belated birthday wishes

on a quiet thursday evening in northern virginia, two masked men entered the home of our beloved martha. a hood was placed over her head and she was dragged from her refuge, her sanctuary, if you will, uncertain what fate was to befall her.

she was put in a vehicle and driven to a warehouse type location nearby, where her hood was removed and she found herself surrounded by friends whose sole purpose was to wish her a happy birthday in style. yes that's right, a bunch of semi-grown-up-adults met at the place where a kid can be a kid--chuck e. cheese.

it was there that my former skee ball addiction reared it's ugly head, and i learned that i would be a terrible truck driver. but despite those two snafus, we all enjoyed our childhood regression.

after giving our love to martha, and our money to snowmobile video games, corey and i headed around the corner to take advantage of the gym before calling it a night.


friday morning i went to the dentist for my tooth extraction. my 'normal' dentist is out of town but the tooth needed to be pulled before he would be returning, so i found myself in an unfamiliar office, where i began to get a bit nervous. dental assistants kept speaking of 'recovery' and people were being rolled out in wheelchairs. what kind of little shop of horrors was this?!

eventually, 45 minutes late, my name was called and i was beckoned into the 'shop'. after that my nerves began to settle. i was given a local anesthetic and the tooth was pulled. it came out easily and shortly thereafter, i was on my way. i stopped in at work to take care of a couple of things, then headed home to get my prescription filled.

the rest of the afternoon was spent sleeping. on tap for friday night was corey's mini-golf birthday party. unfortunately, i was so hopped up on drugs that i had to miss it, but fortunately, corey, jill, and anne brought the party to me after their atypical mini-golf outing.

today has me still feeling a bit out of it, but the painkillers have kicked in again, so i'm doin' alright.