Mood:
happyTopic: Joe
Joe had a good time with his cousins in Massachusetts. Did get to spend a day in New York to see Katie. I guess Michaels friends really liked Joe - the cool kid from Ohio. They said that if we can't send him next summer that they would put their money together and buy him a ticket. They are all now linked by myspace.
Joe did mention that they did grill out one day, just 5 hotdogs. Back home, 5 hotdogs don't even make up an appetizer. We will have to bring Michael back again and show the proper way to grill out.
Going back to the upcoming layoff. It is interersting how things happen. How events happen - are they coincidence or omens. I had mentioned to my friends that if I get let go, I would console myself with a bottle of rye whiskey. The Sunday before black Monday, I am over at Vanessa's and Eric's. As an after thought, as we are getting ready to leave he says he has something for me. A bottle of rye whiskey! I was startled and said OK, I guess. Turns out that he had bought it and didn't really like it, so thought that he would give it to me. So I took that as a bad omen.
Another omen that I take to be a good one was the new rose bushes. Becky bought three roses and put them out by the peonies. Joe forgot about the last one and wacked it with the lawn mower. But that last one stubbornly came back and last weekend when we were out doing lawnwork, it had a single rose on it. The first one which was untouched has died, the middle one is growing but no buds. So I took that as a good sign, the one that was treated the worst came back the best. Hopefully that happens with me.
