Insights

Well, a bit of a break and I am back to more purging...hahahaha those of you who are still with me are either very bored or like people who come upon an accident on the road...you are transfixed and just can't look away...what ever the reason for you attentiveness to my blogging, I thank you...

On Monday, I had the brilliant idea (self inflicted torture, others would say) that it would be a good friend gesture to plan a spur of the moment birthday celebration for a friend of ours, now, just for the record, we do not have a lot of friends, maybe a half dozen total...we tend to go in spits and spurts...when we are busy we are notoriously bad friends because we tend to ignore the ones we have in lieu of work...so friendship is something we have to consciously work at...

So this friend of ours, used to run the local paper here and worked for Quebec-cor.  the huge eastern paper conglomerate...two years ago they shut down half their small town papers..with less than a certain number of subscribers and our paper was one of those...anyway our friend was given 6 wks notice...and had staff to layoff...so he was out of work...his wife teaches special needs kids so they were committed to living here...so rather than whine and lay around on the couch feeling sorry for himself, he went out immediately and got another job...but not in the paper business...he is a meat cutter now at a local groc. store...he had previous experience years ago...he works for just over min. wage and other of our friends had recently made the comment to us...not to the fellow, thank god...that he wouldn't work in a place like that, where they paid youso little and video taped everything...and he said that he didn't really like them now that they were poor....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course...I wanted to cram my fist down his throat...but this guy is a bit of an ass at the best of times...it is his wife we really like...ahahahahaha
so I, in my infinite pot stirring nastiness...just had to plan this little get together...I called these other friends and said to meet us at this fellows place Tuesday at 6 pm for impromptu burgers and pie...  I took everything we needed to make burgers, salad and made a lemon meringue pie, his favorite...  we took him a card and in it I wrote...

"happy birthday to a man we admire greatly, who when kicked to the curb, rose up and accepted one of life's challenges without whining and complaint..Stood up to the plate to support his family in the best way he could and accepted his change of circumstances with grace and good humour. Well done old boy, well done (notice I had to get the dig in about his age...)  
We are proud to be counted among your friends, at least we hope we are, otherwise me and my pie are going home...."

but the rebuke went right over our other friends head...and he did twice more last night get a dig in about being better than them...I hate people like that...

he asked them how old their son was, and then said our son is a year older...what does your son do...is he working....our son is events coordinator for Taqa oil. (that's just a party planner, but you'd think he was CEO)

This friend knows to never ask about my son...I do not play the I'm better than you game....ever...

Any way the small party went off well...the pie was a big hit and we were home by 9 pm (they both had to work today) and R went back in the field...ahahahaha

But the really funny part was before we even left home to go into town...I wanted to put a couple of movie gift certificates in the card...and R was hemming and hawing...and suggested we give him the ones from the cereal boxes....ahhahahahaahah I peed my pants laughing...and was all puffy eyed from tears when we got to their house...ahahahahah sometimes R just cracks me...and the really funny thing is he was completely serious...ahahahahah you will be happy to know that we did NOT
 put the cutout cardboard movie passes in the card...but the legitimate ones we bought from costco...ahahahahahahah 1 certificate gives 2 adult passes, popcorn and 2 sodas for $23.

You see our favorite cereal...Fibre 1 .... has had these ciniplex movie passes on the inside of the box this spring...and we have used some of them... but I pissed my pants imagining the look on their faces when the opened his card and these cardboard certificates fell out with the fibre 1 logo on one side...

ahahahahahahahaha how tacky....ahahahahahhaahhahahahahhah  I was still laughing my ass off when we pulled up in front of their house...and it took us a while to get out, even R was in tears by this time...   anyway when I got the door she asks me if everything is alright...because from inside the house it had looked to her like we were having a horrible argument...I kept covering my face and leaning forward like I was crying...but in actuality was bent double with laughter....  ohhhh god, I haven't laughed that hard for years....ahahahahahaha   it felt good... 

I left all the burger stuff and pie there for them to enjoy again today since they both work I thought it would be a treat for her to not have to cook again today...

Today, R started seeding our last field, it is going to be seeded down to grass this year so he was in no great hurry, which is good because he is very behind...  I trimmed and mowed the lawn today...4 and a half hours... my garden is up but the deer are in it every night...little F'ers. I had to drive R up to the last field he seeded to bring all the equipment down to the new one...it ended up taking 7 trips for 4 pieces of equipment...we went once  but he forgot the keys to the truck with the fertilizer in it...so we had to go back home..(trip 2) then we went back and he brought the truck down (trip 3)  then back for the tractor and seed drill(trip 4) then back again for the tractor and harrows(trip 5) then back to gather up all the pails and tarps for the drill (trip 6) then I went home thinking I was done, he even said I was...but the moment I stepped in the door the phone rang...it was R, I had to go back because he forgot to fuel all the tractors....(trip 7)   Now it isn't a huge deal, because I am driving, with a radio and air conditioning...but it took all afternoon and never got another thing done...thus is my life...people...