Saturday (continued)
Long. Busy. Active. These are the words that best sum up the day. I would have said more about it in my earlier post, but there were a few surprises that I needed to make sure that Jess wasn’t aware of. If I had commented on them and she had read this, they would have been non-surprises. One of which involved cars. Specifically: Corvettes. Jess had made a comment last weekend about wanting one (she saw one in the parking lot of the Village Inn after bowling). After the whole Humvee incident last May, I couldn’t let this one slide…

As I noted in my earlier post for today, it was Jess’ birthday. I think that I have also mentioned that I have the coolest girlfriend in the world. (I admit that this is a subjective statement, but it’s my journal… and I can be as subjective as I damn well please! Besides, she is the coolest. Period. Bar none.)

So, let’s take this from the top:

  • Last night, I was up FAR later than I had intended. I was wrapping her small presents:
    • A 1:18 scale 1967 Corvette Coupe
    • 1:18 scale C5 Corvette
    • Two (2) Thomas Kincade puzzle sets (three puzzles, each)
  • Got to bed for a too-short sleep.
  • Woke up. Eventually went back to sleep.
  • Woke up around 11:15, when Jess called to say when she’d be done with the orientation class that she was giving for fresh meat new employees. Didn’t move… fell asleep.
  • Woke up around 12:15, when Adrian called.
  • Got up, did the hygiene rituals, got out of the house and …
  • Pick up a friend’s car. Specifically, his ’89 Corvette. I explained to him why I wanted it; he said “no problem.” So… I went and picked it up. Unfortunately, there were only fumes in the tank when I got it, so it stopped running about 100 yards from a service station.
    ::: braincramp :::
    After pushing the car out of the intersection in which it had chosen to go *kaput* and walking to the station for a gas can and some petrol and walking back to the car/putting the gas in and driving back to the station to fill the tank/return the can, I was back in the game!

  • Went to work to get Jess. In the Corvette. Adrian met me there to: a) bring the (musical) keyboard that I got her, b) provide part of an alibi as to why her car wasn’t there, and c) take pictures of her reaction when I handed her the keys to the ‘vette. She was more than a little surprised. Quite a bit more, in fact.
  • We drove to her folks’ so that she could show off the car (and take her nephews for a little ride in it). They were just as excited about riding in it as she was about driving it.
  • Came home, changed and then…
  • I took her out to dinner at Macaroni Grill. I told her that it would be just us at dinner since our scheds don’t always allow us to do that. Well… that wasn’t as true as it could have been: I had a few people (Sandi, Julie (Jess’ sister), Land and Catherine, Jim and Louise (co-workers), Adrian, Larry and Mycah) waiting there for us. Again, she was quite surprised. Happily! I was a little worried that someone might accidentally let Jess in on something about the dinner… but it went off without a hitch.
  • After dinner, we ran back down to the inlaws’ for a bit, came home, got the bowling balls and headed to the bowling alley. Mary, Matt, Larry, Scott bowled, too. Jen (and Keith, long story) came along, as well.
  • Traditional post-bowling eats at the V.I. and then home!

Like I said: It was a pretty full day. Jess said that in thinking back over all of her birthdays, that she thinks that this one was the best (at least, of the ones that she remembers). That made all of the planning and running around and lack of sleep worthwhile. Very worthwhile, indeed.

That’s a good cut-off point. Time to seek the gates of The Dreaming. Tomorning brings football! And dinner at Sandi and Jim’s… Sandi mentioned something about making a chocolate pie! Hoo-AH!

Peace.