Month: December 2023

HI! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today we went Christmas shopping!!! We went to the mall!! All of us!!!

Ummm… there were a lot of us. We ended up taking several cars.  I mean, there was me, Beth, David, Sabby, Dave…  Dave usually doesn’t come along but it’s Christmas shopping.  Then there were the aidols, you know, Ai, Minami, Mariko, and Yuuko…  and then Yuki too.  And Crystal, and Diana…  and a couple of the parents came along too.  We were like this big old glob of people wandering through the mall like, well, something big and amorphous that wanders.  A politician?  Hah!  Oh, and Jack and Grace came along too, how could I forget?

The aidols, of course, were fawning all over Jack.  Well, he is hot.  I told them look but don’t touch, if they want a vacation romance they’ll have to find their own boy.  This one’s mine and I’m keeping him.

I’d tell you what I bought everyone, but… well, I won’t.  We did get the Aidols their own tree ornaments, though.  They all picked something that represented them.  Minami got a snorlax.  Yuuko got a roadrunner (I was surprised she knew what it was, but apparently those cartoons are really cheap to translate).  Mariko got a little dog.  And Yuki got a really sparkly ornament.  Ai didn’t get anything because we got her one last year.  We got Crystal and Diana one too – Crystal got a guitar, and Diana got a anthropomorphic taco (big surprise there for both, huh?)  Then we just went off in our own direction for a while.  The aidols also got some souvenirs for their families along with gifts.

We told them they didn’t have to get gifts, but they said they wanted to, even though they couldn’t afford anything expensive.  We just said it’s the thought that counts, we’ll be happy with whatever.  They looked so happy running around window shopping for everything.

They bought some clothes too.  Because of course they did.  Toss a bunch of girls with too much money in a mall, and what else would they do?  Yuuko’s lucky, though.  She fits into childs’ clothing.  It’s cheaper, and almost as fashionable.  They have such Japanese builds, there’s a lot of cute clothing for them to pick from.

Anyway, you know that term “shop till you drop?”  Well, we all kinda did.  We took a break at the food court and then went home.  The aidols busied themselves shoving their souvenirs in their baggage, and then we let them put up their ornaments.

It seemed to be surprisingly emotional for them.  Not everyone in Japan does trees.  But apparently it made them feel welcome.

That’s why we do it, I guess.

Otherwise, we had a quiet day, we ordered pizza, and everyone just rested.  It was nice.  They really liked American pizza, and Yuuko, well… she almost put an entire one away by herself.  How does she do it?

Minami seems a little depressed though.  I should ask her what’s going on.

Everyone’s camped out in my room tonight.  Some of us are making a girl-pile, the rest are filling the futons.  Dave joked that he might need to rerun the load calculations on my floor…  surprisingly, some of the girls who would usually do the pile chose the futons.  I have a feeling there will be a lot of whispering and muted giggling when the lights go out.  Minami chose the pile though for tonight.  I wonder what’s going on.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

The aidols are slooowly getting through their jet lag, but they’re still pretty toasted.  We stayed up too late last night playing games, them, Yuki, and me.  It was lots of fun, but at about 1 AM I said we should probably get to sleep, and we did so.

Someone said “Sharekoube”.

I’m not sure who, but there was a LOT of giggling.

Then I said “Lycopene”.

Sabby waltzed like Sawa-chan-sensei and told us to shut the heck up.

That was hilarious.

We did not hit her with a pillow.

Sawa-chan-sensei is pretty cool.  Sabby is scary.

I’m glad they’re familiar with K-on.  It just makes things that much more hilarious.  Too bad there aren’t any shrines around, I would so run towards one yelling “God please grant the wishes of these fair maidens!”  Just to see what would happen.  I told the girls that and they laughed and said “better not.”  Sigh.  They’re right.  Real life isn’t anime.

Anyway, all that aside, they seem to be adapting alright.  They’d never been to the US before, so they got really confused by the faucets, and all the other basic stuff we take for granted.  But once that was all worked out, they’re having a pretty good time.  I took them to get fast food for lunch, and they gobbled it down like you wouldn’t believe.  Yuuko ate two hamburgers.  How does such a little girl fit that much in her???

