Here we go
June 27, 2009
This afternoon Mr. Tonks and I are headed to a baby shower. An inoccuous enough event, right?
Wrong.
A large number of guests at this little fete are all hard core Wingers, including my friend Heidi who crawled up my ass during the election. If we didn’t love the mama-to-be so much we would avoid it at all possible costs.
Mr. Tonks and I will behave ourselves but there’s a good chance other guests (knowing that Mr. Tonks and I have fallen off the Born Again Christian wagon) may try to witness to us, talk politics, etc., etc. It will be tempting to profess my allegiance to the Dark Lord and pretend to curse them.
The cake at this shindig had better rock.
Update: Everyone played nice and we actually had a good time. Also, the daddy-to-be’s family is like going to Walmart at 11 pm on a Saturday night. Whoa.
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Rebecca | June 28, 2009 at 9:52 am
I don’t envy you, but free food is a real motivator.
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delagar | June 28, 2009 at 10:29 am
What I always do at events like this is pretend to be a Xenobiologist —here I am from a distant galaxy, somewhere far off around Betelguese, maybe, from a really nice civilization, very interested in these interesting other cultures, and I listen and take (mental) notes and I am very, very nice, because, you know, that’s the code of us Xenobiologists.
Then I write a blog post later. Hee.
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j0lt | June 29, 2009 at 6:41 am
Or you could always start speaking in tongues?
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Pam Justus | June 29, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I’ll take the Walmart route over being saved ANY DAY:)
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tonkelu | June 29, 2009 at 10:39 pm
It was definitely interesting. Mr. Tonks and I think there was one woman there who had one gigantic tooth on her bottom jaw. She was also fairly crazy which made the uni-tooth that much weirder.
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Laggin | June 30, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Delagar’s take is fabulous. I wonder if I can keep that up the whole time I visit my in-laws?
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tonkelu | June 30, 2009 at 7:27 pm
That or you could repeat the silent mantra that got me through the first five years of my marriage WRT the in laws: “They can’t live forever. They can’t live forever.”