Birthday Cards - Family is Crazy!
Jerrett and I both have November birthdays. His is the 12th and mine is the 28th. So it’s the time of year when family and friends send us crazy birthday cards and I thought I’d share a couple with you.
The above is a picture of a bunch of clowns - on the inside it says, “You can just tell we’re family” and then my sister Tory added, “I don’t see you and I in this photo, did we miss the call?” She’s a nut and I laughed so hard my sides hurt after reading it. It’s funny because I use a ‘circus freak’ analogy when talking about the hight difference between myself and the rest of my family - I’m over six feet tall - my dad and mom…they do good not to require peddle extensions in their cars.
I remember when I was about 14, I got a card from my mom in the mail that had a picture of a big nose on the front of it - I thought to myself, “What in the heck!?” Then I opened it and I still remember what it said - and it’s words EVERYONE should live by. “You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose” - truer words have never been printed.
Which leads me to this jewel. When I saw it, I got a bit weepy. I don’t think we realize how quickly they grow and change - but it only took this card, personally created by my dad and step mom, for Jerrett’s 14th birthday this year:
See what I mean? Look at him. He is SO adorable! The first thing John said when he saw it was, “Wow, two belts, so this isn’t a new thing?” Jerrett is standing in the living room of my dad and step mom’s house, behind him on the floor is the train he would play with for hours and hours. It had smoke. Real live smoke. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of course, as every good ‘ole Texas boy should be, he’s wearing Wrangler jeans and I’d be willing to bet, that’s one of those crazy canvas shirts that were so popular back then. I don’t know. He looks so sweet and innocent 
Anyway, so those are some of the cards from this year. I’ll post some more, as they come in I’m sure.
I Pulled An All Nighter - Jealous?
Here I sit, zombie-like and exhausted. What, you might be asking, possessed me to stay up all night on a ’school night’? Sick kid. It does it every time. It seems, every time we have plans, as a family, to go out of town or something similar, Jerrett gets real sick right before. I can only assume he does it because he’s worried himself sick - he tends to over-think things to the point of exhaustion and we all knows what happens then. At any rate, he’s crashed out on the couch right now and I am sitting here attempting to pull my head together enough to work on stuff that ain’t gonna wait, no matter who is sick.
Also? I got the cutest birthday card from my sister in Florida - it’s funny and if I wasn’t so physically spent, I’d take the Christmas Cards off the scanner (and the Blockbuster movie, my sunglasses and some random business expenses receipts) and scan it for all to see…but, alas, I’m to tired to move…so maybe later. I also want to share Jerrett’s birthday card that my dad and stepmom sent. It is absolutely priceless! It’s a picture of Jerrett at about age 3 standing in their living room…he looks so darn cute!
Anyway now this just turning into randomness and it’s keeping me from doing the crap I need to be doing.
It’s November - YaY!
I got a phone call yesterday from an actual real person who was calling to ask me if I supported Barack Obama - it was actually refreshing to hear an actual voice - which begs the question, is McCain using Robo-Calling because he can’t get actual real life people to make the phone calls? Things that make you go hmmm - especially in this decidedly republican state where McCain already holds the office of Senator. To date, 1 real life phone call from Obama’s camp - 6 Robo-Calls from McCain’s camp and/or his local political supporters asking me to support him.
One question, to all of you out there, do the calls really work? I wonder, because I can’t imagine some random (or live or robo) call prompting me to change my mind - I would like to think, at this juncture, minds aren’t being changed by listening to telephone propaganda. I could be wrong though.
The new glasses are pretty awesome. Friday night, I did have some minor headache-ish type stuff, but I think it was because I was relaxing my eye muscles, rather than straining - and I’d been straining for so long, it no longer caused me headaches.
I Twitter’d, Friday night, that it’d been dark for over 40 minutes and I’d not had a single trick-or-treater…shortly after I updated, I got one - it was nothing like Halloween on Hitt Street in Boyd (they closed down the street for trick-or-treating and we’d have thousands of people) but we did have a good turn out - when I’d finally had enough, I dumped my candy bucket in this one kids pillow case, because he had a darn good costume and I was bone tired and wanted to relax.
Our anniversary is in six days - that’s Saturday for all you guys out there wondering. Followed directly by the Marine Corps birthday (11/10) then Jerrett’s 14th birthday (11/12) rounding out the month with Thanksgiving (11/27) and my birthday(s) (11/23 & 11/28) - it’s a full month, for sure.
I’m not sure what we’re going to do for the holidays. We had originally planned on going to Texas, but financially - with the economy and whatnot, it’s just not in the cards. Then, we’d thought we might head out to Bakersfield to spend the holidays with that side of the family, but as that time draws closer and closer - it’s not looking like we will - so who knows. We’ve got a week or so to decide…
Anyway, that about sums up what is going on here. We’re hanging out, as usual, for a day of absolutely zero excitement.
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