I haven't forgotten...

Just letting you all know I haven't forgotten that I owe a bunch of people posts. I'm just very easily distracted, and so lots of other stuff has gotten posted instead. (Also, I've been doing a fair amount of fic-editing - yay feedback group!) But they're still in the back of my mind, and I'll get to them eventually, I promise.

According to my foolproof record-keeping system (i.e. my brain), I owe gabrielleabelle a post about Obama and urania_calliope a post about spiders from that blogging meme. The truth is, I started the Obama post, but I kind of digressed into a coming-of-age story about hope and cynicism and the influence of politics (what did I say? Easily distracted!!), so I think maybe it needs some editing.

I also owe urania_calliope (again? Oh geez, she's gonna think I'm a slacker) a drabble/ficlet from the timestamp meme forever and a day ago. I kind of want to be disappointed that more people didn't participate in that one, but given that I still haven't written the one request I got, maybe y'all just know me too well.

Anyway, I hope all the other Americans had a nice Memorial Day. I had a pretty busy weekend. Left work early on Friday so I could drive to my parents' house to join a barbecue already in progress. Spent Saturday at a car show, where my dad won a trophy and I got one of those freaky sunburns that's only on one arm and I have a weird shirt line.

The highlight of the weekend was Sunday, when my parents and I went to another barbecue, where it was really, really windy. My mom had a paper plate with tartar sauce on it (they had the BEST crabcakes there), and along came a gust of wind and splat! Plate hit my dad square in the chest. Huge tartar sauce stain on his shirt.

Dad: The only way it would've been better is if it had hit me in the face.
Mom: You know, I'm finally feeling closure after that wedding cake incident.
Dad: What wedding cake incident?
Mom: OUR wedding. You smooshed the cake in my face.
Dad: You really need to let that go.

Fortunately, when we got home, my mother managed to work her magic with Shout spray cleaner, which prompted her to say, "We should reenact the whole thing and film it, and send it to Shout to use as a commercial. This stuff really works!"

We also did some trip planning - we're going to San Francisco and the Napa Valley in July, if anyone has travel tips.