Slowing Down.

My mum and I were watching a Charmed season 3 DVD, because for the first time in a while we’re both home at the same time. We used to watch the show together all the time but haven’t in a few years now, so we were enjoying it. Then dad walks in, decides he doesn’t want to watch Charmed and changes the channel to watch the latest weather reports in LA.

We live in Australia.

I’m a little annoyed.

Anyway, I thought this would be a good time to update this blog since it’s been a few days since my last post. I’ve mostly been spending my holidays sleeping in and catching up with friends. I spent Saturday at friend C’s house, because she planned a dinner party. It was just eight of us there, and the dress code for the night was “Black and white and ties”. There’s nothing better than having eight kids wearing ties, sitting around a dinner table.

We felt kind of old.

We baked cookies, and everyone brought a home cooked meal to add to the table (except for me, because I can’t cook and store-bought lasagne seemed a kinder choice for my friends). After adoring her cat, playing Mario Cart on her Wii, making fools of ourselves on stepmania and scarfing down dinner, we decided we’d like to be outside. It was 9PM. We took a candle, placed it on the pavement and sat around it in a circle, telling ghost stories and trying to scare each other.

Every time a car drove past, we looked up and tried to imagine what the driver thought we were doing. It was good fun.

Anyway, I’m taking a break today and just sitting home, waiting for dad to stop watching the French news and let us watch Charmed again.

He doesn’t speak a word of French.