Haters...

Family game night....

Big brother came home for a few days and after a viewing of the Phantom Menace, dad decided we were going to play a game...

(Brief discussion on Star Wars Episode I: the Padme/Anakin age thing. She is supposedly 14. What democracy in their right mind elects a 14 girl their queen? And he is supposedly 9. A sassy nine year old. And they eventually fall in love. Throughout the whole movie little brother has been saying things like, "Don't worry, you'll see her again. You'll kill her!")

Rosenau game nights never end well. Monopoly never fails to end in bitter alliances, tears, and week long bouts of the silent treatment. One time we had to have a family meeting afterwards and we haven't played it since.

(Right now my dad is holding his finger an inch from my mom's face, saying, "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!")

We're playing 'the train game' this evening (also known as Ticket to Ride) because it's little brothers favorite games. The problem is, it is a game that uses color matching as part of the playing and both dad and big brother are so color blind it's comical. The last few minutes have been, "Hand me that grey one." "That's pink." "Then what is that one?" "That's purple." "No it's not."

It's like they refuse to believe that they are colorblind even though liscensed professionals have confirmed it. 

"Play the flipping cards, woman." -sassy dad

The very first thing he did was line up all of his train cars in rows.

He's also whistling.

Big brother is now withholding points because "mom is making him angry".

"I am not happy. I want a re. do." -big brother having tantrum

A few months ago my mom bought my dad a shirt that's days, "Haters gonna hate" and he's now promising that he's going to wear it everyday on our winter vacation. He's also claiming that he's going to speak "gangster" the whole time. (Gangster translates to saying things like: Word. and, Fo shizzle.) big brother is now saying that it's him or the shirt. And if the shirt goes, he doesn't.

I GOT ANOTHER RAINBOW. They're all resenting me because I get all the rainbows. 

Haters gonna hate.

Over.

Sigh

Sometimes I like to watch sad movies and cry and pretend I'm the romantic heroine in my fictional fairy tales but then I have to remind myself that I eat WAY too much ice cream to be skinny enough for that role. Because ice cream is GOOD.

Over.

Ulcer?

I fully believe that I am going to develop a bleeding ulcer by the time I'm 20.

So my dad had carpal tunnel surgery last Friday and I was the one who drove him there and waited and then drove him home. I had to put his socks and shoes on him at the hospital because his hands were all bandaged up and then when we stopped to get his happy drugs I was getting out of the car and he calls to me, "Get the boys some chips! There's no chips at home and they should have some chips. And I wouldn't say no to a donut." Then when we got home I had to cut his donut into little pieces for him. He spent the rest of the day dozing off through a marathon of Lord of the Rings. You can learn a lot about a person with the aid of legal pharmaceuticals.

Sunshine

DINNER AT THE ROSENAU FAMILY HOUSEHOLD: (we ate at 9:15 pm tonight)

Background: so for the last month and a half Sam has been at camp as a counselor so it's just been mom, dad, and me. Tonight we were discussing how Sam is taking a lot of music classes this semester and whether or not he's going to go out for cross country or the musical. Mom and I are thinking the musical and my dad is like... Eh...

(He's not really into the drama thing) then mom and I were talking about what if Sam wants to do the young Americans when he graduates (google it) and dad was like:

Dad: no way, I'm shipping him off to Annapolis.

Mom: he can't swim.

(Annapolis is a naval academy)

It's probably not that funny to you guys but discussing the black sheep-ness of my little brother always makes me laugh.

He also has a big thing for bro tanks right now. His favorite one is a sunset one and he looks like that surfer from Remember The Titans. Dad and I have taken to calling him 'Sunshine'.

Over.

Apology at its finest

I used to blog at least every other day....

......but all of that changed when the fire nation attacked.

Over.

Promise

I feel terrible. Haven't posted in forever. And I need to tell you guys about my wedding! Ahh! Yes. I'm married. I was married by my library director at our summer lock in to Seth, my fellow library worker/2013 Blair High School graduate. I kept updating our romance all night. I'll post all of the pics and videos soon! Promise! It will be worth it. Completely and totally. We had rings and everything. And I had a toilet paper gown. Soon. Promise.

It's a long one

The girls and I tried this homemade paint thing today. We mixed a cup of corn starch with a cup of water and added food coloring. Looking back, I would do it differently, but it was still fun. We painted the sidewalk for awhile then we threw the excess around to make splatter art. It looked epic. Like a multicolored murder scene.

We also watched High School Musical 2. I HAVE NOT SEEN THAT MOVIE IN SO LONG. I MEAN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IT'S THE WORST OF THE THREE BUT STILL. IT'S A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL HIGHLY LUCRATIVE FRANCHISE THAT IS DESIGNED TO LURE IN YOUNG GIRLS WITH THE PROMISE OF CUTE BOYS AND HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA. And then I actually got to high school and its was nothing like Disney channel led me to believe.

We had ice cream at work today, and I got a Dilly bar, which I haven't had in YEARS. When I was younger, my parents only ever got me Dilly bars. I didn't even know blizzards EXISTED until I was like 13. And then I was like, OH MY GOSH THIS IS WHAT DAN HAS BEEN HAVING WHILE I'VE BEEN STUCK WITH A FREAKING DILLY BAR IN THE BACKSEAT. I didn't even know there were multiple Dilly bar flavors! Until today! I found out there are different flavors TODAY.

Dad also informed over dinner that there is a mint chocolate option. Thank you father.

So... Tank has developed this habit of peeing when he gets excited. Like when someone comes in the door. Anyone. He's peed on two of my friends this week. HE'S PEEING ON MY FRIENDS. HE PEED ON ME TONIGHT. AND ALL I DID WAS LET HIM OUT OF HIS KENNEL. 

Over.