Otherwise Engaged

So yesterday, I fulfilled my promise to try a White Hot Chocolate, and I am pleased to report that it was sickly sweet, far too rich, and of a strange consistency (having been mixed with marshmallows and three pieces of white chocolate, as well as cream and hot milk). In all fairness, it start out quite nice, with a pleasing taste, but it quickly went downhill from there.

My advice – avoid this beverage at all costs.


In other news, my sister announced her engagement to her boy friend of 20 months. Congratulations to them both! It's super-exciting to see them finally make honest people of each other. They're planning a wedding for early next year, and subsequently, I am planning invitations, orders of serivce, and the like, for the next few months.

It's very exciting stuff. We will now have a two-son family. Things are going to be changing up a little around here, but that's good. He is the greatest guy, and has been amazing through the last year and a half. He's really perfect for her, and he has a seal of approval from me, as the responsible brother.

The only thing that cheeses me off is how easily he managed to infiltrate the family. I used to have visions of torture sessions, and massive, awkward family grillings and discussions of intent, just to make it really difficult for him, and give him a hard time. But instead, he has just slid in under the radar, and become another Cogger, without any of us quite realizing it...

Ah well, there's always four more sisters' guys to do it to.


So I sign off for today, and get back to the billion-and-three things I have to do before I go...

(If I receive another e-mail saying, "I know you're going away very soon, but do you think you could still...", I think I shall strangle a hampster)


Joel
– 13 Days til Lift-off