5 Things Friday

5 Things Friday!

1)  NOTHING in the world makes a runner more bad a** than having a point rider on a bike.  I promise.  Call your best non-running girlfriend for a bike ride/run and see what I'm talking about.

2)  Why do kids always get the best fortunes in their cookies?  Really, my 3 year old daughter always gets something profound about improving the universe without trying, and I get something like, "ancient chinese proverb says you have to pay for chinese food with cash to enjoy it most".  Really?

3)  The longer a chore is left undone, the longer it will be put off.  (aha - I should be writing fortune cookie fortunes.)  Any married woman with kids will confirm that is true.

4)  This is the last day I have as a 33 year old woman.  Tomorrow, starts the long slow count down to the "new box", as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Sex in The City called it.

5)  Sunday H & I will have been married for 12 years.  So cool, because to me 12 years seems like a long time.  Something really worthy of celebrating.  Anyone can make it 2 years... but not every one makes it 12.  (yea, I know, some don't make it two, this is not a judgement, I don't judge.)  Every year for our anniversary, H & I have gone over the top to try to find a cheap item that matches the "YEAR" and doesn't break the bank.  It started this way because when we were first married, all we could afford to buy each other was a card (paper).  We'd just bought a house, with a new refrigerator... so... yea, "Happy Anniversary Dear".

Over the years the gifts I gave him ranged from the practical to the funny...  IRON (6th) a driver, which the guy at the sports store assured me could be referred to as a driving iron (golf club)... and Bronze (8th) was a "Bronzing" at a Spray Tan place.  Copper (7th) was a tube of CopperTone *he's fair and burns easily, it's the family joke.  Pottery (9) was a coffee cup.  Last year I bought him a $50 bottle of wine from a vineyard with the word Steel in it, and... something I choose not to mention in Blogland, but was Stainless Steel (11th).  So this year is SILK!!!  12!!!!  I'm super "stoked",  and super "wondering what am I going to get him that's SILK?"  I mean, it would be so easy for him, Step 1.  go into Victoria's Secret, Step 2 tell the lady you need anything size M that's silk.  Done.

I can't exactly do that, can I?  And he does not work in a tie wearing kind of job - no need for silk tie.  Wait a minute... Silk Sheets?  What do you think, would a man want silk sheets for his 12th anniversary?

In past years, when I've come up blank, I've done some crazy things like, for the year Aluminum/Tin (hello?) I got myself "internationally" waxed.  I figured, that was way better for him than a tin cup....