Breakfast, Brother and Butt

I woke up at 8:30am when my alarm went off, hit the snooze button and went straight back to bed. It wasn't until 9:30am before I decided to open my eyes and smile at the world.

It's not often that I get to sleep at 12:30am and wake up at 9:30am--a good 8 hours of solid ZZZZZ. That extra sleep puts me in a very good mood. My itenary for the morning also looked very good: Breakfast, followed by some roller-blading @ a lovely park near my home. The weather was perfect. I kicked off the blanket and wandered to the kitchen, wondering what should I indulge in for breakfast.

Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day because I get to drink coffee with food items that I like to eat, but would be strange to eat at any other time of the day except in the morning. Some of my favourite breakfasts are the simple stuff--usually some form of carbohydrates with caffiene. Eg, kaya + butter on toast with coffee. Ham & cheese sandwich with coffee. Or a soft, chewy savoury pao with coffee. Or a muffin with coffee. ANYTHING with good coffee, and I'm ready to face the day :D

I settled on cheese + tomato on buttered toast and sprinkled some dried basil onto the combination, made a nice big mug of coffee and read the comics while enjoying my breakfast alone in the morning. It's nice to have that kind of leisure alone time once in a while =) (But it's really not by choice, seeing how my brother and my mum wakes up for lunch. My dad is usually my breakfast companion, but he's away, so...)

As I was finishing up my coffee, my brother woke up (voluntarily! before lunchtime!) and asked me if I could pick up his friend and send the both of them to the interchange. It was phrased like a request, but in reality, it was a demand. Being the nice sister that I am (and because I foresee that I'll need him to drive me around sometime in the future), I gave in. Reluctantly.

Conversation in the car:
Me: You know, I don't have to do this.
He: It is out of love for your brother that you do this.
Me: Bullsh*t. I shouldn't be going this way. I should be in the other lane now, turning into the park. See? The sun's coming out. The weather would've been perfect, but you're ruining it for me.
He: No, the weather would have been the same anyway.
Me: No, the weather is getting hotter. NOW is fine, but the delay you're causing me is not going to be fine.
He: Well sometimes in life, you need to go around in circles to get to your final destination.
Me: I don't need to go on this circle.

But I do anyway.

So I picked him up, sent him and his friend to the interchange and went on my merry little way to the park and bladed happily. I was cruising along, enjoying the breeze on my skin and smiling at the greenery around me when my left foot skidded on something slippery and before I know it, my blades were going in different directions under me and BANG! I fall butt-first to the ground.

Actually, it wasn't so much a fall as it was a skid. My poor butt skidded on the asphalt. There is a part of my butt left in the park and part of the park left in my butt, and it's not a pretty sight. Unfortunately, there was no one else around to help me up. Fortunately, there was no one else around to laugh at me. Instead of going for the 2 rounds I had intended to do, one round would have to suffice.

At night, I told my brother:
Me: You know what?
He: What?
Me: I fell on my butt this morning.
He: Serious? So now how?
Me: It's bleeding. The fall took the skin off it.
He: Serious? So now how?
Me: It's all your fault.
He: Serious? So now how?
Me: So it's all your fault that you made me do that little detour. If not for that detour, I wouldn've have fallen and I wouldn't be in so much pain now.
He: *big grin on his face*

I have a doofus for a brother.

And that was how I spent my National Day holiday.