I Had To Smile

Katie fouind a Disney Princess Makeup Vanity in a catalog and has decided that she needs it.  She has shown the picture to Rick and I numerous times and I have responded with, "You'll have to ask Santa."  Currently there is no room for another stuffed animal, let alone a piece of furniture in her room.  Hopefully by next Christmas, we will have whittled down some of the toys or she will no longer want the vanity.  Today Katie showed the vanity to me again and informed me that, "It will come in the mail.  It will be a big box.  We'll have to check the mail."  I had to smile at that one.

Also, this morning we were in Rick's bathroom, which is the guest bathroom, and she found Rick's mustache/beard brush.  She inquired as to what it was.  When I told her she ran the brush along her chin and said, "I don't have a beard, but when I get older I will have one.  It will come in the mail."  I had to smile at that one.

Rick left for Philly this morning.  In all of the years that I have been doing his reservations I have not made a mistake.  He just called me from the airport and I had booked him out tomorrow morning!  Because they know him at the airport and because of his Executive Platinum status with American, they didn't charge him a change fee.  It was not biggy to Rick but I felt badly.

Oh, and I forgot to tell you what happened last week.  During Christmas, I had found a picture of Vince from Shamwow!--you know the spaz-case on the commercial that says, "You know those Germans.  They make good stuff."  Well, Vince is a joke around here in this German household.  For example, one of the presents that we gave to Rick's dad was a Shamwow!  So trying to be funny, I found a small picture of Vince, clipped it out and taped it to the front of Rick's driver's license over his own picture.  I thought he would find it before he traveled and of course he didn't and of course I totally forgot about it and of course off he goes to Philly last Sunday.  They don't ask Rick for his I.D. at the counter because of how much he travels, so the first time he shows it is when he goes through security.  Rut roh!  Rick calls me from the airport and I ask him how he is.  He replies, "Pretty good considering I spent the last 1 1/2 in a TSA holding cell for falsified documents."  I was dead silent, but finally managed a, "Oh, no" as I recalled the Vince altered driver's license.  He started to laugh and told me the true story.  When he handed his I.D. to the TSA person, she looked at it and called out to her co-worker, "This doesn't look like him does it?"  Both TSA's were laughing and showed Rick his license.  Again, thank goodness they know Rick or it could have been trouble.  As a side note Rick had also called his mom and dad and gave them the same holding cell story.  They were very upset and his mom immediately confessed to my joke since she was there when I did it.  All ended well.  I got my prank in, Rick got me back and I had to smile.

I just spent the last few minutes trying to figure out why my pictures won't download from my camera.  Yes, the obvious was wrong.  The camera was not plugged into the cable.  So now that I got that highly technical issue fixed, below is Rick's Sunday picture.  I took it yesterday, when Katie had just gotten up from her nap.

We have a busy week ahead.  Monday is MOPS.  Tuesday is Kindermusik.  Wednesday I get my hair cut.  I also promised Katie if it is nice, I will take her to the Abilene Zoo.  I'll have to slate that for Thursday, since I will be cleaning and doing laundry on Friday.  Like I have previously wrote, I like the house to be clean when Rick comes home.  From my many years of travel, I have learned that nothing is worse than coming home to a dirty, scattered house.  So, ciao for now.