What a week I'm having!

Since I seem to be staring at a computer screen all day at work lately, I didn’t even turn on my home computer all week. I need to check up on my fellow bloggers to see how everyone is doing. Here is a sampling of my week:

Max came over on Sunday and we had tons of fun outside for a change. He saw the flowers in the front yard and said, “These are beautiful! I call them’ tulips’.” We had to tell him they were really daffodils, and he was OK with that. Later in the week I went to his house and brought some modeling clay as a present, just to see what we could do with it. We wound up making awful reproductions of everyone in the Spongebob cartoon. When I left, he piped up, “Thanks for my treat, Da!” I know in ten years he won’t be that polite, so I’m enjoying it now.

At work one day we were just winding up a meeting, and there were about eight of us in the room. We were telling stories and getting ready to leave, and I was complaining about the tiny print on the bottle of glucosamine we give to Kodiak, the Great Dane/Lab mix we inherited. Out of blue, one of the guys says, “I took my dog’s medication for a week before I realized it.” We all just roared at that. “Do you have a strange affinity for fire hydrants now?” You can imagine the things we threw at him. We were laughing so hard we couldn’t leave the room for a few minutes.

We had a nice email from daughter Ann today. She had had her first job interview in Ireland and told us all about it. While the meeting didn’t go all that well, she is smart enough to gauge a business model and recognize a loser when she sees one. This company had only one client. She’s already been burned by a similar situation in the US. The one bright spot for me was that I knew all the places she mentioned in her letter: the train station, the mountains, the towns. I must say I felt like quite the world traveler.

Now I think I’m getting the flu and may just stay home tomorrow. Fortunately I’ve stocked up on library books for just such an occasion.

One last thing: I’m taking a poll. Women only may respond. (OK, Jeff, you may respond, but I may discount your opinion.) Here’s the deal: Our 34th anniversary is coming up on April 24. We are going to dinner on Saturday the 23rd. I have this really nice diamond ring I plan to give Kathy. The question is: should I give it to her at dinner, or the next day (our actual anniversary day)? Thanks for playing our game.