A very productive day which ended in a fun party. What could be better?
Georg had the day off because he has to work on Sunday. I worked in the morning, and we had lunch at Green Tango, the chopped salad place near the former South Square. Yum! On the way we stopped at the mail center and my box of beads from Oriental Trading Company had arrived. Yay! I had paid extra for fast shipping to get it by this weekend, but they emailed me that they hadn't shipped it until yesterday. So I was really annoyed with them. But it turns out it had actually arrived yesterday; they just sent the notification late. Yay for Oriental Trading!
Then in the afternoon I finished cleaning the exterior of my car. It's not spotless, I'll have to go over it again before we leave, but it's clean enough to get to work on decorating. Perfect timing that the beads arrived yesterday. It was sunny, breezy, a beautiful day to be outside working on the car.
Georg agreed to take over the job of figuring out how to mount the new bubble machine on top of the car. The way we used to mount the old one was really unstable, and the machine used to bounce up and down while we were driving. The bubble juice sloshed all over inside, eventually gunking up the works so it didn't work anymore and I had to buy a new one. They're kind of expensive and I don't want that to happen again. So Georg is working on some ideas for a mounting bracket that will have a little more stability.
Also did a little more on the website photolog, and got a little more done on my dress. Then it was time for the loteria bingo party at Rick's! Tons of fun was had by all. Georg won a bottle of tequila, and Jason won the prize I had donated, a Day of the Dead mask I had bought in Austin. The group I was with decided that we hated the flowerpot and the deer, because they got called all the time and they weren't on any of our cards. Freaking deer. My favorite thing was Rick calling all the cards and yelling out "El Parajo! That means the red bird on a stick! El Soldado! That means the peacekeeper! El Catrin! That means the dandy!" Also for the first time I met someone who recognized me from my Livejournal icon. Not only that but she pronounced my name correctly. Wow!
Lisa and I tried to talk each other into staying at the party and having fun, but only succeeded in convincing each other that we really needed to go home immediately and get back to work on our websites. And here I am.
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at one point, alicia said, "damn that harp!" and i said, "now, how often do you hear that-- really?"
hee! i wrote the same thing in my journal! we really need to have another bingo party soon. :)
props have to go where props are due. jason! came up with the "peacekeeper" bit, and my favorite translation of the night ("el musico - that means 'guy playing ring of fire'") was the work of mike o'donnell. i'm not really as clever as all that!
thanks for coming (and for bearing such kickass gifts)!
hi! sorry if i freaked you out with my lj identification- i like to think i'm observant rather than creepy. anyway it was nice to meet you in real life! saturday i had a nice conversation with a mexican gentleman regarding all the spanish words i had learned. he then told me that loteria was for ninos. (insert ~ over n)
No, you didn't freak me out. It was cool, made me feel all popular or something :) It was good to meet you too!
That was a fun party. Some Tarot people are into loteria, so it was really novel to use loteria cards just to, you know, play a game.