AUTHOR: Marty, a.k.a. canape TITLE: Happy Birthday, Guy DATE: 5/18/2007 12:00:00 AM ----- BODY:
Happy Birthday. To this blog. That's all the fanfare the blog gets because the important birthday is Guy's. He is no longer 42, or as we liked to call is, forty-tute. Now, he is forty-three-rific. Yes, we really are that dorky.

Poor Guy. His birthday was a bit of a bust. This morning, I had to get up and take the dogs to the vet. That meant he was left in the bed all by his lonesome with no Schmoopie to snuggle.

When I got home, we decided to kick our diet to the curb and go to Big Ed's for breakfast. We had big ole fluffy carb filled biscuits. He had an omelet, and I had country ham. After that, we went around the corner and picked out a new Anna Podris painting for our living room.

I know. It's his birthday, and we are buying paintings that I have wanted. Don't feel too sorry for him (yet). This weekend is Artsplosure, and he will pick out something from one of the artists showing there.

After the gallery, we came home, and he decided that he would go play golf while I taught. He picked out a golf course, loaded up his clubs, and headed out to whack some little white balls. In about an hour, he was home again. It had started raining. The course was closed. He played no golf. This is where you start feeling sorry for him.

He came inside the house and checked the answering machine. Papa had called. His truck was broken again, so he couldn't pick Lovely up from school and get the birthday cake from Carvel. Guy went up to get Lovely. When he and Lovely tried to pick up his cake, it wasn't ready. There were plain Fudgie the Whale cakes, but not the one that I ordered to have his name on it.

Dejected and disappointed, Guy arrived home and proceeded to play golf on the xbox. It seemed to placate him somewhat. Not even the endless stream of presents I gave him seemed to cheer him up. Of course, the endless stream of presents was all stuff from the dollar store, since we are going to shop for his real present this weekend. . .

I'm sidetracked. Here are some party shots:


Did you know that Martha Stewart has written a book about running your own successful company? Is it any surprise that since her advice includes a prison sentence, that I purchased this book in the dollar store?












Speaking of Martha, and I do so want to be like Martha, I cannot. decorate. cakes. I did try to spell out the words here, since Guy was so disappointed that they didn't have his cake especially for him. As you can see, poor Fudgie has been desecrated and harpooned at that.














I also added some spray coming out of the whale hole. It turned out quite nicely. Guy's favorite touch though, were the whale pellets I added coming out of the back end. I'm classy like that. Whale dookey. That's funny.






I took entirely too much pleasure in dissecting poor Fudgie. Might I add, that I didn't grow up with Carvel ice cream stores, and I find "Fudgie the Whale" to be a really really really weird thing to name a cake. Really.



So all in all, I guess Guy had a pretty good birthday. His dad didn't get to come to dinner because of his stupid truck, but Boo and Pilot were here, and that always makes things brighter. We had some jambalaya and cornbread, watched Grey's Anatomy, and then made our brains hurt while helping Lovely with her math homework.

The End.


Kidding. Here's where the celebration started. Last night I gave him an early present.

I think he likes it!














Pink is a good color for him









In case we weren't sure about the two pink lines









And the most perfect card I've ever found in my life.










I'm leaving it at that for tonight. I mean really. What more can I say after that fantastic card?

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----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous gail DATE:Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 11:28:00 PM EDT OMG I AM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS oh and good work Guy's sperm, gigglr. OMG I AM EXCITED!!! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous KimmieRo DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:24:00 AM EDT OMG! Congratulations!!! Yay Yay YAY!!!!! I am getting absolutely GIDDY! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Jen DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 3:01:00 AM EDT you are SO tricky hiding this at the end of this post! i'm really happy for you, really truly, wow! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Jessica DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 7:28:00 AM EDT OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED FOR YOU!!! I just shed tears over your post... I can't even find the words right now... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Oh, The Joys DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:50:00 AM EDT This is the best news!! I have goose bumps everywhere!!

Truly, I couldn't be happier for you. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous whymommy DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:50:00 AM EDT Happy Happy Joy Joy! I'm so excited! Yippeeeeee! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Amy DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 9:18:00 AM EDT OMG, I just gasped!! I'm so excited!!! Wow. Amazing! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Andria DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 2:20:00 PM EDT yay!!!!!!!!!!!! that's all i can say right now.... yay!!!!!!!!!! we are all getting knocked up!!! what can possibly be better than that?!?! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Emmakirst DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 7:34:00 PM EDT Holy what a great birthday for Guy and YOU! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! When are you due? Yay, i'm so excited for you :) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Liz DATE:Friday, May 18, 2007 at 7:49:00 PM EDT wwwwhahwhahawahhhhhhhaat?!

I'm late in reading this...

HOLY SHIT!

What a f'ing fabulous birthday gift for Guy. I LOVE the expression on his face, too.

*crying*

How on earth did you keep that a secret? I've always thought those are such great surprises, but I suck at keeping secrets like that. Mostly because, in my case, I yelled "HOLY SHIT I'M PREGNANT" for the whole world to hear.

Also? Motherhood? Not so much with the mouth like a sailor. Thus far? No improvements.

Congratulations to you, Guy, and Lovely! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Mom Ma'am Me DATE:Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 5:29:00 PM EDT Happy Belated Birthday to Guy! I love the look on his face when he opened the box. :-) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Twisted Ovaries DATE:Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 2:57:00 AM EDT Congratulations! That's fantastic news-and a very sweet birthday! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous MB DATE:Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 5:26:00 PM EDT WHERE DID YOU FIND FUDGIE THE WHALE!? I must know right away. Oh, and congrats on the pregnancy of course. But I already have a baby. What I need now is a big fat Fudgie the Whale cake in my freezer. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Anth DATE:Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:51:00 AM EDT Oh. My. Gosh. Congratulations!!!!
YAY!!!!! So very happy for you!!!!

(Apparently when I finally go through my blogroll after a blog-reading haitus, I should read older posts first. Or something.) ----- --------