Highlights of This Weekendās Visit with KatĀ @ordinarytalk and RobbyĀ @officialrobbycoates :
Soap labels full of puns and swearing, also dog socks and meaningful books and glitter nailpolish with card suit shapes. Ā Oh and Kat liked her Christmas presents too.
Kat giving Penny a Gumby toy and Penny loving it so much it now looks like sheās had it a month instead ofā¦five days.
Possibly the best Wisconsin Six Cheese pizza Dominoās has ever delivered to us.
Accidentally getting day-drunk while (re)listening to the Nick podcast of the IZ cast, because Kat hadnāt heard it yet. Ā I mean, thatās why we were listening. Ā Not why I downed the rest of my jar of moonshine without realizing thatās what I was doing.
Kat helping me cook tempura chicken.
Judging people looking for tiny houses on HGTV. Ā āAnd this is the bathroom-slash-music-room-slash-MURDER-room!ā Ā āThis guitar is the toilet!ā Ā āI just love barely being able to sit up in my bed, honey.āĀ
While playing the Oregon Trail card game: āWe fell in the water and lostā¦a supply of water. Ā The river has reclaimed some of its own.ā Ā āWhere will we ever find moreā¦water?ā
āRIP Bastāoh fuck is that a snake?ā Ā āKidK: now REALLY good garbage.ā
New 90s-themed Cards Against Humanity cards from Kat yielded āIām a bitch, Iām a lover, Iām a child, Iām Prince Ali, fabulous he, Ali Ababwa.ā
Arriving at the arcade to find a boy using the DDR machine, waiting our turn, then making friends with him and proceeding to take turns nicely. Ā He was incredibly good at the game, and said it was nice to seeĀ āother people in his age groupā playing. Ā He then divulged that he was a junior in high school. Ā None of us corrected him.
Walking through the unsettlingly empty and quiet Voorhees mall, which is definitely a liminal space and quite possibly also cursed. Ā Signs on the oddly skewed walls read, āSomething New Is Happening at Voorhees Town Centerā and informed us that whatever this āsomething newā is it will be ācoming soon.ā Ā Kat wanted a soda but there was a woman at the machine repeatedly putting money into it, watching it fall through/be rejected, then trying again. Ā Sheās an NPC and was blocking that soda machine because we hadnāt completed the second boss battle and couldnāt unlock that part of the game yet. Ā We then clipped through the floor and found another, secret soda machine under the stairs, except not really. Ā Except yes really. Ā Also there was a kid riding around the benches in front of the arcade on a large motorized lion, face frozen in an expression of having absolutely no fun whatsoever. Ā We left back through the incongruously vibrant and well-attended arcade, which is obviously the anchor of this mall to the human world, glad to have escaped with our souls intact. Ā Or are they?
Robby arriving on Saturday evening and Kat and Bast sending me and Penny alone down to greet her becauseĀ āitās too coldā andĀ āwe already changed into jammies.ā Ā I said, without thinking,Ā āOh right, Iām the only one wearing human pants.ā Ā The two then lurked in the upstairs window while I went out in the cold with my dog and also my human pants, because Iām human, just look at my neck.
Robby was wearing the scarf I made her for Christmas. Ā ;____;
I made twice-baked potatoes!!!!!!!!
Me: Ā Itās okay if you donāt eat much because youāre not feeling well. Ā I donāt love you because you eat my potatoes, I love you because youāre you./Robby: Ā Awww, thank yooou~ Ā ā¦gayyyyyyyy.
While again playing Oregon TrailāāThis thief managed to steal 200 pounds of food.ā Ā āI say let him have it. Ā We canāt fight him.ā
Kat wrote an entire Cow Poem on her tombstone after a snake killed her. Ā Robby wroteĀ āTime to avenge Kat!ā on hers when a snake then killed her almost immediately thereafter. Ā
All of us breaking out intoĀ āBohemian Rhapsodyā after Robby told us she once soloād the whole thing at a karaoke event.
Kat playing as one of the little girl characters for Betrayal at the House on the Hill, getting super buff by drawing good cards, then hulking out and killing Traitor Robby and I think two out of her three evil cultists. Ā Bastās and my characters came down to the basement to help, saw the carnage, and just sort of let it continue to happen. Ā Also my playing piece was bent so it looked like Madam Zostra was just gliding forward on a Segway the entire time. Ā
See alsoāBast (playing an adult man): Ā I have a gun, bitch! Ā *misses cultist entirely*/Kat: Ā *giggles* Ā I SURE DO LOVE KILLING NOW! Ā *absolutely slaughters Robby*
Penny happily occupied herself walking around the dining room and playing with her toys while we played Betrayal, then fell asleep peacefully. Ā (Itās just nice that she could do that in a room with four people, two of whom were New Friends to her.)
Robby took one of my buildings in the Ankh-Morpork game, then I got a card when the game was almost over that let me get it right back, but then it got knocked down five seconds later because wizards.
Me singing a jaunty little tune about Bast taking a while to place a minion on the board, and Kat and Robby joining in with beatboxing.
Kat and Robby declaring each other nemeses during the game, which proves that they are now good friends.
Selfies, and then Bast printing the selfies on instax photo paper with metallic foil star designs.
AYYYY if you guys think of any more ADD THEM! Ā Thereās probably a lot more but Iām forgetting!
This was a good visit and Iām so glad Kat and Robby could finally meet and that we could all hang out together!