Nice as pie

My apologies for not blogging for a few days. I think we all tend to need to blog more when things are going really badly, and since things are good I haven't been updating. That, and I'm just generally lazy....

It was my dad's birthday today, so I phoned him up to sing down the phone to him, only to find out that he was out. So when he phoned me back and sung down the phone to me, happy birthday to himself, it wasn't quite the same! It was good to talk to my parents though, as always. And then of course yesterday (loosely, in the sense that it's only just after midnight on Monday) it was Dan's birthday - happy birthday Dan! I still contend that roses beat a card any day, but if you're determined to keep inflating my ego, who am I to stop you? :o)

Today, for those of you who didn't know (and I was one of them, not many days ago) was National Pi day. Yes, the magical number that starts 3.1415927, or 926 if you want to be pedantic and carry on with all the other decimal places. Why, you may ask? Because over here, where dates are the other way around to the UK, Monday was 3-14. And as Dan pointed out, in ten years' time it will be super Pi day, when the date will be 3-14-15. I can't wait. Anyway, Denise and I celebrated this momentous event by going out and having pie, in our case Lemon Meringue, after a shared dish of so many fried entrees that it would just be obscene to repeat them. That was my cholesterol shot for the next few weeks.

This month seems to be a long line of events, made up or otherwise. Tomorrow is the Ides of March, and then of course St Patricks Day hits us with a bang on Thursday. I also have to remember that I have an Emergency Social Services meeting tomorrow night, and then two weeks of Wednesday night courses on First Aid, body recovery and structural soundness of buildings (don't even ask). Plus Denise and I seem to have decided that since we have no money, we'd better do our best to get into the red, and have booked tickets to see The Killers, Snow Patrol, Keane and Denise's friend's band, all in the space of a couple of months. I am even debating driving down to Portland just to see Def Leppard (no rudeness please, I like their antiquated rockness) but am put off by the fact that they are touring with Bryan Adams and therefore tickets will be obscenely expensive for no good reason. Plus I am not sure that my car would make the trip without giving up what little life it still has in its 1990 body. At the moment I am also trying to juggle sorting out my MS research proposals, doing work for my company in England, trying to find where the cell phone I have ordered has got to, and making sure that I'm around for when the Extras company calls me. It's all getting rather complicated.... and still I seem to not be making any money..... but who gives a toss!! I'm living the high life baby.... :o)