Curvy Jones on:Playing Hooky
Yesterday I marched into my boss’ office and informed him that I was thinking about not coming into work today. He looked at me and said, “You’re gonna play a little hooky?”
“I thought I might,” I said.
“Go for it,” he said. “Whatcha gonna do?”
“I have no idea,” I said, walking out of his office. “But it won’t involve getting up at 6am.”
At least it wouldn’t have, if I had remembered to turn off the alarm. I feel a nap coming on.
I wanted to thank everyone, everywhere, for all the birthday wishes. I don’t think I’ve ever had that big of a birthday. I mean I didn’t have a party or anything but in all of my online haunts, people remembered (Or Facebook told them). I felt loved and it was a great day, only slightly marred by no phone call, text or email from Mom & Pop Jones or BigMike. SIL did send me a message on Facebook. I think it was her… she and Mike share an account. One of them sent me a message around 7:40 last night. And my mom sent an email this morning. She apparently lost her cell phone and Dad… you guessed it, only has my old number.
I just don’t know what to do about those people.
As predicted, Boss bought lunch. YAY! And then… I mean… I work with a lot of guys. I prefer it, actually. Mostly so that every holiday doesn’t have to be celebrated with a potluck and every new baby doesn’t require a baby shower and who can deal with the rise in estrogen once a month? There are about a handful of women, but the staff is mostly men. Those men gathered around our lunch table yesterday and sang Happy Birthday to me. I was touched, from the bottom of my heart. and then I ate like 3 pieces of pizza and salad and wanted to take a nap except that I had a long, convoluted contract I had to help write. Boooo.
I rushed home and changed and ran a hot flat iron through my hair and got ready for my dinner date, who was charming and lovely and great company. I”m so excited to have made a new friend! I ate a lot of food (herb crusted salmon with potatoes and asparagus) and then ate dessert (warm apple crisp a la mode). And then the waitstaff sang to me and gave me a second dessert.
Which I tried to eat but I was already overfull and had to be rolled out of the restaurant. Since I took today off, I had planned on staying up late and playing on the interwebs but I crawled into the bed minutes after I got home, was nodding by 10:30 and I’m almost sure I was asleep by midnight.
SIGH. Great day.
So now I am up but still in bed, catching up on the interwebz. I plan on doing some reading ( I bought a couple of real live, not-Kindle books this week!) and doing some writing, but generally hanging out and enjoying myself.
And napping. Getting older is hard work.
Filed in: Daily GrindTags: 2010 · birthday aftermath
Yea! I had a good time and was happy I could be a part of your birthday!
I did the opposite this morning–my set alarm (read: cellphone) did NOT go off and I was 30 minutes late to work. Oops!
Glad your birthday was great! Sounds perfect to me! and my family never remembers my bday either. they don’t even apologize or make excuses, so at least you have that!
Oh it sounds great and of course you are loved. You know I was telling someone about your blog today and I called it the diary of curvy love…. seeeeee ;-)
Dude, make it a birthday weekend! You deserve it!