harry potter birthday party

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yes, i've been lazy
but last week was HECTIC. HECTICCCCCCCC!
(i'm going to backward blog when i have time. hopefully tomorrow)

anyway, yesterday was harry potter party.
so. much. love. <3

highlights
preparations
  • janice watching me attempt and fail at making spiderwebs out of pillow stuffing 
  • janice asking me what to do with the decorations and me just telling her to make stuff up
  • the frustration of the cauldron cake handles 
  • testing out the photobooth and taking a bajillion shots because we overcompensated the movements 
  • cherry arriving with lucious malfoy and how impressed janice was
  • lucious malfoy
  • lucious malfoy's hair cape
  • mum asking cherry for help (and not me) 
  • mum remaking my sandwiches because they're ugly 
  • joe and the pumpkin 
  • twin arriving as pokemon ash 
  • the soybean machine making noise and everyone being confused but thinking it's ok cos mum never mentioned it and then half hour later mum's like, what's that noise?
  • me and cherry changing into our costumes and listening out for the arriving guests 
party time
  • becoming harry potter
  • 90% of everyone had impressive costumes <3 
  • everyone being impressed by my mum's general lolsi-ness and cookability 
  • baking the meat pies - jenny telling me to check and hy being in charge of quality control 
  • the three gay ones in mum's room being really anal about their costumes - twin not being able to make any sort of facial expression at. all.
  • how cool the dumbledore and dementor costumes were
  • the dementor going into isaac's room and isaac just kicking him away in his boxers
  • ~intepreting kevin's open to interpretation costumes 
  • that awkward moment where everyone arrives and it's like...what are we doing? because the host hasn't planned anything
  • accidentally pushing joe to the ground cos i'm mean  
  • isaac waking up and being all WTF, especially when he turned around and saw voldemort
  • making everyone watch hp1 
  • everyone's general awe at the amount of sugar provided 
  • covering michelle whilst she was trying to put her stomach back on - to stop the inappropriateness but it ended up looking really inappropriate 
  • voldemort refusing to eat while in costume. and then coming back as ash to eat. 
  • anna insisting we play quidditch and everyone making their broomsticks - special note: joe likes bright pink 
  • everyone donning gladwrap garbage bags because of the rain 
  • everyone braving the rain and the dark and the cold for quiddtich
  • everyone getting tired out by the epicness of quidditch 
  • watching hp2 up to lucious' entrance
  • hp7!
  • everyone saying "HEY thats me!" as they watched the movies
  • intermission for cake: wynnie's cake, everyone refusing to sing happy birthday and then refusing to hip hip hooray 
  • everyone continuing to watch HP7! and realising that it's so much more fun watching HP movies when i'm around 
  • joyce asking for board games repeatedly and coming up to me to rally people
  • finally playing cranium
  • janice not leaving and mum's consistent insistence that she does (in chinese)
quidditch
  • choosing the human snitch 
  • the feather falling off the pumpkin hat
  • being the moving hoop-goal
  • jenny telling me not to push her and then falling to the ground 
  • jesslau the awesome snitch 
  • michelle the fail snitch 
  • cherry and michelle acting as decoy snitches and almost getting killed
  • the death of about 90% of the broomsticks and everyone's creative ways to avoid ~falling out of the air
  • realising that we're a really competitive bunch 
  • hearing my dear cousin telling everyone to target me -.-;; 
  • joe almost punching wynnie in the face 
  • everyone getting wet socks and shoes, and in jenny's case, pants
cranium 
  • jumping on the bandwagon - joyce's 4-act play 
  • shoe shopping - joyce's insistence that money is important, everyone saying they'd do a better job and then completely failing, joe's politeness at being the puppeteer
  • joe's humming and how everyone thought it sounded familiar but couldn't quite get it
  • anna's humpback whale - that really humped 
  • kevin's school disco - consisting of ymca, macarena and nutbush (as it should be)
  • me and anita saying how we can't spell backwards, and then getting that card on the critical round and then both arguing about going first and then getting periodical and anita just shouting P!
  • lols
anything else?




donna.
donna.