Mother’s Day is coming. How do I know? This is what I found on my desk when I got home from work yesterday.
Yes, when I see a Nordstrom catalog with a page dogearred I have been trained well enough to recognize this hint.
Husbands and sons, May 11th is Mother’s Day. Make you plans now. Do it today. Give yourself time to avoid the overnight shipping costs. You don’t want to be one of those guys driving around early Sunday morning looking for an open store.
I didn’t mention daughters, because women don’t need the reminder. Women are much more on top of these sort of things than men. Women can think about many things at once and look at a calendar regularly. Men, on the other hand, can think about one thing at a time, and that is usually something simple like “want food!”, “mmm, shiny!”, or “boobies!”.
Now I just need to get my ass to Nordstrom for Michele’s new purse and figure out what to get my Mom.
Fatherhood
On a related note, Being Daddy once again describes the experience of being a father today better than I ever could. I guess being an English Professor has it’s benefits.
Another new father site is Blogsprogs where three new fathers are describing their fun. Good stuff.
Your wife is a very wise woman indeed. I will have to remember the catalog trick in the future. No point in making you try to guess!
By the way, do you make 802.11 cantenna’s that are for sale? I *know* I would end up burning myself or worse if I tried to make one myself. I figure that having one of those might finally allow me to pick up my own router and then I wouldn’t have to use my neighbor’s unsecured router when I’m in my living room. (Maybe it’s time to upgrade to that 802.11g router that was in today’s Fry’s ad.)
Yeah, I suppose I should look into getting a gift.. sooner rather than later.. I hate it when all thats left are those flowers at the gas station hehe.