The birthday party

The afternoon was mostly pleasant. The food was good, we had margaritas. I gave Kenny a lei (insert joke here).

In addition to all of us and Kenny and Bernie, the guests were Bernie's daughter, Jackie, and her husband, and Bernie's granddaughter, Trish, and her husband and kids. That's it. Ken had told Kenny to invite his friends, as many people as he wanted. So, for Kenny's special day, Bernie's family!

From what we can see, they don't like her much.

Paige and Lindsay showed up a little later. We had Paige's bells in the car so she played a couple pieces in honor of Kenny's birthday. Of course, she wowed her audience. Later this talented, polite kid was chatting with Kenny, Bernie and a few others when Bernie noticed her ring and asked about it. Paige said it was a dragon ring. Bernie said, "Is that the symbol of your gang?"

The woman is freakin' braindead.

Ken and Sherri put a lovely party together for Kenny. Jim and I helped with the food and decorating. We bought him a nice gift. Bernie pulled Ken aside and told him that it hurt Kenny's feelings that the boys didn't call him on his actual birthday two days ago. She lectured Ken for several minutes about this. We don't think Kenny had his feelings hurt because he knew that in two days his kids were giving a nice party for him. We do think that Bernie, as usual, was talking out of her ass.

Later, after everyone else had gone home, Jim, Ken and Kenny were having some "guy time" at the computer while Sherri and I sat with Bernie in the living room. She yammered at us nonstop for about an hour. She kept going on and on about how kids aren't disciplined in the schools any more. She thinks people should be beating the crap out of their kids, I guess. Every once in a while she would change the subject but she would always return to the discipline thing.

She is seriously losing it. We're a little concerned because Kenny's health is bad and hers isn't all that great either. They aren't married and she owns Kenny's condo. If she dies, will he have a place to live? The time is coming when we're going to have to have a serious talk with Kenny about his future.

(sigh) All this is old stuff. It's been going on for 19 years. When she's gone, we'll be happy. That's all there is to it.