Magical Tipsy Toes

Date: 1 November 2005

Time: 0025hours.

Present: OGB, CFB, PP & Sharkbait

Absent: WAP

OGB was wearing a blue flowery print blouse and a denim skirt.
PP wore a pink/white blouse with black pants.
CFB wore an off white shirt and jeans.

*Note to readers, Sharkbait is slightly color blind..colors may be in fact wrong.

CFB thought of a time capsule. Initial time frame was 10 years. However, after much discussion at length. We decided 5 years seemed right. We realize we could not wait that long. 5 years was ideal. So the date & time was set in place.

Date: 17 December 2005

Time: 1115hours

Venue: Brewerkz

Present: WAP, PP, OGB, CFB & Sharkbait

After eating way too much,

drinking way too much…

we finally put our stuff in the box. But nobody knows what the other person put inside. It was a secret operation. For spiffy Agents.

Now the time-capsule (known as the box) will be kept at Sharkbait’s house, under strict instructions to never attempt to open the box. To protect it and keep it safe from water and to make it floaty.

We will open it together 5 years later, 1 week before Christmas. December 17 2010. Question is…can Sharkbait control herself?

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“I’ll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I’ll do my looking back with my eyes closed”

–Tony Arata–

Date: 17 December 2010

Time: 2147hours

Venue: PeanutButter Lane, Sharkbait’s house

Present: WAP + 1, PP + 2, OGB + 1 , CFB + 3, Sharkbait + 3

There is a slight drizzle outside. It’s a little chilly. No 77 PeanutButter Lane is way too noisy for the neighbours liking. There are a couple of cars parked in the driveway…and Christmas carols and loud laughter and yelling can be heard few houses away. But nobody really cares cause everybody is in a Christmassy mood.

CFB, OGB, WAP, PP are all sitting at the dining room fighting over the trivia game they just played. Sharkbait watches them…grinning cause she knows she started this messy game..and now even at this age…they’re all fighting on who gets the winning point.

WAP’s other half walks into the kitchen looking for some roast beef….and CFB’s other half hollers at him to get more beer. PP uses this distraction to check on kids in the TV room…Bianca, her daughter is watching Strawberry Shortcake cartoon while, Ethan Gabriel is yelling for his mother cause Damien Ahser is eating all the m&ms. CFB looks at Sharkbait and shakes her head, “Sharkbait, get your son to bloody share the damn m&ms” and continues fighting with WAP about who got the correct answer first.

OGB is just way too tired, but has energy to go for another round of Dooleys…she just came back from Ethopia. Her expedition lasted longer than she thought…but she knew she had it good..when she saw him smiling at her across the room. She had just married the love of her life and she knew life could not get any better than this.

WAP and PP start talking about work..as CFB tries to serve the awesome pasta she cooked with bacon and mushrooms. WAP is working in radio station, a DJ and over dinner…he tells stories of crazhee people who call him asking for ridiculous songs.. like HummbaLoola Jive. What the fuck?

CFB is trying to get the kids to come get the desserts. Brooke Leilani runs into kitchen excitedly…”I want summ, I want summm”.

So, there we are..sitting at the dining room…OGB slightly tipsy. WAP’s face a little too red from drinking a little bit of alcohol. CFB sitting comfortably with her legs raised, sipping her wine glass..She’s heavily pregnant with her 3rd child. PP has all the kids wiped and cleaned properly so they could run off and play.

Their spouses are in the living room watching football (Liverpool Vs Chelsea) A lot of shouting going on in there. Since all had placed bets on Chelsea…except CFB’s other half of course. He wouldn’t dare.

Sharkbait says it’s about that time….and goes off to get the time capsule. (the box) wrapped in plastic covers for water proof protection. We’ll remember the time when we were at Brekwerkz. And the guy whom we passed PP’s no too… We’ll be laughing and grinning….and while unwrapping the plastic covers….

WAP will exclaim, in his quiet, mysterious and yet somehow annoying way…“OOOO….the Box” and we’ll laugh out calling him a nut and an arse. There will be an opening ceremony…The bottle of wine that Sharkbait kept together with the box, since December 17 2005. We’ll have a toast and we will all look at each other, wondering what each one had placed in the box. Maybe photos…maybe fake snow..who knows..We’ll be quiet for a while, busy reading and exchanging the contents with one another…And from across the kitchen…the noise in the living room has quiten down and they look us in amusement, shaking their heads…and they’ll come around to read what we had wrote 5 years ago…they’ll look at the photos and laugh. Maybe they’ll ask questions, maybe they won’t.(Oh, questions will definitely be raised)

We’ll remember what happened 5 years ago. We’ll remember that was the year the trivia game was born. Because of that game, we will always remember Ranjan. We learnt that CFB’s comfort food is actually chocolate..but she liked to think it was pasta. We now know what WAP did in camp when he found some clothing. We know PP can be really naughty when she’s in Germany. We’ll remember that CFB must have a glass of water constantly. OGB watched Serendipity for first time that year. PP gets drunk way too fast and WAP is such a competitive bum.

We’ll remember WAP found the love of his life. We’ll remember how OGB’s dream of becoming a nurse came thru…We’ll remember CFB loves apple juice. We’ll remember Sharkbait’s addiction to m&ms. The chilling sessions at Wala Wala’s. The movie screenings…the ride to WAP’s house. Dinner at CFB’s house. OGB’s Norway trip. CFB went to New York. Sharkbait tagged along. The surprise dinner at Jerry’s. The discovery of fake snow.

Then we’ll discuss to do another time capsule..but that discussion is cut short because Kai Michael is banging away on his drums while Brooke Leilani & Bianca are screaming. And at that point, OGB will tell us she’s pregnant too..and she’s expecting a boy, Ryan Diego….PP will tell us she’s got a job offer at a hotel in Italy….WAP gets all excited and tells us that he’s thinking of adopting kids. CFB tells us that her company is expanding and they’ll be setting up a company in New York. Sharkbait will then tell all of them…that Santa Claus really does exist!!

We’ll look back and remember. That five years ago wasn’t that far off..it was just a long while.

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life”

-Sam’s Letters to Jennifer, James Patterson-