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Opera is for everyone!
Mar. 29th, 2004 09:26 amWell, the opera is over.... I still have a few relations in town, though they all (including my sister) leave tomorrow. I was a good little stage hand, and did all my duties properly. The shows went well, and my sister was pleased. Any time this weekend we were not at the theater, we were at my mother's house en masse, eating and playing dominos (ah, Mexican Train Wreck - fun game!). And there was a brief shopping expedition to Goodwill and a consignment shop, where my sister went nuts on a buying spree.
And a delightful dinner to celebrate my dad's birthday. There were 9 of us at dinner at a very nice restaurant in town, and we were raucous and noisy and inappropriate, and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. My aunt had a New Yorker cartoon she didn't get and had been carrying around for weeks showing to people, so we got in a big discussion about that (showed it to our waiter too, and had him weigh in). My mother, stepmother and aunt all got in a discussion about menopause and hormones, and when my step-mother made a comment about taking hormones was necessary so she didn't kill someone, a woman at the next table over let out a whoop of laughter - and then joined the conversation with us. (My dad then thought the perfect male response was to start discussing prostate exams, though that didn't really go anywhere.) I had a New York steak that was covered in melty Maytag blue cheese and quite lovely (though it could have been just a touch rarer) and really divine mashed potatoes.
And now I've got various tunes from the opera stuck in my head. It's probably a good thing that my office-mate doesn't work Mondays, because I'd be driving her crazy today. :)
And a delightful dinner to celebrate my dad's birthday. There were 9 of us at dinner at a very nice restaurant in town, and we were raucous and noisy and inappropriate, and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. My aunt had a New Yorker cartoon she didn't get and had been carrying around for weeks showing to people, so we got in a big discussion about that (showed it to our waiter too, and had him weigh in). My mother, stepmother and aunt all got in a discussion about menopause and hormones, and when my step-mother made a comment about taking hormones was necessary so she didn't kill someone, a woman at the next table over let out a whoop of laughter - and then joined the conversation with us. (My dad then thought the perfect male response was to start discussing prostate exams, though that didn't really go anywhere.) I had a New York steak that was covered in melty Maytag blue cheese and quite lovely (though it could have been just a touch rarer) and really divine mashed potatoes.
And now I've got various tunes from the opera stuck in my head. It's probably a good thing that my office-mate doesn't work Mondays, because I'd be driving her crazy today. :)