But she ran with me, so I guess she burns it off.  Girl is just a bundle of energy.  Minami’s a bit lazier, and Mariko is somewhere in the middle.  But it’s okay to be lazy on a vacation, right?

This is Texas.  We don’t have mountains.  We, ummm… have trees.  Lots of trees.  And some rocks.  So we took them to see the famous Round Rock.  It’s a… rock.  A round rock.  They just stared at it, then looked at me, then looked at the rock again, then looked at me.  I shrugged.  “What did you expect?  It’s a round rock.  It’s exactly as advertised”, I told them.  They giggled, and got photos of them with the rock in the background.

Yeah, it’s a real thing.  The entire city is named after a rock.

This evening we took them all to the shop to get some pastries and see what all the fuss about Sabby’s (maid cafe) bakery is about.  We all went in and they kind of looked around in awe.  “It’s just like in the pictures,” they said.

You know how in some animes the main character just says.. “eh?”  “What pictures?”

“The ones on LINE.”

Ummm…

“Yeah, someone came to see Yuki last month and their pictures went viral.  They especially liked…” and Mariko pointed at cat-girl, who.. just looked confused.  She was saying all this in Japanese, after all…

I giggled.  “Hey, cat-girl, you’re even more famous in Japan!”

She laughed.  “Maybe I should move there”

I cringed.  “Maybe… not.”

She looked thoughtful.  “Yeah, maybe not.”

As we were sitting there eating pastries and Japanese sweets and chatting, a Japanese tourist came in.  His eyes lit up as he saw us… not because of Yuki, surprisingly enough, but just because we were all speaking Japanese.  We made some room for him and he told us he was visiting from Hokkaido and heard that it was like an actual maid cafe, with maids and everything.

I giggled and told him I was part owner.

He jumped up and started bowing.

I laughed and told him to sit the heck down, there’s no need for that.  We all introduced ourselves.  The part-owner of the cafe, a former very famous Japanese idol, and four random high school girls who no one know from anyone.  What a crew!

Anyway… he didn’t know who Yuki was!!!

I couldn’t tell if Yuki was pleased or annoyed, it looked like more of a combination.  He just showed up because he saw all the pictures on LINE.  It was kind of like all the people that make that pilgrimage to a school in Toyosato, when a place becomes famous you just go for the sake of going.  He was doing the Route 66 trip and took a detour to see Dallas, and came down to visit our cafe.

That’s pretty cool.

We set him up with a few pastries for the road.  Dedication like that should be rewarded, I think.

We finished our pastries and just watched the proceedings.  There was nothing scheduled, but some drunk person (they don’t get drunk there but they come there drunk sometimes) went up and tried to do a comedy bit.  It didn’t go well.  But we were laughing hard because it was going so badly, so maybe comedy is one of those things where if it goes really bad it goes right to good?  Haha!!!  We let people use the mic though if they really want to.  Most people are shy so it really doesn’t matter.

Turns out Minami, as lazy as she can be, is not shy though.

She got an instrumental version of her favorite j-pop song, plugged her phone into the amp, and just belted it out.  And damned if she wasn’t good!!!  Yuki actually went on stage and did a duet with her, and everyone there (which wasn’t a lot, it’s a Monday night, after all) clapped.  Turns out she’s in the choir club at school.

Anyway, they had a lot of fun.  Yuki’s “concert” is Saturday night and we’re all going to give her moral support.  Not that she needs it.  Yuki actually is considering teaching Minami some of the moves if she can learn them in time and going up with her.  Don’t tell Minami, though.  She might have a spare idol costume though.  Her parents are coming here to visit her in a couple of days, she called to see if they could bring over another.

It’s not like she’ll have a huge audience, but I think Minami will have fun.

Everyone else is just happy watching.

It’s pretty cool.  That could never happen on a Japanese idol stage with 20,000 fans all waving glowsticks.  In a small live music venue in Texas with about fifty people?  Yeah, that can def happen.

Beth will probably be a little jealous, but she’s still learning.  She’s not as good.  But she’s making some good progress.  And the shop will be here.

Hah, not only that, but we could bill “Takahashi Minami” too.  After all… that is her name.  Haha!!!

Anyway…  I guess I should sleep too.  Tomorrow we’ve got some fun stuff planned.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today was really fun!!!

