April's Fool

I cannot believe it is already April.

How? How did that happen?

I need 2012 to slow down. Like right now. I'm going to blink and it will be all over. M is already talking about her birthday. That girl loves a party, just like me. This is the year of the 3's for us - I will turn 36, M will be 6 and M2 will be 3.  Our ages won't fall into another pattern again until I'm 66. Yes, I'm nerdy enough to put thought into it.

In addition to my love of celebrations, I also have a deep affection for pranks. Love the fun of them, even when I'm the victim.

One year I was in the shower when the phone rang. It was back in the day when people actually had answering machines. I let the phone ring though but the person immediately called back. It was Benny. I could hear him telling me to pick up but I just thought I would call him when I got out. Then he called again and sounded like it was urgent - I was telling me to pick up the phone right then, that he needed me to answer the phone. I knew it was an emergency. 

I jumped out of the shower and ran for the phone.  I didn't even bother grabbing a towel - I was just trying to make it to the phone before he hung up. We kept the phone in our bedroom but it wasn't there so I ran into the living room, naked and dripping wet.

And standing there, holding the phone in on hand and his cell phone in the other is Benny. I couldn't believe I fell for it. I spent the next several months trying to make it up to him but nothing I did was even close...

So this morning in honor of April Fools Day I put a rubber band around the spray nozzle in the kitchen sink so that when he turned on the water it would come out of the nozzle, not the faucet, and spray all over him. I guess it's a testimony to how little time he spends in the kitchen because I waited all stinkin day for him to use the kitchen sink. All stinkin day. 

Tonight as I was making dinner I forgot that I had done that. And I got sprayed. After that I was determined that he was going to get sprayed, no matter what.  Finally, I caught him in the kitchen and asked him to rinse something out for me and BINGO. I got 'em!

Not a bad way to begin a new month...