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May 12, 2013 at 2:19 pm #607488
miwsParticipantHappy Birthday, Jo, (and Mother’s Day)!
Hope you have a great day, even though our sunshine has gone away. :-(
Thanks for all you’ve done for me and others this past year.
Now, I just need to figure out why I have a particular Beatles song running through my head…..
Mike
May 12, 2013 at 2:48 pm #789841
JoBParticipantthanks miws..
i am grateful that god watered.
i was too tired last night to do so and my garden needed a little liquid love:)
and i am equally grateful to be here to share what I can…
sharing enriches my life too.
will you still need me will you still feed me? …. ;->
the girl i was never thought that sweet song would apply to me …
life is a wonderful thing when you get the joke, isn’t it:)
May 12, 2013 at 4:14 pm #789842
miwsParticipantYou’re welcome, Jo. :-)
Today is also the 60th Birthday of a long ago co-worker, and friend whom I have long lost touch with.
30 years ago, approaching her 30th Birthday, she was pretty bummed out about turning that “old” age.
I thought it would be nice to acknowledge her birthday, in a pretty much low-key way, so as not to appear to be teasing her, but to simply cheer her up and put a smile on her face.
I had surreptitiously started making plans with a few other co-workers, and started soliciting funds to either buy a nice cake, or one co-worker volunteered that she might consider baking one, and I told her if so, she’d get the money (or perhaps was going to be a portion, with the rest going to the Birthday Girl). I had also bought a HUGE Birthday Card, that would have needed extra postage if mailed(!) for everyone to sign.
Just a few days before her Birthday, I was called into the office at work at the end of the day, and informed I was being laid off due to a slowdown of business. Another Driver (which I also was) had been laid off 6 months earlier.
Naturally I’m stunned and upset about losing my job, but also PISSED because it pretty much screwed up my plans for the friend’s Birthday.
So, I gathered up the card, and the cash that had been raised, and walked it over to her house (she and Hubby were West Seattleites) along with a note as to what my original plan was, and apologizing for not being able to see it through, and left it at their front door.
She and I got in touch later, and she told me she had stormed into the Boss’ office after she found out about my lay-off, and reamed the Bosses out for laying off me, “…who works his butt off, while you’ve got guys in (another department) sitting on theirs!…”
I kinda wonder how she’s dealing with Double-30 today… :-)
Mike
May 12, 2013 at 4:20 pm #789843
JoBParticipantshe sounds like the kind of woman who has a good idea just how to handle double anything:)
hubby played the Beatles song for me and came in with that sheepish aren’t i a wonderful guy look on his face…
yup he still needs me
and he promises to feed me too …
right after our sunday drive ;->
May 12, 2013 at 4:33 pm #789844
miwsParticipantEnjoy! :-)
May 12, 2013 at 7:12 pm #789845
JanSParticipantHappy Birthday, Joanne…you’re not getting older, you’re getting better :D > like a fine wine…
May 12, 2013 at 7:27 pm #789846
JoBParticipantMay 12, 2013 at 11:10 pm #789847
celeste17ParticipantJoanne, you only get better with age! Hope its a great birthday and a good next year.
May 12, 2013 at 11:38 pm #789848
The Velvet BulldogParticipantJo: Today, play as hard as you usually work! Happy Birthday!
May 13, 2013 at 1:37 am #789849
ErikParticipantHave a blessed day Joanne!
May 13, 2013 at 2:39 am #789850
JoBParticipantvelvet.. i rested as hard today as i usually work
will that do?
pesky shoulder is slowing me down :)
May 13, 2013 at 2:40 am #789851
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