Thursday, November 09, 2006

GIFTS, GAB, & GUILT!!!!

What more could a girl ask for on her Birthday?

The Gifts - The day started out with me finding my annual Birthday Bear, from the counselor, sitting on my pillow. I also got a purse by Vera Bradley and a Red one by Tommy Hilfiger. And then the Ultimate Gift was the Hardbound, Boxed set of the complete works of Gary Larson’s FAR SIDE COMICS. Unbelievable!!

The Gab - And then it was off to work, where my day was broken up several times with phone calls from friends and family, including “alphabet” the soldier boy, and Jac. Some of them usually only correspond by e-mail, so it was such a pleasure to not only have them remember the day, but it was wonderful to just get to chat with friends and do a little catching up!! Then on the evening of my birthday, while having a coffee with the counselor, I got a sweet, sweet call from my niece and one of my nephews. It was “Happy Birthday to you…” complete with “Deeear Aunt Lenkaaaaa”. It was spectacular. I made the sister, who also put her good wishes in, call back and have them do it again on my voicemail so I could keep it.


And then…, AND THEN…

The Guilt – the other sister, (and I totally believe her) thought about calling earlier in the day, but it was too early to call me, so she wound up forgetting until the next day. So when she called me I could tell that she was riddled with guilt and remorse, and even though I assured her that it was the though that counts, she must have wallowed all day long until she came up with the PERFECT restitution: A PUBLIC APOLOGY, complete with an irresistible picture of the nephew!! And it worked. She’s forgiven forever!!

Yep, I’m one lucky gal to be so loved. And I want to just say Thanks to you all and I LOVE YOU back!! Ya’ll don’t forget next year now, ya hear?!!!

3 comments:

SheBear said...

I have nothing really to say, except Hippo birdie two ewes, but I wanted to post a comment just because the word verification thing is so fun! Heehee!

Sounds like you had a great day! I love you bunches, you hear?

My verification word is: "taqit" As in "If you want this last chocolate chip cookie, you'll have to taqit from my cold, dead fingers!"

Lenka said...

Good one Sister... Glad to see you're up for the games. Jac wants to try too. I'll have to let Susie in on it.

my WVW is "GPPSSM" as in "I want my honey to GPPSSM diamonds to me for Christmas"

SheBear said...

heheheh....good luck with that one!

My verification word is "gihwoxye" as in, "giwoxye gonna gimme for Christmas? I really wanna know!"