D's Birthday

Happy 50th Dad!

Poor guy - always having a birthday right before Christmas. Here we are 1982.  

A few weeks ago I found *this* post. Such a brilliant idea! We had do it for my dad for his 50th birthday. Additionally, he officially retired yesterday, so it is the perfect time to collect memories. 

I designed (though I don't love them...but when do I think things match my vision) and printed out postcards (one for each year of his life) and notes explaining what we were asking, that people record a favorite funny memory of my dad and send it to him.

As of yesterday three postcards had arrived...looking forward to more in the days to come. Maybe I'm optimistic but I want every one of them to find it's way to him. 

French

This video made me miss Paris so much. Need to pick up my French books again.

Notes Much?

I'm at work the other day with my hand in my purse trying to find a pen, but I'm just not finding one. I set it on my lap and start digging, "I KNOW I have a pen in here somewhere". It took just a moment to find one. Then I wondered - "How many pens DO I have in here anyways?" It took long enough to find one that I am embarrassed by the final results - 9.

Yes, that's right. I had NINE pens in my bag. And they are all a different pen - those 3 fine point sharpies - green, blue and black. 

Final count:

4 Sharpies (of various sizes and colors - obviously a favorite)

2 Pilots (fine and extra fine point)

1 Fentons Creamery pen 

1 AON pen (from my trip to the AIJA conference in Paris - AON is a risk management firm who were marketing their services to lawyers at the conference)

Why might one need 9 pens? Well obviously to make notes in the THREE notebooks I seem to be carrying around. That would be in addition to the ubiquitous number of notes I have stored in my iPhone.

You'd think I carried all of these around in a large bag - especially since I have such a difficult time locating items in the bag - nope, it's not that big at all. 

B-day Dinner

Not a birthday, a baptism day. My adorable friend C was baptized today. I gave a shaky talk at the baptism, and managed to keep the tears in check for the entire day. We had a pre-B-day dinner last night at Leatherby's and then dinner tonight after the baptism at Petra Greek - tasty stuff. 

C & S

Me & T

And here we are playing with the photo-booth app on my phone. 

It's speedy. There is not much time to change your expression. 

Which makes some of photos, well, interesting.