I did, in fact, get a call about the skull card, but it was from my mom. In her stubbornness to put off getting glasses, things are often fuzzy, blurry, or just downright ridiculous looking through her eyes.
She called to congratulate me on sending the best card in the G-ma Birthday Competition (a spot formerly held by the Uncle Jeff, whom I temporarily dethroned).
My crown, however, was short-lived and soon revoked in the following way:
Mom: Your card was so funny. We loved your subtle message.
Me: Wha?
Mom: You know, all those skulls smoking cigarettes - we all tell her that she should quit, especially at her age, but your card really got the point across. A little morbid maybe don't you think!
(my family loves morbid - hence the best card award)
Me: Cigarettes?! You really are sick. Those are noise makers mom. The skulls are blowing them happily as in, "happy birthday!" Not as in, "Hey grandma, keep smoking and you'll end up like this!" Get some glasses crazy lady.
Mom: Oh, I guess it wasn't so funny after all.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Unremarkable Things
*This is the second time a precious black kitten has crossed my path and tried to be my buddy. I named him Wolf; he likes to thrash around on my porch and chase grass shadows.
*I have entered the GRE gauntlet. Equipped with the wisdom and anxiousness passed on to me by the Peachums, I hope to take the exam by mid-autumn.
*Other fascinating things I do to pass the time when it's too hot to wander around my neighborhood and the man is away climbing wind towers include: organizing kitchen and sock drawers, sorting bills into neat, hanging box bottom folders, re-staking and twining the tomato plants, writing out my vocabulary words, grooming the Stella.
*It's fair season: last weekend was the Glouster Chile Pepper Festival - thanks to Shannon and B-rod for sitting with me through two hours of an Elvis impersonator from Coshocton. I might also go the Ohio State Fair with Lizb and Mattm to see the butter cow. All my life living in such close proximity to the gooey heifer and I've never laid eyes on her - can you believe it?
*I have entered the GRE gauntlet. Equipped with the wisdom and anxiousness passed on to me by the Peachums, I hope to take the exam by mid-autumn.
*Other fascinating things I do to pass the time when it's too hot to wander around my neighborhood and the man is away climbing wind towers include: organizing kitchen and sock drawers, sorting bills into neat, hanging box bottom folders, re-staking and twining the tomato plants, writing out my vocabulary words, grooming the Stella.
*It's fair season: last weekend was the Glouster Chile Pepper Festival - thanks to Shannon and B-rod for sitting with me through two hours of an Elvis impersonator from Coshocton. I might also go the Ohio State Fair with Lizb and Mattm to see the butter cow. All my life living in such close proximity to the gooey heifer and I've never laid eyes on her - can you believe it?
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