Today was Minerva’s birthday and we, the library building team, all brought in food to celebrate. I had a cake in the shape of an echidna (what else would a library assistant have as a cake?) and there were other sweet and savoury selections.
At 6.30am I sent Minerva a text saying Happy Birthday to yooouuuu, and she replied that she had her head in the toilet. In fact she had her head in the toilet most of the night. She now has a stomach bug that is doing the rounds Two bouts of ‘flu which resulted in a cracked rib from coughing, an ear infection and now a stomach virus. She asked if I didn’t mind she wouldn’t come in today…. I thought about it, but thought she would make me sick if she did come in, so I released her for the day.
We thought of eating the food and sending Minerva photos of us celebrating her birthday, but we are a catholic school and we all knew that though we would enjoy the moment, the catholic guilt would catch up with us and we would be making amends to her for the rest of her life and ours, so we gave that idea a miss. No cake is worth an attack of the catholic guilts.
So, all the food went into the fridge. Hopefully she will be in tomorrow, and even if she is on a restricted diet, she can slice some damn cake and we will eat it. Happy damn birthday Minerva!
That’s what I get for being nice.
Now that I see those spines, maybe I should be called Echidna Dancer instead of Flamingo Dancer!
No good deed goes unpunished. Hopefully the stomach flu will flee in terror from you, Echidna Flamingo Dancer!
No good deed goes unpunished! Love it! I am going to need a long lie down after tomorrow.
I’ve warned you about these mushy moments before FD. Harken.
Go get that stick out and use it.
Very inconsiderate of Minerva. Could she come in with a hessian sack on her head?
Too many nice moments lately, I think I need to do a deal with the devil, pronto. I wish I had thought of the hessian sack earlier. I did think of suggesting a bucket hung under her chin, but she is bigger that me…
ooooh, well, lets hope you don’t get what she has…
Avoided the flu so far, and have frequent tummy troubles anyway, but FD does not do vomiting.
That cake alone would have made me feel better and get into work
We sliced it yesterday, it was chocolate brownie cake and yum.
It’s just amazing how people can be so inconsiderate and get sick when you’ve gone and made plans! And on her birthday! The wretch!
I said that to her too. We made her wear a birthday badge all day yesterday, that had the message “birthday girl…yesterday”. Revenge is always sweet.
I’ve never seen a cake like that before! So it must have been at least a little worth it to be nice. You still get to eat it tomorrow.
We did eat it, as well as cupcakes, and dip and crackers and cheese…
Are echnidas related to hedgehogs?
“Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, whereas hedgehogs are placental mammals” but then aren’t we all connected?
Did you make the cake? It is amazing!
I don’t think I have ever heard of an ‘echnidas’ before.
I am now craving chocolate cake… of any sort and it is 10.18pm here!!!
No I didn’t make it, it came from the supermarket. I would have made a much superior product! It was chocolate brownie cake.
Echidna Dancer? Might you be implying and we are therefore to infer that you can be a bit prickly? But yet you took a cake in, then gave the birthday girl the day off (no matter the reason), so I think the prickly is on the outside only.
Mr FD would have like to attest to my “prickly” behaviour but I prickled up and wouldn’t allow him. I put it down to my Hun genes. Sometimes we take no prisoners, hence my coping strategy of the stick list.
Truthfully? I am practically perfect in every way!
Is anything worth an attack of Catholic Guilt? I’m rarely able to sit back, relax and do nothing because of the fear of Methodist Workethic Wrath descending upon me.
I feel your pain. Damn those parents and their morals and values.