I'm at my sister's house, waiting for her to get ready so that in an hour, we can meet the rest of the family at a local Chinese buffet restaurant for dinner to celebrate her boyfried boyfriend Larry's birthday. We'll all come back to her place for dessert. The problem is that she called me just this morning to tell me that this was happening! I had plans for today...laundry and lots of TV watching to do. AND his birthday isn't even until next weekend! Why are we doing this now without any warning??
Oh, well. It'll be fine. 
Well, I was wrong...Larry's birthday is today.

HOWEVER, in my defense, my sister never told me that anything was happening today. I had no clew. It was fun, though. We had a Chinese dinner buffet that wasn't bad, then we went to my sister's and played Scrabble (I came in fifth place...out of five). My sister made a vegan
chocolate lush and it was not good. The nut crust wasn't bad, and the tofu-chocolate pudding substance was okay, but the vegan "cream cheese" stuff made with cashews, lemon juice and some other ingredients was quite icky, and everyone agreed that it was icky.

There were some dessert choices at the Chinese buffet, so that made up for the icky vegan cashew "cream cheese" stuff.