no winking allowed

Warning: The following passage is 100% void of irony. I apologize for the inconvenience but I must insist. No winking.

Briana Doyle is a local journalist, blogger, painter, writer, photographer and a fine pal o' mine. She's a pretty special person. Read her post below about Easter Weekend last and tell me it doesn't make you feel just a li'l bit better.

Briana and Will

Lucky me

The title of this post is not ironic.

I spent my second holiday weekend with Will's family over Easter, and I'm very pleased to find the excellent time I had over Christmas was no fluke.

I'm pleasantly surprised to find that I genuinely like Will's family, and not just because they are his family. I've never met a boyfriend's family that I didn't get along with reasonably well, but I've also never looked forward to spending a whole weekend with them!

Over the Easter weekend, Rhonda and Richard's family and friends arranged a surprise celebration for their upcoming 30th wedding anniversary, so there was much feasting and merriment throughout.

Copious quantities of red wine liberated the voices of more than just the usual sing-a-long suspects (Will, Richard, me) and everyone joined in at least once. Richard offered me the use of his oil paints, and for a while we painted side by side. Rhonda let me have a crack at a pile of giveaway clothes from her closet, and I came away with some lovely skirts.

Emily and Briana

Jocelyn and I bonded over shoes and fashion talk and I made a new friend in Emily, the 11-year-old daughter of a close friend of the family, Helen. Will and I also introduced the whole family to The Sims 2. I think we sold at least two copies for Maxis/EA Games. By the time we left, everyone was cracking jokes about their "meters" being low and "plus signs" appearing above our heads.

The weekend could hardly have been better. Lucky indeed.

Posted by breebop at 09:37 AM Comments (2)

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Comments: Lucky me

we heart you too! Thanks for coming down... you are welcome any time, with or without Sims2.

Posted by jocelyn at March 30, 2005 04:33 PM

Super lucky, double indeed. (although luck does tend to find those who have worked for it)

Posted by RossK at March 30, 2005 07:17 PM