes, they won’t cut it up here in winter. (Because that’s just what I need, another expense.) We had fun, though: the gingerbread house was on fire, had an occult face on the roof, and was attended by E.T. and his spaceship, Dorie and the clownfish from Finding Nemo, someone/thing kung-fu fighting, a beaten thug-face, and Cthulhu Pride (a multicolored cookie that may have been something else, but looked a bit cephalopod-ish - so we had our Great Auld One, even if He was kitted out in a slightly-less-than-dignified manner. (Next year, possibly a throwdown deathmatch between the cephalopod and the FSM. Not on Fox [because they suck]) We also sat around and watched the final two episodes of Project Runway, and verbally eviscerated this and that entry by the finalists. One outfit looked like Sailor-Senshi-meets-LL-Bean. It was...odd. Then, because we were acting far too mature, we put in the Rankin Bass specials and sniggered through things like “a kiss a toy is the price you pay” (apparently that song got the special pulled from TV for a few years) or “riding a Vixen the wrong way” (wait - allude to child molestation get censored, but the bestiality stays? Waytago, there...)
Keep in mind that all of this talk was in front of a very bright, somewhat bored 9 or 10 year old girl. Yes, we’re responsible adults, taking care what we put forth onto impressionable young minds.
...and I almost got that out without laughing…
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