The very first thing I did when I finished work Saturday morning was change the greeting on my phone to,  ’I'm 46, fat and bald. Who the hell are you?’

Even though it was only 4am when I got home, ♀  heard me come in and sang  ’Happy Birthday’ to me from our bedroom and even though I’d forgot to bring her coffee, she got up and made me breakfast. She’d been up late the night before making me peanut-butter pie and there was a present for me on the computer chair; an espresso machine. I don’t drink much coffee, but I do enjoy the occasional espresso.

I checked my email, but there were no birthday greetings. I did get a couple of bday tweets, but I was feeling kinda sorry for myself. A friend sent me this video.  Have you seen it before? Martina McBride probably wasn’t even born when Elvis recorded this. The way she’s dressed, her hair, how she walks in, except for the gaudy Christmas ornaments…it’s flawless. It has absolutely nothing to do with my birthday, but it did cheer me up.

♀ wasn’t home when I got up later that afternoon. There was a note saying she’d gone to the gym. I checked my email and still no birthday greetings from anyone. Mini had been sick all week so I hadn’t seen him at all and figured he’d give me a card when I saw him next week, but an email or phone call would have been nice. I was pretty sure I’d see Junior later in the day and ♀ would probably remind him. Nothing from my parents or anyone else.  ♀ had told me the week before that she’d made dinner reservations at a very swanky Vancouver restaurant, but they were forecasting snow for Saturday and in this part of the world that could easily make it a 2 hour drive each way. So we decided on a nice local restaraunt, but a couple of days before we decided that we’ve been spending way to much money and we should just have a romantic dinner for two at home.

♀ got home from the gym, we had some lovin’s and a shower and decided to go for a drive and then a stroll through some of the shops. I found a ‘Loony Tunes’ neck-tie at a second hand store for a buck so I was happy. We stopped at a little martini bar for a couple of drinks. I showed the waitress my new tie and she bought me a birthday drink and the evening was looking up. Junior had said he’d put the roast on before he went out and called his mom while we were in the bar to confirm the temperature.  Junior called again when we were driving home to say the care-taker for our building stopped him on the way out to ask him if he and I could help him move some stuff out of the Amenity Room.

You’re probably reading this and saying to yourself  ’how could he NOT know what was going on?’ I swear, I didn’t have a clue. Keeping a secret is not a strong point for ♀ or Junior or Mini. Junior and his girlfriend exchanged their Christmas gifts 2 weeks ago because Junior couldn’t keep it a secret. Mini is worse at it then Junior is and ♀…she’s invented special occasions just so she could give me gifts early. I was completely clueless when I walked in to the Amenity Room to a surprise party.

Both kids, parents, nephew, brother-in-law, lots of friends, food, booze, music, cool gifts and ♀ looking pleased as punch that she’d surprised me. I don’t know for sure, but I think that was my first surprise party. Of course with advancing age…more and more of them will be surprises. Pretty soon I’ll be able to hide my own Easter eggs.

Seriously though, I had a really good time. I’m a lucky lucky sissy!

Oh, and just in case you hadn’t figured this out yet…

I ♥♥♥ ♀

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2 Comments »

1. 

   I am pretty sure a good time was had by all my love. You are as much the light of my life as I am the light of yours. Thanks for being you.

   Comment by modder — December 15, 2009 @ 8:27 am

2. 

   Glad to hear you had such a wonderful birthday! Here’s to many more!

   Comment by Rori — December 15, 2009 @ 2:02 pm

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