That's written just for us!
Happy Birthday! Will you be carrying out the hobbitish tradition of giving other people presents on your birthday?
I'm down.
There's a Beetle salvage yard, hugh from what I understand, about an hour away from here. Too far to go in my rickety old van. But I've been dying to go for a while now.
So I was looking at carrentals.com and found a really cheap weekend rate! I thought "Great! I'll rent a car for a day and we can go down to the salvage yard!" I mean, after all...Steve had to work the Household Pollution Collection Event this weekend...what could he have to do NEXT weekend? So I reserved the car and emailed Steve, saying "Look at this great rate! We can go to Bristow!"
He wrote me back...can't go.
Blue Thumb Creek Clean-up.
Sigh.
It's a volunteer thing, kinda where the city "expects" you to volunteer. They don't pay you, but they give you "comp time", which I have yet to see.
I know it's probably silly, but I'm so disappointed. I mean, I hardly ever see him during the week, I look forward to weekends so much, then last weekend the city makes him work all weekend (which I don't complain too much because it is overtime) but then they make him work again this weekend!
I know, I sound like a whiner. And I'm probably being irrational. I guess I probably shouldn't have gotten my hopes up without asking him first. But you gotta move fast with those cheap rates...they change hourly.