housewarming

well, last night, SHINE fellowship all went to morningside, for camy and kelvin's house-warming dinner!
thomas had sent out the e-mail on tuesday, and i had sent back my RSVP, also asking was there anyone who could please gimme a lift there. i'd received a reply from him the next day, saying "i will arrange for me." confused, i'd e-mailed him back, asking did he mean that'd he'd arrange transport for me, or would i haveta arrange transport for myself? i got his answer the next day. "haha," he wrote, "i mean that i will arrange for you!" XD
only, friday came around and he still hadn't gotten back to me. i sent him an e-mail, asking him please to ring my house and lemme know how things had sorted out. so, come saturday morning, when i was in the bathroom, the phone rang. 'twas vicky, saying she'd come pick me up @ 4:45pm. awesome, things all set. :)
the only thing i got mega-pissed about was that no carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P showed up to shower me! >< meaning it'll be mother who watches me shower tonight; that's mega-stressful, coz she always gleefully forces me to do things, some which i'm mega-uncomfortable with, and poor mother's got a bad back; i'll prolly never hear the end of her grumbling about her poor back. *sigh* but hey, i'm used to it.
anyways, with no-one coming to gimme a shower, @ dad's order i went to the bathroom once, then sat in the garage and waited for vicky. dad took this opportunity to read me a rant. ><
when vicky did come, it wasn't just vicky, but kathy too! in fact, kathy was the driver.
sadly, horrid dad refused to put sparkless into their boot, meaning he denied me the chance to fully relax and enjoy myself in the company of all the other SHINE members, but hey *sigh* i still tried to enjoy myself as best i could.
kathy started tootling us off to morningside, making a quick stop to pick up heidi. lol, i dunno why i used to keep getting heidi mixed up with nicole! XD
but, okay, i arrived @ kelvin's and camy's house without most of my brain cells! ><" why? kathy was driving along (she said the entire chow family drives manual) when suddenly, she WRENCHED the car into a severe left turn! we all crashed against the left, and after kathy had righted the car, she said, "sorry." i complained to her, partway through the night, "kathy, you just wiped out about 99.9% of my brain cells, with your driving!!" ><" :P
kathy kindly let era hold her arm while i was walking into the house. i apologised to camy and kelvin for not being able to take my shoes off (i can't walk with my AFO; my stupid left ankle twists out) and stamped them against the ground before entering the house.
i sat on a see-through chair and just introduced myself to new people i didn't recognise. there was a girl there last night not called kyLie, but kyDie!
while everyone was still arriving, i helped myself to several grainwaves that someone had kindly left a bowl of on the table. much thanks to camy who wandered over and helped me take off my jacket and my broncos scarf. hey, she even remembered that i liked the movie 'despicable me'! actually, she and her hubby had brought it recently, and she even offered to put it in the DVD player for me to watch! camy also poured me one plastic cup of orange juice.
lol, 'twas 'bring a plate' shared dinner, and daph had made her yummy cheesy broccoli and cauliflower! they were making in the oven, when suddenly thomas yelped, raced over and wrenched the oven lid open! lol, so the cheesy broccoli and cauliflower were slightly burnt last night. who cares? :P
vicky watched me walk once to the loo before dinner started. much thanks to kathy who gave me two half plates of food. i got: some of dad's yummy egg, ham and onion, two slices of roast pork, lotsa daph's yummy cheesy (and burnt! :P) broccoli and cauliflower, one spoonful of aunty amy's seafood bake, and little odd bits of other random food here and there. much thanks to aunty amy who passed me a lil plastic bowl of seedless purple grapes, two slices of mandarin, one small chunk of watermelon and one small slice of kiwi.
after dinner, kathy took me to the toilet once more, then we all crashed in their living room (aunty amy and i bagged the sofa, everyone else sat on chairs) for the night's activities.
first kathy led us in a game. we had to write answers to her questions on her slip of paper, then go around the room and get ppl to sign your paper if you had the same answers. the questions were varied, like, "which brand toothpaste do you use?" and "how many siblings do you have?" i think i got around forty signatures.
after, vicky led us in worship. we sang one english song and one cantonese. i stayed silent, of course.
there actually wasn't any program happening last night! we just went around in a circle and introduced our names, then some really smart girl repeated everyone's name out once correctly! we also gave camy and kelvin a round of applause to show them our appreciation for inviting us over to their house for the housewarming. i actually forgot kelvin's name! i remembered camy's, but what was the husband called? i leaned over and in a whisper, asked aunty amy, who just laughed. "if you can remember my husband's name, you can remember his! :P
actually, camy and kelvin have sth really cute pinned to the wall - C (love heart) K! when i asked kelvin where he got that from, he replied a stationery shop. lol, wonder if i could get the parents sth like that for their wedding anniversary this year, that's coming up @ the end of august.
and camy had even prepared dessert for us! these lil yummy cheesecakes~ kathy kindly got me half. when i finished it, i asked her please could she gimme the other half, seeing as she and everyone else were eating one full lil cheesecake for themselves, but she decided no, and got me some fruit salad instead. hey, no biggie.
i'm pretty sure we were first ones to leave. @ first, i did jokingly ask kathy could she please let vicky drive, coz i'd already suffered enough brain cell death, but she said that she was good to drive. :P
kathy dropped nicole off first, then drove me home. she's still got sunday school to prepare for toms! (well, today, now. :P it's past 5:30pm. :P)
all in all, i had a fantastic night out with SHINE fellowship @ camy's and kelvin's housewarming! :)
next post here ... umm ... didn't vincent the physio and kat jie jie invite us over to their house for dinner next weekend? if so, cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^