Good evening my Corona friends. I assume we are all doing well, but you know what they say about to assume is to make an ass out of u and me. I will just have to trust that we are all doing well enough to go out and live. The good news to report is Techie is back from his 3-week journey and he survived the covid testing to get off a few islands, although not all can be said for two of the sailors. They tested positive and had to wear red armbands while in quarantine. Another benefit of covid is we get to relive the scarlet letter, sounds like a good idea maybe we can band the anti-vaxers.  Well, I am just in too good a mood to even go down that rabbit hole, as I just pulled off the biggest surprise of Techies life with a super surprise birthday bash this weekend.  You all know that I have a severe handicap with technology, and I have a lot of enablers that keep me that way, but I did rely on my kids, Max and Erica to do the Evite and manage it. Well, the first thing is I had to get them the emails and most of the time something was a bit off, and they were rejected, but maybe on the third try it was a go. Max kept sending it over to me when I asked about the RSVP and he would send it over but I could never open it or figure it out. Luckily, they just very patiently ignored me and assured me it was all set. When it came to giving a final count to the catering my 40 people went to 70 and I had no idea how that happened, but it all worked out in the end.  I know the club was a bit annoyed when I jumped the number on Tuesday for a Friday night party, as the food was ordered and planned but I told her if there was an issue, I could vouch for 10 people that would not eat, I don’t think she got the joke, didn’t see Father of the Bride. Planning a surprise party in just a few short weeks can be crazy anyway but was fortunate not to have my roommate home which did make it a bit easier. He was only here a few days before the family and friends arrived from out of town. His younger brother and sister-in-law came in from Houston and Roz and Ed from South Carolina all ensconced in a hotel a few streets behind us here in the city. I was going out on walks after 9 pm to check on a few things in the car or at the store and he never asked what took so long. It was so much fun I was in one of my Brit Box movies trying to be so stealthy and really believing I could go undercover. I was never so happy to walk through those doors and everyone yell surprise and could breathe as the gig was up.

Honestly, it was just so wonderful to be together with so many friends and family after having had to live in so many quarantines these past few years. We really never got to celebrate Techie’s retirement; did I mention I am the sole support of the family?  I am so grateful to not have a new variant pop up the week before, although there may have been one, we are choosing to ignore it. All double vaxxed and waxed.  I hope I don’t find that I was the host of a super spreader, like the gridiron dinner at the Whitehouse last week, and as long as we are all OK it will be worth it.

We have to go back to living our best life, as it doesn’t last forever. Techie is always busy and doesn’t know how he had time for work before, me I worry about staying home on the couch watching my murder shows and eating Bon Bons.

Just saying…….