Matchingsocks’s Weblog

This girl and the boy are back from their Hong Kong shopping spree. They ate a lot, laughed a lot, probably put on far too much weight, wrecked havoc on their credit cards and had a great time. Macau was fun too, not that this girl really gambled. She did play a few rounds of Casino Wars (basically, dealer and player gets one card each and the person with the bigger card won. Its not the cleverest of games, she knows.) and won a little much to her amusement. The Boy was far more adventurous and won far more than this girl.

There is little, really, to write about their time in Hong Kong and people that ask them how it went, basically got the usual spiel of good food and their fervent raves about the great Wagyu beef they had at the Venetian (a totally over the top casino that recreates the streets of Venice, complete with a fully functioning lagoon, a replica of the bridge of sighs and gondolas with singing boatmen) as well as their great shopping buys and the fact that this girl walked out of Kate Spade with- are you ready for it- SIX new bags. Two were for The Mother (birthday and mother’s day), one was for The Princess, one was a gift from The Boy and two were to tide her over her great distress over her room.

You see, three days before this girl was due back her toilet pipe had burst unceremoniously flooding her room. Her room is split level with the toilet located on the lower floor on the inner side of the room. Meaning, she essentially had a little wading pool, since it was a while before The Princess managed to figure out what was happening and go to the rescue. She rescued Jake (the Big Baby Taylor) mainly, since the TV was (thankfully) out of the spray and the bed (that sits on the floor) was far too gone. So you can see why she needed a new bag (ok, two) to make her feel better.

In any case, this girl’s house is under majorish renovations so she’s been displaced. Its a dusty, noisy situation that is rather distressing for her to deal with on a day to day basis. How The Maid and the Dogs deal with the incessant cement dust, scrapings, drillings, and in flux of people all day is beyond her. And now, she’s got to deal with how to re-do her room.