System Overload!!!

Ok, the preparations for The Birthday, the second most important Birthday in our lives (the first one was about a year ago), are going as planned…NOT! Who would have thought that our bright minds would need a whole year to realize that we have an extra room inside our home that could have long ago become Sami’s room? I guess our stuck-in-the-routine minds took a while to think outside the box of our living room. Or maybe, since it was Alka’s idea, as soon as she broke the spell of the waiter’s cripple-mindedness by getting out of the “business”, her beautiful head started giving birth to some really inspirational and achievable goals.  (Now that I think about it, there really is a “frame of mind” that prevents your imaginations from flying)

Whatever the reason, the timing could not have been more perfecterer! Just as she is going through a career change, just as the endless Vegas heat gave way to the crippling cold (Autumn? What’s that?) and we need to keep all doors and windows open, so the paint smell and dust can go away, and most of all, just as our son’s first (well, second if you ask me) Birthday approaches, we have been reduced to rotting vegetables, a.k.a. couch potatoes, stuck in a little room with nothing but an eternity of dust around us.

No, not bitching! Just pointing out a fact that the two of us have noted a long time ago – our timing for most things in life is as adequate as like my dad likes to say “You’ll recognize the Bulgarian swimmer at a swimming competition as the only one swimming the opposite way.”

So, as much time as we could squeeze between the waiting for the workers to come and guarding them, so they don’t steal our valuables (which they might need a while to look for, due to their invisibility), we planned and researched.

So far we have the place, the invitations, the decorations, the presents, and above all – this is the cherry on the ice-cream – the cake. (The cake, which must have golden threads woven in it, or may be precious stones for decoration, because only that would explain the price tag of $105! For this much cash, it better be the best fucking cake I’ve had, ‘cause it certainly is the most expensive one! )

There’s only one problem...as busy as we are, we might not attend ;)