We made a nice breakfast for the girls this morning – they’re not used to American breakfasts but they ate up anyway.  American breakfasts do tend to be a bit sweet and carb loaded, but they seemed to enjoy it anyway.  I went for a run, Yuuko came along, she looks little but she’s pretty fit, Mariko volunteered to walk Marie, so Beth went with her to the park to let Marie run around a little, and Minami was still really tired so we let her laze around for a bit.  Ai had been here before, so she just kind of made herself at home and read one of the manga she brought from home for a while while everyone else did their thing.  There’s a bit of jockeying for the shower, but good news is, we have more than one, so it all worked out.

The girls came over around noon and we had a rehearsal.  All the aidols (I’m going to keep calling them that because it’s the only word I have that describes Ai and her friends, and only Ai and her friends) watched us practice.  Afterwards, they politely clapped, and Mariko said “you’re not very good, are you?”

All of us who saw K-On laughed our butts off, and everyone else just looked puzzled and a little offended until someone explained.  And, well, they’re not wrong.

I explained (In my not perfect Japanese) that we just started the band and we’re all still learning our instruments and how to play together, and then they looked impressed, and told us to ganbarimasu (try our best).  Turns out Yuuko plays guitar though!  Not really well, but better than Crystal, and we let her have a go.

Yuki came over at some point in the afternoon and after a significant amount of fangirling (which consisted mostly of bowing and blushing) everything calmed down and they had fun chatting with each other in Japanese.  I followed most of it, but they’re native speakers, and, well, shouganai.  Yuki told them some stories about being an idol, and they told her in turn about some of their school experiences.  Yuki was an idol from a young age so she didn’t get to go to school, she did home study.  I mean, she got an education, but you could see in her eyes the envy when they were telling stories about just normal school life.  It was a little sad, but I guess that’s why you have friends, right?

After that, we all piled into the car and went off to Wal-Mart.

Ai had been before, so she just held back and laughed as the other girls went wild.  At one point, she looked at me and said “Was I that bad?”  Well, she said “waruikatta?” but same difference.  I just giggled.  “un”.  She laughed.  “Gomen”, she said, and I waved her off.  I told her it’s part of the fun to take people to places they haven’t been before and watch them go nuts.  Yuki kind of put her head in her hands and mumbled something about “giving Japanese people a bad name”.  I giggled.

Anyway, after about an hour, they had bags full of stuff, I got some fixins for dinner too, and we made our way back for dinner.  Dave grilled.  And…  I think they want to stay here now.  I’m not the only one who loves Dave’s grilling.

After that, we just had a quiet evening.  They’re still jet-lagged, so they were out of it.  We just stuffed them full of chocolate and when they hit their futons they were out like a light.  I had to carefully step over to them to get to the computer to make this post!  Yuki is staying over but no one else is, tonight.  Kind of a crowd, but we’ll have plenty of time for that over the next couple of weeks.  Everyone’s on winter vacation so no time to be bored!!!

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Everyone’s here!!!

I went to pick them up from Houston at around 2 PM, and they were pretty much dead on their feet.  We got all their luggage into the car and herded them all in, and they seemed torn between seeing all the sights and sleeping.  Sabby was with me (we had enough room, but barely) and all the girls chatting in the back in Japanese kind of unnerved her a bit.  They were saying things like “the roads are so wide” and “look at the cows!”.  Nothing Sabby really needed to know about.  We got them home, and they were so tired we just gave them some snacks, and then pulled out the futons and let them sleep for a little while.  They woke up a little later and we all just sat around chatting.  Their English isn’t very good so Dave, David, and Sabby were having a heck of a time communicating.  While my Japanese isn’t perfect it’s better than theirs, and my English is better than the girls’, so I ended up translating.  It was kind of fun.

I think they’re overwhelmed.  Poor girls.

They’re kind of wide awake right now because it’s around morning their time, so we’re going to spend a little time chatting and playing games.  As I thought, they’re not huge on the girl piles, so they’re just going to sleep in their futons.  I don’t mind.  It’s all about cuddling, not forcing.  They did say the futons are pretty comfy, and Marie and Cat are insisting on cuddling with them, so there’s a bit of cuddling going on.  I think Marie really likes Mariko.  Maybe she smells like rice?  I don’t know.  I can’t read Marie’s mind.

