Happy Birthday Sam....

Hey random Sam girl.. Happy Birthday.. I don't know you but understand that you read this blog... (good times).. but you're friends with Charlene and that works for me.

This reminds me that in just 5 short days, my own Sammie is coming home!!! Not for good (still not happy about that but she managed to buy my love by dangling a free cruise around the mediteranean ) but she will be back on Canadian Soil for a couple of months. However, seeing as she is the WORST person to nail down & confirm plans, I am still only guessing that she is coming in on the 27th.

I'm sure she'll just show up on my doorstep, 8 million bags in tow (she is a shopper) grinning & ready to go.

I always say she's my bad influence (yes, I too have a bad influence) However, a girl named Sandra from Victoria we met in Spain will argue that Sam is the lovely one and it is I that is the Devil (her exact words)....

Hey man, just because I got you drunk on shooters, hooked us up with 15 young spanish guys from the west coast, averted a bad Girls Gone Wild Spanish Style, got us into 3-4 bars for free (note to self: don't yell out "this is a gay bar" right when the music dies) & finally managed to get you together w/ some random french dude does NOT make me a bad influence.... I call it being on vacation.

It's not so much that Sam's a bad influence on me but rather doesn't say No to me. She doesn't serve as my conscious as so many friends feel they need to do. Although, I give credit to DAO for not letting our friend, Bell hook up with a guy in wrangler jeans.... good save.

Our goings on are more like this:

"Sam, Should I have this 5th Jager Bomb?"..."Why are you so slow? I'm on my 7th".

"Should we jump in this car & drive to Seattle for breakfast?"... "I have the keys"

You know... stuff like that (k... I am giving the paired down edited version but you know... this is a family show) I will say this... in our older age, we have calmed down somewhat and are more & more opting for a 'quiet' evening in.... which is good for the first night ;)