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impyBoo! Guess who was late to work last night? Coworker! And me. But he was later. I was late because I overslept by dreaming my alarm went off, but I checked it and it was going off half an hour early, so I fixed it and... slept right on through til I should've been at the light turning onto the highway. Mad scramble to get ready ensued.
Put in for my birthday vacation. *does a little dance* But what are you doing for your birthday, you might ask. I have NFI. None. Wait! I'll spend the first hour of it reading the bound to be really shitty new SV books and then the next hour wondering what my problem is.
After that, really, it's anyone's guess. I hinted (via a sledgehammer) to Cass that I'm not going out of my way to celebrate her 30th since she's been MIA for my last five birthdays, but I think that number is actually higher. Annnnnnnd yeah. The realization that I turned 30 last year and had a shitty year to begin with and I celebrated her birthday and suffered through the crazy... oh. Shit. I still owe that story.
To recap: Liz, Jess, Kiki, and I went to visit Cass & Matt for Cassy's 29th birthday celebration. Despite the fact that NO ONE wanted Lisa there, Cass also invited Lisa who ignored the invitation. Cass then re-invited her after everyone BEGGED her not to. Lisa brings her daughter and the 'babysitter' and the first night is speshul. The second day is spent divided by Daddy time, mall time, and Serious Drinking Time.
Daddy time mostly involved the extended family watching Thor, me trying not to choke on some of the food offered up. Everyone else is in heaven over it, so I just knock back Sprites and try not to make an ass of myself. Babysitter proceeds to not actually babysit lilK at all and hits on each of Cassy's brothers. I cackle when Cassy realizes her favored sister has turned into a spoiled rotten princess bitch.
We hit the mall. AG times for Jess, Cass, and I. Somewhere in the first fifteen minutes or so, Babysitter (BS) loses lilK. Mmhmm. Loses her. Turns out that Matt and Liz took lilK with them or something, but the damage is done because Cassy's attention is split. Then BS claims that Liz told her to... hell if I remember. I think it involved profanity and the fact that BS wasn't doing her damn job.
Liz later admits she told the BS that if she wanted to wander the mall alone, she should ask Lisa if that's okay, and that if she'd intended on telling BS off, she would have and it would have been in front of everyone so no one would be left out. This I believe. Anyway, Lisa throws a fit and wants to go home. The rest of us wish she meant 'home'-home, as in another state, but no, she means the hotel. The problem is that she's one of the drivers, Matt and Liz have to go back with her so they can drive another car back. Is good times!
This means we wander the mall for another hour waiting for them to get back. My legs are killing me, I'm hungry as hell because I didn't fill up on Mommy's foodstuffs, and also, I'm annoyed at the Lisa drama. By the time Matt and Liz return, Cass has promised that we are done with Lisa for the remainder of the night. When we go out drinking, she ain't invited.
This lasts for like, 45 minutes as we wander the mall again so Cass can show Liz the ring Matt bought her or... I dunno. Then Liz goes shopping for a dress and during this, Cass gets a call from Lisa and things escalate. Lisa is upset that Cass didn't immediately take her side (in what, telling your BS to fuck off? she whined the entire time she was with us, she hit on Cassy's brothers, she didn't babysit at all as far as I could tell, and she ruined my part of the trip!) and Cass is trying to... I dunno. This is the part where Mums so rightly points out that I love my Cass, but she totally feeds on drama, and having everyone else tell her to hang up the damn phone and ignore Lisa fed right into that.
The mall closes and we head back to the hotel with a plan. We are going to sneak into the hotel, not talk to Lisa (she was on another floor) and then either send people out for booze or head out ourselves. At this point I'm starving but the idea of going out drinking is both daunting (I... hold my liquor, man. I've yet to be drunk and it ain't for a lack of trying.) and intriguing as I'd like to see the stories as they happen for once, dammit.
Yeah. Again, plan failure. The smokers smoke while I and... Kiki or Jess, don't remember which, escort Cass to the room. Showers are taken by some and I check my email while Cass gets a call or twelve from Lisa. Who begs Cass to talk to her. Cass refuses. Cass relents. Matt finds out that the liquor store JUST closed and announces we're heading out to Dave & Buster's and everyone should be dressed. There's a cute moment when Liz has her grubby clothes over her going out clothes so Lisa won't notice anything's amiss until it's too late.
But it doesn't friggin' matter. Cass and Lisa are still in negotiations. The big hang up, besides the drama llamas, is that Lisa was supposed to be DD as her car could hold everyone and no one likes drunk!Lisa any better than they like sober!Lisa. So Cass keeps waffling on this as we all scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Of course, it turns out she came home from the mall and starting drinking, so she can't fucking drive anyway. But she wins and gets to come along and everyone piles into her car and we head off for D&B. Cass started her drinking early and announced that everyone was buying her a drink cuz it's her birthdaybitch annd... I don't care as long as there's food. Liz and Lisa seem to tussle over who buys first official drink of the night and Liz wins, I think.
