Another entry about shoes and food.

This evening, on our way home for the night, Corb and I were walking up to the entrance of our complex. Right before I reached the door, I stepped in duck poop.

"You'd better take your sneakers off and leave them in the hall," Corb instructed.

So I did. But now I'm wondering: what if my next door neighbor decides to place sticks of butter in them during the night? Corb assures me that won't happen, because only totally deranged people would dream up such a scenario.

I think he was talking about me, for some reason.

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On a totally unrelated note, today is Josie's birthday. Corb and I are taking her out to a really nice Italian restaurant tonight, and then have arranged for her to spend the night at Corb's hotel.

Don't worry: we've made accomodations for a table near the front door so she won't have far to travel with her walker. And, hopefully she'll wear her Depends through the night, because it really would be terrible if she were to wet herself in the night. But at her advanced age, I really wouldn't be surprised.

Seriously, I want all of you who know the one and only, beautiful "dark lady" to wish her a big old happy birthday tomorrow! She deserves it, and then some.

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Finally, an etiquette issue. Corb's going to kill me for even bringing it up.

The other night we were eating supper, and had ordered Chinese takeout. The restaurant that we always choose has some of the best Chinese food that I've ever tasted, usually, but that night, it just wasn't cutting it for me. The chicken didn't taste exactly right, so I skipped over it in favor of the rice and crab rangoon. I mentioned this to Corb, and he said he thought his tasted delicious.

Anyway, we finished our food and then watched a few episodes of 24, and by the end of that, Corb was totally wiped and just wanted to go to sleep. I didn't want to leave the food lying around and picked up the containers to throw them away.

The next day, Corb called me on my cell phone as I was driving home. "I'm mad at you," he said.
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