Birthday IOU
That’s what I got from Blane a couple of days ago for my birthday, an IOU. Oh, and a candy bar. One. Cadbury. Chocolate. Bar. WTF was that supposed to mean? At first I thought, Oh, the cheap bastard had to pay more for the Cadbury, so I just got one. Doesn’t mean he thinks they’ll go to my ass or anything like that.
Still, I had to investigate the matter. I ran over to his secret candy stash drawer and saw what he got for himself. A bag of M&Ms, Milk Duds, and huh, a Cadbury bar. Being my mean and vengeful self, I stole all of his M&Ms.
I do not even like Cadbury, he should know that from years and years of marriage or at least by reading my mind. He should know I am sentimental about candy, dammit, I go to the ghetto side of town just to buy his favorite, Jolly Joe’s and when I do, I come back with a case. It doesn’t even have to be his birthday, either.
I’m not asking for Godiva or Ferraro Rocher, just a crate of Hershey’s with almonds would do.
Okay, upon further investigation, Spanky was with him at the store and she said she liked Cadbury, so he thought I might like it too.
He also made me a cake and this time it looked like a cake and not an asshole like the one last year. He even allowed the girls to put sprinkles on it. Blane hates sprinkles because they end up all over the place. They managed to keep them all on the cake and he was so proud of them. When I blew out the candles? Whoa, I blew sprinkles into every corner of the entire kitchen. That was even funnier than Sweetpea coughing all over her cake when she blew out her candles at her mega-birthday bash at the age of four.
Here’s why I got the IOU. Blane asked me two days before my birthday which tablet I wanted for editing photos. I told him I changed my mind, that I must have the iPhone and although he hates all things Apple, he was just going to have to bend because it’s my birthday.
I am also finally free of the shackles of Sprint Mobile after five long years of being put under new contracts just for changing little things about my plan. I have not been able to get a new phone credit in five years and my phone just sucks. It is a family plan, however, which means the girls must also switch to AT&T and choose new phones. Maybe by the time I actually get the phone the next gen iPhone will be for sale.
Also, Blane gets a discount on AT&T services through his employer and my birthday was over the weekend. I thought he still should have just gone to the Apple Store and just gotten the thing to show me a sign that he capitulated to my wishes. I wonder if he thinks I’ll change my mind? I won’t, I’ve been wanting that thing since before it even hit he market last summer. He knows this. He didn’t even need to ask what I wanted. He just didn’t want me to have it because he has Mac envy.
The girls gave me hand-made birthday cards. Those are absolutely my favorite things to receive.
Thanks again to all of you who wished me a happy one.
max said,
January 8, 2008 at 5:44 am
Wow, who knew birthday gifts could be so political?
Ape said,
January 8, 2008 at 8:40 am
HA!! Amber calls me yesterday. She asked did Uncle Blaine call you? No why? I was thinking oh shit another family disater. She said he left her a voicemail to call him back. She did. Guess what he wanted to know. He wanted to know how to port yall numbers in from sprint to att. He also wondered if he could get a discount on the iphone thru is company discount. He is going to get the iphone for you. He just wanted to make sure on how to keep yall numbers.
dailytri said,
January 8, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I laughed at the cake that looked like an asshole – omg, too funny.
Clearly men still have much to learn about womens’ birthdays. When they say, “You don’t have to get me anything, honey,” they really mean, “You better get me something nice, and I better like it, and oh by the way it should come as a surprise,” which means that sometime during the year we were paying attention when you said, “I really would like an iphone when my current phone contract expires,” or “it would be so much fun to own the first season of ‘Sex and the City’” or after that really intense day of work you said, “oh if I just had the energy to take myself to the massage therapist…I could really use a deep tissue massage.”
Problem is we rarely hear these things when our significant others say them because they get said during the key play of a critical come-from-behind game during March Madness – not even during a commercial, for example.
Solution: Post-it note reminders left in strategic places. The word “massage” written in the steam on the mirror for us to see when we least expect to see it. You get the picture. We truly require sledgehammer approaches in many cases so we don’t do something goofy like, buy you a Cadbury for your special day and then tell you the iPhone is on backorder, or (true story from a dear friend) wrap a picture of the ONE present you asked for and put it under the tree because we waited ’til Christmas Eve to shop for you and discovered the gift was THE most popular thing on the planet that year. That is, indeed, grounds for marriage counseling.
slynne said,
January 8, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hapy birthday to you as well. I’m wishing you a crate of hershey’s… with almonds.
(my love didn’t even come into the same town as me on my birthday, : ()
Kitty said,
January 8, 2008 at 3:07 pm
LOL Max. I should have just gone with the tablet. Much easier to implement and I’d be playing with it right now.
