family stuff and movies and ice cream too

So today was my aunt's memorial and it was very nice, mellow, casual and relaxed. This whole family isn't much for the church, wake, funeral thing. We just do memorials at houses and this was at my Uncle's house. (The aunt and uncle in question are Boychild's grandparents.) I went into it thinking, Cool, okay, we weren't super close. ANd then when I saw the pictures of her all of a sudden I really missed her. She had always been nice to me.

The house was crowded but I hung with the usual crowd: my two cousins and their kids. Celia and I, as ever going back through all our old in jokes in that way that you never really think you're going to do when you're kids.

On the way home I needed to go to the store for some ice cream because Joaquin's new movie is out on DVD. So I'm at the grocery store with my single pint of Haagen Dazs and behind me on line is this teeny tiny little old lady, she had to be about five feet even, with amazing blue-green eyes and a little beret that matched her scarf. She had nothing more than her own solitary pint of ice cream. I looked at it, and at her and said, "You too, huh?"

She laughed and said, "Well, it's Saturday. Let's compare. What's your drug of choice?"

I had pomegranate chocolate chip and she had Dove chocolate raspberry. Then the guy behind her got in on the conversation because he had assumed that we were together and she said "No, just two of a kind on a Saturday afternoon."

It was too cute. I think that's the kind of old person I want to be.

Oh, and Joaquin's new movie, We Own The Night? Yeah, it looks good and all, but reading the synopsis on the back made me go O_o . Two brothers, one becomes law enforcement and the other owns a nightclub and runs a crime ring? I could only wonder if at some point someone was going to call Joaquin a fargin corksucker and tell him that his bells were gonna end up in a sling. Seriously, you guys.

Well, I might as well settle in for the night. Yay, saturday!

family stuff and movies and ice cream too

So today was my aunt's memorial and it was very nice, mellow, casual and relaxed. This whole family isn't much for the church, wake, funeral thing. We just do memorials at houses and this was at my Uncle's house. (The aunt and uncle in question are Boychild's grandparents.) I went into it thinking, Cool, okay, we weren't super close. ANd then when I saw the pictures of her all of a sudden I really missed her. She had always been nice to me.

The house was crowded but I hung with the usual crowd: my two cousins and their kids. Celia and I, as ever going back through all our old in jokes in that way that you never really think you're going to do when you're kids.

On the way home I needed to go to the store for some ice cream because Joaquin's new movie is out on DVD. So I'm at the grocery store with my single pint of Haagen Dazs and behind me on line is this teeny tiny little old lady, she had to be about five feet even, with amazing blue-green eyes and a little beret that matched her scarf. She had nothing more than her own solitary pint of ice cream. I looked at it, and at her and said, "You too, huh?"

She laughed and said, "Well, it's Saturday. Let's compare. What's your drug of choice?"

I had pomegranate chocolate chip and she had Dove chocolate raspberry. Then the guy behind her got in on the conversation because he had assumed that we were together and she said "No, just two of a kind on a Saturday afternoon."

It was too cute. I think that's the kind of old person I want to be.

Oh, and Joaquin's new movie, We Own The Night? Yeah, it looks good and all, but reading the synopsis on the back made me go O_o . Two brothers, one becomes law enforcement and the other owns a nightclub and runs a crime ring? I could only wonder if at some point someone was going to call Joaquin a fargin corksucker and tell him that his bells were gonna end up in a sling. Seriously, you guys.

Well, I might as well settle in for the night. Yay, saturday!

This STILL happens.

Sorry, I gacked this from my friend flamingchords.

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

So this guy can't get it up, and a woman is beaten and sentenced to death because of it.

It boggles me that this can still happen anywhere in the world.

This STILL happens.

Sorry, I gacked this from my friend flamingchords.

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

So this guy can't get it up, and a woman is beaten and sentenced to death because of it.

It boggles me that this can still happen anywhere in the world.