Lol, you guys are just really funny, and I totally appreciate the humor today.
I promise to come back and address the fish thing. It's disturbing, and I need a night's sleep to mull over what I'm thinking so I can write about it.
But in the vein of funny, I want to tell you something here that i hope makes you laugh. So today is my now D17's birthday. Yep, the 17th anniversary-exactly-of the day she was born. I was present, and so was her dad. So last week, I asked him what we were going to do to celebrate. He said, "it's my night to have her, so why don't we meet for dinner and give her presents? Let's choose a place that she likes where they'll bring her dessert and sing to her." We agree to meet at Red Robin...
So, I tried calling him all day and finally got him when he was en route to picking her up. I launched right in: " I have a chiro appt at 5:15, and it won't take long. I realize you are picking her up now (4:30), so why don't you go to my house, pick up her meds and have a glass of wine and then we'll meet at Red Robin?" He says, very confused, "what the hell are you talking about? I have pork chops marinating and we have plans for Friday." I say "WTF?" He says, "I told you I'm going to DC tomorrow, and since I don't get back until Thursday night-her birthday-I figured we'd do it Friday." I say "WTF? Hr birthday is today! WTF?????"
So we launch plan B. Which is my plan. We sit down, and he's kind of sheepish and I say, "K, let me give you something to remember. D20's birthday is 2/22 and D17's is 3/3. Think twos and threes." He starts kinda laughing and said, "uh, actually, i always think that D20's birthday is 2/24 and D17's is 3/7. The only reason I said 3/6 is because I knew 3/7 was wrong, so I guessed. Obviously wrong." I could only stare at him. I cannot believe he has had their birthdays all wrong all along. Color me speechless. The two leading ladies in his life, and he argues their date of birth with me. The one who gave birth to them. WTF.
Dinner was good, and it's good to be home watching While You Were Sleeping. One of my all time favorite movies.
Now back to your program. I'll be back tomorrow with more organized thoughts. It's probably good for you that I wait.
Betsey
"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
