SURPRISE!!!!!

I tend to become a little sneaky, a little suspicious around my birthday, some might even call it obnoxious and nosy but I don't talk to those people anymore!

I love surprises! LOVE them...when they're taking place, that is! But, everything leading up to the surprise, unless I'm in on it, drives me crazy! Every year, I accidentally, unconsciously, tend to be on the look out for anything that remotely hints to me there is a possibility of a surprise coming. Somehow, Dave's cell phone accidentally ends up in my hands and I accidentally snoop to see if he's been contacted by people. Contacted by people who might possibly try to plan a surprise. Contacted by people who don't normally contact him.

It's bad, I know! I'm bad! But, I can't help it! It's an addiction, a craving, that takes over my mind and compels me to snoop!

I JUST LOVE SURPRISES! I love to plan surprise events. It's so exciting! I think people should get surprise parties every year! Haha! I know, then it wouldn't be a surprise. But, that's how much I love surprises!

I am kind of proud of myself, tho. This year, I did not try to extract information out of anyone, I did not try to trick anyone into giving up information (I have done that in the past, it worked beautifully, teeheehee) and this year I fought the desire to snoop until the very last minute! I didn't snoop until the day of or the day after my Birthday! That's a record for me, folks!


The result: I got a SURPRISE! And I LOVE it!


Here's the low down:

I'm going to start at the beginning of my suspicions.

On Friday morning one of my girlfriend's, Robin, texted me and told me there was a party that night at our friend's house.

Hmmm...this started my wheels turning.

Then, Friday afternoon, Robin called me and left me an excited message announcing that is was Friday and that I should call her...

Double hmmm...

THEN! My friend, Jennifer called me and left me a message asking me if I wanted to do lunch with her the next day and in said message she told me that she would be at a basketball game that night in case I called her and she didn't answer.

Triple hmmm...!

LASTLY! When I got home from work, my friend, Ranae, texted me to see if I was coming with Robin to their house for the party.

That's when I figured it out! That's when I was pretty sure I was having a surprise B-day party at Ranae's house on Friday night. OK, I thought, I will play along; but, on the inside, I was getting so excited, thinking about how much I love surprises and about how everyone should get surprised! (Don't think I don't admonish myself every year that I am not going to do this to myself! I just can't help it!)

I began talking to Dave about making dinner, which we went ahead and did- made dinner at home. I checked and double checked with him, very subtly of course, that we should go ahead and make dinner at home (I wanted to make sure that we weren't supposed to eat at the surprise party but I couldn't come right out and say that to him!).

After dinner, I finally got in touch with Robin and told her that Dave and I would stop by Ranae's after we ran to Target. Robin informed me that our friend's, Ben and Andy, would not be at said party as they had other plans.

HMMM...so, Jenn, Ben and Andy all have other plans? Yeah, right! Whatever! They're just trying to throw me off!

While shopping at Target, Robin texted me and asked where we were. I played good, I promptly texted back and I even texted her when we were en route to said party...my surprise B-day party, so that everyone would know we were on our way and they could hide, or whatever!

SO! Imagine my surprise when we show up and...

You guessed it!

There was no surprise at all! Just a normal ol' party...accompanied by a follow-up text from my friend, Jennifer, asking me to go to lunch with her the next day.

D'Oh! I felt so foolish! What was I thinking? Sheesh. And, on the way home, I settled into believing that there would be no surprise this year (and admonished myself for doing this to myself yet once again!). On the car ride home, I wasn't down nor depressed. I had a very lovely B-day filled with wonderful B-day wishes, cards, thoughts and some gifts and I just revelled in those memories!

So, imagine my surprise when, the next day just as I was finishing up getting ready for lunch with Jennifer, there was a knock on my front door...

HAHAHA...to be continued...