Ape, I’m just teasing Uncle Blane. We have this Mac vs PC thing going on in the house and he’s losing. Seriously, switching to another mobile company is something Blane and I both need to research. One of the main reasons I want to use AT&T is because I’ll be able to use it when I travel instead of using pay as you go phones (my Sprint phone never worked outside of the Americas).
Daily, Blane’s always saying that, not to get him anything. I listened to him once. We were traveling for his birthday and didn’t want to be weighed down with presents. He was in a bad mood for two days about that.
I always tell my mom not to get me anything because she’s on a tight budget. She feels bad not sending me anything, but I’d feel worse if she did.
On the other hand, she knows I love Rock N Roll gingerbread planks (25 cents), I buy them by the box when I’m back home because I can’t get them here. I secretly wish she would send that (I’d send her back fifty dollars for her troubles) but I never tell her.
Thanks, Slynne. Awww. No visit from your sweetheart for your birthday? I’ll stop complaining right now about the IOU. I did at least have that. Presence is better than presents.
voodoo child said,
January 8, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Oh Kitty I could send you some planks.
Kitty said,
January 8, 2008 at 3:37 pm
That’s sweet, Voodoo. I really don’t want you to go through the trouble. I want my mamma to. LOL. Just kidding. I have to lay off the sweets for about a month.
Sophia said,
January 8, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I have absolutely no idea what IOU is, but I’ll go all “WOW!!!” just to for the fun of it. You never said what happened to those M&Ms, though.
Anita Marie said,
January 8, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I’d have glued them to his face while he was sleeping.
max said,
January 8, 2008 at 4:39 pm
No way, M&Ms are too good to be wasted, keep and eat the M&M’s and glue the rejected candy bar.
Kitty said,
January 8, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Soph and Max, I’m still eating off that stash.
Antia Marie, I’m glad I didn’t jump on that iPhone. I just got back from the ATT store and the Tilt phone rocks.
I will hang onto that IOU and redeem it when I’ve fully researched all the phones and plans. See, Blane is smarter than I am. He protects me from my own quick decisions.
He done me wrong on the chocolate, though. I’m fit and slim and workout and, and and…
californiablogging said,
January 9, 2008 at 5:44 am
Zach got an Iphone for his birthday! His Christmas present was ripped off and it worked in his favor after all. He got big money for his birthday. We already had AT &T and I hated it, missed Verizon big time….until we got the Iphone. When I call him it says, ” Mommy wants to talk to you” on the screen! He has a phone, three movies, a camera, all of his fav photos, soundtrack to cars, all of the Dr Seuss audio books on it. He’ll be using it all day and airplane mode makes it safe to use in the hospital. That makes four things I don’t have to carry and recharge for him! It is so much fun, you need one and I need chocolate. lol
max said,
January 9, 2008 at 9:15 am
Yay for Zach! That is especially important, it working in the hospital. Yay!
Kitty said,
January 9, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Jen, does it do SMS? I read it does not do text messaging and I’m thinking maybe it didn’t at first but maybe there’s been an upgrade.
californiablogging said,
January 10, 2008 at 3:11 am
Yes, it does SMS! Camera, some Youtube viewing, Maps, Weather, phone , email, internet browsing, ( which means it’s a mini computer) ipod. With or without headphone for listening and viewing. If you want to check movie times or get a yahoo map while at Starbucks it’ s no problem. Only weird thing is that you can’t pay cash for it. You have to register the purchase so I bought a gift certificate first and then bought it. It’s fuhahaunnnn!
californiablogging said,
January 10, 2008 at 3:12 am
Oh yeah it twitters too! LOL CaliforniablogN!
Kitty said,
January 10, 2008 at 3:44 am
Thanks for the info Jen.
My kids often text me, so that is a deal breaker if there is no texting. How about sending photos, can you send them MMS? For example, could you take a photo and send it to another mobile number over the EDGE network?
californiablogging said,
January 10, 2008 at 4:21 am
I just emailed you a photo of Zach favorite cereral box, Gorrila Munch. Photo just taken from Iphone. I could have sent it to a phone number just as easily. I don’t know about Edge Network. There are third party apps. to make Iphone work with MMS, but at least it can be forwarded to your email account. You can open email attchments from your Iphone ( you can’t open them from the blackberry( not from mine anyway.)
I am not sure but there may be a fix through Apple for MMS but I have no been sent one. My sis mentioned hers did not go through.
I know you don’t use Itunes but you can connect to Itunes and listen to song previews and see what’s on the top lists and fun stuff like that just to pass time. ( I’m always waiting around and my sister has had an Iphone from day one so I’ve had a little extra time to get the hang of it)
Kitty said,
January 10, 2008 at 4:30 am
Thanks, Jen, I got the photo of the Gorilla Munch in email.
I do use iTunes, that is one of the main reasons I like the phone. That and the cool browser.