Fun Fact Friday!!! (Or, The Post That Didn't Get Deleted.)
* I once witnessed a huge fight in a Chinese restaurant. My BFF was with The Man and I and she was facing us, away from the action and missed the WHOLE thing. The Manager said something VERY OFFENSIVE (I can only surmise) in Chinese to The Waiter and The Waiter started screaming at The Manager (in Chinese) and The Manager was screaming at The Waiter (in Chinese) and The Ladies behind the counter were cleaning everything SUPER-DUPER WELL and pretending not to see the crazy fight brewing and then The Waiter hauled off and SLAPPED The Manager across the face and The Manager's glasses flew off and The Waiter kept screaming (in Chinese) and then he picked up a HUGE vase off the counter and held it high over his head, as if to SMASH IT DOWN onto The Manager and that is when The Lady stopped pretending to clean and yelled at The Waiter (in Chinese) and he put down the vase and stormed away. And after all our hearts started beating again (and I, of course, was nervous-laughing my ASS OFF), The Man turns to me and out of the corner of his mouth, he says this:
'What the hell kind of Karate Chop was that?'
* I had a real life, semi-stalker. I call him a SEMI-stalker because he was less *STALKY* and more *UN-DISSUADED PURSUER.* He wrote me letters that were left unanswered for YEARS. He wrote from the service, then from college, then from jail. When he was in the service, he wrote me a letter that had a couple lines of Morse Code on the back. I looked that shit right up. It said, 'You are not my friend, you are my dream.' Mmm-hmm. He finally stopped calling me (12 or so years later) after The Little Sister told him (yet again) that I wasn't available. He huffed, 'I just want to be FRIENDS with her, why is she AVOIDING me?' and then he hung up on her.
* I fully believe that there is an unconscious mind, in which logic and reason fail to matter. One of my favorite byproducts/actions of the unconscious being parapraxis (Freudian Slips.) Like the time my friend began a speech in college by saying, 'One summer, I took a vacation and stayed in my friend's parents' condom...' BAH!
* For some reason, I am extremely prone to mosquito bites. Yesterday, I was out in the yard, talking to The Man for seriously, like, two minutes and I came back into the house with EIGHT bites, all over my legs. GRRRR. The Man was out there for hours and got not-a-one.
* Everyone in my whole family forgot my seventeenth birthday. (The semi-stalker remembered, though, and he sent flowers.)
* Exactly one year ago, right this minute (as I'm typing), I was in L&D pushing and pushing and pushing (and DEMANDING! MORE ICE!). You don't really know ALL THE DETAILS, of course (A POX on you, Typepad!) but I had that little baby at 12:25 AM. I'll get to the rest of that birth story after the party. But here's a flip-through to the end for you. (*WARNING: Plot Spoiler!*)
The Littlest New Girl
Born: 6/6/07
12:25 AM
7.1 lbs, 21 inches long
I know. She had a rough start.
But here.
What a difference a year makes, eh?
P.S. Wide Lawns? That up there is what makes it ALL worth it. Promise.
She's so beautiful.
But then, so are you.
Rawr.
I currently have my very own stalker.
He's married and lives two doors down from my husband's sister.
He keeps sending me flowers.
Apparently, he wants Boo to come and visit him...
Posted by: Redneck Mommy | June 08, 2008 at 11:05 PM
She is gorgeous! Happy Birthday!!!
And, I have a great Chinese Restaurant story too----must be a volatile place to work!
Posted by: Fairly Odd Mother | June 08, 2008 at 08:50 AM
OH SHE IS THE CUTEST BABY EVER!
Posted by: Swistle | June 07, 2008 at 10:20 PM
she is awesome!
Posted by: magpie | June 07, 2008 at 10:09 PM
WIAW: I don't remember too much about it but I don't recall being weirded out. I was surprised, really, because he was always so RULE ABIDING.
He was caught with another guy breaking into houses. I don't remember the details but I don't even think they really stole anything...
It does sound awful weird, now that I type it out...hmmm.
Posted by: the new girl | June 07, 2008 at 08:15 PM
The stalker ending up in jail didn't even seem to raise the hairs on your arms. Not even a little bit?
Posted by: woman in a window | June 07, 2008 at 06:35 PM
She is such a DOLL! Mind if I gobble her up? Really? Oh well.
What is the deal with mosquitoes? They NEVER bite me, and yet, anything that has a stinger within a 5 mile radius of my youngest daughter will find her and sting until it dies. I think some people just have a chemistry that makes stinging insects want them with a white hot heat.
Posted by: Krissa | June 07, 2008 at 11:08 AM
She is such a DOLL! Mind if I gobble her up? Really? Oh well.
What is the deal with mosquitoes? They NEVER bite me, and yet, anything that has a stinger within a 5 mile radius of my youngest daughter will find her and sting until it dies. I think some people just have a chemistry that makes stinging insects want them with a white hot heat.
Posted by: Krissa | June 07, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Those eyes and that grin. Wow, is she ever GORGEOUS!
Happy birthday to TLNG, and congratulations to you and The Man!
Posted by: mothergoosemouse | June 06, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Happy Birthday TLNG, from your admirers (but NOT stalkers) in Australia!
You know, you came into the world exactly 40yrs after my darling husband (6/6/67) and he's workin' out pretty darn fine - so it's looking good for you little one ;)
Posted by: Jo MacD | June 06, 2008 at 08:37 PM
Happy Birthday TLNG. Your mother is batshit crazy but you're awfully adorable.
Love,
The Jackass
Posted by: Sam | June 06, 2008 at 05:46 PM
Golly was TLNG pissed! Yeah, they're worth it. Happy Birthday, little beauty.
Stalker story - I have one too. Mine ends (and the restraining order begins) when I find him in my closet FIVE YEARS after we broke up.
Posted by: Manic Mommy | June 06, 2008 at 05:24 PM
She's precious. Happy Birthday littlest new girl!
Posted by: christine | June 06, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Oh, such a yummy TLNG. Happy Birthday!!!!!
Posted by: Kelly | June 06, 2008 at 03:20 PM
Same smile in both pics! HA!
Dood, do you attract the freaky-mofo-neighbor-sorta-stalker-types, or what? It's because you are so freaking cute and perky, y'know.
Posted by: The Domestic Goddess | June 06, 2008 at 02:28 PM
OMG she's so cute!!!
Posted by: Emily | June 06, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: anne nahm | June 06, 2008 at 01:41 PM
God, I wish you were my real-life friend, if only so that I could play with TLNG...she is just too much!
Posted by: Lora | June 06, 2008 at 12:22 PM
She is pressshus! Happy birthday TLNG!
Posted by: mayberry | June 06, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Happy Birthday to you TLNG!!! Love the screaming newborn shot.
*sigh* my mom forgets my birthday every year, that is until she had her stoke and she has this kick ass calendar which she lives by.
Posted by: Heather | June 06, 2008 at 10:58 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TNG!
Posted by: moo | June 06, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Happy Birthday TLNG!!! She's absolutely adorable!
The Man has some serious hysterical remarks...he's a keeper!
Posted by: kat | June 06, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Ooooh, look at that widdle mouth! I just want to nom her up.
Posted by: RuthWells | June 06, 2008 at 09:49 AM
That is one heart-stopping birthday girl! What a sweetie. Happy day to you all.
Posted by: m | June 06, 2008 at 09:46 AM
You totally had a Sixteen Candles sitch going on there! "I can't believe they fucking forgot my birthday!" CLASSIC!
Posted by: Tessie | June 06, 2008 at 09:45 AM