We are in pajamas, post show (and first read), decorating cookies (part 2), eating cheese plates and doing a “White Christmas” sing-along.
…It’s our thing.
The BFF and I are in sweats, but The Fella is wearing full-out long underwear footie pjs. With the escape hatch. He looks phenomenal. I honestly didn’t know they made them for full grown people.
…Also, by time of blog writing, The Fella is drunk. He’s now in the prone position, with said butt flap open, airing his pirate underwear and threatening to fart us into oblivion. He’s now to the point of drunk where you lay in dead weight and grin at things…like the air…and have whole conversations with your eyes closed, your voice in falsetto.
I’m totally writing this whole night off on “character study” at tax time.
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The Fella is now splayed out in the farty chair, and “White Christmas” at it’s end, has led onto “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”
…They are worried about me having to work tomorrow…which with only two days left of BFF-dome, before she escapes back to Tinsel Town, is just erroneous. Tomorrow will come as it always does, and I will crawl from the bed like a Darwinian evolutionary sludge, as I always do…be it on six hours or three. It is far more important to be building these memories.
…Unless someone pukes.
I call the kibosh at that point.
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So here we all sit…a small pile of humanity across all of the general couch area. The Christmas tree lights on, the heater humming busily…our decorated cookies that look like a five-year-old baked and decorated them (though that is totally unintentional), on the table in front of us with little bottles of sprinkles and candy pieces, and wine bottles growing around us.
…We begin deep philosophical discussions, like people do when they are buzzed after a long day…such as the political significance of the Lesba-whos, that are The Grinch’s parents…and if being green is a commentary on race relations…
…In between, we giggle, till it starts to get quiet and we get sucked into the movie.
The wine starts to mix in our tummies, the sugar cookies, soaking it up…our eyelids start to get heavy.
…Just like kids, we fight the sleep fairy and insist we are wide awake and ready to party.
…But we ain’t.
It’s late. Our tummies are full. The bottles are empty. And even Jim Carey in ten pounds of green fur and prosthetic can only seduce us so far. Not gonna lie, m’pillow sounds pretty amazing. But we are captivated with brilliance…in both what’s happening on the screen, and in the room right now. We are our own ultimate family…the kind that people can build if all the best of circumstances align…and at least one of the people are really bossy.
…As The BFF just stated, “Lookit this! If we were all siblings growing up, we woulda been awesome!”
…To which I replied, “Well yeah, but then you can’t have sex with your brother, so, maybe it’s gooder this way.”
“Also, she’d have been the bully,” The Fella pipes up through his wine-haze, before going back to grinning at the atmosphere.
“I would not!,” she insists, ironically punctuating it with a punch.
Touche. And stuff.
(Yawn)
“He’s out, ” The BFF sighs, leaning over The Fella, some minutes later. “Hey babe, wanna stay here on the futon or go home?”
“Mmfubbbub,” The Fella replies.
We take that for “home.”
…They stuff themselves into boots and scarves and coats and start on their journey…all of two city blocks away.
I watch them, lit by street lights on their early morning quest, before finishing with my typing.
…Night, friends. May you pass out well into noon. For me: I’m lookin’ at six hours. So I guess I’d better get at it…
~D
