This blog started as a way for me to vent about my disease, ease the stresses of middle age and give me some therapeutic time to use my brain since I'm not working this year. And even though it is still all of those things, it has become much more. I'm actually making people smile at times. Thanks for reading!
Carolinn & John- July 2013
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
You Great Big Beautiful Doll!
When Valentine's Day rolls around each year, John and I don't really do anything special. It's usually a card and maybe a steak dinner that we cook at home. That's our normal m.o. So, this year, I wanted to surprise him, so I scheduled a women's quartet from the Springfield Metro Chorus to drive to Reeds Spring and sing "You Great Big Beautiful Doll" to him in front of his high school band students! Now, as usual, anything I plan - most of the time does not turn out the way I picture it in my head! I thought I'd see John off at his typical departure time of 6:30 a.m. and then quickly shower and get ready myself so I could drive the 25 minutes down to Reeds Spring in time to be there when the ladies sang to him. At 6:40 a.m. John was still laying next to me in bed, procrastinating the inevitable, daily hygiene routine. Of course, I couldn't say anything that I wanted to...like "GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED AND GO SHOWER!" Because then he would have known that something was up! So, finally he got ready and left the house at 7:05 a.m. Now that he had stolen my shower time, I was barely going to make it even with just brushing my teeth, so I threw on my clothes, brushed my teeth and limped as quickly as my RA riddled body would take me to the car. I was happy because the ladies weren't supposed to start until 8:15 and I would get there right on time. When I did pull up at 8:05...(I did not speed, there just wasn't any traffic)...I could see them through the window....they had already started! One of the kiddos let me in the door and I saw a beet-red-faced John sitting in a chair with these four ladies around him singing quite beautifully and with all of the flirting and touching they could legally do in a high school, they sufficiently and boldly embarrassed my Valentine! It has been VERY few times in the 26 years that I've known this man that I have seen him embarrassed, and this time was the ultimate! Another part of this story that I really love is the fact that the high school kids had just been chastised by John a few days before about using their cell phones..."You guys can not use your cell phones in class! One of the principals is going to walk in and then what? Do you guys get me?" The "funny" part??? THEY ALL had their phones out recording him...the entire thing! I can't wait to see it since I missed all but the last 40 seconds or so. The look on John's face when I walked in was priceless. His smile reminded me of a shy school boy who had just asked out a girl who had said "yes". I love flowers, chocolate, jewelry and all of those regular Valentine's Day gifts, but this is by far the best gift I've ever received...knowing that I had completely caught my husband off guard, embarrassed him AND made him smile!
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Bravo, Carolinn! A memory you will both treasure always! I'd worry a bit about payback, however. ;)
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