food coma

listen to this list of fantastic foods we have eaten for dinner so far:
- burgers
- ribs and spinach-onion quiche and french fries
- chicken and beef and vegetable fajitas
- chicken parm and spaghetti and homemade fried ravioli

Coming soon: LEFTOVERS galore. Why does everything taste better the next day?

Surrriously. I'm going to come home 15 billion pounds heavier.

Currently sitting at the big table. My mom and her three sisters are fussing around, cleaning the kitchen, packing up whatever food is left over. My grandmother and Bob are eating still, on top of a lighthouse puzzle they just finished. My cousin and her hipster boyfriend are reading the paper and napping in the living room. Somewhere, a timer is going off. There are all these layers of noise here - the aunts talking, drawers opening and closing, the clink of silverware against dishes, music playing, and, further away, evening birdcalls, pool splashes, and kids yelling, their voices carried on the wind.