They kind of cooed over David, which both seemed to make him really happy and really embarrassed all at the same time.  They said something like “He looks like an anime little brother!” and I fell over laughing.  He… kinda does, actually.  He even scratches his head.

I’m going to have them try to get some sleep tonight.  We have a lot planned tomorrow.  The girls are going to come over and we’re going to try to practice.  It’ll be different with an audience.  And Yuki’s going to come over too to meet them.  I told them they get five minutes to fangirl, and then they’d better treat her like anyone else.  They laughed, but I just gave them a death glare, and then they agreed.  I told Yuki that’s what I told them, and she said that’s fine, she’ll even sign an autograph if they ask.

Yuki’s pretty nice, all told.  Being an idol traumatized her but she didn’t really mind being an idol, it was the industry and fans that she got disgusted with.

Beth’s in with us tonight.  The rest of the girls didn’t come over tonight, I told them the aidols would be really jet-lagged and it was best to let them sleep.  They agreed.  We’ll make up for it tomorrow.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

The aidols are coming tomorrow!!!  They’re already on their way to the airport!!!  They sent me a photo and they’re having the best time, I guess they’re on the train with all their luggage, and it’s pretty heavy, but…  they’ll figure it out.  Actually… I wonder how we’ll fit all their luggage AND them into the car.  Maybe Sabby will need to come with me after all, and take another car.  Hah!

They’ll arrive at about 2 PM but it’ll be like midnight for them, so probably we’ll just take them for lunch/dinner and let them rest for a while.  Jet lag sucks!!!  But it’s part of life I guess.

I need to think of fun stuff to do.  They definitely want to visit a Wal-mart.  Everyone seems to want to visit Wal-Marts.  What’s the big deal about Wal-Mart anyway???  It’s just a store.

Sabby made them a bunch of treats.  That was nice of her.

Anyway, I guess I should get some sleep.  It’ll be a fun couple of weeks!  And I told David if he gets another eyeful I’m not protecting him from their fists!!!

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Ai and the aidols are coming in a couple of days!!! I can’t wait!!! It’ll be so much fun!!!  Sabby’s been on a cleaning kick the past couple of days and we were all roped into it.  The place is pretty spotless.  We found some futons (Japanese futons don’t necessarily have frames) so we set them all out (assuming they won’t want to make piles and I think that’s a pretty safe assumption).  I’m going to drive to Houston myself to pick them up because there won’t be enough room for all of them in the car if anyone else comes along.  But I’m pretty good at driving and fully licensed now so it shouldn’t be a problem.  We don’t have a guest room so they’ll stay in my room but it’ll be fine.  I’ll take the big car with all the seating.

I wonder if someone will say “sharekoube”.  I won’t be able to stop giggling if they do… haha.

So tomorrow other than school we’ll probably have a lot of baking to do and such, because of course we need to make sure they have lots of treats.  Sabby really shines when it comes to having guests.

Otherwise… pretty boring day.  It’s been kind of chilly, aww.  But I keep remembering when it was 105 and how much we wanted days like this, so…  I don’t complain too much.  We’re all brainstorming to figure out things to do with the aidols, but Sabby says they’ll just be happy to be here and see the sights, and… well, she’s probably right.  The biggest challenge will be… they’re not really good at English.  But maybe they can use the time to practice.

Yuki really wants to meet them to.. It should be interesting to see how they all get along.

Gotta go…

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today was boring.  Not just boring, but boringly boring.  Soooo boring.

But boring is good, I suppose.  The alternative can be worse.  Right?

I’m kinda missing Japan today.  I don’t know why.  It’s weird because I don’t have too many memories of it, but I kinda wish I was there right now.  It’d be nice to see Tokyo on Christmas.  Maybe someday I’ll be able to.  I have to submit my application for Meiji University at some point.  I’ve been putting it off, but I should do it soon.  I wonder if I’ll have to take entrance exams.  I know Japanese students do.  In some ways that doesn’t seem fair, but it beats our system where they take anyone with money and a pulse, and sometimes the money and pulse are optional.

Maybe have some KFC..

That’s kinda weird.  But Japan doesn’t always make sense.  Nor should it.

