Festivus Of The Shantoozy
Festivus - (n.) a week of celebration centred on the week of the anniversary of one's birth.
Here is but a short post pertaining to Shantoozy’s Birthday Anniversary Festivus Celebrations.
A short while ago now, I accompanied Shantoozy to her Chinese Medical appointment, which is out at RMIT University in the sticks, even slightly past my own La Trobe University stomping grounds -cum- Henry Lawson story setting. Then, being the Festivus week of Shantoozy’s Birthday Anniversary, we thought it would be an amusingly tacky thing to do and so on our way home we decided to go for dinner at Smorgy’s, which is a massive all-you-can-eat buffet situated way out there near the two uni.s. It was probably the best of such low-quality dining experiences you could hope for and was reasonably priced, and much of the food was actually perfectly acceptable (vegetarian pizza, roast, good-sized prawns, Oriental rice and noodle dishes, lasagne, fresh donuts and flapjacks, and such). At one point I mentioned nervously that I hoped none of the Chinese Medicine practitioners we’d just seen would be eating there and Shantoo said that, no, of course they wouldn’t, they would eat more healthily than that and so we ate and a little while later who should we see but someone who was not a Chinese Medical practitioner, well, not one of hers anyway, just a regular Jo/Joe, like us, but then we did see the head practitioner we’d visited earlier, sitting down, dining away! We are pretty sure it was he, anyway. He’d occasionally glance over at us in a friendly demeanour. It’s not that interesting an occurrence, to be sure, but it was odd.
The main gift I gave Shantoo for her B’day was Owl (spelt WOL, of course) perched on one of Pooh Bear’s honey pots in the form of a ‘Royal Doulton’ figurine. She already had one of every other character from the 'Winnie-the-Pooh' series except for an Owl, which seems to be the rarest one to obtain. She was a smiley Shantoo-the-Pooh when she got this little trinket, and then I was smiley, too. Ain’t that cute!
All in all, Festivus was good, except that I felt a bit down and (or – I can’t fully remember now) stressed for a couple of the days, but we shall do some more fun stuff soon to make up for that.
Here is but a short post pertaining to Shantoozy’s Birthday Anniversary Festivus Celebrations.
A short while ago now, I accompanied Shantoozy to her Chinese Medical appointment, which is out at RMIT University in the sticks, even slightly past my own La Trobe University stomping grounds -cum- Henry Lawson story setting. Then, being the Festivus week of Shantoozy’s Birthday Anniversary, we thought it would be an amusingly tacky thing to do and so on our way home we decided to go for dinner at Smorgy’s, which is a massive all-you-can-eat buffet situated way out there near the two uni.s. It was probably the best of such low-quality dining experiences you could hope for and was reasonably priced, and much of the food was actually perfectly acceptable (vegetarian pizza, roast, good-sized prawns, Oriental rice and noodle dishes, lasagne, fresh donuts and flapjacks, and such). At one point I mentioned nervously that I hoped none of the Chinese Medicine practitioners we’d just seen would be eating there and Shantoo said that, no, of course they wouldn’t, they would eat more healthily than that and so we ate and a little while later who should we see but someone who was not a Chinese Medical practitioner, well, not one of hers anyway, just a regular Jo/Joe, like us, but then we did see the head practitioner we’d visited earlier, sitting down, dining away! We are pretty sure it was he, anyway. He’d occasionally glance over at us in a friendly demeanour. It’s not that interesting an occurrence, to be sure, but it was odd.
The main gift I gave Shantoo for her B’day was Owl (spelt WOL, of course) perched on one of Pooh Bear’s honey pots in the form of a ‘Royal Doulton’ figurine. She already had one of every other character from the 'Winnie-the-Pooh' series except for an Owl, which seems to be the rarest one to obtain. She was a smiley Shantoo-the-Pooh when she got this little trinket, and then I was smiley, too. Ain’t that cute!
All in all, Festivus was good, except that I felt a bit down and (or – I can’t fully remember now) stressed for a couple of the days, but we shall do some more fun stuff soon to make up for that.
posted by S. Gregory | 9:23 pm
2 Comments:
I had an excellent festivus, thanks for being so wonderful, and making me so happy and giving me such a great birthday gift.
Well, well, Wol.
Tu eres certanamente fulacioso.
(that last word I just made up, like "facionista" apparently. And "oposito"... yep).
Anyhow. I can't believe I missed Shantoozie's birthday (NOT anniversary, you idiot. Anniversaries are things that celebrate something every ... oh... I see. Nevermind).
Imagine! Cake eating! There's nothing better than eating cake at Shantoo and Magoo's house, other than eating cake at home where you don't have to share.
Happy birthday Shantoo! (which should be in her blog, right?)
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