Aloha!!! It’s party time!!

Twice a year my family gets together to celebrate the various birthdays that have occured during a six-month period and to, well just face it, hang out together. We all get along pretty great (no evil family dynamics that some families find themselves saddled with).

Today is one of those celebrations….we’re hosting and we are doing it Luau style. So I’ve been going all out….got the leis that my daughter will hand out at the door, the Hawaiian music downloaded from iTunes (Jimmy Buffet rocks!), and I’ve even agreed to play bartender and try to mix some of those fruity drinks – mai tais, pina coladas and daquiris – even though I’ve never done it before and my knowledge of hard liquor is pretty non-existent – hey, I’m a beer and wine gal myself. I even found this great web site that translates your name into a Hawaiian name.

We’re even bringing together a lot of musical instruments (guitars and the like) under the strange assumption that we can play and sing. So we’ll see if we go Partridge Family on the world after today. 

So I gotta clean the house, start the food and turn on the blenders today. My cat (Pepper is the culprit) has stopped peeing on the couch (even though I can still get faint odors). It’s been cleaned and I’m also trying to clean it on my own in some way every night. I’ve ordered some stuff from the Cat Fairie web site (“Good Behavior and Good Health for the Modern House Cat”). My vet gave me something called Feliway that I’ve plugged into a wall in the famly room. This stuff is supposed to “make my cats happy”.   It gives off a synthetic pheromone that’s similar to the one from the cat’s face that makes them think “hey this is a friendly, nice place. I don’t think I want to pee here.” It actually has brought out Pepper a lot more and has seemed to calm him down…..I sure wish they could invent something like that for humans….oh, wait….I think they have…..it’s called a pina colada…

Well…gotta go prepare for the party and warm up the blenders!

…out…and aloha!