Elf is SO clueless...

[elfs]

So, Friday I wandered up to Capitol Hill for my monthly haircut. While I was heading up there, I got an SMS from FallenPegasus asking me if where I was and if I wanted a ride down to my house. We hadn't had a Friday dinner together in a long time with the family. I told him my status and agreed to meet him at the salon at 5:15.

It was 5:00 when Lancer finished, so I wandered up Capitol Hill to find Body Circles. The bead had fallen out of my earring, and after three days of wandering around with a chunk of pencil eraser as an emergency fillin, it was time to get it fixed. Body Circles was gone but Laughing Buddha across the street was open, so I went there. They were really professional; the dude who did the bead refit put on gloves and a sterilized pair of pliers, and only charged me for the bead.

I caught up with FallenPegasus and he drove me back to the house. I appreciated the lift (you won't, though; there's another 1,000 words of Jake and Jinme lost to time). Omaha called and told us that she was out of hamburger meat, so we stopped at the grocery on the way home.

The house was nicely cleaned when I got there. I complimented Omaha and getting the girls to pick up all of their toys and stuff from the living room. While we started making dinner, Omaha told me that she had misjudged how many frozen fries ("chips" to the UK and Aussie types) we had and could I please go to the store and get more? "You have plenty of time," she said. "You can walk." She knows I like walking to the store.

So I walked to the store, then walked home... right into a surprise birthday party. Okay, lessee... a friend who used to visit often but now rarely does shows up to offer me a ride home, the house is suspiciously clean, my wife and daughters have been having huddled and hushed conversations ever since Wednesday, which was my birthday, and now she's trying to get me out of the house for a moment.

Just how clueless can I be?

Anyway, it was a lovely birthday party. The beautiful desirae showed up, as did kaelisinger and her adorable family. We sat, drank good wine, chatted. Omaha and the girls laid out a wonderful buffet of chips, watermelon and grapes, as well as a home-made carrot cake (yay!) and blissfully few presents.

It's a good thing, too, that not too many people showed up because we had to be in bed early. We're parents, after all.

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[woggie.livejournal.com]

I lucked out, but Sweetie didn't. She's sick (sort of like Omaha), so instead of spending Saturday at my brother's house with his wife and kids, we stayed here at home and convalesced. I'm dosing myself heavily with 4,000 mg of vitamin C every day or so (basically whenever I remember), and drinking lots of water to attempt not to catch it what Sweetie has.

Maybe next weekend we'll be celebrating my birthday. We'll get around to it eventually. I'm going to be 45 for the whole year, after all. :)

[omahas.livejournal.com]

And happy birthday for all 45 of it. ;)