Blanket Chair, 2001-2007. R.I.P.

They were out late for Leina's birthday, but Leina and Charles and Erica and Tony and Angie didn't sleep in too late. They got up and were going to go out to brunch with Kristi and Ricca, but they decided against it because at 11:30 on a Sunday you always have to wait in line if you want to eat an omelet that a stranger made for you.

So they went to the new Glen Park Marketplace, a fancy grocery store right nearby, and bought eggs, avocados, salsa, tortillas, and cheese and came home and made breakfast burritos. Ricca and Kristi brought Beard Papa's, to the delight of all.

Plans to do anything else fizzled when Tony started complaining about the blanket chair, and Kristi and Ricca suggested the logical idea of putting the blankets into a closet, and suddenly, under all this peer pressure, Leina found herself going through her closet and throwing out all the pants that she bought for herself 10 years ago in Japan but hasn't worn since. She wound up with four garbage bags of clothes that she is giving away, all the blankets in her closets, all her clothes in her bedroom closet, and she even had room left over to put jackets in one closet!

She did, however, absolutely refuse to throw out an incredibly dirty, falling apart, 40 year old radio that she had never ever ever used, because 'it still works!' Tony plugged it in, and indeed, all were treated to that awesome Moulin Rouge song with Christina Aguliera, Pink, Lil' Kim, etc. singing Lady Marmelade.