Things I've Said Lately

 One woman in our friend group has a birthday two days before Matt's, so we often celebrate them together - neither of them is big on birthdays, so sometimes we have to push a little. There was the time I threw them a joint party and accidentally made it look like I had six-year-old twins. This time we went out for dinner the day after Matt's birthday because he flew in from a two-week trip to Asia and Mexico the morning of his birthday and we wanted to leave a time cushion.

Eve Facetimed about twenty minutes before we were going to leave, so we were dressed and ready, and I was at the kitchen table talking to her while Matt puttered in the kitchen. He picked up a coffee cup and then fumbled it and dropped it in the sink and I said "What are you doing?? Why are you doing that while you're dressed up? Go and sit on the couch until we leave and don't get dirty!" And then Eve was laughing so hard she couldn't even say good-bye.

I only took one picture of them and it is very bad, I'm sorry. I think they were happy enough. 

Last night we went out for dinner with my mom and dad for Matt's birthday because it was the one night between him coming home and leaving again that worked. Except I realized a few days before that I had triple-booked myself for the night because I have lost my mind and time has lost all meaning. I switched my plans with Collette to tonight and figured I could join the other gathering a bit late because my parents like to eat really early.

In fact, I nearly got to the other place before the start time. I was meeting the moms of three of Eve's friends, and one of her friends was also in town because her boyfriend broke up with her and then we found out he was seeing someone else and now she is home until she gets her new apartment so we took the opportunity to play several rounds of Fuck That Guy, You Can Do So Much Better (also, as Jody says, "he ain't cute, he's just tall"). 

Then we were talking about how Jody (Davis's mom, who talked me through the snowy drive when I almost died) manipulated her brother into having a Seder on the proper day to placate her mother so she could have one a couple of days later so Davis could be there. Di (Marianna's mom) said "oh, it's like how they say the man is the head of the Greek household, but the wife is the neck, so she turns the head whichever way she wants", and I said "kind of, except Jody generally has her boot on the neck of the whole situation". And Jody asked me to blog that, so here we are. 

No trust me, she's very scary