Saturday, July 09, 2005 :::
it was the last day my niece and nephew were gonna be in town, and as much as I love tacos.... I really wanted to hang out with them again before they left.
my sister's housesitting for our friend marleen, so I headed over to marleen's after work yesterday.
I had a really awesome time with the kids. my sis had worked thursday night, so pretty much as soon as I got there she went to bed.
so the kids and I were channel surfing... saw the tail end of torque... and then I saw that stargate atlantis was on.
omg.
so I manhandled the remote from sandra... and switched it on. we caught the last half hour or so of an episode I'd never seen, and the kids fussed pretty much the whole time. apparently, they think scifi is for nerds (the little jer-ks).
however... we were eating grapes, and I'm surprisingly accurate when throwing a grape over 5 ft. I managed to hit my nephew several times in the face, and I actually hit my nieces forehead more than once (on purpose, no less).
now here's the really awesome part - apprently scifi was showing the whole season on one day. after the second episode we watched, and a helluva lot explaining, the kids actually wanted to keep watching. so all in all we watched 6 episodes of atlantis, and they actually enjoyed it. we all had a really good time throwing grapes, hitting each other with this golf club, eating obscene amts of ice cream, talking trash about our tekken & soul cal skills, and playing with Walter.
after atlantis was over (the seventh episode that came on was one we'd already watched... they started repeating 'em) we watched an episode of csi, then the three of us managed to finally wake my sis up (we were all hungry, and there's only so much ice cream you can eat).
oh and funny story - one of the bathroom's was out of toilet paper, so we were all using the master bathroom.. and my sis was asleep in the master bedroom.... so I go in there and kinda flick her ear, and she kinda brushes at her ear... so I flick her ear again and she brushes at her ear again and half rolls over... this time I crouch down next to the bed and flick her ear just a tad bit harder and she half sits up and flings her arm out and says, all pissed off, "stop it cassie!" by this time I'm rolling around laughing and then continue to the bathroom... when I get back to the living room I recount the story to the kids and we all have a good laugh about it.
so once we managed to wake her up for good she and the kids went to grab their suitcases and a couple of pizzas and a couple of burgers. pabs and I had a pizza each, and my sis and sandra had burgers...
by the time they get back I'd found st:tng and was thoroughly enjoying watching it. the kids made fun of me for being a wil wheaton fan girl... and we all watched a couple of episodes.
by that time it was 0100 and I'd been up since before sunrise... so I went home and went to bed.
I had a really good time... and I'm stoked the kids like atlantis.
they're awesome and all... only the little asses are still giving me shit about breaking that pot at walmart that one night.
and apparently I've inherited walter.
I'd have liked to see 'em off, but I had to come to work instead. plus, I have no idea where the airport here is.
and I hate saying goodbye anyway.
::: posted by tinafish at 10:13 AM :::