Parties up the Wazoo

This weekend my parents hosted two parties--my sister's graduation party and my grandparents' 50th anniversary party. The graduation party was fine. It was raining the morning of, which put my mom in to minor panic mode. Fortunately, by noon it had cleared off and everything went off without a hitch.

Today, my grandparents' party is also going well except for the fact that my families congenial mood is not so slowly fading as the party progresses. For the last half hour, Baileigh and I have been finding new places to hide from party guests. The location has to be changed every 5-7 minutes. If you stay in one place any longer you risk parents becoming privy to the fact that you're trying to hide.

Yesterday, my littlest cousin (who isn't even really my cousin--I have no clue how we are actually related) challenged me to a battle of skill on his Nintendo DS. This is a common occurrence because he knows that of all the Rodgers, I am the one who he is always sure to beat at any Nintendo game. This time however, he was wrong.

His game of choice was Worms, a game that Kyle played for a while and tried to teach me. I don't think I ever actually played the game with Kyle; there were just a few sessions of instruction and observation that I'm sure he thought I was completely ignoring--I must have paid some attention, because for the first time ever I left one of my cousin's challenge victorious. The rest of the party he announced his disgust at being beat by a girl to anyone who would listen. Woot!

Last night, Corey and I wanted to go out, but that didn't end up happening. We didn't even decide what to do until midnight. Our grand plan consisted of renting a movie and watching it at BETA. A bunch of guys had just gotten back from X-Men 3 as we were arriving, and we were sidetracked from our plan when I started asking them if they stayed for the scene at the end of the credits or if they had seen the spoof cartoon and gotten the humor behind "I'm the juggernaut bitch!" This led to Logan getting his lap top and us watching the whole cartoon. That then led us into a discussion about Logan's obsession with a certain pirate porn. By the time we started the movie it was close to 1. I didn't end up going to bed until around 3:30. Not a good choice since I had to play hostess at the anniversary party today.

On that note, I'm going to try to sneak downstairs and take a nap.