Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

got this in my email today:

now, i admit to being a homebody. i don't go out much. i'm not on anybody's a-list, let alone the "extras" list for party invitations. heck, i barely get out to buy groceries sometimes. so yeah. i'm not cyndi lauper we bopp-a you bopp-a she-bop. um.... no.

but shootfar, bubba! if i cain't come up with sumthin' better'n fiddlin' with muh cell phone er makin' a party fer muhse'f an' invitin' people er runnin' around town all by muhse'f... well, i jus' ain't-a foolin' wi' no birthday at'all.

gah!

last year, i had to buy my own birthday present. tommy kept telling me we'd go together, maybe to lexington to a big bookstore to shop together, etc., etc., yeah whatever... i needed a new bible and i wanted a specific one with a strong's concise concordance and reference.

thing after thing kept coming up... none of them were things he couldn't have put aside to do this with me, but he didn't and finally the day before or maybe day of, i forget -bah, he tells me "honey, looks like i'm not going to be able (BE ABLE?!?) to get that bible for you. why don't you just go pick out whatever you want?"

gah. it upset me, but it didn't really surprise me, so whatever, i just let it go. this year though? i honestly don't think he has the slightest inkling that my birthday is even coming up. with all that's going on with mamaw, i doubt that anyone else remembers either. which is fine with me, really. mom feels so obligated to always DO something... and how horrible it'd make me feel if she put herself out while she's so worn out and run ragged. *wretched face*

anyhow... instead of all those lame ideas from ol' dottie, i went and bought me something else that i've been needing really bad this year....

i have a hard time finding jackets that fit. they're too tight in the shoulders if it's cut like a "suit jacket" and too long in the sleeves almost always so that i have to look for a sleeve that can be rolled under or out. i hate bulky jackets or fuzzy, fat collars, lots of zippers or buttons or other frou-frous that will static to me or fall off. i can't handle tight elastic cuffs. see? i'm pretty picky.

but i was desperate. after i got my hair cut this morning, i went next door to a clothes store i'd never been in before. just to check. they have lots of frou-frou stuff, and then all the like grungy jeans and sweatshirt stuff. i asked the lady about jackets and she pointed me in the direction.

you can't tell how purple the thing in from the pic, but take my word. it is p u r p l e. i like it. it's a bit roomy in the shoulders, but not noticably so unless you're looking and the sleeves were a fuzz long, but the cuffs have two buttons on them. i can unbutton one and flip the cuff up and the length is almost perfect!

so there. take your dumb ol' birthday celebration ideas and stuff 'em, dottie!