Kay -N- Kay

About five weeks ago or more, Kristin and I decided that we were going to host a kids oriented Halloween party this year.  Costumes, kids, and the whole shebang.  While it was plenty of time for everyone to make sure that they had their costumes in order, it wasn’t quite enough time to lay claim to the primary Halloween weekend, so we scheduled it for this Saturday, one week before the holiday.

We started preparing, bought a fresh round of decorations for the year, and sent out the invitations to our friends with kids. (“Invitations” being a clear synonym for “emails”)

Just today, two days before the party, I got this email from one my friends.  It wasn’t even a new email, it was a reply just to me from a thread between a bunch of us discussing when our next poker night would be.  So it’s not like he’d been thinking about for some time, it was just something that crossed his mind as we were emailing around.

From: Mike —— [mailto: m—–@——.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:00 PM
To: Kyle Codlin
Subject: Re: Poker

Are kids invited to your party

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From: Kyle Codlin [mailto: kyle[at]codlin[dot]net]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:01 PM
To: Mike ——–
Subject: Re: Poker

Yes.  It’s a costume party.

Kristin was handling all of this, didn’t you get the memo?

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From: Mike —— [mailto: m—–@——.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:04 PM
To: Kyle Codlin
Subject: Re: Poker

Yes.. Just making sure..

Kristin mentioned a carving table for pumpkins so I assumed kids were allowed.

You wearing a costume?

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From: Kyle Codlin [mailto: kyle[at]codlin[dot]net]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Mike ——–
Subject: Re: Poker

YES!  Everyone should wear a costume to the costume party! 

Kristin, Bran, and I are wearing costumes.  I know R—– mentioned something about their kids’ costumes and N—– and V—— are wearing costumes.  Pretty sure K——, C——, J—–, and R—– are as well.

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From: Mike —— [mailto: m—–@——.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:12 PM
To: Kyle@——.com
Subject: Re: Poker

Maybe I’ll just put peanut butter around my mouth and be an asshole..

Here is another conversation I had with a friend over IM.

Molly: I know!! I went to that concert last night!!
Kyle: Oh, there was a concert for Foreigner?
Molly: yes, they are still alive!!
Molly: It was Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy, and Foreigner!!
Kyle: Did anyone go with you?
Molly: no..I went alone…what do you think!! I went with 2 friends from high school
Kyle: Did you all know in advance who was playing?
Molly: yeah
Molly: wait…are you saying we were lame to go?!!?
Molly: the tickets were $10
Kyle: Wow, I wonder why they were so cheap!?!?

I’m almost sorry I missed Oldapalooza.

I had a conversation with a friend of mine this morning over IM.  She’s leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I was asking about it…

Kyle: Where are you guys going?
M: Charlevoix (about 45 min north of Traverse City)
Kyle: What do you do there?
M: go to the beach a lot…it’s right on lake michigan
Kyle: Just the 3 of you are going?
M: yeah…well, sort of…my mom, aunt, and cousin will be up there too. we rent a house for all of us
Kyle: How is that “sort of”?
Kyle: That’s like double the 3 of you

She got drunk last night.  On a Thursday.  That’s not relevant to anything, but I just want a lot of people to know that she’s a work today, drunk.

Gotta love your friends, eh?