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livingdebToday I went to a smallish birthday party. All my favorite people from that group was there and I got in lots of good hugging.
We all ended up showing each other our favorite YouTube videos. (Well, not me, I haven't been playing around there at all.) But I sure did like:
* the Honda Rube Goldberg Machine one
* Weird Al's White and Nerdy, one of the very few videos I've seen where the visuals really add to the music, plus I have a thing for nerds like this: so enthusiastic in a very uncool way
* the really big ad, very silly melodramatic fun
* the one where someone does subtitles to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" using their hands, opening and closing them in various ways to uncover the appropriate words written on different parts of the hands.
Hearing about one friend's co-worker, I said it sounded like Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (basically well meaning, but with such poor social skills that you really don't want to hang around him, even though he's actually working on improving his social skills, which you know, because he's telling you!). Immediately the birthday girl ran and got her copy of the book and of the A&E miniseries version to lend.
Someone brought chocolate bread. And then gave two of us the recipe from memory. After which I somehow ended up promising to cook up both of my (other) chocolate bread recipes for a taste test at the next birthday party.
I got to hear about various versions of ultimate frisbee you can play when you have four or fewer people per team.
It was a nice time, and I think the good feelings will linger.
Quote of the day
D - "Would this [chocolate bread] be good with butter?"
J - "Nutella. It's good with Nutella." [That's hazelnut chocolate spread.]
Then we also conjectured that it would be good as French toast and as bread pudding, but that was all moot as there was only a tiny amount left at the end of the party.
We all ended up showing each other our favorite YouTube videos. (Well, not me, I haven't been playing around there at all.) But I sure did like:
* the Honda Rube Goldberg Machine one
* Weird Al's White and Nerdy, one of the very few videos I've seen where the visuals really add to the music, plus I have a thing for nerds like this: so enthusiastic in a very uncool way
* the really big ad, very silly melodramatic fun
* the one where someone does subtitles to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" using their hands, opening and closing them in various ways to uncover the appropriate words written on different parts of the hands.
Hearing about one friend's co-worker, I said it sounded like Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (basically well meaning, but with such poor social skills that you really don't want to hang around him, even though he's actually working on improving his social skills, which you know, because he's telling you!). Immediately the birthday girl ran and got her copy of the book and of the A&E miniseries version to lend.
Someone brought chocolate bread. And then gave two of us the recipe from memory. After which I somehow ended up promising to cook up both of my (other) chocolate bread recipes for a taste test at the next birthday party.
I got to hear about various versions of ultimate frisbee you can play when you have four or fewer people per team.
It was a nice time, and I think the good feelings will linger.
Quote of the day
D - "Would this [chocolate bread] be good with butter?"
J - "Nutella. It's good with Nutella." [That's hazelnut chocolate spread.]
Then we also conjectured that it would be good as French toast and as bread pudding, but that was all moot as there was only a tiny amount left at the end of the party.