On August 17, 2012, my sister celebrated her 21st birthday. There were plenty of presents, and if I compare which of the 3 of us got the most presents this year, my sister would be in 1st place, me in 2nd and my brother only in 3rd. So what did my sister actually get?
- A multifunction printer Canon from Dad and Mim
- A pack of 6 bottles of mineral water Ondrasovka Forest Fruits from Dad and Mim
- 500 sheets of white paper, because she prints a really huge amount, from Dad and Mim
- A few books for school, which I chipped in a little for
For food we had the classic potato salad and pork schnitzel. We had lunch at around 12:30. I didn’t eat a single bite of it, because I wasn’t hungry. When you get up at 10, you just aren’t hungry by 12. So in the meantime I at least peeled apples for tea, and then, once everyone had finished eating and Lukas had disappeared somewhere, I took on lighting the 20 candles on the cake.
Mim had put only 20 candles on it, even though my sister was turning 21, and Tit then scolded her for it, saying you always use an odd number – either 21 or, at worst, 19.
After I had lit them all without harming my health, we sang “Happy Birthday” to my sister – while my brother, as usual, didn’t sing at all, though maybe he joined in toward the end. Then we all congratulated her (except her boyfriend, who wasn’t here yet). Surprisingly, Dad had the most rigid speech, but this time the others were also rather sparing with words. I gave my sister the sodas on behalf of Dad, and Mom gave her the books on my behalf.
Then we cut the cake from Lidl – a sour cherry one – and I went to set up the printer for my sister that she got. The printer looks really nice, and I don’t know how much it cost, but it is really well thought out. My sister is mainly interested in the price of the cartridges, because she will now probably have to buy them herself, since she won’t be printing on Dad’s printer. There was just one thing I didn’t understand – as I wrote, I don’t know how much it cost, but for that price you could already buy a decent laser printer with a low TCO.
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