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out something to drink because alcohol tastes like ass much of the time, and it's about midnight and I'm hungry. But I need to know what I'm drinking! And no one is any help. I believe I ordered a burger and fries and there was a pickle and it was delicious. I ordered some terribly fruity drink, possibly the Candy Shop, possibly a Jolly Rancher? Possibly they are the same thing, I don't know. It was disgusting, so I gulped it. And I had my Sprite. And then... I think it was time to order another drink, and... I don't recall what that was, but it wasn't bad. Everyone else but Liz and Matt are drinking rather heavily too, and Cass is about 16 sheets to the wind before she and I even get around to our drink. Mine comes with a fly in it and we quickly realize our bartender doesn't know what she's doing. (We suspected it before)
Lots of people get up and leave at various points during the meal and Lisa's out puking in the parking lot and y'know, I just didn't need to see that. So I nursed my drinks and tried desperately to flag our server because thirsty!
To be fair, Lisa was fine til we got to talking about local sports (well, local here) and then I just wanted to smack her. She also didn't seem to get that repeatedly mentioning the things she'd done to piss everyone off and then wondering why people kept giving her the "SHUT UP" looks might be related.
The bills come eventually and I find out they charged me twice for my bug in my drink, which is pretty much the opposite ot how that should've gone down. (This was fixed. Eventually. Our server pretty much avoided us after awhile which was insane because we'd let him know that so long as the drinks kept coming, he'd get a lovely 'we're sorry you have to put up with us and on top of a triple even!' tip. The drinks did not keep coming.)
Cass had to be poured into the car and everyone else followed. Back at the hotel, Lisa is exiled and people resume the "Seriously, drunk!Cass, we could've had all that fun and MORE if you hadn't saddled us with babysitting her." To which Cass responded the way anyone sane would have: "Wait! I brought booze!" annnnnnd then she drank another round and passed out. Liz followed shortly there after and Kiki and Matt finished the bottle of whatever and got to shit talking about who could beat the other one in Spades. So they eventually ran to the gift shop and bought an overpriced pack of cards and spent the next four hours playing. I nearly fell asleep six times and should have, but I was enjoying the bs session going on, so... yeah. I got no sleep whatsoever. None!
The next day we drove home and it took for fucking ever. We arrived in a torrential downpour and it was actually pretty scary, but Liz is possibly the best driver I've ever ridden in a car with, so... that's a plus.
Lisa never really did get that her BS didn't do what she was paid to do, lied to people's faces, made Lisa look like a bigger jackass, and generally speaking everyone would have been fine if she'd just sent lilK for the day and stayed her ass at home.
Oh, and I still lacked in drunken times. :P
Yeah. I may edit for cohesiveness once I find my nail file and fix these daggers.
I should be less than 2 hours from my Avengers!
Put in for my birthday vacation. *does a little dance* But what are you doing for your birthday, you might ask. I have NFI. None. Wait! I'll spend the first hour of it reading the bound to be really shitty new SV books and then the next hour wondering what my problem is.
After that, really, it's anyone's guess. I hinted (via a sledgehammer) to Cass that I'm not going out of my way to celebrate her 30th since she's been MIA for my last five birthdays, but I think that number is actually higher. Annnnnnnd yeah. The realization that I turned 30 last year and had a shitty year to begin with and I celebrated her birthday and suffered through the crazy... oh. Shit. I still owe that story.
To recap: Liz, Jess, Kiki, and I went to visit Cass & Matt for Cassy's 29th birthday celebration. Despite the fact that NO ONE wanted Lisa there, Cass also invited Lisa who ignored the invitation. Cass then re-invited her after everyone BEGGED her not to. Lisa brings her daughter and the 'babysitter' and the first night is speshul. The second day is spent divided by Daddy time, mall time, and Serious Drinking Time.
Daddy time mostly involved the extended family watching Thor, me trying not to choke on some of the food offered up. Everyone else is in heaven over it, so I just knock back Sprites and try not to make an ass of myself. Babysitter proceeds to not actually babysit lilK at all and hits on each of Cassy's brothers. I cackle when Cassy realizes her favored sister has turned into a spoiled rotten princess bitch.
We hit the mall. AG times for Jess, Cass, and I. Somewhere in the first fifteen minutes or so, Babysitter (BS) loses lilK. Mmhmm. Loses her. Turns out that Matt and Liz took lilK with them or something, but the damage is done because Cassy's attention is split. Then BS claims that Liz told her to... hell if I remember. I think it involved profanity and the fact that BS wasn't doing her damn job.
Liz later admits she told the BS that if she wanted to wander the mall alone, she should ask Lisa if that's okay, and that if she'd intended on telling BS off, she would have and it would have been in front of everyone so no one would be left out. This I believe. Anyway, Lisa throws a fit and wants to go home. The rest of us wish she meant 'home'-home, as in another state, but no, she means the hotel. The problem is that she's one of the drivers, Matt and Liz have to go back with her so they can drive another car back. Is good times!
