Last night, we were talking to Vince about our imaginary puppy – it’s a lot of fun imagining that you have a puppy with needing to take care of all that extra pee in the house. He said that Dani suggested that the puppy should be named Belka – which the the 2nd half of Elka’s nickname – we go around calling her Elka-Belka. So, you know, we wouldn’t have to change any of our brain synapses, we just would continue saying what we already say all day. Elka-Belka! Elka-Belka! (our other dogs nicknames – Ruby was the Rubister, Maxi was Maximum or Maxerator, I miss them <3). The other suggestion from Dani was to continue the theme of Edda, Elka and go with a four letter name beginning with E and ending with A. Ella, Emma, Edna, Elba, Ezra, Enya, and then we decided to diverge and go to Eddie, Ernie, and hilarity ensued. Edda! Elka! Enya! Dinner!
On Saturday I stopped by Hank Dietle’s to watch Ward, my olympic weight coach, play in his band. I had to give up having long talks with Ward at the gym to do more church things. Which makes me sad. The band was fun – after I do all this church thing, which will take a few years, I’m going to lean into music and take singing lessons and try to get into a band. We’ll see. Too busy right now.
So now that I’m a board member of the church, I try to go to events that folks put on – because I support you 100%. Saturday night was Pride Prom, and I got out my pride dress and made my rainbow jello shots (non alcoholic). This took me two (!) tries. The first time I was in the midst of my illness on Wed, I got up to the middle layers and realized that I had made it in the wrong sized pan and the layers were too thin, and I also subbed milk for the recommended sweetened condensed milk and the white layers weren’t white enough. So I went back to Giant when I was feeling better, rebought all the colors and tried again. It’s not hard to make, it just takes time.
Here we are at the photo booth, Edda is slightly unhappy for this photo, but rest assured, she had, overall a good time. This is my favorite kind of party – dancing starts at 6:30 pm, all hits I loved and continuous dancing, and we went home at 8 pm – in bed by 9 pm. A good Saturday night.
