The late morning sun found me still in bed, sleeping, due to my late night last night. I got up and ate breakfast while I watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a fairly good movie, mostly good for eye candy and advancements in filming technology and computer animation than an entertaining plot, but I enjoyed it.
I then got dressed and had my shower and was finally ready for the day around noon, when I did the dishes and then proceeded to ready the pool for vacuum-sweeping. I had the hose connected to the pole and was just ready when I heard the computer's UPS beeping. I waited to see if it continued to beep (which it did) and then went into the house to turn it off; the power was out again.
My dad had a staff party scheduled for 3pm today, so my mom's cooking plans were pretty much ruined. This seems to happen to us a lot; when we're having visitors over for a meal, the electricity cuts on us. So, without electricity, I couldn't sweep the pool, so I went to have lunch, made three tuna fish sandwiches and read Act I of Antony and Cleopatra as I ate. At about 2, while I was still eating, my dad arrived with a car full of people who all came to the living room and so I was pretty much kicked out of there, so thus I ascended to the solace of my room upstairs to finish my reading. I had resolved earlier to keep myself as inconspicuous as possible in the house while the staff party was in play, so I read some more and listened to some music (though softly, since I knew my dad would complain if I played it loud). At about 4 I started getting ready for the party...picked out my highlighters and glo-gear to bring with me, then I went downstairs for a drink of water. Finding no cold, filtered water, I resigned myself to some warm water and nasty ice-cubes (they tasted like plastic). I saw my family out back talking, so I went to listen as I drank, and to my disappointment was then sent off to get the pool running (as would be guessed, the electricity finally did come back on a bit earlier). I did as was requested of me and then went to go back to my room, but Leo saw me and asked if I could play guitar with him (He and another guy had been playing piano and guitar quite noisily ever since arriving at 3 - I could hardly hear anyone on the phone). I told him that I had to get ready for another party and he asked for a better guitar (he was employing a classical at the time). I nodded and brought my dad's acoustic from upstairs, which had been unofficially given to me, and so consoled Leo. Checking my watch and seeing 4:45 - Tom would pick me up at 5:30 - I dashed upstairs to have my shower and spiked my hair, packed my bag and was nearly ready at 5:50, wondering why Tom was late too (but glad of course).
He arrived finally and we set off. We stopped at the Hillside Spar to look for a birthday card (I continually do things last-minute), but couldn't find a single birthday card! They had wedding cards, get-well cards, and baby cards, but no birthday cards of all things!! So I went back out to Tom's car and someone hooted at me. Shungu yelled "Hey Jordan!" from his car nearby as he parked. I greeted him and told him about the card situation. He suggested a store around the corner, which Tom said was closed, so we never did get anything for Kylie (my procrastination is a rather big problem for me). Colleen was in the car with Shungu, and we chatted a bit. She hadn't been back to Zim in over 2 years and was quite glad to visit. Shungu said that he would be at the party around 11 after the Panto, we said our 'c ya l8r's and drove off.
When we found the house, we didn't see any cars parked and wondered what was up. I got out just as Kole came walking up the driveway to open the gate. He said we were the first to come, so Tom parked, though rather worried about how he would get out if a whole bunch of cars parked behind him, and we went in the house. We said 'hi' to Kylie and I introduced Tom to her (she told me I could bring friends even if she didn't know them). Then we waited. Finally some people came and calmed our worries that the party would be rather unattended. Kole was DJing with Graeme on the computer and some teeny speakers which I looked upon rather doubtfully. Yet they could crank the volume pretty well - well enough anyway. We pretty much just stood around and talked...not much dancing. Finally Shungu arrived at 10:30 or so and got the party going a bit. The guy just makes you laugh and loosen up...quite cool. So we finally danced until midnight, at which point I had to go, concluding a pretty cool night.
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