A Recounting of December 23, Delivered With Much Truthfulness

[themadpoker]

Yesterday my aunt and two cousins came over. Since the aforementioned cousins were both girls I was in charge of entertainment. I feel I rose admirably to the task.

First! Charlie the Unicorn! Sadly they were among the ranks of people who look at me blankly and remark upon my strangeness upon seeing this skit so this was abandoned.

Second! Tiny Plaid Ninjas! This met with a slightly better reception though I fear Cousin the First merely added it to her repertoire of reasons Why Zeineb Is Strange And I Fear I Will Never Entirely Comprehend Her Or Her Sense of Humour.

Faced with these two challenges I had to put all my skills to the task. Food! No one could possibly find food strange or uncompelling! Down to the kitchen we trotted.

After some running around, setting up of plates, and transporting of extra chairs we sat to eat.

Moi-Meme: Dear father. Would this tsibhe you are currently enjoying happen to contain berbere? (Translation: Does this stew contain a certain compound of ground peppers and other hot things which has been my arch-nemesis since a very young age?)
Mon Père: Only small amounts! Come now, Zeineb, you are Eritrean. Berbere is in your heritage! (Wo)Man up!
Moi-Meme: I feel this is an insufficient reason to submit my tongue to a fiery plague. What is heritage but things that people in my family have done? I do plenty of things you would not even remotely consider. An example, let me introduce you to my book collection.
Mon Père: Zeineb. Why most you always philosophize so. -delivers a look of deep disappointment- Well I suppose we will all have to share a chuckle over your strange eating habits.
Ma Famille: -chuckles-
Moi-Meme: -eats rice-

What to do when the food was done? A flash of inspiration struck. Movies! Who could have the slightest objection to a movie? Particularly if I did not do the picking.

Z: Cousins! Suppose I have a magical ability to access any movie in the history of mankind. Which one would you like to watch?
Cousins: -eye pathetic movie collection underneath television table-
Z: Ignore the DVDs under the widescreen! They have naught to do with my question. Now movies?
Cousin the First: A comedy!
Cousin the Second: The Dark Knight
Z: This may be a problem. :/

After visits to websites that do not in any way provide movies free online we settled on watching Another Cinderella Story. And by settled I mean I didn't particularly want to watch it, Cousin the Second did not want to watch it, and Cousin the First insisted upon it. It did however, have the pleasant side effect of banishing my brother from the computer room.

We watched it. I can not tell you anything about it except upon finishing I felt compelled to make a deal with the devil to erase all memories of the movie from my brain. I can only remember faint traces of a song I was singing. The chorus went something like this:

"Idiotidiotidiotidiotidiotidiotallrightthenidiotsdeserveeachotheridiotidiotidiot"
Repeat ad infinitum.

But then! Then we watched The Dark Knight. Which I can say nothing about now because it is a brilliant movie that deserves more than a small part of a post that is associated with Another Cinderella Story. Instead, I am going to re-watch it and provide a babbling commentary (which will be appropriately cut for those who feel the movie's splendour should not be associated with my brand of ridiculousness. I understand and salut your choice).

In conclusion: Hostess Cupcakes.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

HEE! And I sympathise with your Eritrean who does not particularly love spice situation. One of the reasons I ran away to Australia is that I am an Englishwoman who is not overly enamoured of tea ;-)

I hope you survive the cousin invasion, and that it has retreated!

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

It makes for interesting eating situations when I'm at family gatherings. At least half my aunts think I have the tiniest appetite in the history of ever and are always encouraging me to eat more. My mom who knows better just sits there and nods occasionally saying something along the lines of 'Zeineb do you want insult _______'s cooking?' or 'It's because she ate all those chips in the car. I've been trying to break her of this junk food habit, it's a terrible trial to me'.

My mom is a traitor. :(

They retreated a little past midnight! I had a good time actually, and now I know to make a trip to Rogers video beforehand the next time they come over.

[oriontyne.livejournal.com]

lol@another cinderella story.

also: homemade cheesecake.