Happy (belated) Memorial Day! And what a day it was, a day full of adventure. It was like one of those movies where the main character has to machete her way through the jungle, climb through things, and be in the presence of fire. Seriously.
So my roommate Chris and I cleaned our patio in preparation for a Family Home Evening party. After a whole winter full of blizzards, it was no small task. Lots of scrubbing and sweeping. We took a little break from the scrubbing and sweeping to go to the Home Depot and buy plants. Chris bought flowers that require low light, and I bought a tomato plant and a pot of basil. My goal is to not kill them.
Once we planted the things, I decided it was a good time to unplant other things. There's a lot of English Ivy and some other type of viny thing in the backyard, but it turned out that there was also a brick path under all of the ivy. So I got out my amazing Swedish sharp scissors and chopped a tall kitchen bagful out of the way. I sort of felt like the girl in The Secret Garden.
Then Chris got us locked out of the house. Unfortunately there's no way to escape from our house using the fire escape, which means there's no way to get in, so we had to sneak in through Chris's bedroom window...and by "we," I mean "I." One of the many disadvantages to being travel-sized. There was no non-awkward way to get in there, and Chris isn't so good at the whole "boost" concept (at one point she was just pushing me into the side of the house), so now I have some bruises and sore muscles in the shorts area.
Finally, after much showering and some final tidying, we threw the partay. It was pretty awesome. There were lots of people and lots of foodstuffs that were grilled (hence the fire). Stay tuned for tales of more awesome parties to come.
In other news, I just killed a giant mosquito in my living room.
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