Well, November was Thanksgivibirthdaykah (Lily's birthday), then comes Christmas/New Year's/Paul's birthday, my mother and brother have birthdays in between that don't correspond to any holiday and now St. Purim's Birthday (my father's birthday). So we had all things Irish...and Hawaiian? A theme Lily cooked up. Paul fell asleep during Lilo and Stitch so Lily, my parents, and I played a game of Anomia, which was recommended to me by a staff member at Snakes and Lattes. I wanted to get my father a game for his birthday that we could all play together. So, after the gingerbread (my father's favourite cake), green Kool-Aid (in the 2L glass boot- that used to contain beer from a previous excursion to the Pickle Barrel before boarding the bus), grapefruit-flavoured San Pellegrino because it came in green cans -hey I even dyed my white wine green- we munched on Purim candies from Israel that my Aunt had packaged up for us and had an abbreviated game night. I think we will have to have pt. 2 next weekend when we are all together again. I have made green hamentaschen using cake mix...they kind of fell apart because I used a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. I've asked Paul to bring his rat mask for the occasion. To be honest, I can't remember the sequence of events but I do know Paul and I watched another Netflix movie, Prince Avalanche. This is a quirky and off-beat saga of two men whose job it is to paint the yellow line down the middle of a remote highway after it had been destroyed. Some factoids about the film are: 1. The director, David Gordon Green, also worked on Pineapple Express, a movie we saw recently and enjoyed. 2. It's based on an Icelandic film, Either Way, made in 2011 by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigur∂sson. 3. Lance LeGault, who played the old man, passed away shortly after the film was made, hence it is dedicated to him. (And what is the significance of one of the main characters being named Lance?) Paul thinks that he as well as the woman that everyone but him can see (sorry minor spoiler) are the ghosts of people who died in the avalanche. 4. It was based on a real fire. 5. A band called Explosions in the Sky recorded the soundtrack. And I just bought tickets online with a Pizza Pizza movie deal to see The Grand Budapest Hotel. We're going to go when I get off work! Yay!