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So I’m sitting here at Starbucks for my regular Sunday morning coffee with Katie.  Getting some work done, you know, whatever.  We had to come inside because it’s to windy outside and the good cushy chairs were taken.  Correction, they were empty except for a book.  NO HOLDSIES BACKSIES!!!  I was tempted to just go right ahead and sit but Katie isn’t in the best of moods this morning so in an effort to keep her from being uncomfortable with the situation I was creating, we mosied to the back of the store and set up shop there.  The music is absolute CRAP.  It’s annoying, distracting, even enraging at times but I’m chugging along doing my thing just fine until I go outside for a cigarette.  This bizarre fellow rides his bike up (not all that weird considering I wish I’d use my legs occasionally instead of driving everywhere).  What threw me about him was that he proceded to grab a chair and chain his bike to it.  I’m sitting there thinking, hm….I bet if I really wanted to, I could throw that bike and that chair right on in the back of my truck.  Granted, I don’t have a truck, but I should.  This is not the point my pretties.  The point is, what the hell kind of security is that??  So I’m already leery of this fellow.  Then I return to my station inside to find that he has parked his weird self right next to us.  Mui Uncomfortable.  If he starts trying to talk to us, I swear I’ll throw the laptop at his head and run for my life.

Other than this, my morning is quite uneventful.  Of course it’s football day so that’s what I’ll be doing an hour from now until I can’t stay awake any longer.

Last night we all congregated at Mom and Dad’s house to celebrate my Dad’s birthday.  That was a good time while I could last.  I always enjoy my family.  But for some reason last night I just wasn’t feeling myself and all I wanted to do was go home and go to bed.  So that’s what I did.  I just know though that I missed something fun.  I always do when I leave before April and Bill do.  Its like when you’re in a bar with good friends.  You just keep on drinking instead of going home because you know that if you don’t, they’re going to bond on some level that you were left out of because you wanted to go home so you could make it through the work day tomorrow.  Forget that!!  Always stay!!  My family is like that to me.  (Is this a sick comparison??  Maybe, but it’s true.)  I have a hard time leaving them because they could bond on some level without me and that is just unacceptable.  The next family get together will likely be Christmas.  We don’t tend to do anything for Thanksgiving.  They usually go “down home” and spend that day with the extended family which quite frankly is just to overwhelming for me.  I’ll stay home thank you very much.  On that level, I’m oddly OK with them bonding without me.

So today is my sister and brother-in-law’s anniversary!!!  YAY!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!  I aspire to what they have.  I envy it.  It is so admirable to me that people like them exist.  I love you Bill and April and I’m so proud of you.  What is it now??  This is 12 years isn’t it??  WOW.  In this day and age, that is impressive and I can’t wait to see them still supporting each other through everything in another 12 years.  Of course, by then, they’ll be supporting each other through taking care of our parents because that is April’s job.  I’ll pop in from time to time of course and spread my cheer and charm, but I’m not changing diapers.  That’s all I’ve got to say about that.