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It was a good weekend. You can tell because I didn't write anything. Sure, there are times when I don't write just because I can't think of anything to say...but usually the breaks are because I'm busy having fun instead of sitting a computer thinking about having fun.
Darren sang, " 'Taco hat Sehnsucht, Sehnsucht nach'...who should the taco be yearning for? 'Kaese'!" This means, more or less, "The taco yearns for cheese" and is sung to the tune of "Gabi und Klaus," a song by a German acapella boy band called Die Prinzen--The Princes.
Matthew and I went for a walk to rent a movie, and along the way decided that the Walk/Don't Walk signs should say Frolic/Don't Frolic instead.
Jenn's bridal shower was on Saturday. Matthew and Darren drove to Morris that morning, picked up Josh and I (proving that Josh and Katie are not the same person, though married: Katie was sick and stayed home while Josh got to go to Space Aliens). Darren showed us the present he'd got Jenn, which was easy to do since he hadn't wrapped it yet. He was going to wrap it in a piece of newspaper he found in my living room, but we didn't have any tape. After picking up Josh, Darren stopped at a hardware store and bought a roll of duct tape...which Matthew proceded to wrap around the present (a Spongebob towel). The whole roll of duct tape. It took him the first hour of our two-hour trip. When he was done the resulting package was surprisingly heavy and stiff, and shiny in the sunlight.
Jenn was properly incredulous when she saw it, and when she was going to start in on her presents I suggested that she open Darren's first. She agreed before she thought about it, and when presented with it and Matthew's pocketknife she handed both back to him. While she opened the rest of her presents--moose pajamas, hangers, avocados, a "frog fondling a fruity candle"--Matthew worked on slicing through the duct tape without slicing through the towel. I thought it seemed appropriate that he who'd spent so much time on such a silly task now was charged with undoing the damage. He got the duct tape off one end and held onto that while Darren held on to the towel and they both pulled. Matthew (who was standing up) slid Darren's chair around a little. There's a Polaroid of this somewhere.
The duct tape shell is still around, lying on the floor near my right foot now. It's impressively heavy; the duct tape is probably half an inch thick in most places. I was surprised at the amount of noice it made when Jenn tossed it on the floor.
I love Space Aliens. I used to say it was the coolest thing about North Dakota; it's a restaurant that exists only in Bismarck and Fargo (for now...I keep hearing that they're building/have built one in St. Cloud, which is cool not only because it's closer but because it's on the good side of the MN-ND border). They have arcade games--most notably DDR, though an inferior 3rd mix--and cool ambience and excellent french fries, which is saying something coming from me; I don't usually like fries or potatoes in general.
Matthew translated and sang "Why Does the Sun Shine" in German. When he was reading it Darren asked him to do it in "the NPR voice"...and what followed did indeed seem as if it belonged on National Public Radio. Some time later I thought he was singing in the silly, grandiose voice he uses for "Mein Hund ist Schwul" (another Die Prinzen song). He said I was mistaken, and then really sang it in that voice. I laughed very hard at that. We had fun with it. "Warum scheint die Sonne?" Seems rather appropriate; They Might Be Giants (Sie konnten Riesen sein) translated one of their songs into Greek.
Darren sang, " 'Taco hat Sehnsucht, Sehnsucht nach'...who should the taco be yearning for? 'Kaese'!" This means, more or less, "The taco yearns for cheese" and is sung to the tune of "Gabi und Klaus," a song by a German acapella boy band called Die Prinzen--The Princes.
Matthew and I went for a walk to rent a movie, and along the way decided that the Walk/Don't Walk signs should say Frolic/Don't Frolic instead.
Jenn's bridal shower was on Saturday. Matthew and Darren drove to Morris that morning, picked up Josh and I (proving that Josh and Katie are not the same person, though married: Katie was sick and stayed home while Josh got to go to Space Aliens). Darren showed us the present he'd got Jenn, which was easy to do since he hadn't wrapped it yet. He was going to wrap it in a piece of newspaper he found in my living room, but we didn't have any tape. After picking up Josh, Darren stopped at a hardware store and bought a roll of duct tape...which Matthew proceded to wrap around the present (a Spongebob towel). The whole roll of duct tape. It took him the first hour of our two-hour trip. When he was done the resulting package was surprisingly heavy and stiff, and shiny in the sunlight.
Jenn was properly incredulous when she saw it, and when she was going to start in on her presents I suggested that she open Darren's first. She agreed before she thought about it, and when presented with it and Matthew's pocketknife she handed both back to him. While she opened the rest of her presents--moose pajamas, hangers, avocados, a "frog fondling a fruity candle"--Matthew worked on slicing through the duct tape without slicing through the towel. I thought it seemed appropriate that he who'd spent so much time on such a silly task now was charged with undoing the damage. He got the duct tape off one end and held onto that while Darren held on to the towel and they both pulled. Matthew (who was standing up) slid Darren's chair around a little. There's a Polaroid of this somewhere.
The duct tape shell is still around, lying on the floor near my right foot now. It's impressively heavy; the duct tape is probably half an inch thick in most places. I was surprised at the amount of noice it made when Jenn tossed it on the floor.
I love Space Aliens. I used to say it was the coolest thing about North Dakota; it's a restaurant that exists only in Bismarck and Fargo (for now...I keep hearing that they're building/have built one in St. Cloud, which is cool not only because it's closer but because it's on the good side of the MN-ND border). They have arcade games--most notably DDR, though an inferior 3rd mix--and cool ambience and excellent french fries, which is saying something coming from me; I don't usually like fries or potatoes in general.
Matthew translated and sang "Why Does the Sun Shine" in German. When he was reading it Darren asked him to do it in "the NPR voice"...and what followed did indeed seem as if it belonged on National Public Radio. Some time later I thought he was singing in the silly, grandiose voice he uses for "Mein Hund ist Schwul" (another Die Prinzen song). He said I was mistaken, and then really sang it in that voice. I laughed very hard at that. We had fun with it. "Warum scheint die Sonne?" Seems rather appropriate; They Might Be Giants (Sie konnten Riesen sein) translated one of their songs into Greek.