here are some snippets of things that made me LOL this weekend…

• saturday i called my cousin-in-law to ask him about a photography website that he had sent me.  a few minutes later, hubby’s phone rang.  he was outside so i got up to answer it.  it was my cousin calling her cousin-in-law.  i laughed while she asked for hubby, i said he was unavailable, and she said she would call him back later. 
• on the way to the naval base to pick up shaw saturday night, he called and said to pick him up at the burger king across the street as he was starving.  we got to burger king to find shaw standing in front of the drive-thru menu, seemingly arguing with the sign.  we pulled up behind him and he jumped in grumbling about them not serving him.  we pulled the car up a couple feet so that his window was in front of the sign and… they asked to take his order.  i thought it was hilarious that he stood there begging them to take his order for at least ten minutes before we arrived and yet he had food in hand less than a minute after we picked him up.
• background: we drink boxed wine.  people make fun of us and i don’t care because i like the taste of it.  i don’t subscribe to the philosophy that wine has to cost $$$ to be good.  cargo shows up yesterday afternoon with a bottle of wine, like a perfect gentleman dinner guest.  he hands it to hubby and says, “it’s the cheapest wine i could find in a bottle.  hopefully you’ll like it as much as the box stuff.”
• background:  scooter talks all the time about the feasts that sunny prepares for dinner every night.  i am known to downplay my cooking.  it’s not that i don’t/can’t cook, it’s just that i am married to a man who doesn’t really like food so my everyday cooking is pretty simple.  heck, i usually end up making two dinners, one for hubby and one for myself.  sunny and i are laying out on the beach yesterday and she’s telling me about scooter informing her of the plan to come over for dinner.  she said to him, “but arcanai doesn’t cook!  what are we going to eat?!”  she laughed as she let me know that she had visions of showing up to find boxes of cereal sitting on the table.
• we apparently have the most exciting trash disposal ever.  when kids are here, they all fight over who gets to take out the trash because it is just that fun to listen to it go down the twenty-two floors of metal chute.  i don’t get it, but whatev – as long as i don’t have to take it out.  apparently, the trash chute is just as much fun for adults.  scooter and cargo were equally entertained by it.  i think they took the trash out no less than five times last night, throwing away bags with next to nothing in them, just to be able to enjoy the chute.  on their way out, they bargained with each other over who was going to throw away what.  cargo, a hugely emotive person, let out a jovial “are you kidding me?!” as scooter dropped a large glass bottle down the chute.  they listened for the few seconds that it took to reach the bottom and scooter let out a “ooh, that’s breakage!  you could hear it break!”  i’m so glad our chores are entertaining for our guests!  now how to make shower/tub scrubbing fun so that people will want to do that for us too???