I asked David what he thought of Japan.  He said it had some fun places and the girls are cute, but it was too hot.  I… can’t really argue with that.  It was pretty hot when we went there.  Awww.  Maybe next year will be better.  He did like the food, though.  Japan does have some pretty tasty food, though it’s not very rich by western standards.  They seem to prefer light.  ichi ni san shi go ha n!!!  Hahaha!!!

Rice is a side dish!!!

Okay, umm… nothing going on I guess.  The aidols hop their flight on Saturday!  We’ll pick them up from the airport in the morning!!!

I asked how they could afford it, and basically they said their parents weren’t going to turn down a chance to send them to America for a few weeks.  Wonder what that means.  Haha!!!  They can be a bit rowdy… for Japanese girls, anyway.

I should say “sharekoube” one night and see if anyone gets a giggle fit.  Haha!!!

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

The aidols are really looking forward to coming to Texas!!!  They bought their swimsuits and sent me a pic. All I can say is… Rebecca would think they’re really conservative, David will probably blow a gasket, and for me, that’s about right.  They’re cute!!!  About the level of a rom-com anime beach scene, which… I guess, makes sense!!!  They all have Japanese builds – you know, pretty slender, narrow hips, not a large bust…  so there’s not a lot to work with, but Japanese swimsuit manufacturers know that, so they work with what they have.

Well, that’s probably too much talk about their swimsuits.  Hah!  I might go buy another one for myself.  Sabby would kill me if I bought one like Rebecca wears, but I think I’d like one that shows just a little more skin.  Just a little, eensy, bit…

Hey, I’m 18 now!  I can if I want! …  but Sabby will still yell at me.

Maybe I should buy a Japanese school one just for a joke… if they actually make one in my size.  I’ve been thinking about buying some of those color-coded indoor slippers like they have in anime… if they make them.  I never know what’s true and what isn’t in anime.

Otherwise… a pretty cool, but nice, day.  Dave’s been talking about getting a new car but we’re trying to talk him out of it, the interest rates are really high right now and they’re far too expensive.  We think we’ve succeeded, but you know Dave…  if he does, maybe I’ll get his old one.  I mean, I like my car, but his is nice too.  Oh, speaking of which, I have to change the oil soon.  Glad I know how to do that.

I haven’t heard much from that Texan Tinkerer guy since he moved up north.  He even deleted most of his YouTube videos.  I wonder why.  Maybe I should send him a message.

Anyway…  guess I should go to bed.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Well, first thing’s first.  We did have a practice today.  It didn’t really go well.  But I didn’t expect it to.  I was trying to keep a good rhythm going, Crystal is very much not used to playing with other people and still has to think about the chords, Beth was trying to sing and ended up, well, not, and well, you know how they say in church “Make a joyful noise?”  We ended up dialing the amps way down because the neighbor dogs were starting to howl, and Marie wasn’t all that happy either.

Crystal was really discouraged after, but I told her that this is part of a band, getting to know how the other plays, and sometimes you’re just not as good together as you think you are alone.  I told her to keep practicing.

Beth was a little discouraged too for other reasons.  She’s not a bad singer, but she doesn’t know how to listen.  But she doesn’t really know how to listen in everyday life too, so it’s a skill she needs to learn.  As for me, it was interesting.  I have experience accompanying, so I kind of want to follow, but as a drummer, my job is to keep things on an even keel and provide a solid rhythm for them to follow.  I have to get used to that.  I don’t really drive the melody or harmony or anything, but I keep the rhythm going.  If they lag or lead, I can’t try to adapt to them, I just have to keep whaling at a good beat and let them recover themselves.

So there’s that.

We’ll get together again next week.  Maybe Ai and friends will be there to give us an audience.  They’re Japanese, so they probably won’t tell us directly we suck.  Probably something like “well, you’re trying your best”.

Liz came over and played her violin too.  I’m not sure if she really wants to be a member, but she seemed to have fun, and she’s about as professional as I am, and maybe the band needs that.

Crystal really didn’t do too badly for as long as she’s been playing, though.  She really does have potential.  And a lot of drive, too.

A couple of boys walking by stopped and looked.  That was funny.  Crystal got flustered.  She, umm… really needs to lose the rocker attitude and keep that finger down…

Crystal’s lyrics are really good though.  We all kind of gushed over them, and Beth really likes singing them.  Even the ones that are a little edgy.

