Side Note: I'm getting close to being caught up with family news!! Woo hoo!
Yes, this year I celebrated my 40th Birthday, and, yes, it fell on Father’s Day… I thought about having a party, like I used to, but it’s really just too busy for me to be motivated to throw myself a party. With vacation, swimming, work and other events and happenings there is no good time to have a party. Friends have talked about throwing me a party, thanks for that, but still too busy – there’s no good time for it until August!
But the weekend was more or less fun… Grandma, Grandpa, Kelsey and Evan made it up after the swim meet on Saturday and we went to dinner at Benihana. It was a great dinner, good show. I enjoyed it very much.
Sunday we were heading out to Mimi’s to breakfast… It’s NEVER a good idea to go out on Father’s Day. While I love going out, this time it was not my idea and we paid the price for it. I called ahead and they do not do reservations or call-ahead on holidays. We showed up to a 45 minute wait for a party of 7! We took a walk and when we came back we found a shady spot and hanged out there. We couldn’t really hear them announce who they were seating so I jokingly said we probably missed the announcement and we decided to move closer. I went in to check on Steve, party of 7 and I was told they were getting the table ready for Steve and it should be no more than 10 minutes. A couple of minutes later they called Steve party of 3 --- not a big deal it hadn’t been 10 minutes, it wasn’t us. We hear them call other large parties… Now it’s been 15 minutes, overall it had been over an hour. My dad, Mr. Impatient, is getting antsy. I check with the hostess and I’m told they called for us over 20 minutes ago… WHAT!!! That’s right, they called for us while we were waiting in the shade and then I checked in I was told the status of Steve, party of 3… Noooo! They made us a priority seating but it still took another 15 minutes to get a table. Total wait time, about 1 hour, 30 minutes. Mr. Impatient was not happy, grumbling, etc… Since it was partly our fault for not being in a position to hear who they were seating I was more understanding, but it was annoying that I heard a few different groups talk about reservations being made. Grrrr… To top things off service was not the best, but it was Father’s Day so it was busy – again, this is to be expected. They forgot my breakfast, I was patiently waiting for the waitress but my dad reached his limit. He got up and found the waitress and made sure she knew I was missing my food. Happy Father’s Day!
After breakfast we enjoyed time at home, opened up Father’s Day presents, went swimming, had a great dinner, opened up b-day presents and then everyone went home. It was a nice weekend, but I don’t enjoy Christian’s behavior around his cousin, Evan. It’s not Evan’s fault, Christian just loses it. He forgets the rules and how to behave. I really have to ride him about the choices his making. Plain and simple, it sucks. So in that respect it made this a very difficult weekend. Christian even forgot to wish me a Happy Father’s Day and a Happy Birthday Day. I even tried to pass hints about saying something to me, and it didn’t click. About 30 minutes later I think he realized it (or Grandma or someone else whispered it to him) and he finally said Happy Father’s Day… And then a couple of minutes after that he finally said Happy Birthday… Thanks Bud!