This means we wander the mall for another hour waiting for them to get back. My legs are killing me, I'm hungry as hell because I didn't fill up on Mommy's foodstuffs, and also, I'm annoyed at the Lisa drama. By the time Matt and Liz return, Cass has promised that we are done with Lisa for the remainder of the night. When we go out drinking, she ain't invited.
This lasts for like, 45 minutes as we wander the mall again so Cass can show Liz the ring Matt bought her or... I dunno. Then Liz goes shopping for a dress and during this, Cass gets a call from Lisa and things escalate. Lisa is upset that Cass didn't immediately take her side (in what, telling your BS to fuck off? she whined the entire time she was with us, she hit on Cassy's brothers, she didn't babysit at all as far as I could tell, and she ruined my part of the trip!) and Cass is trying to... I dunno. This is the part where Mums so rightly points out that I love my Cass, but she totally feeds on drama, and having everyone else tell her to hang up the damn phone and ignore Lisa fed right into that.
The mall closes and we head back to the hotel with a plan. We are going to sneak into the hotel, not talk to Lisa (she was on another floor) and then either send people out for booze or head out ourselves. At this point I'm starving but the idea of going out drinking is both daunting (I... hold my liquor, man. I've yet to be drunk and it ain't for a lack of trying.) and intriguing as I'd like to see the stories as they happen for once, dammit.
Yeah. Again, plan failure. The smokers smoke while I and... Kiki or Jess, don't remember which, escort Cass to the room. Showers are taken by some and I check my email while Cass gets a call or twelve from Lisa. Who begs Cass to talk to her. Cass refuses. Cass relents. Matt finds out that the liquor store JUST closed and announces we're heading out to Dave & Buster's and everyone should be dressed. There's a cute moment when Liz has her grubby clothes over her going out clothes so Lisa won't notice anything's amiss until it's too late.
But it doesn't friggin' matter. Cass and Lisa are still in negotiations. The big hang up, besides the drama llamas, is that Lisa was supposed to be DD as her car could hold everyone and no one likes drunk!Lisa any better than they like sober!Lisa. So Cass keeps waffling on this as we all scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Of course, it turns out she came home from the mall and starting drinking, so she can't fucking drive anyway. But she wins and gets to come along and everyone piles into her car and we head off for D&B. Cass started her drinking early and announced that everyone was buying her a drink cuz it's her birthday
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out something to drink because alcohol tastes like ass much of the time, and it's about midnight and I'm hungry. But I need to know what I'm drinking! And no one is any help. I believe I ordered a burger and fries and there was a pickle and it was delicious. I ordered some terribly fruity drink, possibly the Candy Shop, possibly a Jolly Rancher? Possibly they are the same thing, I don't know. It was disgusting, so I gulped it. And I had my Sprite. And then... I think it was time to order another drink, and... I don't recall what that was, but it wasn't bad. Everyone else but Liz and Matt are drinking rather heavily too, and Cass is about 16 sheets to the wind before she and I even get around to our drink. Mine comes with a fly in it and we quickly realize our bartender doesn't know what she's doing. (We suspected it before)
Lots of people get up and leave at various points during the meal and Lisa's out puking in the parking lot and y'know, I just didn't need to see that. So I nursed my drinks and tried desperately to flag our server because thirsty!
To be fair, Lisa was fine til we got to talking about local sports (well, local here) and then I just wanted to smack her. She also didn't seem to get that repeatedly mentioning the things she'd done to piss everyone off and then wondering why people kept giving her the "SHUT UP" looks might be related.
The bills come eventually and I find out they charged me twice for my bug in my drink, which is pretty much the opposite ot how that should've gone down. (This was fixed. Eventually. Our server pretty much avoided us after awhile which was insane because we'd let him know that so long as the drinks kept coming, he'd get a lovely 'we're sorry you have to put up with us and on top of a triple even!' tip. The drinks did not keep coming.)
Cass had to be poured into the car and everyone else followed. Back at the hotel, Lisa is exiled and people resume the "Seriously, drunk!Cass, we could've had all that fun and MORE if you hadn't saddled us with babysitting her." To which Cass responded the way anyone sane would have: "Wait! I brought booze!" annnnnnd then she drank another round and passed out. Liz followed shortly there after and Kiki and Matt finished the bottle of whatever and got to shit talking about who could beat the other one in Spades. So they eventually ran to the gift shop and bought an overpriced pack of cards and spent the next four hours playing. I nearly fell asleep six times and should have, but I was enjoying the bs session going on, so... yeah. I got no sleep whatsoever. None!
The next day we drove home and it took for fucking ever. We arrived in a torrential downpour and it was actually pretty scary, but Liz is possibly the best driver I've ever ridden in a car with, so... that's a plus.
Lisa never really did get that her BS didn't do what she was paid to do, lied to people's faces, made Lisa look like a bigger jackass, and generally speaking everyone would have been fine if she'd just sent lilK for the day and stayed her ass at home.
Oh, and I still lacked in drunken times. :P
Yeah. I may edit for cohesiveness once I find my nail file and fix these daggers.
I should be less than 2 hours from my Avengers!