So, after all that, we had a birthday party for Sabby tonight.  All the girls from the shop came over too, even Katie and cat-girl.  Baker made a nice and very decadent cake (she used company resources and we paid for her time but I approved that and told Sabby to shut up when she protested – it’s part my company too and she deserves it).  There weren’t any letters or professions of love, but we got her nice presents and all told her how much she means to us.  Even cat-girl who said that she’s put up with far more from her than she probably should have, and bowed Japanese-style.  I wonder where she picked that up.

Aftewards she went up to take a bath but not in the “Sabby’s pissed” way but in the “someone got me a nice bath product and darn well I’m gonna use it” kinda way.  Dave followed her up, and the rest of us finished the cake and played party games.  Katie brought her kid, too, so everyone was cooing over her.  Katie’s coming back to work soon but we have to figure out child care.

Eventually everyone left and, well, here I am.  It was a pretty good night, and it’s nice to have something to do on Sunday that’s not listening to someone talk about things I don’t understand.

Okay!

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

I spent the day with Jack today.  Yesterday was a girl’s night, and tomorrow the “band” is coming over and we’re going to “practice” – though as bad as we are, it might end up being more of a K-on style tea party, but we’ll try anyway.

I really did appreciate how he took care of me on our camping trip.  I… really don’t know how to tell him how much I appreciate it.  Even spending some, umm, special time with him doesn’t really seem like enough.  It’s not like I didn’t think he loved me before that, I thought that he did, but this time he showed me and… honestly, I’m not sure what to do with it.  When I was out with him today, I was actually kind of giggly and blushy, to the point that he asked what was wrong with me.  I…  what could I say?  “I’m really in love with you right now?”

Well… that’s about all I could say, so I did.

It’s funny.  When you really like someone, you want to be around them, you want to make them happy… but when you really love someone, you’ll do almost anything to make them happy.  It’s actually scary how much power someone has over you when you feel that way about them.  There are limits to what I’d do, of course…  but those limits… sometimes they just feel like suggestions and I want to toss them out the window if it just means he’ll look at me that way.  It’s not that I didn’t feel that way before, but…  it’s different now.  It’s scary how different it is.

But he won’t take advantage of it.  He never has.  I don’t think it’d even occur to him.

Sometimes I wish he would.  But I’m glad he doesn’t.

Anyway, it was a really nice day, so we just went for a walk, and then we went for dinner.  He doesn’t really find all these really adventurous things to do anymore, and I don’t really mind.  There’s only so many fun places we can go, and it’s just nice spending some time with him.  This time we didn’t take Grace.  I love Grace.  Everyone loves Grace.  But I wanted some Jack time.  We didn’t go back to his place.  I really wanted to, but we both thought in my state of mind I might… take it too far.   So we didn’t.  I miss him that way, but…  maybe it’s for the best.

We haven’t gone to the waterpark in a while, though.  Maybe we can swing it when Ai and friends are over.  I told them to bring their swimsuits, just in case.  I asked them if they had those school swimsuits like in anime.  They said not exactly, but something close.  I said bring real swimsuits.  They laughed.

I also asked Ai to make sure they know about our customs regarding showers, etc.  I don’t really want a repeat of what happened last time Ai visited, where David got an eyeful and ended up asking some really awkward questions.  Now there will be five girls, and David’s, well…  getting a bit ramped up.  He knows better, but still, I’d rather avoid accidents.  In Japan girls will bathe together and all that stuff.  That would just be awkward here.  I know we make girl-piles but at least we’re all clothed!!!

Turns out that school uniforms are a little like the ones in anime, but not exactly.  The skirts are longer and more conservative in real life.  The colors are more drab and less flashy.  They don’t get as much accessorizing.  Japanese school admins are strict.  But anime?  Lie?  Never!!!

Anyway…  I’m kind of not looking forward to tomorrow.  I’m a little afraid of what we’re going to sound like.  It’s not going to be pretty.

Oh!  Sabby’s birthday is tomorrow too!  We’ll just have a little party after dinner.  She doesn’t really like it when we make a huge deal out of it, but she’s not getting away without anything.  Especially after that stunt they pulled for me…

Love you all!!! ❤️