yesterday, illustrated

I found a hair in my salad. At lunch with a potentially very important client. I very quietly removed the offending gag-worthy hair and ate the damn salad. Now I’m waiting for the communicable, debilitating disease to kick in. In three, two, one…

We celebrated the one year anniversary of our meeting, in the same pub, in the same booth. Then we bought a mullet wig at Walmart. Because that is what love is about. The best part of it was, when I suggested dinner Thursday night at The Restaurant Where We Met, his response:

“Sure. What’s Thursday?”

“Um, the day we met?”

FAIL. Though, I suppose the Universe is going on just as it should. I’m still not sure he knows my birthday.

My nephew Owen tuned one. If you don’t have a reason for not stepping in front of a bus at the end of a long, assy day, you may borrow this one. I nearly died of The Cute.

And then I died

Penny Jayne had her first sponge bath. And she hated it. My brother sent a bunch of pictures of her tiny, pink pissed off face. But I prefer this one. Where she’s clearly telling her mother all about the pony she should receive for having gone through such an ordeal.

Penny's First Bath

“Oooh, or maybe a WHITE pony with PINK ribbons…”

13 comments to yesterday, illustrated

  • Amber

    Don’t feel bad, my fiance doesn’t remember that we’re getting married January 11, he keeps telling people January 10.

    That nephew is like Prozac.

  • Jenn

    My son just turned one – it’s such a cute age isn’t it? He also, I might add, just discovered (and loves) french fries…. unless my eyes are deceiving me, it looks like your nephew is also a fan of fries. Thanks for sharing the pictures, babies always improve the mood.

  • alex1s

    OMG! If they made that monkey costume in my size I would totally wear it.

    How f’in cute!

  • Laura

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/index

    I’m sorry, is your sister and her family highlighted on Pop Candy?!? I love it when my favorite blogs collide!

  • Anonymous

    Nope! That’s some OTHER very lucky baby with a monkey suit.

  • KB

    Your nephew is very fashionable – the monkey-with-banana costume is all the rage with the toddler set this year. The toddler class from the childcare center at the university where I work trick-or-treated to the administration building this morning, and there were three monkeys among the 12ish kids. And, incidentally, if you want to guarantee a good Friday, have a group of 1 and 2 year-olds come trick-or-treating to your office…they were adorable!!!

  • Emily

    I think kids 2yrs and under should wear Halloween costumes more than 1x a year. They look so cute as does your nephew…but not cuter than mine, of course.

  • I want a pony too. I think she should get a pony. Her chubby baby cheeks make a very convincing case.

    Curious George is FANTABULOUS. Is that a french fry in his hand by the way? I’m hungry.

  • That’s adorable! SmittenKitchen’s baby has the same costume! I’d completely ignore Halloween if it weren’t for all the yummy baby costumes.

    Congrats on the known-each-other-for-one-year anniversary!

  • LuLu

    I’ve been in blog wasteland for a couple of months. How great it is to come back and the first thing I see is that abundance of cuteness?! I can’t believe I’d forgotten how often your posts can put a smile on my face on even the crappiest of days. Thank you for putting your misadventures out there for delectation of the masses. :)

  • Jaymie

    She’s saying she wants a sweet palomino mare, who is friendly and likes carrots. See, I translated for you!

    soo cute!

  • Beth

    My five-month-old son was a Monkey, but it was a different suit. So ridiculously cute… The link’s a pic of my husband and son.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWRf9hsByn4/Su4WUebwMRI/AAAAAAAAq_0/3Z235ZzTcGg/s1600-h/IMG_3654.jpg

  • Margaret C.

    On the 10th and 20th anniversaries of our first “date” . . . we returned to the scene of the crime and re-inacted it. Meaning, we went back to the Carolina Coffee Shoppe and had coffee. This time with dessert . . . or nachos. . . as the spirit moved us.

    I have to say, we were both giddy each time. We didn’t tell the wait staff what we were up to. . . and if not for the thin band of gold on my left hand, they might have thought we were on a first date all three times.