kitten overload and some other things that happened

Friday afternoon, Lil Sis graduated from the Rutgers business school with so many honors she could barely stand up.

Saturday morning, Lil bro#2 graduated from Houghton college.

  

A photo of him in his ruff was Houghton College's facebook profile pic for most of the weekend.

Saturday afternoon, Mumsy effectively ruined my weekend (again) via text messages, telling me I'm a horrible person because I should have gone back to Lil Sis's apartment after the graduation to hang out with them instead of leaving for the 5+ hour drive up to Houghton.

Had I left Rutgers much later than I did (4.45 PM), Lil Bro#1 would have been asleep and therefore unable to guide me to the camper when I got to the campsite, which would then have resulted in me sleeping in my car. But noooooooooooo because I posted a pic of Lil Bro#2 in his ruff on facebook before I posted any photos of Lil Sis, OBVIOUSLY I'm a shite sister and I love Lil Bro#2 more, which means I love Dad more than Mumsy, which means Mumsy loses the game only she has ever been playing since their custody battle started in 1986.

(I drank quite a bit on Saturday night.)

Someone has finally turned Exquisite Corpse into a board game.

We played this for like 3 hours, and most rounds resulted in us laughing until we cried. Then me and Lil Bro#2 tried to teach the 16-year-old German exchange student (she's staying with the cousins who came up for the graduation) how to play baseball, because she wanted to learn*.

When I woke up Sunday morning, it was snowing.

The snow persisted for most of the drive home, then turned to rain when I left Pennsylvania and crossed back into New Jersey. Because I was still pissed off at my mother, I took a detour.

Laur was doing some spring cleaning, so she basically just put me in the kitten room and left me there for like an hour.

They played for little while. Tyrese went into their bed after a few minutes to nap. 

Nugget and Niblets eventually joined Tyrese for a nap. I let Lord Byron chew on my hand.

He got very cute and snuggly.

Then he fell asleep purring.

I want to steal all of them.

June 1st I can move into the apartment. I am counting the days.

*Lil Bro#2 and I do not know how to play baseball. A very bastardized version of it will be returning to Germany.

Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?

How do families with twins handle college graduation if the kids are at schools on opposite sides of the country and have their college graduations on the same day? Does one parent go to each? And how do you decide? Do you flip a coin? Finally admit that you have a favourite and go to theirs, and send the other parent to the other college?

At least in our family with its multiple sets of parents, no one had to make that decision this weekend.

Except for me and Big Sis#2, who have the good fortune of being related to both graduates.

Lil Sis's graduation ceremony for Rutgers Business School is tomorrow (Friday) morning. Lil Bro#2's graduation from Houghton College is Saturday morning.

Lil Sis also has a second graduation ceremony on Sunday morning, which I had not planned on attending because no. Turns out I couldn't have gone anyway, because President Obama is the speaker for that graduation and now each student may only have 3 family members attend. I'll be staying up at Houghton in the RV because that town has only one motel, and the motel has only 3 rooms.

I bought Lil Bro#2 one of these:

He has agreed to wear it over his graduation robe.

I have packed pretty much every piece of clothing I own because our weather is at that awkward stage where it's freezing in the morning, 80 degrees by the afternoon, and then cold again at night.

I think I may be almost finished writing the YA novel I've been working on for like 5 years. I'll be looking for guinea pigs to read it soon.......