Alright! Just so that you all know that I have the bestest damn neighbor living to the north of me, let me sing her praises!!!
Within seconds of posting the last comment on the Family Stories piece, Laura was banging on my door with a pile of money!!! I had not even had time to log off!!!
First you must understand that Laura is always surprising me. I wake up on Easter to a yard filled with yellow puff ball dandelions, or pastel colored pinwheels by the dozens, or plastic Easter eggs, etc. And I can never leave my house again over Christmas for all the trashy decorations that are plastered over every inch of my yard.
Laura's creativity is endless and all she needs is the cover of night! (It helps that we are in bed by 9:00 pm most nights :)
Thursday, the night before my birthday, Laura brings over a tray filled with almost every birthday item that I blogged about earlier in the week. "Yes, my birthday is Friday, Sept 3rd, and I expect lots of attention from all my friends and family---gifts, money, chocolate, adoration......whatever!" In the center of the tray was a basket of flowers. Surrounding the flowers were home-baked cookies (in the shape of a crown--I am the Queen if you didn't know.) and four or five different types of small chocolates and a birthday card. Laura even gave me the crown cookie cutter. So my expectation of attention in the form of gifts, chocolate, and adoration were fulfilled (Laura does adore me as Queen of the neighborhood and her adoration is very evident!).
I immediately called her and told her she made my night and my birthday hadn't even begun. Evidently, upon re-reading the blog entry, she must have realized her error in not giving me money, so in the comment box she said she'd give me a dime sometime. We'll I now have much more than a dime, $1.12 to be exact! Cause when I posted that I'd gush her praises when she brought me the money-----I had the money before I could close out the blog.
I hadn't even left my computer chair, when bang, bang, bang--someone's accosting our front door. Thought Wayne would have a heart attack. Then I hear someone running down my stairs--to discover it is Laura with a handful of change. She has now officially granted every one of my birthday blog requests.
And now you understand this tribute to the Best Damn Neighbor to the North!!
2 comments:
Thank you so much (finally!) for singing my praises! Yes, I sure do admire you "Oh, Queen of Gilly" I could never imagine a better or more fun neighbor to have and you are a true treasure to me!
You are so spoiled. Do I even have neighbors?
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