Listen through silence.

I wanted to share a few song lyrics this week, but sometimes when you post something people assume that you’re feeling that way. So disclaimer: I am not experiencing this emotion, but rather the memory of it, which always stays raw. Also, this song’s emotion gets me every time, regardless of how I’m feeling.

“…until now, he told me her name. It sounded familiar in a way…”

“…mine was so easy to uncover/he’d already left with the other…”

“…wait for me/I’m almost ready/when he meant let go…”

– Sara Bariellles, Between the Lines

Andrew's birthday adventure

Hi babies!
How are you? I miss each and everyone of my readers (even those I don’t know) and I am sorry I’ve been absent. I have to get better on work life balance, but for now, sporadic JP is better than none, yes?

So yesterday was Andrew’s birthday.

This is Andrew, Corelyn, and me at Corelyn’s birthday.

Andrew wanted Five Guys for his birthday, and so to Five Guys we went. It is in Carson, CA, so it was an adventure!

This is a Five Guys. Delicious.

Then we may or may not have search the area for a DQ, and found one in Redondo beach. Following that lovely ordeal (involving us laughing so hard I was worried one of us was going to bust) we got off the 405 at the nearest Best Buy, and Andrew and Jeff looked around while Corelyn and I ate our DQ and tried not to look suspicious.

Jeff got Andrew Mario Bros for Wii.

We played for a while, and since I was the only one who had played before, I kept explaining things, my favorite of which was, “Corelyn, just….hit ‘A’….BUBBLE….BUBBLE!”

Have you played? You’d know what I was talking about! If you are about to die, you put yourself in a bubble, and then float to your co-players, and they pop you out. It is excellent.

I must say, playing with Andrew, Corelyn, and Jeff is fun (and less stressful) than playing with Nikita and Jon and the rest of the Palluzzi clan (sorry guys!) because it is less stressful, and everyone waits for everyone else.

But, I must say, I missed a room full of yelling siblings last night.

Anyways, it was a pretty good birthday. Happy Birthday, Andrew. Rematch tonight.