Happy birthday, sumi!
If I had your phone number, I'd have
my
brother call you. He's really good about birthday calls, and also sweet and good-looking and newly single. So, really, even better than your own actual brother calling you.
Though now I feel like a heel for even joking about such a thing...he just filed for divorce on Monday, and I feel awful for him and awful for not feeling more awful for his wife -- they've been together for a decade and married for seven years and yet she's always been so emotionally guarded that I feel that even after all this time I barely know her. To joke around with and go out for drinks with, yes, but really know? Was never able to get remotely close, not in all those years.
Thanks!
(jz - pimping her brothers to the 'bitches all the time!)
yet she's always been so emotionally guarded that I feel that even after all this time I barely know her
My SiL is the same way. I love her, I think she's sweet, and her sense of humor is more sly than you'd guess just looking at her, but she doesn't ever open up. Eleven years later, and we have a hard time having a conversation of more than two minutes on the phone if I don't do all the talking.
We ate the cake all up in one sitting. It was THAT good. Particularly for a grocery store bakery. A white cake with strawberry filling and whipped cream frosting. (Filled with actual strawberries. . . that's what made it so tasty.)
aaaand now I want some cake. White cake with strawberry filling and whipped topping.
Wheeeee! Someone's coming to buy the dog crate we advertised on Craigslist! I'm chalking it up to the cuteness of the model.
I'm chalking it up to the cuteness of the model.
I hope they're not disappointed when they find out the model isn't included.
pimping her brothers to the 'bitches all the time!
Well, just Portland!Brother. Boston!Brother (now NYC!Brother) is happily married, and he and his husband are meeting with the co-op board for the place they want to buy either today or tomorrow. Between marriage to the sweetest, cutest guy on the planet, incipient NYC home ownership, working at the same place as Keith Olbermann, and just having had his own office moved to Rockefeller Plaza (walking distance from the new home if the co-op board approves him), he's pretty near thoroughly and permanently blissed-out and unlikely to be available for sister-pimpage anytime this century.
Eleven years later, and we have a hard time having a conversation of more than two minutes on the phone if I don't do all the talking.
Yes. This. And even when you know it's just that person's nature, that you yourself are not doing anything strange and off-putting, it's still frustrating. This is the partner of someone you've known and loved (and, probably, occasionally bitten, punched and practically killed) since birth, and you're nearly strangers.
I hope they're not disappointed when they find out the model isn't included.
Heh. Probably not. They're buying it for a new puppy and I'm sure they'll have their hands full with the cuteness. And the chewing. And the house training.
Happy Birthday +1, sumi!!
