What?!

Last night, we went to Red Pepper for my birthday dinner (more pictures to follow). We ate an amazing dinner, and then came the fortune cookies. We received the following fortunes:

1. Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions.
2. Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top.
3. Mutual assistance in despair will make the ugly situation more fair.
4. Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind.
5. Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

Really!?! Either Debbie Downer got a job writing fortune cookies or the fortune cookie industry is trying to be responsive to the down turn in the economy.

All I can say is, "Wow!" Just wow!

Imaginaries

As a child, I had a MAJOR case of the imaginaries. I made up stories, friends, you name it.

I have bestowed this gift genetically upon my daughter. She plays make believe often. It hasn't hit Chessie monster level yet, but it is getting there.

Today, Eliza was in the bathtub; so, naturally, she was Ariel. She wanted to involve me. So, who would I be:

A) Sebastian, the strict, but friendly crab

B) Flounder, her faithful friend

C) The Sea Witch, 'nuff said

D) Eric, her love

E) Tritan, her parent

Nope, all wrong.

I am a clumsy, compulsive liar with wings. Yup, Scuttle.

She was not happy until I renamed everything in the bathroom.