Birthday Surprise

I’ve got a birthday surprise for my wife—NO BLOG. Wait, that’s not going to work. I’ve already started writing this, and it’s related to her birthday and I wish she has (now I must confess, I should have said “had” since I’m actually not writing this on her birthday, but rather the day following, early Sunday morning. And I’m pre-dating it so that it looks like I was prompt in my birthday wishes. So really this could be filed under “belated birthday.” And as such I could draw upon all kinds of great humor in that section of the b-day cards aisle. But I’m going to pretend that I was responsible and got this blog in on time. So where was I? Oh, yeah. . .) a wonderful 47th birthday.

So what could the surprise be? I bought her a web-cam for her computer, so she can now show her smile to the admiring world. But she was kind of expecting that, I think. And besides I didn’t hide it very well, and she found it before her birthday. And I’ve been working in the garage all day long trying to get it ready for a second car and a real working laundry tub and hopefully heat, but she knows all about that.

I didn’t short-sheet the bed.
I didn’t send any sweet message concerning her to the newspaper.
I didn’t buy her the flowers that she received from her sister (although I tried to think of a way to take credit)
I did take her out for supper.
I did make my own sandwich for lunch.
I did run numerous errands and filled up the gas tank in her vehicle.

But what could be the birthday surprise? Maybe I’ll have to wait a day to think about it. Or could it be . . . ?