camera phone photos of disposable camera pictures (or, "my aunt laurie is going to kill me")

a couple months ago, i posted a little something about how my mother (for the approximately ten zillionth time in my life) talked me into going to a crazy event with her.  (it can be found here.)  this time, it wasn't a bahai'i feast or a bunco tournament or a politician's brunch.  this time, it was a ladies tea, sponsored by a women's charity no one in my family has anything to do with.  anyway, luke and i went home last night and i was able to take some super terrible photos on my phone of the photos my mom had taken with a disposable camera (despite the fact that she has a perfectly fine digital camera she can't figure out how to use).

so, drumroll please, here they are.  i'm mostly just posting them so you fools will believe i truly met kathryn joosten, because i know you didn't think it was possible.

here's us at our table, decorated in pink fabric roses.  apparently last year, my mom went all out for her table, creating a day of the dead spectacular that didn't win any prizes.  she was very upset about this all year and decided to do the absolute bare minimum this year (as evidenced above).  because my entire family is made up of sarcastic, evil demons, when it came time to "vote" (with dollars)  for the best table, my grandma, my aunt and i scraped together $17 and our table won third place.  my mom got a ribbon.  this is partly why that day was so amazing.

this is me with kathryn joosten.  suck it, haters.

this is why my aunt laurie might kill me.  it's also a good depiction of the early morning mimosas we all threw back and the hours we spent hovering around the silent auction table, preventing anyone from outbidding us.

which leads me to this:

look at all the stuff i won!  it's not pictured, sadly, but i also won, in a raffle, an awesome turquoise pendant that apparently was "very old" and "storied," according to the random stranger who stopped me in the banquet hall lobby to discuss it with me.  also not pictured is all the loot the rest of my family won.  just trust me.  we were all winners.

all in all, i think the bunch of us made out pretty well, considering we didn't know a single person in the room and were there simply in support of my mother, who was there simply because she can't say no to anyone who asks her to take their place doing something insane.

at least we all know where i get it from.